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[00:00:03] of the policy, understand the impact, America first, the Scotty
[00:00:05] a Nelview.
[00:00:17] of The Russian capital comes under heavy Ukrainian
[00:00:21] drone attack overnight, ahead
[00:00:23] of the third and final day of
[00:00:26] in of nationwide elections. Two people are killed in the Moscow region while
[00:00:29] a residential build... and an oil refinery were hit
[00:00:31] is my
[00:00:35] of vote, one of tens of millions being cast around the
[00:00:39] donbas, but with every vote cast in the
[00:00:42] dumbas, the people
[00:00:44] of the dumbas show that those threats don't
[00:00:48] scare them. Russian citizens go to the polls all across
[00:00:52] the country, even in areas facing daily shelling and threats
[00:00:56] from Kiev. Generally speaking,
[00:00:59] it is very... difficult to intimidate me, it's just not in my nature.
[00:01:03] firstly, i don't recognize the landscate at all, and i don't watch him on
[00:01:06] tv. as for
[00:01:08] of scammers, they've already left me alone. we have lived too long to be
[00:01:11] intimidated. and
[00:01:14] a venezuelans take to the streets to protest against an oil deal with the
[00:01:17] US, which essentially hands Washington major control
[00:01:21] of the country's national oil
[00:01:23] resources.
[00:01:33] It's just after 11:00 am here in Moscow, Russia, and you're watching the weekly
[00:01:37] on RT
[00:01:38] of International. My name is Donald Corder, it's good to have you
[00:01:40] of with us in the program. Now our top story, we start
[00:01:44] with breaking news, as
[00:01:46] of elections are underway across Russia on the third and final day of
[00:01:49] voting. The nation's air defenses have repelled the heaviest drone
[00:01:53] of attack
[00:01:53] of the war so far, involving 1,600
[00:01:57] UAVs. The capital itself faced a... huge
[00:02:00] of drone swarm, according to the city's mayor. The most
[00:02:04] massive enemy drone attack has been repelled since yesterday. Over
[00:02:08] a 1,600 UAVs have been shot down across all
[00:02:11] sectors, including
[00:02:13] of 450 while approaching Moscow. My thanks go to the air defense
[00:02:17] personnel for their selfless efforts. Nevertheless, few drones
[00:02:20] reached the Moscow Oil refinery and one struck
[00:02:23] a residential building. There were no fatalities. This
[00:02:27] unprecedented attack
[00:02:28] of was clearly orchestrated to disrupt the elections, the enemy failed in
[00:02:32] this attempt. well
[00:02:35] to get more on this breaking news story, now we're going to cross live to RT correspondent
[00:02:39] Isabella Blumberg. Isabella, Kiev has carried out a large-scale
[00:02:43] attack on Moscow and the Moscow region, as we just mentioned in the
[00:02:46] program. what do we know so far in terms of
[00:02:48] details?
[00:02:52] thank you Donald, well as you've mentioned overnight, Moscow and the
[00:02:56] nearby regions came under direct attack from Ukrainian t
[00:03:00] and all of this happening in the middle of elections, now the
[00:03:04] of re the Moscow region governor
[00:03:05] of reports that air defense systems were able to intercept
[00:03:08] 240 drones across 17 different
[00:03:12] of districts, but the numbers are even higher once you zoom out here, because
[00:03:16] Moscow's mayor says
[00:03:18] in that
[00:03:18] in almost uh around 450 drones were also intercepted,
[00:03:22] those drones were apparently headed to Moscow to the
[00:03:25] of Russian capital, the same time Russia's Ministry of Defense has reported that they were
[00:03:29] ' to intercept and destroy over
[00:03:32] 1,100 drones and aerial targets there as
[00:03:35] well. In terms of casualties, in Moscow and the surrounding
[00:03:39] region, two
[00:03:40] of people have been
[00:03:41] of killed and 20 people now require medical assistance,
[00:03:45] including three children. Officials say that a man in
[00:03:48] of Aria and
[00:03:50] of woman in Raminski were also killed, and the central electoral commission
[00:03:54] authorities
[00:03:55] of report that during today's massive drone attack, member
[00:03:59] of the election commission was injured as
[00:04:01] well.
