Podcasts about Chechens

April 28th 2025 In this episode, Yuriy explores the profound implications of rejecting evil deals through the lens of the gospel and Putin's bloody schemes. A deep dive into how Putin manipulates and destroys, and why it's crucial for us to prevent our world from becoming his. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: fightingtherussianbeast@gmail.com    You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family   Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  Subscribe to his substack: https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It is April 28.  I really love the episode in the gospel, where while tempting Christ, Satan offers him dominion over the whole world in exchange for just a single act of bowing before him. But Jesus refuses, he does not need the world, especially at the coast of bowing to the devil. Jesus does not want such a deal, he does not want any deals at all. The only successful deal in the gospels is the story of Judas and his easy money, but as everyone remembers, nothing good came out of it in the end. In general, all the gospels are about how life is far more complex than just a constant series of deals. Jesus, the apostles and all the positive characters simply do not know how to make deals.  And do you know who does? Putin. Just one example. He came up with a scheme to kill Americans by proxy. Russia paid $200,000 to the Taliban for each U.S. Soldier were killed in Afghanistan. For Putin, it is like a present. $200,000. It is pocket money for him, just nothing. So he was paying pennies for his bloody entertainment. For him, this was like a video arcade, but in real life. The Taliban earned about $30 million through this scheme, maybe even more. Again: Putin incentivized the Taliban to kill Americans by paying them for every American casualty. Why did he do this? Because he hates the United States, he hates the free world, and he's ready to go to any Satan to crawl at his feet, not even for dominion over the planet, but for a few burned out villages, just so that the free Ukrainian flag would not fly over them but instead, his own filthy mat smeared rag. He kills Ukrainians, he has killed Georgians. Chechens, Americans.  And America keeps forgiving him. Steve Witkoff, the US President's special envoy goes to the Kremlin like it is his day job, greets the murderer, asks how he's doing, says he's very glad to see him. And he shakes a hand that is stained with the blood of countless thousands murdered by this master of the deal. For three months now, the United States administration has been trying to figure out exactly what kind of deal Putin wants and what more they could offer him, like Witkoff's humiliations fawning over the murder of American soldiers. And Putin simply enjoys it: how a high ranking American official travels to meet him, how he groves around him, how he turns a blind eye to his bloodthirst and hatred, including hatred toward America. Putin does not need any deal. He wants the world itself. Preferably a world full of Witkoffs, unable to distinguish good from evil, Caesars from Gods. Jesus from Satan.  It's a terrible world for those who value freedom. For those who would never bow to the devil for those who refuse to become subjects of a murderous maniac. And let's do everything we can do to prevent our world from becoming Putin's world.  And one more request. I'm no master of the deal ever. I depend heavily on your support, which unfortunately is becoming scarcer. So I have to remind you, if you enjoy this podcast, please support me using the details provided in the episode description. Thank you very much.

There has been a Christian community in Syria since the first century AD. But it is shrinking fast and faces terrifying new threats as the country's government, following the overthrow of President Assad, forges alliances with hardline Muslims including foreign jihadists – Uighurs from China, Uzbeks from Central Asia, Chechens from Russia, Afghans and Pakistanis. Mgr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester who is now a Catholic priest of the Ordinariate, has written a heartbreaking piece for The Spectator about the Christians of Maaloula in southwest Syria. It's one of the last remaining communities to speak Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ. ‘Were this community to be destroyed, something precious and irreplaceable would be lost', he writes. Yet that is exactly what may happen. When the then-Bishop Nazir-Ali visited the town in 2016, he discovered that the predecessors of the jihadis who recently toppled Bashar al-Assad ‘had systematically destroyed and desecrated the town's churches and monasteries. Orthodox nuns were kidnapped and held to ransom … young men had been singled out and executed when they refused to convert to the extremists' version of Islam.' Will it happen again? Ahmad al-Sharaa, head of the new Syrian transitional administration, has told Church leaders they have nothing to fear. But can he be trusted? As Mgr Nazir-Ali tells Damian Thompson in this episode of Holy Smoke, it is time for the West to act.  Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

There has been a Christian community in Syria since the first century AD. But it is shrinking fast and faces terrifying new threats as the country's government, following the overthrow of President Assad, forges alliances with hardline Muslims including foreign jihadists – Uighurs from China, Uzbeks from Central Asia, Chechens from Russia, Afghans and Pakistanis. Mgr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester who is now a Catholic priest of the Ordinariate, has written a heartbreaking piece for The Spectator about the Christians of Maaloula in southwest Syria. It's one of the last remaining communities to speak Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ. ‘Were this community to be destroyed, something precious and irreplaceable would be lost', he writes. Yet that is exactly what may happen. When the then-Bishop Nazir-Ali visited the town in 2016, he discovered that the predecessors of the jihadis who recently toppled Bashar al-Assad ‘had systematically destroyed and desecrated the town's churches and monasteries. Orthodox nuns were kidnapped and held to ransom … young men had been singled out and executed when they refused to convert to the extremists' version of Islam.' Will it happen again? Ahmad al-Sharaa, head of the new Syrian transitional administration, has told Church leaders they have nothing to fear. But can he be trusted? As Mgr Nazir-Ali tells Damian Thompson in this episode of Holy Smoke, it is time for the West to act.  Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

Comenzamos con una buena ración de músicas brasileñas y, con escala en las comunidades latinas de Estados Unidos, caemos en el corazón del Cáucaso. Llegamos a Europa, navegando en el Mediterráneo entre Cerdeña, Córcega y Cataluña, para continuar con hermosas colaboraciones entre el norte de Europa y el África occidental, donde terminamos. En nuestras #Mundofonews hablamos de la programación de Limo, en Madrid, y del Premio Andrea Parodi, en Cerdeña. We start with a good portion of Brazilian music, and with a stopover in the Latin communities of the United States, we land in the heart of the Caucasus. We reach Europe, sailing through the Mediterranean between Sardinia, Corsica, and Catalonia, continuing with beautiful collaborations between Northern Europe and West Africa, where we end. In our #Mundofonews, we talk about the Limo program in Madrid and the Premio Andrea Parodi in Sardinia. – Alessandra Leão & Sapopemba – Exu ajuô – Brasil Calling, volume 13 [V.A.] – Marco Vilane – Água – Brasil Calling, volume 12 [V.A.] – Priscilla Frade – Baião de quatro toques – Brasil Calling, volume 12 [V.A.] – Lucas Argel – Vila Cosmos – Café Brazil [V.A.] – Vanessa Borhagian – Mi negro – VanesSamba de raíz – Alex E. Chávez – Guadalupe – Sonorous present – Pankisi Ensemble – Soplis boloshi – Music of Kists, Chechens of Georgia – Jérôme Casalonga & Antonello Salis – A merula – Isókhronos – Cat Klezmer Trio – Papirosn – Cat Klezmer Trio – Ros – Flama – Al foc – Afro Celt Sound System – Glitchy fiddles – Ova – Annarella and Django – Dakar Örebro – Jouer – Sinimuso – Kala-tchi – Nouskaa sisaret – Nahawa Doumbia – Demisen kulu – Vol. 2 #Mundofonews – Limo (Madrid) – Premio Andrea Parodi 📸 Sinimuso (Elina Seye)

October 1st 2024 Yuriy underscores the critical role the Ukrainian army plays in defending not just Ukraine but the broader Western world against Russian aggression. He highlights Russia's inhumane military practices and warns of their intentions to use subjugated Ukrainians to wage war against NATO, emphasizing the importance of supporting Ukraine in its fight for freedom. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: fightingtherussianbeast@gmail.com    You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family   Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  Subscribe to his substack: https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)       I think some of my listeners abroad believe that I'm exaggerating a bit when I say that the Ukrainians are now defending them too, that I'm deliberately overstating the importance of the Ukrainian army, but that's not the case. In the description of this episode, I will leave a link to the military plans of so-called Russian Ministry of Defense. You will be able to read them using an online translator, or you might not need to read them- I will tell you a bit about them and provide some explanations.  Let's start with the fact that they still call the war in Ukraine a, liberation one. They came to "liberate" Russians according to very bizarre calculations. Just recently, 96.7% of people in Ukraine were Russians. Where this number came from, don't ask. I don't know. It's some special Putin science- counting Russians where they don't exist. So, next, the Russian military rights that were insidious West imposed some wrong values on these Russians and turn them into enemies of Russia. And that's precisely why putin started this war to turn this, 96.7% of Ukrainians into Russians.   And do you know why Putin needs these people- and we are talking about millions of people? Can you guess? Well, okay. I will tell you to be at the forefront of the armies that will march under Putin's command   to destroy the West, which on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Defense is called 'Satanic'. The ultimate goal is to bring all of Eastern Europe back under Moscow's control. In other words, the Russians openly say, they want to fight NATO, but with the hands of subjugated Ukrainians.  Is it possible to send Ukrainians to fight against their Western neighbors? Well look at two. Today's Russian army, it is more than half made up of conquered peoples from the Caucuses,  Siberia, and other regions. It has thousands of Chechens, including wars, who just recently -20 years ago- fought against Moscow for independence, but now they're fighting for the very people who turned Chechnya into a damn feudal khanate with portraits of Putin who killed tens of thousands of Chechens on every corner.  And there are also many Ukrainians in the Russian army from the occupied territories. They did not join because they suddenly wanted to fight for the invaders. No, they were simply grabbed of the streets, taken to the military base and made cannon fodder. That's right, cannon fodder. The Russian army does not know how to fight any other way.  And the fact that you haven't experienced it yourself yet, the fact that this father isn't storming your cities, the fact that your loved ones haven't been forcibly sent to be part of this Russian cannon fodder, all this is thanks to Ukraine. By the way, today is October 1st, the day of Defenders of Ukraine. So don't forget to congratulate your Ukrainian friends. They deserve it.   

In his Sevastopol Sketches, Tolstoy develops his ability to depict the reality of death within military conflict.   His proficiency stemmed from experience. Most notably, Tolstoy's military service included three years in the Caucuses and action during the Crimean War (1853-56), both as a junior artillery officer.During his time near Chechnya (north of Georgia and west of Dagestan), Tolstoy observed such brutal Russian tactics as punitive raids and the indiscriminate the shelling of small villages. He was also affected by the burning of forests to deny Chechens cover.  This area hosts a Muslim population by reason of Ottoman influence.  Russia has attempted to purge Chechens from what Russia claimed as a southern frontier multiple times and this area remains filled with tension – an inheritance of the aforementioned rivalry. With respect to the Crimean War, in 1853, Czar Nicholas declared war on the Ottoman Empire, Russia's historical rival.  Nicholas asserted the obligation to protect Christians in Ottoman territory and reasserted land-claims in the Danubian principalities. Russian leadership has long-wished to retake Istanbul (Constantinople), which was a center of Christianity for centuries. Napoleon III was at the forefront of the response to the Czar's ambitions in 1853. A coalition (Turks, French & English) united to neutralize Russian expansion and protect the balance of power in Europe. It was hardly lost on Tolstoy that Russia served as a similar bulwark against Napoleon I. Tolstoy lived through the great humiliation of losing of the Crimean War but immortalized one of Russia's great triumphs (repelling Napoleon I in 1812), which makes the great influences on him A Tale of Two Napoleons. A thread through The Sevastopol Sketches and War & Peace is that Tolstoy conveys war's horrific nature.  He does not glorify the subject. The Sketches involve three vignettes of the Siege: November of 1854, May of 1855; and August of 1855.   It was late in the Summer of 1855 when Sevastopol finally fell after an 11-month attack.   The Sketches read like a novella.   The first takes the reader on tour of Sevastopol – from the relative safety of a particular bay, through an infirmary, marketplace, and finally toward the front line. Notably, we are taken inside the Assembly Hall -- a make-shift hospital that is filled with causalities and disease.  Tolstoy then depicts the activity of soldiers and citizens. He discusses merchants going about their trade as well as carriage drivers delivering goods and transporting the dead. The second vignette delves into the senseless vanity of war and pursuit of truth, which Tolstoy describes as the hero of any effort. The last and longest story provides a view of the end of the Siege, through the eyes of fictional brothers. We are given a glimpse of the spectacle of incoming and outgoing artillery, the charges of the allies, and the valiant defense. Amidst the Crimean war, Czar Nicholas died in March of 1855 and Alexander II took the throne, who hold the reputation of a reformer. There was societal reflection that so much of the fighting was done by serfs tied to the land. These serfs were exposed to ideas of freedom and nationhood and there was a national reckoning that their system could not stand.  The serfs (over 20 million souls) were freed in 1861.Tolstoy also proceeds on one of his great explorations - regarding the cause of historical events. He finds that people hold the ultimate power and are somehow (all at once), ready to be moved. This is opposed to the theory a few great leaders move men.   Lastly, the experience of the Crimean War transformed Tolstoy from traditional patriot to an everlasting dissident.

