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[00:00:07] His speech was almost no different from Hitler's
[00:00:11] rallies, neither in atmosphere nor in rhetoric, from a high
[00:00:14] tribune in Poland, the call to kill "Sovoks" and "Moskals"
[00:00:18] is heard again.
[00:00:22] The Polish interest is that Ukraine and Ukrainian soldiers
[00:00:26] deal with the post-Soviet Russian
[00:00:29] Federation as well as possible. And keep it as far as possible from
[00:00:32] Poland, this is, of course, the strategy of the Polish state, let them
[00:00:36] kill the "Sovoks" who attacked them, the Poles don't mind,
[00:00:39] in this regard they can always count on our
[00:00:43] help, because where a "Moskal" is beaten, Poland helps,
[00:00:46] even if it does not participate directly in this
[00:00:49] war.
[00:00:59] So... This is Poland's strategic interest,
[00:01:03] but Poland's strategic interest is also that the flags of the
[00:01:07] Banderites are not developed in Warsaw and throughout Poland.
[00:01:22] Note the level of hypocrisy of Navrotsky, it is difficult
[00:01:26] to cure him of historical amnesia, having previously headed the
[00:01:30] Institute of National Memory, he perfectly understands
[00:01:33] how to circumvent inconvenient facts, because if you accuse
[00:01:37] Ukraine of creating a pantheon of national heroes from Hitler's
[00:01:40] collaborators, it is worth clarifying one more nuance: the national
[00:01:43] hero of Poland, Yuzov Piłsudski, was also such a collaborator of Hitler. The German
[00:01:47] boot, and not only smacking with pleasure, they kissed
[00:01:51] together. After the death of Piłsudski, Hitler declared
[00:01:54] national mourning in Reich and sent condolences to Poland.
[00:01:58] For propaganda purposes, they even made a photo with the Führer at the coffin,
[00:02:01] note, it was not Hitler, but Piłsudski who was the creator of the first
[00:02:05] concentration camp on the territory of Belarus from 1934,
[00:02:09] in Bereza Kartuska, on the orders of Piłsudski,
[00:02:12] political opponents, including Belarusians, Ukrainians, Jews and
[00:02:15] even Poles, were dealt with. How fundamentally does the Polish hero Piłsudski differ
[00:02:19] from the Ukrainian hero Bandera? Both are smeared with the black paint
[00:02:23] of Nazism, together they pursued the goal - to cut "Moskals" and
[00:02:26] "Soviets", as he expressed it.
[00:02:53] to the President of Ukraine, President Zelensky, you have already partially mentioned this, but can you tell us Europeans what we
[00:02:56] specifically can do to help...
[00:03:00] you kill more Russians, of course more Russian
[00:03:04] soldiers. I also
[00:03:06] ask this, have you discussed
[00:03:10] any issues regarding defense cooperation and joint drone production
[00:03:14] with your Serbian host country. Thank you
[00:03:17] very much. It's interesting that the curious
[00:03:20] Martens himself is not in a hurry to stand at the gas chamber switch or
[00:03:24] jump into a trench with a machine gun. They plan to continue killing "Sovoks"
[00:03:27] with Ukrainian hands.
[00:03:30] "Sovoks" shoot "Sovoks", as the late Graham said, this is the best
[00:03:34] investment of American money, especially since the conflict is systematically
[00:03:37] moving up the spiral of escalation, military operations
[00:03:40] have gone far beyond the front line, the infrastructure war
[00:03:44] turns large cities into a deadly trap. Russia
[00:03:47] has long avoided strikes on critical
[00:03:50] infrastructure, food warehouses, power plants and
[00:03:54] boiler houses remained outside the scope of the conflict.
[00:03:57] The situation changed the notorious logistics.
[00:04:13] they are unprecedented, so it can be said
[00:04:17] that this model of influence
[00:04:20] on the results of elections in the Russian Federation,
[00:04:24] which was launched in recent months,
[00:04:27] it, well, has a very high price. price for our logistics,
[00:04:31] for our retail, when all this flew to logistics
[00:04:35] warehouses, to logistics, to retail, all these
[00:04:38] warehouses were filled with huge volumes of goods, employees worked
[00:04:41] there, and now logistics will be
[00:04:44] reoriented to what, to work from the wheels, it will
[00:04:47] refuse from large centers, large
[00:04:51] centers for storing goods, accordingly this will only affect the
[00:04:54] price, rising food prices
[00:04:58] entail a series of consequences. for many they will become
[00:05:01] inaccessible, which means that the number of crashes and crime
[00:05:05] in general will increase. Add to this power outages and
[00:05:08] lack of central heating. Ultimately,
[00:05:11] large cities of Ukraine become arenas of struggle for
[00:05:14] survival.