[00:04:05] Today, September 20th, as
[00:04:07] a result of a targeted drone attack a civilian bus in the Carson region,
[00:04:11] two people were killed. One
[00:04:13] of the victims was our colleague Olga Petrovna
[00:04:15] of Damianyenko, born in 1966, member
[00:04:17] of the precinct electoral commission for polling station number 220 in the
[00:04:21] lower Saragor district
[00:04:22] of the Carson region. Olga Petrovna was a member
[00:04:25] of the presenct electoral
[00:04:27] of commission for 2023 and actively participated.
[00:04:30] in the current election campaign for the state dumer elections, engaging with many of her
[00:04:34] neighbors, fellow citizens and compatriots, while honestly, responsibly and
[00:04:37] bravely fulfilling her duties. she was involved in conducting early voting in
[00:04:41] the lower Saragor district
[00:04:43] of the Kerson
[00:04:43] in region. her
[00:04:44] a daughter, elena Petrovna, is also member
[00:04:46] of the precinct electoral commission. as i mentioned before, i will repeat it once
[00:04:50] more, despicable, cowardly bandera scum who are afraid to fight like
[00:04:54] of men of and truly engage in warfare, target our peaceful people, primarily women and
[00:04:58] children. i believe that will fall upon them and each one
[00:05:01] of them will be found. our strong spirited colleagues continue to
[00:05:07] of work. at the same time moscow's mayorban says
[00:05:10] that thankfully there have been no deaths but that... drones have managed to get through
[00:05:14] and attack a Moscow oil refinery, another drone managed to reach
[00:05:18] residential building in Moscow as well. now the attack also led to a
[00:05:22] temporary closure of all four Moscow airports and at the same
[00:05:25] time Russia's Mod reports that it targeted and destroyed Ukrainian
[00:05:29] military infrastructure, particularly in the black sea port, in the
[00:05:33] Kiev region, in the Odessa region and uh
[00:05:36] specifically targeting warehouses and vessels that carrying Ukrainian
[00:05:40] military equipment. Well,
[00:05:44] this also comes of course, as the third and final day the State Duma
[00:05:48] Elections is kicked off already in Russia. What else can you tell us about
[00:05:52] that? Absolutely Don,
[00:05:56] well today across 11 different time zones in Russia.
[00:05:59] Voters are heading to the poles to vote for the third and final day of
[00:06:03] Russia's parliamentary elections. Now polling stations are open
[00:06:07] nationwide with the central electoral commission reporting that
[00:06:11] voter turn now is now. reaching almost 47 to
[00:06:14] 48%. now it's quite important to highlight here that
[00:06:18] these elections are the first ones we've seen since the start the special military
[00:06:22] operation which was launched back in February 2022 and for
[00:06:26] the first time in modern Russian history we're seeing uh people citizens
[00:06:30] from the Doñatsk Lugansk People's Republic from Herson and Zaparogia cast their
[00:06:33] vote and ballot as Russian citizens. let me break down
[00:06:37] how the these parliamentary elections actually work. the state doomer
[00:06:41] forms the lower chamber of Federal assembly, it consists of
[00:06:44] 400 seats. These elections take place every five years,
[00:06:48] 225 seats are determined and distributed through party
[00:06:52] lists. Now what that means is that voters are able to select a a
[00:06:56] specific political party, the other 225 seats are
[00:07:00] distributed through a single mandate district, so that's when voters are able
[00:07:04] to pick a specific candidate in their constituency or
[00:07:08] district, and for a political party to actually reach
[00:07:12] the... doomer has to meet this 5% threshhold and of
[00:07:15] course voting takes day for takes three days instead of this traditional
[00:07:19] one day window to make um voting more accessible for Russian
[00:07:23] citizens. In terms of who's um buying for seats here,
[00:07:27] there are 10 political parties on the federal ballot. The first one
[00:07:31] being United Russia, a party founded in 2001, and a party that
[00:07:35] has enjoyed constitutional majority and it's also considered president Putin's
[00:07:38] party. Then we also have the communist party the Russian Federation. It's
[00:07:42] traditionally considered the oldest political party in the ballot.
