Russia Warns NATO: Touch Kaliningrad, We Go Nuclear

0:00Russia says it is ready to use nuclear weapons if the NATO decides to block aid or try to take Kalinengrad. NATO for its part says we're not worried about anything. Everything is going fine. As a matter of fact, Russia is losing the war. For those who are expecting to see Alexander Bukkuriyev sir, we're trying to get him connected. We have some connection issues. As soon as we get him on, we'll bring him in. But the show must go on. Lots of information going on right now. Let's take a look at it right off the bat here because actually, nope, this one right here. Russia warns of a NATO of a possible nuclear response if Kalinengrad has cut. There should be no mistake. Russia would be ready to use all its arsenals, including nuclear weapons to defend his territory. If NATO countries try to isolate Kalinengrad region from the rest of the country, the Russian embassy in Ireland said in a statement on Tuesday. Apparently the Russian embassy in Paris echoed a similar statement a day before. But it's

1:00unclear exactly what this was in reference to. And it's interesting because the Russian media, this is in Riyanovistee here. This is this morning in their media, is a little bit more reserved about it. So when the Russian media to their people, this is of course translated with Google Translate, says Vladimir Putin gave instructions to ensure the security of the Kalinengrad region said Nikolai Petrushchev, assistant head to the state chairman of the Marine Board. The president has given all necessary commands to the relevant structures, and they are very carefully dealing with this issue. He said they will not be able to implement any threats they will remain in words. If they only try to do something in practice, there will be an adequate quick response. As Putin warned, Russia will destroy any threats to the Kalinengrad region if they arise, a possible blockade of the region could lead to an unprecedented escalation of the conflict ahead of state sits. So you see in their media, they don't say anything about nuclear weapons, but when it's their embassy in the

2:02West, they certainly do. So it's unclear if this is basically just trying to in the West, in the media that they know the West is reading, to say, hey, if you try to do something here, we're going to potentially use nuclear weapons to try to really shock them into thinking that's a bad idea. For those who may not know, this is something that's not really common knowledge. Kalinengrad is Russian territory, but as you can see from the map, it's actually separated from Russian territory and all on the other side of the Baltics and connected to Poland and on the other side of Belarus as well. This is a result of what happened and how the map was redrawn after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992, because it was an important military outpost for the Russians. And even though they're allowing everybody else to go their own way in terms of the dissolution of all the Soviet Republic into independent countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,

3:03Belarus and Poland, etc. They said, okay, we're Moscow, we're retaining control of this one because of its strategic bases. And I think there's also a there's a naval base there, airbraces. It's very, very strategically important, but you see it's landlocked. So Russia can't go directly to it via land. It's also makes it very difficult to defend and you see it makes it very close to Germany there. And by the way, this used to be a German city, it used to be Kernigsberg, I believe the name was, but you see it's very obsolete. So I want to say it was maybe earlier this year, late last year, one of the NATO generals pretty much came out and openly boasted that we could knock out Kalinengrad in like a matter of days if we needed to. So we could block a that thing off and shut it down completely. And if we needed to, we could destroy it. Why he felt the need to say that out loud is unclear. Of course, the Russians didn't lack it at the time, but it's also unclear what's provoking them right now. Did NATO say something,

4:07we were looking even this morning to try and find out was there's some public statement that was made by NATO or some NATO figure that implied that again, that Kalinengrad was on the chopping block in the event of conflict. And the only thing we've been able to find, year, if you can put that one, if you still have it handy, one of the articles, I think it was in the Associated Press, said that the Russians claimed that they had gotten information that NATO was preparing potentially to take Kalinengrad. So it looks like it may have been something that they gathered through their intelligence services. We're going to keep on looking for that. It's clear. But whatever the case is, you can see how it'd be tempting for somebody in NATO to say, hey, this is an important strategic base. And my understanding is that can launch all kinds of bombers. And it's unclear if that would be a nuclear take enabled bomber at Kalinengrad or not. It's unclear, but it is definitely clear that they can launch all kinds of weapons from that location. It is stuck out there. It's also attempting target because militarily, you can say, man,