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Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024) tell this story. The book reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024) tell this story. The book reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024) tell this story. The book reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024) tell this story. The book reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024) tell this story. The book reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024) tell this story. The book reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford UP, 2024) reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). Dr. Hamed-Troyansky is currently working on a transnational history of Muslim displacement in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia since 1850. His articles appeared in Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, and Kritika. He received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford UP, 2024) reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). Dr. Hamed-Troyansky is currently working on a transnational history of Muslim displacement in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia since 1850. His articles appeared in Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, and Kritika. He received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford UP, 2024) reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). Dr. Hamed-Troyansky is currently working on a transnational history of Muslim displacement in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia since 1850. His articles appeared in Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, and Kritika. He received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford UP, 2024) reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). Dr. Hamed-Troyansky is currently working on a transnational history of Muslim displacement in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia since 1850. His articles appeared in Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, and Kritika. He received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford UP, 2024) reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). Dr. Hamed-Troyansky is currently working on a transnational history of Muslim displacement in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia since 1850. His articles appeared in Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Slavic Review, and Kritika. He received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Christopher share more about the truth that Vladimir Putin shares in his interview with Tucker Carlson. Putin asserts an important concept that many Americans never knew about. Russia wanted to be on the same side as the other Capitalist nations like the United States. Did you ever hear this when you were in school? Putin tried to bring Russia into Nato. He was rejected by then President Clinton. History has been hiding these truths and the American people need to dig them up. This war with Ukraine is smoke and mirrors. What are we going to do? I don't know. Listen as Christopher shares on this important topic. See video - pluto article notes - Russian discussions of the threat of terrorism quickly become muddled with concerns about religious extremism, “banditry” and criminality (frequently used in conjunction with the Chechens), general social disorder, and the rupture of national unity. article source - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/putin-and-bush-in-common-cause-russias-view-of-the-terrorist-threat-after-september-11/ See video - locked

The new series of Fascinating People, Fascinating Places launches on 5 January 2024 with new episodes featuring the man who caught Saddam Hussein, the lawyer for the 9/11 mastermind, and much more. But in the interim, I am replaying five episodes that were selected by listeners as the best content over the last few years. If you're new to the show now is the time to catch up. If you're a long-term listener here is a chance to revisit some of the fan favorites.  Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I had the pleasure of speaking with WSJ veteran David Satter. He was expelled from Moscow due to his investigative work that indicated Vladimir Putin came to power on the back of terrorist atrocities committed by the FSB but blamed on Chechens. In this episode, he shares a compelling story that supports his claims. On 13 September 1999 Gennadiy Seleznyov speaker of the Duma announced to the Russian parliament that a terrorist attack had hit the remote and hitherto unremarkable city of Volgodonsk. The bombing did occur but not until 3 days later. But it was this incident in conjunction with other bombings that set in motion a series of events that salvaged the reputation of President Boris Yeltsin and laid the stage for his protege Vladimir Putin to come to power. But Selezynyovs apparent clairvoyance wasn't the only indication that something more sinister was afoot. And many people believe the second Chechen war was launched on the basis of a false flag attack concocted by Vladimir Putin. In this episode, I talk to the acclaimed journalist David Satter – formerly the Moscow correspondent for The Financial Times, and special correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He was the first investigative reporter to detail what he believes was a bloody conspiracy to bring Putin to power. Aside from his journalistic work, David Satter has written five books about Russia including Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union which was adapted into a documentary film, and more recently he authored The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin. In December 2013, he was expelled from Russia having been accused of violating migration laws. A claim that he denies and has been widely derided. Like many before and since his real crime appears to have been His actual offense appears to have been his efforts to expose the true nature of an opaque and sinister regime. Music and Sound: Pixabay Guests: David Satter (on Wikipedia)  

On this episode, Dr. Michael Dennis, a leading expert on the Chechen Republic, tells the multifaceted story of the Chechen fight for independence, including the consequences of the Chechen Wars, the rise of the Kadyrov family, lessons learned by the Russian Army, impacts on the Putin regime's decision-making in crises, and Chechnya's role in Ukraine. Dr. Dennis also talks about the future of the North Caucasus and the different actors' stakes in this fraught region. Thanks for listening! This event was part of the #Connexions Experts speaker series which is dedicated to spreading nuanced knowledge about conflict areas in the greater Eurasian region. The Experts series is in lead up to the #Connexions 2024 conference which will take place from March 18-20 at The University of Texas at Austin. Watch the event here: https://www.youtube.com/live/w6Fh76DnmdI?si=MC6lu6CRY-15RWTk ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Michael Dennis is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a leading expert on Chechnya, the North Caucasus insurgency, and the Russo-Chechen Wars. In addition to over twenty years of research in the region, Dr. Dennis spent over five years living with Chechen rebels and refugees in the Pankisi Gorge along the Chechen border with the Republic of Georgia, and displaced Chechen communities in Azerbaijan, Belgium, Poland, and Turkey, exploring the conditions under which displaced populations attitudinally support political violence. His post-doctoral research focused on Chechen attitudes towards foreign fighters in Ukraine and Syria. During the Second Russo-Chechen War (1999 to 2009), he served as a volunteer aid-worker the International Rescue Committee (IRC) tasked with leading a team to help re-build water, sanitation, and education infrastructure in war-torn Chechnya and provide subsistence support to tens of thousands of Chechen refugees living in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia. From 2004 to 2011, he co-directed the Chechnya Advocacy Network, an international humanitarian non-government organization created to improve human rights and security in Chechnya, provide legal and asylum procedure assistance for Chechen refugees, conduct research on issues related to the Russo-Chechen Wars, and raise awareness and funds to improve infrastructure, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and education in the Republic of Chechnya. Dr. Dennis's research has been published in Security Studies and referenced in Foreign Affairs, and he recently completed an academic book manuscript based on his decades-long work with Chechen refugees. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from The University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Political Science from Miami University (Ohio), and studied at Novgorod State University in Russia, and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and speaks Chechen and Russian. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 3, 2023 at The University of Texas at Austin. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! PRODUCTION CREDITS Host/Supervising Producer: Nicholas Pierce Assistant EP: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Taylor Helmcamp Production Assistant: Faith VanVleet Production Assistant: Eliza Fisher SlavX Editorial Director: Sam Parrish Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by AKMV, Ketsa, Mindseye, Shaolin Dub) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Michael Dennis.

The Kadyrov regime, installed by Moscow in Grozny after the fall of Ichkeria, a short-lived independent Chechen state that existed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has led to a severe deterioration of human rights in Chechnya, as reports of police brutality, disappearances, torture, and the persecution of people formerly associated with Ichkeria became all too common. Tens of thousands have since fled Chechnya and settled in Europe, with more attempting to seek asylum after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. However, some of the new arrivals have found a less than warm reception as the Chechen diaspora grapples with Islamaphobia and stereotypes in their host countries. This week, Chamil Albakov, a representative of a group that claims to uphold the legacy of Ichkeria, with a government in exile, in France and Marat Ilyasov, a visiting scholar at George Washington University, talk about the challenges and stereotypes the Chechens of Europe face, and Europe's denial of asylum to Chechens fleeing Kadyrov's Chechnya and mobilisation in Russia. Read more: Chechen denied asylum in Switzerland as authorities deem Chechnya ‘safe' for his return Chechen detainee reportedly granted refugee status in Croatia French Interior Minister under investigation over deportation of Chechen refugee Become a supporter at oc-media.org/support_us, or on Patreon.

Debra Javeline (Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame) will present on her book, After Violence: Russia's Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed (Oxford University Press, 2023). Free and open to the public. About the lecture: Starting on September 1, 2004, and ending 53 hours later, Russia experienced its most appalling act of terrorism in history, the seizure of School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia. Approximately 1,200 children, parents, and teachers were taken hostage, and over 330 —nearly one of every hundred Beslan residents— were killed, hundreds more seriously wounded, and all severely traumatized. After Violence is the first book to analyze the aftermath of such large-scale violence with evidence from almost all direct victims. It explores the motivations behind individual responses to violence. When does violence fuel greater acceptance of retaliatory violence, and when does violence fuel nonviolent participation in politics? The mass hostage taking was widely predicted to provoke a spiral of retaliatory ethnic violence in the North Caucasus, where the act of terror was embedded in a larger context of ongoing conflict between Ossetians, Ingush, and Chechens. Politicians, journalists, victims, and other local residents asserted that vengeance would come. Instead, the hostage taking triggered unprecedented peaceful political activism on a scale seen nowhere else in Russia. Beslan activists challenged authorities, endured official harassment, and won a historic victory against the Russian state in the European Court of Human Rights. After Violence provides insights into this unexpected but preferable outcome. Using systematic surveys of 1,098 victims (82%) and 2,043 nearby residents, in-depth focus groups, journalistic accounts, investigative reports, NGO reports, and prior scholarly research, After Violence offers novel findings about the influence of anger, prejudice, alienation, efficacy, and other variables on post-violence behavior. About the speaker: Debra Javeline is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Russian and East European Studies Program, and Environmental Change Initiative. Her research interests include mass political behavior, survey research, Russian politics, sustainability, environmental politics, and climate change. She focuses on the decisions of ordinary citizens, whether in response to violence or climate impacts, and she is currently exploring coastal homeowner motivations to take action to reduce their risk from rising seas, hurricanes, and other hazards.

Tolstoy was one of the greatest writers of all time. His books have constructed how we think about Russian imperial history. But he was not just an observer, he was also a participant. As a young man, Tolstoy fought in several of Russia's imperial wars– against the Chechens and the Ottoman Turks, then against both the French and the British in the Crimea. As he matured he grew far more critical of Russian Empire building and lamented the futility of war and conquest. His writings were a driver of the growing disillusionment with tsarism, and he began to be censored by the regime. So great was his influence that Lenin himself wrote about his role in the Russian Revolution. Listen as William and Anita are joined by Tolstoy's biographer Rosamund Bartlett to unpick this remarkable life. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: empirepoduk@gmail.com Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill + Tabby Syrett Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode we track the concept of the Chechen Mafia—not an easy thing to define—from ancient invasions and the creation of the "Abrek", or "outlaw-exile," through Soviet repression, Stalin's deportations and the "Scab War" of the feared Gulag Archipelago. The rise of a Communist blackmarket later allowed Chechens in Siberia and Kazakhstan to carve out their own illicit empires, outside of Russia's "Thieves World." These newfound gangsters coalesced with an independence movement, whose bloodshed would reach all the way to central London—at the scene of a brutal, 1993 double-murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since its conquest by Russia in the 19th century, the North Caucasus has been the scene of genocides, forced deportations, wars for independence, and insurgency. The dozens of nations indigenous to the region continue to be repressed socially and culturally by the Russian Federation. However, Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine has once again raised the imperial nature of the Russian state and has shone a light on how this imperialism extends to the North Caucasus, as several organisations led by North Caucasian natives and diaspora members call for the independence of their nations. On this week's episode of the Caucasus Digest, OC Media co-director Dominik Cagara talks about the colonial legacy of the Caucasus conquest and its lingering effects on the region. Magomed Torijev, a journalist and representative of the Ingush Independence Committee, talks about the committee's aim of securing independence for Ingushetia. Harold Chambers, a North Caucasus analyst, breaks down the current situation in the North Caucasus and talks about the challenges faced by these organisations. Read more: ‘We have only one enemy — this is Russia': the Chechens taking up arms for Ukraine Opinion | The Ingush are leaving Russia Opinion | Russia's death train rolls through Chechnya and Ingushetia Opinion | The world has woken up to the Russian terror that the Chechens know only too well Opinion | In Russia, calling yourself a Circassian is always a political stance Become a supporter at oc-media.org/support_us, or on Patreon.

Miriam Hess, Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, discusses Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's place in the domestic Russian political landscape and relationship to Putin, Chechens fighting on both sides in the war in Ukraine, and the possible future of the Republic of Chechnya if Putin were to no longer be in power. More about Miriam's work: Miriam Hess Miriam Hess on: background to the relationship between Chechnya and Russia for The Hundred  Miriam Hess on Ramzan Kadyrov: The Controversial Chechen Leader who Supports Putin in Ukraine  Miriam Hess on: how Ramzan Kadyrov leverages Islam and internal conflict  Miriam Hess on X(Twitter): @miriamka_hess More about the host: Jessica Genauer Jessica on X(twitter): @jessicagenauer 

August 30th 2023 Yuriy recounts the story of a fellow soldier, Kim, a Ukrainian of Korean origin whose family was forcibly deported and suppressed by Stalin's regime, paralleling their experiences with the Russian tactics of erasing identities and cultural heritage in Ukraine, yet the resilience and determination to preserve Ukrainian identity remains despite ongoing attempts by the Russians to obliterate it. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: fightingtherussianbeast@gmail.com    You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family   Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Podbean app users can enjoy closed captions) It is 30th of August.  At the very beginning of a full scale invasion, I served with a Korean guy. Even his last name was as Korean as possible, Kim. At the same time, he didn't speak Korean, had never been to his historical homeland, and in general knew very little about Korea. I will now tell a little about how it happened, and you will understand why this story is important in the context of our war. So our Kim was born in Ukraine, went to an ordinary Ukrainian kindergarten, went to school, spoke Ukrainian since childhood, did not hear Korean even at home because his parents were forbidden to speak their native language. His parents were born in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.  Their families ended up there against their own will, they were exiles. They were forcibly deported from the native cities and villages where they lived for centuries. Thousands of Koreans came under Russian rule in 19th century when the Russians, concrete, large areas of Far East. Among these territories were those on which Koreans lived for a long time. For a while the Russian authorities paid almost no attention to them. They were allowed to have their own schools, their own newspapers, and celebrate Korean holidays. Even after the Bolsheviks came to power, Koreans maintained a certain level of autonomy.  But when Stalin's dictatorship began. The tyrant very quickly quarreled with Japan, and even before the beginning of the Second World War, he managed to get into a short armed conflict with it. At what time Koreans did not have their own state. Their lands were under Japanese occupation. So the inhabitants of these lands, mostly ethnic Koreans, were Japanese citizens. That is, in the eyes of Soviet authorities, they were enemies. And Stalin saw Soviet Koreans as, as potential traitors, the fifth column of the Japanese. He declared them enemies and began repression. Writers, teachers, priests were shot. All others, the entire nation, were sent into exile into Central Asia.  They were forbidden to speak their native language even at home. They were forbidden to celebrate their holidays. They were ordered to forget that they are Koreans. Koreans were the first people to be deported from their native places .Then their faith was shared by Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars and others. Someone was more fortunate the Chechens were allowed to return home immediately after Stalin's death. Some less fortunate, the Crimean taters, for example, were never allowed to return. They did it themselves under the threat of new deportations and prison terms.  The Koreans were allowed to return home, but it turned out that the farms were destroyed. Strangers were living in their homes and no one was waiting for them there. And these Koreans simply scattered around the Soviet Union in search of better faith. That's how my Kim's grandparents and their kids ended up in Ukraine. They no longer knew their native language, did not remember the tales and stories of their people they only had surnames from the Koreans. That is, Stalin achieved his goal. Koreans stopped being Koreans. They lost themselves.  And this is almost exactly what the Russians did to the Koreans in the 1930s, they now trying to do to the Ukrainians. They want to physically destroy the bearers of Ukrainian consciousness as they once killed the Korean intelligentsia and make everyone else forget that they are Ukrainians. And Kim, with whom we fought together, said "The Russians took away from my parents the feeling that we're Koreans, and now they're trying to take away my pride in the fact that I'm Ukrainian of Korean origin, but they won't succeed. 