[00:07:46] We have a Just Russia. Paul suggests that they will be able to meet the
[00:07:50] 5% threshold during these parliamentary elections. Uh, then we have
[00:07:53] the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, now chaired by Leonid
[00:07:57] Slotsky. And of course we have um a relatively new party
[00:08:01] here on the scene, this being uh new people, a party founded in
[00:08:05] 2020, and curiously,
[00:08:07] it managed to also pass through to
[00:08:09] the Duma, acquiring the 5% during the previous 2021. elections
[00:08:13] as well, then we also have five non-parliamentary parties on the
[00:08:16] ballot, this being the pensionist party, the greens, rodina,
[00:08:20] communists of Russia as well as the party of direct
[00:08:23] democracy, so to wrap up as we know poll's closed
[00:08:27] tonight uh, local time across Russia's western regions,
[00:08:31] but to discuss this vote further, I'm joined by Jackson Hinkel, an
[00:08:35] American political commentator and host the legitimate
[00:08:39] Targets broadcast. Thank you so much for joining us here today, thank you.
[00:08:42] so Moscow's mayor has said that this uh this the capital has come
[00:08:46] under this barrage of drones, this significant drone attack,
[00:08:50] and obviously this is being planned against the backdrop these elections. what is your
[00:08:54] reaction to this? it's just terrorism. mean it's an
[00:08:58] effort to try and stifle the voter
[00:09:01] participation, to make people think twice about who they're voting
[00:09:05] for,
[00:09:06] but we've seen this time and time again, we see Zelinsky and his
[00:09:09] terrorist crooks try escalate this conflict. "and low and
[00:09:13] behold, each and every time we see Russia respond in very meaningful
[00:09:17] way on military and energy infrastructure, I think is going to be
[00:09:21] coming up soon, and then you have Zelinski crying, why cry
[00:09:25] when you're the one that started this? I mean absolutely,
[00:09:27] and also kind of uh brings this other point because
[00:09:31] Mosco's says that uh these Ukrainian drone
[00:09:34] attacks managed to reach this moscow oil refinery, but this also comes as Donald
[00:09:38] Trump has called on Zelensky and Kiev to stop to halt a..." tax
[00:09:42] on energy infrastructure, so why is Zelensky actively going against
[00:09:46] Washington here? oh, it's a good question, I thought the same thing when
[00:09:50] I first saw the news and it's definitely not going to help these diesel prices
[00:09:54] in America, and it's it's crisis right
[00:09:58] now in America and in Europe as well, with their gas
[00:10:01] and uh oil reserves running very low, Saudi Arabia obviously can't
[00:10:05] export any oil to Europe at this point in time, so the idea that
[00:10:09] Zinsky is doing this when he knows he's going to be invited.
[00:10:13] Russian attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, none
[00:10:17] of it makes sense, but you could say that about lot the decisions that we've seen
[00:10:21] from Zelinsky since this
[00:10:23] SMO began. I think... quite hard to ignore that Russia and
[00:10:27] authorities are holding these parliamentary elections amid the special
[00:10:31] military operation, this war, but on the flip side we have Vladimir Zelensky
[00:10:34] who continuously refuses to hold elections in Ukraine. Why do you think that's the
[00:10:38] case? Well, I think it's the case, because he he would
[00:10:42] lose, he'd lose. Everyone understands this, everyone understands
[00:10:46] in Ukraine that he's extremely corrupt, they're very upset with uh
[00:10:50] some the changes that we've seen even recently in Ukraine's
[00:10:53] military infrastructure. with uh federov being replaced, there's
[00:10:57] protests in the streets, everyone understands in Ukraine that this needs to come to an
[00:11:01] end, it's not serving any good purpose for the people of
[00:11:05] Ukraine, and well I don't think that there's any leaders in
[00:11:08] Ukraine right now who are willing to take that stand, they know that
[00:11:12] Zelinski definitely is not going to lead them down that path. you quite
[00:11:15] curiously mentioned field off here because initially the west kind of