[00:05:18] The Ukrainian-Russian conflict entered the stage of a war of
[00:05:21] cities. Military operations are being conducted not only and not so much along a narrow
[00:05:25] strip of the front, but everywhere one can reach. For
[00:05:29] Ukraine, this is bad news, its political and economic geography
[00:05:32] is such that one can reach anywhere, any object
[00:05:36] of a populated area. The authorities realize this and have begun active
[00:05:39] patriotic indoctrination. You citizens are waiting.
[00:05:45] One cannot hide from the sad reality in which we all live,
[00:05:48] anxiety, 30 seconds, explosion, this is now not
[00:05:52] only the reality of Kyiv, but also Sumy, Kharkiv, where even
[00:05:55] ballistic missiles are not needed, there Kabams reach perfectly, I am
[00:05:59] for people to understand what reality is, it is now such, and
[00:06:03] there is no reason to expect changes. In
[00:06:06] Ukraine, four types of objects are shelled: industrial enterprises,
[00:06:10] hypermarkets, railway.
[00:06:12] ready infrastructure, their destruction has a cumulative effect.
[00:06:16] Ukraine loses revenue from exports, the population loses access to
[00:06:20] many goods, including food. And the consequences of
[00:06:23] this are not momentary, but long-term. Bread
[00:06:26] became scarce, and will become
[00:06:28] even less. The spring sowing campaign will have
[00:06:32] nothing to be carried out with, if in six months the export of
[00:06:36] Ukrainian agricultural products by sea is not resumed. If we assume that in
[00:06:39] this season we should receive 83.
[00:06:54] but due to the fact that the sea route is not working, we can export barely
[00:06:56] half. For citizens, the real war in many ways
[00:07:00] has only just begun. Recently, foreign visitors noted that in
[00:07:03] the cities of the country there is a chat of revelry, carousing, restaurants, festivals, crowds
[00:07:07] of strolling people on the boulevards, the beau monde and demi-monde
[00:07:10] are only concerned about not being caught
[00:07:13] catching men on the streets, should we allow men to leave? if we allow
[00:07:16] men to leave, then the mobilization of women will begin, so
[00:07:19] I think it's not necessary to allow it. there are many such
[00:07:22] who are just waiting for the border to open and will immediately fly away,
[00:07:25] so I think it's better not to allow it. one way or
[00:07:29] another, now the war has literally come to every home, the
[00:07:32] population no longer feels as if they are observing everything from the side, while
[00:07:36] the development of the military situation has deprived the authorities of the incentive to prepare for
[00:07:39] the heating season.
[00:07:45] We must be realistic, it is necessary to monitor the quality and
[00:07:48] speed of the authorities' preparation for the new heating season,
[00:07:52] especially in cities with millions of inhabitants. Obviously, the preparation is going
[00:07:55] somehow, so every city dweller will have to
[00:07:58] decide whether he is ready to live here without water, light
[00:08:02] and heat.
[00:08:04] Experts, of whom there are countless in Ukraine today, suggest not to panic. Indeed,
[00:08:07] when there is no water, heat, light, one will just have to
[00:08:11] go to the village to Granny Odarka, fresh
[00:08:15] milk and village greens will quickly cure you of the blues, though such
[00:08:18] advice, like "let them eat brioches" when there is no
[00:08:22] bread. If you work as a cashier or
[00:08:25] a teacher, moving to a rural house is absolutely not for you, at least
[00:08:29] 250,000 hryvnias are needed for winter, for firewood, gasoline
[00:08:33] for a car, internet, power generators and so
[00:08:36] on, calls to leave cities are only for the rich,
[00:08:40] for people with a salary of 15-2000.
