I have been following and making videos about the Ukraine war since it began. I put together this montage as a result of @realDonaldTrump trying to end this horror. All we have heard from the legacy media was the “SOUND OF SILENCE!” That and their constant propaganda and lies.
I think that Zalensky (Parody @VZelenskyUA) has the blood of over one million dead
#Ukraine soldiers on his hands. He will join Adolf Hitler in a special place down below.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1892435899486462005
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Today in The Russia House with Scott Ritter we discuss the advances in US-Russian relations with Dmitri Trenin, the former Director of the Moscow Carnegie Center.
Mr. Trenin, a member of the Russian Foreign and Defense Policy Council, talks about the Riyadh summit, and why the economy appears to be taking the lead over the Ukraine conflict when it comes to setting the pace on reconciliation and rapprochement.
This discussion provides unique insight into how Russia views the new developments regarding relations with the US.
Watch on The Russia House with Scott Ritter https://t.me/tribute/app?startapp=smnz
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Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1892991976401985987
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Remember that Russian drone attack on Chernobyl?
The one that threatened the very foundation of European security?
I don’t either.
When will the world wake up to the fact that Zelensky is a threat to our collective existence?
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Shalva Papuashvili 
@shpapuashvili·
Thornton’s ‘destruction blueprint’ is a desperate outcry of the regime change ideologists, who, as we have seen in the Ukraine’s case, destroy societies with enthusiasm and then hide in the shadows.
…
While the world is going through profound geopolitical transformation, some international networks continue meddling in Georgia’s internal affairs by trying to foment unrest and thus overthrow the legitimate government.
The #McCainInstitute’s Laura Thornton’s latest op-ed is a particularly blatant example of delusion combined with the unfortunate effects of foreign funding of radicalism.
For a moment, let us leave alone the delusional allegations of ‘dictatorship’, ‘repression’, and ‘torture’, never substantiated with any kind of evidence. A more interesting context is taking shape once we get inside the strange bubble that engulfed the minds of Georgia’s foreign frenemies and their local following.
First, Thornton represents the McCain institute, which employs Georgia’s ex-president Zourabishvili, who is now claiming to be ‘the only legitimate’ president of Georgia, despite her term expiring last year and Georgian Parliament electing the new president of the country.
Second, she refers to International Republican Institute (#IRI) and #ISFED as ‘reputable international and domestic observers’ to justify her claim that Georgia’s October Parliamentary elections were ‘neither free nor fair’, while neglecting the Report of the only legitimate international election monitoring organization, the OSCE/ODIHR. Now, IRI is funded from notorious #NED, which was accused by the current US Administration in meddling in foreign countries’ domestic affairs. ISFED is a local NGO, which falsified parallel vote tabulation results after the 2020 Parliamentary elections. #USAID funding for both IRI local office and ISFED were terminated recently after President Trump deemed such programs “serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries”. So, neither of these two organizations can be considered as ‘reputable’ by any standards.
Third, the NGO media platform, which published the op-ed, ‘Civil. ge’, is also funded from NED, and its managing editor is a wife of one of the most radical Georgian politicians.
Now, from within this strange bubble of intertwined personalities and organizations funded from the same foreign source, Thornton advocates for a forceful change of government in Georgia, alluding to the spirit of the Ukrainian Maidan, which, for most Georgians, has become a symbol of the destruction of a nation, not ‘a global call for freedom’, as Thornton strangely claims.
Despairing about the impotence of Georgian opposition to mobilize either electorate or protest movement to change or overthrow the government, Thornton suggests to make Georgia ‘basically ungovernable through national strikes and boycotts’, alluding to the possibility of involving security forces and military into the action. She also recommends that Georgia’s radical opposition ‘connect… to the deeper grievances and bread-and-butter concerns of Georgians’.
This is where the magnitude of Thorton’s and her allies’ delusion shows itself with full force. Trying to destabilize the most democratic nation of the region through the ‘paralysis of economy’ goes against the interests not only Georgians but also the US Administration, whom Thornton so vehemently hates, calling president Trump ‘rapist’ and ‘criminal’. Moreover, luring Georgians into rebelling against the government for their ‘bread-and-butter’ problems is entirely pointless because first, Georgians never sell their national interests because of hardship, and, second, Georgia is one of the fastest growing economies worldwide in the last few years.
While the US Administration tries to stop wars and make peace, some international networks, still using the US taxpayers’ money, are trying to stir trouble and push foreign countries towards the war and destruction.
Thornton’s ‘destruction blueprint’ is a desperate outcry of the regime change ideologists, who, as we have seen in the Ukraine’s case, destroy societies with enthusiasm and then hide in the shadows.
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JUST IN: 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says terrorist groups around the world are being fueled by the weapon supply flowing from Ukraine.
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Yup
Aipamena
@amuse@amuse
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UKRAINE: We spent millions so Ukraine could pay social media influencers to convince us to send billions more to Zelensky…
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1893068349946343577
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4 days before the Russian invasion (February 20, 2022) Macron told Putin that the Minsk agreements had no legal force and is worthless!
Macron smashed the last hopes Putin had for a diplomatic settlement, Emanuel wanted war.
