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[00:00:00] from there, there is one decent candidate, if we, maybe we, we would have
[00:00:04] agreed with him, because all
[00:00:07] of them want war, and we want peace,
[00:00:10] but in this dictatorship of Zelensky, who does not
[00:00:13] hold elections, even such an anti-war person cannot win
[00:00:17] elections, what a horror,
[00:00:20] so much for all elections, well, we
[00:00:24] and, I think, that this is not being discussed now, I don't understand at all why we are always
[00:00:28] talking about elections.
[00:00:31] It seems to me, I know a thousand other ways to change power, if there was a desire
[00:00:34] in society to change it, well, the shortest and
[00:00:38] most incorrect and most constitutional, is simply the subjectivity of the parliament, I
[00:00:41] understand, but well, of course, what are we always talking about, look,
[00:00:45] this week there was an idea to vote for
[00:00:49] just an appeal to
[00:00:51] the president, because only the president can appoint
[00:00:55] those decisions with his decrees, in order to deprive
[00:00:58] Potap.
[00:01:00] rapper and singer and
[00:01:03] activist, of the title Honored Artist of Ukraine,
[00:01:06] who, in fact, in 2020, on Independence Day, he
[00:01:10] received this title from Zelensky's hands, and so
[00:01:13] the parliament voted for this, they got 219 votes,
[00:01:17] this is because Potap, in principle, well,
[00:01:20] frankly, makes fun of Ukrainians who remained here,
[00:01:24] and performs before Russians, earns money abroad
[00:01:27] and so on, and... well, 219
[00:01:31] votes, and this also shows, in principle, the quality of our
[00:01:34] parliament, how can they, please tell me, please tell
[00:01:38] me, if we are talking realistically, you are an honored journalist of Ukraine, you
[00:01:41] know, to be honest, I am not even a member of the Union of Journalists, I don't know how this happened, not
[00:01:45] a member of the Union of Journalists, this is something else, you could have joined the union, submitted
[00:01:49] an application, and in two days you would have received the title of honored by the president's
[00:01:52] decree, you wanted to be, I don't have any state awards, although I was in
[00:01:56] Yushchenko's inner circle and many people are honored journalists of Ukraine. Did you want
[00:02:00] to be an honored journalist of Ukraine? Well, I always
[00:02:03] liked Andrukhovych's gesture, who refused to receive a state award
[00:02:07] from Yanukovych's hands, is that right? Well, no, we are
[00:02:10] not talking about that. Listen, people receive
[00:02:13] orders, receive national cultural
[00:02:16] awards, we even always said that when people with
[00:02:20] a high
[00:02:20] cultural
[00:02:24] level and receive the Shevchenko Prize,
[00:02:28] they increase their own prestige.
[00:03:01] votes, presidents approve it, there is often a misunderstanding
[00:03:05] between the cultural community, the committee, between the committee and
[00:03:08] the president, but this is such a procedure that exists in every country, now tell me
[00:03:11] a country, countries, where there are titles of honored and national
[00:03:15] artists, well, seriously, Russia, Belarus, probably too,
[00:03:19] uh-huh, of course, I understand, we have
[00:03:23] 800, I looked somewhere, there are 800, there are only
[00:03:26] national artists, this has been awarded since 1991.
[00:03:30] 800 national artists since 1991,
[00:03:33] no civilized country in which there would be national and honored artists
[00:03:37] exists, and I remind you that all this
[00:03:41] was, hypothetically speaking,
[00:03:45] no Raimonds Pauls mentions that he is a national artist of the Soviet Union, he is
[00:03:49] a national artist of the Soviet Union, and a national artist of Latvia,
[00:03:52] uh-huh, no one in Latvia
[00:03:55] even mentions it, Karel Gott,
[00:03:58] excuse me, was a national artist. in the Czechoslovak Socialist
[00:04:01] Republic, I tell you for sure,
[00:04:05] no one mentions it, what difference does it make, how can you even
[00:04:08] mention some singer as a national
[00:04:11] artist
[00:04:14] of Czechoslovakia, it's funny, it looks
[00:04:16] comical,
[00:04:19] and we still live in Russia, in Belarus, in
[00:04:23] Kazakhstan, because we are still in
[00:04:26] the Soviet era,
[00:04:28] and we, instead of proposing to abolish these
[00:04:32] titles altogether, the parliament votes to strip them of
[00:04:35] their titles,
[00:04:39] you see, people still collect petitions so that people
[00:04:43] who truly defend our state, are given the title of Hero of Ukraine, instead of
[00:04:46] rewarding them with military orders, the title of Hero is an absolute
[00:04:50] Soviet Stalinist invention, it exists
[00:04:54] only in the Soviet space, now we have Heroes
[00:04:58] of Russia fighting with Heroes of Ukraine.
