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Tucker Carlson just had a historic

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sitdown interview with Vladimir Putin

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President of Russia here's everything

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that you need to know a full summary of

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everything that happened as quickly as

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we can get through it first Tucker

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starts by asking why do you think the US

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might strike Russia Putin then goes into

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a history of the invasions of the

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Russian State referring to Mongol

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invasions as The Horde and we sped all

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the way from the 900s to the 1400s to

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the 2000s

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Tucker asked multiple times why is this

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relevant today and Vladimir Putin made

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it very clear that he wanted to see the

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slow dismantling of Russia the pressure

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of Russia from all angles which

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essentially culminated in the war

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against Ukraine today see Vladimir Putin

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also distanced himself multiple times

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from the past he distanced himself from

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Lenin permitting Ukraine from become

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from from leaving the USSR and becoming

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Ukraine allowing the Bolsheviks to

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establish their independence in Ukraine

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he distanced himself from that he

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distanced himself heavily and multiple

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times from what he calls the

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nazification we'll talk a lot about that

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in this of society and he makes it very

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clear that he would have made different

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decisions and that he has one vision for

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Putin and for Russia and that vision is

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Unity but unfortunately he's essentially

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watched over not only history but his

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lifetime and the Russian either USSR or

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the Soviet Union has collapsed and every

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time there has been a collapse he

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thought well maybe Russia will finally

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be able to negotiate a generous and uh

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beneficial relationship with other

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organizations or countries he

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specifically points out the 1991 Soviet

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Union collapse where Russia generously

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bestowed those are his words Ukraine to

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other parts of the world and the

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collapse so the Soviet Union was led by

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poor Russian leaders but now those

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leaders are gone we can expect

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cooperation in fact there were even

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people like Egon bar of the German s the

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Social Democratic party uh where a new

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system could be established without

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expanding NATO and there could be some

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kind of Alliance and so Putin really

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dist him distan himself from what

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happened and ideas that could have been

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bars ideas a new system outside of NATO

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was something that could have been but

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those things didn't happen so this is

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where things get interesting Putin talks

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essentially about how NATO expanded five

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times and this expansion is pressure

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pressure on Russia this is on ec.com

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where I have a full summary of the

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entire interview but here you could see

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a chart that shows you the expansion of

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NATO towards Russian territory Vladimir

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Putin says he's not bitter that this is

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not about resentment this is instead

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about the expanding power of NATO which

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ultimately culminated in

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2014 now we'll touch on 2014 in just a

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moment but first consider the

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partnership that Vladimir Putin and

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George Bush almost had in August of 2007

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Vladimir Putin made a counter offer to

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George Bush on a planned US missile

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Shield defense system a joint missile

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defense program Bush himself and I have

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my sources on this at ec.com called this

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a very Innovative plan this was true we

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fact checked this during the time of the

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interview Putin suggested we can

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drastically change the world if we work

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together but then somehow the

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president's underlings essentially

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contributed to the deal falling apart

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Vladimir Putin is basically alleging

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here that Putin and him were good

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friends or or got along at least and

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that it's the system of America that

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wants to keep Russia an enemy and it's

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that pressure that oppresses Russia

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the deal fell apart so Putin says we had

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to go develop our own missiles our own

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Hypersonic missiles he argues things got

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worse when in 2008 the United States

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backed separatists background on this

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okay in 2008 Kosovo decided to declare

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independence from Serbia Serbia was

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being supported by Russia Kosovo was

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being supported by the United States and

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at a NATO Summit in Bucharest the United

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States gave you Ukraine and Georgia the

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country and now the state a membership

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action plan to join NATO that obviously

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pisses Putin off Putin says what's going

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on Ukraine is supposed to be a neutral

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State why weapons why NATO this is not

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what we agreed to and then we get into

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this slow growing support for the West

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between 2005 and 2010 you have Victor

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Yenko who supports the West but then

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that flips into another president the

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fourth President of Ukraine Victor

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yanukovich who was president from 2010

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to

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2014 he was considered or at one point

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was considering open borders with the

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European Union and Vladimir Putin's like

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what is this we don't want you to have

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open borders with the European Union

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because if you do that is going to lead

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to a free flow of goods between you and

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that is going to hurt our free market

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economy so we would have to close our

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border at some point things got tense

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Victor yanukovich said fine I will

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support Russia and as soon as he flips

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to support Russia boom kudeta that is a

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military overthrow of the presidency

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Vladimir Putin alleges that this was

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backed by the CIA he actually goes as

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far as slamming Tucker Carlson for

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wanting to join the CIA and then suggest

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it was probably a good thing that Tucker

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Carlson got denied that was really Sly

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Tucker's face at that point was kind of

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like bro you went there that was pretty

