WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:11.800 Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of The 2 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.759 Cajun Night Live. I am your host The Cajun Night 3 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:18.519 Jacob Mook, and uh. I do need to apologize if 4 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.320 I do sound like my I'm a bit easily right 5 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:24.879 now out of nowhere. The pollen has smacked me. I've 6 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:27.800 never had pollen allergies in my life, but today it 7 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:30.000 smacked me like a ton of bricks. I'm kind of 8 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.520 in a weird head fog at this moment. Maybe that's 9 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:34.799 why I'm kind of on one. Before we started recording, 10 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:38.079 I was kind of throwing some shade at you know, 11 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.039 Target and Starbucks and places that I just don't like frequenting. 12 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.960 Maybe that's why I got a little extra you know, 13 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.479 gas in the tank on that one right now. Just 14 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:51.679 I guess I'm just kind of in that head fog. 15 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.479 But you know, there's a couple of things going on 16 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:56.640 around the world, and I don't know if anybody has 17 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:58.600 brought any topics that they would like to bring up, 18 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:02.159 but just a few things that I saw that I 19 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.000 feel like we just need to kind of talk about here. 20 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:08.280 Number One, what's going down in Yemen and how that 21 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.760 connects with Iran and how Trump pretty much told Iran, yo, 22 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:14.040 if you help the hoo thies your next you can 23 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:16.560 get these missiles as well. And then they like backed off. 24 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:21.159 Two Trump and Putin had a really good phone conversation, 25 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:24.159 like a two hour long phone conversation, which I thought 26 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.040 was actually a very positive thing, you know, trying to 27 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.040 breach some of those gaps, which hey, I'm here for 28 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:34.159 we're all trying to end the war. Allegedly, I I, yeah, 29 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:40.480 that's a thing. Then apparently both sides are claiming that 30 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.359 the other side is lying about what was said in 31 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:46.920 said phone conversation, and that's kind of weird too. Apparently 32 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:50.239 they talked about like hockey somehow they got on the 33 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.760 topic of talking about sports, and we'll get into it. 34 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.120 We'll get into it right then. Let's see what else 35 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:02.359 we got going on here. Who these attempted to break 36 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.280 the eleventh Commandment? Now shot not touch America's fucking boats. 37 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:09.400 And they're finding out right now. It's a whole thing. 38 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:15.199 Oh and then a weird subaddendum. Apparently Brazil is cutting 39 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:18.479 down a section of the rainforest in order to make 40 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:22.199 way for a road to bring people to the climate 41 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:27.240 change summit they're hosting the jokes right themselves, everybody. I 42 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.639 wish this was a joke, but here we are. Alex 43 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.840 sends in the in the chat, I cast check engine light. Yo, 44 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.479 I'm not gonna lie. That hits home with me right now. 45 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:39.080 My check engine light's been on for far too long, 46 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:41.960 and today that the motor started knocking extra hard, and 47 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:44.599 I'm just like, ugh, here we go. And it's the 48 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:46.360 card that I've been needing to trade in for like 49 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.560 two years, so I knew this day was gonna come. 50 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:54.039 But it's also like, ugh, yeah, here we go. It's 51 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.719 a whole thing anyway. Anyway, all right, So before I 52 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.319 get into any of the stuff that I got that 53 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.120 articles and videos that got pulled up, if anybody has 54 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:06.520 anything that they have brought or that they want to 55 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.560 talk about on any of the things religious or geopolitic 56 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:13.120 or boohrd or whatever else, by all means, feel free 57 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.639 to air them at this time. Or better yet, if 58 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:18.599 y'all have something that you want to share with the class, 59 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.639 drop the link in the chat and I'll be able 60 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:22.240 to pull it up or whatever the case may be. 61 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.240 But I mean, whatever y'all got, feel free. 62 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.479 Well here's one thing. There's lots of protests in Turkey 63 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:33.360 against Erdiwan, and I guess internet and media have been 64 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:35.520 cut off, and some people think that he's about to 65 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.840 be overthrown again, like in the coup that happened in 66 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:44.000 twenty seventeen I believe, which was unsuccessful. But who knows 67 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.639 who's going to replace them. Syrian girl thinks it's going 68 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:49.919 to be some CIA back person, but other people think 69 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:51.879 it's going to be someone kind of to the right 70 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:56.800 of him, so to speak, in the Islamic political scene, 71 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:02.360 somebody more at he Israel than him. Let's see who 72 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.560 these I haven't really been keeping up on much of 73 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.759 that stuff, but yeah, we got stuff to get into. 74 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.599 Oh man, hold, I'm gonna look this up now. Turkey 75 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.120 is I didn't know they had these types of protests 76 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:18.519 going on now over air to one that's great and 77 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:21.279 in response to what, like what did he particularly do 78 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:23.399 to like sparkle of it? 79 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:28.519 Oh, I don't know, but he's considered, you know, Israel's 80 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.480 a device was subject. Some people think he's not doing 81 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:36.360 enough to help the Palestinians. That's why, I gather is 82 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:39.800 the main complaint. One thing going on in Turkey is 83 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.959 that the Western half of the country is more liberal 84 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.920 and the eastern half is more Islamist yah, and the 85 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:50.120 western half's population has been declining in the eastern half 86 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:54.120 has been rising for decades, and demographically, this is just 87 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.120 going to force Turkey in that direction. 88 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:01.439 Oh okay, yeah, wow, let's get into it here. Actually home, 89 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:03.600 Before I do that, I got two more articles that 90 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.519 people have sent in, and I'm gonna pull up all right, Yeah, 91 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:11.920 the Yemen one. We'll bring that over. Yeah, okay, and 92 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.439 then uh, let me see. Royce just sent one in 93 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.040 that I need to pull up as well. Oh and 94 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.040 Zombie sent another one. Hold on, no AP news article 95 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:22.600 Turkey is simple. Yeah, I got that one pulled up. Actually, 96 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.160 I'm actually I'm not sure if I got the AP 97 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.160 one pulled up or no, I got your own news. 98 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.120 Excuse me, I got that article. Oh, for the love 99 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:34.160 of help, Royce, what we got gut? Come on in 100 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.519 caves man, all right, I mean, why not? Why not? 101 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.720 You know? All right? All right, all right, So let's 102 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.439 just get into it for everybody listening right now on 103 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.639 Thursday or one of the following days, and you would 104 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:51.439 like to potentially be a part of this conversation next week. 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All right, I'm gonna go ahead 115 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:20.759 and share the screen at this time and share sound. 116 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:24.120 So first one, I figure we start off with a 117 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.720 lighter note. Okay, I'm just gonna play a little bit 118 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:29.720 of this clip here. This is from a guy named 119 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.199 habitual Line Cross or if anybody doesn't know him, I 120 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:35.319 cannot promote him enough. He's doing well enough on his own. 121 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.040 Do I'm you're wrong, but these are It's like a 122 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.240 series that he does with countries and geopolitics and planes 123 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:45.079 and shit like that. And I thought this was hilarious. 124 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:46.800 So we're just gonna go ahead and play it at 125 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:47.199 this time. 126 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.040 Sorry, where is it all coming from? 127 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:53.800 Where is the commands. What do you mean it was 128 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.720 blown up? Well, where the fuck are my troops? We 129 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:58.879 need to fight back against the American oppression? 130 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:00.079 Where is ever her? 131 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.759 But they gone, what the fuck? What in the bloody 132 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.560 hell is going on over in Yemen? 133 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:08.120 I'm just helping them work through some stuff. 134 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.360 I disclaimer at this point in time, the only thing 135 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.879 we know that's been used over there is F eighteen, 136 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:16.759 So so that character is going to be used here 137 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:20.000 in a second. But you know, as more news comes out, 138 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.079 we'll probably throw it into the lore. It's just right now, 139 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:23.079 we don't know a. 140 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:27.560 Yemen surprise motherfucker put out that fire over there? 141 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:32.079 What is the causualty counter right now? You don't know, America, 142 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.399 Fabia for me to tell you what you should be 143 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:37.839 doing in the Middle East. But they stopped shooting for 144 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.279 a little while, and we're just kind of waiting to 145 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:42.199 see what happened in Israel and Gaza. Why are you 146 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:43.120 tucking them now? 147 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.120 Well, they threatened to start again, and they kind of 148 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:48.759 broke one of the eleven commandments. 149 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:52.959 Eleven there are only ten. 150 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:57.680 Oh sorry, we modified it over here. Number eleven is 151 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.360 thou shalt not touch boats. 152 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.680 America. We will retaliate for this. 153 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:06.360 You have no idea what you have started over here 154 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:08.879 with the HOOTI rebels Iran. 155 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.879 I'm going to need some more munitions, I Ran, you 156 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:17.639 give them a bullet your fucking next. The other world 157 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:22.759 will not cower before your threats. America, the many people 158 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.319 are governed on their own accord, and I have no. 159 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:30.160 Control over them, nor do I support them. I will 160 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:34.039 not be intervening in this. Are you fucking kidding me? 161 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:39.080 Apparently somebody over there and I Ran just got a 162 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:42.039 hold that Google and kinda figured out what history told 163 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:47.200 them about touching America's fucking bouts. I also might have 164 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.639 sent them, I don't know, three terabytes of pictures of 165 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.399 praying manass praying Mantish, praying Manti. 166 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.840 How the fuck you plaraalize praying manas. 167 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:00.039 I'm gonna do a throwback and modify line from The 168 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.919 Demolition Man Simon Phoenix, which is arguably Wesley Snipe's best role, 169 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:08.879 better than Blade in my opinion, fight me. I told everybody, 170 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.080 no one touches the boats. Iranians figured it out, the 171 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:15.840 Germans figured it out, the Japanese figured it out. But 172 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:20.279 the goddamn houthis just wouldn't listen. 173 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:24.120 I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. And I thought 174 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:27.159 that was a great humorous way to kind of bring 175 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.639 about what happened here. So for anybody who doesn't know, 176 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:31.840 it's gonna give a little backstory to it. 177 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:32.879 Uh. 178 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:38.279 The Yemenes Hoothi rebel fighters, terrorists, whatever you wanna call them, 179 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.679 they decided that they were gonna chill out with the 180 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.080 whole pirting and the whole stopping the international trade on 181 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:49.080 the waters for a minute, because there was a ceasefire 182 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:52.240 that was happening in Israel and the Gaza and the whole, 183 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:55.960 the whole shebang over there doing doing their things, gangsters 184 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.759 and all, and uh, they decided that they were gonna 185 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.600 hold off to see how this these fire played out. 186 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:05.600 Then they decided not only to just say nah, never mind, 187 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.039 we're gonna go for it. They decided to fire eighteen 188 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:13.919 ballistic missiles at the USS Harry Truman, which is an 189 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:18.799 aircraft carrier which is supported by a fleet. Now none 190 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.240 of them hit. For the record, they're hooty rebels. They 191 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:23.159 literally can't hit the broad side of a barn at 192 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:25.480 their life depended on it. That's neither here nor there. 193 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:29.480 They attempted to touch America's boats, which I couldn't agree 194 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:32.120 more with. Habitual line crosser is kind of the eleventh 195 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:37.360 commandment of the world. Here, we America will intervene with 196 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.399 a lot of shit that we really shouldn't get involved with. 197 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.320 I'll be the first to admit we've done that before, 198 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.000 we will be doing it again. It's kind of our stick. 199 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:49.120 But at the same time, the US Navy is pretty 200 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:54.159 much the sea police. I'm you know, like that, don't 201 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:57.039 like that. America shouldn't be the world police. Fine, fine, 202 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.440 have that conversation. I get it. But at the same time, 203 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.320 it is only because of the United States Navy that 204 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.559 international free trade is able to go on to the 205 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.960 level that it does. Just I think that's a pretty 206 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:11.879 much understood thing, and I'm not saying that just to 207 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.559 beat the chest of America here. That's just kind of 208 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:18.759 an understood mathematical fact at this point. So with that 209 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:22.840 being said, we don't have many rules as far as 210 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.120 that goes. You could fuck around and find out with 211 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:30.879 each other's countries all you want. Touching America's boats is 212 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:33.159 and I mean, yes, we have the joke. Oh Japan 213 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.600 had the sun unleashed on them twice. Ye yeah, I 214 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.279 get it, I get it. But all of that aside. Literally, 215 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.080 Thomas Jefferson started this with the Barbary pirate situation, and 216 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.320 from that day forward, it's been understood, if you touch 217 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:51.679 America's boats, we destroy every member of your bloodline. Like that. 218 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:55.320 That's just what we do, right, And the Hoothies decided 219 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.320 to fire eighteen ballistic missiles at it. So let's just 220 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.000 give a quick little recap here. This is from USA today. 221 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.200 It's only a little minute in two minute long video, 222 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:05.559 but uh, this gives a pretty decent background to it. 223 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:05.759 All. 224 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.679 The hooth these have gotten a few hell fire missiles 225 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:14.159 dropped on them, a few very strategic munitions, and yes, 226 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:18.200 there may or may not have been some civilian casualties. 227 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.159 You'll have that whenever you have punk bitch terrorists that 228 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.360 hide among the civilian population, then cry about civilians dying 229 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:30.039 whenever they're cornered, right, And that's the whole thing. Insurgents 230 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:34.240 will fight and fight and fight until they're absolutely cornered 231 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.480 and can't go anywhere. Then they'll play the victim card instantly, 232 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.120 that's all. That's the thing. Consistently throughout history and now 233 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.759 it's the Houthis turn. They're playing the victim card after 234 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.000 they just tried to touch America's boat. So let's just 235 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:47.000 let's learn a little bit. 236 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:50.120 This morning, after the US launched a series of air 237 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:53.840 strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, President Trump now giving 238 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:57.000 their backer Iran a new warning. NBC News White House 239 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.720 corresponding you, Michel sendor Is traveling with the President in 240 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:04.279 West Palm Beach, Amish, Good morning, Good. 241 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:04.759 Morning, hallie. 242 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:08.879 US warfighters were still carrying out these aerial attacks against 243 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:12.480 the Houthi rebels and Yemen when President Trump announced the operation. 244 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:15.399 It has killed at least thirty people, according to Huthi 245 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.919 officials in Yemen. Posting online, the President said the Houthis 246 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:23.519 have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism, 247 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.600 and have choked off shipping in one of the most 248 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:29.200 important waterways in the world. Watching the air strikes from 249 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:31.759 his Florida home, the President also said he would use 250 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.559 quote overwhelming lethal force to stop. 251 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:37.279 Can we also just take a minute and acknowledge not 252 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.039 only did our guy here call for airstrikes, he pulled 253 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.440 them up on his big screen at his house to 254 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.200 watch them. In real time. That's that's baller, that's pilp. 255 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:50.320 I'm just saying it anyway, Moving. 256 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:53.159 On, stop the houthy attacks on ships in the region. 257 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:56.080 He also warned Iran they would be held quote fully 258 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:59.919 accountable for hoothy actions, and this morning the vice president 259 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:02.159 of the WHO this told NBC News the group will 260 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:07.200 respond to the airstrikes with further escalation. On Saturday, President 261 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.000 Trump also was focused on threats here at home. He 262 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:13.799 invoked the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight to 263 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:17.519 target Venezuelan gang members. It's a rarely used wartime law 264 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:19.320 that was last implemented. 