A spat between Wagner's Prigozhin and Chechnya's Kadyrov provides a good opportunity to look at the role of the Chechens in the Ukraine War - or, rather, just how small a role they are playing. Why is that? Because the war is a microcosm of the Putin system in so many ways, and in that system Kadyrov has managed to create a comfortable place in which he loudly performs loyalty while actually exploiting Moscow as far as he can.The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hybrid warfare, counter-terrorism, civil affairs and similar situations.You can also follow my blog, In Moscow's Shadows, and become one of the podcast's supporting Patrons and gain question-asking rights and access to exclusive extra materials right here. Support the show

Barry: Season 4, Episode 4 "It Takes A Psycho" Barry's breakout looms over everyone around him. Sally coaches her new protegé. The Chechens' reappearance threatens Hank and Cristobal's new business venture.   Scorecard: 9.8/10     Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle  

Recorded April 24, 2023 Following the release of the introductory first two episodes of 'Barry' season 4, John and Will delve into the action-packed third episode, delivering an analysis of the vibrant plot and anticipating where the action will take us next throughout this final season. Here at Splash of Cinema, we're still pretty confused about the culmination of the show and its titular character, but we do our best to make some estimated guesses for the future. There are so many questions left to be answered… Will Barry escape prison? Is his opportunity to join the witness protection program now closed? How will NoHo Hank try to deal with Barry? What about the reemergence of the Chechens?  What's in store for Cousineau after his confrontation with Mr. Moss? In order to give a deeper analysis this episode has *SPOILERS* so please be warned. Stay tuned for these recap/reaction episodes weekly, and get ready to join us once again next week for the release of episode 4!

Martinez and Howe comment on the Libertarian Party's recent "anti-war" event at which contrarian speakers from across the political spectrum morally condemn Ukrainians for not surrendering their homeland to invading Chechens and Dagestanis. The Multipolar Kalergoid World Order can't come fast enough for these Eurasianists... Welcome to the The Roundup!

