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Original Publish Date: 5/8/2025 Description: The conclave is over and the prediction markets were dead wrong. In this episode of History of the Papacy, we dive into the fascinating rise of Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope. Just days before his election, he barely registered in the prediction markets. So how did he win in less than five ballots? We explore how these markets work, why they usually get things right, and why the conclave is one place where money can’t predict the Holy Spirit. Support the show: Buy me a coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/historyofthepapacy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacy Buy me a book! https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1MUPNYEU65NTF Have questions, comments or feedback? Here are ways to contact me: Email Us: steve@atozhistorypage.com https://www.atozhistorypage.com/podcast Music Provided by: "Sonatina in C Minor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Funeral March for Brass" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Crusade Heavy Perfect Loop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Agnus Dei X - Bitter Suite Kevin MacLeaod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Begin Transcript: [00:00:00] Welcome back to the History of the Papacy Podcast, a podcast about the Popes of Rome and Christian Church. Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the Popes and Christianity. I am your host, Steve Gura, and I thank you for joining me on this journey. Hey everybody, it's Steve here. I recorded this episode about, uh, maybe two days ago, and a lot has changed since that recording. We do have a new Pope, Pope Leo the 14th, who was former Cardinal. Robert Prevost, who is the [00:01:00] first American Pope, or who is the first American pope. We'll get into a lot of the details about this future Pope. We'll probably do an episode on this Cardinal Prevost, where he came from. There's a lot of interest. Details with his life. We probably won't get into a tremendous amount of detail because there's just so much new information coming out about him, but related to this episode that I recorded before, and I think this, this, uh, you should definitely hang on all the way to the end because it's so interesting. This whole episode was based around the prediction markets around who would be Pope, and I said it in this episode and I've said it many times. Prediction markets are very accurate in some ways, but I think that it was very inaccurate with this current Pope and just it would be inaccurate with Popes in general because it's such a unique election and that the only data points are the [00:02:00] 140 cardinals who go in, or the X amount of Cardinals will say in future conclaves. And we just don't know what the politics are. We don't a hundred percent know what the politics are going in, and we know. Basically 0% of what political machinations went on in that enclave. It must have been fascinating because of how quickly they came up with him. It was less than five ballots to get Cardinal Privos to become Pope Leo the 14th. It's one of the shortest conclaves of all times, only two days to get white smoke. So I think that that is fascinating. So definitely keep listening and let's see a little bit of how these markets worked. I'll just say that going in Cardinal Perlin was up. To 67% and Prevost was [00:03:00] pretty low down there. I don't even think he was on my uh, radar at all. He was on the poly market in the under 5%. So this will be definitely an interesting pay papacy to watch out for with this young pope, relatively young, not super young. 69 for an elected leader or of any sort or stripe in this era. That's young. So let's, let's check out and think a little bit more about these markets today. I'm going to address some of the top contenders for the, uh, next Pope. I'm not gonna get too much into the, the detail of each of these Cardinals, because again, there's 140 of them. All of them are in play as. To be the next Pope. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a little different tack than our friends over at Pontax or Popular History. Definitely tune [00:04:00] into both of them because they are doing continued coverage as well. Way I'm going to look at it today is I wanna look at some of the, what are these cardinals who are meeting in conclave looking for in the next Pope? And then what I'm also going to look at is. The poly market prediction. Market website. And what the poly market is, is people literally put their money where their mouth is. They put um, I guess what you might call wagers or their maybe investing in their own money on who they, the next Pope is. Honestly, they don't, most of these people, they're not gonna have any more insider information than you or I do. They're just predicting who they think the next Pope is. And what I think is valuable about poly market is this was more, this website was more accurate in the 2024 [00:05:00] presidential election than any of the polling and generally. Poly market is very accurate, especially as it gets closer and closer to the actual events, the more accurate it becomes. Again, there's some problems with the, the nature of. The conclave process because once they're in conclave, these 140 cardinals, a lot of politics breaks down when they're face to face and they're horse trading inside of the inside of the conclave. Somebody could be up, up, up, up, up in the ballots, but they're just not hitting that number, and then the whole conclave starts to switch and they could. Do a 180 turn that person who on the first initial ballots could have been the top contender, and then they start to lose steam and it [00:06:00] starts swinging towards somebody else. That can very easily happen when these popes. When these cardinals are on lockdown, could this be a quick conclave or could it be a long, drawn, drawn out affair? We just don't know at this time. Now, before we get too far into the actual, who's the, who are our top contenders? As on poly market. Let's talk a little bit about what these cardinals are actually looking for and what are some of the, the factors at play. This, it really is the, the chest, the 3D chest, the five D chest, if you will, of a conclave. What, what some of the factors that they're looking for is regionality. Is it going to be somebody from Europe inside of Europe? Is it an, is it an Italian or a Southern European versus the [00:07:00] Germans who have a really powerful block? Is it, are they looking? Are they looking for somebody who is. Theologically driven from a certain bent. Are they a moderate theologically? Are they liberal? Are they conservative? Are they a moderate conservative or liberal politically? And that politically charged moderate tism or liberalism or conservatism can very much change whether they are depending based on what region they're from. And then another factor, of course, is the. The person's age, are they looking for a pope that is younger or older? Are they looking for somebody who could be a placeholder? Fra? Pope Francis was Pope for a long time. He made a lot of changes. Are they looking for that cardinal? Who will become Pope, who's gonna be pretty much status quo? Are they gonna be a [00:08:00] Francis site, so to speak and continue his. Reforms and his changes and his policies, or are they going to look for somebody who's Auntie Francis, who's gonna go back on a lot of the things that he's done? Then there's the, it's sort of the X factor. Most of the popes who are real contenders are, uh, are all Latin, meaning that they're Roman. Roman and they're vet. But there's also this, uh. The so-called Sury Juris or Sury juris churches that are self-governing autonomous churches within the Roman Catholic Church. They're generally, uh, on the outside they would look like an Eastern Orthodox or an Oriental Orthodox, but they're not in communion with the Orientals or the. Or the Eastern Orthodox, but externally they look like them and [00:09:00] they have a lot of the same theological bents. None of these guys are really in the running, but it, it could be interesting that they wind up going with one of these. It's kind of an a way outsider possibility, but it's not. Impossible. So let's just talk about region quickly. Regions, we have the United States, we have South America, Europe. Then Africa and the East China and, uh, China really being the, that 800 pound gorilla in the room, generally speaking, the I. African cardinals are much more theologically conservative than maybe your European cardinals. You've got South America who many of their cardinals are much more. [00:10:00] Liberal politically and liberal, more liberal on the theological bent America, a real mixed bag. You have some very conservatively political and conservatively theological cardinals mixed in with some very liberal on both political and theological. Issues Europe. Again, a a mixed bag, but generally more liberal theologically and a mixture of liberal conserv or conservative politically. Now talking about theologically, you have your conservatives, your liberals, and your moderates, and your moderates. It's not like they're 50 50. A lot of times they don't have a a, they haven't drawn stark lines either liberal or conservative, or they do [00:11:00] have a mixed bag of both opinions. I. As far as somebody liberally, theologically, they're gonna be people who are more for remarriage, which was always a big no-no in the, uh, in the Catholic church where if you got divorced and you're not. You haven't been, your marriage wasn't a nulled in an official church capacity. These people, people, these laypeople who were married and divorced, were not allowed to get communion. They were essentially ex-communicated. So there's a lot of cardinals who wanna liberalize that. You have liberals who want to be ecumenical, meaning they wanna have strong ties and maybe even form communion again with some of the Protestant groups or some of the Eastern Orthodox and I. Oriental Orthodox [00:12:00] churches, they want much tighter, much tighter connections with these other churches that are not in communion with Rome. Conservatively, uh minded Cardinals want to be much stricter on those issues and they don't wanna. Necessarily have stronger ecumenical relationships with the other churches, or if the other churches wanna have relations with the Catholic church, they're gonna have to become Catholic and fall in line with Catholic Church dogmas. There's this big issue of the ordination of women. Liberals are leaning more towards the ordination of women. Maybe not full, full-blown priests, but maybe women, deacons. The conservatives are really against that. Then you have the issue of the Latin mass and the Latin mass is a. Huge [00:13:00] issue. Pope Francis the co, the Council of Vatican ii, all the way back in the sixties kind of dialed back and went back on the traditional Latin mass. And what we should really just say is the traditional Latin mass is not just saying the mass in Latin. There's a whole. Environment around that, where the people who are into the traditional Latin mass have certain political views, certain theological views. Popes later on, after Vatican two started to give the Latin mass a little bit more consideration. John Paul two light loosened up and allowed more groups to do this Latin mass. And then Pope Benedict. Loosened it a lot more, but Pope Francis really pulled back the reigns on how much the Latin mass was allowed and he fairly much banded except for certain groups and [00:14:00] certain circumstances. Hey, Steve here. If you're enjoying the history of the Papacy podcast joining us. On Patreon at patreon.com/history, ofthe papacy, we're working toward going completely listener funded, which means no more ads ever. When you join, you get early access to episodes, monthly book giveaways, and most importantly, your name is added to the history of the papacy dip. Dicks our own list of commemorated supporters. You can become an Antioch level supporter. For just $3 per month, but it makes a huge difference to making the history of the papacy ad-free and independent. Nobody likes ads, not you, not me, and I'm the guy who records them, so let's just give rid of them. Visit patreon.com/history of the papacy and join [00:15:00] today. Now, politically speaking, that's a whole different ball of wax. Like I said, regionally that's gonna change a lot because a conservative in Europe is going to look a lot different than, uh, conservative from say, the United States and what they believe in. Another big issue is on abortion, generally speaking. Abortion is an ex communicatable offense. If somebody gets an abortion, you're out and there's not a lot of options to get back in. You're more liberally inclined. Uh, pres and Cardinals would be willing to give people who have women who have had an abortion an option to get back into the church. Then we have this age issue, and age is very, it can be complicated because. Popes do not have to resign. [00:16:00] So you a, a cardinal could be right on the cusp of nine, uh, that 80-year-old of where they're no longer payable, but that cardinal could be 79 and 364 days old. Get elected Pope and still have good 10 years or more left in them and could still make a lot of changes. But then again, you have Cardinals who are in their fifties. They could have a 20 year reign no problem, and be very transformative. You could have a cardinal get picked who's very administrative minded and doesn't wanna make these big changes and all these different issues that are at play. There's just, we're talking about. Each, each single category that I've laid out, four, four different, five different categories, that they could be all over the place on these and inside of the conclave. They could be looking for somebody who's a little bit [00:17:00] of this, a little bit of that. It could just get down to the fact that as the, as the ballots start rolling out. They could go to somebody all together who's not any of these, and the cardinals could go for somebody who's in a way, opposed to them on many of the issues just because of way, the way this balloting inside of the conclave breaks down. There's probably going to be a lot of impetus for them to make it a, a conclave short. Like just let's boom, boom, boom and get it done with. There could be, but they could also get drawn out and it could take months. We just don't know. Pope Francis was a very quick conclave, not many ballots, but that doesn't necessarily mean the way it, it could play out in this current enclave. There's just so, so many factors at play. Then the, there's the, also the issue, a big issue [00:18:00] that in a lot of ways Pope Francis pun punted on, he talked a big game, but he didn't do much with the huge issue of the child sex abuse scandal. That's really been rocking the church since the sixties, but it's really played out during Francis' Reign. And Francis in Word took a very hard line, but then he didn't do much. And a lot of cardinals who are in sitting in conclave right now have very questionable backgrounds on what they, they actually did to fight against this. Major, major scandal. They, uh, some of the cardinals were very loose on who they were, who they clamped down on of priests that were known to have been essentially predators, and some cardinals came down hard on them.[00:19:00] Just another issue at hand. Now getting into who were the really, the guys who are in the top on Poly Market. We have Pietro Parlin. He's the top contender right now by far on Poly Market. He is. Coming in at 29% chance there's over a million dollars in play at his, uh, election. You can buy a, a share in Cardinal Parlin at uh, 29 cents us. He's youngish at 70 years old. He's an Italian, he's all of these cardinals. Uh, the thing you can really say is that they're all insiders. They all have top jobs. They are top, um, they're really ingrained into the, the whole. [00:20:00] Administration of the church. You can't really be a cardinal without doing that. He is the Cardinal Bishop of Santi, Simon, uh, GI Angela. As his, um, official post, he's also a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisors, and he's had a bunch of jobs. He was consecrated. He's actually one of the rare, uh, cardinals that was put in place by Pope. Uh. Pope Benedict. So he's been a, he's been around, even though he is only 70 years old. Most of the, of the vast majority of the Cardinals were actually appointed by Francis at this point. So this Pietro Harlene, he is definitely one to keep your eye on. Steve here with a quick word from our sponsors. The next one on the list [00:21:00] is coming in at 18% with, um, a, a well over $1.1 million in volume trading volume. So he's being heavily traded. Is Luis San Antonio Tagle and he is a Filipino. Uh, Cardinal. He seems to lean a little bit more on the theologically and politically liberal side, just from, you know, real broad strokes. And he is very young coming in at 67 years old and he's a. Probably, uh uh, what you could really call is a Francis site, and I think if he became Pope, he would definitely continue Francis' reforms and Francis' policies going forward. And somebody like him, you could see a easily a 20 year reign out of somebody [00:22:00] like him, maybe 25 year reign, somebody who's only 67 years old. Then we have coming in just a few percent lower Mateo Zui. He is coming in at about eight, $800,000 in volume on poly market. He's another Italian. He's a, uh, straight from Rome again. Young at 69 years of age. He's, uh, he's the bishop of Bologna, which is a powerful Italian episcopate. Again, I mean, these guys, they're, uh, they're, every single one of the, the top contenders resumes are totally, totally. Insiders, uh, inside of the, the papal, the curia, and the administrative arm of the papacy. [00:23:00] He's definitely another liberal who, uh, on political issues for sure. And again, he's another one who's probably would very much continue a lot of Francis' policies. Then you have. Coming in at 9%. So these top four that I've mentioned, they are, they're taking up about 70% of poly market. Turkson is an African Pope, or he's a African Cardinal Archbishop of Cape Coast in Africa Again. Full resume of all these jobs inside of the curia. A lot of these, uh, it, it's very interesting amongst the African Cardinals. Uh, Cardinal Syrah is another one who, uh, he's a little bit lower on the list only coming in at 3%. Where to Turin [00:24:00] is in at 9%, but with a lot of trading volume of over a million dollars. In volume. The African cardinals are of particular note because they are, the Catholicism is just exploding in Africa and it's bringing in a lot of, uh. New converts who are converting from either different Protestant groups or from the Native African religions, but they're, they're bringing in a lot, a lot of new, new converts. So that's something to watch because you're really in a, uh, an, an expansion mode. So they have to make certain compromises with native. Internal politics in Africa as well as the particular needs of these, the, these new groups of people who are coming into the church [00:25:00] who. Have their own beliefs, but are with an evangelistic faith. Some are, when they become Catholics, they're going to be very much, they wanna follow the letter of the law, but also they have their own thoughts on issues. I. And because they are growing so much, they're a force to be reckoned with. And I think that it's not impossible that they could go with an African cardinal just because this is such a powerful and growing block. And then the last Pope coming in at, or the last PO potential Pope is Pierre Batista Pizza Ball, who is an Italian again. He's leaning in. He's leaning in some ways towards the conservatives, but also the liberals. He is kind of a moderate. But he's really big into interfaith dialogue or ecumenical relationships between the different churches. Now, [00:26:00] another huge issue that I didn't mention is where cardinals are falling on some of the big hot button issues and. Two of the big hot button international issues in 2025 is the UK Russo Ukrainian War, which really pits in a lot of ways Catholicism versus Eastern Orthodoxy because there's, wow. We could get into a lot of issues here. Western Ukraine is largely Roman Catholic. Eastern Ukraine is largely amongst, especially amongst the Russian population. Russian Orthodox with deep, deep, deep ties to the Russian Orthodox Church under the patriarch Cial. Then in the middle, stuck in the middle are the what the Eastern Orthodox will call uni eights. But, [00:27:00] um, they're these, uh, the self-governing. Churches that would on the outside look Eastern Orthodox, but are actually in communion with Rome and they're stuck in the middle. But then you also have Eastern Orthodox who are a part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that's split away from the Russian Orthodox Church. They're accepted by some Eastern Orthodox but not accepted by the Russian Orthodox, so that's a huge issue going on. The popes of Rome have been sort of leaning more towards the, the breakaway Ukrainian Orthodox Church and against the Russian. Orthodox church inside of Ukraine. Huge political issue. Then you have the whole fight in the war that's currently going on in Gaza. [00:28:00] Now, that mostly focuses mu, most of the Gazen, uh, people are Muslim, but there's a significant Christian population and many of them are tied to the Eastern Orthodox Church. So beyond the religious issues, there's also the humanitarian issues for the Muslims and the Christians inside of Gaza. All issues that we're gonna have to look at, that we look at, uh, as outsiders not sitting inside of the conclave issues that. Many Catholics find very important to them, be it, uh, revolving around the Russo Ukrainian war and the war that's currently going inside of Gaza. Very important to many people in sitting inside of that conclave, the cardinals and the priest's laity, everybody who's outside of the conclave, [00:29:00] all issues that. Uh, we should be looking at and thinking about, and that these cardinals will certainly be looking at. So this is my little take on what to look for in the conclave, and definitely send in your comments and look for more. 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It's Friday, April 25th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Nigerian Muslims have killed 170 Christians during Lent and Easter Nigerian Muslims killed 170 Christians during the Lenten season and on Easter Sunday in Nigeria's Middle Belt region, reports International Christian Concern. In Benue State, 72 Christians were confirmed dead following a series of deadly attacks by suspected Fulani Muslim militants between April 18 and April 20. They struck multiple villages in Ukum and Logo Counties during the Holy Weekend, turning what should have been a time of solemn reflection and worship into a scene of terror. Governor Hyacinth Alia, who visited the affected areas, described the massacre as “a calculated and strategic attack on innocent Christian farmers.” He also said, “These were peaceful people observing their Holy Weekend.  The scale and timing of the violence is heartbreaking. We cannot continue like this.” Please pray Amos 5:24 -- that “God's justice would roll on like a river.” Massive Russian strike on Ukraine's capital On Thursday night, Russia attacked Kyiv, Ukraine with an hours-long barrage of missiles and drones, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 70 in its deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since last July, reports CBS News. The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired 66 ballistic and cruise missiles, four plane-launched air-to-surface missiles, and 145 Shahed and decoy drones at Kyiv and four other regions of Ukraine. On Truth Social, President Donald Trump wrote, "I am not happy with the Russian strikes on Kyiv. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5,000 soldiers a week are dying. Let's get the Peace Deal DONE!" TRUMP: “We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia, and Russia knows that, and some people that are close to it know or he wouldn't be talking right now.” In response to Russia's aggressive strikes in Western Ukraine, NATO has heightened its alert level, placing fighter jets in the "highest state of readiness," reports The Express. Former Brazilian president in ICU Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's health condition has worsened following bowel surgery nearly two weeks ago, his doctors said Thursday, reports MSN.com. The medical team said the former president “experienced a clinical decline, elevated blood pressure and worsening liver lab test results." Bolsonaro underwent a 12-hour surgery on April 13 to remove intestinal adhesions and reconstruct the abdominal wall after the assassination attempt by stabbing in the abdomen during a campaign rally in September 2018. Democrat Senator Dick Durbin, a pro-abort, will not seek re-election Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois made an announcement on Wednesday, DURBIN: “There comes a point in your career when the torch must be passed, and I've reached that point. I will not be seeking re election to this United States Senate seat.” To his shame, Senator Durbin, age 80, has consistently voted to eliminate or prevent protections for the unborn and for children born alive after failed abortions. In addition, Senator Durbin has voted to use hard-earned tax dollars to pay for abortion, including abortion travel expenses. And he has worked to allow radical abortion ideology to be inserted into every facet of the United States Government. Illinois July 4th parade shooter sentenced to life in prison On Thursday, Robert Crimo III, the gunman who killed seven people and injured dozens in a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, during a July 4th parade in 2022, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, reports ABC News. Judge Victoria Rossetti sentenced Crimo, age 24, to seven consecutive life sentences along with 50 years in prison for each person injured, Judge Rosetti said, "This court hopes this sentence brings a sense of justice and an end to the continued horror." However, the judge ignored God's just standard articulated in Genesis 9:6 which says, “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God has God made mankind." Max Lucado got a tattoo Max Lucado, the Christian bestselling writer and pastor of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, took to social media to announce he got a tattoo, reports MyChristianDaily.com. Located on his forearm, he chose the word “Tetelestai” which is Greek for “It is finished!” That is what Jesus uttered from the cross when He had paid our sin debt, according to John 19:30. Lucado said, “I'm celebrating the golden anniversary of God's great grace in my life. 50 years ago this spring, grace found me. My testimony is interwoven with my favorite word in the Bible. On the cross, Christ proclaimed,  in Greek, “Tetelestai!” Among the meanings of this word is, ‘paid in full'.” He added, “Not everyone likes the idea of a 70-year-old pastor getting a tattoo. That's ok. I didn't do it for people, I did it to say thank you to Jesus who paid a debt I could not pay.” However, Leviticus 19:28 says, “Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.” How “In God We Trust” became American motto And finally, on April 22, 1864, the United States informally adopted the motto "In God We Trust."  Conceived during the Civil War, Union supporters wanted to emphasize their attachment to God and to boost morale. The fourth stanza of the U.S. national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner", adopted from the 1814 poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry", contains the line: "And this be our motto—'In God is our trust.'" “In God We Trust” was officially adopted by Congress in 1956, replacing the defacto motto of “E Pluribus Unum” which is Latin for “Out of Many, One.” Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.” Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, April 25th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Subscribe for free by Amazon Music or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. 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How much do we really know about what is happening in Ukraine? What is life like for the Ukrainian people? How do they see peace and what will it look like? This interview was recorded on 26th February 2025 following a tumultuous 2 weeks of 'hard news' related to the war in Ukraine.  Putin/Trump telephone call on 12th February President Trump described President Zelensky as a 'dictator.'  Vice-President JD Vance attacked European leaders on the basis of whether current European values warranted defence by the US. On 24th February the US sided with Russia, Belarus and North Korea to pass UN resolutions on the war in Ukraine.  February ended with visits by 3 European leaders to the White House with Presidents, Macron, Zelensky and Prime Minister Starmer meeting with Donald Trump. UK announced an increase to 2.5% of GDP for DefenceHowever, for all we read and hear about in the news I wanted to have the opportunity to hear from somebody who is living in Ukraine and what his take is on all this and so I'm very pleased to welcome back Yuri Yastavny to the show. Yuri is owner of Pravda Beer in the historic city of Lviv in Western Ukraine.Yuri's links;https://www.pravda.beer/en/pravda/https://www.instagram.com/pravdabeer/Connect with Undercurrent Stories:   https://www.undercurrentstories.com/https://www.instagram.com/undercurrentstories/https://www.facebook.com/undercurrentstoriesIntro and outro music, 'Time for a Coffee'  Bob Wells © 2020Question or comment? Send us a text message.www.undercurrentstories.com