265 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:21.679 During World War II. The law could. 266 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:25.480 Allow him to remove unauthorized immigrants with little due process, 267 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.919 but late Saturday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the President 268 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.679 from using the Alien Enemies Act in that manner, and 269 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.080 also stopped deportation flights taking Venezuelans out of the country, 270 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.759 ordering them to return mid flight. The Justice Department, though, 271 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:40.519 has already appealed the judge's ruling. 272 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:45.440 Hallie Amy Schelson door in West Palm Beach, thank you, hey. 273 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.320 Thanks for watching it over out Roker. That guy needs 274 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:53.080 to retire, am I right man anyway, Yeah, fun things, 275 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:55.320 fun things. So the hoo Thighs are finding out the 276 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.679 hard way just to stop, just quit while you're ahead. 277 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.200 It's time for you to pay it in and then 278 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.159 Iran as habitual line cross are laid out quite comically, 279 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.480 I might add. But at the same time, the Huthis 280 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.759 reached out to their Iranian counterparts to ask for some 281 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.399 more munitions, and Trump straight up told Iran, listen, you 282 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.240 fuck around. You're gonna be the next one to find 283 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.200 out that there's no other way about this, Like we're 284 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:22.679 we're handling this. It's gonna get finished. We're done with it. 285 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.000 And I ran backed off, which is very smart of them, 286 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.120 I might add, But uh, yeah, this is this is 287 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:30.639 a wild time right now, y'all. 288 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:36.759 So did they mention why the Houthis started blocking off 289 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.879 the Red Sea again, I didn't hear it. 290 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.320 So basically it was because they they it stopped because 291 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:45.720 there was a ceasefire in Gaza and they were waiting 292 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:48.679 to see how that one played out. And then they decided, 293 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:52.679 never mind, while nobody's expecting anything, we're gonna go on 294 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.559 the offensive. And not just on the offensive on just 295 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:59.679 regular ships. We're gonna try to punch up at an 296 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:04.039 American aircraft carrier because that was wise decision. 297 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:07.879 Yeah. My understanding is the CeaseFire's kind of falling apart, 298 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:13.279 and Israel launched a bunch of air strikes, and that's 299 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.759 why the Houthie's decided to escalate from their own end 300 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.720 to block off the Red Sea. But I don't see 301 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:24.080 so many mentions of that. So basically, yeah, this is 302 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:26.679 still revolving around Gaza right now in my. 303 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.720 Opinion, Yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, let's read this. 304 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:31.720 This is an Al Jazeera article. As a matter of fact, 305 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:36.360 this was published I think today, oh, March seventeenth, excuse me, 306 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.960 So it's a couple of days ago. What's happening in Yemen? 307 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.320 A breakdown of the uthy US violence. The US killed 308 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:45.080 at least fifty three people according to reports. Hoo this 309 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:49.559 have responded with attacks on US warships, unsuccessful attacks. I 310 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.159 might add, a new crisis is brewing near one of 311 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:54.919 the world's most crucial shipping lanes, as the Yemen's Houthis 312 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:59.519 and the United States square off. I okay, ol Jazero. 313 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.559 Squaring off might be a bit of a reach. That 314 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.039 would imply that both sides stand some sort of a 315 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:09.839 chance here, I don't, okay, of course Al Jazeera would 316 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:14.759 be a little biased, but I digress. The US injured 317 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:16.480 and killed more than one hundred people in strikes and 318 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:20.440 Yemen on Saturday night, according to the Yemeny media and sources. 319 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:23.880 The Who's these claimed a response on a US warship 320 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.559 on Sunday evening, and the US bombed Yemen again after that? 321 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:31.519 What led to this tit for tat? Okay again, it's 322 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:33.720 not exactly a tit for tat, but all right, who 323 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:36.480 started and what's the purpose? Here's what we know what 324 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.079 happened in Yemen. The US has bombed Yemen for two 325 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.519 nights in a row, now, claiming to be targeting Hoothi leaders. 326 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:44.599 The results on the ground has been the death of 327 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:48.440 fifty three people so far, including children. Nearly one hundred 328 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.400 other people have been injured in the attacks. Where were 329 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.440 the attacks? US attacks have hit Sanah Sanah, I don't 330 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:59.039 know how to pronounce that word. Saa, the capital city 331 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:02.200 controlled by the Houthi and it surrounds as well as 332 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.960 the northern government of Sadah and the port of Ho 333 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:11.599 de Hodida Ho Daida. Yeah. Sure, the US bombs Yemen 334 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.680 or for a second night. US warplanes have launched more 335 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.119 than forty seven air raids on multiple towns in Yemen 336 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.440 on the second night of strikes, targeting at least seven provinces, 337 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.559 as the death toll rises to fifty three. Okay, so 338 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:28.039 they're making very strategic strikes here. Who's being targeted? The 339 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:31.440 US officials say they are targeting hoo the leaders. The Houthis, however, 340 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:35.160 said children were among those killed and circulated photos of 341 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:37.799 the alleged victims. Okay, of course they're going to play 342 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.440 the cards of the camp. Trump strikes were very clearly 343 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:43.119 going after hoothy leadership and didn't seem to care if 344 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:45.880 any civilians got in the way. Nick Brumfield and Independent 345 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.680 Yemen Analysis told Al Jazeera the strikes in Sanaa targeted 346 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:53.880 a residential neighborhood known to house a lot of Hoothy leaders. Okay, 347 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:56.119 I mean that would kind of make sense. Now, what 348 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.000 does the US want? The US says it will bomb 349 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.559 Yemen until the hooth stop, with President Donald Trump claiming 350 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:06.079 that the Houthis had quote targeted our troops and allies. 351 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.200 Trump and his Defense Secretary PTE HeiG seth have also 352 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.400 claimed that the that Iran is behind the Hoothys' actions 353 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:16.000 and that it was now quote unquote on notice. US 354 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.799 Secretary of State Mark Or Rubio announced he had coordinated 355 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:24.440 the attacks on Yemen with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Livrov. Okay, 356 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:27.359 we got a little joint joint commission here with the 357 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.799 United States and Russia. We can all agree that we 358 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:32.720 want shipping in this area, and we don't like the 359 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:36.720 Houthis getting in the way of that. Okay, I like this. 360 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:41.240 How did the Hoothies hit back? The Houthis claimed two 361 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:45.359 attacks on the US aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, 362 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:50.160 and its warships. The US officials, speaking anonymously to media outlets, 363 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:53.640 denied that any attack took place. The Houthis denounced the 364 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.559 US and the United Kingdom, which did not partake in 365 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:59.799 the actual bombing but helped with refueling. According to BBC, 366 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:05.000 HOOTHI spokeperson pledged retaliation for the US attacks. Once again. 367 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:08.599 Trump's just sitting here watching the bombings go down on 368 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:10.680 the big screen. I mean that that kind of does 369 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:13.960 something to me. I like that. Why is Iran catching heat? 370 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:16.880 US officials claim Iran is heavily backing the Hoot the 371 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:18.839 activities in the Red Sea. Some claim the group is 372 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.279 an Iranian proxy. I don't think that's a claim. I 373 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:23.559 think that's a pretty much understood fact. But neither here 374 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.880 nor there, though many analysis have written reports for think 375 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:29.920 tanks such as Brookings and the Council of Foreign Relations 376 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.880 CFR on how they should be seen more as a 377 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:40.799 willing partner. Iran's foreign minister abbass A rag Chi yup I, 378 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.880 RAN's foreign minister A Boss, told the US government that 379 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:48.400 he has no authority or business dictating Iranian foreign policy. 380 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:53.240 In support for Israeli genocide and terrorism, he posted on 381 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:59.279 X stop killing, stop killing of Yemeni Yemeny people. Okay, 382 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:01.759 so What's guard did this? Here? We go here, this 383 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:04.559 is what we're talking about here. On March second, Israel 384 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:07.759 blocked all AID from entering Gaza, renewing the starvation of 385 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:12.559 an enclave in desperate need of food and medicine. Five 386 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:17.720 days later, Huthi chief Abeb bell ab del Malik al Huthi, 387 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:21.240 I'm just gonna go ahead and apologize now for these names. 388 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:24.680 I speak American English and I'm gonna butcher them. Sorry. 389 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:28.400 Set A four day deadline. If Israel did not reopen 390 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:31.319 the crossings and allow aid in, the Houthis would resume 391 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:35.599 attacking Israeli link ships passing through the Bob Almandeb Straight 392 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:38.880 on their way to the Suez Canal. On March eleventh, 393 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:45.240 spokesperson Yaha Sarri e Sorry Sayr, a spokesperson named Yaha, 394 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.640 announced the resumption of the Houthis Red Sea operations against 395 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:52.000 Israeli ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea 396 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:56.039 as well as Bob Almandeb Straight. Sure. The Houthis have 397 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:59.720 been attacking ships connected to Israel since November of twenty 398 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.839 twenty three to pressure Israel to end its war on Gaza. 399 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:05.799 The attack stopped when the ceasefire was declared in Gaza 400 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:09.640 on January nineteenth, and the Hoothies complied. Quote. They did 401 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:12.680 shoot at an F sixteen a few weeks back after 402 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:16.279 the FTO that was a designation had downed a m 403 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:23.200 Q nine, saying it was in Hodda Hodada airspace. Thank you, 404 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:27.279 thank you. But in terms of shipping, they've abided by 405 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:29.799 what they say they were going to do, Brumfield said. 406 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:34.640 On March fourth, the Trump administration reapplied for the quote 407 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:39.400 unquote foreign terrorist organization designation to the Hoothies about four 408 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:43.359 years after his predecessor, Joe Biden removed. It interesting that 409 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:46.720 Joe Biden would not want the Hoothi rebels to be 410 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:49.240 seen as a terrorist group. But neither here nor there. 411 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:51.680 We can't keep blaming the former administration, y'all. We got 412 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:54.759 to move forward to the future. So and anybody who 413 00:22:54.799 --> 00:22:58.039 doesn't know, there's a picture right here showing basically which 414 00:22:58.079 --> 00:23:00.960 areas of Yemen are controlled by what group. They have 415 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:04.160 been in the middle of a civil war for hot 416 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.119 little minute now, and that's not new. The hooth these 417 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:12.000 have absolutely gotten a little more, a little more leg 418 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:14.599 room here in the more, you know, in the recent years, 419 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:16.920 and it's about time to put an end to that. 420 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:19.559 So what effect have the hooth the attacks had to date? 421 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:23.640 The Red Sea receives almost fifteen percent of global sea trade. 422 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:26.119 The hoot the attacks have forced much of that trade 423 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:29.960 to take much longer, more expensive routes around the southern 424 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.559 coast of Africa, raising insurance costs and affecting inflation rates globally. 425 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:37.559 The hoo these attacks have reportedly killed eight people and 426 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.400 wounded others. Most of their attacks have not resulted in casualties. Okay, 427 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:45.119 they just said they've killed people and then followed that 428 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:47.920 same sentence or I'm sorry second sentence. Most of their 429 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:51.359 attacks haven't resulted in casualties. But it's still sea pirate 430 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:53.200 type of things. There's all kinds of videos in them 431 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:57.480 boarding vessels and taking prisoners. But okay, will the Hoothies 432 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:01.400 be deterred by US attacks? The spokesperson are to believe 433 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:05.440 probably not, which makes sense. That's kind of how extremist 434 00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:08.640 insurgency works. They don't really back down. The Houthi Supreme 435 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:12.039 Political Councils said they would not be deterred, but would 436 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.599 escalate the situation to a more severe and dire level. 437 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:20.559 Targeting civilians demonstrates America's inability to confront the situation. The 438 00:24:20.599 --> 00:24:24.599 statement added. I would actually argue it does, in fact 439 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:27.759 show America's willingness to handle the situation. But I know 440 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:30.759 I'm a bit biased. In the past, the hooth these 441 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.200 Red Sea attacks and the subsequent US attacks on Yemen 442 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:36.440 only helped the group's ability to recruit fighters. Again, that 443 00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:39.359 does tend to happen with insurgency groups. You know, you 444 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:41.519 kill one guy, now all of his cousins and uncles 445 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:47.279 are willing to join the cause to you know, yeah, 446 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:50.200 that's kind of how that works, to kind of like 447 00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:54.160 get vengeance and all that. While these attacks may be 448 00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:57.640 bigger than what the Houthi's previously experienced, there is little 449 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:02.480 sign they are willing to give in. Nazra din Amerr, 450 00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:06.200 a Hoothy spokesperson, wrote on x our position is clear 451 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:09.759 and our demands is simple, lifting the siege on Gaza 452 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:13.480 and saving the people of Gaza from starvation. Okay, So 453 00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:19.279 they're saying that if Israel doesn't release the the blockade 454 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:24.400 of resources, then they're going to continue the violence, and 455 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:28.279 that's really not working out well for them right now. Meanwhile, Iran, 456 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:30.880 as they were asking them for help, Iran's got their 457 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:33.039 own issues they're dealing with right now. This is an 458 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:34.759 article from last year and we don't have to read 459 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:36.839 all of it, but long story short, Iran's got a 460 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:40.240 bit of a water crisis going on. Like, they really 461 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:43.119 have issues in this regard and it is not getting 462 00:25:43.160 --> 00:25:45.880 any better. More than eight hundred towns of villages, including 463 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.799 the capital of Tehran and the major city of Esfahan, 464 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:53.000 are at risk from land subsidence Iranian authorities say the 465 00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:56.880 ground beneath Tehran sinks up to twenty two centimeters every year, 466 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:00.480 which is seven times higher than what would be normally expected. 467 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:05.319 The reason, experts say is the country's acute water shortage. Yeah, 468 00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:07.920 it goes into the details as to the water shortage 469 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:09.799 and the house and the whys on this. But long 470 00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:13.359 story short, Iran's got their own resources problems that they 471 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:16.000 really need to focus on before they start trying to 472 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:18.599 help out people on other fronts. But if I'm not mistaken, 473 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.680 didn't they just launch some some missiles into Israel not 474 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:22.920 too terribly long ago. 475 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:26.279 Yes, I just looked this up earlier. They launched their 476 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:29.799 Fatah missile to Israel back in November and it did 477 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:34.000 hit something in the military target. I also wanted to 478 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.000 say thanks a lot for reading that Al Jazeera article. 479 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:39.680 I know it's coming from the other side, but you 480 00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:41.960 do a good job trying to be balanced. But I 481 00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:44.960 wanted to add some things that I think it left out. Yeah, 482 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:47.079 it seems like it was written on March seventeenth. That 483 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:50.440 would have been Monday, and to give a timeline of 484 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:53.559 you know, I think what really provoked the attack on 485 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:57.680 the carriers on March fifteenth. That was this past Saturday. 486 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:03.839 There were air strikes from the US in Yemen. And 487 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:08.519 I'm just going off of Wikipedia right now. These air 488 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:12.359 strikes killed about fifty three people and wounded ninety eight 489 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:17.440 others in Tayez kaza Ibb, a whole bunch of other 490 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:19.200 places I'm not too familiar with. 491 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:22.240 I'm the only one that can pronounce that shit. That 492 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:23.680 makes me feel better anyway. 