One year after Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, Vladislav Davidzon, European culture correspondent for Tablet Magazine, shares what he's witnessed as a war correspondent on the frontlines, and predicts the future for his beloved country and the Jewish community he's proud to call home.  We last spoke to Davidzon hours before the Russia-Ukraine war began, when he was on the ground in Kyiv – listen now to his dispatch a year on, as he joins us live from our New York studio. *The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views or position of AJC. ___ Episode Lineup:  (0:40) Vladislav Davidzon ____ Show Notes:   Read: What You Need to Know About the Wagner Group's Role in Russia's War Against Ukraine Preorder: Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation    Watch: Kiyv Jewish Forum: Ted Deutch, AJC CEO, Addresses Kyiv Jewish Forum 2023 Panel: Ukraine as the Israel of Europe with Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, Managing Director of AJC Europe, Bernard Henry Levi, philosopher, and Josef Joffe, Stanford University   Listen:  Podcast episode with Vladislav Davidzon, recorded February 23, 2022:  Live from Kyiv: The Future of Ukraine and its Large Jewish Community Our most recent podcast episode: How Rising Antisemitism Impacts Jews on College Campuses   Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod   You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org   If you've enjoyed this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, tag us on social media with #PeopleofthePod, and hop onto Apple Podcasts to rate us and write a review, to help more listeners find us. ______ Transcript of Interview with Vladislav Davidzon: Manya: On February 24th, 2022, just hours before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Vladislav Davidzon, founding editor of The Odessa Review and contributor to Tablet Magazine, joined us live from Kiyv to share the mood on the ground as Russian forces were closing in. Now, one year later, Vladislav joins us again, this time in person, in our studio to share what he has seen, heard, and experienced this past year since the Russian invasion of his home. Vladislav, it is so good to see you alive and well and in person. Vladislav: Thank you so much. This is so surreal. I'm so grateful, first of all, for your interest, for your affection, for your graciousness, for your respect. But I'm grateful to be here exactly one year later. It was the last thing that I did in the workday before the war began, before the old world ended. And I went off to dinner with my friend, now of blessed memory, Dan Rappaport, who was an American Latvian born Jewish financier. It was also the last time I saw him. He died under very suspicious circumstances. He died falling out of a window in Washington, DC, or of a roof, on the seventh floor, three months later. I just have extremely intense emotions about that six hour period because…I was talking to my wife, my wife's French Ukrainian, she was back in Paris. I said, if anything happens tonight, I'll call you in the morning. Things are gonna go down tonight. And then I did this podcast with you. And so, it's really amazing to be back with you a year later. Manya: Yes. I mean, I  am so grateful to see you because I really was very worried. I worried that that was going to be our last conversation, and that I would not get a chance to meet you in person after that. And in addition to everything, you've been working on a book, The Birth of a Political Nation, which we'll talk a little bit more about shortly. But, first tell me, tell our listeners how you have managed to survive and tell the stories that need to be told. Vladislav: It's not pretty. I mean, it's just, it's not elegant. I'm a Ukrainian Russian Jew, so I kind of went into primordial, bestial mode, like Russian Ukrainian, Jewish survival mode, like my grandfathers and great-grandfathers during World War II. I just, you know, something clicked and your your training and your skillset and your deep cultural characteristics click in and you just go full on Hemingway, Lord Byron, and then you just go to war. Like a lot of other people, I went to war. I burned out after about six months and I needed some months off. I was just rnning around like a madman, reporting, getting my own relatives out, helping whatever way I could, helping my family close down their businesses, helping run guns, going on t radio, you know, just collecting money, going to the front, just, going off on an adrenaline rush. And it's admixture of rage, testosterone. Adrenaline, survival, rage,  all the cocktail of horrific, let's say toxic masculine character [laughs]. I know you can't, I I know. I'm ironic about that. I live in Eastern Europe, so you can, you can still make fun of all that stuff in Eastern Europe. I don't know if you can here, but, you know, jokes aside. I just went into this deeply primordial state of Ukrainian Russian civilizational structures of brutal survival and fighting. And that went on for about six months, at which point I just crashed and collapsed and needed some off time. Manya: How much of your journalistic instincts also fueled your push on, your forging ahead and surviving just to tell the story, or was it more a familial connection? Vladislav: I have skin in the game. I'm from there. I mean, my ancestors are from there, two of my grandparents were born there. My family lived there for hundreds of years. I'm married to a Ukrainian Jewish girl. I have family there. My friends are, these are my people. I'm deeply tribal. Obviously you take the opportunity as a journalist reporting on a country for 10 years and almost no one cares about it. And you're an expert on it. You know all the politicians and you know all the, all the stories and you know all the storylines. And you, you have contacts everywhere. You know, of a country like the back of your hand. And suddenly it becomes the focal point of the world's attention and it becomes the greatest story in the entire world. And of course, you're prepared in a way that all, all these other people who paratroop in are not prepared, and you have to make the best of it. And you have to tell stories from people who wouldn't otherwise have access to the media. And you have to explain, there's so much bad stuff in terms of quality of reporting coming out of Ukraine because so many amateurs went in. In any given situation, there are lots of people who come to a war zone. You know, in wars, people, they make their bones, they become rich, they become famous, they get good looking lovers. Everyone gets paid in the currency that they want. Right? But this is my country. I've been at this for 10, 12 years. I don't begrudge anyone coming to want to tell the story. Some people are opportunists in life and some people are extraordinarily generous and gracious. And it almost doesn't matter what people's motivations are. I don't care about why you came here. I care about the quality of the work. And a lot of the work was pretty bad because people didn't have local political context, didn't have language skills. And a lot of that reporting was so-so. I made the most of it, being an area expert. And also being a local, I did what I had to do. I wish I'd done more. I wish I went 500% as opposed to 250%. But everyone has their limits. Manya: What got lost? With the poor reporting, what do you think with the stories that you captured, or what do you wish you had captured, giving that additional 250%? Vladislav: Yeah. It's a great question. I wish that I had known now what I know a year ago, but that's life in general. About where the battles would be and what kinds of people and what kinds of frontline pounds would have particular problems getting out to particular places. For example, I know now a lot more about the evacuation of certain ethnic communities. The Gagauz, the Greeks. Ukraine is full of different kinds of people. It's a mosaic. I know now a lot about the way that things happened in March and April. Particular communities went in to help their own people. Which is great. It's fine. a lot of very interesting characters wound up in different places. Much of Ukrainian intelligentsia, they wound up outside the country. A lot stayed, but a lot did wind up in different places like Berlin and the Baltics. Uh, amazing stories from, uh, the volunteers like the Chechens and the Georgians and the Lithuanians and the Belarus who came to fight for Ukraine. Just, you know, I wish I'd kept up with the guys that I was drinking with the night before. I was drinking with like six officers the night before, and two of 'em are alive. Mm or three alive now. I was with the head of a Georgian Legion two nights before the war. Hang out with some American CIA guys and people from the guys from the American, actually a couple of girls, also hardcore American girls from the US Army who were operatives and people at our embassy in Kyiv who didn't get pulled out. These are our hardcore people who after the embassy left, told whoever wanted to stay on the ground to stay. I met some very interesting people. I wish I'd kept up with them. I don't, I don't know what happened with them or what, what their war experiences were like. So, you know. Yeah. Life is full of regrets. Manya: You talked a little bit about the ethnic communities coming in to save people and to get them out. How did the Jewish communities efforts to save Ukrainian Jews compare to those efforts? Did you keep tabs on that? Movement as well. Vladislav: Oh, yeah. Oh, in fact, I worked on that actually,  to certainly to a smaller extent than other people or whatever. I certainly helped whatever I could. It was such a mad scramble and it was so chaotic in the beginning of a war. The first two weeks I would be getting calls from all over the world. They would call me and they would say this and this and this person, I know this person needs to get out. There were signal groups of volunteers, exfiltration organizations, special services people, my people in the Ukrainian Jewish community who were all doing different things to get Jews out. Tens of thousands of people were on these lists. And I would figure out to the extent possible with about 50 people, 40 to 50 people,  what their risk level was. And I would give 'em advice. I have a gay friend, one of my wife's business partners, who was the head of a major television station. And he would, he would've been on the Kill list because he was in part of intelligentsia and he was gay. I gave him particular advice on where to go.  I said, go to this village–and men aren't allowed of the country, and he wasn't the kind of guy who was gonna fight. I said, go to a particular place. I told him, go to this village and sit here and don't go anywhere for two months. And he did this. Other people needed to be gotten out. Holocaust survivors, especially. We have horrific incidents of people who survived Stalin's war and Hitler's war and who died of heart attacks under their beds, hiding from Russian missiles. There were many stories of Holocaust survivors. Typically, it's old women by this point. It's not it's not gentleman. Women do live longer. Older women in their nineties expiring in a bunker, in an underground metro station or under their bed hiding from missiles, you know. Horrific stories. but people who survived Auschwitz did get killed by the missiles. We have stories like that. And so to continue, there were many people working on getting elderly Jews out. Getting Jewish women out. Jewish kids out. There were, in fact, there were people working on getting all sorts of people out. And that's still going on. And I met a Jewish member of the Ukrainian parliament last night who did this for two months. Uh, I saw, I saw my acquaintance who I hadn't seen in two years. Yeah. There are a lot of people I haven't seen in a year, obviously, for the obvious reasons. I saw an acquaintance who's an Israeli educated Ukrainian member of parliament. He spent the first three months just evacuating Jews, driving convoys of special forces guys, former Mossad guys, special operatives into cities like Mariupol, Chernigev to get Jews out. Literally driving through minefields at a certain point with buses full of elderly Jews. And he told me last night that they got 26,000 Jews out. Just in his organization, which was Special Forces guys, Ukrainian police volunteers, Ukrainian Jewish guys who came back from Israel with IDF training, a motley collection of people. But they set up an organization and they went in, and they got people out. Manya: That's amazing. So I know before, when we spoke before you were splitting your time between Ukraine  and France, because your wife is of French descent as well. For your most recent piece for Tablet, the most recent one that I've read, you were in Tel Aviv doing an interview. So where have you spent most of your time, in this past year? Vladislav: In my head. Manya: Yeah. Understandable. Vladislav: I've spent, if I had to count up the dates of my passport, 40 to 50% of my time in Ukraine, over the last, less than the last three months for various family reasons and, you know, working on my book But half the time in Ukraine, in and out. I've been all over, spent a lot of time on the front. That was intense. That was really intense. Manya: You mean as a war correspondent on the front lines? Vladislav: Yeah,I was in Sievierodonetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Lysychansk, Mykolaiv. I was all over the front. I was with the commanding general of the Southern front in a car, driving back from the battle of  Kherson, and we got stripped by a Russian sniper three times and they hit our car. They just missed by like a couple of centimeters, side of a thing. And the guy actually usually drove around in an armored Hummer. But the armored Hummer was actually in the shop getting repaired that day and was the one day he had an unarmored Hummer. And we were just in an unarmed car, in an unarmed command car, black Mercedes, leaving the war zone a couple of kilometers out, just a Russian reconnaissance sniper advanced group just, you know, ambushed us. They were waiting for us to, maybe they were just taking pot shots at a command car, but they were waiting for us as we were leaving. Took three shots at us and the car behind us with our bodyguards radioed, they're shooting, they're shooting. I heard three whooshes and three pings behind it. Ping, ping, ping. And we all thought in the car that it was just rocks popping off the the wheels. But actually it was a sniper. So, you know, there, there was a lot of that. It was very intense. Manya: Did you wear flak jackets? Vladislav: Yeah, well, we took 'em off in the car. When, when you're on the front line, you wear everything, but when you get out of the front line, and you're just driving back, you don't wanna drive around with it, so you just take it off in the car. And that's exactly when they started shooting us. Yeah. They would've gotten us, if they'd been a little bit luckier. Manya: Well, you moderated a panel at the Kiev Jewish Forum last week. Our CEO, Ted Deutch and AJC Europe Director Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, were also there. Your panel focused on the new Ukraine. What does that mean, the new Ukraine? What does that look like? Vladislav: Thank you for asking about that. Let me start with talking a little bit about that conference. Along with Mr. Boris Lozhkin, the head of Ukrainian Jewish Confederation. I put together with Tablet where I'm the European culture correspondent, wonderful, wonderful conference. It is the fourth annual Kiyv Jewish Forum. It took place in Kiyv for the last three years, but today, obviously this year, it won't be for the obvious reason and we put together a conference so that people understand the issues at stake, understand the position of Ukrainian Jewish community, understand the myriad issues involved with this war. Just a wonderful, wonderful conference that I really enjoyed working on with remarkable speakers. Running the gamut from Leon Panetta, Boris Johnson. Your own Mr. Deutch. Just wonderful, wonderful speakers. And, six really great panels, and 20 wonderful one-on-one interviews with really interesting people. So please go to the website of the Kiev Jewish Forum or Tablet Magazine and/or YouTube, and you'll find some really interesting content, some really interesting conversations, dialogues about the state of war, the state of Ukrainian Jewry, the state of Ukrainian political identity and the new Ukraine. Manya: I should tell our listeners, we'll put a link to the Kiyv Jewish Forum in our show notes so that they can easily access it. But yeah, if you don't mind just kinda elaborating a little bit about what, what does the new Ukraine look like? Vladislav: Well, we're gonna see what the new Ukraine will look like after the Russians are driven out of the country. It's gonna look completely different. The demographic changes, the political changes, the cultural changes will play out for decades and maybe a hundred years. These are historical events, which will have created traumatic changes to the country and to Eastern Europe, not just to Ukraine, but all of eastern Europe. From along the entire crescent, from Baltics to Poland, down to Hungary, through Moldova, Belarus. Everything will be changed by this war. This is a world historical situation that will have radically, radically changed everything. And so Ukraine as a political nation has changed dramatically over the last seven years since the Maidan revolution. And it's obviously changed a lot since the start of the war a year ago. It's a completely different country in many ways. Now, the seeds of that change were put into place by the political process of the last couple of years, by civil society, by a deep desire of the resilient Ukrainian political nation to change, to become better, to transform the country. But for the most part, the war is the thing that will change everything. And that means creating a new political nation. What that will look like at the end of this, that's hard to say. A lot of these values are deeply embedded. I know it's unfashionably essentialist to talk about national character traits, but you know, again, I'm an Eastern European, so I can get away with a lot of things that people can't here. And there are such things as national character traits. A nation is a collection of people who live together in a particular way and have particular ways of life and particular values. Different countries live in different ways and different nations, different people have different traits. Just like every person has a different trait and some are good and some are bad, and some are good in certain situations, bad in other situations. And everyone has positive traits and negative traits. And you know, Ukraine like everyone else, every other nation has positive traits. Those traits of: loving freedom, being resilient, wanting to survive, coming together in the times of war are incredibly generative in the middle of this conflict. One of the interesting things about this conflict that is shown, the way that all the different minorities in the country, and it's a country full of all kinds of people, all sorts of minorities. Not just Jews, but Greeks and Crimean Tatars, Muslims, Gagauz, Turkish speaking Christians in my own Odessa region, Poles on the Polish border, Lithuanian Belarus speakers on the Belarusian border. People who are of German descent, though there are a lot fewer of them since World War II. All sorts of different people live in Ukraine and they've come together as a political nation in order to fight together, in a liberal and democratic way. Whereas Russia's also an empire of many different kinds of people, And it's also been brought together through autocratic violence and authoritarian, centralized control. This is a war of minorities in many ways, and so a lot of the men dying from the Russian side are taken from the minority regions like Dagestan, Borodyanka, Chechnya. Disproportionate number of the men dying from the Russian side are also minorities, disproportionate to their share of the Russian Federation's population. In some circles it's a well known fact, one of the military hospitals on the Russian side, at a certain point, the most popular name amongst wounded soldiers, was Mohammed. They were Muslim minorities, from Dagestan, other places. There are a lot of Muslims in Russia. Manya: That is truly a heartbreaking detail. Vladislav: And they're the ones that are the poorest and they're the ones who are being mobilized to fight Ukrainians. Manya: So you're saying that literally the face of Ukraine, and the personality, the priorities of the nation have been changed by this war. Ukrainians have become, what, more patriotic, more militant? Militant sounds … I'm afraid that has a bad connotation. Vladislav: No, militant's great. You know, Marshall virtues. . . that's good. Militant is, you know, that's an aggressive word. Marshall virtues is a good word. Surviving virtues. It's amazing the way Ukrainian flags have encapsulated a kind of patriotism in the western world, which was in many ways unthinkable for large swaths of the advanced population. I mean, you see people who would never in a million years wave an American or British or French flag in Paris, London, and New York and Washington, wave around Ukrainian flags. Patriotism, nationalism have very bad connotations now in our decadent post-industrial West, and, Ukrainians have somehow threaded that needle of standing up for remarkable values, for our civilization, for our security alliances after the war, for the democratic world order that we, that we as Americans and Western Europeans have brought large swaths of the world, while also not becoming really unpleasantly, jingoistic. While not going into,  racism for the most part, while not going into, for the most part into unnecessary prejudices. They fight and they have the best of traditional conservative values, but they're also quite liberal in a way that no one else in eastern Europe is. It's very attractive. Manya: They really are unified for one cause.  You mentioned being shot at on the front lines of this war. This war has not only changed the nation, it has changed you. You've become a war correspondent in addition to the arts and culture correspondent you've been for so many years. And you've continued to report on the arts throughout this horrific year.  How has this war shaped Ukrainian artists, its literary community, its performing arts, sports?   Vladislav: First of all, unlike in the west, in, in Eastern Europe. I mean, these are broad statements, but for the most part, in advanced western democracies, the ruling classes have developed different lifestyles and value systems from much of the population. We're not gonna get into why that is the case, but I, as a insider-outsider, I see that. It's not the case in Eastern Europe yet, and certainly not in Ukraine. The people who rule the country and are its elites, they are the same culturally, identity wise as the people that they rule over. So the entire, let's say ruling elite and intelligentsia, artistic class. They have kids or sons or husbands or nephews at war. If we went to war now in America, much of the urban population would not have a relative who died. If a hundred thousand Americans died right now would not be, you would probably not know 10 people who died, or 15 people who died. Manya: It's not the same class system. Vladislav: Correct. America and the western world, let's say western European world from Canada down to the old, let's say Soviet borders or Polish borders, they have developed a class system, a caste system that we don't have. You could be a billionaire, and still hang out with your best friend from high school who was a worker or a bus driver. That doesn't happen here so often, for various reasons. And so a larger proportion of the intelligentsia and the artistic classes went to fight than you would expect. I know so many writers and artists and painters, filmmakers who have gone off to fight. A lot, in fact, I'd say swabs of the artist elite went off to fight. And that's very different from here. And this will shape the arts when they come back. Already you have some really remarkable, interesting things happening in, in painting. Not cinema because cinema's expensive and they're not really making movies in the middle of a war. Certain minor exceptions. There's going to be a lot, a lot of influence on the arts for a very long time. A lot of very interesting art will come out of it and the intelligentsia will be strengthened in some ways, but the country's losing some of its best people. Some of its very, very, very best people across the professions are being killed. You know, dozens of athletes who would've been competing next year in the ‘24 Olympics in Paris are dead on the front lines. Every week I open up my Twitter on my Facebook or my social media and I see another athlete, you know, pro skater or a skier or  Cross Country runner or someone who is this brilliant 19, 20 year old athlete who's supposed to compete next year, has just been killed outside of Bakhmut or just been killed outside of Kherson or just been killed outside of Sloviansk or something like this. You read continuously and there's a picture of this beautiful, lovely, young person. who will never compete next year for a gold medal at the Olympics. You see continuously people with economics degrees, people who went to art school being killed at the front. So just as the army, as the Ukrainian army has lost a lot of its best men, a lot of its most experienced soldiers have been killed recently in Bakhmut and in other places, the intelligentsia is taking a wide scale hit. Imagine like 20-30% of America's writers, artists, people who went to art school getting killed at the front or something like that. I don't have statistics, but 10 to 15, 20%. Can you imagine that? What would that do to the society over the long term, If some of its best writers, people who won Pulitzer prizes, people who won national book awards wound up going to the army and getting killed? Manya: When this war ends… Vladislav: When we win, when we win. Manya: When you win, will there be a Ukrainian Jewish community like there was before? What do you see as the future of the Ukrainian Jewish community and how do you think the trauma of this conflict will impact that community? Vladislav: There will be a Jewish Ukrainian community, whether there will be a Russian Jewish community remains to be seen. There will be survivors of the community. A lot of people will go back, we'll rebuild. We will get our demographics back. A lot of people in Ukraine will have already stayed where they're going. There are already a lot of people who have left and after a year their kids got into a school somewhere in the Czech Republic or France or Germany. They're not coming back. There will be a lot of people who will have roots somewhere else. Within the community, certain cities, Jewish life will die out. What was left of the Lugansk, Donetsk Jewish communities is gone now. What was left of Donetsk Jewry is gone. There were a lot of Jews in Mariupol, thousands of Jews. Many of them who survived World War II. Certainly the Mariupol Jewish community has no future. None. Absolutely none. For the obvious reasons. The demographics of the Jewish communities have all changed and we're gonna see over time how all this plays out and sorts itself out. A lot of Jews from Odessa went into Moldova and they will come back. A lot of Jews from Dnipro have been displaced, although the city has not been touched. And they had the biggest Jewish community of like 65-70,000 Jews in Dnipro, and the wealthiest Jewish community and the best financed, the most synagogues. I actually went, before the battle of Sievierodonetsk, I went and I asked the rabbi of Dnipro for his blessing, cause I knew it was going to be a bloodbath. I didn't really want to die, so, you know, I'll try anything once. and it worked. Proofs in the pudding. I'm still here. He's done tremendous work in order to help Jewish communities there. One of the interesting parts of this is that little Jewish communities that had been ethnically cleansed by the Holocaust, which were on their way to dying, which did not have enough Jews in order to reproduce on a long timeline in Western Ukraine. Now because of the influx of Jews from other parts of the country, from the south especially and from the east, now have enough Jews in order for them to continue on. I don't know if anyone knows the numbers and it's too early to say. Places like Lviv had a couple of hundred Jews. They now have several thousand. There are at least three or four minor towns that I can think of in Western Ukraine, which were historically Jewish towns. which did not after the Holocaust, after, Soviet and Post-soviet immigration have enough of a Jewish population in order to have a robust community a hundred years from now, they now do. Now that is a mixed blessing. But the demographics of Jews inside Ukraine have changed tremendously. Just that the demographics of everything in Ukraine has changed tremendously when 40% of a population have moved from one place to another. 8 million refugees, something like 25- 40% of the country are IDPs. Lots of Jews from my part of Ukraine, from the South, have moved to West Ukraine. And those communities, now they're temporary, but nothing is permanent as a temporary solution, as the saying goes. I think Chernowitz, which never had the opportunity, I really love their Jewish community and they're great. And the rabbi and the head of community is a wonderful man. It did not seem to me, the three or four times that I'd visited before the war, Chernowitz, where my family's from, that this is a city that has enough Jews or Jewish institutional life to continue in 50 years. It does now. Is that a good thing, I don't know. That's a different question, but it's certainly changed some things, for those cities. Manya: Vladislav, thank you. Thank you for your moving reports and for joining us here in the studio. It has been such a privilege to speak with you. Please stay safe. Vladislav: Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. It's really great to check in with you again one year after the last time we spoke. 

