Scott Ritter-ek Gonzalo Liraz eta abarrez

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and with that I would really love to

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have my good friend here Scott Ritter I

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think all of you know who Scott Ritter

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is to come to the stage

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thank you Scott thank you

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uh first of all I want to thank

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everybody for coming out today it’s a

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beautiful day I want to thank the

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organizers this is a wonderful cause and

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um hopefully we’ll be able to take what

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happens here today and build a community

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that can bring about the change that

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we’re all looking for

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in uh

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Chris Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer there’s

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a very important scene it’s about

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the man who made the atomic bomb Jay

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Robert overnight he oversaw the T in the

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Manhattan Project that built the bomb

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and there’s a scene in the movie after

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the bomb has been perfected and tested

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the Trinity device where Oppenheimer is

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watching two men in uniform packing up

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the gadget the send away and he starts

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to opine on how it could be best used he

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says you know if you uh if you ignite

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the bomb at it giving out and they cut

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him off they say it’s okay Dr oberheim

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uh Oppenheimer we got it now we got it

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and thus we transferred

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the world’s most deadly weapon away from

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the scientists who made it into the men

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who would use it

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and they did use it

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78 years ago today

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the United States of America dropped one

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of oppenheimer’s gadgets on the city of

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Hiroshima

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we don’t know how many people died

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ranges from 77 000 to 125 000. we don’t

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know three days later over the city of

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Nagasaki we dropped a second Gadget the

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total casualties

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go between 130 000 to a quarter of a

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million people dead because of these

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bombs but we don’t know because most of

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the evidence

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vaporized

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they don’t exist they’re gone the

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world’s most deadly weapons the men who

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dropped these bombs Paul Tibbetts and

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Charles Sweeney were Men of Honor their

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men who are serving their country Paul

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Tibbetts flew combat missions over

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Germany in an effort to defeat the Nazi

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threat

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so I don’t want to hear anybody say how

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evil he is he was doing his duty

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as an executioner does their Duty

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he never once voiced any regret for his

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decision to drop the bomb to his dying

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day he said what I did was right

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you know and I have some sympathy for

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Paul Sweeney because when I was in the

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Marine Corps I was in a

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filled artillery unit that was nuclear

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capable and twice a year we practiced

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what would the procedures we would

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follow if we were called upon to deliver

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a nuclear device against the hostile

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enemy force and I will tell you right

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now with absolute certainty I and every

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single Marine would have obeyed those

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orders had they been issued because we

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were the executioners

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we weren’t the ones who came up with the

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device we were the ones who were going

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to use the device in defense of our

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nation

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but then something happened

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in the 1980s rational thinking seemed to

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grip the United States

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there was an amazing event that took

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place in June of 1982 right down the

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road here in New York City one million

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Americans like yourself gathered there

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and demonstrated against nuclear war

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demonstrated Four Arms Control at that

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time the president United States was

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Ronald Reagan hardcore conservative he

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called the Soviet Union the evil empire

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a year after this demonstration ABC put

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out a TV series called the day after

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Ronald Reagan watched this series

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and after seeing the depiction of what

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life after a general nuclear exchange

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between the United States and the Soviet

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Union looked like he turned to his

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advisors and he said is this is this

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what it’s going to be like and they said

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no Mr President it’s going to be far

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worse it’s going to be worse than you

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can possibly imagine and that set off a

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light bulb in Ronnie Reagan’s head

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and in December of 1987 he signed the

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intermediate nuclear forces treaty with

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his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev

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and began the process of getting rid of

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Jay Robert oppenheimer’s device

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it was the first time that the United

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States and the Soviet Union didn’t speak

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of limiting the growth of nuclear

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weapons but actually eliminating these

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weapons from the face of the Earth and

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you know who participated in that you

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know who led the charge who’s on the

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front lines and making this treaty

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possible people like me

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executioners formally trained to use

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nuclear weapons and we are now having

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our skill sets corralled into getting

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rid of nuclear weapons and ladies and

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gentlemen that was a good thing

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unfortunately we were not able to

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maintain the momentum we got knocked off

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track Arms Control today is not

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happening

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the last remaining Arms Control treaty

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new start expires in 2026 and there is

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no negotiation taking place today to

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renew it and this is happening at a time

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when both the United States and Russia

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are talking about spending billions of

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dollars some would even say trillions of

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dollars in modernizing their nuclear

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forces but this time the modernization

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will take place without any limitations

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without any restrictions imposed by arms

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control it will literally be a nuclear

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arms race

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now what makes this more dangerous in

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the 1980s in the 1980s we operated with

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a Doctrine called mutually assured

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destruction it meant you use your nukes

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we use ours we all die therefore let’s

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not use the nukes now that’s a pretty

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stupid way to live life but it’s better

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than thinking that you can win a nuclear

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war

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today

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the executioners of Americans nuclear

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policy believe a nuclear war can be won

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we have a doctrine that says that we can

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preemptively use nuclear weapons anytime

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we want to it’s not just me saying this

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ladies and gentlemen we’ll take the

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words out of the mouth of a trump era

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Arms Control officials speaking to the

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Arms Control Association when he said it

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is the goal of the Trump Administration

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that every morning Chinese and Russian

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leaders wake up they don’t know if this

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is the day we’re going to Nuke them or

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not that’s an honest to God quote that’s

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insanity and yet that’s America’s policy

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now you’ll say wait a minute Scott

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that’s Trump what about Biden Biden has

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the exact same policy the exact same

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policy of nuclear preemption

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a policy that’s being implemented

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without any restraint from Arms Control

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and now we bring in the issue of Ukraine

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we have a war going on in Ukraine that’s

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not a war between Russia and Ukraine

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it’s a war between Russia and the

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collective West including the United

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States the goals in the United States in

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this conflict are simple the Strategic

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defeat of Russia

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now Russia has said that a world without

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Russia is a world no one will live in

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which means if you try to strategically

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defeat Russia they will use their

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nuclear weapons to protect themselves

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yet the goal and objective of the United

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States in providing more than 180

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billion dollars of U.S taxpayer funding

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to Ukraine is to enable Ukraine to

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strategically defeat Russia

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that means that our policy is to commit

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suicide ladies and gentlemen that is

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literally the definition of insanity

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that is crazy now today in the United

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States there’s men and women who wear

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the uniforms or the armed services the

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United States who are sworn to protect

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our nation some of these men and women

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have the job of using nuclear weapons if

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and when called upon

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these are people like Paul Tibbetts who

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will execute that mission

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but you know the people

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in the world today that have the ability

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to employ nuclear weapons don’t just

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speak English

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they speak Russian they speak Chinese

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they speak North Korean they speak

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French

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they speak Indian they speak Urdu Hindu

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I guess it should be accurate I

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apologize out there I’m a marine

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sometimes I say things that I shouldn’t

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but um the bottom line is

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we no longer have a nuclear Monopoly if

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nuclear weapons are used this is a

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global problem but we are the only

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nation in the world that has a doctrine

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of preemption we are the only nation in

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the world actively pursuing a policy

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supporting Ukraine with the goal of the

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Strategic defeat of Russia that will

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result in general thermonuclear war we

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are the only nation willingly trying on

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a daily basis not just to have Russia

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wake up and China wake up questioning

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whether or not this is the day we will

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use nuclear weapons every person in the

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world wakes up wondering if this is the

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day

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now let’s go back to oppenheimer’s the

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movie about Oppenheimer that scene J

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Robert Oppenheimer turns to the men in

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uniform and tries to tell them about the

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nuclear devices they say we got it here

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boss we got it here

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okay

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but now we know

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we can’t claim that we don’t know no one

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in this audience can say I don’t know

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about the threat nobody in the world

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today could say I don’t know about the

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threat and it’s time that we have that

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meeting again with the executioners with

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the men and women who will execute

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nuclear policy and this time we turn to

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them and when they try to say we got it

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here we say no we got it here it’s over

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the day of nuclear terrorism is done we

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must learn to recapture the spirit of

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disarmament that gripped Ronald Reagan

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and there’s no one out there right now

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that’s more conservative than Ronald

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Reagan that gripped him in his heart to

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make him believe that having nuclear

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weapons was insanity and the best course

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of action for the United States in the

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world was nuclear disarmament we need to

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recapture that spirit and I’m hoping

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that today we can begin a process that

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leads to a moment next summer when we

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can put a million people back into

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Central Park and send a signal to those

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who wish to represent us in the White

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House that nuclear discernment is the

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only direction for the United States

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that the day of the Executioner is over

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thank you very much

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[Applause]

On episode 40 of the show we are joined by Akhra Avidzba, a political activist and a commander of the “Pyatnashka” battalion, an active participant in the war in Donbass, Hero of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. In 2008 he went as a volunteer to South Ossetia to fight against Georgia however did not take part in hostilities. In 2014 he went to Donbass, joined the “Oplot” battalion and later established the “Pyatnashka” battalion. He has taken part in many notable battles for Donbass since the start of the conflict in 2014 and has received multiple awards and medals, including medal “For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth” and medal of “Officer’s Valor”.