493 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:29.839 Yeah, And the attacks on the USS Harry Truman started 494 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:33.319 March sixteenth on Sunday the next day, and they continued 495 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:37.720 March seventeenth and March eighteenth, and I think none of 496 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:40.680 them hit. I guess they don't have the good missiles 497 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:45.039 like Iran may have, and Iran doesn't want to step 498 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.279 up here. My only other comment is on the general 499 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.160 political alignment over there, the civil war in Yemen. They've 500 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.680 had civil wars going back almost a century, but the 501 00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:59.440 most recent one started in twenty fifteen. I forget the 502 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:06.880 guy's name, but Saudi Arabia backed one guy and he 503 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.920 was Sunni and the other big group the other half 504 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:14.880 of the country is called Zaidi Shia. They're like the 505 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:17.440 Shia in Iran, but the Shia in Iran believe in 506 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:20.519 twelve grandy moms, and the guys in Yemen only believe 507 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:24.119 in seven. And the Zaida Shia basically they're the Houthis, 508 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:29.920 and they basically won that war at tremendous costs because 509 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.960 there was basically starvation in Yemen in twenty fifteen to 510 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:39.559 twenty nineteen or so, and the Saudis couldn't dislodge them 511 00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:44.200 from power, so they eventually called it off. That's my understanding, 512 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:46.839 and the Houthis are left with the majority of the 513 00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:49.480 power in Yemen right now, that. 514 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:53.519 Sounds about like what I've heard too, So okay, fair enough, 515 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:57.720 although I still like, of all the things you're going 516 00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:01.759 to try to do, you're gonna attempt to slap box 517 00:29:01.839 --> 00:29:06.119 an American aircraft carrier and its entire fleet, Like I 518 00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:10.000 don't I not even just saying because it's America, no, 519 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:14.920 but like, realistically the most powerful navy on Earth. I 520 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:17.599 didn't say the largest, because yes, China started making it 521 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.279 where every vessel that's quote unquote seaworthy is now a 522 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:24.000 naval asset. But whatever you want to call it, the 523 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:28.519 undisputed most powerful navy on Earth, that's who you're gonna 524 00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:32.039 come after. Like, I get if you're trying to hit Israel, 525 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.519 or you're trying to hit some some vessels that have 526 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:37.599 it like flying an Israeli flag, or even like an 527 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.839 American cargo ship. Like, Okay, your chances that the odds 528 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:43.480 are in your favor here, big dog. 529 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:47.359 Uh huh. Well, I feel like right after the attacks 530 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:50.680 on March fifteenth, the Hoothy government must have felt like 531 00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:54.400 they needed to respond somehow or they'd lose all credibility, 532 00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:56.920 even at the risk of escalating the war into a 533 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:00.720 lot more casualties and civilian casualties. Luckily, it looks like 534 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:02.759 there haven't been quite as many as that one day 535 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.119 on March fifteenth, But guys has got a lot of 536 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:09.759 casualties right now. I forget which day it was, but 537 00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:12.680 within the last three days, I've heard somewhere between two 538 00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:16.160 hundred and four hundred people have died in air strikes. 539 00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:19.039 And yeah, much of the Arab world is really pissed 540 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.319 off about that, even though there's probably nothing guys that 541 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:24.000 can do to win. There's nothing the rest of the 542 00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:28.200 Arab the world can do right now. I don't know 543 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:30.559 what to do. It is just horrible. 544 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:33.920 It's a messy situation. I get that, and I know 545 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:38.559 it's people look at it and they get way too 546 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:41.880 invested into it based off of whoever they politically align 547 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.119 with or whatever philosophical side they find to be more 548 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.960 you know, in line with their own. Yes, it goes 549 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:56.319 back to the the was it November attacks? When did 550 00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:59.119 the when did Hamas attack and take the prisoners? 551 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:03.319 I'm trying to remember the October seventh, twenty twenty three. Yeah, 552 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:05.200 so that was a little over a year ago. 553 00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:07.480 Right, And I know it goes back to that, And yes, 554 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:09.920 I know it goes back to Moussad allowing it to 555 00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:12.240 take place, and I know it goes back to who 556 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:14.240 propped up Amas in the first place, and then it 557 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:17.599 goes this, And yes, I get it. The situation has 558 00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:21.599 gotten just exponentially more difficult the deeper and deeper it got. 559 00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:24.839 This is a full on insurgency and you can't just 560 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:28.160 end that so peacefully and with papers being signed. That's 561 00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:31.400 that's never gonna work in this regard the Hoothies, and 562 00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:32.759 like you said, the rest of the Arab world, not 563 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.119 just the Hoothies, The rest of the Arab world is 564 00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:38.160 pissed off. I mean, yes, granted, oh they're pissed off 565 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:41.559 Israel shocker. Nothing new there, I get it, but it 566 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:43.720 is to a level where it's not I don't even 567 00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:45.720 see how there's going to be an end in sight 568 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:48.640 unless an outside source, and it doesn't have to be America. 569 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:51.079 I hope it's not. As a matter of fact, I 570 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:53.359 feel like there's gonna have to be some outside force 571 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:56.640 come in and like act as referee and say, you know, 572 00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:59.039 blow the whistle and say, like the fight's over, you 573 00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:00.759 know what I mean, ring the if you will, and 574 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:03.160 call it off. I don't know. I don't see this 575 00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:08.960 ending any other way at this time anyway, Royce, I 576 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:11.079 think or no Zombie. I'm sorry you had your hand up. 577 00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:13.599 Oh. 578 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:15.640 I was just looking at the article I and pretty 579 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:18.200 much it covered everything you guys talked about. But it 580 00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:20.359 did confirm that like fifty three where he died and 581 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:24.559 a hundred were injured, and among them were children. So 582 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:27.119 I was just looking at the article. 583 00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:29.920 Right, and I mean it hit a residential area where 584 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:33.799 a bunch of HOOTHI leaders live, So yeah, that would 585 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:38.640 kind of I'm not four children dying, especially those that 586 00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:42.079 had no dog in the fight whatsoever. Children typically don't, 587 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.359 But you can only get so exact with air strikes. 588 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:48.799 And when you have insurgents that will hide amongst women 589 00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:50.920 and children, when a bomb goes off and it kills 590 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.400 the women and children surrounding them, then everybody's gonna go 591 00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:57.160 on and say, well, look at all the innocence that died. Yeah, 592 00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.640 but how many bad guys did we get? Though? Like 593 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:01.119 that was the that was the point of the strike. 594 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:04.240 The point wasn't to hurt the innocence. Y'all hit amongst 595 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.759 the innocence as a way to try to shield yourselves, 596 00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:11.680 and then you yeah s, dirty tactics. Dirty tactics. Terrorists 597 00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:14.640 have an issue with doing that, honestly, of all types 598 00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:18.200 of terrorism, to be honest with you. But anyway, I 599 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:20.039 had this other video we could watch, but there's no 600 00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:21.640 real need to it. We're kind of covering all the 601 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:24.720 basics on the hoothy situation at this time. 602 00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:25.599 Uh. 603 00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:29.200 Although before we move on to the next topic, if 604 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.200 anybody has anything else they would like to add into 605 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:39.839 the who the Israel Gaza conversation? Please now is the time? Excellent? Okay, 606 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:43.599 So moving on now that we've kind of gone into 607 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:46.960 a depressing vibe on this one, this one is kind 608 00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:51.640 of depressing if you like, are one of the super 609 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:55.720 environmentalist types. Not throwing shade, I'm just saying and to 610 00:33:55.880 --> 00:34:00.839 people who aren't necessarily this is moronic and hilarious at 611 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:03.720 the same time. This is a BBC article the Amazon 612 00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:09.840 forest felled to build road for climate summit. Like out loud, 613 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:12.920 everybody understands how we're tarded. That sounds right, like I'm 614 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.800 not alone reading that and just hearing the irity go 615 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:21.239 off here. So, a new four lane highway cutting through 616 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:24.920 tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is 617 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:28.599 being built for the COP thirty Climate Summit in the 618 00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:32.679 Brazilian city of Biline. It aims to ease traffic to 619 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.000 the city, which will host more than fifty thousand people, 620 00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:39.960 including world leaders, at the conference in November. Because you know, 621 00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:42.320 the last time Brazil hosted a big event where people 622 00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:44.559 from all over the world came, i e. The World Cup, 623 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:48.920 everything went so swimmingly right. If anybody has not seen 624 00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:51.039 what happened to those stadiums or what happened to the 625 00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:53.840 country's economy after they blew all that money on this, 626 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:57.360 I highly highly recommend he go check it out. But anyway, 627 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:04.239 the state government tal it's the highways quote unquote sustainable credentials. 628 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:09.320 But some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact. 629 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:12.440 The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for 630 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:16.039 the world and providing biodiversity, and many say that this 631 00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:19.920 deforestation contradicts the very purpose of the Climate Summit. Well, yeah, 632 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.440 you don't say, you don't fucking say, bra and I 633 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:25.440 mean yeah, they say that the Amazon is like the 634 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:28.440 Earth's lungs, right, it takes in all the carbon dioxide 635 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:31.000 and it exhales the oxygen for all of us to breathe, 636 00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:35.280 and we now through whatever scientific lab studdy you want 637 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.480 to know. Yeah, it's actually the Amazon is not the 638 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.440 biggest producer of oxygen for the Earth. It's actually algae. 639 00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:44.079 Didn't know that up until recently. Algae from the sea 640 00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:48.320 actually does more for the oxygen content on Earth than 641 00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:51.119 the Amazon. But as far as the above ground above 642 00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:55.199 land situation, yeah, the Amazon's critical for this. Along the 643 00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:59.719 partially built road, lush rainforest towers on either side or 644 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:03.000 of what was once there. Logs are piled high in 645 00:36:03.039 --> 00:36:05.920 the cleared land, which stretches more than thirteen kilometers or 646 00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:10.079 eight miles through the rainforest into beline. Diggers and machines 647 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:14.400 carved through the forest floor, paving out wetland to surface 648 00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:17.480 the road, which will cut through a protected area. So 649 00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:19.599 not only are the cutting through the rainforest, but they're 650 00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.639 also going over like endangered wetlands and stuff. And they're 651 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.239 just building a four lane highway straight through it all, 652 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:28.880 which is gonna be great for all the wildlife, all 653 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:32.840 the flora and the fauna of the rainforests. This again, 654 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:38.320 it's beautiful, absolutely just genius things going on here. Claudio 655 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:44.039 Veriquette lives about two hundred meters two hundred meters from 656 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.320 where the road will be. He used to make an 657 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:49.679 income from harvesting a kai berry or isie berries from 658 00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:53.320 the trees that once occupied the space. He says everything 659 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:57.199 was destroyed, gesturing at the clearing. Our harvest has already 660 00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:59.480 been cut down. We no longer had that income to 661 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:03.119 support our family. He says. He has received no compensation 662 00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:06.639 from the state government and is currently relying on savings. Yo. 663 00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:08.880 So not only did they take this man's livelihood, but 664 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:11.840 they gave him absolutely nothing to help him along in 665 00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.840 his struggles on this one and just basically tell him 666 00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:16.960 to deal with it like whatever. You can't stop progress, 667 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:19.400 you know what I'm slaying or whatever he says he 668 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.800 has received. I said that he worries the construction of 669 00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:25.519 this road will lead to more deforestation in the future 670 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:28.719 now that the area is more accessible for businesses. You know, 671 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:31.280 I have to agree with him on that. Our fear 672 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:33.920 is a quote here. Our fear is that one day 673 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.719 someone will come here and say, here's some money. We 674 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:38.960 need this area to build a gas station or build 675 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.559 a warehouse, and then we'll have to leave. We were 676 00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:44.400 born and raised here in the community. Where are we 677 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:47.320 going to go? So look, that's your guy right here. 678 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:49.800 He's just been doing berry farming to support his family. 679 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.880 Now that's just gone. His community won't be connected to 680 00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:56.079 the road given its walls on either side. And that's 681 00:37:56.079 --> 00:37:59.239 another thing. So they're not just building this road, they're 682 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.360 building walls on either side of it. So like they're 683 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:05.880 absolutely just blocking this guy in his community in just 684 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:10.239 because because this Climate Summit is so important that we 685 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:13.599 need to destroy a whole section of the rainforest about it. 686 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:16.880 You know, Oh, go ahead, Raven, I know for a 687 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:18.960 fact you have something away in on this one. 688 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:20.400 Oh. 689 00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:23.800 I've been actually following it since it started, because it 690 00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:27.199 started last June is when they finally started pushing this 691 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:31.400 project through. And so far they've like there's like eight 692 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:36.559 hundred species that they've already impacted between like every kind 693 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.480 of conceivable and like the thing is is that what 694 00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:41.519 they're doing is is they actually want to make this 695 00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:44.360 a tourist thing. So it's not only that it's the 696 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:48.079 highway that's being built, but they're also building hotels, they're 697 00:38:48.159 --> 00:38:52.360 revamping the entire airport, and they're doing some stuff to 698 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:55.239 be able to get cruise ships in and so like 699 00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:59.119 they're it's a whole it's a whole thing that's happening, 700 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:02.880 and it's not just impacting just the rainforest, it's impacting 701 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:05.280 everything else. But their whole model it is is like, well, 702 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:09.519 it's bringing diversity in people here to help profit the locals, 703 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:11.559 and it's going to bring a lot of like you know, 704 00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:16.119 good change and blah blah blah. And the meanwhile they're, oh, 705 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:19.519 they're to accommodate the locals being upset, They're they're putting 706 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:24.440 in animal crossings every so much every so many miles 707 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:27.880 so that the animals somehow magically know right like they 708 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:31.360 need to cross the road at that specific place. So yeah, 709 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:34.800 that's that's this whole thing that's going down. They fought 710 00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:38.360 this for like over a decade, but I don't I 711 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:39.920 can never see the name of the place where the 712 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:45.159 other one was. But it's like at Baku is the location, 713 00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:47.840 but the I forget the country. But they had an 714 00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:50.679 oil and gas thing, and the last time one of 715 00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:53.360 the big summits was held there, they pretty much like 716 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:56.920 devastated the entire area. Came and had their summit, and 717 00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.400 then they left and it like destroyed a whole bunch 718 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:00.960 of land around on it. And they're like, uh, it'd 719 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:01.559 be fine. 720 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:05.920 I absolutely believe this the whole all right. The wildlife 721 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:09.079 crossings that are built in over these roads and stuff. Look, 722 00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:11.719 I've seen the diagrams of how they're supposed to work, 723 00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:16.559 and to a human mind, that sounds genius, right, It 724 00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:20.079 sounds like something that clearly will work, except for the 725 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.840 fact that animals are gonna do what animals are gonna do, 726 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:27.039 and you can't train wildlife to go over certain areas, 727 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:31.159 so all that's gonna do is rec shop even worse. 728 00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:34.239 And then I mean, they're building walls on either side 729 00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:39.119 of this highway, so perhaps that will keep certain animals out, 730 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:41.440 but that's more of the larger animals. The Amazon has 731 00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:45.000 so many, the rainforest has so many types of animals. 732 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:46.639 There's no way that these walls are gonna keep them 733 00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:49.159 all out. So now we're just gonna have this highway 734 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:53.519 through the rainforest with dead animals all up and down It. 735 00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:55.960 Probably a lot of endangered species, let's be honest. And 736 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:58.559 if they're not now, they will be soon. Time will tell. 737 00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:01.760 And all of that because a bunch of people from 738 00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:06.079 around the world want to choose a destination right to 739 00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:09.840 have this climate summit. That's the most ridiculous shit ever 740 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:12.280 hurt in my life. And then all right, if you're 741 00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:14.599 doing it for the tourists to eat thing, and I 742 00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:17.559 could even understand that to a certain regard, but not 743 00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:21.360 through the rainforest. If you're gonna bring in tourism to 744 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:25.159 showcase the rainforest, there's got to be a better way 745 00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:28.639 than building a four lane highway through it. And I mean, yeah, 746 00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:31.199 the cruise ships that are stopping off in Brazil, they're 747 00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:34.440 stopping off in Rio. You know, I don't know. I 748 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:38.039 can't see this playing out positively for the the already 749 00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:43.599 seriously critically endangered and getting more endangered every day. Flora 750 00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:51.000 and fauna of the rainforest. But yeah, this is what's 751 00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:54.159 happening here. Like Raven said, we go on. The quote says, 752 00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:56.440 for us who live on the side of the highway, 753 00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:58.920 there will be no benefits. There will be no benefit. 