5:12that's kind of a tasty morsel. Wouldn't take much to knock that thing out and to keep it off because there's no land route already. So it would be militarily an easier target to take anything else. I mean, like, for example, anything inside of Russian territory. But that could also be a trigger because even the so-called detainer version from the Russian side, so this could lead to unprecedented escalation of conflict. And that is not something that we should take lightning. And in fact, the fact that this doesn't appear to have been resulted from anything that was publicly said is itself evidence of the seriousness on the Russian side. For example, when Lavrov here have been making some comments about what the Russian, I'm sorry, what the Germans said at the UN General Assembly and some diplomatic conversations they've had. A lot of that was public and they respond to it. That's not uncommon. Zelensky may say things. They'll respond to that, etc. And we know we're talking about there. It's kind of a back and forth tit for tat of the diplomatic arena.

6:14This is a little different because it doesn't appear to have at least an immediate antecedent as to what caused Russia to say this and one wonders is anybody in NATO actually thinking crazy like this. I have to hope that this is just Russia being paranoid. In this case, I would be all right with that because it tells them that they're, hey, let's see, what do we have here? Get see, I don't take this seriously, NATO chief dismisses the nuclear threat over Kaliningrad. Okay, if I can be okay with Russia being a little paranoid about it, I can understand why they would. We should have no confusion whatsoever on the series of this, whether it's just hyperbole or not. That is an important base in his Russian territory. Just like if we were to strike Poland or Germany or something else, some other country in NATO, in triggers in Article 5 and we've got to war, it's the same thing if NATO directly attacks Russian territory anywhere, whether that's directly

7:20in the homeland or on Kaliningrad. It has the same effect as an Article 5 for us of starting in interstate war because now then it is, it would be in this case, NATO conducting an active war against Russian territory and it doesn't matter where, what Russian territory. So Russia is very serious about this. We should take it, so we shouldn't even be contemplating something like this. And Mark Ruta saying, just dismissing, I don't take it seriously, then you need to be fired to day if at all possible. You are not the man to be leading this alliance. You should be taking it deadly serious. And let's just give him the benefit of the doubt and say, well, actually he does take it serious, but he's having this bravado and he's saying this stuff out loud. I don't know what it is. That's just as stupid because you don't want to signal to the other side that you don't take their warning seriously, which may make them think, well, he's going to, he may be tempted to take action on that. If he doesn't believe me and they may say, then how about we just demonstrate

8:22how serious we are? You see, we keep toying around and playing like it's a game around the edges of a conflict with nuclear armed Russia. This date with the most nuclear weapons on the planet. Why would we do something so potentially suicidal? It doesn't make any sense. Now, again, you make him just say, well, Mark Rootter there is just being bravado. Beyond the scenes, he's not. He's just doing that to sound tough and to reassure his, his, you know, all of the people on the NATO side. Maybe that's what he's doing. Well, if that was an isolated event, I could say maybe that is what he's doing, but it's not isolated. He says all kinds of crazy stuff. As a matter of fact, here just at a meeting, I don't like either yesterday or this morning, we got the video this morning. He is laying out some real issues here about, here's how his view of the war is. Let's zoom out a little bit. What's happening? 43,000 Russians killed or seriously wounded a

9:27month now in Ukraine. Ukraine holding the frontline, doing much better than only a half year or year ago, striking deep inside Russia. Allies supporting Ukraine in terms of weapons delivery, etc. So this is the picture. So Putin is not winning this. So let's assume that he is a bit worried and a bit rattled. And I think the best way to deal with this is to have a little bit of calm here. On the NATO side, we can allow a bit of calm, but also a bit of making sure we continue with what we are doing. So the carry on part, which is investing in our defense and we're doing it. Okay. At what point do you say that the guy is only saying stuff for public consumption? And everything he says for public consumption is nutty and disconnected from reality. I mean, at some point, doesn't there have to be some truth in there? I mean, now he's going to kind of slip something here in a minute, but let's just take a look at some of the things that he just said. That was yesterday. Putin is not winning the war. So it's just don't worry