In this week's episode of "God on the Move", Vika shares her profound journey of faith, resilience, and ministry in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. Born in Donetsk and later displaced to Western Ukraine, Vika and her family faced immense challenges following the 2022 Russian invasion. Despite losing their home and business, they have remained dedicated to their Christian mission, providing material aid, emotional support, and spiritual guidance to those affected by the conflict in the East. Through personal stories and experiences, Vika highlights the unity among Ukrainian churches and the unwavering strength of her faith, even amidst immense adversity. This episode showcases not only the struggles but also the incredible hope and God's faithfulness present in these difficult times.   Links from the interview Reconciliation in Times of Conflict Ukraine Evangelical Theological Seminary   Viktoria (Vika) Gorban Vika was born and raised in Donetsk, Ukraine. She is married and a mother of two children. Viktoria became a Christian at the age of 14, while her husband embraced his faith at 19. Before the war in Ukraine, her husband successfully ran a real estate business, building and selling houses as a means of investment. However, their perspective on material stability shifted when the war broke out in 2014. Their home was damaged, forcing the family to relocate to Pokrovsk, a territory under Ukrainian government control. Currently, Viktoria and her husband are dedicated missionaries. Dividing their time between western Ukraine, including Uzhgorod, and the conflict-affected Donetsk region, they serve communities near the frontline. Their ministry involves organizing services for children, adults, and women, conducting street evangelism, and distributing essential supplies such as food, medicine, hygiene items, and blankets. Despite the challenges, Viktoria and her family are grateful to be part of God's work, bringing hope and support to those in need. If you would like to help us improve our podcast, please send us your feedback.

Oksana Kukurudza is currently immersed in a deeply personal writing project titled Sunflowers Bend But Rarely Break, which explores her parents' harrowing experiences as forced labourers in Nazi Germany during World War II. Oksana's motivation for writing stems not only from her parents' stories but also from the striking parallels she observes between their experiences and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.Born and raised in Western Ukraine, which was part of Poland before the war, Oksana's mother, just 17 years old in 1941, and her father, 20 at the time, fell victim to Nazi propaganda and coercion that led many Slavs to Germany for forced labor. This choice, however, resulted in her enduring harsh treatment and effectively being imprisoned as a labourer.In her research for the book, Oksana has uncovered deeper layers of her parents' experiences, revealing aspects of their lives that were previously unknown to her. This has led Oksana to approach her writing with a blend of historical accuracy and creative narrative, aiming to immerse readers in the emotional landscape of her parents' lives during the war.The title of the book, Sunflowers Bend But Rarely Break, symbolizes resilience in the face of adversity – a theme that resonates deeply with Oksana as she draws connections to the current situation in Ukraine. The ongoing war has evoked memories of her parents' struggles, prompting her to advocate for awareness and support for Ukraine. Oksana believes that history is repeating itself, and feels a strong responsibility to illuminate these parallels for a new generation. By sharing her parents' story Oksana hopes that she can contribute to a greater understanding of the human experiences behind historical events and inspire action to support Ukraine in its current plight.CreativityFound.co.ukInstagram: @creativityfoundpodcastThreads: @creativityfoundpodcastFacebook: @creativityfoundpodcast and Creativity Found groupYouTube @creativityfoundpodcastResearched, edited and produced by Claire Waite BrownMusic: Day Trips by Ketsa Undercover / Ketsa Creative Commons License Free Music Archive - Ketsa - Day TripsArtworks: Emily Portnoi emilyportnoWant to join an award-winning community for creative small businesses? Visit creativityfound.co.uk/joinus to find out how. Buy arts and crafts techniques books, plus books by some of my podcast guests, from the Creativity Found bookshop Click here to book a 1-to-1 online chat with me to understand more about the Creativity Found Collective, the promotional and networking membership for creative small businesses.Support the showPodcast recorded with Riverside and hosted by BuzzsproutSubscribe to the Creativity Found mailing list hereJoin the Creativity Found Collective here

Solomea Krushelnytska, was hailed as the world's leading dramatic soprano during the Golden Age of opera at the turn of the 20th century. Born in 1872 into the family of a Ukrainian Catholic priest and his wife with eight children in a small village in Western Ukraine, she studied opera first in Lviv, and later in Milan, Vienna, and Paris. She battled to rise to fame and to perform with opera legends like Giacomo Puccini, Arturo Toscanini, and Enrico Caruso until she reached superstardom.