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February of last year, the general consensus was that Ukraine was outgunned, disorganized, and unable to mount any type of meaningful resistance. The expectation was that Ukraine would fall quickly – maybe even within days of the assault. But, that didn't happen. And, it's not like Russia struggled – Ukraine took the fight directly to Russia, denying a quick win, holding territory that experts expected to fall effortlessly, and even reclaimed territory that Russia had taken. Ukraine's allies in Europe, the United States, and Canada provided an unexpected level of support that has been maintained, and Russia has become a pariah on the global stage. Nothing is certain at this point, and there are signs that Russia may be regrouping and preparing for another overwhelming assault on Ukraine in the next couple of months. But, the debate has shifted from one of when Ukraine falls and how the rest of the world will react, to one focused on the strong possibility that Russia might actually lose the war. And, if that happens, I wonder that looks like.So, today I'm talking to Dr. Alexander Motyl, professor of political science at Rutgers University and a widely regarded and respected expert on Soviet and post-Soviet politics. He has published extensively – academically, as well as fiction and non-fiction books. One of his recent works in Foreign Policy – an article titled It's High Time to Prepare for Russia's Collapse - is the catalyst for today's discussion. We talk about the possibility that Ukraine wins this war, what that might look like for Russia, and how the rest of the world should be preparing for this outcome.-------------------------Follow Deep Dive:InstagramPost.newsYouTube Email: deepdivewithshawn@gmail.com **Artwork: Dovi Design **Music: Joystock

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We invite everyone who wants to join the military operations on the territory of Ukraine against the terrorist Russian regime, everyone who is able to help in the fight for the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, you can join the ranks of the international brigade, which includes people from many countries such as the USA, Canada, Georgia, Belarus, Russians who disagree with Putin's regime, Chechens of the Republic of Ichkeria, and many other glorious sons are beating the enemy on the territory of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporozhye, we are waiting for you, we are waiting for the guarantors of our security - soldiers from the United States and Great Britain, we need you on the battlefield, many glorious Cossacks - Ukrainians died fighting for Ukraine, don't stand aside, fight the unwashed Muscovite, drive him out of Ukraine, we repeat once again, give us tanks and planes, as well as missiles, we will end the war, no one is fucked tyrants in the world have no right to kill Ukrainians, we are a nation of winners, we won the 2nd world war, on our bones Moscow reached Berlin, be sure, fall we are the end of you, get ready, glorious people of Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Georgia, we are handing you our baton of war with the Muscovites, the war will come to your house, to your street, to your yard, the Muscovites are murderers, and they need someone to kill for them you are Churks, Pindos, Anglo-Saxons or whatever, any alliance with Russia is a failure, don't believe the Muscovites! We killed 100,000 peaceful locals in Mariupol, all of them were killed by a Russian soldier, a Russian tank, a Russian shell, a Russian aerial bomb, prepare for war Poles, Moldovans, Kazakhs. thanks for your help but it's not enough, it's not enough. I am grateful to all the allies of Ukraine, I am asking for a tribunal for castrated servicemen of the armed forces of Ukraine who were in enemy captivity, I am asking for a tribunal for every murdered child, I am asking for a tribunal for every raped woman, give me fucking tanks give me fucking missiles, only revenge, only death to everything that came to kill from Russia

We invite everyone who wants to join the military operations on the territory of Ukraine against the terrorist Russian regime, everyone who is able to help in the fight for the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, you can join the ranks of the international brigade, which includes people from many countries such as the USA, Canada, Georgia, Belarus, Russians who disagree with Putin's regime, Chechens of the Republic of Ichkeria, and many other glorious sons are beating the enemy on the territory of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporozhye, we are waiting for you, we are waiting for the guarantors of our security - soldiers from the United States and Great Britain, we need you on the battlefield, many glorious Cossacks - Ukrainians died fighting for Ukraine, don't stand aside, fight the unwashed Muscovite, drive him out of Ukraine, we repeat once again, give us tanks and planes, as well as missiles, we will end the war, no one is fucked tyrants in the world have no right to kill Ukrainians, we are a nation of winners, we won the 2nd world war, on our bones Moscow reached Berlin, be sure, fall we are the end of you, get ready, glorious people of Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Georgia, we are handing you our baton of war with the Muscovites, the war will come to your house, to your street, to your yard, the Muscovites are murderers, and they need someone to kill for them you are Churks, Pindos, Anglo-Saxons or whatever, any alliance with Russia is a failure, don't believe the Muscovites! Russians killed 100,000 peaceful civil people in Mariupol, all of them were killed by a Russian soldier, a Russian tank, a Russian shell, a Russian aerial bomb, prepare for war Poles, Moldovans, Kazakhs. thanks for your help but it's not enough, it's not enough. I am grateful to all the allies of Ukraine, I am asking for a tribunal for castrated servicemen of the armed forces of Ukraine who were in enemy captivity, I am asking for a tribunal for every murdered child, I am asking for a tribunal for every raped woman, give me fucking tanks give me fucking missiles, only revenge, only death to everything that came to kill from Russia Glorious sons and daughters of Ukraine successfully destroyed about 104,560 soldiers;— tanks — 3,018;— combat armored vehicles — 6,047;— artillery systems — 2004;— RSZV — 423;— air defense means — 212;— planes — 283;— helicopters — 268;— automotive equipment and tank trucks — 4,675;— ships/boats — 16;— UAVs of the operational-tactical level — 1,717;— cruise missiles — 653.

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The Ukrainian armed forces need more military aid, we need 1,000-kilometer missiles, F16, F15 aircraft, or Polish MiG 29/ helicopters, Soviet-type Mi 24, Mi 8 helicopters, more howitzers and self-propelled artillery, more shells for these guns, Ukrainians need breakthrough tanks that the USA promised to deliver are Abrams M1 tanks that have not yet been delivered, we need tourniquets, plate carriers, blood of all Rhesus factors, we also need armored combat vehicles on track and road, our oil refineries are broken thanks to your indecision in supplies against of air defense, our newborn children are dying, our soldiers are losing limbs and becoming amputees, give more guns, rifles, give more fuel, give Ukraine everything it needs to win! Our victory is the guarantee of your safety and life. You can join the armed confrontation against the Moscow regime by joining the international regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which Russians, Chechens, Georgians, Canadians, Americans, Italians and others are already fighting. Ukraine needs generators and gasoline. Ukraine stops the Russian invasion and protects all of Europe. Give me weapons, give me drones of the operational-tactical level, bring NATO ships into the waters of the Black Sea, to reduce the degree of escalation, our power transmission lines are broken, there is no water, do not allow history to repeat itself as it happened in 1933, the famine, we are Ukrainians, we not russians we are a free nation help my country now. In order not to fight in Paris, Warsaw, Moldova in Romania, the Baltic countries, enough blood, enough corpses of peaceful Ukrainians, I am calling for help, the next after Ukraine will be Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden and Finland, the Czech Republic, Poland. Give me more weapons! We also demand the introduction of peacekeeping troops into the territory of Ukrainian regions bordering Belarus in order to increase the capacity for deoccupation of our lands. All Russian troops must immediately withdraw from the territory of Ukraine, the borders as of 1991, we do not recognize the plebiscite, fake referendums that Russia is conducting on my land. The cannons arriving in Ukraine cannot withstand repeated firing and often break down, we need the protection and introduction of the troops of our ally the USA and NATO troops into the territory of Ukraine in accordance with the Budapest memorandum, to stop the war. the regime of Putin-Lukashenka must collapse and go into the abyss. Start the operation of Lend Lease, where the promised Leopard tanks from Germany and Abrams M1 tanks from the USA, do not take us for fools and do not drive under the nose of Ukrainian citizens, your life depends on this war, Putin Prigozhin and Kadyrov will not care about your life, they will simply crush you your head will be castrated with a sledgehammer, your hands will be cut off because the coat of arms of the country is painted there, your wives will be let go around, and your children will watch your wives being raped while blood flows from your head. The time to act, the time to strangle the occupier, the time has come dear friends and partners. Ukraine has been going to victory for 9 years, our fields are littered with mines, the corpses of the Russian army, the corpses of civilians in cities and villages, no nation in the world has experienced greater suffering than Ukraine, you disarmed us in 1991 by taking away the nuclear weapons that restrained Russia, you promised to be the guarantors of peace and security for my people, so stand in one row with us, citizens of the USA and Great Britain, I see that you are listening to me, I am appealing to you, go to Ukraine, help me, I am dying SOS, save our souls

It is 20 years since heavily-armed Chechen rebels took an entire theatre full of people hostage. They threatened to kill them all if the Russian government didn't call off the war in Chechnya. When Russian special forces stormed the theatre they let off gas to stun the Chechens - it killed many of the hostages as well. In this programme first broadcast in 2012 Dina Newman speaks to one of the survivors, Prof Alex Bobik. (Photo: Picture of a Chechen rebel. Credit: Russian TV/Getty Images)

00:00:00 - Introduction and Sitrep 00:20:30 - Explosion on the Kerch bridge (Crimean bridge) 00:30:50 - Russian rocket strikes & Blackouts 00:38:21 - General Surovikin's blood-soaked biography 00:47:21 - Chechens scaring Belorussians. The libertarian paradise in Donbass Join the club and get more stuff: https://www.patreon.com/posts/73304646 https://russianswithattitude.gumroad.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RWApodcast

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In this week's episode, OC Media's Editor-in-Chief, Robin Fabbro, talks to Ismi Aghayev about Aliyev's overtures to the West. Read More: Ilham Aliyev looks West Luiza Mchedlishvili speaks about Chechen dissidents' vow to ‘de-Nazify' Russia. Read More: Is a new armed uprising on the horizon in Chechnya? ‘We have only one enemy — this is Russia': the Chechens taking up arms for Ukraine  Opinion | The world has woken up to the Russian terror that the Chechens know only too well  And Ani Avetisyan talks about the sudden announcement of an evacuation of Lachin (Berdzor). Read more: Lachin residents given 20 days to leave homes ahead of Azerbaijan handover Become a supporter at oc-media.org/support_us, or on Patreon.  

Barry: Season 1, Episode 3 "Chapter Three: Make the Unsafe Choice" A frustrated Barry misses an acting class to honor an obligation; detectives Moss and Loach try to piece together a murder puzzle; Sally is thrown for a loop during an audition; the Chechens rejoice when a legendary assassin arrives.   Scorecard: 8.8/10     Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com (audio MP4 or written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle  

In this week's episode of the Caucasus Digest, OC Media's Editor-in-Chief, Robin Fabbro, talks to Luiza Mchedlishvili about the Chechen volunteers fighting against Russia in Ukraine. More: ‘We have only one enemy — this is Russia': the Chechens taking up arms for Ukraine Ismi Aghayev talks about the ongoing Avaz Hafizli murder trial. More: Prominent queer Azerbaijani journalist brutally murdered Obituary | Avaz Hafizli And Ani Avetisyan talks about the recently introduced Yerevan-wide musical alarm. More: Yerevan City Hall to blast musical alarm every morning The National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia's rendition of Erebuni-Yerevan, as conducted by Tigran Hekekian, was used in this episode. Become a supporter at oc-media.org/support_us, or on Patreon.

This lecture presents research findings on the reasons for Chechen population growth in times of harshness. The investigation begins with an observation of a quite contradictory nature: Chechens would not postpone creating families in times of war (1994-1996 and 1999-2009). Being based on demographic statistics, which imply longitudinal studies, the analysis goes back as far as 200-250 years ago, when the first estimates of Chechen population size were made. This lecture analyzes available statistical data of the censuses conducted in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation, examined with the periods of harshness experienced by the Chechen nation. The analysis of these interviews revealed a strong link between reproductive motivation and two other variables, namely ethnic identity and population loss due to times of harshness. About the Speaker: Marat Iliyasov is a graduate of Vilnius University, where he obtained his MA in Diplomacy and International Relations. His second MA comes from Ilia State University, and he holds a PhD from the School of International Relations of the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His current work comes to the crossroad of several disciplines, among which are: International Relations, Ethnography, and Political Demography. Dr. Iliyasov is an author of several publications that analyze migrants' identity evolution, the demographic trends in the conflict and post-conflict societies, self-legitimation of authoritarian governments, and politics of memory in autocracies.

After their improbable victory in the war for independence, the Chechens quickly discovered that as hard as winning the war was, winning the peace was even more difficult. A ravaged country, shattered infrastructure, and difficulty enforcing law meant that the challenges facing the new government were ultimately insurmountable. 

Muslims from the Russian republic of Chechnya are fighting on both sides in Ukraine. Some are Chechens who despise Putin for laying waste to their capital Grozny in the early 2000s. Others are followers of Ramzan Kadyrov, the warlord that Putin installed as leader of Chechnya.

Muslims from the Russian republic of Chechnya are fighting on both sides in Ukraine. Some are Chechens who despise Putin for laying waste to their capital Grozny in the early 2000s. Others are followers of Ramzan Kadyrov, the warlord that Putin installed as leader of Chechnya.