[00:05:02] The president of the country cannot have any right to declare someone
[00:05:05] a hero, only the people can do that. The people should
[00:05:09] not collect a petition,
[00:05:11] appealing to the ruler,
[00:05:15] like in a feudal country, so that the ruler grants the title
[00:05:19] of hero. There is a clear procedure for awarding
[00:05:22] military awards in civilized countries, by the way, a very high,
[00:05:25] serious procedure, even in the Soviet Union,
[00:05:29] surprisingly, people who were full holders of the Order
[00:05:32] of Glory,
[00:05:35] because to get the first, second, third degree, you had to do some real
[00:05:38] things, serious ones.
[00:05:42] They were valued in military circles more than Heroes of the Soviet
[00:05:45] Union, because a hero could be obtained on his
[00:05:48] birthday, well, after the war, but
[00:05:52] the Order of Glory could not,
[00:05:55] you had to do a specific thing.
[00:05:57] thing.
[00:06:01] And with all this, I would say, cargo
[00:06:05] of the Soviet legacy, we continue to live, as with
[00:06:08] our own, and again, Zelensky in 2019
[00:06:12] came to power, a young man, as it were, should have canceled
[00:06:15] all this, no, he continued to distribute these titles
[00:06:19] to his circle, why should Potap be
[00:06:23] an honored artist of Ukraine, can you explain to me?
[00:06:25] When,
[00:06:27] when in the Soviet Union they gave these
[00:06:30] titles, it was explained by quite simple
[00:06:33] things: firstly, all this culture was completely under
[00:06:36] the authorities, and all these people were completely dependent on
[00:06:40] the authorities, and there was no other culture.
[00:06:53] "if you are not given the title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union, it means you are not
[00:06:56] such a person, why are they not giving it to you, maybe you are not trustworthy, why
[00:07:00] have you not received the title of People's Artist of the Soviet
[00:07:04] Union for so many years, well, and bonuses and access to various, by the way, people of Jewish
[00:07:08] origin received these titles there at 70-75
[00:07:11] years old, uh-huh.
[00:07:14] and their peers, let's say,
[00:07:18] of Slavic origin at 55 for the same merits,
[00:07:21] there was a wonderful story that there were separate
[00:07:24] people who received the title Hero of Socialist Labor, this was
[00:07:28] a huge thing, and I will forever remember the wonderful story about
[00:07:31] how the outstanding artist Mark Prudkin was not given the title Hero
[00:07:35] of Socialist Labor at 85 years old, they said in the Central Committee of the party that they would give it at
[00:07:38] 90,
[00:07:41] and he lived. at 90 and they again did not want to give it to him, because he had
[00:07:45] the wrong nationality in his questionnaire, and then the entire
[00:07:48] party committee came to the CPSU Central Committee and began to say: "You
[00:07:52] promised, comrades," and he became a Hero of Socialist Labor at
[00:07:56] 90 years old, crying with joy,
[00:07:58] but seriously, this was still a
[00:08:02] concert rate, you know that, well, yes, well, if you became
[00:08:06] an Honored Artist of the Republic, a People's Artist of the Republic, and
[00:08:10] a People's Artist of the Soviet Union, you had a higher
[00:08:13] concert rate, they paid you more for performances, for plays,
[00:08:17] for films, yes, a People's
[00:08:19] Artist of the Soviet Union was given more money than
[00:08:23] a People's Artist of Ukraine, it was such an
[00:08:26] uneven distribution
[00:08:29] of meanness, because generally this country was
[00:08:32] quite poor in terms of any real material
[00:08:35] opportunities, but a People's Artist of the Soviet Union could
[00:08:39] do more than a People's Artist of the Republic, and...
[00:08:42] people fought for these titles to get these concert rates, because
[00:08:46] if I am, hypothetically, I don't know, Iosif Kobzon,
[00:08:49] I become a People's Artist
[00:08:52] of the Soviet Union, I will simply receive more official money for concerts,
[00:08:56] so, by the way, but that's why Kobzon, you know, he was a People's
[00:09:00] Artist, I don't remember if of Dagestan or of Chechnya, he agreed that his
[00:09:04] comrades would be given the title of People's Artist in some autonomous republic,
[00:09:07] because that was also a concert
[00:09:10] rate.