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an initial attempt at this I think we should emphasize that my guest today the

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Battalion commander of the pietinochka Battalion Akra advisva is in the combat

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zone in a war zone and uh technical difficulties are uh a daily occurrence

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there but um uh having introduced uh my guest let me just put it in perspective we are mo

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than 500 days into a conflict that for the most of the world began in February

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of 2022 um but for other people like

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um our guest uh this is a war that’s been going on since 2014. um and I think we need to bring that

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into perspective uh about the scope and scale of this conflict and the cost that

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has been paid by those who are fighting it um let’s just get straight to business sir

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thank you very much for for joining us um for the benefit of uh of this audience many of whom probably never

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heard of you before today uh if you could provide us with a little bit of information about who you are uh what

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the piano Battalion is and uh what it is you’re doing in the dome best right now foreign

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viewers and listeners all the audience it is the first time that we meet online

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I’m so glad that we are having this opportunity because I have long followed

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your thoughts and your programs because they concur with what I think and

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believe in a nutshell I must say that I’m a

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militia fighter and a passion this is my ethnicity

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and this is my conscientious choice because I had a lot of Temptations

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and I always try to use this

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name when I’m online

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actually their peasant people’s Nations one

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with a rich history so I perceive this to be the only stop word

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that prevents me from from any Liberties but I actually

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I’ve been fighting under this nickname for nine years I grew up in Russia and

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uh at a certain point of time I had to go and help and I moved there starting from

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the sum of 2014 there were 15 of like-minded people

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and we took the title of betnaska which means 15 in Russian a group of 15 and we

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were in the Vanguard of that fight

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looks like we’re having some momentary technical things once again I remind the

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audience that this is an interview that’s taking place with the front line commander in a war zone and these things

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are uh are to be expected um there he is welcome back

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and that’s just yes thank you understanding

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that we were turning of a reconnaissance and sabotage small group

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into into International Brigade we’re still retained in the name of bitnushka

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we are not to Battalion but say we are advantage of a new state

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not only did we wage a war but we also

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created a lot and our knowledge as we believe should go far and wide

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and we helped read athletes that raised the ban over the People’s

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Republic of donetskat World Championships and mixed fights in football

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among unrecognized nations who have raised the quality bar of our athletes

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very high with the knowledge that our machine

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rifle would shoot within the range of one kilometer but our knowledge now

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track record of our athletes reaches far beyond

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demonstrating the culture of of our territory so we dedicated ourselves

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to shaping and setting up this state that has been fighting for its own

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history its own banan language and that was very close to our heart and

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actually when I came here I saw an order of my

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nation of hazir on the bosom of one of the volunteers that

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participated in the hostilities there back in 1993 and I was grateful to him

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and they helped read Our Generation educate Our Generation that succeeds

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them and we are here now from all over the world and we know

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quite well that the Russian World has its Shield today on donbass

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and actually had been a peaceful track we would

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have attained much more much faster but the collective West decided to snip Us

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in the bud and they bogged down in this Warfare and actually some of the

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members of parliament of the state Duma are now fighting entrenches with arms in

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there in their arms with weapons

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defending their language their territory their

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motherland and it is a crusade actually because Ukraine had been concealing

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their design that they wanted to do a blow against the Orthodox Faith although they have several thousand parishes in

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Ukraine and actually they were driving towards this

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they had been preparing the terrain for that and every time we have

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military huddles and meetings we tell everybody the history of the

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conflict starting from this 17th century showing the the then times

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maps of poles and the French that demonstrate that there was no

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Ukraine it wasn’t existent as one of the same people on the same Russian nation

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and the collective West wanted to divide the nation in three parts

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into the Russians ukrainians and belarussians to prevent that we have been fighting

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because in the global world we are part of the Russian world and you know in the United States

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they regarded me as a Russian not as a Persian but here I’m in a Persian and Russia has been helping to prop up

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my my vernacular language and books come out

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there are some scriptures of peoples that joined Russia

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10 centuries ago and they have been able to retain and maintain their language

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and let me ask the Americans when the United States was established there were some loyal Indians

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that helped the white people that fought against their kin and Keith

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and they ended up in reservations do they have their own States

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their own entities they are inexistent and we’re trying to

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explain into the ukrainians that they are similarly regarded as loyal Indians

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and you know we want to live on we love our life

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but without this state not even as strong as

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thickest tree can stand on

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I know what the worth of the combat is

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I have a family and I wage this war for them

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and I know what I’m gonna tell them

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again um just for reminding the audience that there we are we’re back there are some

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technical difficulties I’m back so I have a an opportunity

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now when we walk Among The Monuments at a cemetery after

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the victory and my son is going to ask me what happened when your brothers got

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killed I’ll tell him I stood next to them and thought next to them I have been wounded two times here

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and mine 120th fell under my feet and I

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and I caught two smithereens the next time an anti-tank mine exploded 1.5 meters

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away from me and once again I I I’m partially

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audio impaired now you cannot see that but my face is full of of

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pieces of smithereens and each time I wash my face

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I recall that and I know that I deserve all that that I’ve been fighting for my

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motherland the best prize for me is the is is The

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Smithereens that I have in my face and my bosom I haven’t sped myself for the sake of my

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of my nation as well as the majority of people that have been fighting here so the Russian mentality

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at core is

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is fighting on all of us women and children are warriors and the Nature has

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always been with us we will keep being a national winners we’re never

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happened to be a nation of conquerors once we had to liberate Germany although

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all the Europe like France and Germany and all the rest used their military

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capability against us we liberated Europe and Europe evolved

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into the European Union and we received nothing in return but they have been trying to

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to partition us let the Russian Bear line his hole in

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his ferret so this is the story this is the history

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we love our Fatherland well stand behind it

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and we will fight for the benefit of our motherland we’ll sacrifice ourselves

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am a colonel of the Russian army at present project that I was a

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volunteer and we don’t wear Insignia till today it’s

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not because of the Sharpshooters or snipers they they don’t care about insignia

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but actually we want to be like Rank and file soldiers all of us

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like brothers in arms not commanders of theirs this is how

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things operate at betnushka

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well I I appreciate that look um your courage is never in doubt I I don’t know if the audience knows this but you uh in

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addition to the wounds that you uh obviously

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where with pride the scars uh you’ve been decorated as a hero of the donets People’s Republic uh so your courage is

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is not in question um you know for some people who uh who are observers of this conflict it seems that

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there’s two two different conflicts there’s the special military operation and we uh we read about the fighting

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today in zapparesia we read about bakmut we read about kupiansk uh in in other

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fighting and then there’s a um there’s another war that we don’t talk about too much and that’s the uh the

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battles in marinka and advika that’s where you are that’s where you’ve been for uh for so many years

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um there there’s some people uh you may be familiar with him um an American who

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lives in donbass uh Russell Texas Bentley um who’s been very critical of me saying

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that I am far too optimistic about uh about the progress of the war that this

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is a uh this this is the war is is far more difficult than uh and that things

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aren’t going as well as the as they could be um and I recognize that I live thousands

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of miles away and uh I am not a direct Observer you sir are a direct Observer

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what’s your feeling about the situation at the front today um I know you’re a warrior I know you’re

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always optimistic but you’ve been doing this for many years do you feel as if the conflict is moving in

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the right direction do you feel optimistic that um Russia will prevail

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on the battlefield that this conflict will become becoming to an end sometime soon what’s what’s your assessment

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uh you know let us let’s explain it to the

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viewers what has been happening many people think that Russia has been waging a war against Ukraine this is gibberish

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dribble the Russian contract Army is waging a war against the Ukrainian

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regular army that has gone through 10 waves of mobilization we have the

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regular army the draft Army and the contract Army which used to be 7 1700 70 000 people strong and 20 to 30

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people more in Malaysia and the Ukrainian Army is half a million strong

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plus the mobilization waves well the Russian army is a great Army

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but many have been trying to criticize it okay let’s approach from a different perspective let’s look at the Russian

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army from the foreign perspective okay if Russia has been losing the war

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why is Ukraine realming itself for the fourth time they first of all have the

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Soviet Legacy of arms then they use the European uh Warehouse

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weapons of the Soviet origin that were sent to Ukraine from Eastern and Western

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Europe and all that was burned down and crashed

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then NATO supplies were sent to Ukraine it also was crashed

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and now they are sending regular NATO equipment to Ukraine

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23 countries have been supplying ammunition and military equipment to

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Ukraine and and we’re destroying all that so if Russia is defeating why the

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Ukraine has been rearming for many times and we have sufficient

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supplies you know if we recruited 300 000 people more

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we first used the obsolete Weaponry to get use get rid of the obsolete things

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that were turned out in 1960s and 70s anyway it grinded the NATO supplies all

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right so it seems It’s of high quality now Russia is on

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it is only assault we have grown 10 million people of population as

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a result of that if we lose one million people at War the dissenters

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the the perished ones anyway we will return 30 million people

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back so we’re not losing economically we have been advancing

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the oil and gas have been rising in price and the petrol the the gasoline

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also okay you’ll have to use less gas less petrol but do not deceive your own people your

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own population Russia is at ease is good enough feeling great

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doing well it is the only state on the sanctions that sees the sanctions backlashing on

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the on the masterminds on the authors so our population [Music] today

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has been behind us supporting us they have been sending drones and quadricopters

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Mrs brand new equipment that will receive

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chemicals the drones are worth thousands of dollars

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only rear guard is helping the front

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we are realists at the front we can see what has been happening we

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have arrange the defense line properly waiting for the adversary and the

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adversary didn’t live up to our expectations so with our free spare forces and reserves

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we started counter-attacking itching bind by bite our territory Bank

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we know that we’re gonna win we’re gonna win the the war

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no matter who helps them we are ready for anything even for an

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open conflict with NATO countries but do you know can you reckon a native country

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ready to engage into into an open conflict with

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Russia they they tried it in Syria but they started patrolling together with Russia

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and prior to that they supplied arms to isil all the albums that isil had were from

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was from the United States and Russia has retained the statehood

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we did not exceed Syria

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we did not incorporate that country would don’t want anything alien

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what we want is our territory we asked you for 30 years stop itching

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towards us stop looking at us stop stop eyeing us up but in 1940s

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you entered the second world war was it free of charge no we paid for everything

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for all the help why aren’t you telling

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in history caused books that you did that

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out of a good heart so the American that

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is on the ground the one you mentioned wants you

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to tell the truth you want you must treat of emotion

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being partial and I’ve been watching all your videos till the end and you are unique

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you’re all right if you if you want to learn a truth you reach us

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and you talk to us no one wants you to act as a Rebel

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just tell them that that your taxpayers are sending the money into into a stove

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they think that Russia will collapse but you know when we are under duress we become stronger

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it makes us stronger and Americans will feel worse off back in 90s we