[00:09:42] There will be no hunger in Ukraine, I say immediately. Goods in convenience
[00:09:46] stores, however, come from the same mega-warehouses as in
[00:09:50] supermarkets. The only difference is that there is a different number
[00:09:53] of intermediate links between them and the buyer. Anyway, even official optimists
[00:09:57] on the payroll assess the situation, describing a rather narrow range
[00:10:01] of options: from "hardships will be unbearable" to "a catastrophe awaits
[00:10:04] us". It seems that in the coming days, Trump's negotiators,
[00:10:07] Witkowski and Kushner, are arriving in Kyiv, because of the possibility
[00:10:10] of concluding even a bad, but still, peace, one should grasp at it like
[00:10:14] a straw, but according to all signs, completely different sentiments prevail
[00:10:17] in the highest echelons of Ukrainian power, probably also
[00:10:20] because it concerns people for whom the problems of water, light,
[00:10:24] heat,
[00:10:37] For the Kyiv regime, it is convenient to attribute communal and domestic problems to
[00:10:41] Russian strikes, but in reality, even without them, Ukraine
[00:10:44] faced dilapidated communications, substations, and
[00:10:48] roads. No one invested anything in housing and communal services
[00:10:51] for decades; officials parasitized on the Soviet
[00:10:54] legacy. The presence of a good excuse is envied by
[00:10:58] Lithuanian bureaucrats. Peaceful Vilnius often looks
[00:11:02] worse than warring Kyiv. This is not even my opinion. Reports
[00:11:05] from Lithuanian journalists give everyone the opportunity to draw
[00:11:09] their own conclusions. Vilnius, once calling
[00:11:12] itself the European G-spot, last year even received
[00:11:16] the title of green capital of the Old Continent, still cannot
[00:11:20] deal with houses without water, sewerage, and the
[00:11:24] dilapidated outdoor toilets
[00:11:27] standing next to them. That's what still exists, just a kilometer
[00:11:30] from the Old Town. One toilet is even accessible, though
[00:11:33] dilapidated. The neighboring one is possibly cozier,
[00:11:37] but locked with a padlock, you see.
[00:11:40] Some residents made keys for themselves, arranged
[00:11:43] a VIP place there. This wooden house is one of the few in
[00:11:47] Vilnius still without sewerage and plumbing.
[00:11:50] There are seven apartments here. Lilia bought one of them a year
[00:11:53] ago. It's strange how people can be
[00:11:57] without water and toilets practically in the center of the city when we
[00:12:01] are trying to be leaders in Europe?
[00:12:04] They are trying to find rock bottom not only in Lithuania, the life of an ordinary
[00:12:07] person dissolves in the geopolitical ambitions of the White
[00:12:11] House. The information space was once again
[00:12:14] stirred up by footage from American streets, homeless
[00:12:17] people, in attempts to improve their existence, find very
[00:12:21] creative solutions so that local police do not...
[00:12:25] or people try to climb higher, shacks are built on
[00:12:28] trees, multi-story buildings are erected from plywood,
[00:12:31] the American dream certainly did not consist of such a way
[00:12:35] of life, however, in the current situation, buying one's own home
[00:12:38] is practically impossible. The great lie of the 20th century, its
[00:12:42] essence is that everyone owns their own home and invests all their savings
[00:12:46] in one asset. And if you do that, the only way
[00:12:49] to preserve the well-being of Americans or the stability of the middle class is to
[00:12:53] maintain rising housing prices. because that is your only asset.
[00:12:56] So, if you want your capital to grow every year, you need
[00:13:00] a policy that will annually increase housing prices,
[00:13:04] ultimately this led to the fact that today young people cannot
[00:13:07] afford these insanely expensive homes. Before, 30-40 years ago, you got
[00:13:11] a good job and could buy a house. Trump promised to pay attention
[00:13:14] to them, to deal with internal problems, the difficult
[00:13:17] life of the common American, however, he got bogged down in the conflict in the Middle
[00:13:21] East, and even there people were left to their own
[00:13:24] devices. American sailors almost mutinied on
[00:13:27] an aircraft carrier, let's discuss what is happening with a specialized expert, we have as a guest
[00:13:31] military analyst Andrei Bogadel, Andrei Petrovich, hello, hello,
[00:13:35] what is actually happening, we understand that, probably, it's not that simple,
[00:13:38] because the whole internet is discussing the combat readiness of American
[00:13:42] troops, it's unclear whether American
[00:13:45] sailors, without Coca-Cola, so to speak, refuse to continue bombing Iran, or
[00:13:49] are there some other reasons, and today the agenda,
[00:13:53] primarily related to Iran, is at the forefront, and here
[00:13:56] is an aircraft carrier, the pride of the American fleet, well, not just the fleet,
[00:14:00] the pride of all America, suddenly malnutrition, dirty
[00:14:03] latrines, unwashed deck, all the rest,
[00:14:07] sailors who want to go home, well, what's not a picture
[00:14:10] to show what this very Trump led to, what is
[00:14:13] Pete Hekso doing, isn't it time to remove him, remove him, why do we have a minister
[00:14:16] of war, give us a normal head of the Pentagon, and they will, of course,
[00:14:20] be shouting about this absolutely everyone today.
[00:14:23] абсолютно все.
