Thursday, June 27, 2024

Video with Transcript: Russia is Losing its Patience and it could be Devastating for NATO | Pepe Escobar


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let's get started with this attack on civilians in

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Sebastopol which was unbelievable they're attacking civilians that who

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have nothing to do with this conflict in Ukraine they are just living their lives

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in Crimea and when you look at this attack in your opinion what they're seeking for

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what was the strategy what was the tactic behind this type of attacks that the Ukrainian government together with

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the United States and their allies they're doing right now well first of all Nema uh there's no

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strategy and no tactic this is a war of Terror put it

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straightforward and it was decided by the people who are running this war

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which are of course in Washington and in Brussels and KV is basically uh the lap

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dogs implementing the orders and this was a typical case

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Sunday here in Russia was a Christian Orthodox holiday very very important

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it's a day where people go out to their families uh they celebrate in parks in

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beaches in Cas in sevastopol to give an idea for all of you how crazy it this is I was in Kazan

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in the middle in tatarstan of course capital of tatarstan in the middle of a

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Tatar folk uh holiday which happens to coincide with the Christian Orthodox

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holiday which is another facet of how Russia is really a multipolar nation a

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civilization State you have a Tatar holiday and a Christian Orthodox holiday

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and they mingle they interact uh there read a lot of Christian Orthodox uh uh Russians in

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this big big party in the outskirts of Kazan which was basically a Tatar Ritual

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from centuries ago you know same thing with their families kids uh everybody having a ball

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with Tatar food and experimenting uh uh you know trying manufacture products

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from all sorts of provinces inside Taran and later on that's where we learn

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that something awful had happened in Crimea and also a terror attack in

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dagistan and these two attacks very important on the same day uh on a holiday in Russia they were

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interwined one is a missile attack against civilians essentially and the

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other one was the reactivation of a Ultra extremist Islamic cell in dagistan

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so let's start with sebasto Paul answering a question the ukrainians they launch Five

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the ukrainians know the NATO operators or Mo most probably the American

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operators launched five attack Ms costing $1 million each

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simultaneously This is complicated because even if you have very good air defenses which is the case of

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sevastopol they did not they intercepted four of them but not the fifth the fifth

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went through and he was shot when he was in midair so what happened was the

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debris of the missile fell on the beach and that caused the deaths of you know

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unfortunately children and wounding at least 150

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people so this was deliberate first of all because there are no military Targets in

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that area so we are the day before what happened in Sebastopol and dagistan I

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was in Kazan as part of the bricks the first bricks Forum of cities and

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municipalities and Friday was the big day uh where there were all the um um

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the meetings regarding the beginning of this new Association which is a fantastic Association we can talk about

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this later and the next day they took us on a cruise in the vulga

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toak which is a fantastic Island surrounded by Three Rivers which is very

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important in the history of Russia because it's where uh Ian for also known as Ian the terrible in the west

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organized the defeat of the descendants of the golden horde of the Mongols of the golden horde in

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1552 so on their way I shared the table in the cruiser fantastic cruiser with

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the permanent representative of the Republic of Crimea to President Putin so this means

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this is a top crimeia official fantastic Diplomat with large experience

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especially in Africa he's been all over uh he's from Crimea he was born in

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Crimea and now he's the top representative of Crimea in facing the

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president you know and he told me absolutely Priceless stuff about what's

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going on nowadays including the fact that everything that it's important

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concerning the Black Sea Fleet in sevastopol has been transferred to nois

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it's in nois it's not in sevastopol anymore so there are no military targets

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even from the Black Sea Fleet in sebast so this was a deliberate attack on

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civilians uh there is an airport near what that that would have been maybe the

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theoretical Target of this missile attack but nobody's using this airport

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so it was an attack on civilians So This is war on terror on civilians that is legitimized by the

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Americans the missiles are operated by the Americans everything

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the uh reconnaissance the intelligence the surveillance and the reconnaissance

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ISR ISR as we call it was from a global hawk that was

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loitering in the Black Sea before the M It This Global Hawk was transmitting the

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coordinates for the people who were launching the missiles so obviously uh