10:32about that. Ukraine is doing much better. Much better, he said than a year ago. And have you looked at the front line lately? Because there is one place, and one place only on the front line where the Ukraine side is doing fairly well on the tactical level. And that is in by Le Mans. Nearly everywhere else, they're losing territory. The Russians are advancing. And everywhere, to include the Le Mans area, Ukraine continues to suffer huge amounts of casualties every single day. Because I mean, if you're paying any attention at all to this social media that shows, you know, the attacks and whatnot, you see that Russia continues to use glide bombs against which Ukraine has no defense at all. Every glide bomb that's launched lands on its target. There's nothing they can do to stop it. Of course, all the different categories of drones, the FPV drones, the drones that drop bombs, so the ones in the tactical area in the front and the rear area of the front and the medium range back in the operational zone. And then of course, all the way to

11:38Kiev into the Polish border. All of these different categories of the drones and some number of get through everywhere. And then you have the cruise missiles, the K-201s, you have the hypersonic missiles against which there is no defense. All the categories of the ballistic missiles, Ukraine has no defense. They just don't have anything. They can't stop any of those. So the glide bombs and the ballistic missiles are virtually impervious. And then you, that's just, and then you have the normal artillery where there's still at least a three to one advantage on the Russian side. And they use that commonly. You have the rockets that they have which are also relative, are actually they're very effective. The artillery rockets especially. And you have the direct fire. What happens? Nothing. There's not that much of that anymore. But that's still going on. All of that together, every day continues to dwindle the Ukraine manpower pool every day. And there is a limited number. If it ain't getting bigger, folks, as a matter of fact, it's continuing to shrink. People still try and do successfully escape the country. But they're not making any new ones.

12:45So unless you're going to start bringing in women just to destroy utterly the country, then there is no rational path to Ukraine even hanging on in this myth that Mark Rutzes says that they're getting stronger and they're doing better. No, they're not. They're definitely not. Again, one tactical area of temper going in, not unlike when the Ukraine side attacked into into the Russian territory in Corsica and the Corsica oblast. They made a big penetration, but a lot of splashy stuff for about eight months. And then they at the cost of about 70,000 dead Ukrainians, they have nothing. And then of course the territory once it once it was restored, then the Russians kept going. So now that you have this big red territory, a new territory in Ukraine taken as a result of the attempt. So not only did they lose men, they also lost territory. And you see the jet power drones outpacing Ukrainian defenses as manufacturers race to build

13:45new interceptors. This is what we've been talking about for a long time. This old tit for tat, this escalation where you're trying to have some new technology. And then you're doing something that the other side can't stop. And then at some point they figure it out. And then you're like, all right, well now we have to do something different. Right now Russia's on the upside of this because the jet power drones, the Ukraine side had some pretty good drone interceptors for a period of time. I think I'm the Garen ones and twos. But now then the jet powered ones have outrises. So now that that technology doesn't work. So Ukraine does, I'm sure working really hard right now to try to figure jet powered interceptors to bring it back into equilibrium. But it's not there yet. So that means nearly all of those are hitting their targets. Meanwhile, where Rucho says, don't worry about it. As a matter of fact, you know what, we can afford to become. And I'm thinking, you can, you can afford to become, I guess, because newsflash, in a NATO troops that are dying every day, it's not NATO cities that are getting blown up every day,

14:51it's not a NATO capital that's burning, it's not a NATO capital that's not going to have heat, it's not a NATO capital that's not going to have electricity, just to turn on the lights, to do anything, any kind of economic activity, or just stay warm when it gets cold. So it's easy for him to say, we're just going to take a cop. But he might want to even rethink that because remember, so just pointed out the ballistic missile right now because there's no interceptors, there's nothing that any Ukraine side can do to stop any of those ballistic missiles. Now, NATO has a plan. Kayakalis says, hey, how about we get all of the air defense missiles from all of our friends in NATO? All you guys give us all your pectoral interceptors, give them to Ukraine, and then one day, later into the future, we'll give you some brand shiny new ones. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Now, consider this. Just on the surface of it, on that request, how insane that is,