[00:14:55] to create a general impression of the armed forces, of the
[00:14:59] Navy, primarily of the United States, that this is the best
[00:15:02] fleet, the best sailors, go serve there, because well
[00:15:06] we pay money for it, Andrey Petrovich, is there wear and tear on these
[00:15:09] aircraft carriers that are being discussed? Of course, let's just say,
[00:15:13] there is such a thing as sailing autonomy, and in this sailing
[00:15:16] autonomy we understand, it is the amount of ammunition, if you perform combat
[00:15:20] missions, the amount of fuel, well, in this case there are
[00:15:23] power plants. nuclear, but there are other
[00:15:26] auxiliary various installations that need to be maintained, after all, planes must
[00:15:30] fly with fuel every day to perform combat missions,
[00:15:34] this is a supply of provisions, a supply of drinking water, this is also. there are
[00:15:37] nuances, but I very much doubt that sailors are
[00:15:40] under-supplied with something, yes, hardships and deprivations, they are always present in
[00:15:44] absolutely any army, there are, as they say, nuances related
[00:15:47] specifically to the peculiarities of, for example, the same
[00:15:51] region, that the crew is acclimatizing, during this
[00:15:54] time, I think, it has already happened repeatedly, so of course, today this
[00:15:58] is primarily used as an informational, information
[00:16:01] and political occasion. As for the military component, we see that another
[00:16:05] aircraft carrier is coming to help, that is, a rotation is taking place.
[00:16:08] Americans were forced under public
[00:16:11] pressure to change the aircraft carrier, that is, from the Seventh
[00:16:14] Fleet - the Pacific to transfer to the Fifth
[00:16:17] Fleet, which is currently in the Arabian Sea, in order to replace this
[00:16:20] Lincoln, which has been performing combat missions there for 280
[00:16:23] days and some change. A similar aircraft carrier
[00:16:27] is going there, despite the fact that at the same time the Americans, together with
[00:16:31] the South Koreans, are conducting military exercises, and it was
[00:16:34] the aircraft carrier strike group in these exercises that was supposed to...
[00:16:52] for the Chinese, this is also a serious reason to think,
[00:16:55] that oh, so it turns out that the Americans don't have enough
[00:16:58] aircraft, there are 10 on paper, today only
[00:17:01] two aircraft carriers are actually performing combat missions, one is already
[00:17:04] completely demoralized, and by their own media...
[00:17:08] Gerald Ford is laid up, two more aircraft carriers on
[00:17:12] the western and eastern coasts of the United States are undergoing sea
[00:17:15] trials, some other exercises are being held with them separately, and one can conclude,
[00:17:19] is the Hegemon really not the same anymore, and
[00:17:22] at the same time you start looking at the power of the Chinese People's Republic
[00:17:26] in a completely different way, which is forming a fundamentally new modern
[00:17:30] fleet, already the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
[00:17:33] sound completely more threatening for all
[00:17:37] these. Western countries, who and what can play today
[00:17:40] specifically in the sea and ocean spaces,
[00:17:43] and where are the United States today, in principle, we
[00:17:47] see that, in essence, all the attention of the entire fleet
[00:17:50] is focused specifically on the Arabian Sea. Andrey Petrovich, this is also an extremely interesting
[00:17:54] point, that an aircraft carrier has to be removed from the direction that
[00:17:58] you consider a priority and strategic in the Indo-Pacific
[00:18:01] region, we have already broken all our tongues telling ourselves that for the United
[00:18:05] States this is the main task somewhere under...
[00:18:37] to obtain the necessary result, and for this, of course, it is necessary to
[00:18:40] create, first of all, that this is a blockade,
[00:18:44] a naval economic blockade so that Iran
[00:18:47] agrees to the terms of the United States of America,
[00:18:51] certain difficulties arise, certain problems, I don't think it's necessary
[00:18:54] to unequivocally drag everything towards these pre-election
[00:18:57] elections to Congress, I don't think that's the key element,
[00:19:01] here the key element is a little bit different, this is the confrontation
[00:19:04] of global elites, national elites. Well, and the
[00:19:08] interests of the Gulf monarchies that are ultimately located there, which
[00:19:11] have already begun to unite into their own military alliances in order to
[00:19:15] fill this vacuum that was formed after the Iranian
[00:19:18] strikes, where American military bases disappeared. Andrey
[00:19:22] Petrovich, well, you already said, demoralized military
[00:19:26] on the Lincoln, I would like to understand, in the conditions of modern
[00:19:29] warfare it turns out that mass media is sometimes
[00:19:32] more important than an aircraft carrier, and
[00:19:36] this has always been the case, that is, a demoralized army.
[00:20:07] performing combat missions is very problematic, but nevertheless the aircraft carrier
[00:20:10] must constantly change its course, constantly move in the sea, to
[00:20:14] exclude, firstly, hitting such ballistic missiles, secondly
[00:20:18] - to counter anti-ship
[00:20:20] missiles, but Iran today has difficulties, because their Navy
[00:20:24] is essentially no longer their own, and of course
[00:20:27] to counter drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, that is
[00:20:31] the most important thing, so there is constant movement, not
[00:20:34] for a second can the aircraft carrier stop anywhere, and...