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uh it's no wonder that the next day everybody from s La the foreign minister

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and nebenzia the Russian represent pres of the UN they were saying this was an American attack the Americans are

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complicit they organized everything and everybody knows that the ukrainians cannot even you know find the toilet

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paper in the room the Americans do everything including pressing the button so this was deliberate so this

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was one part of the terror strategy against civilians and if we look uh at uh what people from

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military Ukrainian military in intelligence were saying before and what

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direct advisors to zinski like podolak for instance were saying they were saying that there are no uh there are no

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civilians in Crimea everybody is an occupier there are no beaches for families so everything is a target so

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this is a war of Terror by Kiev and fully instrumentalized and supported by

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the Americans parallel to that in sebasto what happened in dagistan is that CIA

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MI6 which have loads of cells all over the post

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Soviet space and inside the Russian Federation as as well they reactivated

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uh Ultra extremist salafi Jihadi wahhabi cell in

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dagistan and these people went on a rampage they they killed at least 20

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people including slitting the throat of a Christian or

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Russian Christian Orthodox priest which is as all of you uh

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remember the classic Isis model operandi of years ago in especially in

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Syria and Iraq and this had to be on the same day in parallel this means this was

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a concerted operation with full backup of n American NATO operators on one side

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and American British Intelligence on the other side so obviously people in Moscow

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were absolutely Furious since uh Sunday night I came back to Moscow from cazan

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on Sunday night and from Sunday night until today while we're talking it's the

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topic everywhere everywhere in town the number one topic is okay so the this this is a

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definitive Red Line what are they going to they're going to do about it but that's the problem because the Russians

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do not respond to provocations they do but it's later and

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as Putin already said many times on the record it can be symmetrical or it can be asymmetrical so we don't know how

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they're going to respond yet but it this is becoming very very very serious because

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everybody knows here especially here that this summer is going to be

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literally very very hot and there will be other attacks against civilians in

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the across the Russia Federation so the big question Nema and all of you when

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will the bear actually lose the bear patience and Counterattack like bears do now and then

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there's no Escape when it comes to this attack and

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we we we've learned that right after that the Russian government and pun

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Administration they were talking about that they're going to respond to this attack as you mentioned we don't know

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what they're going to do but they have a lot of options at their disposal we know

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that they have a lot a lot they're not what we know what we've learned so far

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from their attitude in Ukraine they're not interested in killing civilians

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they're just thinking strategically they're they're trying to find to to get to that point

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that would what would be an appropriate response to this type of attack but well

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sorry nma sorry to interrupt go ahead please no go ahead that was the question

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well the number one possibility which is um Everybody agrees with that is to

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impose a nfly Zone on the Black Sea it doesn't matter that going to be a

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lot of screaming and shouting from Washington and Brussels but the Russians don't care the thing is how they going

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to implement that because Putin has a legal mind and he's very careful and very

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measured in every major decision especially regarding the war the proxy

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war one of the possibilities is that Russia brings documentation to the UN

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Security Council proving irrefutably that the Americans were behind this attack in

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sasto and then obviously as we all know the UN Security Council is not going to

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say anything about it because it'll be V vetoed by the us it's going to be the usual blah blah blah and nothing happens

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but it will be on the record and the Russians are going to say look we

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brought this to you it's on the record we you didn't do anything about it you didn't cond down or we are going to

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counter punch the way we want it and then comes the second part of the

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strategy which is to install uh impose a nfly Zone over the Black Sea which means

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every Reaper or Global Hawk by the Americans that

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transgresses this sector of the Black Sea uh close to

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Southern Ukraine and Crimea will be shut down that's it with no questions asked

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so this is probably I would say this is the the road map for Russia from now on

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it won't be something um irreflective of impulsive of course the bombing of uh

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strategic uh military locations in Ukraine especially in od

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because this missiles probably came from the region around Odessa or from Odessa itself this will continue uh they bombed

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an installation uh early this week uh but this is another part of the story uh this the particular counter

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punch for this and for subsequent possible attacks against

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civilians is how Russia is going to impose its will on the Black Sea which

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is something that military analysts here have been clamoring