[00:11:18] uh kind of showed him in this picture that he was you
[00:11:22] know this revolutionary guy. uh trying to put
[00:11:26] forward the new tech to to develop drone
[00:11:30] production and what not, but now ever since he's outright called on
[00:11:34] zelensky to hold elections, the west seems to have turned on him and say that he's a western
[00:11:38] puppet, sorry cramland puppet, why do you think the shift
[00:11:41] narrative? i think because in
[00:11:45] the west if Zelinski is gone they probably want Zelujin,
[00:11:49] the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK to lead the country,
[00:11:53] and there's been so much money put into propping up solugini and
[00:11:57] federov kind of came out of nowhere and for some reason he uh he
[00:12:00] resonated with the Ukrainian some some sex the Ukrainian people obviously
[00:12:04] the majority the Ukrainian people don't want this to continue uh
[00:12:08] but I think there's just so much money involved there making trillions and
[00:12:12] trillions of dollars and for what what what is that
[00:12:16] money going to be worth when they're sitting in the deepest pits of hell I i don't
[00:12:19] know uh the Russian electoral commission had said Kiev strike on
[00:12:23] the Hasson region killed. member the local electoral
[00:12:27] committee, why do
[00:12:28] you think Kiev is taking aim at an election committee members in
[00:12:32] these new territories? well they're trying to make voters in
[00:12:36] these new territories fearful of participating in the democratic
[00:12:39] process. guess uh Zelinski feels as though they
[00:12:42] shouldn't be able to vote at all whether for you know Russian
[00:12:46] elections or Ukrainian elections because he refuses to still hold them for
[00:12:50] his people in his country, but um it obviously hasn't been
[00:12:53] successful, we've seen very... high voter turnout in the new
[00:12:56] territories, and uh, I, I think it goes without saying
[00:13:00] that people there feel proud and uh, they have a sense of honor to
[00:13:04] participate in these elections after being disrespected by the authorities
[00:13:08] in Kieve for so many years. Zelensky listed the
[00:13:12] UAVs and missiles key have used in this latest enslot on
[00:13:15] Russia, some of which are obviously funded by the west, while others are co-produced
[00:13:19] with with the western arm manufacturers. What do you really
[00:13:23] make of that? I think that everything that Ukraine is doing right now
[00:13:27] is at the behest of Europe of course, but also lot these
[00:13:31] operations are being let up by the CIA and John Ratcliff. We've
[00:13:35] seen since John Radcliff came into power as the director the CIA, he's
[00:13:38] more than doubled the CIA personnel active in
[00:13:42] Ukraine, so that begs the question, uh, why does Trump
[00:13:46] keep acting as though he wants peace with Russia if he's escalating
[00:13:50] this conflict? Uh, why are they introducing these new Russia Iran
[00:13:53] sanctions and?
[00:13:55] ending of Lindsay, I don't think that Trump is
[00:13:58] serious at this
[00:13:59] all about conflict, I think it's a big fake out. These uh,
[00:14:03] effectively the first parliamentary elections we're seeing since the start
[00:14:06] the conflict, what do you think voters are looking for
[00:14:09] now? I think they're looking for
[00:14:13] members the duma who are going to address
[00:14:17] whatever, economic issues, they they feel maybe in their
[00:14:20] own homes, maybe providing more economic support to families across.
[00:14:25] Russia, but also I think they're looking for leaders who are
[00:14:29] going to punish you know the western parties that are responsible for this
[00:14:32] conflict, the terrorist actions that we're seeing today uh in and around
[00:14:36] Moscow, and I think they're going to favor very hardline uh leaders
[00:14:40] in the Duma who are going to fight the western powers. Absolutely,
[00:14:44] we'll have to leave it there. Jackson Hinkel, thank you so much for joining us here today
[00:14:48] in the studio. That was Jackson Hencle, an American political commentator and host
[00:14:52] the legitimate Targets podcast. Thank you.