[00:20:38] and this means that today the sailors are, for the most part, confined
[00:20:41] to a certain space, only a limited number of personnel can go
[00:20:45] up to the deck, and even if walks are still provided, they are usually
[00:20:49] used below deck or at night or in the evening when
[00:20:52] tasks are not being performed on certain upper decks of this
[00:20:56] aircraft carrier, everything else is people who are essentially in an iron
[00:20:59] box, who perform their combat missions in their places
[00:21:03] or rest in their
[00:21:04] cabins.
[00:21:09] Chaos in the American army reinforces the fears of the Persian
[00:21:12] Gulf countries. The White House is no longer able to ensure
[00:21:16] security by the mere fact of its presence in the region.
[00:21:20] Under certain circumstances, the situation works in reverse:
[00:21:23] a US military base on the territory of a state
[00:21:26] becomes a pretext and reason for strikes from
[00:21:30] neighboring countries. At least, that's how events unfolded
[00:21:33] after an attempt to drive Iran back to the Stone Age.
[00:21:37] The fears are reinforced by the behavior of the closest
[00:21:40] US allies in the North Atlantic Alliance,
[00:21:43] who did not even show up for the war. I think
[00:21:47] the US had a strategy Plan A. It was completely
[00:21:50] unrealistic, it failed in the first 3
[00:21:54] days, since then the US has essentially been improvising in this
[00:21:57] war. They act tactically, possibly
[00:22:00] achieving operational successes, but nothing that
[00:22:04] could be called a strategic success is happening.
[00:22:07] The initial idea was to overthrow the regime, and
[00:22:11] it was assumed that the regime would either collapse or surrender within
[00:22:14] 4 days. When this did not happen, the Iranians escalated
[00:22:17] on all fronts, the US had no answer,
[00:22:21] they had no answer to the strait blockade, because they
[00:22:24] believed, partly convinced by the Israelis, that the Iranians
[00:22:28] would not be able to block the Strait of Hormuz and strike all the Persian
[00:22:32] Gulf countries. Thus, the US had a completely
[00:22:35] unrealistic Plan A, and no Plan B, since then
[00:22:39] they have been stuck in this situation. Trump's statements
[00:22:42] about a crushing victory over Iran, which are replaced
[00:22:45] by threats to deliver a decisive blow, have practically
[00:22:49] nullified. The US, Middle Eastern countries
[00:22:53] are forced to take the situation into their own
[00:22:55] hands.
[00:22:59] For several months, the world has been watching how American military
[00:23:02] efforts fail, the resilience and determination of Tehran
[00:23:06] challenge established myths about the invincibility of the US
[00:23:09] army. Regional countries no longer trust the American security
[00:23:13] umbrella, which previously served as a guarantee of stability. In the
[00:23:17] holy city of Mecca, Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi
[00:23:20] Arabia signed an agreement on mutual assistance, similar to Article 5
[00:23:24] of the North Atlantic Alliance. An attack on one of these countries will
[00:23:28] be considered aggression against all participants of the pact.
[00:23:31] The formation of such an alliance was a response to the security vacuum
[00:23:35] that emerged in the region. The new military bloc completely changes the balance of power
[00:23:39] in the Middle East. It seems to me that this is a reflection
[00:23:43] of the fact that the idea of security guarantees from
[00:23:46] the US is no longer as attractive and reliable as
[00:23:49] before. You know, for a long time Saudi Arabia's strategy was
[00:23:53] to seek clear security guarantees from
[00:23:56] the US, commitments similar to Article 5 of the North Atlantic
[00:24:00] Treaty. The sense of implicit security guarantees from the US
[00:24:04] in the Persian Gulf arose back during the Carter
[00:24:07] Doctrine. In the past, this was reinforced by the US reaction to
[00:24:10] events such as the Gulf War, but in recent
[00:24:14] years it has become increasingly clear that
[00:24:16] the US is not always willing to provide such.
[00:24:27] And I think that the countries of the Persian Gulf are increasingly doubting whether they should fully rely on US policy in the region?
[00:24:31] The agreements reached during the negotiations are so far limited to
[00:24:34] written commitments of mutual assistance. Unlike NATO,
[00:24:38] this alliance lacks unified governing bodies and coordination
[00:24:42] of actions. In addition, each of the signatories has its own interests and
[00:24:45] challenges. Turkey considers Israel a potential threat,
[00:24:49] Pakistan faces tense relations with
[00:24:52] India, and Saudi Arabia is concerned about the actions of Iran and
[00:24:55] Yemeni Houthis. Nevertheless, the Mecca agreements open
[00:24:59] up new opportunities for forming a system of deterrence and
[00:25:02] projecting influence in the region. On October 7,
[00:25:05] Israel bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, right, and it also bombed
[00:25:08] Iran. Thus, an uncontrollable Israel,
[00:25:12] a militarized Israel, also poses a threat
[00:25:15] to Turkey's security. In addition, Israeli leaders are already
[00:25:19] warning.