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for months in fact and many of some of them even over a year look this this

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part of the vacine is ours so no fly zone we control and in fact because they

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are international waters Russia is playing by the rules but you cannot play

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by the rules when you are facing a bunch of lunatics and Terror

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enable uh lunatics and Terror enabling lunatics as well which is the case of um

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Washington so this thing is can be out of control soon in fact because there's

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this is the plan B Nema the plan B is the war of Terror they are absolutely

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desperate at what's happening in the battlefield in Nova Rosia uh sometimes in in in some of these um uh artillery

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barges that the Russians launch you you kill 2,000 uh Ukrainian soldiers just

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like that you know like it stamping your fingers sometimes 3,000 whole battalions

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it's it's getting totally out of control which is always the classic Russian

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strategy they are not in a rush the objective number one remains

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total demilitarization of Ukraine of course a lot of people will get killed

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this is already the fource Ukrainian Army soon is going to be the fifth we don't know

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where the components of this fifth new Ukrainian Army will come from people you

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know literally plugged out of bus stations or their own homes but but this

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is the Russian strategy doesn't change but we can sense even in the way Neza at

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the UN and lavro are speaking now they are Beyond exasperated and they are very

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very angry and beware you don't see gentlemen diplomats like this being

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angry like this and without consequences yeah the other thing would

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be as you mentioned it seems that they were attacking sasto From

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adessa Here Comes again this question what would be the future of adessa for

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Russia are they going to let it in the hand of ukrainians or are they going to let them to attack each and every time

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because they can send all of the those weapons to adasa and they say these are ukrainians who are attacking we are not

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doing anything here well this is the one trillion doll question Nema seriously it was from the

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beginning when do we get to adessa uh in the first few weeks of the Smo is all

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the way to adessa then uh the people who organized the special military operations saw that this was a very long

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shot then there was the Ukrainian counter offensive now we are in a let's

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say the ultra slow motion Russian offensive which is basically captur

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capturing one Village a week we can go on like this for decades you know it's very very slow but it's not about

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conquering territory it's not about it it's about demilitarization always and Odessa is a

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completely different story you cannot storm Odessa with the numbers that the Russians have at the moment you would

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need at least 300,000 soldiers and loads

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of equipment that the Russians are saving for whatever eventuality comes up

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so we can say that we we we can really figure out the

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way they are studying the chessboard they prefer to bet on keeping

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their own strategy the way it is advancing little by little uh thiss satisfaction inside Ukraine uh the front

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collapsing little by little and even later on when the Verna Rada will become

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also illegal and this will be August there could be

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referendums in many uh Ukrainian cities and they can vote easily to

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be reabsorbed by Russia and this would be the case of Odessa for instance so

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there is a possibility very uh feasible possibility of Odessa being conquered

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without one single bullet it's there it's quite possible after August for the

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moment we already have a presidency that is completely unconstitutional and

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illegal and the Americans of course they are they're oblivious to that because

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they're focused completely on the war of Terror and on the elections in

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November and the Europeans are just vessels you know they do what the Americans tell them to do including uh

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macron's idea to to send in fact the French mercenaries to basically to Essa

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the the original French plan was to send these mercenaries and this 2,000 French

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troops wow they're going to conquer the world with 2,000 French troops to Odessa

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so uh the Russians are thinking strategically long term and that's the

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difference the Americans and NATO they are desperate on what they're going to do this week and next week and the

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Russians are thinking about the rest of the year in 2025 already they are also prepared for

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the fact that this could be a very long War which is what the Americans

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essentially want and this war will be conducted and paid essentially by the

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Europeans the Europeans they still have not figured out that they are the Fall Guy in this whole story not only they

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have to fight but they have to pay for the whole thing afterwards because the Americans will be thinking about other

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fish to fry and the big fish to fry in the minds of the of the Republicans if

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they get to power is China it's not Russia so this thing can move in all

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sorts of ways uh in a very incandescent manner during

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the summer but then there may be a sort of lull before the American elections

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and depending on the result of the American elections the whole scene could turn sideways let's put it this way it

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won't end but it could turn sideways assuming there will be some sort of a