15:52you'll see, you won't be surprised what I'm about to show you, you're saying, listen, we see that these interceptors in both the Middle East and in Russia and Ukraine, on the Ukraine side, has been spotty at best from the beginning of stopping the Russian missiles. And now that there's virtually none and you're told European people are told by their leaders, you need to get ready for war. We've been telling you this a lot lately, the French, the Germans, the British, they keep over and over warning. War is coming. We have to get ready for war about 2030, maybe even 2029. They're coming for us. We have to get ready all in their ears that keep hearing this over and over and over. And you want to say to those same people, Meito, how about you give us all your air defense now so that we can use it for Ukraine. And then if Russia does what we're telling you they may, you have no air defense at all. You'll be then just like Ukraine is

16:54now with the ballistic missiles defenseless. You see how stupid that is? How absurd that is to and insulting that is to NATO publics to be asking that. And yet that's what Kaya Kallis is asking. Then shock of shocks, here's the results. On the interceptors, unfortunately there were no new pledges made today. So many were pleading for this swap. Let's see what comes out of it. There are many countries outside Europe who say that, you know, talk to the Russians and then there will be a result. I mean, these talks show that Russia really is not interested in peace at all. Otherwise you don't treat your negotiation partner this way. So I think this is also very clear for everybody. Russia needs to show by stopping the attacks on civilians that they are interested in peace, which they are not. And then they need to talk to Ukraine because it's between Ukraine and Russia. Everybody else can facilitate this process, but in the end they need to agree.

17:59Okay, but I mean, well, actually not fair enough. Your supply weapons and ammunition for Ukraine to kill Russians. So you are a party to the war. Therefore you have a voice. You can talk to Russia. You can engage. In fact, it's one of the biggest problems that there has been from the beginning that really since Boris Johnson, then Prime Minister of UK, sabotaged and convinced Zalinsky to say no to the peace deal that would have saved probably a million Ukrainian allies. People would still be allowed today. It's not for Boris Johnson and his convincing Zalinsky. Of course, it's still Zalinsky's responsibility. It's on his shoulders because that was ultimately his decision. But well done, British Prime Minister, to get a million, somewhere around a million people killed in wounded. Incredible. Lack of vision, lack of integrity, lack of morality. Just insane. That's what you're telling them. That's what you've convinced them to do. Well done.

19:00And now here, Kayakalis is trying to one up that, but saying, let's expand this disaster to all of Europe. Let's make all of us just as demilitarized, if you will. It's certainly vulnerable just like Ukraine. It's almost like a swear to God. It's almost like these European elites are Russian agents and that they're planted secretly so that they can make these the Europeans do things that are so stupid that it literally demilitarizes their capability. Just think about what's happening right now. They have burned through so many already. They have actually gotten way low on their stockpiles, all the countries, to give to Ukraine to be burned up into a pointless feudal effort to just minimize how many Russian missiles get through. They could never stop it. Sometimes they could minimize it. That's all they could do with the best. And in so doing, you're denuding the capacity of air defense throughout the entire NATO alliance.

20:04If you were actually a Russian mole and a spy, then sure you're in candidate, you couldn't do any better. You couldn't make yourself any more vulnerable than if you were actually trying. So either there is some kind of like industrial scale and competence going on in Europe or something else weird is going on because what is actually happening doesn't make any sense at all. Not if you want to defend your country, not if you want to make sure that there's no war on your side. See the thing that would make the most sense, the things that would be incredibly logical, if I thought that there was any chance that Russia would be rolling to the west, I would be building up defensive lines all along the whole eastern flank of NATO right now. But it would have been doing it a long time ago. Much like the Seravikan line, that the Russians built in 2023. Now on their defensive line, those five lines they had, I'd have been echoing that mirroring it on the other side. Something like the code words, and I used to be in the second US cavalry and in the into the code war, we were part of the group that

21:08patrolled the east-west border in Czechoslovakia, in what was known as the DDR, the East German, etc. We patrolled that section of the line. And there was all these border fortifications, concrete blocks, the barbed wire, all kinds of things. Any tank ditches you name it, all the stuff was all along the line, allegedly to protect each side from the other. Do that again. If you think they're coming, that's why we had it. They had their defenses, we had our defenses, and there was this separation between. Why aren't you doing that? Do you really think that the Russians are coming? Then why have you made no defensive preparations? You should be doing that so that it would be nearly impossible for Russia militarily to come and do that. Then you would be saying, okay, let's little light to do this now, get it, but still, this should be doing right now. If you don't see construction equipment and digging equipment all over Europe right now, the leaders are dead wrong. What they should have been doing for a while now is seeing what happened in Iran,