[00:25:50] countries to strengthen the military bloc with their unique advantages.
[00:25:53] Saudi Arabia, one of the world's oil suppliers, possesses
[00:25:57] impressive financial capabilities. Turkey is known
[00:26:00] for the production of modern weapons, in particular
[00:26:04] unmanned systems. Pakistan, in turn, is the only
[00:26:07] Islamic state with a nuclear bomb. Sunni
[00:26:11] NATO is literally money, bomb, production. An important
[00:26:15] aspect of joint activities will inevitably be the topic of nuclear
[00:26:18] weapons. In addition, in July, the US announced the conclusion of an unprecedented
[00:26:22] deal with Saudi Arabia on cooperation in the field of nuclear
[00:26:25] energy. The kingdom's infrastructure may be supplemented
[00:26:29] with uranium enrichment facilities, although Tehran has already
[00:26:32] shown the whole world that the most effective weapon of mass
[00:26:35] destruction in modern conflicts is far from a nuclear
[00:26:39] bomb. I will say frankly, our nuclear bomb is the hearts
[00:26:43] of people around the world, which we have won by fighting
[00:26:46] oppression. Islamic values and divine values
[00:26:50] of the Islamic revolution are conquering the world. Nuclear bombs
[00:26:54] are not needed, no bloodshed is needed. Sunni NATO
[00:26:57] may turn out to be an American Trojan horse in the Persian Gulf. Donald
[00:27:01] Trump has already congratulated the bloc's participants, calling the Mecca
[00:27:04] agreement a step towards the unity of the Middle East. The White House
[00:27:07] is literally trying to ride and break in the new force in the region.
[00:27:11] However, in this matter there is a high probability of meeting a horseshoe
[00:27:14] face-to-face. To tame European partners and influence the Sunni
[00:27:18] alliance are tasks of different orders. Success will allow the White
[00:27:21] House to indirectly influence the situation in the region, avoiding
[00:27:24] direct participation. The US no longer has the strength or
[00:27:28] capabilities for this. I think that after our adventures in the Middle
[00:27:31] East. Over the past couple of decades, America has lost
[00:27:35] the ability to conduct ground military campaigns. I think what
[00:27:38] Trump is doing, for example, in Venezuela or Iran, is a completely
[00:27:42] new type of warfare for the United States. It probably needs
[00:27:45] to stop being the world's police and become the world's arms dealer. We need
[00:27:49] to give people who work with us and are even more interested in these issues than
[00:27:52] we are, the tools necessary for self-defense, hopefully, to protect US
[00:27:56] interests. I don't think it will come to ground operations. Maybe in a week I will
[00:28:00] take my words back, but I don't think we will.
[00:28:03] The status of a weapons hypermarket on the world stage once already made
[00:28:07] the US a superpower. They successfully traded with Germany and
[00:28:11] gladly sent Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union on credit. After
[00:28:14] World War II, the American company Ford even managed
[00:28:18] to receive compensation for damage caused to its factories in
[00:28:21] Germany. Trump is leading the country into a new historical
[00:28:25] cycle.
[00:28:30] The Western world is full of surprises, for now. The US dreams of returning to
[00:28:34] the status of a global arms marketplace.
[00:28:37] France is giving up its role as a global slave supplier.
[00:28:41] 178 years after the abolition of slavery, France
[00:28:45] is eliminating the Black Code, which defined a person
[00:28:48] as movable property. Think about it, in
[00:28:51] 2026, French legislation
[00:28:54] provided for the official possibility of trading people and
[00:28:58] applying physical coercion to them to stimulate labor
[00:29:01] activity.
[00:30:02] days, this is an extremely curious situation that is worth
[00:30:06] looking at from different sides. It turns out that all this time
[00:30:09] French corporations, which continue to practice slavery in
[00:30:13] Africa, acted according to the letter
[00:30:15] of the law.