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let's say Trump plan which has already leaked but what leaked is essentially a

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trap laid out by Trump advisors for Russia the Russians have already

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examined what was proposed to Trump and they know this is total but

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during the little interum that Trump will have as a margin of

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manber he wins the elections there is this period before he enters office

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where the Deep state are going to pounce on him and during this interon he could

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try to negotiate something nobody knows what in fact not even Trump knows what

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he will negotiate because I'm we're not sure that he understand what's in play

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you know you you talk

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about France and what macron is doing right now he said that he's trying to

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negotiate he's trying to talk with Putin but there is no response on the Russian

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part the question this of our evening right

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n the question is why would Russia talk with macron what would come out of these

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talks is macron still important for Russia these These are huge these are

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Big questions after these new elections in the European Union how does Russia see Europe and the current face of

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Europe well it's absolutely irrelevant first of all if macron calls they won't

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pick up the phone he's irrelevant they they actually they they see they examine

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the internal the domestic uh political situation in France very carefully here they know exactly what's going on they

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know that the end of maconis politically is right right right around the corner

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literally it's going to happen within the next two weeks three weeks Max so there's Absol absolutely nothing

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that macron can propose to Russia and R the Russians are not interested in discussing with

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anybody from Europe this this is something that we heard from diplomats here these past few days in fact they

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keep repeating there's absolutely nothing to discuss with the Europeans

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and look they until the Smo there were discussions there were at least some you

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know diplomatic encounters and these diplomats very able diplomats

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Minister of Foreign Relations here they are used for decades to transactionally and

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diplomatically and even friendly exchanges with r with Europe and they

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don't exist anymore and now it's going to get even worse because this is something that uh last

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week I was advancing in one of my podcasts that there will be a secret dinner in

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Brussels on Monday where they would renew from their Ling for a second

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mandate that's exactly what happened it happened on Monday night in Brussels on

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Tuesday it was announced that the heads of um government of uh the

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EU not Victor Orban by the way they had

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approved Von for V liion 2.0 at the European commission so it's going to is

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going to be as wor as bad as it was before and in fact worse because the EU

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foreign policy Chief is going to be that batshit crazy Estonian

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kalas so get ready if you thought that Garden jungle borell stupid as he is was

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bad wait for callus which is a mega russophobe and side by side with vonder

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Lon oh my god get ready you know it's it's worse than the harpies in

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traditional Greek mythology so uh the Russians know all this you know

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from upside down all around and said okay it's going to get even worse in terms of dealing with the Europeans but

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they don't matter anyway because the ones who really matter are NATO and the ones at NATO also don't matter because

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they respond to the Americans so the only proposal possibility of sitting

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down on the same table is if the Americans decide to sit on the table but

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once again very important um agreeing with the propositions made by Putin last week in

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detail Putin made a proposal to end the war not to freeze the war and he left it

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in a very very explicit and very very clear he knows of course that uh the

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Americans will tell the Europeans no and the Americans will also refuse it they did not refuse it explicitly Stenberg

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for NATO already said no but this is the same thing as the Americans telling Stenberg hey said no say no good boy

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good dog that's exactly what happened so the good dog said no this means the owner of the dog is saying no so go it

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goes back to to the to to the same to the same place where we are now Nema the Russians will be awaiting for

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the next War Of Terror move by the Americans remote controlling the ukra

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the the ukrainians they'll see how far this will go they will be keep Hunning

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their uh asymmetric response and that's the beauty of it

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because nobody knows what will be when it will be it's typical sunu Art of War

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uh Russ Russian strategy because they think strategically and of course this next

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three months that are going to be very very very very hot but the impossibility

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of a dialogue at least during this year until the end of this year is absolutely

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clear for the Russians for for the security Council here is totally clear

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and once again uh adding to the answer to to your question it's absolutely

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pointless to even pick up the phone if any European macron or

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or whatever whoever Falls because they have nothing

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tangible to propose we know that in the mainstream

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media in the United States they're trying to draw a line between she and P

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in for the case of North Korea they're saying that she is not happy with P

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going to North Korea in my opinion they both knew what's going to happen in