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crazy but anyway Vladimir Putin then

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says look we took Crimea in exchange

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under our protection okay now obviously

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that's not how the West calls it the

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West says Russian forces occupied Crimea

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to quell protests and then the Russian

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government organized illegally is what

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the West alleges the Republic of Crimea

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and when the Republic of Crimea was

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formed then the Republic declared

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independence from Ukraine and Russia

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annexed Crimea that's sort of their

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story okay many countries today still

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see Crimea as Ukrainian anyway and this

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is also a very strategically important

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location with the sea port sesta pool we

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we don't have to go into all of that

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it's important okay strategically

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critically everything important so it's

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kind of convenient but anyway Putin

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suggests that the US backed the coup

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that caused this in 2014 we then had War

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breakout in Don in the daboss region uh

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this was another phase in the Russia

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Ukrainian war that came after this

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Crimean takeover it started April 12th

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of 2014 14,000 were killed uh that uh

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that was about um 6,500 Russians 4,400

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ukrainians 3,400 civilians so there have

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been tensions and issues here for a

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while Vladimir Putin said he's been

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asking for decades please keep weapons

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out of Ukraine we want peace in fact

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we're going to offer peace and a peace

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and come up with the Minsk agreements

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that were negotiated and settled this

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was the settlement that relaxed uh uh

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attentions in Dawn boss and ended that

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war however Vladimir Putin suggests that

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zalinski little more zalinski refuses to

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implement the Minsk Accords now Ukraine

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has responded to this allegation I'm in

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interjecting this Ukraine has responded

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to those allegations and says Ukraine

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has always been committed to

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implementing Minsk it's actually Russia

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who's not implementing the plan and

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they're trying to make it worse by

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sewing instability by not implementing

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the plan Putin then immediately after I

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take a little pause and suggest that

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Ukraine is complaining that Russia is

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not implementing the plan immediately

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after Putin literally says VI ready to

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implement it okay he didn't actually say

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it that way cuz he says it through a

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translator but he did literally say we

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were ready to implement it which it kind

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of means he didn't implement it so it

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kind of means Ukraine was right about

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that he so I'm like wait a minute so so

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you didn't implement it there were a

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couple instances like this through the

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interview where Putin's kind of like

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pooped on himself a little bit but some

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of the things he said were actually very

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interesting so let's keep going uh he

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says that I believe if we managed to

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bring the residents of Don boss back to

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Ukraine these wounds would heal this is

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a common theme of what Putin says he

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actually thinks everybody's sort of just

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one person that the UK Ukrainian people

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are actually Russians at heart uh now of

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course there have been Studies by for

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example Pew research that suggest polish

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individuals don't like Russia but

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ukrainians you have a lot more of a mix

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you know they say 94% of Polish

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individuals don't like Russia or don't

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support Russia but in Ukraine this

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picture is much more uh uh mixed now why

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is this not over yet when will the war

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end Putin suggests we have to complete

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the denazification

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of Ukraine he talks about how this was

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discussed in Istanbul and he also talks

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about how he pulled out of Kiev his

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military out of Kev uh as a Kev Kev

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whatever as a way to negotiate but wait

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a minute Western point of view here says

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that Ukraine pushed Russia out Russia's

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point of view is no we left as part of

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the

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negotiations Tucker then talks

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densification Putin talks this is very

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important it's worth noting that Ukraine

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does have a history of collaborating

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with Hitler of course okay there was a

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lot of history between Hitler World War

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I World War II Germany okay this

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territory of course there's a lot of

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history there and yes zalinsky is Jewish

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yes 56 to 140,000 Jews live in Ukraine

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and yes there are Ukrainian historical

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figures that have monuments that have

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tied Hitler now the greatest modern day

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of nafic

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that Putin alleges that uh uh that that

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basically the world supports is that

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zalinski visited Canada's parliament and

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someone named

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yaroslav hunka a 98-year-old former Nazi

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gave a speech in Parliament that

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individual worked for a part of the Nazi

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party known as the

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Vinz the SS this is one of the elite for

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forces within the Nazi party in the Nazi

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military Wing vaff means weapon okay so

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the the weapon SS sh anyway this

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occurred September 22nd of 2023 just a

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few months ago this actually happened

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what made it worse though was not just

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that that person spoke in the Canadian

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Parliament which is now being referred

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to as a big Scandal but what made it

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worse was the perception and this did

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actually happen that everybody gave this

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individual a two times standing

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Ovation okay Putin then argues that he

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hasn't spoken with Biden since prior to

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his special military operation Tucker

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says why don't you just call Biden and

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work this out Putin says what's there to

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work out okay this is very important I I

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this like if there's anything y'all pay

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attention to this line right here is