22:12look at what's going in many of the old USSR places, even some of the western NATO countries back in the day, back when I was on duty in Europe. I lived there for about six years in my life altogether. You had underground bunkers. You should be digging right now and seeing that the only thing that's keeping Iran alive is the fact that they have all these bunkers and missile cities under the ground that are impervious to our air offensive missiles. That's what we should be doing. Knowing what Russia is building there, expanding offensive missile capacity, technologically as well as numerically, we should be digging right now. So building fortifications, building your factories and stuff where they're impervious to those things under the ground, or at least more difficult to get to, and then have diplomacy. And then say, hey, listen, this war is over. This war in Ukraine, it's lost long time ago. It's literally physically, emotionally, psychologically, morally impossible for Ukraine to ever win the war. Ever.

23:15The best they can do, the best it's even theoretically hoped for is that somehow the four-month-old man of just wears out and you have some shell of a country left. That's the best, the best, and that's probably not likely. The likelihood is that eventually this crust and shell of these heroically performing Ukrainian soldiers eventually just melt away, or more accurately, or ground to dust. And finally, they lose their cohesiveness, and then Russia just rose in and takes whatever they want after that. That's the most likelihood if you keep following your course of action. Or you could say because that is the likely outcome, the likely, then let's make a deal. Let's just tell Zelensky, sorry, dude, games up. We're not going to support you anymore. US isn't, Europe's not, make your peace. Make your peace with Russia. Get the best deal that you're going to get. It's going to be ugly. It's going to be something that's horrible to you. And I know there's all these threats and rumors that as all top people in these ultra-nationalists said that they will kill you if you make any

24:18deal. You're going to have to take that risk. Will give you some security, whatever. But it doesn't matter. You jump to you. You're just not going to get anything from us. No more money, no more ammunition, no more missiles, nothing. You're not going to get anything from us. So you have to make a piece because we're not going to put the entire population of Western Europe or the entire Western Alliance at risk because you can't bring this to an end. We're not going to do it. That's what should be happening, diplomatically, militarily in the defensive lines. All that should be happening if you were actually interested in defending your country and in your alliance, in the NATO. We're not doing any of that. In fact, we continue to allow Zelensky, I don't know if you saw this speech at the Human General Assembly. But here's this statement that he made to where he is either delusional or he's delusional. I don't know, one of those two. You'll have to make up your own mind. But here's what he's saying right now. In the four and a half years of we're rolling in now toward the fifth, here's what he says.

25:21Let's end, gentlemen. Just think about it. No Russian official ever imagined that army general winter, which had fought on Russia's side for centuries, would one day be with the sites and support those defending themselves from Russia. We will make that happen. This winter, if Russia continues to target our energy system and our heating, Ukraine has to understand that this winter could be very harsh for us. But in response, we will have no choice but to make it painful for Russia too. And that's exactly why we say that these collation steps are important, are needed before winter now. Yeah, sure. I mean, the escalation steps are needed before winter for his side. He's right,

26:21and for his echoes. But into to mock Russia and be cocky and say, martial winter, martial mud, is this referred to other times, or general winter, it's something like that that the winter itself is going to be against Russia and for him is insane. You still have severely degraded capacity for heating and electricity in your country now from the last several years of fighting. And even now, it's just a consistent deterioration of the capacity to provide food, energy, anything that you need, which also helps with water and pumping in it. All these things are so many things that are affected by this and you don't have them anywhere in a near the sufficient required percentages. And you want to mock Russia because you're able to hit them. And the thing is, if you mock Russia like that and you keep trying to do those things, then they're going to ramp up. That's been their pattern for a long time. Every time Ukraine does