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caved in your business entered our soil and uh you know actually

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now we’re pushing back and thanks McDonald I’d like to thank McDonald for Lee McDonald’s for leaving we will not

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have fat asses you know this is not our lifestyles we

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love our commander-in-chief because he has made our nation stronger he made you squeak

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and yell and you panic at his sight and we’re proud of him you are not looking in the

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proper direction the more

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unhealthy the more unhealthy food Outlets you withdraw the better for us

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our our pancakes are much better we don’t need your Pepsi Cola

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well we have our own traditional conventional foods and foodstuffs

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well I I can concur with the quality of the Russian food I had the uh the honor

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of visiting Russia recently and um and I I can say that your uh your your Cuisine

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choices uh are definitely better than McDonald’s um let’s let’s talk about something that

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you uh you you mentioned you talked about the fourth wave of rearmament of

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uh of the Ukrainian Army and uh the current wave is of course

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the active NATO equivalent equipment the equipment that the NATO armies actually

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use um have you experienced this equipment is uh are you facing against the high

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Mars are you facing the American artillery the leopard tank yeah Bradley

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just just for a second I’ll I’ll leave the the frame and I’ll I’ll say I’ll I’ll answer you

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I’ll honestly I’ll just want to show you something I’ll be back in a second

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it’s the benefit of interviewing a Frontline Commander I think he’s going to probably bring up

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something that um people sitting in the rear areas wouldn’t be able to bring to illustrate his point so I’m uh I’m

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looking forward to uh to seeing this and there we go

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like three okay

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looks like a NATO made uh foreign

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well we have a lot of a lot more at warehouse these are toys for us our arms

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are better of high quality we just give it as as presence towards one another we have a

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lot of that we have German made arms tilted Hitler this is this is a toy

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nothing nothing else and your cartridge is burst and explode

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the only Advantage is the finished package of

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of cartridges into belts

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and you know our soldiers our soldiers are always busy inserting cartridges

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into builds so they have no Wicked thoughts and we have your grenades captured

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dropping grenades well clearly um when you possess

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trophies there nature it shows that you are you’re doing well on the on the battlefield um

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you were you were in the fighting since 2014. uh today you’re part of the Russian army

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you carry the rank of Colonel um has it been difficult integrating into

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the Russian uh military structure for for years you were I I would say probably had more

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Independence more latitude now you find yourself under a uh a higher authority

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maybe with the less one Jerome

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the Russian army came here embraced us

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because the People’s Republic of donisk has become part of Russia being reintegrated

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and we have become a a unit of Russian army well previously we fought for the

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sake of a lofty idea today we have social guarantees and and we have

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more perks and bonuses and you know back in 2016 we converted

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our militia into an army according to Russian standards

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we tried to copy that because we understood that sooner or later would become part of the Russian army

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and actually we tried to imitate

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their styles and structures and nothing has changed we have become part of the Russian army

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but now we have more social guarantees for our families like we have 50 percent discount for our

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uh house bills and utility bills and we

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have vacation paid many people were afraid but you know we

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only have benefited from that and the rationing of ours at Battlefield

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has improved dramatically and the remunerations and and our

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Fighters can send their their relatives and their family members to to have rest at the seaside

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so nowhere much better off and when they started threatening Russia with sanctions we we in return as a

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retaliation started developing our own manufacturing

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domestic manufacturing and people started producing things and turning them out

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and you have stopped your entrepreneurs from

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investing into into Russia and now we are free from competition and we can seize the the market so we have been

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advancing we have been active right I thank you for that well you’re welcome

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um the um look you mentioned earlier that you received uh drones you have different

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kinds of drones that you’re receiving this is a new kind of warfare it’s a it’s something that the West is not

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familiar with uh look back when I was in the Marine Corps in the 1980s I helped

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invent drone Warfare but these were very slow drones big drones used for

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reconnaissance purposes today the drones that you use in combat are completely different than anything I had ever

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envisioned um without giving away any secrets I’m not asking you to do that

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could you introduce to the audience the realities of modern drone Warfare how do

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you use drones and if you can say how are drones used against you and how has

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this changed um the face of War oh

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hello again well against us

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the 82nd make some drones are used

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engravian drones agriculture groans with 80 second mines

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on top of them or at the bottom with explosives

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beg to them recognizing drones

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many many of them they use what they have at hand

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so do we we buy from the same manufacturer which

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is China both the ukrainians and thus the

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only thing is their life cycle of these units

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we are not behind we will use twice as many as much

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equipment as they do we have

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separate recognations and surveillance groups and each of the units has drones

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and we have stepped up the procurement

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and the demand is huge and we also had a backlog

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of orders we had to satisfy in order to preclude deficit we had to

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become more agile in procurement

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well for half a year we have been responsible for our own procurement

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is bottom up and you know we have been in charge of that and

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we even produced by ourselves they can be counts in drones

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and the army

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has been using uh long range drones

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made in Russia but you know we are using shorter range this is why we buy

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my foreign made ones but we also may use this the the staff

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army drones the the list of drones on On Demand

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if we file an application to the Army so we

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we buy some of the devices

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it may replace cameras to install more precise ones

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you know we actually cannot afford to have a laborator of Our Own

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we are a small unit but we can cope all right we have been assembling and

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Manufacturing customized drones by ourselves

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we have coped with that and this is the the case in each of the

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units military units the commanders want to ensure that

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their units have everything many people are oblivious of the essence

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of the conflict there just look at the static picture so when we Triumph from

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that war when we defeat the enemy you everyone will will tell oh we we told

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you Russia would would uh would win but only use cult have been saying that

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and you know actually we we remember those who have been with us since day one

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siding with us one has to have a an impartial perspective

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you shouldn’t praise us too much but actually look what what the interest of

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America in that war is why are you involved

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if you’re viewers

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believe that I’ll forget whose equipment the Ukrainian Army used their misguided mistaken

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it would be a fallacy we will not forget that and everybody is silent about this

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because all these nations have foreign services and other things but I

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I’m from a different Circle I’m a destroyer I’m in the Army

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we destroy the enemy if I have

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an opportunity to make me stiff against those who

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Supply our adversary with uh with weapons we will do so we’ll make this Mischief

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their pageants are quite few in Russia there are only eight million of peasants

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worldwide but this is enough

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for us to pursue vengeance

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thanks to my fellow countrymen we have been able to equip

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our well argument with combat uniforms and we

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know that there are very many people like you thinking of the future of the world

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and we have a lot of people worldwide sympathizing with us so people from the United States

35:44

non-indifferent ones helped helped us we’re honest people and actually we

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received the first cargo from from your Cruiser and raise the flags and we didn’t sink

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that ship back then it was a militia group

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not a regular army we can reach everywhere

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our arms are strong our arms are long definitely we want want a world peace

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I can’t think of a better uh a better sentiment to end this conversation on world peace uh it’s not

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going to be easy to get there um I respect the fact that you are engaged in a very difficult struggle

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um I respect your courage and I wish you and your fellow fighters in the pietino

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Battalion um the very best that you can all go home to your families uh and that you

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are in the end Victorious not because I’m Russian or pro-russian but because I

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study history and I believe that you are on the right side of History so thank you very much for uh for joining me

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today I’ll be following your exploits uh down the road and um all I can say is I I hope that this

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conflict comes to an end so that the terrible work that you and your uh your fellow Fighters are doing um will no

37:14

longer be needed and that you can go home to your families and that you can live uh the life that uh that you have

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earned uh with your blood with your sacrifice um this has been a unique opportunity to

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uh to meet a Frontline commander of the um the caliber of the courage of the

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experience of um I I hope that the audience appreciates

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this opportunity I certainly have and I hope that you’re tolerant of uh the technical difficulties we uh we

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experienced it it is after all uh something else to try and do a live interview uh with somebody who’s a

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Frontline commander in a war zone but uh remember um knowledge is power and today I think

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we got an awful lot of knowledge this is Sky Ritter I’ll see you again next week foreign

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Scotty’s on fire it’s August 8th

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2023 episode 89 of ask the inspector the lightning round today Scott answers all

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questions in three minutes or less and uh

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we just published a new post on substack about the Gonzalo Lira situation I’ll

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let you uh talk about it the only thing I want to say is that I’m amazed by your

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allies being so dismissive and and they’re so curse about it when you have made such a

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tremendous effort to explain yourself including a three-hour Twitter spaces at least a half an hour here with me and

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now your most extensive article yet so maybe they’ll at least acknowledge that you’ve given an explanation that they

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could possibly uh address we’ll see yeah I’m I’m at the point where I

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you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink um but with all due respect to everybody and I mean everybody and I’m talking

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about you Larry Johnson I’m talking about you Brian burdulich I’m talking about the Duran people that you know I

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like I think they’re they’re nice people I don’t know Brian so I can’t say I like Brian because I’ve never met him that would be disingenuous but I like the

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Duran I like Larry Johnson but um backed up off

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and there I am using the f word you guys don’t know what the hell you’re talking about let’s put it in proper perspective

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please we’re at War okay you may not think you’re a war but we’re at War because the other side you

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know those guys that we always criticize the ukrainians the Nazis the sbu all

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these bad guys they’re real it isn’t a figment of your imagination they

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put out a Hit List called the mirth for its hit list I’m on it some of you might be on it it’s not a joke they

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kill people okay they have an organization called the center for countering disinformation you know what they do for a living information Warfare

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against you whether you want it or not whether you think you’re the bad guy or the enemy or combat or not they view you

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as the enemy they call you in information terrorist I’ve seen a lot of people going that’s a ridiculous concept

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I’m not debating the point but what I’m trying to tell you is they view you as an information terrorist and from their

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perspective that means you’re a terrorist with all that that attends that means you can be killed that means

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you’re a combatant and enemy combatant you don’t have any rights we’re at War wake the up guys you’re out here

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pretending that this is some sort of debating Club it’s not it’s not a game it’s real they will kill you they have