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Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1892658014445871434
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Given that we are supposed to be defending democracy, there should be democracy
Aipamena
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JUST IN: 
US President Trump calls for Ukraine to hold new elections. “That’s not a Russia thing. That’s something coming from me.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1891971313624809484
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Keir Starmer:
•If you are Christian Ukrainian every atrocity is war crime & you are welcome in 
•If you are Muslim Palestinian 
he will excuse starvation, deny ethnic cleansing & deny you refuge in
And supply weapons to 
It is racism.
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JUST IN: Russian President Putin orders ministers to prepare for Western companies’ return to Russia.
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British Musician Roger Waters‘ Explosive Address at the UNSC Sends Shock… https://youtu.be/NYKetrodpoY?si=1EGAmwcvlPAE_e5A
Honen bidez:
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British Musician Roger Waters’ Explosive Address at the UNSC Sends Shockwaves Across the West.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYKetrodpoY)
0:00
sorry we still can’t hear you I know I’m
0:02
sorry that was I was muted I apologize
0:07
to you
0:08
all okay as the previous speaker has
0:12
already said we’re here today because
0:15
it’s the 10th anniversary of the signing
0:18
in bellus of the MS 2
0:21
agreements why are these agreements
0:25
important well because the people of
0:28
Ukraine are divided
0:30
they are either pro-russian or
0:33
anti-russian
0:35
I sense an objection somewhere out here
0:40
in this room a questioning of my
0:42
credentials so forgive
0:45
me I feel a sort of what does he know
0:48
he’s just some old musician well I may
0:52
be just a musician but I’m here to talk
0:55
about War and Peace and Love and my
0:59
creden ials are firmly in place I do
1:03
know
1:04
this hundreds of thousands of dead
1:07
Ukrainian and Russian soldiers and all
1:10
their sons and daughters and aunts and
1:13
mothers and fathers and uncles and
1:16
cousins and friends are in this room
1:20
with us
1:21
today the dead soldiers haunt me the
1:26
surviving loved ones haunt me
1:30
I feel their pain I feel their presence
1:35
in this room and it is
1:38
haunting my father was killed on the
1:41
morning of the 18th of February
1:44
1944 defending the anzio bridge head in
1:48
Italy from the
1:50
Nazis I was five months old that
1:54
day tomorrow is the 18th of February so
1:59
tomorrow tomorrow I will have carried
2:02
these
2:02
credentials in this broken heart for 81
2:07
years where was
2:10
I Minsk
2:14
2 the pro-russian anti-russian division
2:17
in Ukrainian
2:18
Society I guess we have to visit
2:21
maidan in November 2013 protests started
2:25
in keev against the pro-russian
2:28
government of president
2:31
yanukovich these protests climaxed
2:34
between the 18th and 20th of February
2:38
2014 when Fierce fighting between maidan
2:42
activists police and unidentified others
2:48
resulted in the deaths of almost 100
2:50
civilians and 13
2:52
policemen like most of you I only
2:55
watched it on
2:57
TV was it just a noise and very deadly
3:01
political clash between different
3:02
factions in Ukrainian Society or was it
3:05
more complicated than that was there
3:09
outside interference for instance did I
3:13
see Senator John McCain on the podium
3:17
sticking his awe in we’ve all listened
3:21
to the famous cell phone call between
3:24
Victoria newand and Jeff Patt together
3:28
calmly pi out a new Ukrainian president
3:33
who could forget Victoria nuland’s
3:36
casual
3:38
asai the
3:40
EU whatever it was it all turned very
3:43
nasty dead bodies everywhere who started
3:46
it who fired the first shot this is one
3:50
of the problems with regime change isn’t
3:53
it dead bodies they’re all somebody’s
3:57
loved one it looks as of all the talks
4:00
in maiden’s aftermath that led up to
4:03
Minsk 2 A year later were a very
4:07
necessary and worthy attempt to find a
4:12
solution to a deadly problem in a deeply
4:16
divided
4:18
Society minks
4:21
too smells like common sense to
4:25
me but there’s another smell in the
4:28
story though some say the new government
4:31
in Kiev was unduly influenced by
4:33
right-wing factions like the right
4:36
sector and the followers of stepan
4:40
Bandera if you don’t know who stepan
4:42
Bandera is or was you shouldn’t be here
4:47
you should be at home watching The Bill
4:49
Mar show or reruns of the
4:52
Kardashians
4:53
anyway immediately after the change of
4:56
government in
4:58
2014 crime seceded from Ukraine and
5:02
joined the Russian
5:03
Federation did it secede or was it
5:08
annexed take your pick we could always
5:12
ask the people on the ground let’s have
5:14
a look shall
5:16
we in a referendum held at the time 95%
5:21
of ukrainians in Crimea voted to suceed
5:26
fair enough okay the years r by until in
5:32
2019 a new president was elected a
5:36
popular actor called vmir
5:39
zalinski he ran his campaign on a
5:42
promise to resurrect and Implement Minsk
5:47
2 he won in a
5:50
landslide did he Implement Minsk