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North Korea they had they talk about these things even during that visit of

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pun to China do you think that these two countries that are so

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their partnership is so crucial it's so important for the future of brecks

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would make some sort of disagreement between them on North Korea or they just

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talking about everything that is going on right now Nemo this is so stupid

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stupid that I don't even know where to start okay I I'll I'll try the the short

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version for all of us because well this is part of my job I've been following the Russia China strategic partnership

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for years practically on a daily basis you know everything that they discuss

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the plans how they organize the meetings uh how it starts with the CN Putin and

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then goes down to the ministry of uh foreign affairs and to other officials

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Etc the Russia China strategic partnership is Ironclad which is something that will never be understood

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in Washington and in Brussels number one number two the the puting strip to uh

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dprk was extra strategic because it was

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the first time that the Russians are actually implementing a concept that

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they devel veloped and was presented to the Americans in December 2021

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indivisibility of security which is to launch the basis for a

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panasian security arrange so a strategic partnership

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between Russia and China that already exists augmented by strategic partnership with the dprk

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plus the the treaty that Russia and Iran are about to sign is going to be in the

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next few weeks all the paperwork is ready and it's also a strategic

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partnership this is the basis of a panasian uh strategic re strategic

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realignment in fact concerning all the major uh Eurasian actors it will be

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discussed next months in aana at Summit of the Shanghai Corporation organization

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where all these are members except North Korea or North Korea can send a delegation as observers uh turkey by the

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way is an observer Mongolia is an observer Afghanistan is an observer but it's basically Russia China India

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Pakistan Iran and Central Asian stands and everybody agrees that we need a

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framework a security framework for all of us major actors in why do you think

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turkey is desperate to get inside the cooperation organization it's because

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they don't get in they will be completely left out and turkey will be at the mercy of the Americans and NATO

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and erdogan is clever enough to see that his he has his back against the wall so

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turkey will be at Min next month as an observer but they want you know active

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participation and they look can I enter your club and then the others are going to say can we trust this

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guy so so this is the big story in Aon and next months you know well so the

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dprk bringing the dprk into the equation is brilliant

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because uh puting introduced an element that completely destabilized the Americans in their strategy for

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Northeast Asia uh and this thing this didn't start

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with this visit Nema and all of you listening you know when this started to get formulated you won't believe it at

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the St Petersburg form in 2018 six years ago when there was an

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enormous dprk delegation they went there to discuss business of course and to

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discuss strategic partnership with the Russians so this took a long time

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because of covid of course two years or nothing happens Etc they have been honing their uh organ their partnership

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and how they are going to organize themselves militarily and trade terms as well because this is Russia opening the

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doors to North Korea to export via uh the Far East in Russia and Siberia and

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they can export to the whole of Eur Asia if they want the North Koreans and they have some pretty good things to export

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it it's a manufacturing Powerhouse and a scientific Powerhouse North Korea and a

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n Powerhouse they have thousands of super it experts in North Korea these

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people come on these people make nuclear weapons and Hypersonic missiles this is very very serious stuff

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very few nations in the world are capable of doing that the North Koreans can do it so all that destabilized the

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West completely so what do we have from these um absolutely

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pathetic media outlets in the west oh uh this produced a a spinner in the works

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shining is going to be now he has a new friend he's a Bandon so this does not

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even qualify as a bad joke you know but this is what they're capable of Nema bad

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PR bad journalism and trying to fool their readers there's nothing else you know

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because they're incapable once again of thinking strategically and because this strategy in across Asia is so complex in

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so many levels even if you follow it on a day-to-day basis just to keep up with

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what everybody is doing and everybody's talking to each other is it's a mindboggling work and the Russians of

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course they have this particular uh story they started six years ago so now

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we have the fruits of this reapproximation and guess who was the

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number one actor facilitating a good dialogue between siin ping and King

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jonun Vladimir Putin do they know this in Washington no they don't so obviously

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they cannot analyze anything because they don't have the background they don't know what's going on on a daily or

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weekly basis they don't see how Eurasia is reconfiguring the whole system of

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international relations for that matter and obviously even if they see even if they suspect this is what's doing