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very very

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important subscribe okay I had to do

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that I'm sorry no what's actually this

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is actually very important about what

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Putin said Putin said if you want and

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this is his point of view of negotiating

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this becomes very relevant in a moment

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Putin says if you want to stop fighting

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stop supplying weapons then it will be

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over in a few weeks then we can

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negotiate okay okay okay wait a minute

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wait a minute wait a minute wait a

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minute Putin I got to throw an

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interjection in here you just said we

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are willing to negotiate but then you

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say We'll negotiate after you stop

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giving weapons after you stop fighting

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then it will will be over in a few weeks

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in other words you'll mop up what you

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need to and then we can negotiate

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obviously the United States is like bro

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then we have no like to stand on in a

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negotiation Ukraine as well European

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union and otherwise right I want you to

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keep in mind Putin's version of

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negotiating this becomes very important

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in just a moment anyway Tucker says is

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NATO worried Putin says well that's what

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they're saying you know NATO and the

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United States are trying to paint this

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picture that we are going to cause some

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kind of nuclear war we're going to use

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strategic nuclear weapons that would be

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stupid we are not going to invade any

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other territory unless they attack us we

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would only send troops to Poland if they

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attack us it's absolutely out of the

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question it goes against common sense to

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create some kind of global war because

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that would be bad for Humanity this is

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just how the West tries to extort more

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money from their taxpayers American

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mercenaries polish mercenaries should

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not be in Ukraine if they brought troops

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this would be a global conflict that's

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Putin's argument he's not wrong there

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has been a lot of War mongering he is

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not wrong about that but you're ready

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for Putin's slam on America this was

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intense why is America so focused on the

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on on Ukraine you have issues with the

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Border you have issues with the national

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debt you have $33 trillion in debt you

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have migrant issues at the border have

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you nothing better to do wouldn't it be

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better better to just negotiate with

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Russia and return to Common Sense and

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respect our

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country mic drop there that was a banger

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okay Putin hit where it hurts Democrats

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and Republicans can agree on that that

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hurt Tucker then says who blew up the

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nordstream pipeline Putin obviously says

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you did Tucker says do you have evidence

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and Putin says Ah look you just have to

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connect the dots who is capable of

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blowing up a pipeline at the bottom of

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the Baltic Sea and who is interested and

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he basically implies that that's the

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United States Putin says it's very hard

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to win in the war of propaganda because

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the United States controls the media In

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fairness and side note what we saw with

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the Twitter files kind of says there's

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some truth to that

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anyway Putin then goes on to say that

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there is another nordstream pipeline

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that can be used fact check this is also

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true four pipelines exist nordstream

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pipeline 1 AB nordstream pipeline 2 2 a

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pipe a of the nordstream 2 is inoperable

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pipe B is undamaged and the nordstream 1

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is offline damage Putin then gets into

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the dollarization of the United States

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he talks about essentially the United

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States using the dollar as a weapon and

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this being the biggest mistake of us

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political leadership the dollar is a

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Cornerstone of us power and by

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weaponizing it you are weakening it okay

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side note here yes the dollar will will

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never stop being printed by the Federal

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Reserve and essentially the US

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government to strengthen whatever

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desires the US government has yes we

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will keep printing money we will keep

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having inflation and for as long as

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possible we will be the world's Reserve

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currency until we become the you know

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until there's basically a better option

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maybe that's Bitcoin maybe that's brics

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brics is uh Brazil Russia India China

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South Africa maybe they could create

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another common currency

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Tucker here asks hey well what if brics

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is then dominated by the Chinese Putin

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responds to this and says uh we've heard

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these Boogeyman stories before we're

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neighbors with China you can't choose

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your neighbors just like you can't

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choose your relatives we share a border

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of a th000 kilometers we have a

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centuries long policy of partnership

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China seeks compromise we can compromise

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as well we can work with China it's very

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interesting Putin here is drawing a

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parallel he's basically saying look we

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work with China why can't we work with

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the United States Putin is not wrong

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though about the us having a massive

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advantage of the money printer this is

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why on this channel I regularly talk

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finance and how it's important for you

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to get your money your cash into assets

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ownership in business ownership in real

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estate that's how you insulate yourself

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from inflation and the destruction of

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the dollar I don't really care what

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assets you buy you just have to get into

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assets that aren't dollars anyway okay

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continuing with the topic so Putin says

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the United States should actually

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cooperate more with China now Putin also

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alleges that the United stat United

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Nations is an illegitimate body the USSR

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joined the United Nations in 1945 the

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Soviet Union in 1991 and it's worth

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noting that the US tried to kick Russia

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out of the UN but they weren't able to

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now a lot of people wonder why is Russia

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still in the United Nations okay well