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already killed people they’re going to kill more people they’ve tried to kill people it’s not a game so for you to sit

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there in your little cloud and pretend that what happened to Gonzalo lira is just a sense of coincidence man

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oh yeah he was arrested by the spu the sbu the people who made the Merit towards Hit List to kill people by the

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way gonzalea was on that list why is he still alive if he was an sbu custody question number one answer that one you

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can’t he was arrested for what for carrying out actions that the Ukrainian government deemed to be information

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terrorism which they likened to terrorism he’s a terrorist in the custody of the sbu who kills people

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like him but they released him five days later yeah they took his computers they took his phones but they let him get

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another computer can hop right back on the internet to do the exact same information terrorism and nobody asked a

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question how stupid can you be we’re War people this isn’t a game

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the sbu flipped him it’s called a police confidential informant hey Larry Johnson off you and your CIA guy what a

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disingenuous answer that was really I want to talk about the CIA recruiting an American citizen you made that up I

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never once brought it up but you’ve known goddamn well what the CIA does especially when they’re dealing with

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people that cause paperwork you silly stupid person that was disingenuous Larry you know

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what the CIA does when they have a problematic Source like that they get a friendly service to flip them for them

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yeah Larry you know it I know it because we’ve done it I don’t know if you’ve done it I’ve done it

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flip them let the other service run it then you reap the benefits of their job

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they have the paperwork you don’t have the paperwork God Almighty but to pretend and this is

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what bothers me Larry Johnson went out of his way to try and denigrate then when he knows better he knows goddamn

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well that they flip people like Gonzalo Larry all Laura all the time for what

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purpose intelligence collection human intelligence to get a man on the inside

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cops do it every single day in America they do it around the world intelligence services do it all the time and yet

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suddenly boom it can’t be done to Gonzalo Lira because you like them

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God how stupid can you be we’re War people this is a real war the ukrainians view

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this as a matter of life and death they’re not around Gonzalo Lear

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was flipped and everybody goes well uh I was on his round table there was a great conversation I don’t

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understand the intelligence value then you don’t understand intelligence I laid it out for you in the article read it

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understand that the very process of carrying out the round table gives invaluable insight

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on the part of Gonzalo lira’s handlers into the behavioral psychology of everybody involved we’re War people they

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actually have teams of people that evaluate the behavioral psychology to find find points of tension to break

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teams up to artificially create teams who led those round tables I spent a lot of time watching them man a lot of time

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Gonzalo Lira LED them he was like a conductor in the orchestra and you became a goddamn member of the orchestra

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hey Larry play the fiddle a little bit more hey the Duran bring up the trombones Brian bring in the bass

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that was Lira boom boom boom boom I watched it he manipulated you he controlled the entire tone tenor content

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he got you to commit to you may not have committed to any other time he was in charge and you think he wrote the

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goddamn script nope sbu wrote it he was working for them collecting behavioral now people say to what end well again if

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you read the article you’ll see that they do these things called events it’s event driven they want an event let me

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tell you what event they just got they got me calling Larry Johnson the man I like and I respect a dumb on a

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podcast that’s what they got okay they they got Mr Ritter Mr Pavlov’s dog they

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rang the bell and I jumped for it because they know who I am they know how to tweak me up they know who you are

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they watched you on the on the round table they watched you cave into Lyra to crawl to the throne of Gonzalo Lira and

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bow before the king of and then they knew that they could tweak this thing up and get this fight going

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at least I have the balls to sit there and call it what it is at least I have the honesty this is what’s happening

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all right none of you do we’re at War Gonzalo lira is a conspirator he’s a

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he’s a collaborator you know what they do to collaborators in the old days I’m not asking for that but I’m saying

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that’s what he is he’s not your friend he’s a man who caved into the enemy and was doing their bidding

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because they’re at war against you and they want to kill you they want to disrupt you they want to deny service

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they want to demonetize you they want to do all the things that they’re doing on a daily basis because they’re at war

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against you against me against everybody and if you don’t treat Gonzalo Lira as

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what the evidence shows he is a confidential informant working for the

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sbu then you’ve lost this war you’ve lost this battle and you’re my enemy now

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because I’m at War I’m on a Target list I’m not going to sit here and play

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goddamn games anymore if you guys want to invite me on your show I’ll come on your show if you don’t touch I don’t want to be part of it anymore you

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guys have given in to the enemy you’re part of the problem you’re not part of the solution Gonzalo lira is an sbu

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confidential informant he’s an sbu asset do I have proof got a whole bunch of

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circumstantial evidence but you know what in times of war and anybody who’s been in war and in intelligence War

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Larry come on you know this when the red flag goes up you don’t wait for proof man this isn’t

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a court of law This Is War there are enough red flags here to sail

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a ship around the world and yet you’re not calling what it is

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because you got co-opted you got co-opted every single one of you got co-opted by Gonzalo lira

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yeah I did too prior to his arrest I got sucked into the Gonzalo Lira Aura everyone’s like

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you got to go on Gonzalo Lira so I went on Gonzalez era then they’re like oh Godzilla’s gonna make you and break you

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he could do things he’s calling up saying I can get you monetized I can do this Mr deal maker come on my show I’m

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gonna introduce you to people make happen and I’m sitting there going oh cool I’ve never done this internet before it’s all cool ride then he got

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arrested Red Flag I was like something’s wrong here and then a junior came out with his video

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y’all know what I’m talking about don’t trust Scottrade anymore Brian bertolic calls it a tiff I call it a red

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Flag Brian that’s why you were an electronic Optics repairman in the Marine Corps and I was an intelligence officer yeah I’m seeing it Brian you can

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do your geopolitical allowances but don’t pretend that you know anything about intelligence because you don’t

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not one thing and yet you’re out there saying I don’t know what I’m talking about I’m crazy

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it’s okay you’re on the side that’s going to lose you’re on the side that’s been co-opted

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by the sbu you’re on the side that’s going to be discredited I’m on the side at least trying to win

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this is an information War this is about right or wrong you know the the consequences of this aren’t trivial

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either you all do know that this information war that we’re involved in is part of a struggle that includes the

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United States strategic objective of feeding the Russians and you know what the consequences of

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Russian being defeated are don’t you let me tell you nuclear War we all

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die so wake the up start playing the game the way it’s supposed to be played by knowing what the rules are and the

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rules are when somebody is arrested by the sbu for a crime that normally gets people killed tortured murdered released

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five days later and given access to a computer to do the exact goddamn same thing stay the away but you all

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went crawling to the round table y’all went bow and down at the Throne of Gonzalo Lira and you were all co-opted

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and it shows today by your inability to recognize what reality is to call a spade a spade

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that took more than three minutes I deserve to be whipped Plus Marine is going to kill me for swearing but um I

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want paleo and I want to add that uh Brian uh block you on Twitter which I think is a real cuck move yeah for a

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marine hey Ryan if you’re listening block me come on man you’re Mr intellectual Mr

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geopolitics you wearing all right let me say something about Larry Johnson too we preview or you previously had a

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disagreement with Larry and one of our first episodes Larry was our guest and he came on and he debated you it was

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very civil and it went great not just my opinion I I communicated with Larry

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Afters and he agreed it went great he’d love to come back so cut to this episode I invited him to come on last Friday’s

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episode to debate you on this and he replied in a text I’d love to but I have

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dinner plans so then I got back to him twice twice looking to find another day in time

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because I took him out his word he said he’d love to have it he’s ignored me since then so

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that’s how much he’d love to now watch him in uh what he said in another podcast

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Gonzalo Lira yeah it’s so so everybody’s talking about this as Scott

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said that he’s a Ukrainian sbu asset yeah that’s crazy I I so

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if you’re going to be an asset of the SVU you’re going to be doing the work that’s

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going to benefit the sbu correct I don’t get it I mean so what is it I’ve always I’ve

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asked people this I’ve yet to get a good answer and I hope to ask Scott

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what is it that Gonzalo Lira did that benefited the sbu just name me one thing

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disingenuous is exactly the right word for him here he is pretending oh he’s so anxious to get this information as if

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you haven’t given a full explanation and here I can tell you that we’ve tried hard to get him on and he won’t come so

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well but I just wrote an article Larry read it I spell out in great detail what you

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already claimed to know see Larry and I have talked about information operations before not in the context of Gonzalo

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Lira but Larry knows what an inform information operation is he knows what covert human intelligence activity is

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online he knows all this so for him to sit there and say I I don’t know what they could do either you are never a

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intelligence Officer Larry and your whole goddamn resume is a joke or you’re being disingenuous because you

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don’t want to hurt your good friend Gonzalez feelings you know what a information operation is Larry

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you know it you know what Behavioral Science is Larry you’re in the CIA you’re goddamn well better know it or

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you’re getting senile and you forgot it I don’t mean to be dismissive or rude but come on Larry crazy what crazy is

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you pretending that he wasn’t flipped and he wasn’t doing stuff you do understand that the round table was a

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petri dish for data collection for Behavioral scientists you know that Larry don’t you because that’s what the

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CIA does on a daily God damn basis against Islamic State they go in

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and they co-opt online discussion forums to figure out the psychological profile of the people participating so they can

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begin to pick them off you helped that Larry you were part of the experiment and apparently experiment

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worked because apparently you don’t have a clue how anything works in the intelligence business anymore again I

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apologize I don’t want I didn’t want to get angry I sort of waited for this thing because I was like trying to calm

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down but man this really irritates me because this is war this isn’t a game

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these are guys that you’re previously friendly with and it’s it’s a weird situation

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and so would you still welcome Larry coming on or do you think that ship has passed no you I’ll tell you why because

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Larry um has done a couple interviews and he wrote a couple things and um it’s unforgivable I have a phone

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Larry you’ve called me before before you go on and commit to to call me crazy in public like that call me up

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talk to me ring ring you could do that Larry but you didn’t you know who did try to call you to get you on me call