5:54
2
5:55
um
5:57
no then what well then things got
6:02
worse the Russians kept saying things
6:05
are getting worse excuse my ridiculous
6:09
accent but this was the time of Russia
6:12
gate anything a Russian said fell on
6:14
deaf ears there was no grown-up
6:17
conversation about Ukraine in the USA no
6:20
one in Washington for instance had taken
6:23
in Ambassador William J Burns cable of
6:26
10 years earlier entitled near means n
6:31
it was about Russia’s concerns over a
6:34
nuclear armed NATO member Ukraine on its
6:38
doorstep like many other Redline
6:40
warnings it was
6:43
ignored the severity of artillery
6:46
attacks on the donbass increased the
6:49
Minsk agreements long forgotten or
6:54
ignored on February the 24th 2022 the
6:58
chickens came came home to
7:01
roost Russian troops crossed the border
7:03
into Ukraine and Ukrainian and Russian
7:07
soldiers started
7:10
dying my blood ran cold on that day war
7:17
are you
7:18
serious why wasn’t this
7:21
avoided could this have been
7:24
avoided of course it could have been
7:27
avoided it’s called diplomacy it’s
7:30
called common sense it’s called talking
7:32
to one another war is only ever ever
7:38
ever an option as an absolute last
7:43
result except of
7:45
course it isn’t is it if you think about
7:50
it we have come to accept War as a way
7:54
of
7:55
life to quote General Smedley Butler
7:58
from 19 35 quote war is a racket it
8:03
always has been it is possibly the
8:06
oldest easily the most profitable surely
8:10
the most vicious and it is the only
8:14
racket that is international in
8:17
scope who profits from the
8:21
racket rich people
8:24
do
8:27
oligarchs since the Second World War
8:30
the racket has been our constant
8:32
companion Korea Vietnam Kosovo Iraq
8:37
Afghanistan Libya Syria Palestine well
8:41
Palestine isn’t really a war is it it
8:45
don’t get me
8:47
started back to
8:49
Ukraine it looked as if the war in
8:52
Ukraine might die stillborn because
8:54
people started talking to each other Mr
8:57
zalinski started talking to Mr to Putin
9:00
and by the end of April a ceasefire
9:02
agreement had been negotiated and agreed
9:05
in
9:06
Istanbul but then the British prime
9:10
minister Boris Johnson arrived in Kei
9:13
with a
9:16
message um hello Vladimir a word in your
9:20
ear uh forget istambul and Minsk and all
9:24
that between you and me this War suits
9:29
the Americans down to the ground they
9:31
think it’ll weaken Russia so it’s been
9:34
decided to continue it for as long as it
9:38
takes and um just between you and me the
9:42
longer it takes the
9:45
better they’ll keep sending you ammo of
9:48
course and they’d like you to well you
9:51
know just fight
9:55
on WOW
9:59
later that
10:01
year I wrote letters to Vladimir’s wife
10:04
Mrs Sansa and President
10:07
Putin I blathered on to Mrs senena about
10:10
similarities between Cuba and Ukraine
10:13
and suggested that the reason we
10:15
survived the existential crisis in ‘ 62
10:19
was largely explained by the fact that
10:21
our leaders Nikita crev and John F
10:24
Kennedy spoke to one another on the
10:26
telephone like civilized human beings
10:31
and Common Sense
10:34
prevailed wouldn’t it be nice if our
10:37
leaders today spoke to one another on
10:40
the telephone like civilized human
10:43
beings and Common Sense
10:48
prevailed all right I’ve run out of time
10:52
I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that
10:56
two of our leaders have already answered
10:58
that call
11:00
Mr Trump and Mr Putin have spoken to one
11:05
another on the
11:07
telephone that gentlemen is or could be
11:13
in this musician’s humble
11:16
opinion a move in the right
11:19
direction
11:21
maybe there is a glimmer of light at the
11:24
end of this dark tunnel of War it’s come
11:28
three years
11:30
and hundreds of thousands of Priceless
11:33
lives too late but maybe just
11:37
maybe it’s a
11:39
start Mr President ladies and gentlemen
11:44
thank you for your attention
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
Nina Khrushcheva: ‘It’s Putin and Trump against the world’ | UpFront https://youtu.be/7c4Mufpj7a4?si=H4-rrD9vBBdmvj4q
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Nina Khrushcheva: ‘It’s Putin and Trump against the world’ | UpFront
Three years into the Ukraine-Russia war, tens of thousands of people have died, and Russia occupies
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Nina Khrushcheva: ‘It’s Putin and Trump against the world’ | UpFront
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c4Mufpj7a4)
Three years into the Ukraine-Russia war, tens of thousands of people have died, and Russia occupies one-fifth of Ukrainian land. For the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, United States and Russian officials met to begin peace negotiations in Saudi Arabia.
In a reversal of US policy, US President Donald Trump excluded European leaders and his administration indicated Ukraine would not join NATO or regain control of all its territory controlled by Russia. Trump recently called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and blamed Ukraine for starting the war.
Trump’s latest comments and actions have left European countries scrambling to determine the future of Ukraine as well as the broader security landscape of Europe.