[00:09:13] until he was given the title of Honored Artist of Russia,
[00:09:15] imagine,
[00:09:18] people, well, we should have moved away from all this,
[00:09:21] why are we still living in this, I would say,
[00:09:25] horror, well, first of all, in state
[00:09:28] theaters,
[00:09:31] very often the official salary, I
[00:09:34] find such a word offensive,
[00:09:37] is calculated, among other things, taking into account all those regalia and
[00:09:40] titles, you have such a salary scale, if you work in a state
[00:09:44] structure, and I worked as a manager at NSTU,
[00:09:47] the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, and
[00:09:50] you, for example, cannot pay more and cannot pay
[00:09:53] less, which is important for a person, it does not matter how they work, because they have guaranteed
[00:09:57] this money from the state, and regarding Potap, he will theoretically
[00:10:01] receive, when he retires, 20, plus 20% of
[00:10:05] the official salary accruals to the pension, that's
[00:10:08] it, I don't know what his official salary is,
[00:10:11] I have no idea.
[00:10:25] And I don't know how Laima Vaikule, who is probably theoretically in
[00:10:29] Jūrmala, announced it, maybe she announces it like that, honored artist, Laima Vaikule is in Latvia,
[00:10:33] no one remembers that she is a national artist of Latvia, none of this exists
[00:10:37] there,
[00:10:40] in the Baltic countries these titles do not exist, so she could not
[00:10:44] announce him like that, it does not
[00:10:45] exist there,
[00:10:51] so it is certainly sad that we cannot
[00:10:54] overcome this... Soviet past for 35 years, it would seem that this
[00:10:57] system itself no longer works, because we have an unplanned
[00:11:01] economy, it should have been, at least unplanned,
[00:11:04] it would seem that we simply had to get rid of those rudiments as
[00:11:08] some kind of slavish brand, but no, it lives in
[00:11:11] people, and I see, I know, no, well, it's just that, you see, if
[00:11:15] people, people consider someone a great artist, it has long been
[00:11:19] noticed, whether in Soviet times, post-Soviet times, it absolutely does
[00:11:22] not matter whether he is called a national artist or not. If a person
[00:11:26] is no artist, disappears, you can give him the title 45 thousand times.
[00:11:29] It will only be written on his tombstone.
[00:11:32] I had
[00:11:35] a dialogue with, I think, several presidents
[00:11:39] of Ukraine, who said that I needed to be given
[00:11:43] the title of honored journalist of Ukraine, because I am such an honored journalist. Do you know what I
[00:11:46] replied?
[00:11:50] I asked them to give me the title of national
[00:11:52] artist. I said that. I don't want to be an honored
[00:11:56] journalist of Ukraine, I want to be a national artist
[00:11:58] of Ukraine, and they asked me how, what kind of artist I am, I
[00:12:02] told them, what's the problem, in the Soviet Union, television
[00:12:05] announcers, Igor Kirillov, there, Valentina Leontieva, I don't
[00:12:09] know who, here, Tatyana Tsymbal, they were
[00:12:13] national artists of the Soviet Union, national artists of Ukraine, no one
[00:12:16] doubts that they are national artists, how are we, Mr. Andriy,
[00:12:20] worse than television announcers, here we are sitting on air,
[00:12:24] talking, well, you didn't read, we don't even read from a piece of paper, we are talking
[00:12:27] to you, why can't we be national artists, and
[00:12:31] immediately these respected state figures
[00:12:35] moved away from me, how to say it,
[00:12:38] with their proposals, because they saw all this, how to say it, I
[00:12:42] illustrated to them all the idiocy of the situation,
[00:12:44] yes, that is, they somehow realized that if I
[00:12:48] became a national artist, it would look
[00:12:50] wild,
[00:12:53] but they did not realize that giving a person the title of honored journalist is
[00:12:57] some kind of absolute savagery, exactly the same, but
[00:13:00] either you received recognition from the system, or listen, for some reason,
[00:13:04] for me it is also a big secret, that
[00:13:07] there were some Soviet republics in which it was considered that
[00:13:11] literature is a people's дело, and
[00:13:14] there were republics where it was considered that literature is such a serious
[00:13:17] art, it cannot be, there are no national
[00:13:20] writers in Russia, yes,