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you Jeff tried to call you we at least gave you the courtesy of coming on and having this thing talked out in public

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before I went out and did this but I’m not going to sit here and wait all goddamn day long while you sit there and

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drag my name through the mud calling me crazy saying I don’t know what I’m doing you know I ain’t perfect I make a

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mistake every hour sometimes every minute I know that and uh you know sometimes my mouth gets ahead of my

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analysis and I have to bring words back but I’m pretty goddamn good at what I do

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Larry and what I did professionally was intelligent for a long time at every goddamn level

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and I know what I’m talking about hearing you know that I know what I’m talking about but you can’t admit it neither can the

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others because you’ve been co-opted go back and look at your goddamn Roundtable uh conversations with Gonzalo Lira and

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tell me who’s in charge of the narrative is that you going on voicing your opinion strongly or is that you playing

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little puppy to Gonzalo who’s telling you how to tune your fiddle I watched it

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Larry I watched not all of them because there’s a whole bunch of them but I watched about 20 of them uh over over

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the course of the last couple days just trying to get some insight into this because I I read the the the the the the

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the gchq training document and I’m going man man man look at what they’re saying look

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what they’re doing this round table sounds an awful lot like what they’re talking about then I watch the round table yeah that’s exactly what they’re

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talking about and if it isn’t if the FCU wasn’t running it they’re still getting everything they want

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but that’s indirect and you can’t blame Gonzalo Lear for that but again no one’s answered the question how did he get a

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goddamn computer and why was he allowed to continue to do the that got him arrested prior no one’s answered that

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question yet until you answer that question he’s a flipped asset you know it I know it everybody needs to know it

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okay I said I’m sorry that’s all right that’s

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all right nothing to apologize for some of the people uh in the comments are asking questions to the effect of what

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is he ranting about what is he ranting about and um yeah it’s nothing wrong with being somebody who’s not aware of

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all this but I think if you go and read this new article you’ll understand that

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scottritterextra.com just published this morning all right let’s go to the questions from

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our beloved audience and if you have a few minutes at the end of the show Scott and maybe we’ll go overboard to make up

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for our semi-loquacious opening not semi Ultra Liquid

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the first question is from Justin who lives on the internet aka the World Wide

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Web regarding Brian burledek blocking you he’s basically doing what Gonzalo is

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doing but in Thailand so it’s personal to him he could be in a similar situation for speaking out against a

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western puppet government in Thailand so I think this is why he took it personally and now we start timing three

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minutes this is exactly what I’m talking about Justin everything you just said there you know how invaluable that Insight is

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to a to an sbu officer to a gchq officer to a CIA officer trying to develop a

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psychological profile a behavioral profile about Brian and the people he interacts with everything you get you

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talk about there are points that can be exploited that’s what that’s what human intelligence is it’s about the

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collection of data that can then be turned around for intelligence benefit so you’re making my case thank you very

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much all right that was rather succinct

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uh hang on a second here next question comes from Andrew trafemov

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in Moscow that’s the capital of Russia you know Scott I’ve been there once or twice all right

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just checking how far do you think NATO governed by the USA Administration will

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go in provoking Russia in Ukraine long-range ammo supplies what is the

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next move that will move it to the open conflict named War well I do believe that the um the goal

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and object of the United States is to avoid an open conflict named War um because if they wanted to have a open

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conflict name where we’d already be in an open conflict name War um you know they have been pushing the

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boundaries they’ve been Crossing red lines that they’ve established previously um I think one of the reasons they’re

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emboldened by Russian restraint um Russia doesn’t want to get involved in an open conflict named war and Russia

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is not desperate Russia’s winning so Russia is able to uh to put a lot on their shoulders that

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otherwise they wouldn’t normally do and I think the Russian strategy is working

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um Ukraine’s getting whipped whipped how much longer Ukraine can sustain this

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is is is it’s not very much longer they’re running out of forces they’re running

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out of equipment um and Russia’s goal is to exhaust them is

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to bring the Ukrainian Army to the point of exhaustion and then to have collapse and at that point of collapse it’s all

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over it I think the United States has recognizing this you know understand what just happened in Jeddah Saudi Arabia there was a peace conference that

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was convened they were trying to uh you know breathe life into zielinski’s 10-point peace plan but uh what the

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world said is uh that ain’t realistic now Ukraine walked away saying we have to do a better job of convincing the the

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the the developing south or whatever he called them um no the world is going to

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convince you through the hard School of reality that you’ve lost and

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if you continue struggling you’re going to lose more until you lose it all and I

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think that’s the race right now and even the United States is on board uh quietly telling the ukrainians you need to

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accept a peace plan that brings it into this conflict while there’s still a Ukraine worth defending

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okay some of the people in the comments are saying Gonzalo Lira just isn’t worth

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this much attention it’s not that important a topic again read the article what Scott is

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contending you don’t have to agree but just be honest and and realize what he’s contending to him the the issue is

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information Warfare and he’s saying some of these people that you trust apparently don’t understand how

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information Warfare works that’s the argument so that’s what Scott thinks is

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important no matter how you feel about Gonzo Gonzalo lira in particular read it please Amir Hussain and Iran

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considering the accuracy and fire rate of high Mars why can’t Ukraine disable

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Russian Artillery well one is you could have a fire rate but if you

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don’t have ammunition you can’t fire there’s a shortage of highmar’s ammunition Russia’s been blowing them up

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the ukrainian’s been using them two high Mars uses a uh this this combined um

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inertial uh guidance system with GPS uh make it very accurate well the GPS just

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doesn’t work uh mainly the Russians have figured out how to jam it they’ve they’ve captured a number of these uh

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guidance uh devices intact they’ve run it through their reverse engineering process and they’ve found the

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vulnerabilities they’ve built new electronic warfare capability in your jamming the living crap out of it so a

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lot of the high Mars when they’re shot they go stupid and um they’re not going where they want the Russians have also

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taken a look at the range of the uh of the high Mars on the Rocks uh look at a range of of the highmars and they uh you

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know they’ve pulled a lot of the targets out they’ve broken the targets up into smaller bits so that there’s not

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inviting targets anymore plus the high Mars can be shot down it flies a ballistic trajectory it’s not a

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maneuvering Warhead it fires you get a radar track it it’s a predictable uh flight path and air defense can shoot it

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down so you know everything adding up um the high Mars is a miracle weapon that

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um that everybody made it out to be it’s a good weapon that killed a lot of Russians with it um and they’re going to continue to kill Russians with it but um

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you know the bottom line is you know the high Mars isn’t a miracle weapon and uh the other thing is rate of fire what do

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you have to do when you fire a high rate of fire stay in one place it knows what happens you stay in one place in war

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when you’re fire an artillery it can be tracked by enemy radar you die so there’s just a whole bunch of things

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that add up to the fact that the high Mars isn’t going to be used the way maybe the United States would use Mass

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fires um you know things of that nature that’s not how the ukrainians are employing that right now

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all right Scott you’re familiar with the name Jackie lay Chevalier are you not

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that you recognize that name yes she’s a regular and uh she thinks that maybe her

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question from last week was a little bit misunderstood she wants to clarify it and she left a voicemail message so now

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we can finally put a voice to the name to the name maybe someday the face do but for now the voice to the name and

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while I’m playing the recording she left I’ll uh insert the comment from last week that she is now trying to clarify

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okay hi this is Jackie from Argentina I just

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wanted to clarify my question about the Russian soul from last Tuesday I wasn’t

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mocking it I think I didn’t frame it properly because I don’t doubt the

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Russian soul is real it’s just that I’m struggling to really understand it and I

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thought the distinction between idiosyncrasy and salt might help me see through my ignorance

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I brought some Russian history I’ve read Pastorius but I’ve also learned many

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many things from Scott and for that thank you so much thank you both oh and

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the Mr jealous reader thing I was joking no I don’t think you were joking about

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that but all right go on why don’t you address it no no she’s she’s right I am jealous of the attention Jeff Getz

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because it was brilliant sense of humor and then I you know I practiced all day to become a nice mild-mannered person

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and then I blow it by having a rant at the beginning of the show of which again I’m apologizing profusely Voldemort if

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you’re watching I’m sorry don’t worry look at this as sort of a therapy session we’re going to work through this

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together I appreciate it I need I need it because I I don’t want to go through this week and angry man

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lots of anger issues um no look your question first of all I

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didn’t think look I think remember that Behavioral Science thing we talked about where the

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the people watch you and they see how you respond this show is a petri dish of

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Behavioral Science for me because people are learning how to push my buttons where I have thin skin where I don’t how

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to manipulate me it’s almost like a game can we get him to swear can we get him to do this oh yeah and the people in the

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audience are saying that oftentimes too the question oh that question was designed just to make them around yeah

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and I am you know see how much of an open book I am I’m literally Pavlov’s dog

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um so you know um I had thin skin sometimes and I and and I shouldn’t and sometimes I take uh

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questions personal when I shouldn’t um I have trouble sometimes talking about emotions and feelings and therapy

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but uh you know this this whole exploration of the Russian soul is a very personal thing a very emotional

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thing and um so I opened myself up when I write about it and then I get really defensive when people criticize it or

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appear to be criticizing it so I apologize if I came off wrong you have a very good question

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you know I’m in the process of of writing this book waging piece in search of the

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Russian soul and um I think I know you know the thing about

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writing books at least the way it is for me is I I know what I want to say and I know how to frame it but it’s still a

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journey of Discovery as I write I’m still learning about things as I write so this writing this down the whole purp

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one of the main reasons why to write this down is to is to compel myself to

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focus and think and absorb um you know I collected a lot of data when I was out there but it’s that’s

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just it was collection now I have to go to the process of sorting out assessing it and then I have to turn it into a

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product and that’s a process that will force me to answer some of these questions so your question is an

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outstanding question I can’t give you a perfect answer right now because I’m still in the process of discovering what

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the Russian soul is I can’t I can’t even talk about comparing it to something else until I’ve answered from my