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remember Russia is a P5 member of the

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United Nations security Council P5 means

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permanent five who are the P5 China

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France Russia United Kingdom United

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States each have full veto power that's

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why Russia stays in the United Nations

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they stay in because they have power

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full veto power one veto can overturn

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whatever the UN Security Council wants

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to do now China would probably Ally with

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Russia anyway but Russia doesn't want to

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give away its power Vladimir Putin then

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gets into praising Bush and frankly

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Trump He suggests that he had a

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relationship with bush and Trump that

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these were not country bumpkins well

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Bush wasn't a country bumpkin then

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instead none of these people are worse

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than any other politician they know what

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they're doing we had a relationship with

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them it's not about demeanor it's about

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the goal are you going to adapt or are

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you trying to dominate Tucker then asks

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implying that Biden is trying to

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dominate by in instantly going to Biden

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Tucker then suggests well who's actually

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running the United States and Putin says

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I have no idea it's not possible to know

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this is a slam here clearly on Biden

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it's a slam on Biden which there

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planning going on with Biden it's a slam

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on Biden to suggest that Biden's not

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actually running America right now that

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the underlings in the Biden

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Administration are the ones actually

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running the country potentially led by

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people on boards that like locked Martin

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or Boeing or whatever who are supporting

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the military-industrial complex I don't

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know those are allegations obviously

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from some not everybody agrees with that

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the flip side says whoa whoa whoa whoa

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we're just spending money where we think

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it will defend American lives okay

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everybody has to make their own

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conclusion on that anyway Vladimir Putin

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gets into how we're he's constantly

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pressured from all sides NATO expanding

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the supplying of weapons is unacceptable

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and ultimately we need to have a

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negotiated solution He suggests that he

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is willing to negotiate and he Dodges

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the question of if he would be satisfied

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with the territory that he has now it

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might not necessarily have been a Dodge

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though it might be because he just wants

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less pressure on Russia He suggests that

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he's just protecting ourselves he's

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protecting the Russian motherland he

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then gets in to talking about how

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ultimately he thinks the Russians and

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ukrainians will be United that there

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will be a solution eventually and that

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religion will bring everyone together

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that religion is in your heart it's not

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about banging your head against the

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ground it's about what's in your heart

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it's also Putin mentions this important

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to question why would Orthodox churches

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be shut down in Ukraine this is where

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Putin is basically trying to Salt the uh

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Ukrainian defense to argue like wait do

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they actually want to unify are they

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actually sincere in their negotiations

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When Vladimir Putin is asked by Tucker

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Carlson hey well what's it going to take

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to negotiate Putin kind of gives up here

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Putin says look we tried to negotiate we

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initialed many parts of a deal in

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Istanbul we withdrew from KF we've tried

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to negotiate but Boris Johnson came in

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and tore up the negotiated plan and told

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Russia uh or told Ukraine not to sign

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the deal we almost had a deal 18 months

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ago and now it's evapor

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who is supporting this is it the US is

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it the United Kingdom we've been willing

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to negotiate when you're ready to

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negotiate you come to us that's how

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Putin left off with negotia now to be

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clear remember how I told you to

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remember something very important

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earlier when I told you to subscribe

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okay Putin says you come to us when

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you're ready to negotiate but Putin also

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said in order to negotiate with me you

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all have to stop fighting stop supplying

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weapons and after a few weeks after we

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end this presumably mop everything up

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then we'll negotiate so I kind of got

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two putins there I got the Putin that's

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like yeah I'm ready to negotiate come

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anytime I'm ready and then I got I'm not

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ready to negotiate unless you basically

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lose okay all right anyway there was a

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little bit of talk about Elon Musk about

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how Elon is a very smart man that uh you

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know Putin heard he just implanted a

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chip into some person's brain and that

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genetics and AI are all going to be

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really big risks in the future they'll

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probably be regulated just like nuclear

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weapons were because once people realize

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there are threats to their own Humanity

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they end up regulating it just like they

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did with nukes they'll end up doing with

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genetic engineering and they'll end up

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doing with AI now Tucker Carlson pulled

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a really 4D chess move towards the end

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of the interview he said will you

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release the jailed Wall Street Journal

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reporter this was brilliant for two

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reasons number one if he got the

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reporter released Tucker cson would be a

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national hero hero number two even if he

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didn't get the reporter released he

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tried and he tried hard that is a way of

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warming up the mainstream media to like

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Tucker Carlson because the mainstream

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media does not want to see one of their

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reporters in jail in Russia it's a

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33-year-old named Evan he worked for the

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Wall Street Journal still works for the

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Wall Street Journal theoretically

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presumably anyway Vladimir Putin says

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this individual was not just a reporter

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they conducted Espionage we caught the

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