[00:13:24] strangely enough. and there are no national writers in Ukraine, we don't have
[00:13:27] such a title, imagine how many people could have received the title
[00:13:31] of national writer in Ukraine. Tychyna,
[00:13:35] Bazhan, Rylsky, I don't know,
[00:13:38] Gonchar, there was a struggle
[00:13:41] for this title, but we don't have such a title, and we somehow live and don't even
[00:13:45] imagine that the state can make a decision to
[00:13:49] grant such a title, national writer
[00:13:50] of Belarus
[00:13:53] exists, and Lukashenka still grants titles, we just
[00:13:57] don't know who these charming people are, but in Soviet
[00:14:00] times they were, there were national writers everywhere, except Russia and
[00:14:04] Ukraine, that is, somehow it passed us by
[00:14:07] for unknown reasons,
[00:14:10] we were able to stand on par with Russians, who understood that they could not
[00:14:14] grant titles of national to their great writers, so to
[00:14:16] speak, all others, here is a wonderful
[00:14:20] example for you, of a title not existing with us, but existing in other
[00:14:23] republics. former Soviet ones, and they proudly say this,
[00:14:27] when they mention their writers, national writer of Belarus Yakub
[00:14:31] Kolas, or Maksim Tank, these are all people who received titles of national writers
[00:14:35] from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, by the way, for us it sounds wild,
[00:14:39] right, but it's an interesting point that these titles were still given
[00:14:42] even in the Soviet Union, but formally, but the Presidium
[00:14:46] of the Supreme Soviet, and now it's just a presidential decree, so we even
[00:14:49] bypassed, yes, the presidium was a collective body, that's true, but even
[00:14:53] bypassed this, at least... nominal, but, but,
[00:14:56] but, but some parliamentary,
[00:15:00] at least a pretext for parliamentarism, and now we just
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[00:19:22] This is the Saturday Political Club and now to a topic that for a long time
[00:19:26] seemed like something out of fantasy, it seemed
[00:19:30] impossible, and yet it happened, Congress,
[00:19:33] Senate, and now Trump's signature
[00:19:36] and... the so-called hellish sanctions
[00:19:39] of the late Graham and God grant him health,
[00:19:42] Blumenthal, two Republican senators
[00:19:45] and a Democrat have been adopted and now it
[00:19:48] is officially a law that must come into force, there, well,
[00:19:52] I will briefly remind you, countries that will actively continue
[00:19:56] to buy oil from the Russian
[00:19:58] Federation, will be subject to
[00:20:02] a 100% duty under attack, banks,
[00:20:05] defense industry, energy, or not. fleet, in short, the main
[00:20:08] treasury of the Kremlin, will these sanctions work, how to
[00:20:12] evaluate this decision, will it be a breakthrough and why, in
[00:20:15] principle, the Americans went for it, and Trump signed
[00:20:18] this law. I think it's precisely because nothing
[00:20:22] will really change in American-Russian relations and in the relations of the United
[00:20:26] States with those countries that buy oil from Russia
[00:20:29] until Trump decides to actually apply
[00:20:33] this law. By the way,
[00:20:36] you might have noticed that... that Trump always signs important
[00:20:39] fundamental laws in front of
[00:20:42] television cameras, remember, these tariff
[00:20:45] laws that imposed duties against many
[00:20:49] countries. He signed it in
[00:20:52] the White House Rose Garden,
[00:20:55] triumphantly Trump was with some
[00:20:57] plaque,
[00:20:59] here the White House simply announced that Trump signed this law,
[00:21:03] dryly, without any ceremony, without any
[00:21:06] words from Trump, he didn't talk about it, didn't tell
[00:21:10] journalists at a meeting that took place just before
[00:21:12] the signing about the importance of this law, although he himself
[00:21:16] insisted that this
[00:21:19] law... should also include sanctions against Iran? Well, let's
[00:21:23] look at it realistically, when Lindsey Graham and
[00:21:26] Blumenthal proposed this law, it
[00:21:29] provided for a fairly simple
[00:21:31] procedure: the President of the United States
[00:21:35] addresses the President of the Russian Federation
[00:21:39] with a demand to, I think, within 15 or 30 days, I don't
[00:21:42] remember how many versions there were, to cease
[00:21:46] fire on the Russian-Ukrainian front.