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perspective what the Russian soul is I hope that’s not seen as a blow-off question Jeff let’s put an asterisk next

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to that one meaning that we will come to that question again Jackie when I finished writing the book and then we’ll

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sit there upon final reflection on what the Russian soul is now I’ll be able to give you a better answer

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okay actually something rather significant has occurred maybe you should I should address this right away

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Stevo says it’s not possible to send a Super Chat that’s because YouTube has

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demonetized our Channel previously they’ve occasionally demonetized this video or that video but as of a couple

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days ago they’ve demonetized the entire Channel and um the information Warfare baby that’s

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one of the goals and objectives of the sbu the gchq the FBI and the CIA to

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demonetize platforms that put out dissenting voices was Gonzalo lira’s platform demonetized

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hmm well you might be right especially since the reason they gave doesn’t make much

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sense and I’d rather work on this in a behind the scenes way before saying too much about the ridiculous reason did I

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just screw it up oh no no no no no you didn’t say anything about the

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ridiculous reason that they gave uh I just let’s let’s see what we can do about that but anyway that’s what’s

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going on but if you want to support us go to wagingpeace dot fund waging piece

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dot fund until so people know that we’re not making the stuff either just ask Aaron mate what it’s like to have the

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Ukrainian intelligence service work with the FBI to get him pulled off at Twitter yes I just said that the Ukrainian

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intelligence Services called up the FBI and had the FBI call Twitter to

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de-platform Aaron mate and others it’s happening guys it’s information Warfare

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wake up okay that’s what’s going on

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uh let me try to get that in a better way Dad we miss Ann at these times

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yes we do Steve from Geneva Switzerland having by the way Ann is still with us

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but just not on Tuesdays no no I’m not telling the audience uh

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we still have her on Friday nights but on Tuesdays at least for the time being I have to do everything by myself and

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it’s not easy Steve from Geneva Switzerland having spent a year in the USA as a foreign

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exchange student I noticed that what is taught in schools concerning history and geography only concerns the USA the TV

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news is also almost exclusively focused on national news do you think as I do

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that this makes U.S people blind to what happens elsewhere and therefore makes it easier for the USA to wage Wars abroad

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short answer is yes I don’t know if that’s the intense I don’t I don’t know

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if that’s the intent meaning that they design it for that purpose but I believe that that’s the impact I don’t know

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which year you spent but I will tell you this unless High School probably has changed since when I graduated but uh I

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know around 10th grade we I carried around a book in my backpack that was about this thing called world history

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and I spent the whole year learning world history so we did teach world history I would assume that the

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curriculum is somewhat similar but it’s it’s taught in a very generic way again

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um the world’s big place and in one year to learn everything about the world but it exposed us to the reality world news

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it’s the same everywhere you know local news takes the lead the things that are most important to you and as you the

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further you get away from home the less relevant news is uh there are people who are news junkies like me but generally

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speaking when they’re going to inject international news they do it because it’s going to impact the person watching

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it people uh don’t normally um tune into things that have no impact

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on them so and if they’re going to do that they’re trying to shape you shape a result of from you to get you to active

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Behavioral Science information Warfare It’s what it’s all about guys it’s run on a daily basis some people call it

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propaganda you can call whatever you want but it’s about taking information shaping it to achieve a result at the at

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the you know at the the consumer end and it’s we live it every day that’s what the news is it’s it’s it’s Behavioral

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Science driven information Warfare and yeah um I think it’s deliberately done today

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the news to dumb people down and to get people to not ask questions and blindly

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follow decisions made by our authorities who apparently know everything the next question is from timochenko in

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Halifax Canada my understanding is that Wagner is in Africa mainly to help the

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fight against Jihadi an ISIS group my question is who is funding and directing

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the jihadis some say it is the French I don’t know anything about the French

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here and the French have deployed a lot of forces into the sahil to fight the Jihadi Isis groups um Wagner’s in Mali

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to fight the Jihadi Isis groups but if Wagner deploys to Niger as its uh

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indicated that they are um they ain’t there to fight Isis they’re there to fight to French they’re

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there to fight Nigeria they’re the fight to be mean they’re there to fight um you know Ivory Coast maybe or a

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synagogue whoever is going to put together this 25 000 strong intervention Force um

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you know I’ll just say this there’s no one sitting uh okay you have guinea thanks other

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options for donations let’s come back to that well I’m sorry I see I gotta stop

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reading these things I was all right all right anyway I’ve started that we can come back to it yo the the Wagner guys

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uh you know again circumstantial we don’t know what it is but a uh a chartered aircraft flew out of Istanbul

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flying straight to Niger generally speaking that’s a plane that’s going to be full of russian-speaking men of military age with certain haircuts

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um they’re going to land in Niger and they’re going to fall in on equipment that’s been put there and suddenly you have you know

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about a an assault group The Way Wagner used to be organized I think it still is

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they they’re they’re organized into assault groups assault companies they call them assault squads about 350 men

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strong in each one these are you know these are units that are designed to fight pure combat units and uh one I

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believe just deployed to Niger I think they’re joining up with others coming in from Mali um you know Wagner is very good at

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breaking up these assault groups into advisory groups they have Demi assault groups half assault groups 150 strong or

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so that that operate they’re operating this they operate in the Central African Republic that way for a while till they

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brought it up to an assault group now two assault groups in uh in in Mali they may have five assault groups um Niger

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may end up getting more I mean there’s there’s a lot of unemployed Wagner guys right now in the Belarus there’s only so

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much training you can do um you know when you look at special forces training groups they’re not 5 000 strong they’re a couple hundred strong

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and a lot of that is support uh the trainers are in small numbers so there’s a lot of guys in Belarus who could be

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made available for this and these are guys with relevant combat experience the African intervention Force isn’t

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going to know what hit them Frankly Speaking neither will the French or any Americans that are involved because this

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isn’t this isn’t you know play game anymore it’s in play date these are guys who know how to use combined arms

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Warfare these are guys who know how to shoot down airplanes as you guys you know how to you know bring in artillery fires they know about maneuver and fire

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um if if Wagner gets involved um it’s going to be a game-changing

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um you know military force and uh you know France is going to Rue the day

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that they uh that that they allowed this to happen this is this is this is Africa

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revolting against friends that’s what’s Happening Here okay let’s move on to the next question

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from Axel in Finland how can foreign Nations expel U.S military from their

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countries without sabotage or terrorism if the U.S doesn’t respect the political

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decisions of said countries Syria Iraq Saudi Arabia what can these countries do

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that they haven’t already done first of all I would never encourage sabotage or terrorism against an

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American Target but if American troops are in your country and you don’t want them there then you pass a law they have

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them removed and you give the United States a deadline for their removal if they aren’t removed then you go to war against the United States

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surround the base make a move in find out if America really wants to

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fight for this piece of territory and what you’ll find out in the most cases America doesn’t want to fight for that territory because in most places where

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they have troops they only have enough troops to carry out operations that are supported by the host country if the host country says we don’t want

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you there anymore then there’s no reason for them to continue being there generally speaking we’re probably not

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going to pour in the three to four divisions worth of troops necessary to maintain a full-time presence in a

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denied space in a hostile country but that requires a lot you know America

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doesn’t show up in countries we’re usually invited in by governmental entities that we own that we’ve paid for

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um that that are beholden to us so it’s it’s not as easy as saying you know the parliament is going to pass a law to

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make this happen and the prime minister is going to agree and then the defense minister is going to agree because usually we own the defense minister

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generally speaking we’ve we’ve bought them out a long long time ago the same thing with the police chief the same

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thing with the chief of staff or the president presidents come and go but that middle rank stuff we own them all the CIA buys everybody that’s why when

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they come into a country they bring giant you know um

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what do you call those wooden things that you put stuff on um forklifts pick them up pallets pallets

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pallets yes pallets of money um so you know

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we we buy everything look so that that’s why it’s not so easy to do what I’m saying I’m being a little facetious here

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but uh you know it’s tough to kick the United States out because we’re we’re there because we we’ve corrupted The

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Sovereign Integrity of that country and it’s very difficult for a corrupted Nation to suddenly come together in a

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single and singular purpose of mind to evict Americans but I will pretty much guarantee you today especially with our

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resources stretched as they are if any Nation just straight up confronted us and said get out we’re United in this get out

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we’ll get out SW in Oregon another one of our regulars

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he likes to challenge you for the U.S to or she no I think it’s a he for the U.S to pull support from

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Ukraine would put all our nuclear umbrella agreements into question and tell every nation they need nukes to

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preserve sovereignty why do you support this we don’t have a nuclear agreement

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of Ukraine not even close none whatsoever

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I know what you’re saying uh Lincoln said if Russia nukes Ukraine then America will respond

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but not nuclearly they made it clear that we’ll respond with Conventional Weapons there’s no nuclear umbrella

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agreement with the Ukraine what are you talking about we got no agreement with Ukraine

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if we did we’d have American troops on the ground we got no agreement and no we’re not encouraging uh you know

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Nations to develop I mean it’s not Russia that’s encouraging this I would imagine that America’s policy towards

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North Korea you know regime change ask yourself why the North Korean government’s still in power

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because we don’t want to get rid of them or because they have nuclear weapons that would take down Seoul Tokyo and

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everything else in the region it’s the nuclear ask yourself why the Arab countries

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don’t get together and just you know overwhelm Israel your weapons

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um you know it’s it’s things like that uh you know the Iranians tip of the hat to them because most rational people

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would say you know Iran should develop a nuclear weapon that’s how you uh guarantee that the the United States and

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Israel don’t try to remove you from power but Iran’s taken a principled moral stand but they’ve also developed a

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tremendous conventional strike capability that um will guarantee the destruction of Israel and American

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military bases in the region so they have a non-nuclear deterrent but um you know it’s the U.S that tends to you know

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make the case for people to acquire nuclear weapons not Russia so don’t go there