[00:30:20] France is once again clumsily trying to hang its
[00:30:23] cork helmet of colonialism on a nail. The fact is that it was the
[00:30:26] exploitation of overseas territories that laid the foundation
[00:30:30] of the modern state. The entire economic component
[00:30:33] of France was provided by the free labor of slaves and
[00:30:36] the supply of raw materials to the metropole. The Black
[00:30:39] Code was a crucial component of this
[00:30:42] process. It allowed planters to relieve themselves of
[00:30:45] the moral aspect of what was happening and shift
[00:30:48] it to legal norms. The oppressor instantly
[00:30:52] became a law-abiding citizen. The articles
[00:30:55] fully regulated how to treat the enslaved
[00:30:58] population. Only in 1794,
[00:31:02] under societal pressure, did the French state
[00:31:05] make the first attempt to abolish slavery.
[00:31:08] Eight years later, Napoleon reversed this decision and re-legalized
[00:31:12] slavery. The country needed it. The next abolition
[00:31:16] was announced only 46
[00:31:19] years later. As we can see, for the Elysée Palace, slavery and
[00:31:23] exploitation are not moral categories, but
[00:31:26] political ones. When economically necessary, the process
[00:31:30] is easily reversed. The Black Code waited its turn
[00:31:33] until 2026.
[00:31:36] Many people indeed fought for the abolition of this
[00:31:39] code, but for successive French
[00:31:43] governments, it was not.
[00:32:16] Because I am glad that the discussion has started, because now we
[00:32:19] can talk about reparations. Only France itself received
[00:32:23] reparations until now. In 1804,
[00:32:26] slaves in Haiti revolted and declared
[00:32:28] independence. Paris sent a military armada
[00:32:32] and demanded compensation for lost profits. To
[00:32:35] gain independence, the local residents had to pay France
[00:32:39] approximately 200 billion dollars, adjusted for inflation.
[00:32:42] The debt was only repaid 22
[00:32:45] years later. France received the last payment already in
[00:32:48] 1947. French
[00:32:51] "old money" is wealth transferred from black people to
[00:32:55] merchant families, who still
[00:32:58] generate income. They formed primary
[00:33:01] capital through oppression and laid the foundation for the development
[00:33:04] of modern economic monsters in France. They
[00:33:08] cling to their roots and continue to exploit
[00:33:11] the African population.
[00:33:14] to work
[00:33:20] in slave-like conditions for French companies. Resources
[00:33:23] still flow to the metropole.
[00:33:26] France controls controlling stakes in three
[00:33:29] Nigerien uranium mining enterprises. The main
[00:33:32] operator is the company "Orano". They are not fighting
[00:33:36] for the right to own businesses. They are fighting for jobs.
[00:33:40] So perhaps, in fact, the question
[00:33:44] is this: who provides jobs,
[00:33:46] who owns the business for jobs, which young people
[00:33:50] are currently fighting for.
[00:33:53] If you go hunting and
[00:33:57] kill a kudu or
[00:33:58] a springbok,
[00:34:01] then you take all the meat, cook it for your
[00:34:04] children, and throw the bones to the dogs, and the dogs will
[00:34:08] fight over them, but the dogs will never ask, "Where's
[00:34:12] the rest of the meat we got?"
[00:34:16] The business model built on parasitism
[00:34:18] keeps business in the hands of colonialists,
[00:34:21] parasites. The colonial system of France maintains its
[00:34:25] influence in Africa through financial instruments. In the
[00:34:28] region, the French Franc system operates. With its
[00:34:32] help, Paris fully controls the monetary and foreign exchange
[00:34:35] system of the region. The Central Bank of West African
[00:34:39] states is obliged to keep its reserves in
[00:34:41] an operating account with the French Treasury.
[00:34:45] The abolition of the Black Code does not mean the cessation of
[00:34:49] slave exploitation, and in Africa, they understand
[00:34:52] this perfectly well. In February, at the Munich Security
[00:34:55] Conference, when I heard the Minister
[00:34:58] of Foreign Affairs, S. Marc Rubio, say that
[00:35:02] Europeans, Western Europeans, must
[00:35:05] protect their civilization. He almost
[00:35:08] said that if necessary, we must re-colonize
[00:35:11] these countries, so he made it clear to you
[00:35:14] that such thinking is alive and well, and
[00:35:17] if I ever doubted it, then after
[00:35:21] Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama brought to the
[00:35:24] UN a resolution that
[00:35:27] the transatlantic slave trade was a crime against
[00:35:31] humanity. The United States of America, Israel, and
[00:35:34] Argentina voted against
[00:35:36] the resolution.
[00:35:40] And all European powers, including France, all
[00:35:43] colonialists abstained.
[00:35:46] What does this say? It says that in their
[00:35:50] opinion, African countries are still suitable for
[00:35:54] colonization. Remember that the DNA of a colonizer does not
[00:35:57] change.
[00:36:01] They just wear different masks. The dependent situation of African
[00:36:05] states does not allow them to escape the raw materials
[00:36:08] economy. Deliberate limitation of industrial development
[00:36:12] and creation of points of tension
[00:36:15] leave the countries of West Africa with the status of raw material
[00:36:18] appendages
[00:36:19] of France.