27:24something and they hit something that's that's genuinely painful and it's problematic and it hurts Russia. They respond fivefold in the other direction. There's nothing you can do to stop it. Usually it's in the same category. So whatever harm you think you're doing to Russia, it's happening fivefold coming back in the other direction and you can't afford that. Russia can. It's unpleasant, it's difficult, it makes a lot of problematic for their people, but that's as far as it goes. Russia is just vast country. It's so big that they can absorb these things a lot better than the relatively small territory of Ukraine. That's just a reality here. So Zelensky is not dealing with reality. Kyakalis is not dealing with reality. Mark Ruta is not dealing with reality. You know who is dealing with reality? There's another Ukrainian person. This is very much. Yulia Mandel. She rots in the American conservative yesterday that for Ukraine a bad piece beats a worsening war. That's literally what I just said too. It's what I've been saying for a

28:27long time. That's what I've been begging the Europeans to do. Listen, it's bad as it would be and it will be bad. Just don't sugarcoat it. Any kind of a deal that Ukraine's going to get now as opposed to April 2022 or June 2024, it's going to be terrible because every time you wait, even an anchor in Zelensky would have been better than what's coming now. Probably scores of thousands, maybe more than 100,000 Ukrainians have been killed since Anchorage because of the last time we failed President Trump failed to push the issue and make a deal and make a deal that and then forces Zelensky into it or again walk away. And I know that rubs some people the wrong way. Well, he can't force the Zelensky to do something. That's true as far as it goes, but he can force him to make a decision. He can say, you're going to do it without any of our help. No more targeting information. So all these long-range drones that you've been firing and these missiles that have been hitting targets,

29:27you've figured out on your own. You get to Google Earth. I don't know. Whatever you got to do, pull out an old map. You can figure it out for yourself because you're not going to get it from us. You're not going to get any more ammunition. You're not going to get any more moral support. You're not going to get any more diplomatic support. Nothing. We're out. No more pearl program. It doesn't matter who pays for it. We're not going to give it up. We're not going to send our ammunition on our weapons into a death trap into something that is purely going into a hole. Destroy it. We're losing the money. In many cases, and we're losing the equipment and ammunition in all cases. That's what he could have done. But it's not. Instead, he's not listening to Yulia Mendel who was speaking for the people of Ukraine. By the way, she would have been on her show tomorrow, but she's been going on so many shows now being unafraid to share her story. She's nearly lost her voice entirely. We're going to take the weekend. Hopefully, on Monday, we'll have her back and Yulia from her yourself. Anytime you can read that article in the American conservative, you can Google that up there for you. Friends of bad peace beats a worsening war. She has previously put in, I think it was the

30:30spectator, that basically to continue the war is national suicide. Obviously, you've heard me use that language before, and I'm using it again here. What Ukraine is doing, what the leadership is doing, what NATO leadership is doing is suicide. Suicide for Zelensky, I'll go as far as saying it's murder from our side. We are killing the very people that we claim we want to help. And listen, if anybody has this fantasy, like apparently Zelensky does, well, yeah, but you know, but if we keep having these long-grained strikes, see incumulative, when you add them all up, at some point the pressure could get so high, and the pain so still significant that finally Putin is going to have to do something he doesn't want to do. Now, first I would just ask you, has that happened to Zelensky? Has he ever gotten to that point? Even though he has profoundly more hit, has suffered more hits than the Russians had, has he bowed his head, has he bent the knee, has he submitted? 10 times, 50 times, 100 times more

31:38than Russia has received, especially when you're talking about in a consolidated area, as opposed to this massive spread out area in Russia, all of its concentrated here. Not only is he not giving up, you see just a couple of days ago, or just last month, you in general simply, he still is defined as ever. Well, Russia, which has hit a lot less, is going to be a lot less likely, far less likely, with a much larger population that is not fled to the four corners of the world, and they still are able to recruit people every month. They don't even have to, they have been done a force mobilization beyond that initial one in 2022. Since that time, they're mobilized, they're recruiting people and they're choosing to join up. So they're way ahead of anything that the Ukraine side has done, yet they're not given up. And you also see electorally that the Russians are voting with their actual votes, and that they said, I like what President Putin is doing. Let's make sure he continues on with it. And in fact, more people voted for him than