[00:21:50] to establish peace,
[00:21:53] if the President of the Russian Federation
[00:21:55] refuses
[00:21:58] to do so, the President of the United States
[00:22:01] is obliged
[00:22:03] to impose a 500% duty on
[00:22:07] products from Russia and
[00:22:09] countries that buy Russian oil.
[00:22:13] Well, a serious decision.
[00:22:16] Then Lindsey Graham began to coordinate this law with Trump. A year and a half.
[00:22:20] He coordinated it for a year, coordinated, coordinated, coordinated,
[00:22:23] coordinated, coordinated,
[00:22:24] died,
[00:22:28] at the moment when he hadn't fully coordinated it, but was already
[00:22:30] close, what was the result,
[00:22:34] that the President of the United States
[00:22:37] of America,
[00:22:39] has the right, if he wishes,
[00:22:43] to impose duties of up
[00:22:46] to 100%
[00:22:49] against
[00:22:51] the five main
[00:22:53] countries that buy oil from the Russian Federation by
[00:22:56] volume,
[00:23:00] or not to impose them,
[00:23:03] this absolutely depends on the president's decision, why is
[00:23:07] this important? because
[00:23:10] the president,
[00:23:12] according to American law, does not have the right to impose
[00:23:16] duties on products from other countries without the consent of...
[00:23:21] And that is precisely why the Supreme Court of the United States forbade
[00:23:24] Trump to impose duties for the whole
[00:23:27] world. Trump lost the tariff war. Thanks
[00:23:30] to the decision of his Supreme Court. And now
[00:23:34] Congress, by this decision, allows Trump to impose
[00:23:38] duties on products from other countries, but only
[00:23:40] those first five,
[00:23:44] that buy energy resources from the Russian
[00:23:48] Federation. That is why a huge number of Democrats did not
[00:23:51] vote for this law, because they believed that Trump could manipulate
[00:23:55] it to continue his trade
[00:23:58] wars. So, here the
[00:24:01] question arises:
[00:24:05] what are these first five countries that buy energy resources from the Russian
[00:24:08] Federation? These are the People's Republic of China and India,
[00:24:12] first of all. The amount
[00:24:16] of energy resources that other countries receive, even from the top five, is insignificant.
[00:24:21] And among these countries there are allies of the United States and Ukraine,
[00:24:25] for example, Turkey. Uh-huh.
[00:24:27] Now, now the main
[00:24:30] question.
[00:24:33] How ready will Trump be to impose 100% duties
[00:24:37] on the People's Republic of China, because we already perfectly understand that the current
[00:24:40] situation in it.
[00:24:43] Trump has already tried to impose duties against
[00:24:45] China. He got burned by that.
[00:24:50] It turned out that the American economy, and its strategic
[00:24:53] sector, has such a serious dependence on the People's Republic of China,
[00:24:56] республіки,
[00:24:59] that imposing any duty on Chinese goods is shooting
[00:25:03] oneself in the foot. Trump lost the tariff war
[00:25:06] with China, he will not start it again.
[00:25:09] India. India is more sensitive
[00:25:13] to Chinese tariffs. But they have already
[00:25:16] emphasized that they will continue to buy Russian oil even if
[00:25:20] duties are imposed,
[00:25:21] why?
[00:25:24] When India started buying Russian oil, it was
[00:25:28] a premium commodity for the Indian
[00:25:30] economy, that is, India
[00:25:33] bought Russian oil for
[00:25:36] rupees, which it is not yet known how it paid
[00:25:39] to the Russians,
[00:25:41] and then converted this oil into petroleum products
[00:25:45] and sold them on the world market for dollars, an excellent business
[00:25:49] for everyone. until the beginning of Russia's great war against
[00:25:53] Ukraine, India did not buy Russian oil at all, because it was
[00:25:56] expensive, and it did not create any great profit
[00:25:59] for India, but now the situation has changed
[00:26:03] fundamentally. Due to the blockade of oil routes in the Strait of Hormuz
[00:26:06] and the prospect of such a blockade in Bab el-Mandeb,
[00:26:10] India simply needs Russian oil no longer just as a premium
[00:26:13] product, but as a way to somehow close the gaps that
[00:26:17] are created in India's oil refining complex due to
[00:26:20] the lack of oil and due to the depletion of
[00:26:24] strategic reserves. I always say that the real crisis and the real
[00:26:28] catastrophe will not begin when the blockade
[00:26:31] of the Romanian... is continued, but when the countries of the world exhaust their strategic oil reserves,
[00:26:35] then we will be in big trouble, we will reach this point,
[00:26:38] if the issue of Hormuz is not resolved
[00:26:41] for some time, simply because a lot of oil has been accumulated in the world, but
[00:26:45] now it is, due to the fact that this ground
[00:26:49] pipeline of Saudi Arabia is already being blocked, it is approaching this
[00:26:52] point of no return, so we will face
[00:26:55] an energy crisis of unprecedented scale. We will certainly
[00:26:58] find ourselves in such a situation. India understands this, and
[00:27:01] after all, it's a country with a billion population. It is trying to do something to
[00:27:05] prevent this. Trump himself
[00:27:08] accuses us of increasing the price of diesel with our strikes on Russia.