Your Bluetooth will blow up a nuke plant when Graphics Artist to the stars Raul hits PYFC with animation updates, Get New-Kraine info, latest tech in the war, the silly shit white supremacists say about this white on white crime: as HLS predicted months ago about Ukraine and the WW3 possibilities find out how to get out of the webby bullcrap dollar-store conspiracy theories and make your own call about what the hell is going on. HLS: Ep. 294: Graphics Raul & Ukraine IIHLS: Ep. 294: Graphics Raul & Ukraine IIShareCBHLS: Ep. 294: Graphics Raul & Ukraine II66666Um, all right, let me go ahead and just play like a quick intro. And then, um, and then we should be ready to go with the beginning of the show. I mean, Ali Ali's was, it was late, so let's just roll and we have it working right now. It's giving me attitude. Now it's giving me a hard time.just leave it there. Hey, nah, I listen, bro. I don't mean your name. Oh, let me tell you my name. My name does a confused person. Get a resolution. I'm going to let them perceive me. Yes. Oh, fuck up. All right, let me, uh, let me, let's just try to get into the show now, everyone. Let's just relax and let's listen.Let's listen to somebody. Exactly. Let's listen to somebody that can that's really got it all. This is just Smitty. And I worked for, I don't work. Hi, this is Schmitty and I work for, I worked far less show I don't care. Please listen to our podcast. Fleas.good morning. Uh, welcome to the hard luck show. I'm a certified qualified. Steve lucky Luciano, right? We're coming at you from the pre-qual youth center is city of Santa Monica. I'm I left, I got my co-host in your co-host and partner. Who's scrolling through a whole bunch of fucking bullshit to get to.Oh, God, make me cry. Come on. This is going to be an emotion. Love this fucking mad it to hide it, to get you right. Oh yeah, just the other day. That's actually grown and a grandson. This shit resonates for all. I get chills, very cheaply.And as a group, he'd say I'm going to be like you when the show starts. No, one's going to mind me about the adult like that. Okay. And my cat sitting there cradle and the silver screen. The man, I don't know when we'll get together. Damn. It's going up all the work and fathers and mothers out there that got a fucking grind instead of have that time with their youngest time.Yeah, come on, man. You hear that sound and that sound is gem just cause you only have blue eyes. Oh, they get it happen. Oh, Sean Lewis certified audio. Oh, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got you. I got you. I got to the sound guy. Not having. Coming in from MMA academycertified audit. Look at how much Raul smiling. Hey behind. No one knows what it's like to be hated. This saw your wife.Hello. Yeah, but I got brown eyes. I got brown eyes, bro. This is me too. Now I go, come on Sean. He gets on that motorized horse with his cyber genetic eyebrow. Just flapping.Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead and go, man, in the. Sean. Sean. We also got our extraordinary showrunner awards in the house.man is an herbalist. He's an ARR that's right. Schwartz though. Hey, made shorts. Your mom's first name, Laurie. Today, we're sending a happy birthday out to Lori. Oh, you know, it's her birthday today. That's Schwartz mom and she's working through some things, but we always pray for her. And we are sending out our, uh, our love, our best wishes and happy birthday to your mom today.Laurie, thank you so much. Yeah. Happy, happy birthday, Laurie. And now that we're saying happy birthday to. We're going to say happy visuals to Ali, right? In the 40 days.Yeah, Ali on the visual. You already know what time it is.Yeah, it isnailed it, bro. Nailed it right there. You have a specialgentlemen from up in Northern California and uh, this guy really. Our mood, our show, our brand. And he's an incredible artist. Raul are you?gardens. Hey, what's your Instagram handle before anybody starts shit. It's R you underscore five, 10. All right. So if you stop wanting to fuck around and have weak ass limp, Dick visuals, you had a fucking hookup with Raul right now because he'll give you a real stiffy. This one, Hey brother. I wanted to tell you Raul, you know, we, we, we, me and you, we be crossing paths on social media, on Instagram, a lot of times and everything, but I don't always like a lot of times by the time I see what.I'm reposting off of Chu Mohan or Hey Seuss or somebody else. So I started scrolling in and then I see like yours that came direct to me, but I found it sooner by somebody else. Then I'm like, fuck. So I don't always get it. You and thank you. Uh, immediately, but I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all the stuff you do.Chew, Monkees me looped in. And you're part of the cookies family dude, you know? So, uh, I just, I appreciate you, man. And uh, I want to continue working and continue to see what other, what other stuff we can do together, brother. Cause we got a lot. What are you a little under the weather there? Raul, you got kind of a scratchy voice.Oh, a little bit. What happened? You got COVID flu Corona flu when the window.Yeah, bro. You gotta be careful when you see window open. Can you send me your dentist information? Cause you follow nice fucking teeth, brother. I want teeth like that. Damn. All right. What's going on up there. Yeah. So is the news Raul, what's going on new in your world? you wake and bake this morning or not?That's not fun. Okay. All right. Good. Right after. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I just been working on some logo soon to make my work on my crash. Who you are you, were you working with anybody? Uh, I know you're doing stuff with us. Who you working with right now? Uh, RO right now I'm helping out, uh, this guy he's making a brand, it's called JP fig.He has this thing, uh, making pants. So I'll making his logo right now. Okay. Good job. Nice. Yeah. Hey, Rob. So listen for the show, just so you know, Raul is signed up as a permanent member of the hard luck show you not a United nations, uh, Oregon as a whole, right. He's on NATO, HLS, NATO. And, uh, he's, he's he, first and foremost, he's been handling the transcripts of the.I, yeah. I went ahead and put together an automated system to Tran to do transcripts for all our shows. Uh, so that when we put the blog posts that are not the blog posts, so we can put our podcast episodes up. All of those words are searchable by Google and fuck. Yeah. Ah, man, dude, fucking guys are making me happy.He is interrupt everybody. I just going to stop right now. I need you listeners to listen to me. I. Schedule guests for my show. Okay. My team completely handles all this stuff and I am like the luckiest guy to have this team, man. I mean, everybody here, man. Bust their ass, bro. You guys do a lot more work than me.A lot more. I'm working on. And I just then, like, I get here and all these shits been going on all week, all these files and drives and this, and I only an X and we're doing this and other people that aren't even part of the intimate group are helping out because my partners and I just wanted to take a moment just.Did you guys, man, you three, you guys are fucking on it, man. I couldn't do this without you and I, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you. Guys' hard work. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And now Raul is taking on and I've given him a shared folder on our drive on RJ. And Raul is going to be pulling various clips that are funny or interesting, and then setting up animation tool.And right now, in case you guys are fucking, just waking up to life. Let me just fucking hit you with the silly. The truth of the matter is, is that Raul, there was a quote from a couple of shows ago where Steve created this image where we were talking about what a Trump looked like naked, like uncooked, triple burger, you know?And then he said that like baby trumps were coming out of his ass. Like those weird videos that old blue eyes shows us. Raul Raul made a fuck. Dude. I put that up on Tik TOK. It got taken down in two seconds. Yeah. And like some of the fans were like here before it took it down, like all this shit, I was fucking late and you see old blue eyes in the back, like the most happy and complete he's ever been by showing us uncomfortable videos.We were like, he was like, With the goal in face, like it was like stolen Joseph Stalin. When he's giving a speech, he was like, when you see somebody experiencing Nirvana, they like almost look trans pride. Yeah. What's real. That's real. That was true. And you were saying it right now, having some of it now, nobody knows what the bad man anyway.And you see how happy. When that dude was looking at you in the fucking. Oh, dude, he was happy that that was, Hey, check this out. Okay. So HLS, he listed some weird inappropriate, maybe a weird feel weird. Sean is the king or maybe even the emperor of the awkward, awkward, right. Am I wrong? Awkward emperor of the awkward you love awkward silence.You love video that just stymies everybody. You like plugged back. Awkward. Damn. You got to have that on a business card. Hey, oh, blue eyes. What is your love of the awkwardness? Like what is that? Because it's not because he also hates people when they're doing something inappropriate public over Christmas.This is awkward. Christmas Merry, awkward, miss. We found is yeah, totally weirdo stuff. No, no, no, listen, no, go ahead, Sean. Explain this. Come on. Oh, you guys are fucking, once you guys start rolling, it's like impossible to stop, right? Didn't he want to bring on the. Sister that were in a sexual relationship or something like that?No, no. I want to get down to this though. I want to get down to this cause I do think it's funny. So wait a second. You do. Okay. So there's two pieces to Sean. If anybody wants to understand old blue eyes, I've been riding with this dude for a minute. Now, the there's two pieces to shot. Number one is. When people do things inappropriately in a social setting, you know, like where like loud jerseys with jagged in the pan, the pants is a different genre than the hat that drives him fucking nuts.Right? Yeah. No, no, no. Why is that driving you nuts? What is it? I, I wouldn't necessarily say the dressing thing, but like definitely. When you aren't paying attention to the social cues of the social structure. Right. And you're getting out of hand or something that, yeah, I know etiquette dude. Yeah. Like when people drive fucking weird, I fucking hate that fucking pisses me off.You're pissed off all day long enough. That just shock you at all. For people that don't understand social cues, like Matt, like painting his nails and shit, but fucking irks the shit too. Right. Your cousin's fucking shower and you've got full choker around your neck and your nails. And you show up with your son looking like that.Rob beat the brakes off, but it wasn't you shower. He really had a choker on.bull, bro. What the fuck is and painting up on? And he's like, oh, this is my son. And why he's born to his son. He sends even looking at him like he's looking at his dad that I got four fucking fucking Tony buddy. Hold on, hold on. So let's put this out on the fucking table. So shine. When he sees motherfuckers fucking up the.Right. That that grinds his gears. Right. He wants to give somebody a poke in the chops when he sees that Alyssa, he wants to almost knock their teeth out. So that drives him nuts. At the same time he revels in showing people disgusting videos that break every taboo you could imagine, and he gets off on it.How do you explain, why do you like, well, first of all, I don't, I don't get off on showing people awkward conundrum, but let's, you know, let's, let's, you know, if you're going to create a new. Then I'll roll with it. No, no, no. Don't push at me bro. Why bullshit? Why did you, you sent me that video of a shrunk dwarfing.I did not send you that video. We watched it when we were fucking used to in the show. I got it from. I learned it by watching you and you send me this by watching you, who is he? Exactly. Who's on he. Fuck not me. Right. Okay. And I might listen. Yes, but I'm not sending it to people so I can watch their fucking oh, okay.So why would, but, but when you saw me and when I told you, like, I can't get the image out of the wheelchair, Jack off, out of my mind, you were having. Don't lie. Why are you lying? But normally when you send a link, you don't really get to see somebody enjoying it so much, so that might've been, but, but you do like to shock people or watch them, their minds just dissemble as they try to take in what you've already seen.Like. Sure now. All right. What's my did then set me straight. Don't do this passive aggressive. I don't know what to say. I mean, yeah. Okay. It's fun. It's fun to watch people, but I don't, it's not like an, an extraordinary thing that I did. That's it? Yeah. So why do you like videos or whatever that break etiquette.You don't like etiquette out in the real world, but then when you watch it and being entertained, you like to watch it videos that like fucking break all rules. I mean, I don't know that I do this guy. I'd never heard of he fucked before Sean. Exactly. Right. I mean, is that wrong? I appreciate it though. Hey, I, I like it.I get it. You know, I like, I like weird shit. I like watching people fucking be horrified. I did a whole standup routine on changing my grandpa's day. That's a true motherfucking story. That's dope. Is it recorded? I told an entire. An entire group was strangers on an open mic, stand up comedy night over at the, in, in fucking Santa Monica, Venice, wherever that is.And I, and I went up with no written material. I said, fuck it. I'm going to go up there. I'm going to do my thing. I go up there. Right. And I'm like, what can I talk about? And I told the true story about my changing my grandpa's diaper when he had ultra. All right. And, and, and like how awkward that was. And I didn't get one, the whole blanket get one left.You could hear a pin drop. Like everybody was verklempt. Like everybody was fucked up and fucking D and I looked in the audience as I was telling the story. And there was some seven year old people in the. And they looked then the thing they were frozen in time, like looking at me like, oh shit, my grandson might tell a story like this about me.But I mean, I told the story really as a public service announcement, I have similar memories. Unfortunately, when you have a grandparent with Alzheimer's, you get some funny stories, like what's one of your funny story short. We took my grandfather and his last trip to sequoias and it had. I didn't really think it through.He, it was past the point where he should have gone on a trip and no, how do you know, give that, give the listener. If they're listening, they got a grandparent that's losing their marbles. What are the points where you're like maybe a trip up to the Sequoia national forest is not a good idea. I think the moment I knew was when we were in a two man.And I'm being woken up in the middle of the night and he's just tapping me on the, on the arm saying PP, PP, PB. And I was like half asleep. I'm like, what the fuck? He's like PP, PP. And I'm like, uh, oh shit. So it's like cold as fuck. You're trying. Everything on his shoes, on whatever I'm unzipping the fucking tent.And he's just laying there flat on his back with his arms, like this, no fucking help. I'm like, oh my God, my grandfather was a big man, lost his mind, but didn't lose his fucking girth. You know, the guy was like a strong dude. Anyways. I fucking finally yanked the guy up and get him. And now at the front of our tent, when we opened.Yeah, there's another tent going like the top of a T with my uncle and his son. Okay. Dude, I get my grandfather and I barely like prop him up. Right. I gotta fucking unzip his pants. I think he pulled out his own fucking, yeah, dude. I'm like turning around to like do something. And as I turn, I see. Uh, stream a rainbow stream of piss, start to go in the air and it's headed right for my uncle and cousins head.And I fucking turn him midstream and it just I'm like, dude, in the morning, I was like, you guys have no fucking idea how close you were to getting a golden shower in the fucking middle of the night. Right. That's when that Gore-Tex comes in handy. Yeah. Got the moisture. That's you know, that was probably right to my home where I know I shouldn't take a dude, my same similar story.Right. And so by this time, my grandpa was like in the old folks home. Okay. Totally lost. His marbles was a golden gloves boxer in Washington. So he was still strong and he was swinging. He called cocked. He called cock king salmon in the back of his head. We were in a car checking them, taking