754 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.280 There will be benefits for true that will pass through. 755 00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:04.320 If someone gets sick and needs to go to the 756 00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.039 center for believe, we won't be able to use it. 757 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.280 So basically, they're walling in this guy's community to make 758 00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:12.079 way for the highway, and they're not even gonna have 759 00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.679 access to the same medical conditions facilities that they've had 760 00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:19.000 for a good long while. The road leaves two disconnected 761 00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:22.639 areas of protected forests. Scientists are concerned it will fragment 762 00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:26.559 the ecosystem and disrupt movement of wildlife. And here we go, 763 00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:32.239 Raven was on it. Professor Silvia Sardina is a wildlife 764 00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:36.320 vet and researcher at the University Animal Hospital that overlooks 765 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.119 the site of the new highway. She and her team 766 00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:43.320 rehabilitate wild animals with injuries predominantly caused by humans and 767 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:47.599 vehicles once they release them back into the wild. Something 768 00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:50.000 she says will be harder if there's a highway on 769 00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:53.800 their doorstep. Yeah, I could imagine. So from the moment 770 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:57.159 of deforestation, there is a loss. We are going to 771 00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:59.960 lose an area to release these animals back into the wild, 772 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.239 the natural environment of these species. She said, land animals 773 00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:06.840 will no longer be able to cross the other side, 774 00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:10.320 to reducing areas where they can live and breed. The 775 00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:13.159 Brazilian President and environmental minister says this will be a 776 00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:18.079 historic summit because it is a cop in the Amazon 777 00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:24.360 and not a cop about the Amazon. Again, seems like 778 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:29.519 some conflicting ideologies from my layman's perspective here. The president 779 00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:32.199 says the meeting will provide an opportunity to focus on 780 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:35.440 the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, 781 00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:39.000 and present what the federal government has done to protect 782 00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:42.400 it as they tore it down to build a highway. 783 00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:47.880 That's brilliant, brilliant. But Professor Sardina says that while these 784 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:51.360 conversations will happen quote at a very high level among 785 00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:55.000 business people and government officials, those living in the Amazon 786 00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:59.199 are not being heard like look at this, this is 787 00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:02.000 like it's not like this is like just on this 788 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.280 little outskirts section here. They have a map pulled up here. 789 00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:06.039 If anybody wants to see it again, come to the 790 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:10.000 Cajuni on Patreon linked in the description below. They're cutting 791 00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:13.840 it right down the middle of it. This is ridiculous, Raven, 792 00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:15.239 go ahead. 793 00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:20.800 See you have to remember that Big Pharma's representatives are 794 00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:24.440 a part of the cop And what's interesting about the 795 00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:28.119 Amazon is there's multiple tribes within the Amazon that have 796 00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:33.519 properties plants that they've used for you know, a generations 797 00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:37.280 there that allow them to pretty much strive off any 798 00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:41.880 type of cancer and through if they're able to get 799 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:45.079 like their foothold there, they already can buy up the 800 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:47.800 plants and put patents on them and take them from 801 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:51.320 these people anyways without any compensation and like take over 802 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.719 their entire village. But it'd be easier if they had 803 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:57.440 more of a foothold there. So this whole thing about 804 00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:01.199 like business people coming, I'm sure there are. I'm sure 805 00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:04.960 there is something else there that they're looking at as well, 806 00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:08.440 because there's lots of stuff that's been untapped that's in 807 00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:12.679 the Amazon. So just a weird conspiracy about it. 808 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:17.119 No, No, I don't believe that's an unfounded thought honestly. 809 00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:19.760 I mean, yeah, big Pharma is absolutely a mixture in here, 810 00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.840 but I mean so is a logging conglomerates that have 811 00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:26.360 been tearing down the rainforest strictly for the lumber. The 812 00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:29.679 farming conglomerates that what was that thing that they were 813 00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:31.440 doing a couple of years back, and I think they're 814 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:35.239 probably still doing it. The cows, Well, they were cutting 815 00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:38.039 down sections of the rainforest in order to use the 816 00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:42.920 land for agriculture, right, But then they didn't realize because 817 00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:45.519 apparently no one there knows how to take a fucking 818 00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:49.239 soil sample, and they found out way too late that hey, 819 00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:54.639 the Amazon rainforest is really not good soil for agriculture. 820 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:57.760 The only thing that grows well there is the jungle. 821 00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:01.840 And so Brazil had to go through and pay for 822 00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:05.199 the process of clearing and stripping the land. Then they 823 00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:07.920 had to pay to have the dirt dug up and removed. 824 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:10.679 Then they had to pay to have good fertile top 825 00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:14.079 soil brought in. But because of monocropping, it's like every 826 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:16.639 year or two they have to do the same process 827 00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:19.239 of removing the good soil that's no longer good and 828 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:22.400 doing it again. So it's it has been a complete 829 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:26.400 NonStop loss after loss after loss. Every time they try 830 00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:30.599 to do anything with the Amazon, it backfires for everyone involved, 831 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:34.480 but they're still just getting after it. I don't understand 832 00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:39.079 it personally, but yeah, so that's Brazil for you. The 833 00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:42.880 state government of parah Peae, I don't know what the 834 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.679 little apostrophe going that direction on a max I don't 835 00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:49.679 speak Portuguese, had tilted the idea of this highway, known 836 00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:55.280 as Avanda Liberdad. Yeah, as early as twenty twelve, but 837 00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:59.159 it had repeatedly been shelved because of environmental concerns. Now 838 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:01.800 a host of it for structure projects have been resurrected 839 00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:04.599 or approved to prepare the city for the COP summit. 840 00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:10.119 Older Sylvieira Sure, the state government's infrastructure secretary, listed this 841 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:14.079 highway as one of thirty projects happening in the city 842 00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:17.800 to prepare and modernize it so we can have a 843 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:21.960 legacy for the population and more importantly serve people for 844 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:27.360 the COP thirty in the best possible way. That more 845 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:32.800 of one of thirty projects happening now that just instills 846 00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:38.280 inspiration in me here. Speaking to the BBC, he said 847 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:43.079 it was a quote unquote sustainable highway and an important 848 00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:47.679 mobility intervention. I think that there might be a language 849 00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:52.199 issue here, honestly, and I'm not trying to be rude. 850 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:58.960 I think that their definition of sustainable and our definition 851 00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.199 of sustainable must be very very different. There must be 852 00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:05.480 a weird English to Portuguese translation error here. I'm not 853 00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:11.199 one hundred percent but that they think sustainable, we think detrimental. 854 00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:15.440 I feel like we're yeah, I don't know, we're very 855 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.199 far off here in definitions, obviously, he added, like Raven 856 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:22.440 was saying earlier. He added that it would have wildlife 857 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:26.760 crossings for animals to pass over bike lanes, and solar lighting, 858 00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:32.079 solar lighting in the Amazon. Okay. Sure. New hotels are 859 00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:35.239 also being built, and the port is being redeveloped so 860 00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:39.159 cruise ships can dock there to accommodate excess visitors. Raven, 861 00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:45.000 once again, you are on the money. Brazil's federal government 862 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:48.559 is investing more than eighty one million dollars US and 863 00:48:48.599 --> 00:48:50.840 I don't is that a euro. I think it's a 864 00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:54.360 euro sixty two million euro to expand the airport capacity 865 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.639 from seven to fourteen million passengers, a new five hundred 866 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:03.760 thousand square meter city park. Not gonna try to pronounce 867 00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:09.239 that is under construction. It will include green spaces, restaurants, 868 00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:12.519 a sports complex, and other facilities for the public to 869 00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:17.400 use afterwards. Because you know what, the Isie Berry farmer 870 00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:19.320 that we got a quote from earlier, You know what, 871 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:25.480 he really wanted green spaces and a sports complex. That's 872 00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:28.920 what he thought his community was lacking in his section 873 00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:35.840 of the rainforest. That's brilliant, oh man. Some business owners 874 00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:40.159 in the city's vast open air vero passo, vera peso 875 00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:43.559 mark excuse me, agreed that this development will bring opportunities 876 00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:45.960 for the city. The city as a whole is being 877 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:48.480 improved and it is being repaired, and a lot of 878 00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:51.280 people are visiting from other places. It means I can 879 00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:55.599 sell more and earn more, says Dalcy Cardoza Da Silva. 880 00:49:55.760 --> 00:49:58.840 Jesus who runs a leather shoe stall, Well yeah, he's 881 00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:02.000 gonna make money. He's gonna make my orithulis he thinks. 882 00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:04.480 So like, I'm sorry, people are not gonna be coming 883 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.800 to this summit to buy your shoes, bro, They're getting 884 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.639 their shoes shipped to them from like La, from like 885 00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:13.800 Rodeo drive. All of the rich, swanky people that's coming 886 00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:17.000 to this event. Are not gonna buy leather shoes from 887 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:20.320 a local shop. They're probably coming with their shoes and 888 00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:24.199 their luggage. I could be wrong, but sure, sure, I mean, 889 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:28.559 in some way, I guess he's hopeful. He says this 890 00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:32.480 is necessary because when he was young, Balen was beautiful, 891 00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:35.800 well kept, well cared for, but it has since been 892 00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:40.400 abandoned and neglected with little interest from the ruling class. 893 00:50:41.119 --> 00:50:47.000 So this beautiful, well kept, and well cared for Amazonian 894 00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:53.320 city really needed a modernization facelift because the ruling class 895 00:50:53.400 --> 00:50:56.960 all of a sudden cares for the inhabitants. Yeah that okay, 896 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:04.119 out loud. I couldn't even okay, while Ohio, oh wait, 897 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:06.079 this is Portuguese, so that jay is actually like an 898 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:06.679 r noise. 899 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:10.000 Yeah, it's the equivalent to Juan. 900 00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:12.840 Okay, thank you. I was like, I'm like, that's got 901 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:14.679 to be like a wand right. I see the India, 902 00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.480 but it's over at a Portuguese and Spanish. You would 903 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:20.400 think there'd be a little more of like a left 904 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:23.280 to right crossover here. They are so vastly different but 905 00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:27.280 also so similar in so many ways. But anyway, uh, 906 00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:31.000 Trinidad da Silva, how about that da Silva, who sells 907 00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:35.480 Amazonian herbal medicines in the market, acknowledges that all construction 908 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:38.519 work can cause problems, but he felt the future impact 909 00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:43.119 would be worth it. Hmm. Now that's kind of to 910 00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:48.400 Raven's point earlier. Somebody who actually sells Amazonian herbal medicines 911 00:51:48.519 --> 00:51:52.480 in the local market. He's not happy about it, but 912 00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:56.880 he's also seeing potential dalla dolla bills out of it, 913 00:51:56.960 --> 00:52:00.480 so he's kind of leaning more towards it. Okay, we 914 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:03.760 hope the discussions aren't just on paper and become real 915 00:52:03.880 --> 00:52:07.679 actions and the measures, the decisions taken really are put 916 00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:10.559 into practice so that the planet can breathe a little better, 917 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:13.800 so that the population will uh, the population in the 918 00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:17.519 future will have a little cleaner air. All right, again 919 00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:21.320 out loud, you're hoping that the future population will breathe 920 00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:24.039 a little better as they are tearing down the rainforest 921 00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:30.159 and building through the wetlands. It seems very counterproductive to me. Again, 922 00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:33.559 I'm not an expert in environmental sustainability. I know some 923 00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:37.719 people that are, and this just sounds really stupid. This 924 00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:39.840 is about like when Bill Gates cut down all those 925 00:52:39.880 --> 00:52:44.360 trees in Oregon just to bury them to help global 926 00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:50.719 warming somehow, and there was never any actual scientific justification 927 00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:52.840 to show why he was doing this or what his 928 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:57.639 plan was. Just cut down miles of trees, don't burn them, 929 00:52:57.880 --> 00:52:59.960 don't turn them into molts, don't turn them into lumber. 930 00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:02.880 Did we then need to get diesel engines to dig 931 00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:07.400 out holes and bury these trees in the ground because 932 00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:11.519 the world, the mother Earth needs it? And that's a 933 00:53:11.559 --> 00:53:13.719 thing that they did. Side you know here it is 934 00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:17.880 scrutiny is growing over whether flying thousands of them across 935 00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:20.760 the world and the infrastructure required to host them is 936 00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:24.199 undermining the cause. Yeah, I would think so, I would 937 00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:29.719 think so. So Okay, moving on from the Amazon Wait, 938 00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:34.360 I just clicked out of this, I thought, did I 939 00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:35.480 exit out of something else? 940 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:37.079 Uh? 941 00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.400 Oh oh, Well, before we get on to the next 942 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:42.599 topic here, does anybody have anything else they would like 943 00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:50.960 to talk about as far as the Amazonian sustainability situation? Okay, excellent, excellent, 944 00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:54.920 Moving on now, and Tony, I wanted to get your in, 945 00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:58.079 in particular your opinion on some of the things going 946 00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:03.000 on with Russia and Zelenski and Trump and all of 947 00:54:03.159 --> 00:54:06.360 all of the stuff that's going on here recently, because 948 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:12.079 We have heard multiple times Putin and the Russian government 949 00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:17.360 say they don't want any NATO country backing Ukraine. That's 950 00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:20.239 that's their big thing. They want less NATO intervention. That's 951 00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:25.079 that's been their thing. Cool. Australia is not a NATO member. 952 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:28.679 And then Australia offered to help and intermediate some of 953 00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:31.639 these are excuse me, intermediate mediate some of these ceasefire 954 00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:35.480 agreements because Russia didn't want a NATO country to be 955 00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:39.039 the mediator because it would send a little more of 956 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:42.280 a sway in the opposite of Russia direction. And of 957 00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:44.880 course NATO members don't want Russia to be the mediator 958 00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:47.920 of these conversations. Everybody's not wanting to be on the 959 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:53.199 underside of the deal. Australia offered their services and Russia 960 00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:55.960 basically told them that if they were to continue these 961 00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:59.360 types of conversations there would be grave consequences. What did 962 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:00.960 Australia to piss off Putin? 963 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:04.199 Yeah, I have no idea, and I see this from 964 00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:08.920 the tenth but Russia must still be suspicious of Australia 965 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:11.800 because they're part of the Five Eyes network with England 966 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:15.199 in the UK. I'm just speculating here, but Russia just 967 00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:21.199 obviously does not trust Australia to be neutral enough or 968 00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:25.000 pro Russian enough. That's what it looks like to me. 969 00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:28.360 This makes sense. They are part of the British Commonwealth, 970 00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:30.000 So okay, I. 971 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:34.199 Think Russia, Russia would trust China, Russia would trust probably 972 00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:36.719 a handful of other countries. But they just don't think. 973 00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:39.360 But no, I don't think Australia is good enough. 974 00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:43.239 Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. Here's the in short of it. 975 00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:45.960 We don't have to read the whole article. Russia told 976 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:49.039 the Australia there will be grave consequences if it puts 977 00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:51.400 boots on the ground in Ukraine as part of a 978 00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:55.599 Western peacekeeping operation proposed by the UK Prime Minister. Prime 979 00:55:55.639 --> 00:55:59.039 Minister Anthony Albanese has left open the possibility of an 980 00:55:59.039 --> 00:56:02.719 Australian troops joining a coalition of the willing in the 981 00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:05.760 war torn country to enforce any peace deal broker between 982 00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:10.880 Russia and Ukraine. Opposition leader Peter Dutton has rejected the idea. 983 00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:15.039 Now that's another thing I didn't understand. I thought that 984 00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:19.440 we were like on the cusp of a ceasefire agreement 985 00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:24.800 being made. Zelensky was playing hardball. So America had to 986 00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:29.079 turn off the faucet of resources and intel. Zelensky went 987 00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.679 to Europe and tried to beat the streets to get 988 00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:34.880 some more support over there, and then realize like, yeah, 989 00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:37.800 he's getting more thoughts in prayers than he's getting actual 990 00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:41.159 support and hardware, and so he's like, okay, hey America, 991 00:56:41.320 --> 00:56:44.559 I'll play ball your way. We're here. So America turned 992 00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:48.559 back on the faucet. Cool cool, Cool With that, Ukraine 993 00:56:48.599 --> 00:56:52.599 started striking Moscow. I heard something like fifty different drone 994 00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:56.519 attacks that happened in Moscow and like a one night ordeal. 