So what would a Trump-brokered deal look like for Ukrainians? And will it represent a fundamental shift in Russia’s global standing?
This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill talks to historian, author and professor of international affairs Nina Khrushcheva.
Editor’s note: This episode was recorded before the US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia.
Transkripzioa:
0:00
as the war in Ukraine enters its fourth
0:02
year the new Administration in
0:03
Washington is promising an imminent
0:05
peace deal so what would a trump broker
0:08
deal look like for ukrainians and will
0:11
it represent a fundamental shift in
0:13
Russia’s Global standing this week on up
0:15
front I’ll ask those questions to
0:17
historian author and professor of
0:19
international Affairs Nina
0:26
creva n Keva thank you so much for
0:28
joining us on up front thank you 3 years
0:31
ago Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caught
0:34
much of the world by surprise uh many
0:36
people didn’t expect Putin to launched
0:38
the largest European Invasion since
0:39
World War II uh and despite early
0:42
predictions that Russia would quickly
0:44
capture keev and take control of
0:46
Ukraine’s government or that Russia
0:48
would crumble under Western sanctions
0:51
after three years there doesn’t seem to
0:52
be any clear path to Victory uh on the
0:55
battlefield for for either side really
0:58
uh are you surprised that this is what
1:00
the war looks like as we enter year
1:02
four actually I’m not um I didn’t think
1:05
Putin would take that step but at the
1:08
same time it didn’t surprise me because
1:10
the American government Joe Biden was
1:12
baiting him I think they wanted him to
1:15
do this finally do this and then destroy
1:17
him in the process because either he
1:20
would capture but what he didn’t capture
1:22
that would be the end of it uh so that
1:25
surprised me but then the way the war
1:27
went didn’t really because I know Russia
1:29
Russ Russia is not the country that does
1:32
immediately well I mean yes the capture
1:34
of Crimea in 2014 was a quick but it was
1:38
actually not a war operation it was a
1:40
clandestine spy operation which is Putin
1:43
very good at because he was a former spy
1:46
with the war not so much so they did
1:48
exactly the way Russia always does it
1:50
starts slow but then it figures out that
1:53
if it doesn’t go further then it’s going
1:55
to be destroyed but no Russia will ever
1:57
want to be destroyed and therefore it
1:59
became a war of attrition and I would
2:01
disagree that it’s not going well for
2:03
either side I think for the Russian side
2:05
it certainly is going much better than
2:07
it is going for the Ukrainian side and
2:10
by default that it’s going for the
2:12
European side which went all in to
2:17
support Ukraine and with the claims that
2:19
they need to destroy Putin how far off
2:22
the Mark is Russia uh from where it
2:24
expected to be at this point I don’t
2:26
think it’s far off the Mark at all I
2:27
mean it took three years to do it but
2:30
the idea that Russia wants to capture
2:33
Ukraine and make it Russia that was a
2:35
mistaken idea it never was the case
2:37
Putin wanted Russia in the sphere of its
2:39
influence which is very different from
2:42
wanting Ukraine as part of the one of
2:46
the part of the federal government of of
2:49
Russia he wanted potentially wanted
2:52
actually probably wanted the puppet
2:54
government that in the sphere of
2:56
influence of Russia but it doesn’t mean
2:58
it’s really very different um I mean we
3:00
talk about it as if it’s the same but
3:01
it’s not the same so territory wasn’t
3:04
that much of an issue for Putin for him
3:07
much more of an issue is that I have a
3:09
sphere of influence and of course he was
3:11
told that there is no such thing as a
3:13
sphere of influence and his response was
3:15
for America the whole world is a sphere
3:16
of influence so don’t tell me so I’m
3:19
going to fight until I get my sphere of
3:21
influence and at this point he got
3:23
enough of a sphere of influence for him
3:25
to claim that his goals are not far off
3:29
although of course it took more time
3:31
that he had originally thought
3:33
originally he thought it was going to be
3:34
two week smack and be done uh Trump has
3:38
close relations with Putin as we know
3:39
both leaders have praised each other in
3:41
the past quite generously in fact uh and
3:44
there are concerns that Trump is already
3:46
starting to make concessions to Russia
3:49
he indicated that Ukraine would not join
3:51
NATO and he has said that Ukraine quote
3:55
may be Russian someday or they may not
3:59
be Russian
4:00
someday uh are you concerned about what
4:02
a trump brokered peace deal might look
4:05
like uh well I mean I am concerned about
4:08
anything Trump deal would look like I
4:10
mean generally I’m concerned about Trump
4:13
trump globally so as far as NATO goes
4:16
everybody knows that Ukraine’s road to
4:19
Nato may never happen I mean the whole
4:21
story even we heard it from Mark rout
4:23
from the new uh General Secretary of
4:26
NATO is that the peace I I forgot
4:29
exactly the the the quote but something
4:31
something like the peace negotiation or
4:34
joining NATO was never part of
4:36
negotiations which of course for the
4:37
ukrainians like wait a minute I thought
4:39
that that’s the whole thing that we were