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uh rejection denial they enter in total denial because the way they organize the

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the world since 1945 is collapsing in front of their very

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eyes we know one of the main players of breaks is India recently we read that

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Indian Prime Minister Modi is going to visit Moscow how do you see the role of

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India right now we haven't seen so far that they're one they want to play a big

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role they're trying to convince both parties United States G7 on one side and

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together they're part of brecks but it seems to me that they're trying to play Both Sides how do you see the role

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of India right now how important are they in this whole game

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uh they cannot play Both Sides first of all and that's their problem because

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Modi still has not made up his mind okay he can have good relations

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with some of the G7 members he's trying very hard with money in Italy for

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instance but he cannot have close relations with the G7 and close

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relations with bricks at the same time so this visit will be very very very

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very peculiar in a sense that may clarify at least a little bit where

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India is going they have an excellent relationship with Russia uh the problem

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is they have a bad relationship with China and Russia is the middleman between both so we can expect Putin to

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instill some sense into Modi in terms of come on guys grow up solve your problems

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with China you are an important member of bricks if you don't you won't be an important member of bricks anymore so

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it's your choice and you know where the future is the future is not the us or NATO the future is here bricks and we

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are building it and we want to build it with you for instance we are building

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the international north south Transportation Corridor with main actors Russia Iran India we are investing in

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Iran to make it easier for the corridor to start working seamlessly from St Petersburg and Moscow

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across Russia to asan then across the caspan to um uh Iranian ports in the

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caspan and then all the way to Southern Iran and then all the way to Mumbai So

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you you're going to profit from it you can export more we can export more to

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you and you can export more not only to us but to Iran and to Central Asia

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because from Iran the that famous road that you helped build to the Afghan border you

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can start exporting to Afghanistan and to Central Asia as well so it's your interest to be an active member not only

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of the this Transportation Corridor but of our bigger bricks policy as a whole

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so uh it's it's we everybody is very very everybody from everywhere is very

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curious to uh what if mod will understand

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how complex the game is and he has now to make his move and this is a only a

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few months before the brick Summit in Kazan in October where Modi has to come as one of the main

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protagonists and not as a

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sideshow the other thing would be it seems that European countries together with

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the United States is going to send the first trunch of Frozen Russian assets

39:00

to to the pocket of the military industrial complex and then you mean you mean follow the stolen

39:09

money right exactly unbelievable and it seems that Hungary

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is not happy with this situation because it's the European Union decided to bypass

39:23

Hungary and and they they didn't just care about their opinion and even the foreign minister of Hungary

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he said that this is a Shameless violation of red lines and how do you see the situation

39:38

right now within the European Union these country like Hungary is not happy

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at all with the situation no it's collapsing from the inside Nemo um the presidency of the EU is

39:51

going to be hungar this is going to be quite something because we're going to have

39:57

Victor Orban clashing directly with the toxic Medusa vonder lion this is going

40:04

to be something to watch he already said that he's totally against VL and he

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didn't vote for VL for the 2.0 mandate you know so this is going to be some

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it's it's crumbling from the inside and this is something I was discussing today with the top Russian analyst today

40:23

before I came to talk to you uh the NATO and the are collapsing on Parallel

40:30

tracks and more or less at the same speed so the collapse of the EU and NATO

40:37

practically simultaneously it's a done deal we still don't know when it's going to happen it

40:43

could be in a matter of a few years or it could be in a matter of a few months anything anything in between is possible

40:51

because there are already enormous cracks inside um uh Victor Orban already

40:57

said that uh his emphasis is to find a solution for

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Ukraine so and this goes against everything that comes out of Brussels

41:09

the the rules that Brussels imposes on uh the capitals of of the the member

41:15

states of the EU member states you know so there's this is already a mega Clash at the top at which which is a good

41:22

thing in fact and especially voters and and average European citizens

41:29

from Western Europe to Eastern Europe will accompany this in a real time and

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they will understand what's at stake and they will compare this U russophobic

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Obsession and this um war mongering with the decline of their own living

41:47

standards wherever they live in Europe many of them are already okay there are

41:53

zillions of brainwashed citizens all across Europe but at least at least I would say that a significant