Welcome to The Adams Archive Dive deep into the shadows with Austin Adams as he unearths the hidden truths behind today's most controversial topics. The Adams Archive isn't just a podcast—it's a journey into the unseen, the unexplored, and the unsettling realities that shape our world. With a fearless approach and a commitment to uncovering the facts, Austin brings you stories that others won't. Summary: In a world where information is controlled and narratives are spun, The Adams Archive cuts through the noise to bring you the raw, unfiltered truth. Across our episodes, we delve into the intricate web of politics, culture, and technology, exposing the undercurrents that mainstream media often ignores. We begin by unraveling the chilling details of the recent security threat against Donald Trump. Austin takes you on a deep dive into the background and history of the individual behind this plot, revealing a complex tapestry of foreign mercenary work and potential ties to international entities. Transitioning from political intrigue to the complexities of the entertainment industry, we discuss the legal issues surrounding P Diddy. By exploring the allegations and controversies that have surfaced, we shed light on the hidden machinations of fame, power, and accountability. As we navigate these turbulent waters, we also tackle the growing issue of censorship in social media. With Meta's recent ban on RT, the Russian media outlet, we discuss the implications of corporate control over information and the impact on global narratives. Each episode seamlessly weaves these topics together, providing a comprehensive understanding of the forces at play behind the headlines. 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On today's episode, we are going to be doing a deep dive into the background and history of the individual who conducted the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life in just 65 days.  Now, the reason that we can have almost a full episode on this is because there is so much to discuss. Whereas the last individual was some 20 year old with very little history that was, was able to even be pulled up, let alone be able to indicate something much, much deeper going on. But that is not the case today. This individual has years, dozens of years of history conducting what seems like a foreign, foreign mercenary work. And so we'll dive into the history of that. We'll talk about the potential ties. We'll look at who he's been associated with in the past. We'll even look at some of the, the articles that I was able to dig up myself, his criminal history, all of it.  Now on top of that, what we're going to open with today is the fact that P Diddy is now going to jail.  So we'll read that article, if you've listened to that episode a little bit ago, where I did a whole deep dive on the court documents. It is horrific. So we will discuss that too. And we will also discuss Meta Banning RT, which is the Russian media outlet. So, all of that and more coming up. Make sure you stick around, but first go ahead and hit that subscribe button, leave a five star review and head over to ronanbasics. com this hat on my head, this phone sleeve in my hand. If you are watching here on YouTube, all our Faraday products, Faraday products help you to be protected against the modern threats that are from your technology. So things like your cell phone, your wifi router, your microwave, all of the technology around you emits. 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The very first article that we're going to discuss is coming from CNN. Nonetheless. Now, the reason I found this to be ironic  is the fact that  Oh, the irony involved in it.  MetaBan's Russian state media outlet RT over foreign interference activity.  Hmm. That's interesting. So let's go ahead and read this because the irony that this article sits on CNN is hilarious because if Facebook's gonna going to remove any news outlet that is associated with the government  and pushing propaganda, The first one that they would have to remove would be CNN.  So,  uh, here we go. It says, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram announced Monday, let me go ahead and share this with my screen here if you're watching, um, announced Monday that it has banned Russian state media broadcaster RT and other Kremlin controlled networks alleging the outlets have engaged in deceptive influence operations and attempted to evade detection.  After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets, uh, I don't know how you pronounce that. RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity, a meta spokesperson said in a statement.  Prior to Monday's ban, RT had 7. 2 million followers on Facebook and 1 million followers on Instagram. RT did not immediately respond to CNN for comment.  The move comes days after the U. S. Justice Department  Announced charges against two RT employees for funneling nearly 10 million into a U. S. company identified by CNN as Tenant Media to create and amplify content that aligned with Russian interests.  The Covert Influence campaign was aimed at the American public ahead of the 2024 U. S. presidential election. U. S. presidential election.  Tenet Media boasts a slate of high profile right wing pro Trump commentators, including Tim Poole, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, and several others. All of them have released statements saying that they are victims of the alleged Russian scheme. After the Justice Department announced Announcement RT responded with mocking statements that did not address it was actually pretty hilarious the response that they made they like basically just laughed at them  The Kremlin commented that in the band that by meta on Tuesday with these actions meta is discrediting itself This complicates the prospect prospects for normalizing our relations with meta. Definitely somewhat true  Now where I see this being a problem  Is the fact that if you're going to run with that, essentially, you're now saying that if anybody's a state run media that is pushing any type of propaganda, you know, like the CIA interfering with our elections,  the NIH having a portal to discuss what content should be removed  from Metta  and Twitter and all of these other organizations, right? Like, We know 100 percent they have the same access to the news outlets. So what is the, what is the, the bar here being set?  Because if this is the bar, almost every single major news outlet has to get kicked off of Facebook and Instagram. It says executives from Meta, Microsoft and F, uh, Microsoft and Alphabet, which owns Google are expected to testify before the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday on their platforms work to combat foreign relations to us elections.  So.  This is them trying to  fix without fixing the election, right? They're not going to do it in the same way. Mark Zuckerberg said, well, he just said this. Mark Zuckerberg just said he wasn't going to interfere.  Not allowing a, the  organization which is representing essentially a country  in their, their position on news news. to be seen by citizens. Why? Because you think we're stupid. This is where the privacy or the, the, the conversation surrounding  censorship really bothers me. Like who are you to discern anything? Who are you to tell me who to listen to and who not to listen to? Right? Like that would be your mom and your dad in high school telling you, Oh, that's a bad friend. Don't listen to them. It's like, no, let me judge for myself. I'm an adult. I'm intelligent. Very, very, very intelligent. likely much more intelligent than any individual of the government that's making these types of decisions.  So let me use my discernment, because you don't get to tell me what's truth, and what's not truth. Who's a, a factually based network, and who's not? That's not how this works. Freedom of speech has to go both ways, right? Now it says, uh,  well, this is the CNN  comment section, so this should be interesting.  It says if they are  banning deceptive influence operations, then the Harris campaign must be next. Yeah.  Uh, yeah.  Okay, so moving on. I thought that to be interesting. It is, it is quite ironic that it is META that is banning all of these, you know, the Russian state media when they were the ones taking directions from  our government. They were the controlled media. They were, that's exactly who they were. And now they're, they're just doing what they're being told again by the Harris campaign, because they don't want any, any information or news coming out from the entities that want to, I don't know, stop the war that they're in and not continue it like Kamala Harris would.  So there you go.  All right.  Now let's look at this real quick. Let's see if they have a list of all of the influencers.  Who were involved in this investigation?  Hmm. According to the indictment, some of the creators were told the project was being bankrolled by a man named Edward Gregorian.  Let's see the indictment.  I don't see a list here.  Here we go. Alright, let's see the indictment.  Where are the names? Where are the names? Hmm.  Let's see. Let's see. New  YouTube's Edward Gregorian. Founder 1 accepted interim payments.  So 8, 000 per month plus a percentage of any deals that Founder 1 closed with influencers.  Influencer talent scouting.  I want to see what the name of that was.  Anyways, maybe for another time after I've done the research.  But interesting, none the less. All right, moving on. This one is big.  P Diddy  was arrested in New York after a grand jury indictment. P Diddy is going to jail now, my friends. Finally, this human piece of garbage is getting what he deserves after 30 years, almost, in the music industry, tormenting, terrorizing, and blackmailing everybody in the industry, including celebrities, athletes,  you name it. He was blackmailing them, politicians, all of them.  He was the, the  P Diddy was the Epstein of the music industry and is now arrested  in jail in New York. Thank God.  Now, this article comes from the post millennial. It says Sean Diddy Combs has been arrested after a grand jury indictment in Manhattan on Monday.  The New York times has spoke with somebody who is not authorized to speak about it. What? Who spoke with somebody who was not authorized to speak about it. Okay. That's a weird statement.  said that the, but I'm going to speak on it. And they said charges in the indictment were not immediately clear. A federal official said in the spring.  Uh, so now if you go back, I could just riff off of this one.  I'll put this down for a second, but if you go back, do you, if you do not remember what was happening,  essentially there was a music producer named little rod and little rod  essentially went after.  P. Diddy for trying to blackmail him.  He was, he was saying that P. Diddy was, uh,  he was in a room when he shot somebody that he threatened to eat his face, that he put him in a position where Cuba Gooding Jr. was making sexual advancements on him. He then showed this little rod  a video of another famous producer engaging in sex acts with another man trying to convince him and say that, Hey, we're just going to do this one time so that you get used to this. Cause this is what the music industry is about.  It happens all the time.  And then he promised little rod. He promised this producer that if he engaged in these sex acts, that he would then get producer of the year awards.  Now, if you understand what Epstein was doing when he was blackmailing people, um, He was essentially taking them and giving them some sort of, you know, illegal, illicit drugs, activities, access to minors, and then using that blackmail against them in the future.  And this tells you  exactly how, what, what is happening, exactly what is happening behind the curtain in the music industry, which is the fact that all of the hits on the radio that you hear are fake. That is not something that has been a grassroots musician getting put into this position because they make the best music. No.  No. It's the same thing with  the movie industry. Hollywood. Right? By now you should know this.  It's all fake. They're blackmailing people. So you remember, you ever hear the selling your soul to the devil, signing the contract with the devil to get what you want in life?  That's what this is. That is the metaphor in action. They are essentially conducting themselves in a way that they commit these types of acts, sometimes knowingly, sometimes not, like in the P. Diddy case, because P. Diddy had cameras all in every single room of his house recording all of the time. Then he would bring all these people over, have these freak off parties,  bring in underage prostitutes, give those prostitutes alcohol,  drug the people that he wanted to then go have sex with these prostitutes,  videotape them doing it. And now he has you. He's gotcha. Now, is it he, that's the question that should be asked too. Is he the one that is using this blackmail against people? No, it's the head of, I believe it's the universal studio or not universal studios. Um, the Sony, uh, music industry record label.  So it was the head of this record label that essentially put him into power to begin with. He took a 21, 22 year old P. Diddy, Puffy, Sean Diddy Combs, whatever frickin name he had at the time, and he created Bad Boy Records with him. He essentially put him into this position in power, embedded him into the industry, and then had him collect blackmail on these individuals, and only he was the gatekeeper. He was the person who decided whether or not you passed go in the music industry, and the only way that you did that was by committing gay sex.  and letting them essentially videotape it, or sex with a prostitute that was underage.  And that's what this court document outlines. It's like 90 pages. Now, there's all sorts of horrific other things in there. He shot his son's friend in the bathroom and watched him essentially bleed out. Uh, he, he beat the hell out of this woman in the middle of a hotel on camera. P. Diddy is the worst person that you can imagine. And it couldn't have happened to a better person now that he's in jail.  Very happy to see this, but you have to understand that. I think that's the takeaway from all of this is Epstein was not on his own.  There is a Epstein in every major industry, whether it's finance, whether it's politics, whether it's music industry with P Diddy, whether it's Hollywood,  they're all rigged. Every single one of them has a gatekeeper.  And if you do not allow yourself to be blackmailed, you will not make it in the industry. That's the way it works. Every major musician, the same record label  that  picked up Sean Diddy, Combs,  P. Diddy,  and put him in this position,  that groomed Diddy to groom the entire industry to only allow certain types of, of  rappers into the industry,  also owns the contract of Taylor Swift.  Also brought to power, and this goes back decades, Janis Joplin, Aerosmith, all of these major musicians  were on this record label that was run by the single individual who had  Diddy do all of this.  There's a gatekeeper in every industry.  That is the takeaway here. Now what I wouldn't be surprised about is if what happened to Jeffrey Epstein very well may happen to Diddy. Diddy's probably going to get abstained. And the reason for that is because he has all of this blackmail and that man is going to chirp like a canary. I think the adages sing, but he's going to chirp like a canary because  I've heard him rap. He's not a very good singer, uh,  but he's going to sing like a canary as soon as he gets in there  and the very powerful people in, in those positions that he has blackmail on. Probably don't want him to do that, just like they didn't want Epstein to be able to talk about them, to get out of their sentencing.  That's the way it was.  Now, if you recall, the person that kind of was the,  the, his, his bodyguard was the one that was having all of this, uh, power and influence that had associations with, I think it was the Wharton school of business and all of these like very interesting potential three letter agency associations, uh, with these entities that are very closely tied to them.  So,  Ding dong. Diddy's dead. Happy, happy that that happened. Couldn't have happened to a worse person. Very, very glad about it. All right. Now that leads us into our next topic, which is going to be about all about the alleged attempt, not alleged, the actual attempted assassination of Donald Trump.  Now I went into a deep dive on this and I tried to do as much of my own,  as much of my own digging as possible. So I'll tell you the tools I used, how I did it, all of that.  But I was able to find some very interesting things and I hit some dead ends that are even more interesting.  And I'll talk about those.  But first let's go ahead and hear exactly  what happened. And then we will hear from Trump himself.  And then we'll look into the history of this  shooter.  All right. So, I do have somewhere on here a video  where it explains  what happened.  Let's see.  Alright, and here is the Secret Service and FBI holding a press conference where they explain exactly what happened. Here we go.  According to the allegations in the complaint,  a U. S. Secret Service agent walking the golf course perimeter saw what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line.  After the agent fired a service weapon in the direction of the rifle, a witness saw a man later identified as Ralph fleeing the area in the tree line.  Ralph was later apprehended by officers from the Martin County Sheriff's Office in coordination with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.  The complaint alleges that in the area of the tree line from which Ralph fled,  Agents found a digital camera, a backpack, a loaded SKS style rifle with a scope,  and a black plastic bag containing food.  The serial number on the rifle was obliterated.  According to the complaint, Roth was convicted of felonies in North Carolina in December 2010.  Now, the weapon is interesting because this is a SKS style,  essentially a rifle, and  you can't buy those. I mean, it's really not a common weapon in the U. S. Now, this man wasn't able to actually have a weapon in the U. S. because he's had two felony charges, one for, uh, weapons of mass destruction, which we'll talk about in a few minutes here, but where did he get this rifle?  It's a very common rifle in where he was embedding himself trying to recruit Afghani soldiers for the Ukraine war. So how did he get back to the U. S. potentially with that rifle?  It's an interesting question to ask. 2002  and March 2010  and therefore  was prohibited from possessing a firearm.  Right. The FBI is leading this investigation, this ongoing investigation.  As the Attorney General stated earlier today, the FBI is continuing its investigation of this incident as an assassination attempt  upon the former president.  The investigation  So there you go. Essentially, Trump went to go golfing as a very spontaneous last minute golf outing, and somehow, this man was able to figure it out,  fly here from Hawaii, and  Not sure how that happened. And then post up for more than 12 hours cell phone data sets.  So there's a  video that went around.  that was talking about how the, I believe it was one of the, um, the sheriffs that were there or another individual that was involved in the case talking about how they had no idea. How did this man get access to know that he was going to be golfing on this golf course that day? And then how did this man that was either generally embedded in Ukraine or Afghanistan and lived in Hawaii, get to this golf course in time to be there for 12 hours. And this person alleges that there had to have been a leak. This had to have been a conspiracy. He had to have been tipped off by somebody who was involved in the close proximity of Trump's campaign, where he would have actually known to be at this golf course on that day, because it was very last minute, very spontaneous golf trip.  And nobody knew about it other than his campaign staff.  So how did this man know? Well,  Hopefully, one day, we'll find out.  Now, what's interesting about this too is that this is absolutely going to take the spotlight off of the first assassination attempt,  which was  absolutely atrociously handled by law enforcement and by the Secret Service.  Another interesting fact about it is that this man had a GoPro on himself during the time of committing this act. Who did he expect to watch this video? Why would you record yourself doing it?  So let's read up a little bit more about this after we hear Trump's response. And this happened just last night on the 16th. Here it is. I'm  relieved that you're here with us today after the second attempt, um, on your life at the Trump National Golf Club. It's just horrifying. Can you run us through what happened?  So, uh, I was playing golf with Some of my friends, it was on a Sunday morning and very peaceful, very beautiful weather. Everything was beautiful. Nice place to be. And all of a sudden we heard shots  being fired in the air  and I guess probably four or five.  And it sounded like bullets, but what do I know about that? But Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets.  And, uh, they grabbed me and, uh,  I think probably the other one, Steve is one of the people, Steve Woodcuff, a great friend of mine, a great, uh, great businessman from mostly New York and Florida, great businessman. And more importantly, just a fantastic person. So we're in the group. And, uh, everybody just, we got into the carts, and we moved along pretty, pretty good. Uh, I was with an agent, and the agent did a fantastic job. There was no question that we were,  I would have loved to have sank that last putt. But, uh, we decided, let's get out of here. And, what the, uh, gunfire was, actually, interestingly, was a, uh, Secret Service agent  had seen a barrel of a AK 47, which is a very powerful gun.  And, uh, he started shooting at the barrel and started shooting in the bushes. Well, could only see the barrel. How good is that? Right. But could only see the barrel based on that. He started shooting  and, uh, ran towards the target and was shooting a lot of, I mean, those were the shots we heard. The other one never got a shot off and he ran across the street  and grabbed his car, hopped into his truck or car.  And amazingly a civilian.  In that area saw something and it looked very suspicious  and in the car, drove their car to the back of his  truck of some kind  and took pictures of the license plate, gave them to the sheriff's office, Sheriff Bradshaw is fantastic, great, great sheriff for a long time  and within a fairly short period of time they tracked him down on the highway, it was a pretty high speed chase and they ended up getting him, they got him. Yeah.  You wouldn't want to have somebody like that out there, you know, he dropped his gun, the AK 47, he left his gun, he left a cameras behind left a lot of things behind. So the agent did a fantastic job. The civilian did a phenomenal job, a woman. I mean, who would think you could take 1000 times like that? How many people would have the brainpower to follow him  and not many inches of the back of his truck so that they end up getting and the key was the license. So they got the license and After they had the license, you know, there's all sorts of technology where they can literally pinpoint where this truck is. I never knew something like that existed. And, uh, they pinpointed him on the highway.  They got him with a high speed chase. So, they got him.  It was amazing. So, Secret Service did a great job. And I think, I can say honestly, the Sheriff's Office, law enforcement, everybody really did a great job.  So, right from his mouth, that's what happened. And again, it goes back to the question, how did this man know that he was going to be on that golf course? It was a spontaneous trip. There's no reason that this, that he should have been able to be tipped off about this, unless it was somebody in Trump's campaign.  or the secret service or somebody doing security for him. But how would you even get to this individual? So this is where let's bring up. Who was Ryan Routh?  Who was this man?  It's a very, very interesting case.  And we have a bunch of different articles here that we'll look at that talk about who he is. We'll look at all the news articles that he's been speaking or he's actually been seen in the news. talking to the news companies about the Ukraine war. So he's a very, very active  recruiter,  a mercenary recruiter for the Ukrainian war.  Now, how does one go back and forth between here in Ukraine, into Afghanistan, do a bunch of news talks  and not be known by the FBI. This man had to have been on their radar. He was in an Azov commercial, which is the special forces arm of essentially of Ukraine.  The same one that was accused of being a extension of the Nazi party, essentially.  He was in their commercial.  So let's look at this timeline that discusses exactly who he is and where he's been seen and what we know about him.  Alright, this article just gives a bunch, a bunch of sources.  Uh, it says,  A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to The Guardian that the suspect in Sunday's case is 58 year old Ryan Wesley Routh, though law enforcement has not officially named him, which they have now, and was no immediate indication of a motive. The son of the man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course Sunday night. Said his father had traveled to Ukraine and volunteered to provide the son, what the son described as humanitarian aid to troops defending the country from Russian forces that invaded in 2022, which is not the case. This man was there to recruit  foreign soldiers to the Ukrainian war saying that he had NATO trained soldiers ready to fight thousands of them.  How does a foreign mercenary recruiting for Ukraine  in commercials for the Azov battalion not be on the radar of the FBI? Especially when this man went on long, long, long tangents all day every day on social media talking about his motives  for doing so. It says he just so happened to be filmed in  2022 by Newsweek about his effort to recruit mercenaries to fight in Ukraine. So we'll look at that.  And then the New York times even wrote a profile on Ryan Roth back in 2023. So let's look at some of these articles where it talks about him.  The first being that  the son of the suspect talks out about the assassination attempt. And then in this, in this interview, he essentially says that he hated Trump.  It says the son of the man accused talks about, uh, assassinating Donald Trump at his Florida golf course on Sunday, said his father had traveled to Ukraine and volunteered to provide the son what the son described as humanitarian aid to troops.  Uh, now there's a video here that we can watch  where he's actually talking about this. And this man  has half blue hair and a U. S. flag t shirt on.  Ukrainians and the rest of the world are caring and kind and, and generous and, and unselfish and, and take care of one another. And it's just a matter of,  you know, we need to stand up for that. That is the most important thing in the world. You know, when you talk to a 20 year old guy that sold everything he owns to come here and fight, that is heroism. You know, he's coming here to risk his life. for humanity, for the Ukrainians, you know, guys that sell everything they own to come here and support the Ukrainians while others sit at home and, and, and do nothing. Hmm. And that was the Guardian.  There's an extension of that,  uh, video that we'll watch here as well, but here's an actual video. I haven't seen this one yet. Body cam footage footage showing the arrest of the shooter.  Let's watch that real quick.  Driver,  take two steps to your right.  