[00:14:57] Isabella Bloomberg and Jackson Hinkel break breaking down the details of that
[00:15:01] very interesting
[00:15:05] vote is also taking place in territories that are coming under
[00:15:08] daily attack, but despite the threat posed by Ukraine,
[00:15:12] people say that they are determined to have their voices heard. The head the
[00:15:16] Donyetsk People's Republic has casted his vote a local polling
[00:15:20] station, noting that he met quite a few people who wanted to vote in their
[00:15:24] first ever... state duma election
[00:15:27] RT reports on how the vote is being held under
[00:15:31] wartime conditions across two
[00:15:34] continents and 11 time zones and peaceless
[00:15:38] threat of attack, Russians vote for their new
[00:15:41] parliament,
[00:15:52] in their millions, despite constant threats from
[00:15:56] Ukraine, threats of prosecution and
[00:15:59] persecution, just for voting, attacks on
[00:16:03] polling stations, fakes and Ukrainian propaganda.
[00:16:08] Yesterday and the day before, leaflets were dropped by drones
[00:16:12] across most of our region, containing calls to block the
[00:16:15] electoral process and urging people not to participate in the
[00:16:19] elections. Every day we are seeing a steady stream of two or
[00:16:23] three disinformation campaigns coming from the Ukrainian side,
[00:16:27] along with deep fakes and forged administrative documents,
[00:16:30] yet few are afraid, people are used to
[00:16:34] drones and missiles, verbal threats. no
[00:16:38] longer carry the same weight. tell me, have you been
[00:16:42] intimidated? did Zelensky threaten you saying you shouldn't go to
[00:16:45] these elections? in no way, he can't do
[00:16:49] anything. of course not. generally speaking, it is
[00:16:53] very difficult to intimidate me, it's just not in my nature.
[00:16:57] god forbid. firstly, i don't recognize the landscate all, and i
[00:17:00] don't watch him on tv. as for scammers, they've already left me
[00:17:04] alone. we have lived too long to be intimidated.
[00:17:09] and that is my vote, one of tens of
[00:17:12] millions being cast around the donbas an
[00:17:16] environment where people are actively being threatened,
[00:17:20] where electoral officials are receiving death threats, their
[00:17:24] families, their children, but with every vote cast in
[00:17:28] the don bass, the people the donbas
[00:17:31] show that those threats don't scare
[00:17:35] them, not even strongly word. and statements
[00:17:38] and condemnation could stop these
[00:17:41] elections. At today's meeting, the central electoral commission
[00:17:45] adopted resolution declaring that the organization and conduct of elections
[00:17:49] for deputies to the state Duma the Russian Federation in the temporarily
[00:17:52] occupied territories of Ukraine are illegitimate. It is, of
[00:17:56] course, ironic that Ukraine forbids Ukrainians
[00:18:00] from voting in these Russian elections, because
[00:18:04] neither does it allow Ukrainians themselves and
[00:18:07] elections, they're too dangerous, says the former
[00:18:11] president of Ukraine. Elections as such are
[00:18:15] huge risk. Elections right now are a tsunami which could split
[00:18:18] Ukraine. Again, the irony: Ukraine professes
[00:18:22] to be fighting for freedom and democracy, but says
[00:18:25] elections are too dangerous. Russia, which Kiev
[00:18:29] accuses of aggression and tyrany, holds elections even
[00:18:33] in war. He's holding elections in September. needs
[00:18:37] a united society that will support his united Russia.
[00:18:41] Zelensky, on the other hand, doesn't need his society
[00:18:45] support, his term expired two years ago,
[00:18:49] and no one can do anything about it. He already
[00:18:52] controls all Ukrainian media, all newspapers
[00:18:56] and online publications, full spectrum
[00:19:00] propaganda. Anyone who criticizes him can be
[00:19:03] sanctioned, Ukrainian or otherwise, else.