4:40
fighting about that’s what Russia found
4:42
began the war about is the NATO but
4:45
apparently according to mark crter that
4:47
was never the case so very few people
4:50
believe that Russia would ever under any
4:52
circumstances agree that Ukraine will
4:54
join NATO unless Russia is defeated but
4:57
you know I dare you to defeat 11 time
4:58
zones
5:00
and Trump said effectively this is a
5:02
nonstarter exactly and actually Trump is
5:05
being more honest and I think that’s his
5:08
uh uh in some ways you know forgive my
5:10
pun a trump card and a trump card is
5:12
that he’s finally saying that everybody
5:15
knows but because of all this decorative
5:18
ideological we hate Putin Russia cannot
5:21
be cannot be Victorious and what not
5:24
that Joe Biden was engaged in
5:25
everybody’s shocked but I am shocked
5:28
that everybody’s shocked because
5:29
everybody knows it’s not going to happen
5:31
everybody knows that Crimea would never
5:34
no Russian president even not Putin not
5:37
ever Russian president will return
5:39
Crimea to Ukraine it can be only fought
5:42
over or it can be somehow legally
5:45
decided so these two things were almost
5:48
a nonstarter or probably not a
5:50
nonstarter for everybody but everybody
5:52
was pretending that it’s going to happen
5:55
and so Trump came out and said no it’s
5:57
not going to happen another piece of
5:58
this is how it affects the rest of the
6:01
western Powers the Allied Powers I mean
6:03
I’m thinking about what it means for
6:04
Trump to deal directly with Putin what’s
6:07
the long-term consequence of that
6:09
potentially well it’s and I mean Europe
6:12
is
6:13
already very stressed by this but I’m
6:16
always thinking you know I George Kon
6:18
the Great American Diplomat uh I was his
6:21
last research assistant when he was
6:23
already 90 years old and so I did
6:25
research for him um fresh out of grad
6:28
school and he always told me that the
6:30
problem with us understanding us
6:32
Americans thinking about the world
6:34
problems is that we look at them from
6:36
the American point of view we’re not
6:38
looking at them from the point of view
6:39
of the countries and how they deal with
6:41
problems so we expect them to behave the
6:44
way we want them to behave and so uh
6:47
what it don’t expect Trump to to behave
6:51
any differently than Trump behaves Trump
6:53
already said that he’s going to do he’s
6:55
going to resolve the crisis he’s going
6:57
to I mean JD van
7:00
uh spoke in Munich and he lectured
7:03
Europeans on uh uh on the neglect of
7:06
their values and the reason they all in
7:08
this problem because they have they gave
7:12
up on values like right because Trump
7:13
has incredible amount of values uh so
7:17
yes they are uh they are upset but
7:20
that’s the question so he’s dealing with
7:22
Putin and I think he’s baiting them and
7:24
that’s that probably part that Putin
7:27
loves the most that Trump is showing
7:31
Europeans and Joe Biden Europeans their
7:34
own hypocrisy because they should St go
7:38
away and say we’re not dealing with
7:40
America anymore but they can’t and so
7:41
they’re dealing with America like this
7:44
they’re pretending that Trump doesn’t do
7:46
or say all these horrible things and
7:48
they’re trying to justify his
7:50
conversation relationship with Putin so
7:52
in some ways it’s Putin and Trump
7:54
against the world um let’s take Trump
7:57
out of the equation just for a moment uh
7:59
if kamla Harris had won the most recent
8:02
presidential election would the outcome
8:04
of the war have been any different would
8:07
fighting have ended sooner or later with
8:09
Ukraine maybe seeding land to Russia uh
8:12
is this a matter that happens no matter
8:13
who’s in the white house I think Ukraine
8:16
can Ukraine itself cannot win this war
8:19
by itself and I I never thought that
8:21
Ukraine could win this war so I actually
8:23
thought that was right from the
8:24
beginning when Ukraine needs to be in
8:26
strong position negotiate on on on the
8:28
battlefield I thought it was completely
8:30
insane statements that just sort of La
8:32
La Land of Hollywood where the good guys
8:34
win and the bad guys lose so I think
8:36
there was an never a starter unless they
8:40
NATO troops on the ground unless they
8:42
are the ones fighting at the same time
8:44
NATO said we’re are not involved and so
8:46
if you’re not involved Ukraine is losing
8:48
people it cannot win against 145 million
8:52
people of Russia it did incredibly well
8:54
I mean that’s we give it to Ukraine I
8:57
mean it’s an incredibly Brave country
8:59
with with a lot of stamina and
9:02
self-recognition and it’s wonderful but
9:04
they can’t physically they can’t win and
9:07
so if NATO didn’t go all the way in
9:09
Ukraine has no and never had a path of
9:12
winning so the war would have continued
9:14
longer they would be more slogans of how
9:17
we need to stand with Ukraine until the
9:19
very end meaning what standing how uh
9:22
and ultimately I think Putin would have
9:25
gotten what he got anyway but to greater
9:29
detriment to everything else so yes we
9:33
have to admit that Putin did not lose
9:36
although he didn’t get all he wanted so
9:38
he didn’t win but he certainly did not
9:40
lose and certainly lost less than
9:43
Ukraine or Europe did in this scenario
9:45
what does this do for the US standing
9:47
around the world I mean obviously it’s