42:00

minority approaching closely approaching a majority already understands what's

42:06

going on so this will be the beginning of the end when you have a majority of

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Europeans from Portugal Poland doesn't count Poland's a bunch of Rabbid dogs but from Portugal

42:19

to okay from Portugal to Germany including southern Europe and some of

42:24

the Scandinavians when they notice that uh what's happening to them in their

42:32

personal lives basically is an extension of this

42:37

absolutely demented suicidal policy conducted by Brussels oh then then we're

42:44

GNA have something to watch you know then the show will really start and we

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are approaching uh that date you know sooner than many think

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we know that we going to have brick Summit in October and well I'll be there

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yeah you you you're going to be there you you've been there in Kazan recently as you as you said and why Kazan why

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what's the importance of Kazan in your opinion super important I'm glad that

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you asked Nema because this is the this is the column that came out this Tuesday

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on um Sputnik International in English I spent the three days in Kazan

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outstanding in um uh Friday Saturday Sunday Sunday was the day of the attack

43:35

on sevastopol and the terror attack in dagistan and the the objective was the

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first Forum of the bricks plus cities and

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municipalities organization fascinating idea that came

43:54

from the mayor of Kaza a few years ago he he went to Putin he had the idea

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Putin said fantastic go ahead it's in your hands you do everything and they did the whole thing was organized by uh

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City Hall in Kazan absolutely impeccable

44:15

extremely smart and well prepared staff they invited over 100 Mayors sub Mayors

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U Municipal representatives from all over from Africa from South America from

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Central Asia from West Asia uh and to start the idea of this organization

44:37

which is basically cities talking to cities you know intermunicipal

44:43

horiz in his own in his own words horizontal inter municipality I I I love

44:50

the concept it's it's a wonderful concept so it's uh in a siing ping way

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uh people to people's exchange which the Chinese always repeat it's one of the key concepts of

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the belt and Road in China but apply to cities and it was fascinating to see in

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front of you I'll give you a a short list of what kind of people were there

45:15

the mayor of Ankara most important city is seat of power apart from esto city of

45:21

power in Turkey mayors of the three big cities in

45:28

the mayor of mashad the mayor of isah and the vice mayor of tan a very young

45:33

guy still in his 30s he has an enormous political future ahead of you uh Mayors

45:40

from small Brazilian cities very very interesting from H Grand

45:45

D from s Paulo and from a small town in mat grow so close to the Amazon

45:53

rainforest fascinating to talk to them wonderful people very well informed and

45:58

they were when they saw Kazan when they saw a modern Russian city they were like

46:04

they couldn't believe it they couldn't which is something very important because they are bringing all this information back to

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Brazil essential we had for for instance uh the Secretary of intermunicipal

46:18

relations for the whole of Asia a wonderful woman from Indonesia we had Representatives some

46:26

practically half of Central Asia over there as well one and for instance

46:31

they're responsible for uh international relations of the city of Harbin in China

46:36

which is a Powerhouse Harbin is the Chinese City connecting with the

46:43

development of the Far East of Russia and Siberia see it could not be more

46:49

strategic than that and they sent their top Foreign Relations Specialist to to

46:54

the me so so the the first meeting and then the second meeting where they were discussing how to proceed further they

47:01

were absolutely Priceless because these people had their own uh talk and then

47:07

they decided essentially to uh okay we're going to take care of the paperwork later is not so important but

47:15

we should already decide who's going to be the president of the organization and by consensus it's the mayor of Kazan

47:22

who's the guy who had the original idea and the next uh

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annual meeting of the organization is going to be in Brazil next year 2025 so

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this was a wonderful decision for Brazil which can learn a

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lot Mayors and sub mayors of small mediumsized and even big cities in

47:46

Brazil they can learn a lot by talking to their Partners in West Asia in

47:51

Central Asia in Africa in other parts of South America very interesting Nema

47:57

there were two guys from Argentina the the mayor of Kazan he

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invited even if that thing melay the

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chainsaw idiot declined to enter bricks doesn't matter mayor of Kazan invited