[00:19:07] a one way trip to the front lines, so
[00:19:11] elections, you want elections as ready to do it tomorrow, but if
[00:19:15] we have the war, it's you can't do it, what elections, how
[00:19:19] to make elections with the 9 million people who are abroad, and what to
[00:19:23] do with the people who are temporary or live
[00:19:27] in temporary occupied territories, europe of course
[00:19:31] will bend over backwards to accommodate
[00:19:34] Zelensky, the EU's diplomatic
[00:19:38] figure head is never one to overthink it,
[00:19:42] simple and cliche is her style. Putin hasn't
[00:19:45] had elections or Russia hasn't had elections in 25
[00:19:49] years. Zelensky is elected leader,
[00:19:52] elected in the free and fair elections and of course during the
[00:19:56] wartime you can't have elections. Zelensky's corrupt
[00:20:00] ministers, his army heads simply don't
[00:20:03] mind. So long as the EU supports Zelensky.
[00:20:07] the aid money pours in and it can
[00:20:11] be divided up and shared around between
[00:20:14] friends. the only concern is the people of
[00:20:18] Ukraine forced brutally to fight a war
[00:20:21] they don't want to fight in, by a president they don't
[00:20:25] want, blasted by propaganda, they don't agree
[00:20:29] with, and there's nothing they can do about it,
[00:20:33] but daydream. we must find a legal, safe and realistic
[00:20:36] mechanism. that will allow Ukraine to restore a full-fledged democratic
[00:20:40] process even under the conditions of a prolonged war. This is
[00:20:44] difficult. We must guarantee the right to vote for our military, for millions of
[00:20:48] Ukrainians abroad, and for the... in the frontline regions, we
[00:20:52] must ensure the security the electoral process, the independence of
[00:20:55] institutions and trust in the results. if Russia could do
[00:20:59] it, then so could Ukraine, and the only thing
[00:21:03] stopping elections in Ukraine is the former president,
[00:21:07] one Zelensky who just doesn't
[00:21:11] want to
[00:21:11] leave.
[00:21:16] a country that stretches 11 time zones and has over
[00:21:20] 110 million voters, organizing nationwide vote is
[00:21:24] no mean feat. Here's a breakdown of how the world's biggest
[00:21:27] country in the world is handling the election
[00:21:30] process.
[00:23:26] "Well, it may be the last day of voting, but there's still a way, there's still a
[00:23:30] way to go before we know who will actually represent this vast country in
[00:23:34] parliament for the next five years. The first preliminary results will
[00:23:38] be available tonight after 9 p.m. Moscow time, but the final
[00:23:41] figures will not be officially confirmed until October 5th.
[00:23:45] Make sure to stay tuned to RT for all the latest updates."
[00:24:00] Now another news, protesters have taken to the streets of Karacas in
[00:24:04] protest a US Venezuela oil deal, which they believe
[00:24:07] threatens their country's sovereignty. Estamos
[00:24:11] aquí, we are here a group of men and women from different administrative
[00:24:15] bodies to condemn the handing over of our resources. We've not given them
[00:24:18] away neither to. american people, nor much less to Trump, we
[00:24:22] have given nothing away. The Venezuelan people are saying that the oil belongs to us
[00:24:26] and we will recover not only the oil, but also our
[00:24:29] sovereignty. We reject this agreement because it
[00:24:33] represents a surrender of sovereignty, a surrender of national wealth
[00:24:37] to imperialist capital and subordination to the interests the US
[00:24:41] government and American transnational corporations. It is
[00:24:44] handing over the country to transnational capital and to US
[00:24:48] imperialism in particular. The deal announced by the White
[00:24:52] House last month grants the US access to 65
[00:24:56] billion barrels of oil in Venezuela through a private
[00:24:59] firm in which the Pentagon holds a 35% stake
[00:25:03] via a parent company. As part the agreement, the US will get
[00:25:07] 20% of Venezuelan oil production at
[00:25:10] cost. Washington's also removed Karacas
[00:25:14] from its drug trafficking list for the first time in over 20
[00:25:17] years. The White House cites what it calls. positive steps by
[00:25:21] the interim government, which came to power after US forces
[00:25:24] abducted the Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro and his wife
[00:25:28] and brought them
[00:25:29] to the US to face federal narcoterrorism charges.
[00:25:32] Washington has long claimed that Maduro himself was behind the South
[00:25:36] American country's drug trafficking
[00:25:39] network. Maduro's reign of terror
[00:25:42] continues. He is one the largest narcotraffikers
[00:25:46] in the world and a threat to our national.