Take two steps to your right driver, and they're sitting here. There's three officers, four officers, five officers, six officers in view,  sheriff's  telling him to get out of his vehicle.  This man now has his shirt over his head and he's getting taken to the ground.  Should have tripped a leg. Just at least a nice take down. Uh.  Okay, so let's, let's see if we can find the next video, uh, the extension of that video where he continues to talk.  And here it is.  Who you are and why are you here? Uh, I'm 56 from the U. S., U. S., uh, from North Carolina originally. So I live in Hawaii now. So I flew all the way from Hawaii here. So the question as far as why I'm here. to me. You know, a lot of the other conflicts are gray, but this conflict is definitely black and white. This is about good versus evil. This is a storybook. You know, any movie we've ever watched this is definitely evil against good. I mean, we're battling a situation here where, you know, the Ukrainians and the rest of the world are caring and kind and, and generous and, and unselfish and, and take care of one another. And it's just a matter of.  You know, we need to stand up for that. That is the most important thing in the world is just to show human beings that we're kind and we're caring and that we take care of one another and that the world is united so that we feed each other and make sure that, you know, we all move forward as as one collective whole unit. So, you know, we feel the pain of one country's failure and their conflicts and we enjoy the successes of other countries that are doing good and we all work together and for some reason. Russia does not grasp this concept that we're, we're all one unit and we have to get along and work together and, and, and,  and be normal human beings. This is 2022. We have to work together. It's, it's, it seems asinine that we have a leader in a country that does not understand the concept of, of being unselfish and being generous. Thank you very much. And being kind and just the basic moral values that are required by human beings these days. It blows my mind.  Now I want to listen to that video. Tell me who you are and why are you here? Uh, I'm 56 from the U. S., U. S., uh, from North Carolina, originally. Still live in Hawaii now, so flew all the way. I just wanted to hear him pronounce his own name, uh, but he didn't do that. Okay. So, uh, essentially this man has been in several, several news stations all over the world. He's been seen in written about in the New York times. He's been on news week. He's been plastered all over as a recruiter for, for mercenary teams.  And you're trying to tell me this man was not, no radar.  Has no ties to the FBI has no ties to the CIA has has not been on any list anywhere.  This man.  Absolutely has been tracked.  And here's yet another article by the newindian. in, which the title to this article is U. S. Mercenary Plans to Recruit Pakistani Based Afghan Refugees as Fighters in Ukraine. Now who is that mercenary?  Well you read on in the article here, and that's the same individual,  the same person  who tried to  kill Trump.  So when we start looking through more and more of these articles,  one thing that comes up is that there's actually a website that he ran recruiting foreign fighters and it says attempted Trump assassination or assassin. Ryan Ruth  ran a Ukrainian foreign fighter recruitment website  where he offered 1,  200 per month.  To Afghani soldiers  to fight in the Ukraine war  from all over the world on this site. He had advocated for nuking Russia, stealing bombs and weapons from other countries to give Ukraine. He seems to have been totally radicalized by the media. This says in the left in recent years, his writings are filled with lunatic MSNBC style takes on the Ukrainian war. His social media shows he was also a big fan of many Democrat politicians. Here's the recruitment website. Now I also understand that I think he actually voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Um, and then he actually wanted to push for it. So, so the assassin  that tried to kill Donald Trump actually wanted a Vivek  and Nikki Haley ticket, which he posted on his Instagram, crying to Vivek, asking him to jump on the ticket with Nikki Haley as the presidential candidate.  Now, why would some warmongering Democrat  Wanting to expand the war in Ukraine and how much we're offering them in terms of  Access to supplies and soldiers. Why would that want a Nikki Haley ticket? Hmm. I wonder if she's maybe the biggest war hawk that was on on the presidential  Candidacy,  so let's look at this website  This website is FightForUkraine. com. ua and it says military recruitment. It's a terrible website, by the way. Um, military recruitment. Pay 1200 USD per month for all ages, genders, and skill levels to none. Ukrainian Army wishes and hopes to pay every person helping in the fight for freedom and human rights, but the country is struggling and funds and support dwindling. So our expectations must be realistic, and what we each must give will be far beyond normal sacrifice. But it is what we all must do.  Each one of us is responsible for the outcome of this war, as our every single action must stand for humanity and show kindness, caring, selflessness, altruism, empathy, generosity, and all of the moral goodness that this battle is about.  Volunteering in Ukraine is the most honorable and noble sacrifice. And every human on the planet should be here for freedom and human rights, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  Uh, fighters do not waste time in the embassy of your country. Just come with gear and food and money. Expect nothing. Everyone must slowly be vetted and you must prove loyalty.  Now there's actually a way that he tells them how to basically traffic themselves  into Ukraine. And here's what it says. You do not need a visa. Simply get all military gear and money and fly to Krakow.  Take an intercity train or bus to this bus station.  Take a local train or bus to here. Make your way to the border with Ukraine.  Tell the border guard you want to join the International Legion, and they will take you to the office and meet with Nazar and the leaders. Now I wonder who Nazar is. If you do not have military experience, you must sell yourself that you are capable. They will run your passport and go through your phone and make sure you are not Russian. If accepted, you go directly to a nearby base and train. There is a tent located alongside the sidewalk to the border for the Foreign Legion. It is very casual.  You can sell yourself there to be shipped to the base in Western Ukraine. If all of the above fails, cross the border to Ukraine, take a bus to the border town, Lviv, get a train to Kiev, get in touch with me. We can call and visit countless units in need of help. We have unlimited places to fight and help, so please do not hesitate.  Insights from the fighters. I like how we use this like a, uh,  Customer review style. Uh, I was injured in the car accident and many people have been seriously killed or hurt just in transit from bad driving. So be careful who you ride with. Like, okay,  do not expect anything to be given to you. You will need to come with everything you need or you may, you may need or buy it here. Anything you are lucky to get given as a bonus and whatever food you can bring is smart as well.  Yeah. It doesn't sound like what,  I don't know. I want to ship myself for  And here is his face on this recruitment website.  And it has his email, his Facebook, his Twitter, his phone number, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Viber.  I want to see if this is a, uh, let's see, is this a link tree? Oh, it goes to his WhatsApp.  Well, I'm definitely going to be on some list somewhere. No.  Uh,  Here it is. So there's his literal mercenary recruitment website.  The assassin of Donald Trump had a mercenary recruitment website for Ukrainian fighters. Now, who he was trying to get to come over were Afghani soldiers that he was trying to convince to do this. Now, there is a whole, uh, let's see, there's a whole recording of every one of the tweets he ever made.  That is up on Twitter right now that I looked through and that's where I saw the Vivek and Nikki Haley ticket situation. Now here's a video of him, uh, talking about it.  To be cooperative. That's Ryan Ruth, a U. S. citizen who set up the International Volunteer Center in Ukraine to help connect foreigners to Ukrainian military units. Now I'm talking to over 100 soldiers every day and pretty much everybody,  all of my contacts in Ukraine, they were adamant and pretty much yelled at me every time that I suggested that we bring in Afghans. The Ukrainian government didn't respond to our request for comment.  Ukraine is reluctant to.  There you go. So another news outlet that had this man on camera, how does he have all of this, all of these connections? How does he have all these ties? How is he able to get to Ukraine? Know who to send these people to?  Sounds a little fishy to me.  And as we move through some more of these articles, he is found in this as of battalion ad campaign.  And here is that.  There he is.  Now, some people were saying this is a BlackRock ad. No, it's not.  It's an Azov Battalion ad. Just a Nazi ad.  And then,  there's more and more articles with his name on it. One being the New York Times. And if we search his name here, You'll see, with Legion growth stalling, Ryan Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, North Carolina, is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban. Mr. Routh is, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan to Iran to Ukraine. So if the New York Times is writing about this person, if he's in an Azov battalion campaign, ad campaign.  There's no way this man's cell phone was not being monitored. There's no way this man didn't have ties to the CIA. There's no way they weren't on his radar at the very least to where they would be monitoring him. No way if this mercenary recruiter in Ukraine  from the United States  wasn't on their radar, wasn't being monitored, and didn't have some ties to people who may want to monitor him. alert this potential asset to go do a specific task at a specific time at a specific place when the opportunity arose.  This one is absolutely clear cut to me. There's no way this man didn't have associations with three letter agencies or at least weren't on their radar to where he would have been stopped.  But again, we go back to the fact that this had to have been leaked. Somebody knew about this and told this man where to go and when in this last minute golf outing.  We can probably purchase some passports through Pakistan since it's such a corrupt country, he said in an interview with Washington. It is not clear whether he has succeeded, but one former Afghan soldier said he had been contacted and was interested in fighting if it meant leaving Iran, where he was living illegally.  So, the New York Times was writing about him, and this was in, let's see,  this was written March 25th.  2023. So just last year,  uh, here is a picture of his blue house in Hawaii.  You can't make this stuff up. Uh, his blue house in Hawaii with a Biden Harris sticker on his truck.  Very interesting.  Now here's a, a  conspiratorial thought coming from, uh, a Russian.  Account, I believe this person is some sort of  Diplomat, excuse me. It's 6 a. m. Here  The deputy chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation All right And he said I wonder what would happen if it turned out that the failed new Trump shooter Routh Who recruited mercenaries for the Ukrainian army was himself? Hired by the neo nazi regime in Kiev for this assassination attempt.  Now that's another interesting theory, right? Maybe it wasn't the CIA. Maybe it wasn't BlackRock or Vanguard. Maybe it was the entity that is in a foreign war  where if  he gets into office,  they may not get the funding they need. Maybe it was Zelensky that called this man who they knew had ties. How many United States individuals are over there recruiting mercenaries for that?  How many are there? 5, 10, 20, 1?  And why aren't we considering the fact  that it could have been the Azov Battalion, it could have been the Ukrainian Army, it could have been Zelensky himself  that called this man, told him where to be with military intelligence,  and told him what to do so that the cash cow could keep producing supplies, producing soldiers, producing more and more money to Ukraine so that they continue to fight this proxy war on behalf of the United States.  That's an interesting theory that I don't think anybody's really considering.  So  is it Ukraine wanting to continue their war? Is it somebody from Israel wanting to continue their war? Because they know if Trump gets in office, he is not pro war the same way that Kamala will be. He cannot be bought off the same way that Kamala can be. He is not a puppet for the powers that be the way that Kamala is.  So there's only one way to get rid of Trump on this ticket and this assassination. I do not believe this is going to be the last attempt on his life before the election. And I do not believe that the assassinations will stop. The assassination attempts will stop even when he gets in office. I don't believe that. There's no reason to. They're trying to stop him from being in office.  Not trying to stop him from being elected. It's trying to stop him from being the president. So these  assassination attempts will continue.  Especially now that the floodgates have opened. Not one, but two now.  Looking through the comments here of what was said underneath that.  Now some more information about here. Let's do a rapid fire round. Some more information here about this man.  Is that he has a long standing criminal record. Long standing criminal record. Let me go ahead and change this over here.  Um, everything from petty  traffic stops.  Many, many times he had his license revoked. Um, but here is a long list. So everybody has these screenshots. I went to the source.  This is the North Carolina Judicial Branch e courts portal website  where you can see every one of his criminal cases dating back to 2001.  And if we go look into some of these cases, the one that was most interesting to everybody involved weapons of mass destruction.  Now, everybody was curious about this. You couldn't seem to find any information about this.  And it doesn't say anything in the court records. You actually have to pull the full court file.  So I went  to pull the whole court file.  And you can do this only through one software, one platform, and it's called PACER, and it's what lawyers use to be able to pull legal files. It's what people can use in their own legal cases to pull these. It's essentially a government database where you can pull all of the, the files for, for publicly available court cases.  Now when I went to PACER,  made an account,  signed into that account, searched several other legal cases, I had no issues.  Now, I took this case, the one here about possession of a weapon of mass destruction from 4 29 of 2002,  and asked it to pull the full file of that case. Immediately when I did that, I was logged out of my account. My account was turned inactive,  and I cannot get a hold of anybody at PACER to be able to access these files. I stayed on hold for an hour and a half yesterday  trying to get on the phone with somebody. And every time they picked up, they hung up on me.  Now I don't think that part's as fishy as the fact that it automatically logged me out, deactivated my account. As soon as I searched for these files,  there's absolutely a coverup happening  and I might be, I, I, I, I commend you.  I don't commend you. I. I highly encourage you to go to PACER, the PACER website, which is pacer. psc. uscourts. gov.  Right? pacer. psc. uscourts. gov.  And you can go here and search for a case,  create an account, and I'll even show you that my account won't work.  But you can create an account and search a specific court case.  Now the court case that you're going to look up is going to be Ryan Routh vs. the state of North Carolina.  When you search that, you will be immediately logged out, your account will be deactivated, and you will not be able to log in or search for any more court cases. Now I  will show you exactly what I'm talking about here.  So if I go to log into PACER, again, the only governmental database where you can access these types of documents, I was going to pull the full court file because nobody was finding information out about  this man's case.  It says, Although you have a PACER account, your account is inactive. If you have questions or further details on how to activate your search privileges, contact PACER Service Center at 800 676 6856 between these hours. You may continue to log in and perform other activities, e file, request filing privileges, but you will not have PACER search privileges. Now when I continue,  it won't even let me logged in.  There's currently an issue with your Pacer account. For additional information, contact the Pacer Service Center at 800 676 6856. It won't even let me log in.  They won't pick up the phone. They answer why. And this happened immediately as I pressed the enter button to look up and pull that court case.  Now I was able to find one single article  that talks about what happened  back in 2002  and here it is.  This is from greensboro. com man with gun. And I don't think anybody really, there's been a couple of times I've seen this article referenced. Most people haven't seen this article. It was very, very difficult to find.  Man with gun barricades himself inside business says an armed man was arrested Monday morning after barricading himself in a business during a three hour standoff with police.  Now I would like you to note that this was updated in January 24th of 2015.  Interesting.  Uh, Ryan Routh, 36, was arrested without incident at 1 a. m. Monday at United Roofing, 1735 West Lee Street, Greensboro Police said.  Routh was pulled over at about 10 p. m. Sunday during a traffic stop, police said, but he put his hand on his firearm and drove to United Roofing where he remained barricaded inside.  Ralph was charged with carrying a concealed weapon in possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Now, everybody was like a weapon of mass destruction. Did he have a nuke? Did he have a chemicals? What was it? That that was this weapon of mass destruction. This is the only place that you can find it. After I tried to pull those court documents, a fully automatic  weapon.  So nothing too, too crazy there. Again, how did he get that weapon? What was he doing with that weapon?  All good questions. He was also charged with resisting, delaying, and obstructing a law enforcement officer and driving while his license was revoked.  So there you have it. Now,  when you do some searches on Ryan Routh, you can find his emails, his addresses, his phone numbers. And one of the emails that I found of his leads back to him,  a company.  And I'll show you how I found this here, but a company called icom design.com.  Now what's interesting about this is this is a Greensboro number  and when you look up Icom design, 'cause this is all it is, it was allegedly a website building company back in 2002 to 2004.  Um, but there's no information on it.  It's been updated to show a copyright of 2024.  There's an email that you can click.  And if you look on LinkedIn, there's a few individuals who are associated with ICOM Design.  This is one of them.  Ananda Rose Benet.  Interesting. Greensboro, North Carolina. An intern at ICOMdesign. com.  With a pretty recent picture with pink and blue hair. Ananda Rose Benet.  And it says she's a web designer, dah, dah, dah, dah, an intern at ICOM Design back in 2012 and has worked there for 11 years. Probably not, this might just be an old,  nobody's going to be an intern for 11 years. Um, but when you also look up more people who were a part of this ICOM Design, which is where I found, uh, an email that was associated with him, so I'll show you that.  So there's a website that you can go to and use.  And it will show you  addresses, phone numbers, associates,  family members,  job history, all of it.  So you can verify this information yourself. Look at his addresses,  um, phone numbers that he's associated with. This three, three, six area code is a Greensboro area code. You can see. Oh, this is his wife, Laura Routh. Sorry, I was doing some more digging here, but let's look up Ryan.  So his current address is Hawaii. Hers is North Carolina, which is interesting as well,  but  Previous addresses, but here's his website. Now you can see United roofing was a roofing company. He owned you can see GSO skate park at yahoo. com and that was basically his son 10 years ago or so was trying to create a skate park in local Greensboro area without a permit and it became this big news article thing and he was trying to raise money for it and he did with some oil company also sketchy.  GSO skate park at yahoo. com that he was trying to get people to send funds to. Um, I can validate that for you in several different ways. Um,  here I'll show you where I found that just so you can see it.  Uh,  here we go.  Where's the article?  That's the barricade article. That's not what we're looking for. Um,  oh.  That got pulled. That's interesting.  I just looked at that article yesterday and now it is scrubbed,  scrubbed from the internet.  That's interesting. Um,  so you can validate that by the skate park. Let's see if I'll just look it up for you.  Here's the article where you can see a skateboard park.  Skateboard park closed. Skate park violates zoning laws. And you can see that Ryan Routh was mentioned several times throughout this article because his son was one of the founders of this skate park. Here it is. Ryan Routh says he brought in the structural design engineer. Here's his what his company United Roofing Co.  Talked about how they were gonna charge some money so that they could put up a porta potty and all this stuff. All right. So just to show you that what we're looking at is true here. Even the GSO skate park at yahoo. com was accurate,  which I was like, no way. This guy's associated with, you know, a skate park. That makes no sense. But then I found the articles and there it is. And that tells you how far I've been digging into this personally. Um, you probably won't hear about that on any other channel or individual.  Um, but that led me to Matt at ICOM design. com. Now, why would he go by Matt is one question.  But ICOMdesign. com, then you go to ICOMdesign. com.  And this is the website that you're met with. It's a front website. It doesn't make any sense. There's a phone number, which I have yet to call.  And if you want to do that and let me know how it goes, let me know. 336 854 8500.  Click to email. This is it. Then you can take that and you go to LinkedIn and see who's associated with ICOMdesign. com. All right. There's five individuals who are listed under that.  Let's see if we can pull up the icomdesign. com people.  Let's go back. And there was three of them that were opera singers  and in Hawaii.  So icomdesign. com, Matt at icomdesign. com  is a front website that has employees in both states where he lives and operates.  And several of them are opera singers.  Now I would have thought the opera singers would have been a different entity altogether, but the fact that they live on the exact island  that he lived in  makes the association make sense.  It doesn't make it make sense, but it validates it.  Right? So if you go to, maybe not icomdesign. com, Well, let's go to ICOM design and we look up who are the employees.  It's not showing it anymore. It won't even try to let me access her. But if we go back, I was able to find,  get access to those individuals by going around it the same way that I was, I got to her. Um,  so let's see LinkedIn, but anyways, that was what I found on that front is that yeah. The people that were working at this ICOM Designs were located in  both states that he operates out of, Hawaii  and North Carolina,  and there's only a front website here, and his  name is associated with this mat at ICOMdesign. com.  Not sure where that's going to lead us, but we'll continue diving down that hole. It's very interesting.  Now back to the case here, possession of weapons of mass destruction, right? I tried to follow that, hold on as many strings as I could until I hit a dead end where they locked me out of my account and wouldn't give me any more information.  Um, found this article.  Now let's see what else we have here. Um,  he even had this soldier's passport and birth certificate.  Uh, In his posts on LinkedIn.  So his LinkedIn was still up when I looked yesterday. I'm not sure if it will be today. Let's look.  It's going to be pulled. I bet it is  because his picture's gone now.  Let's see. Oh, there it is. Okay. So here's his LinkedIn 10 connections would be really interesting to see who those 10 people are.  Now, sometimes you can look over here and it will recommend people  who are associated with them. It just won't tell you,  right? It's not going to tell you who their connections are,  but it shows that he was, uh, the owner of Campbox Honolulu for the last six years, they've made essentially one building the entire time. So where's this man getting his money from to make all these flights from here and back, uh, with no history whatsoever of any success in any business that he's had ever.  And then you can look at what were some of his comments. What has he  posted, what has he discussed, right? Go to activity, show all activity.  And you'll see some of his posts. Here's one of them that has a bunch of people commenting on it now. 144 comments. And then there was another one, if you go under comments,  where he had this.  person was, uh, some sort of recruiter, um,  onsite hiring. And then this man,  Carl Hugely  commented on this  and said,  um, details. Now that man's sense has removed  his comments since yesterday.  I have your passport and birth certificate here in Hawaii. Call me 808 379 9411. And it's this Carlton Hughley. Okay. So there's the comment. He said the interested, and he probably searched this man's name, tried to tell him I have it. Why would you have somebody's passport and birth certificate? That's pretty crazy situation to find yourself in. Uh, so that's his really, his only comment on LinkedIn.  So I will continue digging into this and seeing how many dead ends I hit.  But there's a lot of strings to pull on here, guys.  A lot of strings to pull on here.  Now I'm going to look through. I created a notes situation on this, um, so that I could track everything that we looked at. But, um, but anyways, there's your breakdown. There's the situation.  I will continue to do a deep dive on this. Hopefully more information comes out. This one is so sketchy.  So sketchy. Like I said, there's absolutely zero chance that this man has all these ties, all these associations, all these news network interviews  was in an as off battalion  advertising campaign  was being interviewed by the New York times by newsweek  was a recruiter, a mercenary recruiter in Ukraine going back and forth constantly and somehow managed to evade the radar of the CIA and the FBI.  And I do think that the idea is very interesting that this man was potentially put up to this by his association and his allegiance to, because you listed that to that video, he has a strong belief in what is happening in Ukraine, or at least he pretends to.  So if he was asked or tasked to do this  by Ukraine, because they want to stop Trump from getting an office because they know that  The money train will stop when Trump goes in office.  It's an interesting theory,  but I'm sure there's many mothers that are just as crazy, if not crazier, that could also be true.  So  subscribe, leave a five star review, head over to ronanbasics. com  and until next time,  thank you for listening.   