995 00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:57.679 I don't know. 996 00:56:58.280 --> 00:57:00.760 I read that too. It was in response to Russian 997 00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:05.079 advances and Cursk, Russia's pretty much got cursed back. Suju 998 00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:06.280 was the last big city. 999 00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:08.320 But that's the other thing I'm hearing more about the 1000 00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:12.440 Cursk situation. Russia and pretty much everybody else on Earth 1001 00:57:12.519 --> 00:57:15.039 is acknowledging that the Ukrainian fighters that are there are 1002 00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:18.719 completely surrounded and cut off right now Ukraine II, z 1003 00:57:18.760 --> 00:57:21.400 Zelensky is saying, no, they're not. It's totally not what's 1004 00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:24.280 happening right now. It's like, bro, hold one, look at 1005 00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:26.559 the map. They are cut off. It's time for you 1006 00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:28.840 to at least acknowledge either A they're gonna get slaughtered 1007 00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:32.599 or be try to make an evacuation for them. No, dude, 1008 00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:36.239 they're fine. They're totally still in it. And it's like brah, 1009 00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:39.760 but yeah, yeah, So I saw the drone attacks and 1010 00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:42.559 Moscow's got all these things on fire and these explosions 1011 00:57:42.599 --> 00:57:45.840 and all this shit. Cool, that's how war goes. And 1012 00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.679 then Trump and Putin apparently before the phone call had happened, 1013 00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:52.440 it was time for the ball was in Putin's court. 1014 00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:54.960 That's what we heard from all the news sources and 1015 00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:57.679 all the stuff, and Putin kind of seems like he 1016 00:57:57.800 --> 00:57:59.920 was getting ready to go for a ceasefire. He said 1017 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:03.800 he was then out right through up middle fingers and said, nope, 1018 00:58:03.880 --> 00:58:06.039 we're not stopping until we set get what we set 1019 00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:08.880 out for. And it's like, what did you set out for? 1020 00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:11.119 And I guess Ukraine as a. 1021 00:58:11.079 --> 00:58:15.719 Whole, Oh, Ukraine as a whole now probably just the 1022 00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:18.320 entirety of the disputed regions. So they got all a 1023 00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:23.480 Lukansk now, but Harson, Zaporojia and don Yets they only 1024 00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:27.599 have maybe two thirds of most of those. And I've 1025 00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:31.679 seen news of a lot more Russian strikes on the 1026 00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:35.079 parts that they don't have, including strikes in places like Odessa, 1027 00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:38.559 Mikliev and a few others I don't remember that are 1028 00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:43.840 not not actually disputed. But yeah, Russia, Russia seems to 1029 00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:48.559 have escalated, and I'm disappointed in this whole situation, but 1030 00:58:48.599 --> 00:58:50.599 I think if we give it time, we give it 1031 00:58:50.599 --> 00:58:54.360 another couple of weeks, things might quiet down again. The 1032 00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:56.800 war on the Hole. In my opinion, it's been going 1033 00:58:56.840 --> 00:58:59.199 on slightly over three years now and it is reaching 1034 00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:03.079 its natural end, and so it'll just things take a 1035 00:59:03.119 --> 00:59:05.800 lot longer than I'd like them too, But I think 1036 00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:10.079 that we will have a peace agreement and it will 1037 00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:12.960 be something. There will be a new border close to 1038 00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.559 where the current front line is, if not even slightly 1039 00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:20.679 further west of where it currently is. So we just 1040 00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:23.559 have to give it time and eventually it'll happen. It's 1041 00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:26.440 still taken longer than i'd like it too, but I 1042 00:59:26.440 --> 00:59:29.519 think it'll happen in the next two months or so. 1043 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:33.039 Just to be arbitrary, now, what is this something here? 1044 00:59:33.199 --> 00:59:34.599 And I don't know if you would know anything on 1045 00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:36.280 this or not. I don't have any articles pulled up 1046 00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:39.480 on it. I saw a report earlier, and again it's like, 1047 00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:42.599 you really have to test the source on some of these, 1048 00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:46.719 because I see one article saying that there is thousands 1049 00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:49.440 of fighters from all over the world coming to join 1050 00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:52.280 the Ukrainian Foreign Legion as we speak, like they've just 1051 00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:55.199 got a whole new wave of recruits out of nowhere, 1052 00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:59.880 Like that's just happening. It's like, all right, is it the. 1053 01:00:01.880 --> 01:00:05.119 I've heard of mercenaries going there for the duration of 1054 01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:08.280 this war, They've always been pretty few in number. I'm 1055 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:11.079 not surprised that there's still some people going there, some 1056 01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:13.199 men going there who just love war and want to 1057 01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:16.239 gain its experience, and this is the place to do it. 1058 01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:19.280 I don't think it's going to make a hell of 1059 01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:22.480 a lot of difference. Also, I thought about what you 1060 01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:24.960 were telling you were saying last week, arguing about why 1061 01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:27.920 would Russia try to take Kiyev and Butcha early on 1062 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.920 in the war, and how would that How does that 1063 01:00:32.119 --> 01:00:38.400 because right right those are hostile regions, And I thought, well, 1064 01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:41.599 it's a little similar to how the Battle of Gettysburg 1065 01:00:41.639 --> 01:00:44.760 and the Civil War took place way up north in Pennsylvania, 1066 01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:48.440 And you could argue that see that means the South 1067 01:00:48.599 --> 01:00:52.719 was not the defense. They were more of an aggressor 1068 01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:57.039 in that situation. But you could also say that Russia's 1069 01:00:57.079 --> 01:01:00.519 invasion of Germany in nineteen forty five, Oh, that's not 1070 01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:03.159 self defense. They should have just stopped right where the 1071 01:01:03.159 --> 01:01:06.400 border started, but they just don't go that way. So 1072 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:12.519 I think you can't extend past the border, and it's 1073 01:01:12.519 --> 01:01:14.880 a little harder to make a self defense argument. But 1074 01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:17.360 these things are all kind of fluid and subjective anyway. 1075 01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:19.760 War kind of goes like that, And I get this 1076 01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:22.480 right one hundred percent, but now, and I'm not trying 1077 01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:25.400 to take the side of the Confederacy here, I do 1078 01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:29.280 think that is if you really look at it, I 1079 01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:35.559 understand it was about states' rights, but the main encompassing thing, yes, 1080 01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:38.440 taxation without representation was a part of it. All these things, 1081 01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:43.280 it was more or less slavery being a pretty big 1082 01:01:43.519 --> 01:01:46.360 maybe not the main, but at least a very major 1083 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:50.559 sticking point for it. The South seceeded peacefully. It was 1084 01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:53.280 only when the North attacked them in the South then 1085 01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:56.639 the South decided to take up arms against them. So 1086 01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:00.039 it wasn't that case for self defense. And I'm I 1087 01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:03.639 don't know, I agree. I could be wrong. I don't 1088 01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:09.159 believe that Ukrainian forces attacked Russian forces to kickstart this. 1089 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:10.840 I could be. 1090 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:14.760 Wrong, Okay. My take on it is that Ukrainian forces 1091 01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:21.199 were attacking the dun Yetsk and Lugansk People's republics, which 1092 01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:24.440 were established but not recognized by any other country in 1093 01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:26.599 the world. And they didn't even take up all of 1094 01:02:26.639 --> 01:02:29.079 the current space that you would color in on the 1095 01:02:29.119 --> 01:02:32.440 map as those places. They were kind of pressed into 1096 01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:38.639 the eastern corner of those oblasty And the reason this 1097 01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:42.920 happened was because Kiev thought in twenty twenty two that man, 1098 01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:45.400 we've had enough of this civil war. We should just 1099 01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:48.599 crush him right now. And that was why for about 1100 01:02:48.599 --> 01:02:53.239 two weeks leading up to February twenty fourth, twenty twenty two, 1101 01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:56.519 you just saw a build up on both sides, and 1102 01:02:56.559 --> 01:03:01.639 you saw increasing numbers of bombs dropping on these breakaway republics, 1103 01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:06.440 and Russia knew for sure that, yeah, Kiev's gonna win 1104 01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:11.360 this unless we intervene, and our people are demanding we intervene. 1105 01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:16.559 The public opinion within Russia was very very much against 1106 01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:20.760 Ukraine before the war started, So you know, how do 1107 01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:23.320 you how do you go against that, and Putin did 1108 01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:27.400 go against those opinion polls back in twenty fifteen when 1109 01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:31.760 the question was on the table to annex these breakaway republics, 1110 01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:36.440 he said, no, you know, yeah, yeah, you're right. He 1111 01:03:36.480 --> 01:03:39.360 did take Crimea, but he felt like the other two 1112 01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:43.039 breakaway republics would be kicking the Western hornets nest a 1113 01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:47.920 little too many times. So he went against the judgment 1114 01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:52.719 of maybe sixty percent of his country to you could say, 1115 01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:57.039 appease the West, if I'm gonna use a loaded term. 1116 01:03:57.639 --> 01:03:59.679 And I think he was trying to get along and 1117 01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:03.719 it was not reciprocated throughout the lifetime of the Minsk agreements. 1118 01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:07.119 So I think he was right to do what he 1119 01:04:07.159 --> 01:04:08.280 did in twenty twenty two. 1120 01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:12.000 Okay, so that's point one other thing that I again, 1121 01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:13.760 I had to like test the source. And I do 1122 01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:16.679 not know if this is a actual concern or if 1123 01:04:16.679 --> 01:04:18.480 this was some clickbaity shit or. 1124 01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:29.480 What allegedly Big Big italicized allegedly Russia Ai Putin is 1125 01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:35.920 nervous that China is gonna try to invade and take Siberia. 1126 01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:40.159 I don't know how substantiated those claims are. I do 1127 01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:42.079 know that there is a bit of a border dispute 1128 01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:45.679 in certain areas between China and a number of countries. 1129 01:04:46.239 --> 01:04:49.440 I've heard that there is some border disputes between China 1130 01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:53.400 and Russia along certain border parts, and that it's very 1131 01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:57.239 possible that China may try to muscle their way into 1132 01:04:57.320 --> 01:05:02.280 some less than overly populated areas of Russia. Have you 1133 01:05:02.360 --> 01:05:04.000 heard anything in this regard. 1134 01:05:04.679 --> 01:05:09.239 Not recently. I've only heard rumors of that from decades ago. 1135 01:05:09.320 --> 01:05:12.440 I remember patmu Kin and talking about that decades ago, 1136 01:05:13.079 --> 01:05:16.280 but nothing recently. No, I don't think so. In fact, 1137 01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:19.079 Putin and Shijin Ping have had several meetings over the 1138 01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:22.920 last few years where there's all kinds of very flowery 1139 01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:27.039 words like our partnership is stronger than ever, we're such 1140 01:05:27.079 --> 01:05:31.159 good friends. So maybe I kind of doubt that China 1141 01:05:31.159 --> 01:05:31.639 would do that. 1142 01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:32.440 Now. 1143 01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:34.559 They might look to, you know, buy up a bunch 1144 01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:37.000 of forests or something. They might look to buy it. 1145 01:05:38.199 --> 01:05:39.639 I don't think they would invade. 1146 01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:41.199 I thought that if they were going to do that, 1147 01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:44.320 they would go to the oil rigs right Siberia where 1148 01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:47.199 they had that perma frost. That's where the Russian oil 1149 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:48.280 derek's aren't they're not. 1150 01:05:49.599 --> 01:05:52.519 I think that's true. But then again, I think China 1151 01:05:52.519 --> 01:05:56.000 would just try to buy it instead of do anything 1152 01:05:56.039 --> 01:05:57.280 forceful or coercive. 1153 01:05:57.760 --> 01:05:59.679 Yeah, because I mean that's kind of been What's one 1154 01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:02.119 of the main things keeping the Russian economy alive is 1155 01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:06.000 that they're buying the China is buying Russian oil. So 1156 01:06:06.079 --> 01:06:08.519 I didn't whenever I read that report, I'm like, Okay, 1157 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:12.000 is Putin actually scared about a Chinese invasion or is 1158 01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:15.760 this more like a hypothetical wargame type of situation that 1159 01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:19.440 somebody has turned into an article. I couldn't substantiate it, 1160 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:24.159 So you know, you, being our resident almost Russian correspondent, 1161 01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:25.800 I had to know if you had heard anything on 1162 01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:30.280 your end about potential musclings of g I don't know. 1163 01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:33.880 Well, this could get into a little brief history lesson, 1164 01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:38.920 but China and Russia were best buddies back during the 1165 01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:43.559 early communist era and especially nineteen forty nine to nineteen 1166 01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:48.239 fifty eight. But there was a big schism over partly 1167 01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:51.719 a border dispute and some other crap. I don't really 1168 01:06:51.880 --> 01:06:55.440 recall that well. Yeah, but that's why Nixon went to 1169 01:06:55.599 --> 01:07:01.119 China in nineteen seventy two on Kissinger's advice. They drove 1170 01:07:01.159 --> 01:07:03.679 a wedge between the Soviet Union and China, and that 1171 01:07:03.760 --> 01:07:05.320 worked fantastically. 1172 01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:09.480 Oh really, we just did an episode on the Cult 1173 01:07:09.559 --> 01:07:13.480 about the lost cosmonauts, right, and one of the stories 1174 01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:16.239 of one of these lost cosmonauts Long story short TLDR. 1175 01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:20.639 The Russian space program had a couple of failed attempts 1176 01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:24.360 for launch, and when these cosmonauts burned up, they pretty 1177 01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:27.039 much just wiped the records airbrushed them out of pictures 1178 01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:29.639 of the cosmonaut class and they're just like, what are 1179 01:07:29.639 --> 01:07:31.679 you talking about. Look, guy, we didn't have any failed 1180 01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:34.039 lunches whatever. And again this is during the Soviet Union 1181 01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:37.039 time frame, big space race going on, all these things. 1182 01:07:37.440 --> 01:07:42.199 One of these guys, Vladimir Illusian, if not mistaken, he 1183 01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:46.760 was actually the first manned flight to orbit the Earth, 1184 01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:49.000 but he had some sort of a malfunction and he 1185 01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:52.880 landed in China. This is during that time, like you're saying, 1186 01:07:52.920 --> 01:07:55.639 it was early sixties when China and Russia were kind 1187 01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:58.239 of on the outs because they were tight. They were 1188 01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:02.119 boys in the early days of the Soviets and the 1189 01:08:02.920 --> 01:08:05.880 Communist Chinese Revolution, all these things up until the fifties, 1190 01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:08.760 like you said, early sixties, they were on the outs, 1191 01:08:09.159 --> 01:08:11.840 and China arrested this guy and kept him in a 1192 01:08:11.840 --> 01:08:14.719 prison for over a year, thinking that he was a 1193 01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:18.600 Russian spy. In reality, it was an accidental crash landing 1194 01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:21.479 on Chinese soil. Then when he gets back to Russia, 1195 01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:23.960 his entire file gets scrubbed and they call him a 1196 01:08:23.960 --> 01:08:25.880 bull faced liar and say he was never a part 1197 01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:28.920 of the space program. So like, it's like you said, 1198 01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:30.680 a little bit of that history lesson. It's in that 1199 01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:33.319 timeframe where China and Russia kind of were on the outs. 1200 01:08:33.359 --> 01:08:36.640 Now they made up, of course, but yeah, there was 1201 01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:39.159 a weird section there of about a decade and some 1202 01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:43.119 change where they were not as homies as they are 1203 01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:48.840 now for sure. I don't know. I don't know, man. 1204 01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:52.199 I just wanted to throw on one more thing. There's 1205 01:08:52.199 --> 01:08:55.159 this thing called just war theory. I'm not a fan 1206 01:08:55.199 --> 01:08:58.600 of it. It's this big Catholic church teaching that goes 1207 01:08:58.640 --> 01:09:01.399 back to Saint Augustine from about four hundred a d. 1208 01:09:02.279 --> 01:09:06.640 And he said, well, war can be conducted, but it's 1209 01:09:06.680 --> 01:09:09.039 going to abide by three principles. Number one, it should 1210 01:09:09.079 --> 01:09:12.279 be defensive rather than aggressive. Number two, it should try 1211 01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:16.359 to minimize civilian casualties, and number three, there has to 1212 01:09:16.359 --> 01:09:19.359 be a decent probability of success. And the reason I 1213 01:09:19.359 --> 01:09:22.279 think that it's useless is that everybody always thinks that 1214 01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:24.039 their war is going to meet all three of those. 1215 01:09:24.520 --> 01:09:28.039 It's always in self defense, and it's always going to 1216 01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:30.159 be easy. We're going to be home by Christmas, and 1217 01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:33.039 we're always going to avoid civilian casualties because we're the 1218 01:09:33.119 --> 01:09:35.800 most moral army in the world. Everyone always believes that. 1219 01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:38.840 Everyone always tends to believe that about their own group. 1220 01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:43.279 They're a country, their nation or whatever. So yeah, I'm 1221 01:09:43.279 --> 01:09:44.000 not a fan of it. 1222 01:09:44.359 --> 01:09:47.880 I am a fan of old Saint Augustine slash Augustine. 1223 01:09:47.880 --> 01:09:50.600 However people want to pronounce it. I'm not educated enough 1224 01:09:50.640 --> 01:09:53.039 to know which way is the proper pronunciation. But he 1225 01:09:53.239 --> 01:09:56.520 himself as a figure. Have you looked into the life 1226 01:09:56.560 --> 01:09:58.159 of him. 1227 01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:00.840 Didn't he start out as a pagan or his mother 1228 01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:02.880 prayed for him a lot. Her name was Saint Helena, 1229 01:10:02.920 --> 01:10:06.119 and he eventually became a Christian. He read Catholic or 1230 01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:09.840 Saint Augustina Hippos it's in North Africa, and he wrote. 1231 01:10:10.079 --> 01:10:14.039 He wrote voluminous bunch of letters and stuff. 1232 01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:18.319 He wrote more books than Paul the Apostle, and that 1233 01:10:18.399 --> 01:10:22.560 shit got turned into the New Testament. Augustine Augustine Webber. 1234 01:10:22.920 --> 01:10:26.600 He was a pagan, he was big into literature, He 1235 01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:28.880 was a part of the neo Playtonism movement at one 1236 01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:32.039 point in time. All of these things until he found 1237 01:10:32.039 --> 01:10:35.119 his truth and he got the you know, the grace 1238 01:10:35.159 --> 01:10:38.640 and mercy revealed to him, and he became a diehard Christian. 1239 01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:42.560 And with that he was so motivated that he went 1240 01:10:42.600 --> 01:10:45.319 on to write, like I want to say, it's like 1241 01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:49.199 forty different volumes of literature that is still studied by 1242 01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:52.560 scholars today. As far as like what the true Church 1243 01:10:52.760 --> 01:10:55.399 should be now, granted, he borrowed a lot of the 1244 01:10:55.439 --> 01:10:59.840 philosophical thought processes from some of his earlier teachings and 1245 01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:02.920 his scholarly studies from before he found Christ and all 1246 01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:05.520 these things, but as far as a guy who was 1247 01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:08.399 motivated for the cause and got after it for work, 1248 01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:10.720 I mean, I at least got to get props to 1249 01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:11.079 the boy. 1250 01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:18.079 Yeah. I think war time or philosophy before that, political 1251 01:11:18.079 --> 01:11:22.840 philosophy was way more primitive and Nietzschean and saying that 1252 01:11:22.880 --> 01:11:25.800 the powers full should rule over the week. I think 1253 01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:29.439 that's the general feel I get from Roman and Pagan right, 1254 01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:34.880 it's like you're more of a trying to christianize it. Sorry, 1255 01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:37.119 what are you more of a Machiavellian type guy? 1256 01:11:38.199 --> 01:11:41.560 I mean, there's really a little bit here. By the way, 1257 01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:43.159 there's no wrong answers. 