[00:27:12] So what claims can be made against
[00:27:15] India or China?
[00:27:19] Thus, these articles of the law are simply
[00:27:22] illogical from the perspective of real
[00:27:24] possibilities.
[00:27:28] Because it is unknown, even if duties are imposed on
[00:27:31] India for its products going to the states,
[00:27:34] it's unknown what would be more profitable for India:
[00:27:38] to agree not to buy oil from Russia to avoid these
[00:27:42] duties, or to put up with these duties, reduce its
[00:27:45] trade with the United States, but continue to buy oil, because if there's no oil,
[00:27:49] who knows what could happen in India itself, in terms of
[00:27:52] social standards, in terms
[00:27:55] of fuel prices and so on. India, to the United
[00:27:58] States, people there might react differently.
[00:28:04] So, it seems to me that all these expectations regarding this law are not
[00:28:08] just exaggerated, but all of this generally has nothing to do with
[00:28:11] reality. I'm just looking with wide
[00:28:14] open eyes at the reaction of many people, and there are people
[00:28:18] whom I deeply respect, in the American, Ukrainian
[00:28:21] diaspora, who write about this law as a
[00:28:24] huge achievement, as if they don't notice that
[00:28:28] the real law on aid to Ukraine, the Ukraine Support Act,
[00:28:31] which provides for financial
[00:28:34] injections into the Ukrainian budget, multi-billion dollar military aid,
[00:28:38] new orders for American military
[00:28:42] enterprises, which was previously under
[00:28:44] Biden, that this act, which has already
[00:28:47] been passed by the House of Representatives,
[00:28:51] is sitting in the Senate and no one is even going to vote on it, and even if you
[00:28:55] imagine that the senators somehow voted for it, I am sure that there was
[00:28:58] a majority in the Senate, it's just that the Republican leader of the
[00:29:02] majority in the Senate, Senator Thune, is not putting it to a vote, and it's impossible to bypass him
[00:29:06] there, it's not the House of Representatives. So, I am sure that Trump would never
[00:29:10] have signed such a law. Unlike this law, which does not cause
[00:29:14] him any problems.
[00:29:16] No problems. So, this is a purely
[00:29:20] decorative pre-election story that will not affect the
[00:29:23] Russian-Ukrainian war in any way. Call
[00:29:26] it hellish sanctions or not.
[00:29:27] називай.
[00:29:30] Senator Graham himself agreed to gut this
[00:29:32] law,
[00:29:35] and so, if we're just talking about the memory of Senator Graham, it will also
[00:29:38] be such a memory of a person who had
[00:29:41] principles, but who was ready to compromise them
[00:29:45] for the sake of understanding with Trump,
[00:29:47] to replace real
[00:29:50] weapons with a plastic
[00:29:53] model of a rifle,
[00:29:56] so as not to quarrel with the American president. Now
[00:30:00] the question is, are there any positive aspects in this law?
[00:30:03] Yes, they also need to be noted:
[00:30:06] firstly, no President of the United States can
[00:30:09] now, without the consent of Congress, cancel sanctions imposed
[00:30:13] against Russia by the administrations of Barack
[00:30:15] Obama, Donald Trump, and Joseph
[00:30:19] Biden. That is, even if Trump, after his
[00:30:23] signature, wanted to ease sanctions against the Russian Federation, he
[00:30:26] can no longer do so, which, of course,
[00:30:29] creates a deadlock in any of his relationships with
[00:30:33] Putin, if he wanted to ease
[00:30:35] sanctions in response to some concessions from
[00:30:39] Putin in the Russian-Ukrainian war,
[00:30:42] meaning Congress can only agree to these sanctions when it deems that
[00:30:46] these concessions are sufficient for that...