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Solomea: Star of Opera's Golden Age by Andriy J Semotiuk https://amzn.to/3ya7Y3A Myworkvisa.com What does it take to reach the very top of your profession or calling? How does one rise from humble beginnings to achieve greatness and to perform with other first-class artists on the world stage? How do you break through barriers blocking you from reaching success because you are not the "right kind" of person? How do you break through the glass ceiling as a woman? As a parent or grandparent, where can one find a great model for children or even grandchildren to emulate? These are just some of the questions answered in this book. Solomea Krushelnytska was hailed as the world's leading dramatic soprano during the Golden Age of opera at the turn of the 20th century. Born in 1872 into a family with eight children in a small village in Western Ukraine, she studied opera and battled her way to superstardom while performing with opera legends like composer Giacomo Puccini, director Arturo Toscanini, and tenor Enrico Caruso. Working with Arturo Toscanini, she played the lead roles of Salome and Elktra in the premiers of these operas in Italy. Among other major successes, Krushelnytska helped Giacomo Puccini rescue the opera Madama Butterfly from its failed debut at La Scala in Milan in 1904 by playing the lead role of Cio-Cio-San in the opera's re-creation in the Teatro Grande in Brescia, Italy later that year. Thanks to their joint efforts, Madama Butterfly remains one of the most popular operas to this day. She also played other leading roles in major opera houses in Europe, South America, North America, and Northern Africa. Throughout her career, she shared the fruits of her success with her family. Towards the end of her career, she moved back to Western Ukraine on the eve of World War II. Her beautiful voice was then drowned out by the gunfire of Soviet and Nazi armies and she was reduced to struggling for survival. Yet reverence for her talent likely helped her escape most of the ultraviolence that rampaged through her city at that time. Throughout the world war, she sheltered the author's mother, aunt, and grandparents in her apartment. She spent her final years in Lviv, teaching at the same place where her rise to fame and fortune had begun. Told from the perspective of her grand nephew Andriy Semotiuk, with intimate details related to his family's immigrant experience never before shared, her rags-to-riches life story is an amazing odyssey, a triumph of the human spirit, an incredible testament to her dedication to art, and an inspiration to people everywhere.