32:40it ever had. They got more seats in the Duma than they had in the previous elections. So the whole rally round the flag thing, all they see, the Russians see this is all the world against us, all the Western world against us. And so we're continuing to rally around the flag and it's getting stronger as the years go on. But then when this new Duma set, President Putin goes before them and says in front of everybody, we need to all be crystal clear on exactly what our objectives are in this war. All citizens of our country are united in this day. This holiday has become a

33:40blessing, not to hold the mood of our nation to the establishment of historical unity. The right of the fight for the Russian people, all the countries, the residents of Donbass and Russia, for freedom and justice, and the victory of the Polish people in 2014, the heroes of special military operations in the established protection of our nation. So he reiterated there that this is about the Russian people. And they had been attacking the Russian people, what he viewed as the Russian people, which was initially in the Donbass area in Lohansk and Donetsk. That's what that's where all this started. Actually, it started in 2014 with the Civil War that was initiated when we supported a coup that overthrew the legally elected government. And then we supported a peace deal in the Minsk agreement, which was never designed to be implemented according to Western leaders who later admitted in public that they were just wanting to buy time for the Ukraine army. And then that army started actually increasing its shelling on the against

34:46its people, make sure you're clear on this, against the Ukrainian people in the east, whom they were having a civil war with. And then that's when Russia finally broke in. Of course, we know all the things that led up to it in the six months prior to the war, all the diplomacy that was happening, all the threats and the demands and everything else. But that's what was the final straw that Vexy caused Russia to cross the border there at the last. According to them, you don't have to agree with it. I don't care. It doesn't matter what any of us think. That's just what Russia thinks and that's what they did. And that's what's important for us to understand when they say something, especially when it comes to their people, they mean it. Those people in the west who like to pride themselves or convince themselves or console themselves that oh, Russia doesn't actually have any red lines. You might want to relook at the fact that they went to war on a red line. They weren't had been warning since 2008. They have a lot of patience. But with that patience, finally comes to an end when a red line is crossed and their interpretation, what it does, they took action. So don't think that there is no Russian red lines. Don't confuse

35:49patience for a lack of resolve because Putin just laid it out for you right there. He had put his entire credibility and name on the line by telling the entire population of Russia. We will have, he said that Don't Boston, no more, see it. That's important too because that's more than just those four oblasts. No more, see it is a lot more than just the here's zone in Zopharizia. There's a lot more in that's considered historic noble Russia. Now whether Putin meant all of that extra or whether he was just to use net as a euphemism for the four that has been on the table since June 2024, especially or most recently is unknown. But if push comes to shove, they'll take all of noble Russia because there's a lot of areas where there's still a lot of a priority or a significant percentage of the population of ethnic Russians. He can take that too and if we never make a deal, that probably will eventually happen. So the longer we go ignoring reality, we don't build any

36:51fortifications. We don't replace our stocks and we won't be able to by the way, our air defense stocks in anything short of like this rate of five years and that's if we're just cranking out full speed then we're not. We're just incrementally increasing production capacity. It won't be ready for many. It won't be ready by 2030. I can promise you that and if we're building the stuff that's already proven it's not going to work, it won't even matter if you get it. That's where we're going, we're preparing for something that won't save us and we're refusing to do the thing that will, which is diplomacy. And as Yulia Mendel says, we need a bad peace beats a worsening war or an escalating war in the case of Europeans. We'll have to see what's going to happen. We'll stay on top of it for you folks. We got a big lineup for you today. We have coming up Colonel Larry Wilkerson. That's at 1130 and then at 1pm we have going to show them up there. The ever inestimable John

37:51Mirshammer is going to bring his wisdom to the tank here. You see the winter war begins and then finally we're going to have more professor Morandi back with us live from Tehran is Iran annihilation. Is that still possible or is it possible that Iran themselves may launch something in a preemptive strike to outdo and outflank the United States? We'll find out this afternoon at 2pm. So you think on the day of the day of Steve Dup? Please consider becoming a member. Members support means that we get to spend more time reporting and less time giving you ads like miracle supplements are gold. Deep dive survives because of members like you who support us. Thank you.