1258 01:11:43.439 --> 01:11:46.640 I feel like Augustine's perspective would be really useful if 1259 01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:50.640 it could be more scientifically done, and if there were 1260 01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:54.239 any way to say scientifically and quantitatively which side of 1261 01:11:54.279 --> 01:11:56.119 a war is right and which side is wrong from 1262 01:11:56.159 --> 01:12:00.640 the outside outset, I should say, But the problem everybody 1263 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:04.239 brings so many assumptions to the table that we're never 1264 01:12:04.319 --> 01:12:06.760 going to be able to do that right. So that's 1265 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:09.159 why it's never prevented a war. To my knowledge, it 1266 01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:13.479 probably never will prevent a war. So we can gibber 1267 01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:16.239 jabber about just war theory, but in my opinion, it's 1268 01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:17.520 actually not that useful. 1269 01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:20.640 I believe there are there is such a thing as 1270 01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:23.439 a just war I don't believe that we've been involved 1271 01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:28.800 with one for quite some time, if arguably ever. Like 1272 01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:31.319 real ship the Civil War, Oh, it was a just 1273 01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:36.319 war because it was to abolish slavery. Okay, on the surface, 1274 01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:39.479 that one sentence completely out of context. Of course, it 1275 01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:43.039 was a just war. When you look at the dirty 1276 01:12:43.319 --> 01:12:46.479 underbelly of what that all entails and the other fifty 1277 01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:49.359 other things that were the onset to that war, it's 1278 01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:53.119 not so clear cut. The Revolutionary War, well, it was 1279 01:12:53.159 --> 01:12:54.840 a clear war to get out of the you know, 1280 01:12:55.000 --> 01:12:58.000 King George and all that, except for the fact that 1281 01:12:58.079 --> 01:13:00.560 it was started by a bunch of aristocratic white dudes 1282 01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:03.560 that didn't want to pay their taxes. And then it 1283 01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:08.560 becomes less clear cut World War two, America getting involved 1284 01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:11.920 with it, Yeah, we from that platitude can say that 1285 01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:14.880 it was a just war. Keep in mind, it was 1286 01:13:14.920 --> 01:13:17.199 going on for years before we got involved with it, 1287 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:19.560 and hell, before we got old with it, half of 1288 01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:24.079 America supported Hitler. It's a whole other thing. I've seen 1289 01:13:24.159 --> 01:13:29.119 so many pictures of protesters saying quit sending weapons to 1290 01:13:29.279 --> 01:13:33.520 Germany for their war. Why was America and North of 1291 01:13:33.560 --> 01:13:36.199 Grumming and all these Why were we sending weapons and 1292 01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:38.960 munitions to the Nazis at some point in time? Why 1293 01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:42.920 did Grandfather Bush why did he have such a crazy 1294 01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:45.600 connection to the Nazis. And then again you look at 1295 01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:48.239 it and it's like it's not exactly as just war 1296 01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:50.760 clear cut as it seems on the surface, right, it's 1297 01:13:50.760 --> 01:13:52.359 about whose history book you're reading. 1298 01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:56.000 So I wasn't aware that we gave any munitions, but 1299 01:13:56.199 --> 01:13:59.680 I was aware that the Sword Motor Company factories were 1300 01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:04.479 building tanks over there, and some oil companies were even 1301 01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:07.600 selling oil to the Germans in the war because they 1302 01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:08.920 had a license to do so. 1303 01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:13.680 Coverty wasn't sending weapons to Germany. Maybe he was sending 1304 01:14:13.720 --> 01:14:14.600 support to Germany. 1305 01:14:15.319 --> 01:14:18.279 Yeah, but you couldn't send any support unless you had 1306 01:14:18.279 --> 01:14:21.439 a license to and some of them got the license. 1307 01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:25.279 Here's a counterfacture to throw at you that has bugged 1308 01:14:25.279 --> 01:14:29.560 me for years. The British government, the British you know, Crown, 1309 01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:34.680 entertained the idea of emancipating slaves during the Revolutionary War, 1310 01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:37.680 and I just wonder if they had done that, would 1311 01:14:37.680 --> 01:14:41.039 everyone's moral calculus of the Did I say civil War, 1312 01:14:41.039 --> 01:14:47.079 I met Revolutionary War? And yeah, if they had done that, 1313 01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:49.840 would that have changed the whole moral calculus of the war. 1314 01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:52.439 Because most of their slaves were in North America, they 1315 01:14:52.479 --> 01:14:54.760 barely had any anywhere else. They had a few in 1316 01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:57.359 the Caribbean, and that would have had the same a 1317 01:14:57.439 --> 01:15:01.840 similar effect as the emancipation problem of eighteen sixty three. 1318 01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:06.239 But I don't think most Americans would be on board 1319 01:15:06.239 --> 01:15:09.880 with saying, oh, yeah, you know, throw George Washington under 1320 01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:12.079 the bus because he was a slave owner. So somehow 1321 01:15:12.079 --> 01:15:15.359 slavery's okay way back in seventeen seventy six, but then 1322 01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:19.479 in eighteen sixty one to sixty five, now, all of 1323 01:15:19.520 --> 01:15:21.760 a sudden, it's a moral abomination, and we have a 1324 01:15:21.840 --> 01:15:24.880 right to, you know, conquer the people practicing it and 1325 01:15:24.920 --> 01:15:25.840 force them to stop. 1326 01:15:26.319 --> 01:15:26.600 Right. 1327 01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:28.680 And there's a bit of a double standard. 1328 01:15:28.399 --> 01:15:31.239 There, absolutely, And I mean there have been people to 1329 01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:34.520 throw all of the shit at Thomas Jefferson for having 1330 01:15:34.560 --> 01:15:37.560 bastard children with some of his slaves, right, George Washington 1331 01:15:37.560 --> 01:15:40.319 for being a slave owner. All the founding fathers, most 1332 01:15:40.319 --> 01:15:42.800 of them, not all, most of them were slave owners. 1333 01:15:42.840 --> 01:15:44.600 They were the wealthy elites of the day and age. 1334 01:15:44.640 --> 01:15:46.319 And that's kind of a thing that the wealthy elites 1335 01:15:46.359 --> 01:15:48.600 had in their stable, if you will. It was, it 1336 01:15:48.640 --> 01:15:51.960 was a part of it. And to that point, if 1337 01:15:52.119 --> 01:15:56.279 Britain would have emancipated the slave population of the colonies 1338 01:15:56.319 --> 01:15:58.399 at the time, I feel like that would have even 1339 01:15:58.479 --> 01:16:02.000 led to a harder and faster. I could be completely 1340 01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:05.520 wrong here, but they had abolitionists as far back as 1341 01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:09.319 the Revolutionary War. It just was way more quiet of 1342 01:16:09.359 --> 01:16:13.119 a talking point and the other thing, all right, I 1343 01:16:13.199 --> 01:16:16.199 understand that America has an ugly past when it comes 1344 01:16:16.199 --> 01:16:19.520 to the Transatlantic slave trade, not trying to underplay that 1345 01:16:19.760 --> 01:16:22.720 or undermine that in any way, shape or form. Does 1346 01:16:22.760 --> 01:16:25.960 everybody understand that Brazil got three times the amount of 1347 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:29.479 slaves from the Transatlantic slave trade that we got, like 1348 01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:34.000 Portugal put three times the amount of enslaved human beings 1349 01:16:34.279 --> 01:16:38.239 on a whole other continent, And somehow they get no shit, 1350 01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:41.520 they get no shade in that regard. It's just America 1351 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:43.119 because we're evil, you. 1352 01:16:43.119 --> 01:16:46.399 Know, right right, Yeah, I've noticed, but I think most 1353 01:16:46.399 --> 01:16:47.439 people are unaware of that. 1354 01:16:48.079 --> 01:16:48.520 Yeah. 1355 01:16:48.560 --> 01:16:51.720 Also, you know, Brazil was a worse place to go, 1356 01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:54.840 oh my god, Yeah, worst climate. It was mostly the 1357 01:16:54.920 --> 01:16:57.680 men who ended up there. There were very few African women. 1358 01:16:57.760 --> 01:16:59.800 Most of these men just went to their graves without 1359 01:16:59.800 --> 01:17:02.560 how having children. The ones who ended up in North 1360 01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:04.239 America were a little. 1361 01:17:03.920 --> 01:17:07.640 Bit luckier, slightly slightly everybody. 1362 01:17:07.960 --> 01:17:11.560 It's not saying much, right, but that's why we have 1363 01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:15.479 something like a similar black population is what's down there now. 1364 01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:19.359 Also another thing, Yeah, William Wilberforce was he around eighteen 1365 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:24.000 hundred abolishing slavery in the British Empire. And when the 1366 01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:26.760 US went to war with England again in eighteen twelve, 1367 01:17:26.760 --> 01:17:29.680 we were just talking about the Eleventh Commandment with boats. Yes, 1368 01:17:29.840 --> 01:17:31.479 had something to do with the start of that. It 1369 01:17:31.560 --> 01:17:35.800 wore eighteen twelve. But the British were trying to tell 1370 01:17:36.039 --> 01:17:40.159 American slaves, you know, you should, you should desert and 1371 01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:43.239 come over to our side. We'll emancipate you. And that 1372 01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:46.279 actually attracted a fair number of them. And that's partly 1373 01:17:46.319 --> 01:17:49.000 why I know I sound like a liberal now. But 1374 01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:54.840 when Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner, he 1375 01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:58.439 included a line that said that no grace could slight 1376 01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:01.680 save the hireling and slave in the Land of the 1377 01:18:01.720 --> 01:18:03.439 Free and the Home of the brain. He was talking 1378 01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:07.199 about slaves who were deserting to go join the British. 1379 01:18:07.399 --> 01:18:12.439 Yeah, now, okay, that shouldn't be a liberal thing to say, right, 1380 01:18:12.479 --> 01:18:18.159 But it has become that Acknowledging history means acknowledging all 1381 01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:21.159 of it. Some of it's ugly, some of it. We 1382 01:18:21.720 --> 01:18:25.479 Republican Democrat whatever side of it, we can all acknowledge 1383 01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:30.159 that slavery's bad. That shouldn't be a liberal talking point. 1384 01:18:30.399 --> 01:18:32.079 It's easy to do today. 1385 01:18:32.239 --> 01:18:37.079 Yeah, exactly, exactly, and I mean, ugh, like we were 1386 01:18:37.119 --> 01:18:41.640 talking about earlier, right, a just war is that even possible? 1387 01:18:42.600 --> 01:18:46.039 I could argue that freeing enslaved people, not just in 1388 01:18:46.079 --> 01:18:50.359 America right now, Africa, the Mauritania, for the record, you 1389 01:18:50.439 --> 01:18:53.760 can still own slaves. That's a country in Africa. And 1390 01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:56.560 for the record, Sub Saharan Africans are the ones that 1391 01:18:56.560 --> 01:19:00.279 are enslaved more than the Upper Saharan Africans as far 1392 01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:04.319 as that country is concerned. Slavery still it's been illegal 1393 01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:09.800 since like nineteen eighty one, nineteen eighty one, but it's 1394 01:19:09.800 --> 01:19:14.119 not exactly illegal, it's more like frowned upon. Right now, 1395 01:19:14.159 --> 01:19:17.640 if a country America written Chad, I don't give a 1396 01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:22.000 fuck was to launch a war to abolish the slavery 1397 01:19:22.039 --> 01:19:25.800 in that country, on the surface, that could be seen 1398 01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:29.680 as a just war. But then to get involved in 1399 01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:32.479 any type of war you almost are forced to take 1400 01:19:32.560 --> 01:19:35.640 a Machiavellian approach to it. There's no way around that. 1401 01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:39.199 And no, I don't mean some men are born better 1402 01:19:39.239 --> 01:19:41.880 than others. I don't mean that as far as Machiavellian goes. 1403 01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:45.840 What I mean by that is essentially, you can't make 1404 01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:48.800 an amad without cracking a few eggs. And I don't 1405 01:19:48.840 --> 01:19:51.439 mean that to the terms of how not to throw 1406 01:19:51.479 --> 01:19:56.159 shade at Russia, but also their thought process as far 1407 01:19:56.199 --> 01:19:58.079 as how many eggs you crack to make an omelet, 1408 01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:01.720 I find to be absurd. Neither here nor there. That's 1409 01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:04.039 not just a Russian tactic. That's a tactic that China 1410 01:20:04.079 --> 01:20:06.239 has used over the years. That's a tactic that Hell 1411 01:20:06.319 --> 01:20:09.239 America has used it. At a certain point, Nazi Germany 1412 01:20:09.239 --> 01:20:12.119 did it with the Blitzkriek tactics. There's a certain level 1413 01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:16.119 where you understand that you are going to sacrifice a 1414 01:20:16.399 --> 01:20:19.319 massive amount of numbers for your side in order to 1415 01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:22.520 accomplish the objective. And at a certain point it's like, 1416 01:20:22.760 --> 01:20:25.239 was the objective worth it if it cost that much 1417 01:20:25.319 --> 01:20:28.399 life in order to get And it's like in the 1418 01:20:28.479 --> 01:20:32.079 moment it might seem that way. Decades later, somebody, some 1419 01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:36.039 armchair historian or two to people on a podcast one 1420 01:20:36.119 --> 01:20:39.319 day are gonna look at it from the outside and say, look, 1421 01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:41.920 the math clearly didn't equate, why did they do this 1422 01:20:41.960 --> 01:20:43.600 in the first place, and all this So it's like 1423 01:20:44.840 --> 01:20:47.640 to be a leader of a nation, or even a 1424 01:20:47.720 --> 01:20:50.880 leader of a military, not just of a certain branch, 1425 01:20:51.119 --> 01:20:53.479 some sort of a high level general of any type 1426 01:20:53.560 --> 01:20:57.640 or an admiral. You almost are forced to take a 1427 01:20:58.119 --> 01:21:02.279 cold cut, machiavellion approach to things. And it's not comfortable, 1428 01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:05.359 it's not fun, it's not good. But at what point 1429 01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:08.319 do we decide what is a just war and what 1430 01:21:08.560 --> 01:21:11.560 is a just cause? Because that's just a matter of 1431 01:21:11.600 --> 01:21:16.640 perspective in most of the cases, I would think, yeah. 1432 01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:19.520 And it's normally up to the political leaders of the 1433 01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:23.680 country to start the war, and the military brass normally 1434 01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:28.359 considers it their professional responsibility not to be political and 1435 01:21:28.399 --> 01:21:32.039 to just do their job of executing it as efficiently 1436 01:21:32.079 --> 01:21:35.920 as possible and not get into the decision making morality 1437 01:21:35.960 --> 01:21:38.840 side of it. I would say, that's pretty normal. 1438 01:21:38.840 --> 01:21:45.319 Right, Yeah, I do enjoy these conversations, everybody, just y'all. No, 1439 01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:49.880 I do love Wednesday nights. All right, So all right, 1440 01:21:49.920 --> 01:21:52.520 let's move into this article here. It's from the Associated Press, 1441 01:21:52.560 --> 01:21:55.520 So everybody go ahead and put on those blinders to 1442 01:21:55.600 --> 01:22:00.159 understand the stance that this article is probably gonna take here, 1443 01:22:00.680 --> 01:22:03.960 but as this alleged two hour phone call took place 1444 01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:07.079 between Trump and Putin, which again I was very excited 1445 01:22:07.119 --> 01:22:09.960 to hear about, because Putin just recently threw up the 1446 01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:12.600 middle finger and said, never mind, we ain't doing no ceasefire. 1447 01:22:12.640 --> 01:22:14.760 We're getting after it. Then Ukraine launched these bombs b 1448 01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:17.159 ba bah. When I heard that Trump and Putin had 1449 01:22:17.159 --> 01:22:18.960 finally talked on the phone for a good minute, I 1450 01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:21.000 was like, Okay, hold on, now we might get a 1451 01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:24.279 little bit of some movement, we might get a little understanding, 1452 01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:26.640 maybe some deals could be made. Let's see what happens here. 1453 01:22:26.640 --> 01:22:29.600 So let's read in here. The Trump Putin phone call 1454 01:22:29.720 --> 01:22:32.880 gave the Kremlin leader a chance to pivot away from 1455 01:22:32.920 --> 01:22:37.279 the war in Ukraine. They talked about the fighting in Ukraine, 1456 01:22:37.319 --> 01:22:40.159 of course, but the US and Russian presidents also chatted 1457 01:22:40.159 --> 01:22:43.840 about improving relations between Washington and Moscow, peace in the 1458 01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:48.800 Middle East, global security, and even hockey games. And I'm 1459 01:22:48.840 --> 01:22:51.640 hoping I don't know which hockey games in particular they 1460 01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:54.279 talked about. I don't know if they talked about was 1461 01:22:54.279 --> 01:22:58.359 that the miracle on ice, the Olympic team or whatever, 1462 01:22:58.439 --> 01:23:00.880 I hope they talked about the Bronch Street brawlers, the 1463 01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:04.279 time that the Philadelphia Flyers put the beating of a 1464 01:23:04.319 --> 01:23:08.279 lifetime on the Soviet hockey players, but that way back 1465 01:23:08.279 --> 01:23:11.600 in the day. Anyway, During more than two hours, During 1466 01:23:11.640 --> 01:23:14.159 the more than two hour chat, the longest such call 1467 01:23:14.199 --> 01:23:17.439 between the country's leaders in years, Donald Trump and Vladimir 1468 01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:19.800 Putin covered a range of topics, and, importantly, for Putin, 1469 01:23:19.880 --> 01:23:21.880 the conversation gave him a chance to pivot away from 1470 01:23:21.880 --> 01:23:24.359 the war in Ukraine and engage in more broadly on 1471 01:23:24.479 --> 01:23:28.479 global issues, drawing a line under Washington's pass efforts to 1472 01:23:28.520 --> 01:23:32.600 cast him as an international pariah. Tuesday's phone call appeared 1473 01:23:32.600 --> 01:23:35.640 to reflect both leader's interests in mending the US Russian 1474 01:23:35.720 --> 01:23:39.079 ties that have plummeted to their lowest points since the 1475 01:23:39.079 --> 01:23:42.159 Cold War amid the three year conflict in Ukraine. The 1476 01:23:42.239 --> 01:23:45.119 Kremlin and the state controlled Russian media praised it as 1477 01:23:45.239 --> 01:23:48.479 a long sought launch of an equal dialogue between the 1478 01:23:48.520 --> 01:23:53.359 two nuclear superpowers. A halt in fighting, I'm sorry, a 1479 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:56.600 halt of fighting in Ukraine seems as distant as ever. 1480 01:23:57.479 --> 01:23:59.399 While both the White House and the Kremlin cast of 1481 01:23:59.479 --> 01:24:02.920 discussion as a key step towards peace in Ukraine, Putin's 1482 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:07.359 uncompromising demands are making a truce elusive. Seeking to cultivate 1483 01:24:07.399 --> 01:24:10.520 warm ties with Washington, Putin accepted a halt on strikes 1484 01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:14.600 on energy infrastructure, while avoiding the outright rejection of Trump's 1485 01:24:14.600 --> 01:24:18.760 thirty day ceasefire. The Krilin leader leaked excuse me. The 1486 01:24:18.840 --> 01:24:22.079 Krimlin leader linked it to a halt in Western arms 1487 01:24:22.079 --> 01:24:26.159 supplies and a freeze on Kiev's mobilization effort, conditions that 1488 01:24:26.279 --> 01:24:29.840 Ukraine and its allies firmly reject. Unlike Kiev, which accepted 1489 01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:33.880 trunk ceasefire offer amid a series of battlefield setbacks, Putin 1490 01:24:33.960 --> 01:24:37.840 appears to have little interest in a quick succession of hostilities. 1491 01:24:37.880 --> 01:24:41.399 With Russian forces firmly holding the initiative on the battlefield, 1492 01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:44.560 Ukraine is on the verge of completely losing its foothold 1493 01:24:44.600 --> 01:24:47.560 in Russia's Curk region. We discussed that earlier one hundred percent, 1494 01:24:48.039 --> 01:24:51.920 whereas forces are clinging to a sliver of land along 1495 01:24:51.960 --> 01:24:55.039 the border after their surprise incursion in August of twenty 1496 01:24:55.039 --> 01:24:59.199 twenty four. Russia's offensive shattered Kiev's hopes of exchanging its 1497 01:24:59.239 --> 01:25:02.119 gains and curage for some of the territory Moscow captured 1498 01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:05.319 elsewhere in Ukraine. Got a couple of pictures here if 1499 01:25:05.359 --> 01:25:09.000 some of the wreckage and all these things. Putin said, 1500 01:25:09.039 --> 01:25:12.479 Ukrainian forces that remain in Kursk are surrounded, a claim 1501 01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:16.119 echoed by Trump, even though Kiev denies its soldiers are 1502 01:25:16.359 --> 01:25:19.479 encircled again. You can only deny that for so long, dude. 1503 01:25:19.560 --> 01:25:21.079 It's only going to be a matter of time before 1504 01:25:21.079 --> 01:25:22.720 they're gonna have to either a throw up the white 1505 01:25:22.760 --> 01:25:27.920 flag or b gets slaughtered. Ukrainian officials fear that Russia 1506 01:25:27.960 --> 01:25:31.840 could try to attack the nearby Sumi region that borders Kirsk. 1507 01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:34.560 At the same time, the Russian army is pressing offenses 1508 01:25:34.840 --> 01:25:38.479 in several sectors of the Dunesque region in eastern Ukraine. 1509 01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:42.800 By making the ceasefire conditions on a freeze of arms 1510 01:25:42.800 --> 01:25:45.720 supplies to Ukraine and its mobilization effort, Putin is trying 1511 01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:48.960 to cement Russia's gains and force Kiev to cave into 1512 01:25:48.960 --> 01:25:52.359 Moscow's demands. He wants Ukraine to withdraw its forces from 1513 01:25:52.399 --> 01:25:56.359 the four regions that Russia illegally annexed but never fully captured, 1514 01:25:56.680 --> 01:25:59.760 renounce its bid to join NATO and radically trim its 1515 01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:03.520 military Putin's acceptance of a halt on strikes on Ukraine's 1516 01:26:03.600 --> 01:26:06.479 energy facilities has allowed Trump to claim at least partial 1517 01:26:06.520 --> 01:26:09.760 success for his peacemaking effort. But the move wasn't a 1518 01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:14.159 major secession, a concession by Moscow given the massive damage 1519 01:26:14.159 --> 01:26:18.920 to Ukraine's power grid from years of attacks. Discussion between 1520 01:26:18.960 --> 01:26:21.880 the two superpowers, and I don't like how they put 1521 01:26:21.960 --> 01:26:25.079 quote unquote on two superpowers. I would argue there's only 1522 01:26:25.439 --> 01:26:29.800 one superpower on that phone call, but whatever. While seeking 1523 01:26:29.800 --> 01:26:32.319 to expand its military gains in the Ukraine to dictate 1524 01:26:32.359 --> 01:26:35.359 peace terms, Putin also used the call to shift the 1525 01:26:35.399 --> 01:26:39.119 discussion away from the ceasefire to other global issues he 1526 01:26:39.199 --> 01:26:42.760 appeared to win Trump's interest. The White House says it 1527 01:26:42.760 --> 01:26:45.640 it's readout of the call that the leaders spoke broadly 1528 01:26:45.640 --> 01:26:48.119 about the Middle East as a region of potential cooperation 1529 01:26:48.239 --> 01:26:52.279 to prevent future conflicts, discussed the need to stop proliferation 1530 01:26:52.359 --> 01:26:55.640 of strategic weapons, and agreed that a future with an 1531 01:26:55.680 --> 01:26:59.359 improved bilateral relationship between the United States and Russia has 1532 01:26:59.399 --> 01:27:02.479 a huge up side. I think that goes without saying here. 1533 01:27:02.520 --> 01:27:04.880 I mean, everybody getting along is just better for business. 