Russia has the momentum in Ukraine right now, so is it time for a radical rethink of how we help?James Heappey, who served four years as Armed Forces Minister, tells Sitrep we should be thinking about putting a training mission into Western Ukraine along with air defence support. Professor Michael Clarke explains the potential risks and benefits of shifting our red-lines.They also discuss the general election and whether it will mean a shake-up or continuity for defence.And former RAF Hercules pilot Scottie Bateman shares stories of incredible service across more than half a century by the swiss-army-knife of tactical airlift, and its crews.

Journalist and editor of ‘Ukrainian Freedom News' Joseph Lindsley joins Bob Sirott from Ukraine to deliver the latest news on the Ukraine-Russia War, including drones that were sent to Western Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s meeting with business leaders. You can find more updates on Joseph's website, ukrainianfreedomnews.com. To donate to Joseph and his team's efforts to […]

Women Around the World: Partnering Together to Strengthen the Global Church We share the same struggles. We serve the same Christ. We live in radically different contexts, but the truth is, we are ALL called to live missionally! In this series we will hear from women around the world about how we can partner together to strengthen the Global Church. Connect to Masha Shepherd: Masha Shepherd is an MTW missionary, a wife to Doug, and a mother of three children.  She grew up behind the Iron Curtain and became a Christian through the University ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Ukraine. Masha earned her Master of Arts in Theological Studies at Covenant Seminary (2003) and has been serving in Western Ukraine since 2006.  She is developing ministries as the Coordinator of Children's Ed and Women's Bible Study leader.  In light of the recent events due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Masha and her family have been closely involved with the Humanitarian Aid Project “Crates for Ukraine.”   https://www.mtw.org/missionaries/details/doug-and-masha-shepherd   Crates for Ukraine   https://www.mtw.org/ukraine-crisis   Connect to Mission to the World (MTW): https://www.mtw.org/ Connect to International Women's Ministry (CDM): https://women.pcacdm.org/international/

AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports on Russia Ukraine War.

In the tumultuous theater of World War II, where nations clashed and ideologies grappled for dominance, the Battle of Brody was a seminal conflict that echoed far beyond the borders of its battlefield. The sprawling plains of Western Ukraine were set ablaze from June 23 to 30, 1941, as an unparalleled drama of heroism, strategy, and survival unfolded between the mighty armies of Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. The thunderous cacophony of artillery, the grinding gears of armored divisions, and the relentless hum of dive bombers etched an indelible mark onto the annals of history.  As we journey together through the riveting narrative of the Battle of Brody, we invite you to discover the rich tapestry of history, interwoven with compelling human stories and far-reaching geopolitical consequences. The echoes of the past continue to reverberate, offering profound insights that allow us to better understand our world today. This is the story of the Battle of Brody — a story of courage, conviction, and the indomitable human spirit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ww2-stories/support

We're born in a specific place with a specific history. How do these arbitrary facts affect us as artists? In this podcast I talk with Jane Muschenetz about her collection, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (Kelsay Books, 2023). Jane was born to a Jewish family in Lviv, a city once under Soviet control, now located in Western Ukraine. As a resident of the US, Jane wrote poetry about a variety of topics. However, when Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, Jane wrote about her roots and her experience as a Russian-Jewish immigrant. She writes, "Naming God is an ambition I do not share / I am only trying to unpack one girlhood's worth of beginning". Enjoy this interview with our special guest. 

In our news wrap Thursday, Russia staged its heaviest strike yet on civilian areas of Lviv in western Ukraine, killing at least five people, Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin may still be in Russia after his short-lived rebellion, a toxic gas leak in South Africa killed 17 people near Johannesburg and former President Trump's valet pleaded not guilty to helping hide classified documents. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In our news wrap Thursday, Russia staged its heaviest strike yet on civilian areas of Lviv in western Ukraine, killing at least five people, Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin may still be in Russia after his short-lived rebellion, a toxic gas leak in South Africa killed 17 people near Johannesburg and former President Trump's valet pleaded not guilty to helping hide classified documents. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Dionne Woods chats with The Turquoise Iris Journal's Volume 11 Cover Artist, Esther Franchuk today on the Paint Talks Podcast. Esther is a mixed-media fine artist from Ukraine. She is currently based in Berlin, Germany, with paintings represented in private collections globally. Esther was professionally trained in classical drawing & oil painting at Grekov Odessa Art School - the oldest and one of the most renowned schools of art in Ukraine. After her graduation, she moved to Western Ukraine. She continued her studies at Transcarpathian Art Institute for two more years learning about authentic Ukrainian art and folk crafts and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art. She was also given the opportunity to go abroad to be part of various art programs in the United States & Europe. One of her most life-changing experiences was taking the Mastery Program at Milan Art Institute in the USA. It was there she developed her unique style and artistic voice. Her artwork is colorful and vibrant, full of narrative and storytelling. She traveled all over the world to collect and gather inspiration from various cultures. During her travels, Esther was driven to create artwork that would speak to everyone and empower many. To her, art in any form has always been a unique tool that makes a difference in this world. It doesn't have language or cultural barriers and speaks directly to the human heart. It's a unique way to express the worlds within and around us, capture the moments in their very essence, and make them tell stories. Her paintings are made in the style of abstract realism. She uses various mixed techniques: acrylic, inks, graphite, and collage, and completes the work with oil paints. Esther loves color and loves to experiment with it. Her style is peculiar and unique. In the recent series, Esther paints the beauty and prophetic calling of her own homeland. Now like never before she wants to make the destiny of Ukraine known to the world. She believes art is a great tool to change the world, to bring beauty, and hope, and to impact all spheres of society. Website Facebook Instagram

In this bonus episode, Nick Cady speaks with Zhenya Chekushkin, the leader of the Calvary Chapel network of churches in Ukraine. Calvary Chapel has had a presence in Ukraine since the early 1990's, and currently has around 20 churches in different cities throughout the country. Recently a group of CGN leaders travelled to Western Ukraine to encourage those in the Calvary network who have been ministering to others in their country since the full scale invasion in February 2022. This retreat provided an opportunity to recharge physically and spiritually. In this episode, Zhenya shares about some of the ways Calvary Chapel churches have been serving people, and how God has been working, even in the midst of these difficult circumstances. We'd love to hear feedback from you on these episodes. You can email us at CGN@calvarychapel.com

⁠https://www.amazon.com/Glimpses-Uncharted-Life-Collapsed-Remained/dp/1958179450/ref=sr_1_2?crid=QCBPPW5PEKVU&keywords=Glimpses+of+an+Uncharted+Life&qid=1675802556&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C254&sr=1-2⁠ Dick Shriver and his wife, Barbara, spent 8 years living and working in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Ukraine. Dick earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell University and a master's degree in industrial engineering at Ohio State University. He worked for Exxon before starting his own technology consulting firm. He later did two tours with the US Government at the level of Assistant Secretary at the Defense and Treasury Departments. He held Senior Executive Positions at Chase Manhattan Bank and McGraw-Hill. In 1990, he taught International Finance, Marketing and Trade to 31 communists in the inaugural year of the first western-style business school in the Soviet Union, the International Management Institute – Kiev (Ukraine). As Vice President of the International Executive Service Corps, Shriver sent over 1,000 American Executives into the former Soviet Union to assist in private sector development. He founded a non-profit, Center for International Management Education (CIME) which promoted “democracy and free enterprise inside the Soviet Union”. CIME's main programs involved the development of a rule of law program for the government of an independent Estonia and economic development in Western Ukraine. Toward the end of his 51 years of continuous work, he became provost and a member of the founding group of the European College of Liberal Arts (now Bard College Berlin). Shriver has received the Defense Distinguished Service medal, and Treasury's highest award, the Alexander Hamilton Medal.