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oh I’m still swallowing my water and you’re already done let me go on to the next question I’m back everything’s good

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remain calm everybody am gutera Gutierrez Gutierrez in hermosio

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Mexico Ukraine is a country divided by an immense River why doesn’t Russia

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destroy all the bridges and ships and boats that can transport all the heavy equipment from the western part to the

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Eastern front where all the fighting is going on and leave the Ukrainian Army without heavy Armament why why

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because Russia is not at war with Ukraine Russia is in a special military operation

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the objectives of the special military operation are not to destroy the nation’s state of Ukraine this objectives are to militarily to

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demilitarize Ukraine which Russia is doing right now killing them at a rate that fluctuate between 7 and 15 dead

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ukrainians for every one dead Russian um to ensure that Ukraine never joins

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NATO Russia wins this Ukraine will never be a member of NATO and to denounceify uh

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Ukraine um you know and I still don’t know how they’re going to do that but I’m sure they have a plan but what they’re what

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they’re not doing is seeking the physical destruction of Ukraine the strikes against the Odessa Seaport

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aren’t because Russia is seeking to destroy the seaport there’s they’re seeking to punish Ukraine for using the

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seaport to carry out that as a base to carry out attacks against the Crimea bridge in other places

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um you know you pay a price when you buy there was an agreement Ukraine agreed to to not mix uh military with uh with the

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with the food uh agreement but they they lied they used it as a cover Russia now is saying you’re going to pay a price so

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that’s what they’re doing but they’re not taking out the port facility just to be mean-spirited they’re just punished they’re punishing Ukraine for violating

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the the agreement if Russia blows those bridges eventually those bridges are going to have to be rebuilt

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um and the other thing is if you start blowing Bridges you you you there’s no incentive now if Russia goes

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to war you have to finish it you have to go all the way you have to destroy everything you have to win this the

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classic way Russia is still trying to get Ukraine to come to the table and have a negotiated into this conflict and

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the best way you can lure people to the table is to ensure that there’s a benefit for them to come to the table

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and one of the benefits right now is that Russia isn’t blowing up that infrastructure isn’t blowing up those

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bridges taking out the train you know Russia has made a decision that they’re going to let these weapons flow through

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um without blowing up the bridges they’re trying to interdict them at intermediate warehouses they’re trying to interdict them at the Ford warehouses

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they’re trying to destroy them on the front but they’ve made the decision not to blow these Bridges I know a lot of people question that decision but again

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I point out the harsh reality that Russia is not at war with um with with Ukraine they’re in a special

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military operation that’s why zielinski’s still alive by the way all right we have a voicemail question

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from a gentleman named Patrick perk up those ears Scott here we go

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hey Scott how’s it going um I had a quick question for you I was just on Twitter and I saw that zielinski

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made a tweet this morning today August 4th at like 10 40.

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um and it was just you know it was a it was a brief little paragraph and it came with a couple pictures of him shaking

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hands with Chris Christie uh I I know I’m from New Jersey and I

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just I was just curious as to why uh why politicians do this

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um maybe just a quick explanation as to what the point of people like Chris Christie going to bucha and meeting

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solinsky is uh you know I I can I I can understand what Boris Johnson and other

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other figures going to see him from morale and whatnot but Chris Christie just doesn’t seem to make any sense to

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me um anyway thanks oh it’s a good question you know why do

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politicians kiss babies don’t vote um but they kiss them because it’s a good look um because they you win the hearts of

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the mothers you do all that for Chris Christie to go to bucha and to be seen with zelinski is uh it’s it’s

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based upon the perception in the part of Christie’s campaign that this empowers them it

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gives him a moral Authority he can say I have seen butcher now I guarantee he’s

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going to say that he’s going to go on his next speech I Have Seen butcher I have stared evil into the face I have

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shaken the hands of the I have shaken the hands of uh of the

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Brave Ukrainian leaders and I stand side by side with them and if you vote for me for president you will get a man that

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knows how to confront evil how to stand by his allies how to lead that’s why he’s doing it not if it’s true he’s none

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of those he’s a failed New Jersey politician corrupt as the day is long

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and you know he doesn’t he doesn’t stand for in he doesn’t know anything if you think

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Chris Christie knows anything about the military you’re wrong if you think he knows anything about National Security

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you’re wrong if you think he knows anything about bucha you’re wrong I could have a debate right now with Chris

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Christie and run him off the stage ombucha I could have a debate with him about Ukraine and run him off the stage

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but he doesn’t want to have a debate what he’s trying to do is shape herself gosh what are we talking about today

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Jeff information Warfare Chris Christie is waging information Warfare against

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you against every citizen of the United States there ain’t nothing honest about what he’s doing but it certainly is

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effective in shaping public perception about Chris Christie Mr presidential candidate

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but you have to admit he looks terrific I don’t know what his secret is but the guy just looks look if somebody is if

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somebody’s putting on weight himself I am not going there so no I got to be careful because next thing I know

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someone’s going to get a photograph of me at the wrong moment and profile and go somebody already did it uh they they

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posted something on YouTube under the video we put up there about your speech in New York yesterday they said

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something about Scott looks like he’s spent some time at the buffet somebody else said either who knew Scott

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was a giant as you took the stage I guess you could they could see next to us the woman there that you towered over

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her what are you six four six four yeah yeah all right next question is from

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Robeson X in Barcelona a personal question if you will could the young

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Scott the Army brat the Marine the killakami for mommies God have in any

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way contemplated the journey traveled and imagined the transformation to the

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62 year old Scott I think so and the reason why I say that

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is um you know young Scott the uh he was Air Force brat I don’t get my parents

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mad at me but uh um yeah young Scott um

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I don’t know there it is my computer sometimes blacks out on me uh young

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Scott went to Turkey in 1975 and immersed himself in Turkish history’s Turkish culture

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um I studied the Turkish language and uh when school trips went to Istanbul I I

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made sure I deviated I I wrote The Strangest research papers on you know

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Turkish military history I studied Turkish art I I just poured myself into uh you know ottoman history Turkish

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history the history of the Turkish Republic I walked battlefields I studied ancient Roman history to see how it

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related I visited Ephesus aphrodisius Troy you name it I went there

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um and it was a journey of Discovery because I’m intellectually curious so I I think you know I don’t know if the

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exact circumstances of the journey that I went on would be uh you know something I could have imagined I mean who in in

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the 1970s could have imagined the Soviet Union collapsing it wasn’t part of my imagination

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um but the the the notion that I as a intellectually curious person would be

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willing to immerse myself into the culture the history the language the experience of a nation of a people of a

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collective um yeah that wasn’t foreign to me I I lived it that’s what I that’s what I loved doing so uh yeah I think I think

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Young Scott it was very similar to Old Scott look kilikami for Mommy that’s just that’s just uh I mean it was real

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but what I’m saying is um I’m the same guy today I just don’t want to kill commies anymore my mommy won’t allow it

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but uh you know but I’m still the thin skin you know Marine that uh will drop

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it to you know fight you hit a drop of a hat you know except I’m getting older and I can’t do it anymore but I’m the

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same guy I’m the same cantankerous believe me as a as a 15 year old kid I

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was I’m pretty much the same guy if he got into an actual fight with one

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of these younger guys they’d die all right I don’t want to challenge you

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don’t take that as a challenge at all I don’t good Chris Jones from Philadelphia for

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infantry does quality oh oh Trump being used as a verb here that throws for

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infantry does quality Trump quantity is a force of Satan elite soldiers as

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effective as 20 poorly trained oh yeah the 10 wipe to 20 out every single time because the 10 know how to use cover

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they know how to maneuver they know how to support maneuver with fire they know the principles of uh inflate defolate

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fire uh flanking movement they know everything the pulley train troops are just going to walk in and die uh yeah so

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the the 10 against 20 is not a problem I even think um yeah I mean it’s tough with 50 because

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if they if they just lay down a solid base of fire that’s a pretty effective base of fire but I even think you know

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10 10 against 30 10 against 40 could work um again it all depends on what you call

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poorly trained but um if if troops don’t know how to take cover how to maneuver

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how to support maneuver with fire and the importance of specific kinds of maneuver at specific kinds of time

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um they’re just they’re just basically wandering the battlefield waiting to die if you go against people that know how

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to defend in depth because that’s an important thing if I’m coming up against a superior Force I will lure you into

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ambushes I will literally lure you into kill zones I will ensure that I never

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get into one of your kill zones I will just keep maneuvering in the appropriate time I will flank you and assault

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through you and kill you all so yeah Elite troops um they they are in and of themselves a

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force multiplier now the the problem is you know if you take 10 Delta guys against 20 Marines um the

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Marines are going to win because the Marines know how to do all that stuff they’re not Delta Force they’re not you

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know Mr I can you know magically make things open with my mind but they know

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maneuver they know fire they know mass and so they’ll exploit that advantage to

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to slaughter the Delta Force guys so Elite troops against well-trained troops

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you ain’t Elite when you take a bull in the head and well-trained troops are pretty good at putting bullets in the

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head but poorly trained troops first of all fire a couple rounds over the head they’ve gone to the ground when you’ve gone to ground you’re suppressed you’re

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not putting fire down when you’re not putting fire down you give The Other Side Opportunities to maneuver and once

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I start maneuvering and controlling you through fire power and maneuver you’re gonna die

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okay next question is from Ibrahim in Montreal if Putin was a as

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intelligent as some say he should never have allowed the coup in Ukraine to succeed and his troops should

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have entered the country as quickly as possible he holds a large part of the responsibility for what is happening for

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his inaction apart from the annexation of Crimea do you agree with this

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assessment not at all uh first of all

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Putin should never have allowed the coup in Ukraine to succeed what was he and his troops should have entered the car

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so you’re saying Putin should be a war criminal that’s what you’re saying you’re saying Putin should have invaded

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Ukraine um in total disregard for the United Nations

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um Charter because the way he went in with the special military operation is cognizable