[00:36:24] The economic miracle of the European Union. African
[00:36:27] slaves and Russian energy resources. Both are losing
[00:36:31] relevance, which means exposing the real situation
[00:36:34] of European countries. The decline of German industry has become the most
[00:36:38] indicative example. All of this inevitably affects
[00:36:41] every European worker. The patience of Germans
[00:36:44] is running out. People are demanding order back on the streets and in their
[00:36:48] wallets. Let's discuss the situation with Bundestag deputy from the Alternative for Germany
[00:36:51] party, Yevgeny
[00:36:59] press is cautiously seeing off the federal
[00:37:02] chancellor into retirement. What is this
[00:37:04] wave connected with?
[00:37:06] Yes, indeed, lately Friedrich Merz has been
[00:37:10] a lame duck of German politics. The media
[00:37:14] is already quite openly predicting his
[00:37:17] imminent resignation, even his
[00:37:19] party colleagues. The fact is that he enjoys maximum
[00:37:23] unpopularity among the population, among voters. Recent
[00:37:27] public opinion polls show that about
[00:37:31] 13% of citizens trust
[00:37:34] him, and his anti-rating also
[00:37:37] drags down the entire coalition, all parties
[00:37:41] in the coalition. This dislike
[00:37:44] of voters for Merz is precisely the
[00:37:47] factor that threatens his imminent
[00:37:51] resignation. What, in your opinion, caused the protests in
[00:37:55] Plauen? What do ordinary people want?
[00:37:59] Yes, a non-partisan initiative,
[00:38:02] "1 Million", roughly translated, has started in
[00:38:06] Germany. It is organized by a private individual, without
[00:38:10] any party support. The goal is to bring a million
[00:38:13] people to the streets, ultimately,
[00:38:16] to... that is, their main slogan is the resignation of the
[00:38:19] Merz government, that Merz must resign prematurely.
[00:38:23] In the city of Plauen, it's a small town. This
[00:38:26] was
[00:38:31] already the second procession. Before that, 2 months
[00:38:34] ago, there was an action in Berlin, there were only 200 people, which
[00:38:38] is already, by the way, quite a lot for such a private initiative. About
[00:38:42] 10-20 thousand people from all over
[00:38:45] Germany came to Plauen. The participants of the action, here
[00:38:48] certain parallels are drawn, because at one time
[00:38:52] it was in the city of Plauen that mass protests began,
[00:38:56] which... was the starting point for
[00:39:00] the end of the existence
[00:39:02] of the GDR. Evgeny, in your opinion, are the upcoming elections in
[00:39:06] the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt an ordinary
[00:39:10] event or are parties making bets on this
[00:39:12] region? Yes, on September 6,
[00:39:16] significant elections will be held in this eastern state. In fact,
[00:39:20] it's a small state in terms of population,
[00:39:23] but a special situation has developed there. The fact is that, in
[00:39:26] principle, in the eastern states, the states of the former GDR, the positions
[00:39:30] of the opposition party "Alternative for Germany" are very strong.
[00:39:34] And on the eve of the elections to the state parliament,
[00:39:37] Saxony-Anhalt, that party, the AfD,
[00:39:40] is leading in the polls, already gaining
[00:39:43] 43%. That is, it's one step away from
[00:39:47] simply gaining an absolute majority in parliament. The fact
[00:39:50] is that in Germany, there's a rule that if parties don't reach
[00:39:54] 5%, they don't get into parliament. And now there are a number of parties,
[00:39:57] including, for example, the Social Democrats, who are
[00:40:01] part of the ruling coalition, they are also hovering around
[00:40:04] 5%, as are the Greens, as is
[00:40:08] Sahra Wagenknecht's party. And if
[00:40:11] these small parties,
[00:40:15] in the Saxony-Anhalt region, don't get into parliament, then
[00:40:18] the Alternative for Germany party gets more than
[00:40:21] 50% and forms a government
[00:40:24] without coalition members. Björn
[00:40:28] Höcke unexpectedly proposed that Sahra Wagenknecht
[00:40:31] lead the Thuringian government. What's behind this?
[00:40:34] Why, in your opinion, did she refuse? In fact,
[00:40:38] it was a tactical proposal. The fact
[00:40:41] is that at one time Sahra Wagenknecht, when her party
[00:40:44] was formed, received a huge vote of confidence among
[00:40:48] voters. Many voted for her, for her party,
[00:40:51] but in Thuringia itself, when the last elections were held.
[00:40:55] a huge number of voters from that
[00:41:27] party and now.