1534 01:27:05.359 --> 01:27:09.800 And again, what is Trump if not a businessman? This 1535 01:27:09.880 --> 01:27:13.720 includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has 1536 01:27:13.760 --> 01:27:17.479 been achieved, it said the US Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff, 1537 01:27:17.520 --> 01:27:19.960 who flew to Moscow last week to meet with Putin, 1538 01:27:20.039 --> 01:27:23.600 praised both leaders and offered optimism the Kremlin was moving 1539 01:27:23.640 --> 01:27:27.760 towards a broader truce. I would commend President Putin for 1540 01:27:27.800 --> 01:27:30.159 all he did today on that call to move his 1541 01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:33.399 country close to a final peace deal, Witkoff told Fox News, 1542 01:27:34.039 --> 01:27:36.359 and I would give all the credit to President Trump. 1543 01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:40.239 I can't overstate how compelling he was on this call. Okay, 1544 01:27:40.239 --> 01:27:41.960 of course he's going to be slobbing on that nob 1545 01:27:41.960 --> 01:27:43.960 at least a little bit. It's kind of his job, 1546 01:27:44.000 --> 01:27:48.560 I get it. H Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskoff underline that 1547 01:27:48.640 --> 01:27:52.319 Putin and Trump understand each other well, trust each other, 1548 01:27:52.399 --> 01:27:57.680 and intend to move gradually toward normalization of Russia US relations. 1549 01:27:58.119 --> 01:28:01.119 Russian State TV and other krimlin Can controlled media hailed 1550 01:28:01.119 --> 01:28:04.439 the call as a move towards broad cooperation between Moscow 1551 01:28:04.520 --> 01:28:15.520 and Washington. The pro Kremlin tabloid One more Time, Pravda, 1552 01:28:17.119 --> 01:28:22.680 Thank God, you're here, Tony. I swear to Jesus That 1553 01:28:23.199 --> 01:28:27.479 tabloid noted that normalization of relations between two nuclear powers 1554 01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:32.000 superpowers was on the agenda, and state news agency Ria 1555 01:28:32.159 --> 01:28:37.319 Novisti Novosti Yeah pointed at the evolving partners relations between 1556 01:28:37.359 --> 01:28:39.960 the US and Russia. This format is in line with 1557 01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:43.760 a new vision of a multipolar world that is apparently 1558 01:28:43.800 --> 01:28:45.840 shared by both the White House and the Kremlin, it 1559 01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:53.239 said uh Tasiana Stanovaya Yeah of the Carnegie Endowment said quote, 1560 01:28:53.319 --> 01:28:57.239 the most significant outcome was the implicit acceptance of US 1561 01:28:57.399 --> 01:29:02.079 Russian cooperation on key international and bilateral issues. She added 1562 01:29:02.119 --> 01:29:06.359 that this marks an obvious victory for Putin, who seeks 1563 01:29:06.399 --> 01:29:12.560 to decouple bilateral relations from the Ukrainian War. I okay, 1564 01:29:12.600 --> 01:29:14.399 I guess it's her job to kind of slob on 1565 01:29:14.439 --> 01:29:17.439 Putin's novel a little bit here. So okay, obviously a decent, 1566 01:29:17.840 --> 01:29:21.000 amicable phone call between Trump and Putin. Trump's guy is 1567 01:29:21.039 --> 01:29:24.760 gonna be he was so compelling. Meanwhile, Putin's chick is 1568 01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:28.119 all like, this is obviously a victory for Putin. Again, 1569 01:29:28.439 --> 01:29:30.560 we got we gotta make sure we're keeping all of 1570 01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:34.079 the sources on the up and up here. The ongoing 1571 01:29:34.119 --> 01:29:39.680 detoxification of Russia continues, she said in commentary, even noting 1572 01:29:39.720 --> 01:29:43.359 an agreement on Putin's proposal to organize hockey matches between 1573 01:29:43.439 --> 01:29:48.920 Russian and American players. First of all, I am here 1574 01:29:49.000 --> 01:29:53.960 for that. That would be great. But also maybe I'm 1575 01:29:54.000 --> 01:29:56.239 just being a little extra on that one, because we 1576 01:29:56.399 --> 01:29:59.560 just watched the Canadian American hockey games take place, and 1577 01:29:59.600 --> 01:30:02.760 that will is a full on brawl that happened to 1578 01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:04.840 have a puck getting slapped around from time to time, 1579 01:30:05.680 --> 01:30:08.159 and I love the combat of it all. So a 1580 01:30:08.239 --> 01:30:12.600 Russia America hockey match I wouldn't want much hockey to 1581 01:30:12.640 --> 01:30:15.359 get played, honestly, and it's not because like I'm over here, 1582 01:30:15.359 --> 01:30:17.279 like oh fuck the comerce right, no no, no, no, 1583 01:30:17.279 --> 01:30:21.520 no no no. But also hockey has fist fighting within it, 1584 01:30:21.920 --> 01:30:23.760 and I think that that would be a rip snort 1585 01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:25.720 in good time to watch. I could be wrong, I 1586 01:30:25.720 --> 01:30:30.520 don't know. Now Ukraine and Europe take a backseat. Ukrainian 1587 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:33.840 President vladimir's Alensky responded to the Putin Trump call by 1588 01:30:33.880 --> 01:30:37.840 warning that quote trying to negotiate without Ukraine, in my view, 1589 01:30:37.920 --> 01:30:44.600 will not be productive. Okay, dude, you bro you literally 1590 01:30:44.680 --> 01:30:47.640 just tried to hold a NATO summit without America to 1591 01:30:47.760 --> 01:30:52.039 further your own ends and realize how empty of a 1592 01:30:52.119 --> 01:30:55.600 promise everybody else could give you. Now you're upset that 1593 01:30:55.640 --> 01:30:58.319 you weren't involved in a three way call. What are 1594 01:30:58.319 --> 01:31:02.640 we talking about here? Is Alenski? Stop it? Trump called 1595 01:31:02.720 --> 01:31:06.199 Zelensky for about an hour Wednesday and said on a 1596 01:31:06.239 --> 01:31:09.760 social media post that the conversation was to align both 1597 01:31:09.840 --> 01:31:13.920 Russia and Ukraine in terms of their requests and needs 1598 01:31:14.399 --> 01:31:18.199 the creation of the US and Russian working groups to 1599 01:31:18.319 --> 01:31:22.039 ponder ceasefire specifics and a possible deal to ensuring on 1600 01:31:22.199 --> 01:31:25.720 ensuring the safe shipping Indie Black Sea that was mentioned 1601 01:31:25.720 --> 01:31:28.560 in the Kremlin readout of the Trump Putin call marked 1602 01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:31.920 yet another move towards discussing the fate of Ukraine in 1603 01:31:31.960 --> 01:31:36.680 its absence, upending the Biden administration's policy of nothing about 1604 01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:42.199 Ukraine without Ukraine again. I you know, I get, I 1605 01:31:42.319 --> 01:31:46.760 understand why one of the main players in this situation 1606 01:31:46.800 --> 01:31:49.720 would like to be involved in every conversation about the situation. 1607 01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:53.439 I get that. However, let's not forget. Was it not 1608 01:31:53.600 --> 01:31:56.800 even two weeks ago that he showed his ass in 1609 01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:59.680 the Oval Office when he was completely included in the 1610 01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:03.119 conver So at a certain point, you know what, the 1611 01:32:03.159 --> 01:32:05.760 grownups have to have a conversation without the children butting 1612 01:32:05.800 --> 01:32:09.199 in every few seconds. I know that's just me. Maybe 1613 01:32:09.199 --> 01:32:11.640 I'm just a little jaded towards it. I don't know. 1614 01:32:12.359 --> 01:32:15.880 The conversation didn't bring good news either to either Kiev 1615 01:32:16.039 --> 01:32:22.439 or Europe, who saw themselves clearly ignored, said Fyodor Lukyanov, 1616 01:32:22.680 --> 01:32:25.880 a Moscow based political analyst familiar with the Kremlins, thinking 1617 01:32:26.399 --> 01:32:29.319 two great powers are discussing the settlement while paying little 1618 01:32:29.359 --> 01:32:35.439 attention to others. Yeah, stany Jova, Yeah, butchered that one. 1619 01:32:35.680 --> 01:32:38.800 Note that Putin has shifted discussion away from the ceasefire 1620 01:32:38.840 --> 01:32:42.239 while giving little in return. This is very bad news 1621 01:32:42.279 --> 01:32:45.239 for Ukraine, which is increasingly being treated as a bargaining 1622 01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:49.279 chip in this game, she said, Which has that not 1623 01:32:49.399 --> 01:32:51.520 been what it's been the entire time of this quote 1624 01:32:51.560 --> 01:32:55.119 unquote special military operation. It's all been a bargaining chip. 1625 01:32:55.560 --> 01:32:59.239 The land itself has been a bargaining ship. I didn't. 1626 01:32:59.279 --> 01:33:01.199 I kind of thought I was understood at this point, 1627 01:33:01.199 --> 01:33:05.800 But okay. Nigel Gould Davies, a senior fellow for Russia 1628 01:33:06.279 --> 01:33:10.600 and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, deplored 1629 01:33:10.760 --> 01:33:14.600 Trump's affinity or sympathy toward Putin and his reluctance to 1630 01:33:14.640 --> 01:33:18.640 significantly punish or constrain Russia, which allows the Kremlin leader 1631 01:33:18.720 --> 01:33:22.239 to stick to his strategy to grind down Ukraine militarily 1632 01:33:22.359 --> 01:33:25.720 and outlast the West politically. Russia wants to decide the 1633 01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:28.680 fate of Ukraine and ultimately of Europe, with the United 1634 01:33:28.720 --> 01:33:33.399 States alone, with no other negotiating partner. He said, I 1635 01:33:33.439 --> 01:33:36.079 can't think of another period in my lifetime when diplomacy 1636 01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:38.920 has been so upended in such a brief space of time, 1637 01:33:38.960 --> 01:33:43.199 he said, noting the closest example was in the nineteen 1638 01:33:43.239 --> 01:33:46.720 eighties when Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union. 1639 01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:50.640 While it took Gorbachev four years to abandon long standing 1640 01:33:50.680 --> 01:33:54.359 Soviet commitments in Eastern Europe, Gould Davy said, it has 1641 01:33:54.399 --> 01:33:57.039 taken four weeks for the United States to call into 1642 01:33:57.119 --> 01:34:04.199 question fundamental, long standing commitments to Europe. Well, okay, fair enough, 1643 01:34:06.960 --> 01:34:09.880 wild times, y'all, wild times. And so you know what, 1644 01:34:10.640 --> 01:34:14.840 before we get into this, the protests against the arrest 1645 01:34:14.880 --> 01:34:18.079 of istanbul Mayer and all these things here from the 1646 01:34:18.079 --> 01:34:20.800 euro news about what's going on there. Does anybody have 1647 01:34:20.800 --> 01:34:22.760 anything else they would like to add in on the 1648 01:34:22.880 --> 01:34:26.439 Ukraine Russia situation, the phone call between Putin and Trump, 1649 01:34:26.479 --> 01:34:29.840 or Putin and Zelenski, or any of these things. 1650 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:35.840 Well, as me again as usual, I think, really it 1651 01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:40.399 seems like a stretch. But my imagination is that even 1652 01:34:40.439 --> 01:34:45.920 the Russian American or Russian European, Russian NATO schism largely 1653 01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:50.439 revolves around Israel because the Soviet Union was they voted 1654 01:34:50.560 --> 01:34:53.319 to recognize Israel in the very beginning, but after that 1655 01:34:53.399 --> 01:34:59.039 their relations went sour pretty quickly, and Russia supported Syria 1656 01:34:59.159 --> 01:35:02.039 and Egypt and all of Israel's enemies for a long time, 1657 01:35:02.479 --> 01:35:04.800 and they're still doing it. In terms of being a 1658 01:35:04.840 --> 01:35:08.760 strategic ally ever run Syria is off the table now though, 1659 01:35:09.239 --> 01:35:14.520 yeahcuse since December Russia was a very staunch assad ally 1660 01:35:14.600 --> 01:35:16.520 but they're off the table now. 1661 01:35:16.840 --> 01:35:20.199 Russia's got their two Mediterranean bases in Syria, so yeah, 1662 01:35:20.199 --> 01:35:22.159 they were gonna keep a sodden power as long as 1663 01:35:22.199 --> 01:35:22.920 they could, for sure. 1664 01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:25.199 Yeah, And as far as I know, they still have 1665 01:35:25.319 --> 01:35:26.920 those bases. And I heard there were. 1666 01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:33.319 Some some some massacres, some murders going on in Syria 1667 01:35:33.359 --> 01:35:34.840 a week or two ago, and a lot of the 1668 01:35:34.880 --> 01:35:38.319 people who were victims of it and their families, their people, 1669 01:35:38.359 --> 01:35:41.439 they were fleeing to the Russian bases for production. 1670 01:35:42.279 --> 01:35:47.439 That also makes sense to me because while certain countries 1671 01:35:47.479 --> 01:35:50.399 may have opinions about Russia and what they do and 1672 01:35:50.439 --> 01:35:54.640 what they are, yeah, yeah, fine, fine, fine, in Syria, 1673 01:35:54.720 --> 01:35:56.920 I'm pretty sure, And yes, it's a very fractured nation 1674 01:35:57.079 --> 01:36:00.800 right now, there's like thirteen different regions that all claim 1675 01:36:00.880 --> 01:36:03.199 that their guy is the guy over the whole country 1676 01:36:03.199 --> 01:36:06.520 and all these things. Whatever, I'm pretty sure it's understood. 1677 01:36:06.600 --> 01:36:11.239 Don't kick the bear like realistically, Yeah, those bases are there, 1678 01:36:11.279 --> 01:36:15.680 and the areas around those bases can be contested. Those 1679 01:36:15.720 --> 01:36:18.359 bases are still owned by Russia, and I'm pretty sure 1680 01:36:18.399 --> 01:36:22.199 everyone understands. Let's not question that they're doing Russian shit 1681 01:36:22.239 --> 01:36:23.840 on that side of that fence, you know what I mean. 1682 01:36:24.039 --> 01:36:28.520 Yeah, it's kind of like Guantanamo Bay. Yes, Fidel Castro, 1683 01:36:28.760 --> 01:36:31.279 don't touch Guantanamo Bay. That is the third rail. 1684 01:36:31.640 --> 01:36:34.079 That's it, you know, Yeah, it's. 1685 01:36:33.920 --> 01:36:36.760 Their version of that. Anyway, I opened up a tab 1686 01:36:36.840 --> 01:36:40.119 on this Turkish guy. But you want to say something 1687 01:36:40.159 --> 01:36:40.920 else about Russia. 1688 01:36:41.159 --> 01:36:43.279 Yeah, I wanted to ask you this now. So, like 1689 01:36:43.319 --> 01:36:46.039 you said, Russia backed Israel in the early days of 1690 01:36:46.079 --> 01:36:47.239 it all, right. 1691 01:36:47.800 --> 01:36:51.119 Then they voted for recognition in nineteen forty seven or 1692 01:36:51.159 --> 01:36:51.880 forty eight. 1693 01:36:52.039 --> 01:36:56.520 Right, and then they started siding with the Arab neighbors. Now, 1694 01:36:57.119 --> 01:36:59.039 do you believe that this is because they had a 1695 01:36:59.119 --> 01:37:02.479 change of heart to words Israel or is it because 1696 01:37:02.520 --> 01:37:05.000 the lines are getting drawn in the Cold War and 1697 01:37:05.039 --> 01:37:07.279 they were trying to do business with every state that 1698 01:37:07.319 --> 01:37:10.279 they could. And since the West and the capitalist nations 1699 01:37:10.319 --> 01:37:15.039 had nothing positive to say about the Arab nations, they 1700 01:37:15.159 --> 01:37:19.199 they were seen as pariah states, quote unquote, So Russia 1701 01:37:19.399 --> 01:37:23.399 had no other options but to get more aligned with them, 1702 01:37:23.760 --> 01:37:27.479 I e Iran. Therefore, they did turn their back on Israel, 1703 01:37:27.520 --> 01:37:29.960 and it was more of a business move more than 1704 01:37:29.960 --> 01:37:31.520 a ethics move. 1705 01:37:32.680 --> 01:37:37.560 It was definitely a geopolitical gamble they took because a 1706 01:37:37.600 --> 01:37:41.159 lot of the early founders of Israel were very socialists 1707 01:37:41.239 --> 01:37:45.600 in their overall ideology and in the structures of the kibbutz's, 1708 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:52.760 And I guess the Soviets believed that Israel would become 1709 01:37:52.800 --> 01:37:58.439 a Soviet aligned country, but it was I'll give them 1710 01:37:59.279 --> 01:38:03.119 potential it ended up in the American orbit, and then 1711 01:38:03.279 --> 01:38:08.159 you know, NATO orbit eventually pretty solidly. As for the 1712 01:38:08.199 --> 01:38:10.159 rest of the region, I don't know what kind of 1713 01:38:10.479 --> 01:38:14.199 connection Russia had with them before, but Russia had always 1714 01:38:14.239 --> 01:38:18.159 been an enemy of Turkey, and Turkey was just chomping 1715 01:38:18.199 --> 01:38:19.960 at the bit to join NATO as early as they 1716 01:38:19.960 --> 01:38:23.039 could in nineteen fifty two. But pretty much the rest 1717 01:38:23.079 --> 01:38:25.560 of the Arab world was kind of enemies with Turkey. 1718 01:38:26.039 --> 01:38:28.840 So that could be one reason that the Russians or 1719 01:38:28.840 --> 01:38:34.640 the Soviets got along with with the Arabs. It's kind 1720 01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:36.840 of similar to how the Arabs got along pretty well 1721 01:38:36.880 --> 01:38:43.000 with the Germans during World War Two. Yeah, Israel obviously, 1722 01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:46.159 you know, in the Nazeiason, Jews were the most bitter 1723 01:38:46.279 --> 01:38:52.119 enemies you can imagine, and the Arabs were more on 1724 01:38:52.159 --> 01:38:56.960 the German side to their kind of everlasting shame in 1725 01:38:57.039 --> 01:39:00.439 terms of history since then, because as far as America 1726 01:39:00.520 --> 01:39:02.640 is concerned, being the Nazi is like the worst thing. 1727 01:39:02.800 --> 01:39:06.000 So if you're aligned with them, if you're Japanese or 1728 01:39:06.079 --> 01:39:08.800 Hungarian or Arab or whatever, you know, you can't align 1729 01:39:08.880 --> 01:39:10.560 with the Nazis. That's unforgivable. 1730 01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:13.840 Oddly enough, they were more aligned with the Nazis against 1731 01:39:13.840 --> 01:39:18.119 the Ashka Nazi Jews in particular the Spartans. The Arab 1732 01:39:18.239 --> 01:39:21.640 nations hid them. They were homies with the Spartaks that 1733 01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:24.119 lived in their areas. That's That's another weird thing that 1734 01:39:24.159 --> 01:39:26.680 I want to do more of a history dive on that, 1735 01:39:26.720 --> 01:39:31.640 because the Sparkan Jews and Muslims they're cool, like they're not. 1736 01:39:31.680 --> 01:39:34.079 They're not best they were it means, but well, yeah, 1737 01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:36.680 I guess they were. They probably have had some schisms 1738 01:39:36.680 --> 01:39:39.720 in the past few decades, but for the vast majority 1739 01:39:39.760 --> 01:39:43.600 of time they got along just fine. They you know, 1740 01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:47.000 they lived in the same areas. You know, they went 1741 01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:49.439 to different schools to learn different things. But as far 1742 01:39:49.439 --> 01:39:53.640 as they they kind of all got along as neighbors 1743 01:39:53.680 --> 01:39:56.439 would do. You know. It was there the Nazis, the Yeah, 1744 01:39:56.439 --> 01:39:57.680 there were a hard problem against. 1745 01:39:58.479 --> 01:40:01.399 Yeah, there were enormous Jewish pop populations in Iraq and 1746 01:40:01.520 --> 01:40:07.920 Syria and Jordan and Egypt, and yeah, they were all 1747 01:40:08.000 --> 01:40:09.079 driven out in the fifties. 1748 01:40:09.520 --> 01:40:12.560 Yeah, yeah, it did happen. And then, like you said earlier, 1749 01:40:12.600 --> 01:40:16.079 everybody Turkey was super wanting to get involved with NATO 1750 01:40:16.239 --> 01:40:19.520 in the beginning. They were rushing to the opportunity, and 1751 01:40:19.640 --> 01:40:22.640 literally since they've been a member of NATO, they had 1752 01:40:22.720 --> 01:40:25.720 been the resident bastard child that everybody was forced to 1753 01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:29.520 deal with that nobody wanted to deal with. But because 1754 01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:34.239 of how unstable all of this Middle East is, it's 1755 01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:37.479 nice to have a NATO ally in the area quote 1756 01:40:37.640 --> 01:40:43.199 unquote italicize ally with that statement. But Turkey being at 1757 01:40:43.279 --> 01:40:45.600 least a NATO member, it was kind of seen that 1758 01:40:45.800 --> 01:40:48.399 maybe they could be useful at some point. And then 1759 01:40:48.439 --> 01:40:51.319 more often than not, it's like they fall in and 1760 01:40:51.399 --> 01:40:53.840 out of favor of all of other NATO countries and 1761 01:40:53.880 --> 01:40:56.800 they have the entire time, I can't think of one 1762 01:40:56.880 --> 01:41:00.800 time for like five years collectively wherever was like, you 1763 01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:03.960 know what, Turkey ain't mad. They they are good people 1764 01:41:04.000 --> 01:41:06.800 over there, you know. I kind of like Turkey. It's 1765 01:41:06.800 --> 01:41:09.319 like they'll go like six month increments of being cool 1766 01:41:09.319 --> 01:41:11.760 and then being assholes, and they bounce back and forth. 1767 01:41:11.760 --> 01:41:16.479 It's ridiculous. But that being the case, that kind of 1768 01:41:16.520 --> 01:41:18.560 leads us to this next article. As a matter of fact, 1769 01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:23.199 this one's from your own news. This says thousands protests 1770 01:41:23.239 --> 01:41:28.159 against arrests of istanbul Mayer seen as Key erged erged again. 1771 01:41:29.000 --> 01:41:32.840 Yes, I don't know why the G is pronounced that way. 1772 01:41:33.079 --> 01:41:36.640 Yeah, I don't even know what that uh what that 1773 01:41:36.800 --> 01:41:39.439 literary device is called over the G that makes it 1774 01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:43.680 a y noise. But okay, to one sure. His rival 1775 01:41:44.359 --> 01:41:48.560 authorities close off roads and implemented a four day demonstration 1776 01:41:48.760 --> 01:41:53.520 band in an effort to prevent protests following ekrum Yep 1777 01:41:53.880 --> 01:41:54.479 the rest. 1778 01:41:54.560 --> 01:41:57.640 Im Moglu I think, or imamlu. 1779 01:41:57.479 --> 01:42:03.439 Imamlu Ima Moyulu. Yeah, the mayor, the mayor, they arrested him. 1780 01:42:03.760 --> 01:42:05.880 Protests are happening, and they just put a ban on 1781 01:42:06.119 --> 01:42:09.479 the protest for four days. Thousands of protesters took to 1782 01:42:09.560 --> 01:42:12.000 the street of Istanbul on Thursday following the arrest of 1783 01:42:12.039 --> 01:42:15.119 the city's mayor, the opposition figure is seen as a 1784 01:42:15.239 --> 01:42:19.000 key rival to the president. Several roads have been closed, 1785 01:42:19.039 --> 01:42:21.960 some social media platforms were restricted, and a four day 1786 01:42:22.039 --> 01:42:24.640 demonstration ban was put in place in an attempt to 1787 01:42:24.800 --> 01:42:29.039 thwart protests. However, despite the band, many gathered outside Istanbul's 1788 01:42:29.079 --> 01:42:32.800 police headquarters, the city hall, and outside the headquarters of 1789 01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:40.960 the mayor's Republican People's Party office. How about that. Wow, Okay, 1790 01:42:41.880 --> 01:42:43.880 this is a direct quote here. He said. This is 1791 01:42:44.000 --> 01:42:47.439 not democracy, It's a sham of democracy. The people do 1792 01:42:47.600 --> 01:42:50.840 not deserve this, and we are upset. Of course, as humans, 1793 01:42:50.920 --> 01:42:54.319 we are upset. Rio police blocked off roads leading to 1794 01:42:54.479 --> 01:42:57.920 the Vatan Security Department where the mayor was taken following 1795 01:42:58.000 --> 01:43:02.920 his arrests. The mayor is a popular opposition leader and 1796 01:43:03.039 --> 01:43:06.479 the main rival to the President of Turkey. A total 1797 01:43:06.520 --> 01:43:09.359 of one hundred people, including the mayor and several prominent figures, 1798 01:43:09.439 --> 01:43:11.439 were arrested. I have a weird feeling that they're not 1799 01:43:11.479 --> 01:43:13.560 going to survive much longer now they're in custody. I 1800 01:43:13.640 --> 01:43:17.720 could be wrong. The mayor and his aides are suspected 1801 01:43:17.880 --> 01:43:22.439 of alleged corruption, including extortion and fraud, as well as 1802 01:43:22.560 --> 01:43:27.079 aiding in the Kurdistan Workers Party. Oh no, here we 1803 01:43:27.199 --> 01:43:31.039 go now, I understand why the President of Turkey hates 1804 01:43:31.079 --> 01:43:34.000 this guy. If he's even slightly friendly to the Kurds. 1805 01:43:34.399 --> 01:43:39.439 This makes sense. The PKK is an outlawed party classified 1806 01:43:39.520 --> 01:43:44.279 as a terrorist organization by the Ankara, Washington, and other 1807 01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:48.920 Turkish allies. The mayor's arrest comes amid a wider crackdown 1808 01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:52.520 on opposition figures, which has been criticized as a politically 1809 01:43:52.600 --> 01:43:57.920 motivated in an attempt to silence dissent descent. A day earlier, 1810 01:43:58.119 --> 01:44:02.600 istan Bull University revoked the mayor's bachelor degree, a requisite 1811 01:44:02.640 --> 01:44:06.680 for running in elections under Turkish law. You know something, 1812 01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:10.319 I kind of like that, to run for a local office, 1813 01:44:10.359 --> 01:44:12.640 you have to have some sort of higher education and 1814 01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:17.199 you have to hold a bachelor's degree. I like that personally. 1815 01:44:17.279 --> 01:44:19.600 I like that. Now, granted, I think it should also 1816 01:44:19.680 --> 01:44:22.239 have some sort of distinction on what type of bachelor's degree. 1817 01:44:22.279 --> 01:44:25.279 If you have a bachelor's in like underwater basket weaving, 1818 01:44:25.319 --> 01:44:26.920 I don't think that that means that you should be 1819 01:44:26.960 --> 01:44:29.399 able to run. But you know, there are things, they're stuff. 1820 01:44:29.760 --> 01:44:34.199 But basically, the college that he got the bachelor's degree 1821 01:44:34.239 --> 01:44:37.960 from revoked it, so now he can't even hold office 1822 01:44:38.079 --> 01:44:42.319 under Turkish law. Now that's petty. Speaking at news conferences 1823 01:44:42.439 --> 01:44:49.680 on Wednesday, the leader Republican People's Party, Osgar Ozel, sure 1824 01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:54.359 mirror the criticism. He claimed Irdawin has had experienced significant 1825 01:44:54.399 --> 01:44:58.920 losses in local elections last year, targeted the mayor as 1826 01:44:59.039 --> 01:45:02.000 he feared losing him, alluding to him in the ballots. 