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under the the you know article 51 and the concepts of preemptive self-defense

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um going in after after that’s not preemptive self-defense there’s no that’s just a straight up Invasion and

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the last time I checked Putin’s not a dictator you see Putin is smart because he knows what kind of leader is he knows

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that he has to report to the to the Russian the Federation Council that he has to go to the doom and get permission

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to do things he can’t just run off and do it on his own so don’t blame Putin

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for this Putin you know Putin’s job was to try and come up with a peaceful solution not

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to encourage more violence and he tried to do that now once they got involved in a shooting match in 2014 when they had

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the uh when they had the Ukrainian forces surrounded Putin does say that his biggest regret was believing the

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French and the Germans macron and Holland and not macron I’m sorry uh Merkel and Holland when they when they

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talked about a ceasefire and bringing about a negotiated into the conflict what he says today in retrospect he

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should have just killed the entire Ukrainian Army got it over with we’ve been over game set match but he didn’t

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why because he’s not a dictator he’s not a murderer he’s a rational man he’s a man who believes in uh pursuing peaceful

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outcomes if possible only had to give this one a chance so uh no I I disagree

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with the uh with that assessment all right let’s take a look at some of

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these comments that are coming in I want to thank everybody for feeling our financial pain

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maybe maybe we can uh I’m gonna have to start auctioning things off uh does this what would you

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guys give me for a used Yankee Candle um we have to set up an auction site or something like that

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all right let’s let’s get some of these questions and a lot of them are about being demonetized what happens if I

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donated with a super chat if they demonetize your video don’t you get it yeah I think we do but what I’m getting

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from here in the comments is that people aren’t able to donate today so I think if you did donate it’s going to go

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through but they’ve shut it down the ability basically whatever income we derived and just so people know

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um I’m not living in a mansion neither is Jeff um you know the the the income that that

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we derive from YouTube um is is it’s very useful but a lot of

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it goes to uh the movie you know we we’re building a war chest for this movie uh because the movie’s gonna cost

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a lot of money and we’re both serious about making this movie um and so when they demonetize us that’s

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a um that’s that’s a big problem because things that the YouTube money was being used to do now have to be done with

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other money of money that is used for things like paying college school debts uh you know putting food on the table

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all this kind of stuff so yeah YouTube um I I guess I can’t say anything because we’re trying to peacefully

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resolve this thing but I was going to say something like you YouTube but I won’t okay

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um and then somebody said they donated to the zielinski film thanks for that and we’re on uh

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we’re on Rumble people shouldn’t go to rumble go to rumble we’re streaming to rumble right now we always do and we’ve

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been building blocked in France yeah yeah yeah yeah but let me just say that

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we have been streaming to remember we’re building up an audience but for whatever reason uh we get Pennies from the

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audience on Rumble people just don’t donate very much over there

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yeah I guess so uh and I’ve heard this before that Rumble is blocked in France

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uh and I’m not quite sure what it’s about I haven’t looked into that yet so I assume it’s true because several

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people have said it but I I think it’s because there are these ridiculous laws in various countries and

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I think that may be the problem more than Rumble is you know predisposed to acting sensorial

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I don’t I think that they’re pretty sincere about wanting to honor free speech

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we should seriously consider other options well go ahead suggest some

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you know who we should talk to about options out of Russia we have an agent remember how he talked about you know

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um Gonzalo they were being flipped and working for the sbu on the inside to

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shape things we have an agent on the inside in Moscow right now

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Ryan Mr mussels all right we should get Ryan to do stuff there he is don’t give

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away his cover Ryan you’re gonna have to get a wig but anyways hello Ryan

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um glad you’re watching and um I’m jealous enjoy your trip

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I’m in touch with Ryan and I think he’s going to be joining us before oh there he is he’s here right now as a

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matter of fact there he is hey how you doing can you hear me go

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yeah location

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send us some rubles send us some rubles did you hear we got demonetized by

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YouTube I I hear it I hear it so I’m working on it I’m working some angles on the monetization I’m worried about this

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I know people yeah that’s what I’m afraid of so you

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really are in Russia now how’s the how’s the trip going so it’s incredible

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um I tried to prepare myself and I thought well what would Scott do so

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um what was it um no seriously I did I I did and I spent

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um the first 16 hours of the flight reading Stephen F Cohen’s book war with

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Russia and I got about a third of the way and my head was just exploding

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everybody was asleep in the plane and they were saying it was turbulence on the plane it was my head exploding uh it

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was incredible um and then arriving here

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um first of all my leading impression at this moment is that it’s like three time

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periods all crammed together um so it’s the Imperial Russia it’s the

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Soviet Russia and it’s the modern Putin Russia that is that has been saved and

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they’re all just completely intertwined and mixed uh at the same time and

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overlapping and um uh it’s almost

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uh fairy tale fantasy uh and then there’s

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the reality because I’ve seen some um um air defense systems uh around not far

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from where I’m staying and there’s my

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wife Pat can you see her there no you can’t see her I’ll come this way scoot over

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here

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so I I sent Jeff a video actually because tonight we had Cecily

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and um I think I polished off half of that bottle of vodka myself and it’s one

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toast after the other and so I sent Jeff one video

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one toast um but it’s incredible that people here

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they sort of say why does the United States think we’re um

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one person actually said we’re a Backwater to the United States but there’s nothing when you walk around the

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city so I went and did a run around the city my my hotel is near the Kremlin I

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ran to the ministry of defense and back uh there’s nothing that tells me

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Backwater what I see is just um an immense powerful country but the

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people uh are it’s more it’s beyond generous it’s beyond just friendly uh

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there is a sense where they want to know your mind they want to know why are you here I mean the response of why are you here

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you know why why are you interested in us well so for me it goes to Scott when

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you um spoke about van Clyburn and his trip to Moscow and that had an

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immense impact on me um as a thought object it’s sort of kind

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of boiled in my brain uh this idea that Americans need to go to to Russia and

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really see what it is and certainly speaking to Americans and as I got

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closer to the trip I really couldn’t keep it in that I was coming

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um so the whole covert thing out the window there was nothing covert about it

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everybody knew at a certain point that I was coming to visit um and I got lots of people said well

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this is not the time to go to Russia and of course I don’t think anybody would say that

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there was ever a good time and actually for me it was like there is no time but

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now to go because precisely because donut eaters like

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Chris Christie are saying um you know they’re the bad guys

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and for me I have a thing in myself that says if I’m being told don’t do this

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when it’s something principled that’s the thing I need to do uh so so

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um you inspired me and all of these bozos who are are pushing for this

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never-ending war that inspired me and when I got here um let me just say one little thing

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about this in terms of the the welcoming love I think so far that I

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have uh run into um my uh tour guide if you want to call

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Anna a tour guide she’s asked a number of questions um she signed her 14 year old son today

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we were we went to the diamond fund which is uh about the Royal jewels in

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the Kremlin uh today and she assigned him the job of teaching me Russian the

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whole day and uh the rule was that he could not speak anything but English

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well he doesn’t speak a word of English so literally it was the Battle of the

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guy who can’t really speak Russian and the guy who can’t really speak English and you have to communicate and

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um the beautiful uh element of it was that um

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at first he was afraid and by the end of the day uh it was like

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we couldn’t stop talking to each other granted I’m speaking on a five-year-old

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level right uh but it was let’s talk let’s talk every word every phrase every

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idea and some of them were profound ideas um so

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that’s the first nutshell it’s almost overwhelming the the welcome

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and uh the um excitement uh that I am feeling about

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but I have the video I think this is the right video Let’s Take a look okay

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all right so this is because we you see me

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this is a toast to Scott Ritter because we are in Russia forging a Russian

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Moscow we’re in Moscow forging a Russian American friendship thanks to Scott

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Ritter thank you Scott

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any excuse to get drunk

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there you go the important thing is people should buy the T-shirt let’s let’s dispense with this trivial stuff

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and get to the real important stuff

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yeah what happened no your microphones you’re muted

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we’re jealous of you we’re proud of you um you you inspire us and uh I just hope

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you continue to have a wonderful dream and I know you will It’s a Wonderful country wonderful people and um you set

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a good standard and hopefully people watching this will uh will be inspired by your uh by your leadership in in in

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in in going to Russia and I think the more Americans that go to Russia and see it firsthand the better off we’ll be because you

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immediately dispel all the garbage that’s shoved down your throat so good

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job thank you and and I hope if you if you’re able to Ryan uh check in with us

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throughout your stay uh yeah yeah this might be a good time to let you

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know as well as the audience that there will be no episode of ask the inspector this Friday night that has a really

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lousy excuse a very I’m very upset about this it seems Amanda’s daughter is going

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to get married this weekend but we will be back next Tuesday right

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back there there’s Mrs Ryan in the background I admire admiring her husband is and that’s Ryan’s mommy next yeah

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they’re saying hugs from Moscow okay all right there you go okay all right Ryan take

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care all right so uh that’s it an unusual uh

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lightning round episode today a really classic Scott Ritter rant a visit from

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our friend in Moscow I mean a little bit of everything for everyone a little bit of lightning a lot of Thunder but no

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rain uh so really uh congratulations on uh

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your daughter’s wedding uh I know that with Voldemort in charge it’s going to be a very well orchestrated event

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yeah it’s already as soon as as soon as we finish here the to-do list is uh is

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stapled right there and if I don’t get it done it’s gonna be stapled right here so um

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all right and I know it’s mostly a very personal private situation but if there

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is any aspect of it that you can share with us next week we’ll look forward to hearing about that thank you so much

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Scott thanks to the audience and uh we’ll try to solve this uh YouTube Problem uh at least we’re on you can see

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us here and uh go to scottrader.us it links directly to all our social media

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channels you can watch on Rumble Twitter we stream live to Twitter on two different channels as well as twitch and

1:09:32

Facebook so we’re not going anywhere even though we’re financially injured

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wounded at the moment take care everybody [Music]

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thank you