Tonight's main topics will cover the term “moral injury” being associated with military veterans that encompass symptoms like feelings of “betrayal, anger, shame and guilt” and it can lead to how this might play a significant role in the high suicide rate among veterans who fall victim to societal alienation. Often they are written off as suffering from the broad term PTSD associated with those who experienced combat during warfare but not all vets who suffer moral injuries have to do with seeing blood and guts on a battlefield or being forced to partake or witness the slaughter of civilians. Now think about the moral injury that will be caused to US service members who don't want to go fight and die for a fascist right-wing government turned dictatorship in Western Ukraine whose so-called President recently stated to the press that Russia wants to invade the Baltic NATO states and then the US will have to send their sons and daughters to fight and die. Russia has sought peace with Ukraine with the latest official meeting being the Minsk Accords but Zelensky who ran as a pro-peace candidate has been seduced or coerced into adopting the agenda of the far-right fascist political elements that include neo-Nazis who have deified the Nazi WWII collaborator Stepan Bandera. *BTR News is a media project of the Black Talk Media Project. Make a donation to support grassroots media and expand the work of the non-profit Black Talk Media Project. Check / Money Order: Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly NC 28120 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=M8PGQH4ANW7E8 However, before we get into the main topics, here are a few news, entertainment, and culture items that caught my eye over the past week. Reports are true that Mississippi Republican RHINOS are attempting to disenfranchise voters with a bill that will create a district where judges in the criminal justice system will not be elected but become political appointees. Mediaite, a blue check mark media company that gives “news” and “opinions” about the media was caught on social media pushing disinformation about the US government not funding neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine and no other so-called fact-checking organization fact-checked them when it is a well-documented fact that they were and still is. The actor and former rapper Ice T aka Tracy Lauren Marrow took a jab at today's generation of rappers calling them "soft" and "goofy". Some hip-hop old heads don't agree one hundred percent. Catch the FB live stream @blacktalkradionetwork

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. 

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SPECIAL GUEST  Michal Krupa  Short bio: columnist and historian, published in such venues as The American Conservative, Consortium News, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Chronicles. He hosts VotumTV: Heretics podcast, where he interviews dissident and competent mostly American voices. He loves the Latin Mass, Italian cuisine and Pat Buchanan.  Also, appeared on the Two Mikes Podcast with Col. Mike Dr. Michael Scheuer on the Crusade Channel! Canadian Ex-Pat The Border Crossing - how many Ukrainians into Poland as of about 3 weeks ago amounted to just under 10 million. That doesn't mean they are STILL in Poland. 3-5 million Ukrainians in Poland that came into Poland in 2013 so we've had a large number of Ukrainian people in Poland for some time now. We have more than we should have taken. They come to Poland for money, then bring it back to Ukraine it was a way to milk the Poland system. Most came from West Ukraine and that isn't even where Russia is concentrating they are in East Ukraine.  Civilians are not dying in Western Ukraine so why are they in such huge numbers ‘escaping' into Poland? If you ask these questions you are called a Putin Stooge. Zelensky is betraying or undermining the so-called Midon Revolution -  We know that the Russian Administer of Defense are making claims that Americans were conducting biological weapons in laboratories in Ukraine. Bioweapons in Ukraine remember Victoria Nuland said under oath there were these laboratories there in Ukraine.    Feb 24th Poland has been the biggest supporter in Kiev.  Poland has been at the forefront supplying Ukraine w/ money, weapons and taking in refugees. They have also animated the narrative that Putin must be taken down. Polish Anti-War movement -  The only people interested into bringing Poland into a full on war w/ Russia is NATO and others, most Polish people don't want anything to do with this war. Catholic Baseball -  The whole notion that Putin would leave Russians behind defenseless was silly. The Ukrainian government was in-fact bombing people w/ Ukraine passports but they were Russian. They wanted to be back in union w/ Russia. The goal was very clear, it wasn't about defending Ukrainian democracy. You can't expect the Russians NOT to react to this. Our Lady of Czestochowa

Putin unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe on Ukraine and Europe in 2022. He continues to terrorise the people of Ukraine and target civilian infrastructure forcing a miserable existence on millions, and extreme danger for those to the frontlines. The Russian targeting of energy infrastructure is explicitly a war crime. Putin is enabled, aided, and abetted by millions of Russians, whether that be actively or passively. But when bad people take control of the agenda, as has so often happened throughout history – good people also arise to show us a better side of humanity. Brooks Newmark is a businessman, angel investor, philanthropist, former politician, and social reform campaigner. He was a UK Member Parliament and served as Minister for Civil Society. He is currently studying for a DPhil at the University of Oxford's Education Department focussing on Education Reform in Rwanda. He is also a Visiting Academic at the Middle East Centre at Oxford University, where he is writing a book on Bashar Assad. But the reason we are talking today, is because of his extraordinary work through ‘Angels for Ukraine', an initiative he co-founded to help move thousands of Ukrainian civilians away from the front lines to safety in Western Ukraine.

We welcome back to the podcast Myron Wasylyk, a Ukraine-based energy advisor and communication expert who we last interviewed just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  On the first day of the war, Myron, a Ukrainian-American who has lived in Kyiv for three decades, evacuated his family to Western Ukraine.  Myron and his family recently moved back to Kyiv.  We spoke to him about what it's like living in a city under attack by drones and missiles, the resilience of the Ukrainian people, Ukraine perception of the Beltway debates on continued US military aid, the energy supply situation in Ukraine and the prospects for an end of the war in the coming year.