9:48
not just the US the Western World in
9:50
general has kind of thrown its support
9:52
behind Ukraine the language the slogans
9:54
the the money I mean talking about
9:55
hundreds of billions of dollars in in
9:57
weapons and Military uh assistance uh
10:00
hitting Russia with multiple rounds of
10:02
sanctions they’ve done all the things to
10:04
ensure that Ukraine is
10:06
successful and yet the West hasn’t seen
10:08
the outcome that they would like does
10:10
this ultimately undermine us uh Power
10:13
and credibility around the world Joe
10:15
Biden is yes I think because he
10:17
miscalculated he he’s the man of the
10:19
Cold War um I met him when he was the
10:22
man of the Cold War he immediately
10:24
explained to me how you know America
10:26
wins and how important it is democracy
10:28
to win which is is true but uh so when
10:31
Putin basically acting as non-d Democrat
10:35
although America won the Cold War I
10:36
think Joe Biden got incensed and he told
10:40
him he was a murderer and he told him he
10:43
cannot be this man
10:45
cannot cannot continue doing what he’s
10:47
doing uh Putin I mean um and so he
10:51
miscalculated because as you know
10:53
there’s a certain thing about American
10:54
arrogance especially arrogance of a cold
10:57
war guy who remembers winning the Cold
10:59
War and he acted this way and there was
11:02
no analysis there was no policy about
11:05
Russia and how Russia will respond to
11:06
this and that there was always this
11:08
politics of how we’re just going to
11:10
stand on and support the greatness so
11:14
Europe where the conflict is going of
11:17
course joins that because we need to
11:20
defeat Putin he has been around for 25
11:22
years he’s a uh he’s a thorn in our eye
11:26
and whatnot so they jump on this but
11:28
America Europe always jumps on kind of
11:31
American often jumps on American
11:33
Adventures let’s remember the war in
11:34
Terror so so it it it happens exactly as
11:38
it often happens and I think the big
11:40
question to me is that every time it
11:42
happens the same way um America drops
11:45
the problem then I mean because of a
11:47
different president because of a
11:49
different environment that Biden
11:51
withdrew from Afghanistan America drops
11:53
and Europe always sort of ends up
11:55
hanging the codes like oh my God how
11:57
what did you do to us how did you how
11:58
did it happen and so yes I think it’s a
12:01
tremendous embarrassment and I if I
12:04
Channel my George Kon I would say
12:06
because America did not have a policy it
12:08
had
12:09
politics you mentioned Putin being in
12:11
power for 25 years uh Lots happened over
12:14
that time after annexing Crimea in 2014
12:17
and then the full invasion uh of
12:20
2022 uh he’s become somewhat of a Pari
12:23
in the west uh this is a far cry from
12:26
2009 when there was talk about resetting
12:28
relations between between the United
12:29
States uh and Russia how have
12:33
Putin’s Ambitions undermined or impacted
12:37
Russia’s uh standing in the world well
12:40
he his argument is that the West is out
12:44
to get us I mean they want they say that
12:46
they want to reset relationship be
12:49
friends but then they undermine us all
12:50
the time there is no uh we want security
12:53
guarantees in Europe and NATO is
12:55
expanding and nobody recognizing my
12:58
great position at the table is is he
13:00
fundamentally right
13:02
though uh no the reason he’s not I mean
13:06
I understand his concerns because you
13:09
know often as an American you think
13:11
you’re better than anybody else even if
13:12
you don’t think you’re better than
13:13
anybody else I mean let’s let’s be let’s
13:15
be honest about it but no I mean it’s
13:17
not reason to start the war you I mean
13:20
Russia is an in what happened under
13:22
Putin for example Russia has become an
13:25
incredible service economy you wouldn’t
13:26
hear it in the United States because
13:28
you’re not supposed to talk only tuer
13:29
Carlson talks about it but he cannot be
13:31
trusted but it really made the most
13:33
amazing service economy sell that sell
13:37
this wonderful things that’s called Soft
13:38
power no no we just need to send tanks
13:41
across the border and so no he’s not
13:43
right because even if you feel
13:45
undermined there is not there other ways
13:48
of dealing with it and the other ways of
13:50
dealing with it is to convince that you
13:51
are worth not being undermined because
13:55
everything has done is just like well we
13:58
Russia is disregarded of course Russia
13:59
is disregarded because the only thing it
14:00
knows is sending tanks I mean how can
14:03
you not be disregarded so how does that
14:04
approach affect Russia in the in the big
14:06
picture Global standing well now with
14:08
Trump they’re standing together I mean
14:10
it’s all great I mean you know like five
14:12
Putin is 5 foot six and Trump is five 61
14:16
and yet they are on the same level and
14:18
for Putin it’s the greatest greatest
14:20
recognition so yes Russia strategically
14:23
for the future has lost but Putin proved
14:26
that he can he can he’s is not going to
14:29
be undermined at any cost and that’s
14:32
exactly what he did it was he paid a
14:34
great price or Russia paid a great price
14:36
but he would did not allow himself to be
14:38
undermined so so for for um uh for
14:42
Russia the standing in the world uh in