1827 01:45:02.800 --> 01:45:06.960 Ozel also accused authorities of a coup attempt. They can 1828 01:45:07.079 --> 01:45:10.960 do any evil we are. We are ready for any 1829 01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:13.520 evil they can do, because it is clear that the 1830 01:45:13.640 --> 01:45:16.079 issue is not a political struggle, but a matter of 1831 01:45:16.239 --> 01:45:20.760 existence or non existence for the country, he added. Turkey's 1832 01:45:20.920 --> 01:45:25.760 Justice minner Yamas tunk Tunk Sure counted the allegations and 1833 01:45:25.920 --> 01:45:32.319 reminded that the courts operate independently. Characterizing investigations carried out 1834 01:45:32.399 --> 01:45:35.640 by an impartial and independent judiciary as something like a 1835 01:45:35.760 --> 01:45:40.359 coup or using similar terms is extremely dangerous and incorrect, 1836 01:45:40.560 --> 01:45:44.880 Tounk said. The Justice Minister emphasized that the judiciary does 1837 01:45:44.960 --> 01:45:50.439 not take instructions from anyone. Linking investigations and cases initiated 1838 01:45:50.479 --> 01:45:54.880 by the judiciary to our president is at best presumptuous 1839 01:45:55.039 --> 01:45:58.880 and inappropriate. The separation of powers between the legislative, executive 1840 01:45:58.920 --> 01:46:03.560 and judiciary is essential in our country, he concluded. On Tuesday, 1841 01:46:03.640 --> 01:46:08.159 the European Commission President Ursula vonder Lean Vonderleyan I feel 1842 01:46:08.159 --> 01:46:10.840 like I've heard that name before, express deep concern over 1843 01:46:11.079 --> 01:46:14.039 the mayor's arrest and reminded Turkey of its obligation to 1844 01:46:14.199 --> 01:46:19.239 uphold democratic values. Turkey is an EU candidate country. Turkey 1845 01:46:19.319 --> 01:46:22.119 must uphold the democratic values, especially the rights of the 1846 01:46:22.199 --> 01:46:25.960 elected officials. She told reporters in Brussels. We want Turkey 1847 01:46:26.039 --> 01:46:29.159 to remain anchored to Europe. But this requires a clear 1848 01:46:29.239 --> 01:46:33.680 commitment to democratic norms and practices, and is and is 1849 01:46:33.880 --> 01:46:38.159 key that Turkey respects these fundamental principles. She added, Okay, 1850 01:46:39.159 --> 01:46:42.880 so essentially Turkey's got some wild stuff going on with 1851 01:46:42.960 --> 01:46:48.760 it right now. That's very interesting. Uh, Okay, I didn't 1852 01:46:48.800 --> 01:46:51.079 know that they'd gone to having riots in the streets 1853 01:46:51.119 --> 01:46:56.079 and having the main opposition leader to Erdwin arrested. Now 1854 01:46:56.199 --> 01:46:58.560 that's that's another level. Now. I also didn't know that 1855 01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:02.199 the main opposition leader to Earth was allying himself to 1856 01:47:02.319 --> 01:47:06.199 the Kurds. Like that's an understood. Everyone hates the Kurds. 1857 01:47:06.479 --> 01:47:09.880 Which I wish that Kurdistan would become a country as 1858 01:47:09.960 --> 01:47:12.119 much as I think Israel should be a country, and 1859 01:47:12.720 --> 01:47:15.800 that should be a thing. The Kurds need place to 1860 01:47:15.880 --> 01:47:18.840 call their home. Otherwise they're just gonna keep getting genocided 1861 01:47:18.920 --> 01:47:22.199 by all the other Arabs. We can't have that, you know. 1862 01:47:22.359 --> 01:47:25.159 But then it's like where are they're gonna go? Who's 1863 01:47:25.199 --> 01:47:27.199 gonna give up the land? Dah bah bah bets yeah, 1864 01:47:27.319 --> 01:47:27.880 all the stuff. 1865 01:47:29.079 --> 01:47:31.760 Right, So, session movements are not really popular with the 1866 01:47:31.840 --> 01:47:33.479 governments that don't want them to happen. 1867 01:47:33.920 --> 01:47:35.560 Right, I want to. 1868 01:47:37.239 --> 01:47:39.920 Talk a little bit about the history the CHP, the 1869 01:47:40.000 --> 01:47:43.760 Republican People's Party, which I just looked up and I'm 1870 01:47:44.000 --> 01:47:45.920 not an expert on this, but this is the party 1871 01:47:46.239 --> 01:47:50.880 of Mustapha Kamal out of Turk who listeners may know 1872 01:47:51.039 --> 01:47:55.439 as the founder of modern Turkey, who replaced the Ottoman Empire. 1873 01:47:55.960 --> 01:47:59.319 And this party has been exist in existence we're all 1874 01:47:59.439 --> 01:48:02.399 but a couple years in the eighties ever since then, 1875 01:48:02.760 --> 01:48:06.319 but they're a minority party now and Air Dowan's party 1876 01:48:06.439 --> 01:48:08.720 is the biggest one. I don't know the name of it. 1877 01:48:08.920 --> 01:48:12.760 I don't speak Turkish, but this Republican People's Party, Okay, 1878 01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:15.479 Air Dowon's party is more like the Republicans. They're more 1879 01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:19.600 right wing, they're more religious, and they've gotten a big 1880 01:48:19.720 --> 01:48:23.439 boost in the last few decades because the eastern part 1881 01:48:23.479 --> 01:48:25.399 of the country is more religious and has a higher 1882 01:48:25.479 --> 01:48:30.359 birth rate. The western half has Istanbul and Ankara, and 1883 01:48:31.399 --> 01:48:33.600 kind of like in America, the big cities tend to 1884 01:48:33.640 --> 01:48:37.159 be more liberal, and the big cities are more in 1885 01:48:37.239 --> 01:48:41.239 favor of this Republican People's Party. And if I can 1886 01:48:41.359 --> 01:48:45.199 read just off of Wikipedia. The ideological and political positions 1887 01:48:45.640 --> 01:48:50.119 please of the CHP. It says they numerous politicians have 1888 01:48:50.439 --> 01:48:53.960 espoused LGBT rights and the feminist movement in Turkey, just 1889 01:48:54.079 --> 01:48:58.560 as you know, kind of indicator of where they are. 1890 01:48:59.000 --> 01:49:03.680 They spouse social democracy in Kamalism Kamal refers to Mustafa 1891 01:49:03.800 --> 01:49:06.479 Kamal out of Turk from back in the nineteen twenties. 1892 01:49:07.000 --> 01:49:11.600 And they are softer on the Kurdish question and something 1893 01:49:11.680 --> 01:49:13.520 having to do with Cyprus that I don't know a 1894 01:49:13.560 --> 01:49:17.479 hell of a lot about. In terms of their foreign policy, 1895 01:49:17.680 --> 01:49:22.000 they are very They waffle a lot, kind of like Arawan. 1896 01:49:22.279 --> 01:49:25.960 They'll say pro Israel stuff sometimes but anti Israel stuff 1897 01:49:26.000 --> 01:49:31.880 other times. Chairman uz Uzel accused Israel of committing state 1898 01:49:32.000 --> 01:49:35.720 sanctioned terrorism on Palestinian people, declaring the Turkish left is 1899 01:49:35.800 --> 01:49:39.039 never far from the Palestinian cause. But he also said 1900 01:49:39.560 --> 01:49:43.479 that the October seventh attack against Israel constitutes quote an 1901 01:49:43.640 --> 01:49:48.159 act of terrorism end quote. As far as other Turkish 1902 01:49:48.239 --> 01:49:53.039 foreign policy, the CHP supported Turkish intervention in Libya, and 1903 01:49:53.439 --> 01:49:56.600 it has voted against intervention in Iraq since twenty twenty one. 1904 01:49:57.199 --> 01:49:59.840 Since twenty twenty three, it has also voted against inter 1905 01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:02.399 mentioned in Syria. It has a big border with Syria, 1906 01:50:02.640 --> 01:50:05.520 and people might not that Turkey has kept a lot 1907 01:50:05.600 --> 01:50:10.600 of those HTS fighters safe in id Lib until they 1908 01:50:10.640 --> 01:50:14.800 took over in December twenty twenty four. And I don't 1909 01:50:14.800 --> 01:50:17.199 know what it means that the CHP it has voted 1910 01:50:17.239 --> 01:50:19.600 against intervention in Syria. Does that mean it's more pro 1911 01:50:19.760 --> 01:50:22.079 ASOD or it was because Asad was still in power 1912 01:50:22.119 --> 01:50:26.680 in twenty twenty three. But most importantly, I would say 1913 01:50:27.239 --> 01:50:30.880 the party is pro European and supports Turkish membership to 1914 01:50:30.920 --> 01:50:35.880 the European Union. They also supported Turkish membership in NATO. 1915 01:50:36.399 --> 01:50:41.479 The party voted overwhelmingly in favor of Finland and Sweden's 1916 01:50:41.640 --> 01:50:45.920 accession into NATO, and Arado I was kind of against 1917 01:50:46.039 --> 01:50:52.000 that because Sweden and Finland had pro PKK pro Kurdish 1918 01:50:52.079 --> 01:50:56.159 things to say until they took a more pro Airedwan 1919 01:50:56.279 --> 01:50:59.800 stance on that, but that was a sticking point. Turkey 1920 01:51:00.000 --> 01:51:03.600 almost prevented Finland and Sweden from joining NATO in twenty 1921 01:51:03.760 --> 01:51:05.439 twenty three. I'm pretty sure. 1922 01:51:05.840 --> 01:51:08.039 Yeah. I remember hearing about that as a matter of fact, 1923 01:51:08.119 --> 01:51:10.960 and I thought, and I didn't know the in the 1924 01:51:11.159 --> 01:51:14.039 inner workings of that deal, but I remember that it 1925 01:51:14.079 --> 01:51:17.079 pretty much unanimously has to be voted yes for a 1926 01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:20.560 new country to join NATO, and Turkey was withholding. Now, 1927 01:51:21.119 --> 01:51:23.680 some people were saying that that was because Erduwan had 1928 01:51:23.880 --> 01:51:27.800 some sort of like under the table alliance to Russia 1929 01:51:27.880 --> 01:51:30.239 into Putin, and so it was kind of like he 1930 01:51:30.359 --> 01:51:33.000 was waiting to see if Putin was going to he 1931 01:51:33.119 --> 01:51:34.960 was waiting to see if the money would be wired. 1932 01:51:35.560 --> 01:51:38.720 And that's not correct, that's a euphemism, but whatever the 1933 01:51:38.760 --> 01:51:40.880 case was, he was trying to like muscle for position 1934 01:51:41.039 --> 01:51:42.920 or try to get in the better graces of Putin. 1935 01:51:43.560 --> 01:51:46.359 And then he gave him the thumbs up, so it's like, okay, 1936 01:51:46.439 --> 01:51:48.880 so he was just withholding to be a dick. Then 1937 01:51:48.960 --> 01:51:54.119 we hear that no, they had Kurdish leanings for those countries. 1938 01:51:54.840 --> 01:51:57.920 Those countries are on the opposite side of the continent. 1939 01:51:58.520 --> 01:52:01.239 They can have whatever opinions they want. What about that, 1940 01:52:01.399 --> 01:52:05.359 That's ridiculous, But one is doing his his thing, so. 1941 01:52:05.560 --> 01:52:10.000 Yeah, yeah, one and the Turkish government in general, they 1942 01:52:10.279 --> 01:52:14.079 try to play down the middle between European interests and 1943 01:52:14.399 --> 01:52:17.159 Russian interests. They don't want to gravitate too far in 1944 01:52:17.199 --> 01:52:19.800 either one of those directions. So even if their government 1945 01:52:19.840 --> 01:52:22.399 gets replaced by this new guy, I don't think their 1946 01:52:22.439 --> 01:52:26.399 foreign policy is going to change much. But to one 1947 01:52:26.920 --> 01:52:29.560 I would predict he manages to hold onto power, because 1948 01:52:29.560 --> 01:52:32.640 he did in twenty seventeen, they'll probably hold on again. 1949 01:52:33.840 --> 01:52:36.000 There's one more section here in Wikipedia. It says the 1950 01:52:36.319 --> 01:52:39.880 CHP draws its support from professional, middle class, secular and 1951 01:52:40.119 --> 01:52:44.880 liberally religious voters, so more liberal. It's kind of like 1952 01:52:44.960 --> 01:52:50.000 the Democrats a Turkey to Airdwan's right wing Republicans, just 1953 01:52:50.079 --> 01:52:53.720 to draw a very rough analogy to American politics. And 1954 01:52:54.640 --> 01:52:58.439 they're I don't know, he might win, but I would 1955 01:52:58.520 --> 01:53:03.279 still bet the Arewana is gonna be president a week 1956 01:53:03.359 --> 01:53:03.680 from now. 1957 01:53:04.199 --> 01:53:06.039 Oh I would. I would think so, seeing as how 1958 01:53:06.119 --> 01:53:11.520 his main opposition just got arrested. M h yeah, I'm yeah. 1959 01:53:12.279 --> 01:53:14.279 I'm looking at maps of Turkey. It's all in the west, 1960 01:53:14.319 --> 01:53:16.800 where he's got to support, and the coastline, but then 1961 01:53:17.439 --> 01:53:19.800 the rest of Turkey is all the yellow color, which 1962 01:53:19.880 --> 01:53:22.319 is Aredwan's party, and then the east is this other color, 1963 01:53:22.359 --> 01:53:23.319 which is the Kurdish. 1964 01:53:23.680 --> 01:53:26.800 Yeah, but I said, of people that inhabit Turkey, it's 1965 01:53:26.880 --> 01:53:29.159 like a third of the country all on the eastern 1966 01:53:29.399 --> 01:53:33.920 side the southeastern I should say, and it's very Kurdish, uh. 1967 01:53:34.840 --> 01:53:38.520 I don't want to say dominant, but per population numbers, Yeah, 1968 01:53:38.560 --> 01:53:40.960 the Kurds definitely. And that's their area. I mean, if 1969 01:53:41.000 --> 01:53:45.680 you look take away country's lines for two seconds, take 1970 01:53:45.720 --> 01:53:52.119 away borders north Syria, southeast or yeah, yeah, so northeast Syria, 1971 01:53:52.319 --> 01:53:58.399 southeast Turkey, north west Iraq and that section of azerby 1972 01:53:58.439 --> 01:54:01.680 John right there, that whole set is like the Kurds, 1973 01:54:02.239 --> 01:54:06.079 if you want to call it their hereditary land. It's 1974 01:54:06.119 --> 01:54:07.720 not like they have some sort of a promised land 1975 01:54:07.800 --> 01:54:10.199 situation like the Jews did to Israel. It's nothing to 1976 01:54:10.319 --> 01:54:13.399 that regard, but that is where they have primarily been 1977 01:54:14.359 --> 01:54:17.880 located for a very very long time. So that is 1978 01:54:17.960 --> 01:54:21.199 where the potential for a Kurdistan could happen. Now with 1979 01:54:21.359 --> 01:54:24.479 Syria being so fractured, there is a section of it 1980 01:54:24.560 --> 01:54:29.239 that is calling itself a makeshift Kurdistan. But it's not 1981 01:54:29.399 --> 01:54:31.720 like the Kurds of Turkey are lining up to go 1982 01:54:31.920 --> 01:54:34.479 there right now because the country is a little bit 1983 01:54:34.479 --> 01:54:37.520 of upheaval and they are safer in Turkey even though 1984 01:54:37.560 --> 01:54:44.319 they are ostracized, and well, I don't want to say subjugated, 1985 01:54:44.359 --> 01:54:47.399 but like, for instance, it's illegal for them to speak 1986 01:54:47.560 --> 01:54:51.680 Kurdish in the schools there. Erdawan made it illegal for 1987 01:54:51.760 --> 01:54:54.319 them to even do most of their Kurdish practices for 1988 01:54:54.399 --> 01:54:57.079 a good bit there. So they are absolutely under the 1989 01:54:57.199 --> 01:55:01.479 thumb of the you know, country that they currently reside in. 1990 01:55:01.920 --> 01:55:03.640 But they're still safer there than if they were to 1991 01:55:03.720 --> 01:55:06.119 try to go out to Syria and carve out a 1992 01:55:06.159 --> 01:55:08.159 section in the world for themselves right now, and they 1993 01:55:08.239 --> 01:55:11.760 know that. I don't know how many Kurds are still 1994 01:55:11.840 --> 01:55:14.439 currently living in Iraq. I think Saddam kind of did 1995 01:55:14.600 --> 01:55:16.920 a lot of damage with the genocide that he did 1996 01:55:17.039 --> 01:55:20.159 with the Sayer and gas bombs that America sold him 1997 01:55:20.199 --> 01:55:22.720 to the Kurds at that point in time. So I mean, 1998 01:55:22.720 --> 01:55:26.920 I don't know if I'm not mistaken. In Azerbaijohn, there's 1999 01:55:26.960 --> 01:55:31.439 a very small Kurdish population, but they they they don't 2000 01:55:32.239 --> 01:55:35.720 really cause any fuss over there. The Kurds are mining 2001 01:55:35.760 --> 01:55:37.479 their p's and q's there because they're not trying to 2002 01:55:37.560 --> 01:55:41.439 rock the boat. So yeah, this makes sense. But again, 2003 01:55:41.560 --> 01:55:45.680 if a political opponent to the current standard, the guy 2004 01:55:45.760 --> 01:55:47.560 that's been in charge for as long as he's been 2005 01:55:47.600 --> 01:55:52.159 in charge, is spitting some pro Kurdish rhetoric. I have 2006 01:55:52.239 --> 01:55:55.720 a feeling the vast majority of Turkey doesn't want to up, 2007 01:55:56.079 --> 01:55:58.640 you know, upset the status quo that they've been living 2008 01:55:58.720 --> 01:56:02.680 in for so long. So I'm bummed that he got arrested. 2009 01:56:02.880 --> 01:56:05.119 I wish it would have been a fair and valid election. 2010 01:56:05.279 --> 01:56:09.239 But then even still, let's say that, like the NATO 2011 01:56:09.399 --> 01:56:12.720 chick said, or the EU chick said, you know, if 2012 01:56:12.720 --> 01:56:14.239 you're gonna be a part of the EU, you have 2013 01:56:14.399 --> 01:56:18.479 to uphold democracy. And if he doesn't, what are you 2014 01:56:18.520 --> 01:56:20.560 gonna do. You're gonna kick him out of the EU, 2015 01:56:21.399 --> 01:56:24.800 you kick him out of NATO. No, No, they're not 2016 01:56:24.840 --> 01:56:27.920 gonna do They're not gonna do shit. So if anything 2017 01:56:27.960 --> 01:56:30.079 Irdawin's probably just making them called or bluff. 2018 01:56:32.239 --> 01:56:34.319 Yeah, And I think democracy tends to be in the 2019 01:56:34.399 --> 01:56:36.680 eye of the beholder. There's no country out there that's 2020 01:56:36.680 --> 01:56:40.359 perfectly democratic, and I don't think any country should be 2021 01:56:40.439 --> 01:56:45.960 perfectly democratic. Democracy is one of only several ways to 2022 01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:50.800 organize any organization, government or not. There's democracy, there's only garchy, 2023 01:56:50.840 --> 01:56:55.199 and there's monarchy. And all our favorite companies are monarchies. 2024 01:56:56.079 --> 01:56:58.479 They get run from the top down. There's a hierarchy. 2025 01:56:59.000 --> 01:57:01.640 Democracy is approp for sometimes but not all the time. 2026 01:57:01.720 --> 01:57:05.560 And a good well functioning society knows how to make 2027 01:57:06.039 --> 01:57:11.199 some decisions democratic and others decisions. Not every society will 2028 01:57:11.279 --> 01:57:15.720 draw that line somewhere so absolutely like you're representatives, but 2029 01:57:15.800 --> 01:57:18.840 you can't amend the constitution easily, or that's got to 2030 01:57:18.880 --> 01:57:20.960 go through you know, several other layers. 2031 01:57:21.319 --> 01:57:23.960 And then even if you do per the letter of 2032 01:57:24.000 --> 01:57:25.880 the law, that's not going to change the culture in 2033 01:57:25.920 --> 01:57:28.920 the mindset of the inhabitants of that area or the 2034 01:57:29.319 --> 01:57:32.560 employees of that company, if you will. Like there's it 2035 01:57:32.640 --> 01:57:36.560 takes time, it takes change, and it takes just sometimes 2036 01:57:36.640 --> 01:57:40.439 an overhaul is needed, agreed. I just don't really think 2037 01:57:40.479 --> 01:57:42.840 the Turkey's about to get that overhaul. I could be 2038 01:57:42.960 --> 01:57:45.560 so wrong here, and these these riots in the streets 2039 01:57:45.920 --> 01:57:48.239 might grow, just like they're growing in Serbia right now. 2040 01:57:48.399 --> 01:57:52.159 Who knows what will happen. I just have a sneaking 2041 01:57:52.239 --> 01:57:57.159 suspicion because Turkey is way more of a they're way 2042 01:57:57.239 --> 01:58:02.880 more structured as a nation than Serbia. In Romania and Ukraine, 2043 01:58:03.199 --> 01:58:05.920 right it's they've got more of a long standing tradition 2044 01:58:06.119 --> 01:58:11.159 of a status quo that is maintained not so much 2045 01:58:11.199 --> 01:58:13.479 in these other countries. So I just I don't know. 2046 01:58:13.760 --> 01:58:15.880 I don't believe that Erdwin's in any risk of losing 2047 01:58:15.920 --> 01:58:18.279 his job by any means, at least not this go round. 2048 01:58:18.359 --> 01:58:21.000 Who knows what the future holds. I think his position 2049 01:58:21.119 --> 01:58:24.000 is pretty secure at the moment, though a. 2050 01:58:24.039 --> 01:58:26.520 Lot of people are talking about what does this mean 2051 01:58:26.600 --> 01:58:29.640 for Israel, and I don't think it will mean any difference. 2052 01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:32.520 Erdwan has been kind of middle of the road. There's, 2053 01:58:32.720 --> 01:58:34.960 of course some Islamists in Turkey who want to cut 2054 01:58:35.000 --> 01:58:37.479 off all trade with Israel, and Erdawan has cut off 2055 01:58:37.600 --> 01:58:40.319 some but not all. And I think that this other 2056 01:58:40.399 --> 01:58:44.800 guy would do very similar things. I think the general 2057 01:58:44.880 --> 01:58:48.479 attitude about Israel in a place like Egypt and Jordan 2058 01:58:48.680 --> 01:58:52.079 is a lot scarier. Yeah, is a lot worse, but 2059 01:58:52.239 --> 01:58:55.479 those the governments of those countries receive a lot of 2060 01:58:55.640 --> 01:58:59.079 usaid and they're kind of sewn up. So Egypt and 2061 01:58:59.119 --> 01:59:01.880 Jordan are not going to make any moves against Israel 2062 01:59:01.960 --> 01:59:06.720 because their governments are they're relatively pro Israel, much more 2063 01:59:06.760 --> 01:59:09.800 than their populations are. There's millions of members of the 2064 01:59:10.000 --> 01:59:14.720 Islamic brother or what Muslim brotherhood in Jordan and in Egypt. 2065 01:59:14.760 --> 01:59:17.159 I'm pretty sure I think it started in Egypt. Yeah, 2066 01:59:17.399 --> 01:59:20.800 but those governments, and I think Israel is kind of 2067 01:59:20.840 --> 01:59:26.920 afraid what if there's another you know, Arab spring in Egypt, 2068 01:59:27.000 --> 01:59:29.560 like there was. I guess that would have been twenty thirteen. 2069 01:59:29.600 --> 01:59:31.279 It would have been later than twenty eleven, but that 2070 01:59:31.399 --> 01:59:34.199 was when Mohammed Morsey got into power. He only lasted 2071 01:59:34.239 --> 01:59:36.159 a little while and he was cooed out of there. 2072 01:59:37.600 --> 01:59:39.920 Mohammed Morsey would have been bad news for Israel, and 2073 01:59:41.279 --> 01:59:43.079 they're probably right to be afraid of another one. 2074 01:59:43.479 --> 01:59:45.560 No, I agree with that, but yeah, the whole thought 2075 01:59:45.600 --> 01:59:47.600 of like this whole situation in Turkey, what does that 2076 01:59:47.680 --> 01:59:51.119 mean for Israel? I personally am with you on this. 2077 01:59:51.439 --> 01:59:54.560 I don't think it's going to actually have any effect 2078 01:59:54.640 --> 01:59:57.319 on what's going down with Israel or Gaza or anything 2079 01:59:57.399 --> 02:00:00.159 like that. Turkey has enough of their own problems to 2080 02:00:00.199 --> 02:00:03.119 deal with, and they're trying to appease all their European 2081 02:00:03.760 --> 02:00:07.600 quote unquote brethren. They are not about to start taking 2082 02:00:07.640 --> 02:00:10.359 a hard stance pro or against Israel. If anything, They're 2083 02:00:10.359 --> 02:00:12.560 just gonna take as much of a neutrality stance as 2084 02:00:12.600 --> 02:00:15.760 they can. Yeah, I don't think it's gonna play in 2085 02:00:15.800 --> 02:00:16.399 anything here. 2086 02:00:17.039 --> 02:00:19.600 Yeah, here's another kind of long term cultural thing. But 2087 02:00:20.119 --> 02:00:22.920 I get the sense Turks, like Persians, kind of look 2088 02:00:23.039 --> 02:00:27.399 down on Arabs, So they're not super pro arab even 2089 02:00:27.479 --> 02:00:29.840 though they're up. They're Muslim, they're all Muslim, they got 2090 02:00:29.920 --> 02:00:34.680 that in common, but ethnically they still kind of look 2091 02:00:34.720 --> 02:00:35.720 down on them a little bit. 2092 02:00:36.399 --> 02:00:40.159 Yeah, Turkey and Iran, with their Persian backgrounds and their 2093 02:00:40.319 --> 02:00:45.239 Zoroastrian backgrounds, when they went hard Islamic, they left a 2094 02:00:45.319 --> 02:00:50.239 lot of their I'm talking ancient, long standing, proud culture 2095 02:00:50.319 --> 02:00:54.279 by the wayside. But even still, it's like when you 2096 02:00:54.560 --> 02:00:58.279 say the term Turk or sorry Persian, you are talking 2097 02:00:58.319 --> 02:01:01.960 about the Turks, you are also talking about the Iranian. 2098 02:01:04.800 --> 02:01:09.920 Well, well, the Turks they were Byzantine before, and the 2099 02:01:10.319 --> 02:01:13.680 Persians were Iranian. But then I think the Cellucids or 2100 02:01:14.000 --> 02:01:17.239 the Seljuks invaded Turkey from Central Asia and they changed 2101 02:01:17.319 --> 02:01:20.520 the identity of the place again. But you know, it 2102 02:01:20.640 --> 02:01:22.640 wasn't Persian. But I get the sense of the Persians 2103 02:01:22.720 --> 02:01:26.359 and the Turks both looked down on Arabs because they 2104 02:01:26.439 --> 02:01:30.760 both well, especially the Ottomans, they dominated Arabia for so 2105 02:01:30.960 --> 02:01:35.560 long and then the Arabians fought back and seceded, and well, 2106 02:01:35.600 --> 02:01:38.239 they just looked down on them as, Oh, they're less educated, 2107 02:01:38.319 --> 02:01:40.800 they're more violent than we are. We're more civilized than 2108 02:01:40.840 --> 02:01:44.039 they are. That's the overall mindset that I kind of 2109 02:01:44.159 --> 02:01:45.119 gather from them. 2110 02:01:45.439 --> 02:01:48.680 I agree. I think culturally there's that looking down their 2111 02:01:48.800 --> 02:01:52.479 nose at their neighbors. For that, it's it's racism by 2112 02:01:52.600 --> 02:01:57.680 any other standpoint, but because it's Persian versus Arab or 2113 02:01:57.840 --> 02:02:02.159 Turk versus Arab, I guess it's it's viewed differently even 2114 02:02:02.199 --> 02:02:05.800 though it's another version of racism, and that's that's like 2115 02:02:05.840 --> 02:02:08.159 a long standing cultural feud. You're one hundred percent correct 2116 02:02:08.199 --> 02:02:12.319 on that. I don't know who knows how things are 2117 02:02:12.359 --> 02:02:15.319 gonna shake out, as we always do. You know, we 2118 02:02:15.399 --> 02:02:18.359 will be talking about it as things play out. We 2119 02:02:18.479 --> 02:02:20.399 do have a couple more things that you know, we're 2120 02:02:20.439 --> 02:02:24.000 just not gonna get to tonight. Royce. I do appreciate 2121 02:02:24.119 --> 02:02:27.760 you sending the Goblin in Mexico thing. Let's put a 2122 02:02:27.840 --> 02:02:29.520 pin in that one and we'll talk about that next 2123 02:02:29.560 --> 02:02:31.800 week because that's pretty crazy. Or send it to the 2124 02:02:31.840 --> 02:02:35.199 Cult Conspiracy Live on Tuesday, because that also I feel 2125 02:02:35.199 --> 02:02:36.640 like Jonathan, we get a kick out of that one 2126 02:02:36.640 --> 02:02:36.960 as well. 2127 02:02:37.880 --> 02:02:40.960 That's harder to do because there's so many more people 2128 02:02:41.079 --> 02:02:42.479 there and just so much more crazy. 2129 02:02:43.000 --> 02:02:47.159 That's true, that's fair, all right. Well, I will try 2130 02:02:47.199 --> 02:02:50.199 to do what I can to pull that, and I 2131 02:02:50.319 --> 02:02:51.840 saved it on my computer, so I'm gonna do a 2132 02:02:51.880 --> 02:02:53.760 little digging into that, and hell, that might even become 2133 02:02:53.760 --> 02:02:55.760 a cult conspiracy episode. To be honest with you, I 2134 02:02:55.800 --> 02:02:59.399 haven't heard anything about it until tonight, but we'll see 2135 02:02:59.439 --> 02:03:00.279 how it goes. Man. 2136 02:03:01.439 --> 02:03:04.159 I mean I only said it honestly because so first 2137 02:03:04.159 --> 02:03:06.800 of all, I'm huge into cryptids, and because you guys 2138 02:03:06.840 --> 02:03:09.600 did an episode about cryptids not too long ago, I 2139 02:03:09.680 --> 02:03:10.279 was like, ooh. 2140 02:03:10.640 --> 02:03:13.319 This would kind of be cool, absolutely, man, and I 2141 02:03:13.399 --> 02:03:17.560 appreciate you sending it, all right. So with that being said, 2142 02:03:18.079 --> 02:03:20.800 I appreciate everybody for coming out on this evening and 2143 02:03:20.960 --> 02:03:24.760 doing this live conversation about all the comings and goings 2144 02:03:24.800 --> 02:03:27.720 of the world we live in today. Again, for anybody 2145 02:03:27.840 --> 02:03:29.960 listening to this later on that would like to be 2146 02:03:30.000 --> 02:03:32.279 a part of the conversation next week, go to the 2147 02:03:32.600 --> 02:03:36.640 show notes here. Go to Cajun Night on Patreon. Join us. 2148 02:03:36.880 --> 02:03:39.680 We do this every Wednesday night at nine pm Central. 2149 02:03:40.199 --> 02:03:41.920 We only go for a couple of hours. We talk 2150 02:03:42.000 --> 02:03:44.920 about any and all things. There's nothing really off limits, 2151 02:03:44.960 --> 02:03:47.880 but we do try to stick more to the geopolitical 2152 02:03:47.960 --> 02:03:53.279 and the religious and the just overarching sometimes military, sometimes cryptids. 2153 02:03:53.319 --> 02:03:56.079 Sometimes there's no rules here. There's no rules here. We're 2154 02:03:56.119 --> 02:03:59.560 just going off onto whatever comes up first. And so again, 2155 02:04:00.000 --> 02:04:02.880 thank you everybody for joining, and thank you everybody for listening. 2156 02:04:03.399 --> 02:04:06.560 I am the Cajun Night and uh yeah, God bless 2157 02:04:29.920 --> 02:04:29.960 H