them to a Japanese lunch.Right. Cause he's already getting. And he never liked Japanese food when he was like with his mind. And, but still his children, the boomers were still like, let's take them out to Japanese. Let's go some lunch. Uh, they go king salmon, Schumer, Mohan, drive your grandpa over to the fucking, oh, you know, whatever hibachi grill.So we go get them right now. I don't know if you've ever tried to put someone with Alzheimer's into the back seat of a car. It's easier to put a fucking cat in a boiling pot of why. Leg. It's just, he's grabbing every edge and we're like, whew, every time we get one finger off Criswell finally puts a foot on his ass and just kicks him in the cartoon.No, almost I'll be honest with you and then try to put the seatbelt on him and he's swinging on you while you're chatting. So we sit in the car with, while they get in the back, Matt king salmons in the badges that. Oh, dude, he in a metal box, he, all he sees is a metal box. I'm just not going anywhere with you.You find the Nazis. He's not getting in any metal box anyway. So then, you know, we're sitting here and we're driving to hibachi grill king salmon's in the passenger seat and out of nowhere, like my grandpa. Punches kicks Shami right in the back of the head, like full fist, dude. He goes,what the fuck? And grandpa was laughing. He, his bridge was God. So you had no teeth. And he was like,cheers. Yeah. He had like to, he, wasn't going to take on grandma, grandpa with a mop, the floor with her. We get on the hibachi grill, right. And the fucking boomers, my family, the obese boomers are already ordering this whole bunch of plates, family style, grabbing zoo, look like the clumps part two anyway. So they're like grandpa gets up and he just walks and they're so busy eating that they're like, And then like 20 minutes goes by and they go, Hey, Chu, Mohan, go find out what's going on with your grandpa.So I go walk around this. Nice. And you know, we're talking like, you know how the Japanese folks do it. They got the paper with the sliding doors and the fucking wood and it's all Cedar and stuff like that. I can't find him. I go into the bathroom, I go in the kitchen. I go everywhere. I don't see my grandpa.Right. So I go to the there's this sliding doors for where the bankrupt room is like the big banquet room. I open the door. And grandpa is just piss me like a fire hose, bro. Like, like it was a 12 alarm fire. He's gotten this yellow buttery stream just for and across all the tables, all the folds, the chairs everything's covered in cram pump is, and I'm telling you in two seconds, We gotta get out of here, bro.I fucking, and it got back to the clumps and I'm like, we got to go and they're like, what happened? I'm like he just pissed over half the restaurant. We've got to get the fuck outta here. They were like, check please. So I understand 1000% bro, when you say it it's it's it's it's time to get the old man out of his space.That's yeah. Hey. Yeah. Have you, uh, have you ever had to dealt with deal with old folks and, oh yeah. When I was a kid and I kinda like grew up, my mom used to work in one and I would go to school out there. So like I would spend whole summers at every home. Just chilling. Y you got stories, bro. Wait a second.How old were you when you were chilling at the old folk? Man. It was fired from like first grade, all the way to like fifth grade from like, yeah. So, so like, and so what would you do, like, would you like go around and sip ensure with the old folks and all that? What was the weirdest thing you had? Uh, probably like the TV was like, the issue went once when I was a kid, I would like change the channel on this old lady.Wasn't having it. And she started choking,you know, what's crazy about those old folks homes. It's like an orgy Fest. Right.and they are fucking like nobody's business, bro. Cause there's nothing else going on. But wait a second. Why not? Wait, what? Wait a second. Wait a second. How old are you when an old lady is choking you and what did she want to watch? And what did you want to watch? I had to be at least like five years old.Can you add you're like a dog or something? Can y'all pull him on neck. And what was she trying to watch? Like jeopardy? I had no idea cause I like grabbed the remote and put on the cartoons and that set her off. Oh man. Well, listen talking about old people getting set off and people that maybe should be removed because they've been there over the hill.We probably should get back to Putin and try to do an update on the Ukraine because the old man, right. He's got nuts. Um, I was now listen, just to tell you, I don't even know where to begin with all this. No, Shawn's talking about the orange revolution that talking about fucking fighters going out there.So before we get to all of that, I was doing like reading through. One of the things that I saw is from the Israeli times that the Arion brotherhoods and all of the white supremacists are claiming that this is a Jewish. Think about this, they are telling people that th that the war, the invasion from Russia in the Ukraine is a Jewish plot for whites to kill whites.Dude, leave it up to the Ariens. It always fucking blamed the Jews on everything. It's a Jewish plot. It said, come on, man. David. Right. And you remember like Trump was like, oh man, there's good people on both sides of this thing. I mean, Semites, antisemites, they all have their positives. You wouldn't disavowed David Duke.Oh, I don't know who that is. How can I dispel them? David Duke says that the rich oligarchs in Russia that are Jewish have tricked Putin into attacking the Ukraine to get white people, to attack white. Right. Ukraine is the only country besides Israel that has both a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister.Right. The only country in the world. Right. Israel. Right. But of course, when you're that dedicated to antisemitism and that ideology, everything is explained by, oh, well it's the Jews fault. Yeah. I'm sure. January 6th was a Jewish plot to course of stealing the election Jewish plot. Right. Absolutely. Right.Letting Kanye come to the white house and wear a maggot hat Jewish. Right, exactly. Kim Kardashian breaking up with him Jewish plot. Yep. Right. So I just I'm reading that and I'm thinking like, how can anybody take that seriously? You, you would think that, but unfortunately, a lot of people do. And most of which reside in this country, um, it's scary, man.How many? I mean, we hear stuff like that and it's like, obvious that it's bullshit and. People believe, man, imagine you're at home. It's the third quarter of a great game that could go any direction and you run out of beer or wine. 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He's not, he's not giving up. Right. He is not letting go now. So think about that. If you're wondering if we're going to war, if there's a world war three, when Putin says Western sanctions are akin to a declaration of war, he's telling you like it's on. Yeah, I might. The ruble is down to like negative.Right. There are seven banks. The biggest seven banks have been removed from the swift international transfer of money. Shit. So when you hear about people wiring and like, what's the swift number, you can't do that to, or from Russia anymore, right? No money coming in fucking Hermes, fucking Microsoft. All of these major companies stopped doing business with right.Stop. And I would look up any people that have investments out there, man, get your money out of Russia owned companies, because at some point they're doing, they're trying to put in LA Puente is trying to put in laws in place that literally that the state will take over those companies. So if it's like Bitcoin or other things like that, that are based in Russia, whatever companies there are, if he does that your money.Everything gone. Yeah. Your money will be gone. And I think one of the biggest things about money with Russia has been the whole Switzerland thing. Switzerland never fucks with anybody. They have safe Haven for every drug, trafficker, fucking anything. They even gave safe Haven to Hitler. Right. And all the stolen Jewish money.Yeah. Right. Am I wrong? No, that's true. Okay. And, uh, But with Putin, you know, it's been a full world rebuke of this guy. Right. Which now when I'm looking at this whole thing, to me, I'm realizing like, okay, so our CIA, the British MII six or whatever the fuck they're called over there to fucking limey, cock suckers, the Germans, everybody probably were aware that Putin was about to invade and they probably did hash out like, okay, how are we going to deal with this?Are we going to just have a massive. Um, unified front immediately and shut down Russia, or are we going to figure out a way for him to come in Zelinsky? To be able to have a platform to look like a Rocky. Balbo a type a guy who's just on his own with his, his, his tough, passionate country, the underdog fighting against the bully Russia, right.Compared to Winston Churchill, bro. Hey, you know what, for a G listen, they've had three assassination attempts on Zelinsky and they failed in one of the squads that got blown up was a squad that was famous. For having fortresses torture, Dungeons, they cut a head off of one of the dissidents and put it on a fucking metal pipe outside of the village to let people know don't fuck with these Chechens.Like you all fuck with anybody. You won't fuck with us champions. Those dudes got obliterated. Now one of the people said that they are surprised that some of these squads are sort of surprised by how much information Zelinsky. And how up-to-date it is. They are saying that it's eerie. I read a report where some of the, um, people say it's fucking eerie, how much his little administration is kept up to date on where we're at and where we're going.Oh, well, that's our gift. It's gotta be coming from the U S exactly. And the drones. There's a ton of Jones over there. Right. And if you don't know anything about Johns, go to a fucking Joan episode, don't be, I heard somebody fucking saying that. Fuck. That he was put in there by the, by us. He who's, he Zelensky Zelinsky is puppet it's it's, uh, you know, don't look at me, hit me, somebody hit me up and they, they sent me some, some story in there, like that's all fake, bro.They put that guy in there that I'm like was reading this shit. And I'm like, oh, fuck out here. Cause I posted up a couple of posts with them. Um, I'm down with what he's doing. I'm not only am I download what he's doing and it's undeniable, right? That when a country Russia attack the Ukraine unprovoked, you can say all the media conspiracy bullshit.You want, you can chew on the foreskin of fucking Trump if you want. But the truth of it is when you boil it all down, right. Russia. Attack and probably not even rushing people really cause they're being thrown in prisons for protests there. Right. And, and, and, and Putin is put, put together laws that says you're going to jail for 15 years.If you say anything about this invasion that. Yeah, that's real. They're turning off broadcasts in the middle of it. State the state is turning off broadcasts. If they show anything about the pro the protesters, you know, that 80 year old woman that got hit. Yeah. The sunflower, nobody inside Russia, except for the young people that are using social media and kind of getting blocked, but they're controlling internet and everything.They're not letting that clipping shown within the country. I mean, it's like old Soviet block shit. He's trying to turn it back into the U S. Right. And that's why he's an so listen. And so, all right, so you go like, okay. And like it's kind of hip, you know what I mean? Like you get a lot of fuck faces. They think it's cool to like conspiracy theory, everything.But on this one, you really can't explain it. Putin is a dictator. Like he's been in power for 18 years. I don't know which way you want to slice that. It legitimate at that too. But I'm just saying like, you can say whatever you want, we all know what that is, motherfucker. That ain't like a cool dude.That's really cool. And then, and then, and then he invades Ukraine, which, what does he got against the Ukraine? He already invaded and took Crimea, which was part of Ukraine. We let that. Now he's in there and now people want to come by and be like, what about this? What about that? Zielinski is not real mama, mama.And it's like, man, fuck you. Yeah. Seriously, take all that garbage and go home because that's barely like, that's a, that's like, whoa. That's like a surface level understanding in Europe, Europe. Of Russian trolls. Right. And you're the reason why January six probably happened. You idiot. Yeah. So other news from Facebook.Yup. Right. Yup. Right. And so then, okay, so you have that. And the other thing to look at, if you want to help understand maybe like which side of this thing you gotta be on, right. You also want to look like, well, so then who's backing up. Right. We got United States, France, Poland, Germany, like all these, you can say we're fucked up that's and we are on in various ways.Right? Sure. But who's, who's backing up Russia. Who's back. Who's saying to Russia, like, you know what, man, that's all you, what you're doing is justice brother. Who's doing that. If anybody is China. Right. And does anyone have any question? As to like, oh, China's on the side of justice. Like, is it, is it ever like, you're like, well, wait a minute.What are the Chinese think about beacon of justice. Right. And I'm talking about the government, not the people. Okay. But like it, does anyone go, like, what is. Whatever his fucking, whatever his life. Yeah. Right. Fucking what does he think about it? Oh, he thinks it's just, oh, okay. It must be just cause that dude's known for his fairness.You know, they've been barking recently about Taiwan, which is their whole sticking point with the U S and Canada. Well, this is why the us had to be very strategic about how it handled, what was going on in the Ukraine. So, but what's happened is, I mean, even if Putin eventually takes control of you. Putin is out of the world order.They were like running around about three years ago, China and Russia, and running around doing a medic, like a little show, a little pop-up show around the world being like, Marika's the greedy empire. They fucked everybody. And you know what? We're a great alternative. Right, right. That Allah he's an out, they've kicked him out of sports.They've kicked him out of business. They've stolen Russian, uh, they've confiscated Russian oligarch, fucking yacht, super yachts. Right. They've fucking that out in China now is kind of sitting in there. Like, so our partnership with this dude has actually made us look like we're also dictators. True, right?Yeah. But the, the big sticking point is that they still have. Who Russia, why is that a sticking point? Why do you keep referring to that as well? I just think that it's because you deal with countries differently than ha that have nukes. Um, and so that's still appealing to China. Um, even if Putin is off the rails, but, but, but see, this is what people don't understand when they talk about the international dynamics.You're right. And so does China, Chinese got news? Sure. Russia got news. How up to date, they are what our counter systems are, did all that nobody really fucking knows. Right? I mean, for as genius as those two fucking idiots are, they didn't come up with drones. We did with the Jew, with the Jews, we came up with drones, with the Israelis.Okay. So you can go fuck yourself. But the point is, is so all the other things right now, listen, so that is true. But sodas, Britain, sodas, France sodas, right? The issue then is. Because deterrence worked when you thought that that was the ultimate war, right? So since deterrence got in place, the United States has been working very hard to be like, okay, what else can we do to a country?That, that is a part from nuclear disaster that has ruined us. The first thing we did was standardized and unified the banking systems. Right? So you can actually tell Russia banks, like, yeah, I'm sorry, your shit don't work anymore. Good luck jackass. And the other part of it is that's interesting is, is that, um, is that, uh, you starting to see some interesting war tech coming out of this conflict or this invasion let's call it, I'm calling it invasion.One of the things is Putin's got these things that are called robo balls, robo ball. And what they are, is there like the fucking star wars, that little orange droid, that's not as cool as R2D2, but whatever. Right. And it rolls around. They have that for war. And it's about the size of a fucking, I don't know what that is.Like half of a volleyball and it's covered with. And it can