14:46
Western World certainly become a problem
14:50
a pariah but not if you look at the rest
14:52
of the world not so much I mean look at
14:54
India look at
14:56
Turkey uh look at Saudi Arabia I mean
15:00
Putin chipped away from even from this
15:02
American usual sphere of influence I
15:05
mean suddenly he stood up to the uh to
15:09
to America and he didn’t lose I mean
15:11
that’s that’s something to be counted
15:14
for in the world that is not Western and
15:16
so that’s another mistake I think on on
15:19
on on the part of European countries
15:21
that sort of set themselves up against
15:24
everybody else it’s like oh where as
15:27
Joseph Bell formerly the Diplomat of
15:30
Europe uh which probably rewrote the
15:33
whole idea what Diplomat of Europe May
15:35
mean when he said that you know we in
15:37
Europe are um we are in Asis and
15:39
everybody around us is a jungle and like
15:41
that’s a great message for the world I
15:43
mean that they will join Putin and that
15:44
fight immediately after that statement
15:48
in all of this discourse the United
15:49
States often invokes uh international
15:52
law and
15:54
democracy it’s an interesting and
15:56
compelling argument except the US often
15:59
violates the spirit of democracy and
16:00
undermines or contravenes international
16:02
law in places like Afghanistan or or
16:05
Israel Palestine uh to what extent is
16:08
that
16:09
contradiction uh undermining the US’s
16:11
ability to invoke those those those
16:13
ideals well and that’s what Putin’s
16:16
argument is and that’s what Trump is
16:19
showing he talks about others that
16:21
others cannot do certain things but you
16:24
know Panama all good uh Greenland all
16:27
good Mexico wonderful F 51st state of
16:30
Canada all awesome so there are things
16:32
that he he says we as America as a big
16:35
Corporation we can do it it’s the small
16:38
businesses the small little things that
16:40
cannot do so it does undermine but
16:43
America has always been like that I mean
16:45
let’s look at Vietnam let’s it’s it has
16:47
been it has been that story in history
16:50
but on on on um on average or if we kind
16:54
of even it out American influence is
16:57
still infinitely better than American
16:59
influence I mean we have to agree with
17:01
that and pu but Putin says no if you are
17:04
lying I’m going to point out to you
17:06
every time when you lying I it was
17:08
interesting Jo John Bolton who was the
17:11
UN Ambassador under George Bush and was
17:15
really rubbing a lot of people the wrong
17:17
way he said that Putin um he want he can
17:21
claim victory because he didn’t want to
17:24
negotiate with Biden because he knew
17:26
that with Trump he’s going to have
17:30
better um uh better position to
17:32
negotiate so he waited for Trump like no
17:35
it’s what are you talking about Joe
17:37
Biden didn’t want to negotiate with
17:38
Putin he kept saying we’re not really
17:40
negotiating with these people Putin was
17:42
saying I’m ready offer me something yeah
17:46
give give me something oh Russia cannot
17:48
be trusted Russia wants the war all over
17:50
the world and therefore but generally
17:53
America is a powerful country it is the
17:55
richest country it is uh a country that
17:58
serves on on on average serves Universal
18:02
good it is the country that used to um
18:05
at least formulate the uh formulate
18:08
human rights uh in the proper manner
18:11
even if of course it it broke itself
18:13
it’s just the tension with Russia is
18:15
that Russia just doesn’t allow any
18:17
hypocrisy because if you’re going to
18:19
lecture me then show me how you uphold
18:23
this oh you’re not upholding this so who
18:25
are you as as Sergey lavro Russian
18:28
foreign minister one time said to I
18:31
think somebody British a British
18:34
Diplomat who said who the hell are you
18:35
to lecture me you’ve been back to Russia
18:37
since the War Began uh how was the
18:39
Russia of today different than the
18:42
Russia of three years ago well it
18:44
changed in the last three years
18:45
tremendously because I was there after
18:47
the beginning of the war and it was one
18:50
Russia and then last year it was another
18:52
Russia and this past year the 2024 was a
18:54
very different one it’s on one hand more
18:58
military IC uh it is it has surrendered
19:02
to putinism to this whole kind of agenda
19:04
of us against everybody else uh it’s
19:08
much more kind of framed as Russia is
19:11
the
19:12
greatest everything is going to be
19:14
wonderful Putin is exactly that and so
19:18
the only two Escape few Escape places
19:21
are bookstores we’re still selling you
19:24
know everything including George Orwell
19:26
that you walk into every bookstore
19:27
George Orwell WR your face so you
19:30
wouldn’t forget where you live uh
19:33
British authors American authors and
19:35
museums and museums are people just go
19:37
to museums for the whole day because
19:40
where they can pretend that none of it
19:42
is happening Escape completely from the
19:44
complete Escape uh so uh so that’s how
19:48
Russia has changed I mean restaurants
19:49
have been working all the time but the
19:52
war conversation stopped because before
19:54
the first year people would talk about
19:56
the all the time everywhere about
19:58
Ukraine whether we like it we don’t like
20:00
it our boys they boys how can we do this
20:03