[00:25:51] Now professor of Latin American Studies
[00:25:53] at the City University
[00:25:54] of New York Daniel Shaw says that the U.S. government uses
[00:25:58] this war on drugs as a pretext for many of its actions.
[00:26:03] they simply use the quote unquote war on drugs as a
[00:26:06] ideological and media uh justification for what
[00:26:10] they're doing. um, they took Venezuela
[00:26:14] off of this list for completely hypocritical, politicized
[00:26:17] reasons. here in the streets the Bronx and across the United
[00:26:21] States. we continue to see fetinol, we continue to see uh deadly
[00:26:25] drugs, many of which come uh right from here and are made uh
[00:26:29] right here in the US and for so long the United States. has
[00:26:32] been uh the biggest drug dealer in the world, they were caught
[00:26:36] red-handed smuggling um cocaine into self central
[00:26:40] Los Angeles, there was an entire congressional inquiry led by former
[00:26:44] presidential candidate John Kerry in 1986,
[00:26:48] so this is a politicized decision, everything has changed
[00:26:52] in Venezuela since January 3rd, uh Delsey
[00:26:55] Rodriguez and Diostalo Cavillo in this uh quote-unquote
[00:26:59] Boulevarian leadership with a gun to their... had felt like they
[00:27:03] had other options and they've now complied uh,
[00:27:06] whatever the Trump administration, whatever the class of epsteen
[00:27:10] billionaires says is what they do, they've done military
[00:27:14] exercises uh together, they've granted concessions to
[00:27:18] us mining companies now, we know about the
[00:27:21] 100-year proporter deal um for
[00:27:24] Venezuela's oil to come into the
[00:27:27] US, now a
[00:27:31] massive defense deal, was also on the table between Washington and
[00:27:34] Riad. The State Department has officially approved deal regarding the
[00:27:38] sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. It's an
[00:27:42] agreement that's valued at over $24 billion dollars and it
[00:27:46] represents a significant expansion the kingdom's advanced
[00:27:49] military capabilities. The US Department of State
[00:27:53] has made determination approving a possible foreign military
[00:27:57] sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their purchase of F-35
[00:28:01] Lightning 2 joint strike. fighter and related equipment, the
[00:28:04] estimated total cost is $24.3
[00:28:07] billion. Earlier we spoke with a former
[00:28:10] US air force lieutenant colonel who told us that the US is selling
[00:28:14] solution to a problem that it itself
[00:28:17] created. First off, you can't conquer a country with airpower
[00:28:21] alone, that is well-known. The United States likes to ignore
[00:28:25] that because we have uh, what we call air superiority everywhere, we
[00:28:29] say, can you achieve objectives with the F-30? five not
[00:28:33] really, can you fight um people that are defending their
[00:28:37] own territory and have uh developed
[00:28:40] a uh robust defensive
[00:28:44] capability? no, no, you can't, we've
[00:28:48] seen this, I mean we the number of airplanes we've lost going up
[00:28:51] against Iran alone in the past six months has
[00:28:55] been uh just absolutely shocking. now is this
[00:28:59] something where we create um a problem? and
[00:29:02] then sell the solution, of course, of course it is, that that's the very nature
[00:29:06] the United States military industrial complex, yeah, I think we're we're
[00:29:10] selling them precisely because it benefits America
[00:29:13] financially, um, it benefits the military industrial complex here to
[00:29:17] sell these aircraft, it benefits the United States uh a a
[00:29:21] few different ways by having interoperable aircraft in Saudi
[00:29:25] Arabia and um being able to actually see what the Saudies are
[00:29:28] doing with those aircraft because
[00:29:30] you know the F-35 is is really a software driven
[00:29:33] platform, so uh, the things that it does, the functions that it
[00:29:37] has, uh, we will have insight into how the Saudies are conducting
[00:29:41] themselves, which is something that we want, because we don't trust them, okay, and neither does
[00:29:45] Israel, so um, this serves
[00:29:48] America's interest, it really doesn't serve Saudi's interest at
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