withstand temperatures of like super hot, super cold. And what they do is they throw this ball into an urban combat zone and from like 150 yards away or 150 feet away, or whatever football field away. Uh, guys can see in here in 360 as to what's going on and it's, self-propelled the ball so they can roll around corners.And so now Russia's got these little fucking robot balls rolling all around through the streets, doing recon and trying to see where the fucking, um, w the, the rebel, well, they're going to need it because the people in Ukraine have really they're planning for. Urban warfare, seizure type shit, where they are going to be able to fight back for a while they may lose.But it's the same bullshit that the U S dealt with in Iraq and Afghanistan. They fucking bunkered, you know, they hunkered down and they're going to make it, make it tough on Russia. Right. And I'll tell you nothing, man. France sent an aircraft carrier into the area to start controlling the airspace in.Really think about that. So, you know, these, these are like NATO allies that are starting to put pieces in place to draw the war out because the west knows the longer Putin, it takes Putin to fucking get control of this situation. The more of a fucking incompetent shit head he looks like, and he's already blown it.He's already blown it. If he's going on state media to say that, oh, the timeline is where it's right in line, you know, then, you know, whatever he's actually takes the time to say, you know, it's bullshit, you know, already he looks incompetent and it also looks like he didn't do the military planning quite regular.He's he's more like Hitler towards the end where he's like, I don't give a shit if Russia's frozen, just send it. Yeah. Spends too much time at that long fucking table that he loves. And I'm telling you right now, I'm telling you this, uh, the, the longer it goes in the United States and the Western powers know just how to weed it out.They sent that giant fucking column of mechanized vehicles and tanks and all the other shit. It was all in one line. All the Yukon GRU Crimeans had to do was fucking blow up a couple of those things. And now you got a traffic jam and they do they're bogged down the kid do shit. And then on another, on another thing I was looking at.American veterans think about this American veterans who've like served two tours in Iraq are showing up in Ukraine to fight. We should have, we should have had Danny dark 30 on this motherfucker to con talk about like, dude, I was there any chance you're going over there to fucking lend assistance. I think about it.Those guys that get out of the military that like, haven't, they they've never left. Right. Even though they're home, they've never left their mind, but they're at, they don't want to go in the military. You can go and get it in real life war games and not have to deal with. The U S military or taking orders like that.It's it's crazy. I saw a story last night on CNN and there were six people in Poland, just getting ready to cross over the Poland Ukraine border to go fight for Ukraine. And, uh, literally Zelinski has given press conferences like, Hey, come on right now. I think about, think about that. Now. Zelenskyi is an interesting dude because he's a comedian and he won the Ukrainian day with stars.He also was on the Ukrainian version. Hey, he was on the Ukrainian version of the west wing to play the president on TV. Right. The guy's a fucking, so he's perfect. And this is probably what lends some conspiracy theorists to be like. But listen, before you go there, just remember we also had a reality TV president.Okay. Before you act like this was all invented by the west, just remember Trump was his own fucking reality thing. And instead of. Trump winning reelection and using a celebrity and all that stuff to make himself look good. He basically fucking shit the bed and spread the pandemic on everybody. And then couldn't get reelected and then lost every bug in court battle with fucking crazy Giuliani out in the front bugging with bogus lawsuits in hair gel, and the whole walking thing is cited.It's a fucking site. So, so that's one way a TV president acts is he just fucking fucks himself in publicly. And the other way a TV president acts is like in the Ukraine where you stay, where the battle is. You stayed, inspire. The people use the tools that you got to. I mean, how's the guy doing press conferences.He's got the most evil armed fucking dude from the kg, me trying to hunt his ass down and he's getting on public spaces and he's sitting there and yeah. I don't know where he's at one time, I thought he was at the bottom of a BevMo in fucking the Ukraine or something. I don't know what he's doing, but he has, he stayed here.Did you see the guy walked into the press conference, carrying his own chair now that's night, not a huge deal. But he is a president of a fucking country and he comes in, brings his own metal folding chairs in front of reporters, five feet away. He thought it was an AA meeting, taking questions. And, you know, he's got the green fatigue that he put on like day one of the siege.And he's also fucking, you know, he hasn't shaved, you know, Eastern Europe, fucking, you know, chin beard. I mean, he looks like Rocky for when he's up in Siberia, working out, he's probably got like a picture of Putin on a fucking mirror. And he's probably like looking at it every morning and like getting all amped up, dude, he's probably got Apollo creed over there helping him fucking work out.The thing about this thing is, is, and some people will say this, right? They'll say like, well, wait a second. I mean, the guy's a fucking actor, so, you know, I know. And the thing of it is is I go, I say this to him. I go, I think this I go what's he got at his district. Right. He's got world opinion. He can do that.He doesn't have all the fucking shit that Putin see, Poons not likable because he's got a bunch of fucking killing machines. Right. Zelinsky has got to play the likable guy. Cause that's, that's all these guys. And so I guarantee you that he was probably off camera and they're like, look, man, uh, let me read your eyes up a little bit.You got to look like you've been up all night worried about the Ukrainian people. Right. And he's like, right. And I'm all for that. I'm like, fuck it. Go. Yeah, button get out there. Like they should do an interview where he's like Mr. T from Rocky three rights, still hungry. This is what it is. Fucking Salinsky is still hungry.He's doing welcome. Pull-ups in a fucking rusted basement, right. And just say, getting ready for the lien for the war. And Putin is like doing photo ops with a bear with his shirt off on a fucking horseback with a bow and arrow and doing G like doing judo, but like with a guy, you know, is supposed to lose.Right. Can you imagine the guy. The spar with Putin during Judah, you know, you're like, Hey man, if you touch me, I'm just falling down. Right. Cause I don't want to go to the prison and get my balls shocked by your friends. And they kicked him out of the judo international president. They took away his about to like, alright, motherfucker out.You're not captain judo anymore. I had a bad week. Listen, and you're right. And we're not saying that to make light of the true struggles of the Ukrainians. And I'm saying that just so that you guys realize that we know it's a serious situation, but this fucking show you're right. It hasn't gone well for that fucker at all.If there's anybody that you thought would fucking know how to fucking go in and quickly snap the neck of the leaders and take over country, it was Putin. Sure. That was his brand. He was walking around swagger. Yeah. He was like, Hey, I know I got a big moon face and everything, but I fucking kill you. I know my skin looks like it's coated in butter and shit like that, but guess what?You don't fuck with me. Cause I was in the KGB and I'll fucking kill you with some weird poison like this like that. And then he can't even handle Ukraine. Yeah. It's um, it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out, man. It's um, I think it's gonna, it's gonna be a slug Fest, maybe a slug Fest. What do you think about, yeah.Give us your predictions. Road, war, world war three. You've got some facial hair like Zelinsky. Now I can see you've been up late at night. Worried about the Ukrainian people. Uh, what do you say? Uh, my friend, I think that we're seeing like, uh, the fall of food and cause everyone's like the, the whole opinions against.It's kinda like, just reminds of the story, like good David versus Goliath, maybe train small, but they're putting up a fight, bro. And even if they, if the Russians get in, like the people aren't just gonna like give up, they don't, they, they straight up don't want them there. There's going to be urban warfare.Right. And guess what, when Russia, just like you said, I'm willing to Raul on this one and he might not, he has to take Ukraine now. There's no, he couldn't camp back. The minute he backs out, his leadership is going to fucking. 'cause they're going to be like, well, you're a weak motherfucker. So I guess you got to go.And there's people in the FSB, which is the Russian new KGB that are letting out information that they're, they're not entirely on board with this fucking fuck up. Well, that may be a way for this thing to end in a way for peace to happen. That if it is the fall of Putin and they find a way Russia replaces him with an opposition, uh, You know, an opposition politician.And that could be a way if this thing goes on for a long time, it's possible that that happens. But, uh, it's going to be interesting to see man indefinitely. Fuck Russia or for now, you know what? Fuck Putin. Fuck the Russian military. Fuck not. And listen. And I, I'm not even, I'm not necessarily going to even say fuck the Russian military, because you have a cake orders.You get put in the situations where you're like, fuck. And I read reports where half of them thought they were just doing training drills. Right. They didn't know that they were going to do that. And you see all these fucking Russians that are like surrendering. You know what I don't like in a fucking, this is insane.I don't need this. Like, what am I doing? I'm trying to fucking win at fucking Paju and shit. I don't need this shit. You see what the Ukrainian, um, representative to United nations read that, uh, Yeah. He read a text message from a Russian soldier that was like crying, saying, mama, I'm not going to feel like we don't have food.We don't have water. Did you see Zelenskyi speech to the, to the, you do the European muni ovation. Now he gives this speech, right? And he's like, , it's kind of like the end of Rocky for I'm going to knock louder. And then the translator is like, and I'm standing strong for the Ukrainian people. And if I die here, this is Micah and the translator starts crying.He trying to translate Zelinsky his message. And that just shows you that, that, that, that nobody wants this. Nobody wants this except except one man wants this and for what? And he attacked, um, another dude, I didn't realize there was so many goddamn nuclear plants in fucking Ukraine. The other nuclear plant that they took over that caught fire.Yeah, that was scary. Is the like eighth or ninth largest nuclear power plant in Europe. And it caught fire, but it didn't catch fire to anywhere. And the guy said, this is not going to be like Chernobyl because he said there's containments that are set up. So even if they hit it with a fucking Misael, it's not even there will be no radiation leak.And now it's back up and running and fine, but it's kind of crazy. It's another bad look in a line of bad looks for Putin this week. Right. So it's. Yeah, it's really crazy and scary. Right? So now, uh, Raul, um, my friend. My, uh, my brother, my brother in arms. Um, why don't you give us, what is your thought? Like, what is some of your favorite shows?Um, you know, just give us, it doesn't have to be the number one, but what are some of the ones you like? We were trying, we're always trying to learn from our audience and, uh, you're also part of the show, but you're also the audience. What, where do you think our strong suit is? What are some of your favorite.Uh, piling, uh, the history, uh, we breaking down like all these situations happening around the world. Cause like, uh, when you guys explain it, it's like makes it easier, like understand another episode or like the. I finally broke down, uh, you know, the, the Donald Trump, when he was the holes, the quid pro quo with the Ukraine.Wow. You're a real political dude. Hey roll. Did you hear the art of war and not yet bought it. You bought it, but you ain't listening yet. Hey, let me ask the question. Did you hear the drone show? Yeah. On the drone show. What'd you think of. That was great. And what about, uh, Lipkey do you have any advice for big lap?Like you've been listening and following. Do you have any words of wisdom for big lap and stay strong and he's gone through it, but I know you can do it. He's been in some tough situations, but you don't fall through, he'll pull through, you see good things on the future for big lap. Yeah. Yeah. I see nothing but a positive.Right? All right. Well, nothing but positive for big. Ukraine. Come on. Let's go. Let's keep it strong. Come on. Let's do it. Let's your blue and yellow out. That's it. The blue and yellow. That's it, baby. And fucking, uh, let me tell you some supermax hardware.com. Yeah. And Vonda Bowen, LLP, LLP. City of Santa Monica.Yeah. Hello family center. Are you underscore five, 10. Thank you for coming on today. Amen. Always Sean, Sean media, or www.movement.media. Nobody knows what it's like hardworking show.com behind blue eyes. Ain't limitation. Then shout out to, uh, Raul, are you underscore 500. Right. It's basically right. The math version of fucking visuals and fucking have you popping, you won't be able to sleep when you see this guy's fucking work.I won't get that, that Cookie's print behind your head, man. That shit is, it looks like, I mean, it's really, really. It looks like it's really, really, really dope. This looks like it's jumping out of off the wall, man to the texture and the way it's really, really nice, bro. Uh, all right. How much weed have you smoked today?Cause you a couple of grams. You looked real high shorts. When you started, you're starting to kind of like get back down to normal. I'm going to rehab, right. But you look crazy. I can tell when you're super high. Cause you, you do a lot of. They can just, yeah, you get on your phone and you just kind of rock back and forth like that.Has anyone ever told you that? No, but I pace a lot, so yeah. I want to give a big shout out to rise. One punch Perez. I want to give a shout out to Brian Stevens. Hey brother or Brian Scott. What's his name? Ryan Steven Day, man. Hope your foot heals. Uh, I want to give a shout out to Hector Martinez, Bobby Ruiz.Well, baby, come on coming on the show soon. All right. Fucking Micky left donkey taro. Uh, uh, I want to say a big shout out to Darren Craig who hit me to a new term called called Jules. What is that? is so Dan and I were sitting back and talking and I was like, we were talking about, um, people who have like, signs that say live, laugh.And we're like, oh my God. If I see that my head almost exploded either one, bro, either one, a shirt, you know, or like things that have like, you know, you go to TJ max and you buy like a note pad. And on the side it says like girl boss energy. And you're like, ah, fuck. Or like, or like wooden signs that you hang on your wall at home.Right. Oh, right, right, right. Or like Shawn's kitchen, something like that. That's Chuggy, that's what you get. Like moon boots. Like if you're wearing moon boots, but you're only going to whole foods. And most like 99% of the white women you see at whole foods are they got like ponchos, you know what I mean?But they have no, they don't know anything about it. They're just wearing it because they think it's some cool server, you know what I mean? But they're not surfers or they got like a sign outside the thing that says mermaids that way, you know what I mean? Like that kind of fucking shit parking only ride dude.Right. Or the type of person. The type of person that changes their birth date into something that sounds good. Like 40 wonderfulAs your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my Chevy.I've had it. Amy contracted COVID-19 and July, 2021. I was in ICU unit for about five days. It was absolutely terrifying. You know, you think about your family. Who's going to see my children married. Who's going to take care of them. This isn't something that happens in New York city. 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