and so on and now people are much more
20:05
careful because they’re plain closed
20:07
police very orellan very 1984 just
20:10
looking and and seeing who they can grab
20:13
well when you’re on the ground do you
20:14
feel a growing discontent toward Putin
20:17
no I’m not and I think the West is is is
20:20
contrib has contributed to that because
20:22
when you hated so much on a national
20:24
level and something that I remember was
20:26
early interviews I was given about this
20:28
like if you’re going to hate the whole
20:30
Russia you’re actually strengthening
20:31
Putin because if you’re going to go
20:33
against the whole country the country
20:36
does what it does rally around the flag
20:38
that’s exactly what’s happening going
20:39
against the country also it means going
20:40
against the people and the people then
20:41
feel exactly exactly so if you’re going
20:43
to punish the whole nation then it’s
20:45
going to be helping and the at the
20:47
beginning there was you know there was
20:49
all this incredibly massive protests
20:51
against it and yet all Russians were
20:54
sanctioned I’m not complaining because
20:55
you know once again there is Russia and
20:56
there is Ukraine so I’m not putting
20:58
putting them on the same level I’m just
21:00
talking about policy so if you have a
21:02
policy of um uh if you have a
21:05
dictatorial uh country that you want to
21:10
uh not help but you want dictator to be
21:13
undermined you’re not un you’re not
21:15
sanctioning everybody you’re not not
21:18
allowing uh the Russians to travel uh to
21:22
travel abroad you’re not cutting their
21:25
um you’re not cutting uh Bank
21:29
because that is not I mean Putin doesn’t
21:31
go to McDonald’s Putin doesn’t use I
21:34
remember Times New Roman immediately
21:35
stopped functioning in Russia because
21:38
that was really important that font like
21:40
we’re not going to give the Russians the
21:41
rights so he doesn’t use the computer he
21:45
doesn’t watch Harry Potter he doesn’t
21:47
know what Disney is and so all of this
21:50
is against the Russians and of course
21:52
the Russian and when the state says
21:53
we’re going to give you new McDonald’s
21:55
better we’re going to show you other
21:57
movies but better and what are you going
21:59
to do so so but when we deal with Russia
22:02
there is no we can we people in the west
22:05
they think about psychology of other
22:07
nations when the Russia is concerned the
22:10
only psychology people remember is Boris
22:12
and
22:13
Natasha after just a few weeks in office
22:16
Donald Trump has sought to maximize his
22:19
power and cultivate a kind of a Culture
22:22
of Fear we’ve seen Mass deportations
22:24
we’ve seen attacks on CI civil liberties
22:26
uh we’ve seen a purge of the federal
22:27
government led by the richest man in the
22:30
world Elon Musk What similarities do you
22:34
see between American and Russian
22:38
nationalism well I mean
22:41
it’s I would not do a direct comparison
22:43
of of Russian America there’s a
22:45
different entities I mean in many ways
22:47
there’s certain similarities because
22:49
they’re and I mean Soviet Union not
22:52
Russia Soviet Union and America because
22:54
they grew out of something else because
22:56
the Soviet Union grew out of a Russian
22:58
Empire America grew out of of former
23:01
Colony that sort of with Protestant
23:03
ethics and the spirit of capitalism so I
23:06
wouldn’t compare them but I think with
23:08
Trump what’s interesting is that it
23:10
almost felt this time even more so but
23:12
even the first time as if he found the
23:14
book of how to be a dictator just read
23:17
it and like okay check check check he
23:21
hasn’t done it yet he wasn’t dictatorial
23:23
necessarily in actions as much mostly
23:27
just Ren he was well was sort of I call
23:29
him a meta dictator at the time he was a
23:31
meta dictator so he was sort of like he
23:33
was acting like Ronald Reagan was acting
23:35
president he was acting a dictator in a
23:37
sense but it was remarkable because it
23:40
was almost like a textbook so you you an
23:43
annihilate your opponents you call
23:45
enemies enemies of the people you
23:47
prevent people from entering America
23:49
because all the Statue of Liberty
23:51
arguments that give me your poor and
23:53
your suddenly we just your tired like
23:55
well go away go away we don’t want white
23:57
people we can take but others no no no
23:59
no uh so in this sense he’s um he’s sort
24:03
of a textbook uh textbook authoritarian
24:07
formula and when people say he’s just
24:10
like Putin he’s like Putin not because
24:11
he looks at Putin and says I’m going to
24:13
be like that no he just I want raw power
24:17
I am raw power I want strong hand I am
24:19
strong hand uh in order to have that all
24:21
people should be like me so I think he’s
24:24
a specific he actually is a product of
24:26
American democracy as as said is a
24:29
horrible thing that it is he’s a product
24:31
of Hollywood where Good Guys finished
24:33
last he’s sort of this um Gordon gecko
24:36
from Wall Street greed is good suddenly
24:39
we are all living in that uh Nina Keva
24:42
thank you so much for joining me on up
24:43
front thank you
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NAT0, maybe being a BRICS partner…
Ikus Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka
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