48:15

two dissidents two Mayors from two Argentinian towns uh and they were there

48:20

it was wonderful because everybody wanted to talk to them about the new Argentinian government and of course and

48:27

they said look no no no no no we will continue the dialogue with bricks plus cities by ourselves and we're going to

48:33

bring other Argentinian cities as well so this was great in terms of uniting

48:38

cities from all over the global majority fantastic was a fantastic

48:44

experience yeah let's finish with Julian Assange and what has happened to him and

48:49

right now we we've learn that he's free after more than a decade not yet not yet

48:57

yeah he's gonna yeah as we speak as we speak we're still waiting because he has

49:03

to plead guilty exactly this is this is very tricky this

49:10

is something that was being discussed for weeks between Julian's lawyers and

49:19

uh the US Department of Justice they were trying to find a face saving way

49:26

for the Americans in fact not for juliia and obviously uh the Americans were

49:32

desperate because it the order came from above okay let's end this thing because

49:40

uh can you imagine the Optics of having an Australian citizens tortured in a

49:47

Maximum Security Prison in the United States of America in an electoral

49:54

year so they had to find a solution so this was reason number one and reason

50:00

number two the kadav in the White House SS he can get a few extra votes by doing

50:05

this so these are the two main reasons this proves once again that there is no

50:11

Department of Justice in the US there is a department of usual Injustice that

50:18

works according to the rules-based international order that they can change at a snap of our

50:24

fingers very very important what Julian is going to plead in the

50:30

Northern Mariana Islands which is an absolutely crazy thing because it's a it's a territory

50:37

Incorporated to the US so there is a court an American Courthouse over there

50:42

American territory there are going to be FBI agents over there who are going to excort Julian out of the island of sapan

50:50

as well but what he's going to plead and what he's going probably to sign this

50:55

could have been done five years a ago this exact same thing and he would

51:01

not have practically destroyed crucified psychologically tortured physically

51:07

tortured at that absolutely disgusting B Marsh prison in in

51:13

England but you know they had to you know okay let's uh um broadcast our

51:21

lesson to Independent journalists all over the world this is what's going to happen to you

51:28

so apparently they think that five years was enough uh all the

51:34

Merit on the planet and on the galaxies to Julian that he didn't break down can

51:41

you can you imagine the we cannot imagine the kind of psychological

51:46

torture and the fact that his health absolutely collapsed he could have died in prison because his house collapsed

51:53

for five years under those conditions and he did not break he did not let them

51:59

break him so this this is the meaning of historic resistance this this is the

52:05

message to all of us even the most powerful system in the history of humanity of the Galaxy of whatever Star

52:13

Wars or whatever you want to call it they did not break him and in the end he's out of course there there may be a

52:22

lot of conditionalities linked to this

52:27

um deal maybe he could be under surveillance in uh Australia maybe they

52:34

won't let him travel maybe he cannot say some things otherwise people are are

52:41

going to knock at his door again we don't know we still don't know but the fact that at

52:47

least he he's contemplating the possibility of being after Wednesday on

52:54

Thursday he will be a free man in his homeland in

52:59

Australia in itself is something absolutely stratospheric in terms of

53:05

something auspicious finally happen in a year that is very very inauspicious like

53:10

this one but uh there is an element that even if a lot of people are arguing that

53:16

this does not set a precedence but you can never tell with the Americas because

53:21

there are no rules they make and they demake

53:27

the rules the way they want it so the fact that he has to plead guilty to one

53:33

of the accounts which is using classified obtaining and using classified information this is very

53:41

serious for all of us independent journalists and analysts because the

53:48

Americans can always use it as a precedent to go after any one of us

53:53

anytime they want even if legally this does not set a precedent we know we know

54:00

that they break the rules all the time the Russians are the first ones to know so we still don't know how this is going

54:08

to to proceed but at least the the actual image of Julian on a

54:15

plane especially the images of Julian on a plane going to before he arrived

54:21

landed in Bangkok and then take another plane to go to Marianas the the the images are going to stay for the whole

54:28

planet and the whole Global majority understand what that means you know yeah very very powerful and very emotional

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for all of us who have been following this story for what 14 years

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