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We will actually go ahead and look at all of the updates from what's going on there, as well as talking through the transcripts of Vladimir Putin in his discussion today. We are going to also discuss the recent announcement by former President Donald Trump that he is going to run in 2024, along with some crazy things that he said during that announcement that I do not agree with. So we will talk about those and why I don't agree with them. And we will also discuss the X Crypto scandal, which many people believe is actually been a front for Ukrainian money laundering back to the Biden administration and the Democratic Party. So that was all in the last. Two days , basically. It's been wild. So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into. Welcome to Red Pill Revolution. My name is Austin Adams. 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Usually I do it at the beginning, but I don't know, I guess I missed it cause I was so excited about all of the wild stuff going on, . So let's go ahead and talk about the very first thing today, which is that Colorado legalized psychedelics, not just mushrooms, not they legalized dmt, like they just, they didn't start at the bottom and just move their way up. Over the years, they just went like top to bottom psychedelics legal in Colorado from Proposition 1 22, which did get passed. I think that this is actually, I'm a hundred percent behind it. I think psychedelics, uh, have proven scientifically to have a large positive net effect on so many mental health issues. Uh, I personally have not done them surprisingly, uh, but, uh, am definitely open to the idea at some point in my life, maybe down the. I'm not interested in it at the very moment that I'm sitting here with you, but I do see so many positive effects coming out of this. I do see, you know, just from meditation and things that I've talked about in the past, I have, you know, reached those places that you can get to through psychedelics, and I've seen the positive effects in my life. Uh, and so I absolutely believe this is something that I stand behind wholeheartedly. I think it's awesome. So let's go ahead and read this article. This is coming from ABC News. Everybody's favorite, uh, news website? Not really. It says Colorado has become the second state. Second state. Oh, I was wrong. Second straight. Colorado has become the second state to decriminalize and legalize recreational psychedelics. Voters passed about initiative during last week's election, and it will make it legal for adults to purchase and used DMT or dime methyl Tripp. Dimethyltryptamine iga, mes. Uh, it actually excludes peyote. Um, they can also use psilocybin, nearly 1.2 million voters, roughly 53% of the total vote approved. Prop 1 22, according to state election results, it says, currently Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, depending if you're from Oregon or not from Oregon, you say it one way or the other. I think at least all the people that I've met from Oregon, say it's Oregon and all the people I've met, not from Oregon, say it's Oregon. So I'm not from Oregon, Oregon, Oregon. I don't know. Currently, Oregon is the only state, uh, to legalize psychedelics. In 20 22, 50 5% of Oregon, uh, voters passed initiative to legalize recreational psychedelics. Starting next year, Oregon residents can use psilocybin at licensed service centers. And not in their homes. According to the Oregon Health Authority, Colorado's ballot measure comes 10 years after it. In Washington state, voters passed ballot initiatives to legalize recreational marijuana for adult residents. Today, 21 states and the District of Columbia offered legalized cam cannabis for adult residents, five states, Maryland to Missouri, Arkansas, North Dakota and South Dakota had ballot measures in this year's election, the legalized recreational adults or recreational marijuana for adults voters in Maryland, Missouri passed the recreational, uh, measures while voters in other states rejected the referendums. Interesting, but that's wild. Colorado. Colorado is up Colorado leading the way, leading the charge on the front of this. And, and as we saw what happened with marijuana, they are just going to start a domino effect of all the other states. And again, I am wholeheartedly behind this. I a hundred percent approve. Uh, I I think if you don't, you should look at the scientific studies that talk about veterans ptsd. I think that you should look at the scientific studies that help talk about how it helps depression. Uh, I think you should look at the studies that show that you literally have to eat more than your body weight or some crazy, something like that. Not medical advice, Uh, and mushrooms to die. I'm sure it's may not even be a thing just like marijuana, uh, dmt, uh, not sure how that works, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't kill you. Like a lot of the pharmaceutical medications that were given, like Oxycontin, like, uh, you know, fentanyl, that they literally give to women in labor. Crazy. So again, I'm a hundred percent behind this. I agree with this. I, I don't see anything wrong with this. I, I do think they're gonna be setting up treatment centers. I believe that's gonna allow you to grow these in your home. Uh, as it stands right now, these are like, you get in big trouble if you're found with stuff that literally grows on shit and the farming pasture Like, why, why does that make any sense? If it's put on this earth, why should you allow a government entity to be able to tell you whether you can pluck it and throw it in your own mouth? In your own mouth? I could see if you were. Plucking it off of the cow patty and shoving somebody to the ground, forcefully opening their mouth and throwing it in there, shutting their mouth and making like shaking 'em upside down to make sure, I guess upside down probably wouldn't work. But you see the point if you are doing it to your own body, I think you should basically be free ring. I, I think you, you should, even if you don't agree with psychedelics, even if you think it's wrong, logically, philosophically, I believe you should be able to ruin your own. A hundred percent. If you want to sit all day and smoke weed and play video games, I think you should have the right to do so, and you will find that there is so, so social repercussions, sociological social repercussions to that that you probably don't like and eventually you may change what you're doing as a result of those social repercussions. People probably don't wanna hang out with you. People might think that you're a loser if that's all you're doing all day, but there's also some very high functioning people who smoke weed all day and make a bunch of money and do awesome stuff all the time and just enjoy it more while also eating snacks. So , I don't, I don't necessarily think that there should, the government, especially if we're ping out oxycont, And allowing the drug cartels to pull over fentanyl in boatloads, which I guess is coming from China. You know, I, I heard the Dr. Phil interview where he was talking about how China is manufacturing fentanyl, taking it to the cartels. The cartels are bringing it into the US through the border, which tons of people are coming over now as of the last two years. Wonder if that's a coincidence and then killing your friends and family and children with it intentionally because they want the demise of our culture. I don't know, just a theory, but it seems to make a lot of sense to me. If you were going to do something like that, why wouldn't you do it? Through drugs? Through the minds of the culture. Uh, from the inside, right. And, and utilizing the drug cartels. Why wouldn't we? You know, it just makes so much sense. Uh, I don't. But is that happening? You know, is is, is it in your kid's candy on, on October 31st? That was like the whole scare about that. I don't think that was happening. At least if we didn't hear about it, I'm pretty sure if we would, if somebody's child died from a fentanyl overdose from eating smarties while going through subdivisions on Halloween, I'm pretty sure it would've been in the news by now and it wasn't so interesting. Now, off the backs of that crazy stuff, let's talk about some other crazy stuff. The FBI raid the home and seized the property of a man who put out information that he obtained illegally about Area 51. So this journalist found photos, found information about Area 51, collected it completely legally. Did absolutely nothing wrong and still had his property seized and had his home raid by the fbi. I don't know how the FBI is still functioning right now after all of the un like crazy missteps that they've taken recently. The, the, the rating of Mar Lago, to which we heard puts nothing, absolutely nothing at all, came from that of literally kicking, like, maybe not literally kicking down the door, but metaphorically kicking down the door of a former president, which has never happened in the history of our country, of his home's, house. His is home, his domicile, right? Think that's the word, uh, rated the house of a next president, the last president, like two years removed, President and no repercussions to the fbi, and no repercussions to Trump. Nobody's even talking about it anymore. It's not even a conversation.  and here they are doing the same thing. Now to this journalist who put out information about Area 51, I can't believe we're still talking about Area 51. Honestly. Like we're literally having congressional hearings surrounding UA boos, UFOs, aliens, uh, and we're still rating the homes of people based on area 51 pictures. That makes, that makes literally no sense, no sense at all. So, Hmm. All right, let's go ahead and read this article. This is coming from Real News, No Bullshit, which always seems to kick me out of their website. Even though I am a member. Highly recommend you find several news sources that you, uh, you know, feel are unbiased and also, Not click Baie and also are reporting properly without any political bias and pay for their stuff, even if they're small. Real news. No bullshit at Real News. Not bs.com is one of them that I use and I subscribe because I wanna support good journalism. Now, I don't know if I exactly classify myself as a journalist, but if you would like to support my work here, I already told you how to do it. Red pill revolution.co or go to give and go.com/red Pill revolution. That's called a plug because I don't do ads. Nothing. Nothing at all for you guys here, so just me talking. All right, let's go ahead and pull up this article now that I have signed in and successfully talked for a minute and a half while I do so, and here it is. FBI rates home and seizes property of journalists who post legally obtained information in photos of Area 51. All right, so it says, Last week the FBI rated multiple locations in Las Vegas, in Rachel, Nevada, approximately 28 miles from the Nevada test site. Tied to journalist j Jor, J O E R G A R N U George ar new looks way more difficult than is probably pronounced of dreamland resort.com. Uh, a new our news website is a popular page that covers activities at the Nevada test site. He posts various photos and information related to the secret of site that he claims are legally obtained for his viewers to see. Posts also includes zoomed in pictures of the facility government aircraft, locations of military ground sensors outside of the base security cameras, and the notorious camo dudes who protect the military install. You mean military? Are they not military? A day before the FBI raid his own are new hinted that something could be coming writing. It has been brought to my attention that there is a concern about some of the material on the site. I do not believe that collecting or publishing that material is against the law otherwise, I guess sounds like they gave him a heads up. Um, photos taken from, uh, his website shows the camo dudes in the truck. Um, the day after approximately 35. FBI agents served search warrants at both homes and seized computers, cameras, files, cell phones, and other electronic devices. Our news said each location saw at least 15 to 20 agents rummaging through our homes in about eight vehicles. Needless to say, it was a spectacle for curious neighbors, both in Rachel and in Vegas. In the process, I lost all of my data. Medical files, financial tax records, passwords. Following the raids. Our new also raised concerns that the raids may lead to bogus charges being filed against him in order to send a message. I'm concerned that overzealous government agents may use bogus charges against me to send a message. Putting the truth out there cannot hurt. Hmm. Sounds familiar. Right. We had the FBI rating, uh, Mar Lago. Uh, we had them doing plenty of other little, uh, weird things recently that seem to be unconstitutional, including this one here. Uh, I'm, I'll be interested to see the follow up on this. Um, nothing too in depth there, but it is again, like I said, surprising that there's still these types of things happening, which maybe they just thought it would never come up. But obviously when you raid the home of somebody with 35 FBI agents, there's going to be some talks about it. 35. That's a lot of FBI agents. Hmm. All right. Now let's talk about the moer pressing issues. One of them being that NATO leaders are holding emergency meetings after. Allegedly Russian missiles land in Poland, killing two people. All right. Now this is again coming from Real News, not bs.com, and it gives a timestamp for all of the things that happened. And it, again, is making me sign in. But because I like good journalism, I will do it. Uh, so it also could be because I'm using Brave Browser. Brave Browser is a great browser. It's probably the only browser that I would recommend that you use because it hides all of your data, all of it, um, doesn't track you. Uh, you can also, there's a VPN built into it. Uh, then Brave Search. Brave Search is what I use instead of Google, cuz it doesn't curate your search results as well. So this gives a timestamp of all of the happenings that are going on here. Let's see how long it is. Um, and I'll kind of talk you through what the day looked like regarding Poland. And it's not too much, too much time here. So this says that at 4:14 PM Polish Prime Minister says the country has heightened readiness. It has been introduced for all polish services, including the, uh, police firefighters, border guards will also increase monitoring of Polish. Air, air, air, space. Uh, Polish government releases first statement officially blaming Russia for strikes on its territory. In the statement, the Polish government said that on November 15th, a massive shelling of the entire territory of reclaim and its critical infrastructure by the Russian military was observed for hours at three 40, a Russian made missile fell on the territory of the village of Presdo in Lubin Providence resulting in the death of two Polish citizens in connection with the incident, Foreign minister RA has summoned the ambassador of Russia to demand an immediate detailed explanation at 3 0 3, approximately, I don't know, three minutes before then. So are we looking at this in the wrong direction? It may appear. Hmm. Let's see. Okay, so let's start from the bottom. We started from the top. Uh, maybe they should tell you that nothing against you. All right. 10:07 AM two rockets have landed in the town of Presdo Poland on the border of Ukraine. They hit the grain dryers. Two people have died. No word on who is responsible. 10 14. Approximately seven minutes later, Polish Prime Minister has called an emergency meter meeting with top government officials reports indicating that two Russia missiles landed in Poland. 10 17 aid to Prime Minister, uh, says that he is holding a meeting with a national security team and top defense officials. The meeting is set to discuss repercussions of a missile attack by Russia Senior US Intelligence officials speaking to Associated Press confirms that two Russian missiles landed in Poland. Now, I guess that the bigger concern with this is the fact that, you know, everybody's been talking about World War. World War Three, World War ii, Everybody's been talking about world, the potential of World War ii. And if you know anything about World War ii, Poland had a little bit to do with it in the beginnings, right? Poland, I'm sure, uh, had basically got bombed and got pulled into the war, and the rest is history, right? So that's kind of some justifiable concern surrounding this action happening. Now, from what I've read elsewhere, some people are less concerned about this turning into escalated conflict. They're more concerned about it escalating NATO's response as opposed to Poland directly. But that's the concern. The concern is that Poland gets bombed. Poland gets dragged into the war. This sounds like it may have been a potentially. Didn't actually, you know, wasn't the intention to pull Poland into the war. I don't know why they would do that right now, unless they were trying to further move territories. But even then that wouldn't make much sense because they're having difficulty in Ukraine. Anyways, uh, it says 10 17 a prime Minister said there's gonna be repercussions. Senior US intelligence official confirms the two Russian missiles. Laia, as defense minister said, my condolences to our Polish brothers in arms criminal Russian regime fire two missiles, which targeted not only Ukrainian citizens, uh, but also landed on NATO territory in Poland. That's from Lafia, Hungary speaks out the Penta, The Pentagon did not confirm or deny the information. Now, what I would say is the most interesting portion of all of this, so it goes on to say that senior US official confirms to NBC news that something did happen with a Russian missile hitting Poland. They do not know whether it was deliberate or an accident. Then Russia response. Russia says at 1207 that statements by Polish media and officials about the allegedly alleged fall of Russian missiles in the area of the settlement is a deliberate provocation in order to escalate the situation. No strikes were made by Russian weapons against targets near the Ukrainian Polish State order. The wreckage published by the Polish media Hot on the heels of the incident in the Village of Pres Vidal, has nothing to do with Russian weapons of destruction. So Russia vehemently denies the claim that these were, their missiles says they did not fire any missiles towards them, so that that was, had nothing to do with them, and that they're trying to provoke this situation further by saying that it was them 1237 nato. Uh, Secretary General said that NATO is monitoring the situation. They always are closely consulting. All right, Uh, Poland says something, Poland, the White House doesn't confirm the details. That was at one o'clock. Uh, Let's see. Head of the Polish National Security says Polish. Uh, Duda currently is in talks with US President Joe Biden. Uh, now it is saying here at 1 27, Ukraine's foreign Minister said, Russia now promotes a conspiracy theory that was allegedly a missile of Ukrainian air defenses that fell on Polish territory. This is not true. No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages. So this is a he said, she said situation right? Russia. Russia denies it that this was their missile. And Russia even goes on to say that the missile was Ukrainian air defenses that fell in Polish territory. UK Ukraine's foreign Minister says that's not true and so on. Uh, two Ukrainian diplomats say that NATO ambassadors will meet tomorrow. Invoking article.  Article four allows members to bring any issue of concern, especially related to the security of member countries. Okay. Ukrainian news outlet says, uh, that the Air Defense missile landed in UK Ukraine. Hmm. Ukrainian News outlet interfaces reporting that Ukrainian KH 1 0 1 Air Defense missiles landed in Ukraine. So a Ukrainian news outlet confirmed what they were saying. Uh, the next thing that happens was at two o'clock, Ukrainian forces may have been involved in the explosion that occurred in the Eastern Poland to lure nato. That's from the Russian state. Uh, and it looks like there are some. Pictures of this. So it says, two weapons. Analysts are claiming that photos of debris from the missiles found in Poland near belong to a Ukrainian missile. The analyst note that at the end of a Ukrainian rocket motor identified as, uh, what is it, 48 N six DM Sam's rocket motor photos attached with thes. Ukrainian called these claims conspiracy theories. Of course they do. Uh, Poland has officially summoned the Russian ambassador after the missile strikes Polish media outlets reporting that government officials believe the missile debris is from. How convenient. How convenient that they're, you know, this is a, again, he said, she said, but it sounds like after that whole dirty bomb situation where the UN Security Council met about that, if you don't recall what that was, The UN Security Council was called into a meeting after Russia called them based on claims that Ukraine was building a dirty bomb to drop on from what somebody told me. I don't know if this is correct and I haven't verified it, so maybe not, was Paris and then we're going to blame Russia trying to bring other people into the war. Uh, Poland uh, releases official statements blaming Russia, and this was at, uh, five or six o'clock. Um, Polish Prime Minister says, The country is heightened readiness, right? Da da. So there you go. There's the story. Right now, we don't know who did this, who, where the missile got dropped from, who did it. Uh, it seems like it could have just as much been Ukraine as it could have been Russia at this point. Uh, but I guess time will tell and maybe it won't because again, we, we barely even have access to any of the contrarian conversations surrounding this, especially when, if I post this tomorrow, it's going to get flagged as misinformation. If you talk about the two sides of this conversation, one being that Russia claims that Ukraine air defense missiles dropped in Poland, the other being that Ukraine claims that Russia bombed Poland. Poland, obviously a NATO ally, uh, says that they believe it was Russia. Now again, all this is doing is escalating. Nobody is saying we deliberately bombed anybody. There's no, no foreseeable way. That this action gets heightened into, you know, what some people are concerned about. I don't see it. All right. Um, Polish president says Raq may have been Russian made. All right, so we already talked about that. There's a video that goes along with it. Um, now I would say, oh, here's a video where it allegedly shows that Biden says it was unlikely that it was Russian made, which means that it could have been Ukrainian. Uh, so let's see if I can get this connected here and we can listen to that, cuz I think that's a, a good one. And then we'll actually listen to what Biden's initial response to be was because it was hilarious. Hilarious and concerning on both parts, but mostly concerning because he's our president and not some random dude. Uh, so I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get this video here and let's see if I can just. What happened, Our entity simply goes out to apparently two people were killed. And, uh, and then we're gonna collectively determine our next step as we investigate and proceed. There was total unanimity among the folks at the table. We also discuss the latest series of Russian missile attacks, which are continuing the brutality in humanity that they've demonstrated throughout this war against Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructures. And, uh, it's, they've been totally unconscionable what they're doing. Totally unconscionable. And the moment when the world came together, the G 20 to urge deescalation, Russia continues to, uh, is chosen to escalate in Ukraine while we're meeting, I mean, there were scores and scores of attack, missile attacks in the Western Ukraine. We support Ukraine fully in this moment. We have a. We have since the start, this conflict when they continue to do whatever it takes to give them the capacity to defend themselves. Mr. President, it's too early to say whether this missile was fired from Russia. There is preliminary information that contests that. I don't want to say that till we completely investigate, but it it is, uh, I, I, I, I, it's unlikely in the minds of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia, but we, we'll see. We'll, so this whole thing is still to this second being perpetuated as being Russia firing missiles at Poland and. Biden is saying that it's unlikely that the preliminary information shows that that's potentially not true, but is hesitating to say it because it doesn't fit their narrative. But they know there's gonna be so much blow back once it's confirmed that it was actually Ukraine, that they can't hype this up to be this crazy bombing like they would have loved to do because it's eventually gonna show that it was from Ukraine. At least that's what I'm taking from it. Uh, and, but let, Here's this clip. This was earlier, a little bit earlier today of Biden showing that he will not respond on this yet, which is a bit different than what he just said, but this was just. So ridiculous that this was the response of our president, and then they literally shoo everybody out of the room. So here it is. Let's see the question that's asked, and let's watch his response. Mr. President, can you tell us what we know so far about the guys right here? Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. So what you just heard is somebody saying, Can you confirm that, you know, can you talk more about what happened, uh, in Poland with the Russian missile? And he goes, No. And just stares at them weirdly as all of his handlers swooping and go, Everybody get out. Everybody get out. That's what you hear in the background. Everybody get out. Everybody get out. Keep moving. Keep moving towards the exit. Please move. Please move everybody out. No more questions because you asked the one that we don't want to answer right now because we don't, It doesn't suit our narrative. And that's the biggest problem here is they want to escalate this war. They would've loved, loved it if Russia bombed Poland, even if by accident, and now they know there's probably probably irrefutable evidence that it was Ukrainian air defense missiles that dropped in Poland that caused these two people to die. That was the actual reason. So there you go. All right. Sorry. Had to correct something real quick. All right, so there you go. That to me is so telling of what they want out of this. They want an international conflict. That is what they want. They want to get drawn into, They wanna draw the US into the war. They want the public support surrounding it, and they're trying everything they can. They're trying to, even potentially, according to Vladimir Putin, bring them in by doing false flag dirty bombs, which is just so, so beyond concerning. All right, so there's your information on Poland. Now, Putin did come out. And have a speech today where he actually said something about how the, uh, certain countries, Well, I'll just go ahead and read it for you. Um, he says, Good afternoon colleagues. Welcome to the meeting, uh, organizing committee. Today we'll be discussing matters related to preserving the historical memory, the ongoing or organizing committee that consistently devotes priority attention to this issue, which is particularly relevant today. So what he is talking about here is that he's accusing western countries and western cultures of deleting and changing history. I'm sure a lot of that's talking about the United States of America, right? Every time he's saying western cultures, he's either talking about, you know, us or the ue, right? So attempts made by certain countries to rewrite and reshape world history are becoming increasingly aggressive ultimately, and obviously, seek can divide our society, take away our guiding lines, and eventually we can rush and influence its sovereignty, essentially, shake it sovereign. Distortion of history. Imposing of myths in the undermining of values is often, it is often with these myths that de stabilizing states, nations begins. As we can see, a similar scenario has been tested in some other countries, including Ukraine. There have been attempts to target Russia as well, but as I have said before, we took resolute in timely measures to protect our interests and stave off similar sabotage. Wow. They have a whole committee in conversations surrounding, uh, keeping history. Correct. Interesting. Um, not gonna dive too much into that, but he talks about Nuremberg. It says, I would like to note that many initiatives rela related to this topic have been launched by our organizing committee. One of them is the no Statue of Limitations project involving a systematic and scholarly collection of data on the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices against the civilian population during the great patriotic war, the very crimes against humanity condemned by the Nurnberg Tribunal. The scale of those atrocities were so egregious that at the time, in the 1940s only a part of the evidence reached to the court as it was impossible to consider everything. Today we are filling those gaps and restoring justice. Interesting. Let's see if he mentions Poland at all. Cause this was today the same day. We'll see if he says anything regarding that in like questions. Uh, no. It seems like two mentions of it and they don't have to, they have to do with Auschwitz, which was in Poland. Um, Okay, so interesting. You can go read that. I found it right directly at kremlin dot slash event slash president. And then you can look at all the transcriptions of his recent conversations. Uh, but an interesting one. So now let's go ahead and discuss Donald Trump. Donald Trump announcing his 2024 bid four presidency and the live event I believe is still streaming right now, maybe over by now, but it was streaming 40 minutes ago. And here is a clip of him stating his announcement. In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for President of the United States. He's pointing at people. He's super happy. He's, Yeah. You, you and you. Yeah. We're gonna do it. All right. There was Donald Trump saying that he is going to run in 2024. Now, he followed this up with some, uh, very good statements surrounding protecting children, going after sex trafficking and some things like that. And then he followed that up with some not so agreeable statements on my end, I don't agree with some of this, at least this one statement that we'll show you in just a second now. This is off the backs of the Ron Des DeSantis situation where Donald Trump was just talking a whole bunch of shit about Ron DeSantis and Ron DeSantis came out and said, Hey, when you're in the, the spotlight like I am, and you're, you're actually doing things out there. It brings on criticism, which I think was a very studious response by Ron DeSantis. Now, when it comes to this side or that side, you know, I, I tend to, this is a hard, hard one now, I, I think that in the light of where we are as a nation, we need less escalation, not more, right? I don't know. I as, as entertaining as it is, as fun as it seems to have a Donald Trump 2024 presidential run and, and win for the Republican party. I would not be opposed to Ron Desant. Being on the card either. I think that the comedy is great. I think that the energy is fun. I think the movement is, is important. But I also think in an ideal world, what we need is not more craziness right now. Again, Trump's done some great things in my mind. Uh, a lot of the legislation that he passed, obviously the economy at the time was thriving. Gas prices, uh, you know, all of it. He did a lot of great things, a lot of, a lot of tremendous things. Uh, but I do think that in an, and maybe it's not even his actions or even his words as much as it is going to be the response of the general public on the other side of things, I think we need a deescalation of tension in the United States today. I think just, just looking at it from a, a step back, Right. Looking at it from not looking at, you know, the, the movement here or the movement there. I, I think overall as a country, I would like to see more empathy. I would like to see more unification. Right. And Biden ran on unification and we know that didn't end up being the case, but I would like to see a deescalation of tension. And I don't know if we get that with Donald Trump right now. I think we get four more years equaling, Lord, a 12 year back and forth of Trump. Than Biden. Than Trump then, you know, So I, I, I don. Now the bigger question is, could Ron DeSantis even win? Does he have the movement behind him Now, I I, I think polling wise, he did fairly well against Donald Trump recently in exit polls. Now, I don't know if that would translate right. I, I haven't seen stadiums be filled by Ron DeSantis the same way they have been for Donald Trump. I don't think that he's as good at marketing himself. Personally. I don't know if he's as great at starting movements. I don't know if his slogans are as good. His jokes definitely aren't as funny. , there's some downfall to Ron DeSantis. But I think in an ideal world, I do think that it would be a net overall positive for our country to, to, to deescalate from the, the, uh, sitcom that we're in currently between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, or I'm sorry, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. I don't think it would be a bad thing for that, for Ron DeSantis to take office. Now that says nothing against Donald Trump. I just think as a culture, as a country, it may be in our best interest to deescalate tensions, and that could happen through Ron DeSantis. Now, there is some things that Donald Trump has said recently, recently, being an hour and a half ago that I completely disagree with, and, and this alone will likely split the party and make a lot of people who are on Donald Trump's side really question whether or not they're going to vote for him in a Desant Trump election. Right? Um, primary is the right word for what I was looking for. So, without further ado, here's that clip right after I tell you that you should go ahead and hit that subscribe button. You should go ahead and subscribe. Hit it right now. If you didn't hit it already, I for give you, but if I ask you twice, I might not. I still will, cuz you'll still listen and I love you. But I would love you even more if you hit that subscribe button. And if I love you already because you're subscribed, take it a step further and really fulfill my heart.  by, by leaving a five star review, write something in it, please. It would mean the world. That's the only way that, uh, it really builds the podcast up and spreads the word. So if you appreciate my work, I would appreciate you working on just typing something, anything, whatever, you know. Gimme your best joke. Tell me your favorite episode. I don't know, just talk about it. I would appreciate it. Honestly, it would mean a lot other than that. Go to, uh, the Red Pill revolution dot COO website. Sign up for the sub stack, uh, gifts and go.com/revolution and donate. That would be awesome. And here's the clip that I'm talking about with Donald Trump that I actually disagree with. There's not been much that Donald Trump does in his, uh, Speaking about legislation that I've actually disagreed with, and here is one that I highly, highly disagree with, highly advise against. I cannot even believe that he said this. It saddens me for the, the, the party that has been the one that has been speaking. Sensically, Sensically. I think that's a word. I know nonsensically is a word sensibly. Sensically has to be a word. Anyways, let's go ahead and listen to this. This is Donald Trump saying that he would put to death anybody who is caught dealing drugs, we will wage war upon the cartels and stop the fentanyl and deadly drugs from killing 200,000 Americans per year. Agreed. That would be nice. And I will ask Congress for legislation ensuring that drug dealers and human traffickers, these are. Terrible, terrible, horrible people who are responsible for death, carnage, and crime all over our country. Every drug dealer during his or her life on average, will kill 500 people with the drugs they sell. Not to mention the destruction of families, but we're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs gets caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts. Cause it's the only way. We don't need any more blue ribbon committees. We don't need, I don't like to say this. Highly, highly, highly disagree with that statement. It is absolutely not the only way to stop the deaths from fentanyl. To stop the overdose. Overdose deaths. Overdose deaths. That's a fun one. It is not the only way. And if you understand what's going on and the people who are dealing these drugs, yeah, maybe if you're ta and, and even then again, I think that it, it's such a wrong way to move this. You're going to divide the party right there with that one statement. Trump just divided the party. He's going to lose all of his younger base. You're gonna have 10 80 year olds in the audience clapping for that. And you're gonna find that every single person under the age of 50 at this point, does not think that every drug dealer should get the death penalty because you know, who are the drug dealers? You know, your guy on the street corner are the ones doing the drugs. And you know, the ones who are doing the drugs, they're the ones who are highly affected in low socioeconomic classes. That statement made no sense. And it's a, a poison to the party that he just did that. And I really hope he finds some way to draw that, bring that back in before 2024. And if he doubles down on that, I think he's gonna have some issues because that's not the way, that doesn't make any sense. It's not going to, You really think that taking somebody who's dealing a schedule one drug, marijuana should get the death penalty. You know, how many 16 year old dummies are out there dealing marijuana in the 26 Remainings or however many? 30, What is it? 29 states? I don't know however many states there. Our left 29 states that are not legal. Why? Because they like to smoke weed. And that's okay. And even if it's a, a. Different drug than that. I just don't think that's the way you don't kill, You don't sentence them to the death penalty. How many people a year are caught with drugs? How many people a year are caught dealing drugs and you're just gonna take the single mom in the trailer park or, or in the hood who's selling weed, selling psychedelics like shrooms and DMT and all of these things that are literally the whole movement. And you see that with Colorado, the movement is moving away from the war on drugs and Trump is doubling down on it. And that's not what the people want. And they've spoken over and over and over and over again. We do not want the, what was it, Truman, the war on drugs. Right? We, that is not what we want. And so I, I really do hope that he finds a way to pull that back. I, I, I don't think that that was the right way to go about it. I, I don't know why he would even include that in what he was saying. Nixon, not Truman, Sorry, I'm stupid. Nixon Nixon's speech of the war on drugs. That's not what anybody wants right now. Culture is moving away from that. Younger generations are moving away from that. We don't wanna kill every drug dealer. You know what they need? They need a good economic structure. They need, they need good education. You know what, And, and maybe you're stupid and you deal drugs, but that doesn't mean that you should be put to death even if you're dealing like fentanyl, Right? And, and again, that's, it's horrible. I hope nobody, nobody's dealing fentanyl. I think it's wrong. I don't think that you should be put to death for, if anything, put to death as sex traffickers put to death to human traffickers. Put, put them to death. Don't talk about the drug dealers. How about, how about put them in rehab and, and help find them jobs? Give them a, a counselor, because I guarantee you 50 to 70% of people, maybe not. I would say it's probably close, at least not more than this, of people who are actively dealing drugs are either a poor as can be and can barely afford food or b, are have severe mental health issues or a combination of both. The way of combating that is not by putting them to death and especially just saying drugs in general. Like I, I, I just think that's how I, I'm so a, like I have never heard him say that before and I'm honestly like that really just shakes. The, the movement to its core, even if he lost 25%, because that's, that's really close to, to a big enough. If he actually runs on that and actually plans on doing that, you've lost me. I'm not voting for you If you want to put every drug dealer to death. Now, again, I'm against don't, don't go. But again, drugs are so, the classifications are so stupid. How many pharmacists are you gonna put to death? Trump, how you gonna stop, stop Oxycontin, because that kills way more than almost every recreational drug combined. How you gonna do it? It doesn't make any sense. And for you to just spout off and say that in your speech, it was written for sure that was written into it, and you just think that was gonna be applauded into the election cycle. Like it just made no sense. And, and again, especially when you're, you're dealing with somebody who like DeSantis, who is going to run on, you know, logic. Reason and not these big, crazy statements. You know, it's, it's gonna be a hard, it's gonna be a hard time that he, that he finds himself in trying to run on. That if he, if he doubles down on that, even if he says it again, this is going to be the thing that spreads like wildfire tomorrow. This is going to spread like wildfire. Even more so than the fact that he's running, because that was a crazy statement that was so like, you know, how many like redneck trucks you like kill your local drug dealer on the back of their shitty truck, and that's who you're playing to. How many people have that sticker, like six guys with, you know, I don't know. I, I just, I disagree with it. I, I don't think that that's the way to go. And, and again, it makes me not even just from a marketing standpoint, even just from a, uh, political party standpoint, it was untactful. Highly untactful because this announcement was huge. It was huge. It was a huge announcement. And uh, and now it's tainted. It's tainted by the singular statement that he made that at least, I would say at least 50% of the people. And even if 50%, I would say it's less, it's less than that. Who think they should all be put to death, Even if we're talking about fentanyl, because again, the people you're doing that to are low income, uh, generally uneducated mental health issues. Americans, not the cartels, not the Chinese who are making it. You're talking about killing every day of mothers and fathers for getting caught up in the machine that gets them to eventually deal drugs because they feel like they have no other way to feed their children. That's who we're gonna put to death. That's who we're gonna put to. Not that gal, Elaine Maxwell's. Donald Trump isn't calling on Gal Maxwell to be put to death for all the horrific things that her and Jeffrey Epstein did to people. He's calling on people who sell weed. I don't know. That's my thoughts on that. I, I, I highly disagree with that, as you can tell. It makes me sad that that was even stated. I think it's really gonna throw a wrench in the party if he runs on that. And, uh, I guess time will tell, right? As always, time will tell. But I really think that that was highly detrimental to his speech today to what should have been a celebration turned into a mockery and a negative mark on Trump's record by him saying that singular statement. And again, I voted for Trump. Voted for Trump twice. And obviously in light of Joe Biden and, you know, the, the Hillary Clinton, like what are you gonna do in a society that's trying to turn your children into trans kitty cat, uh, litter box using  students and I guess Joe or, uh, Joe Rogan, different Joe than Joe Biden talking about that, I talked about that a few episodes ago, how Joe Rogan talked about the, the kitty litter, uh, situation in a, in a student's bathroom. And, uh, he, he didn't exactly like, apologize and say that I was wrong. He was like, Nope, this dude actually told me that. And he called to like, verify with him and all that type of thing, but he kind of walked it back a little bit. But I have family too that said the same thing. And, and I don't know, maybe it's just this weird wildfire, like, you know, but thing, but I have people that I know in my family that said that this same situation happened in North Carolina. So if I was wrong for perpetuating that, Ben, shame on me. Um, but it wouldn't surprise me and that's sad enough, right? That is sad enough. All right, so the last thing that we're gonna close out on here is going to be FTX FTX filed for bankruptcy. If you don't know what FTX is, it was a cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency exchange that recently filed for bankruptcy, and now where they get gets really squirrly is the fact that the CEO of FTX do was the number five donor to Joe Biden's campaign donating $50 million to Joe Biden during his running for president, the number five donor. Do you know who number one was, by the way? Take a guess. Take a guess who the number one donor was to Joe Biden's political campaign. Just one teeny little guess. If you started hearing Star Wars in the background, it was George Soros. Yes, it was George Soros. George Soros was the number one donor, and if that tells you anything about the number five donor was this weirdo who started ftx, and now there is all of these situations. Even Elon Musk came out and said it's a little bit fishy that Ukraine invested billions of dollars of your tax dollars into ftx. Which then allegedly was siphoned off back to the Democratic Party. So when we're talking about these, these, uh, the, the shuffling of money by the Biden administration, the, the, I don't know how, like hundreds of billions of dollars that we've were at, at this point, uh, of the money that we've sent over to Ukraine. I don't know what the exact figure is, but I'm sure we can find it out. Let's read this article. Okay. Now, this is not coming from one that I'm familiar with, but it did seem to have some good information and it kind of conglomerated all of the tweets and everything on that. So, uh, verify some of this for yourself and we'll actually listen to some of this video here, if I can get it connected. But, uh, we'll read this together. I do think that you should, um, do your own work on this, because I, I, I'm honestly, it's, it's so crazy that I want you to go study it yourself. I, I don't wanna be the only purveyor of information here because this could literally be the one thing that takes down. The, the money laundering scheme, that is the Biden administration and the Democratic Party because they donated so much money, so much money, and then all of a sudden they file for bankruptcy out of nowhere. And then, you know, meanwhile, all of this money was being shuffled back through FTX from Ukraine, who invested the money that you gave them to fight this war against Russia, into this cryptocurrency that eventually went completely bankrupt this exchange, which went completely bankrupt and for no reason, which didn't make any sense. So let's, let's read through this. A lot of people lost a lot of money. Like billions of dollars of Americans' money was lost during this weird little shuffling of, of money here. Uh, so while this connects to my Bluetooth, And there it is. Look at that on the fly. That's how good I am after 51 episodes. Um, we will go ahead and read through this. So this is coming from Breaking Digest. Again, I don't claim this to be the most, uh, you know, scientific of articles. Um, so do the work on yourself, but I thought they did a good job conglomerating all of the information on this in the way that you would not see from the traditional media. Um, so again, this is coming from breaking digest.com and it says you've likely heard about the company called FTX recently. And its founder Sam Bankman, Freed who goes by sbf ftx seemingly rose up out of nowhere to become a crypto, uh, cryptocurrency behemoth. Last week, FTX went bankrupt with no warning at all. Shocking everybody. The crypto market tanked. Bloomberg called the FTX collapse, one of history's greatest ever destructions of. Now as we're putting together the pieces, we're learning that this might actually have been the biggest money laundering operation of all time. Remember all those billions upon billions that were going to Ukraine? Some of us suspected it all long, but didn't know exactly how it was being done. Now we're starting to connect the dots. Here's how it could have been done. The US takes billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars and funnels it over to Ukraine. Ukraine then puts those billions into ftx, which is owned by S bf Sam Bankman. Freed Sbf then takes the billions and donates them back to the Democratic party. This is not speculation. Sbf was the number two largest donor, uh, from what I read, he was the number five, but this says he was the number two largest donor to the Democrats next to George Soros. The Democratic party then funnels the money to people like Joe Biden and uses it to run elections. End result. Key Democrats end up with millions. Races are stolen. If this all ends up being true or even partially true, um, Potentially trees in this. All right. Now Elon Musk himself posted this and it's a little bit of an infographic, which in which he commented on, and this was two days ago, says SBF was a major democratic donor, so no investigation, and it's a kind of a quadrant of a picture of the CEO of Ftx, S B F, Gosh, that's confusing and stupid, who's a MIT graduate. Showing that from him went to Gary Gensler, who's the head of the F or the s e former president at mit, which then went to, let's see if I can actually open up this tweet here. Uh, which then went to the professor of Economics at mit, former boss of Gary Gensler, which then went to the CEO of Almeda. And Almeda was the, uh, basically a funding venture for the FTX company, which did market research and invested money, which then went back to. Sam Bankman Fried. Right? Uh, so that is your theory. Now let's go ahead and move through this and see about this article a little bit further. Right. Some other people said, while Biden Gang has been harassing and threatening Elon Musk and this company is one of the worst scams in modern finance, was being perpetuated under the nose by a regular, uh, while he'll investor and the second biggest Democratic donor. So yeah, this was Tom Fitten who said that second biggest donor, not the fifth busiest donor, Jack pob said it is increasingly looking at the Democrat. Uh, Democrats 2022 campaigns were funded by kickbacks from Ukraine funding using FTX as the pass through vehicle. No wonder this guy is scared for his life after ripping these people apart off. Wow. So that's the idea. The idea is that, and then let's go ahead and here's a good video on it that we'll read. Um, Sam Bankman Fried spent 40 million on Democratic candidates. He also donated 10 million directly to then candidate Joe Biden. Wow. And it basically explained how FTX is basically just a Ponzi scheme. Uh, and here's a video that says FTX 90 seconds, 99 seconds. Here is your explanation. Bankman freed people. Call him sbf. He's the founder of ftx. He also controlled the crypto hedge fund called Alameda Research, but that's all gone now. He wants you to think he's a sweet guy. He even bought in a famous YouTuber who called him the most generous man in the world. Yep. That happened through this. Sam Bank. Fried is a liar in a crook. His personal crypto FTX token was basically a Ponzi scheme hidden below layers of moon bro jargon. He even went on Bloomberg's podcast and bragged about it. Yep. That happened. He used his Ponzi token as collateral to borrow billions of real dollars that he couldn't pay back. He then used those real dollars to build an empire out of dying companies like Voyager and Blocky. This led Jim Kramer to call him the new JP Morgan. That's weird. It's not like Jim Kramer to promote a billionaire con artist. Sbf sold people cryptos like Bitcoin or so they thought what they really bought from SBF was an I. But as long as everyone didn't cash in their IOU at the same time, the scheme worked until it didn't. This other, A-hole who hates SPF came along and engineered a bank run with some passive aggressive tweets. It worked. SPF didn't have enough money to repay everyone at once, and now his customers have lost everything. He'll be happy to know that this is exactly how every bank in the world operates. So where did all the money go? He misappropriated 4 billion trying to save his failing hedge fund. Whoops, that's a felony. He spent 21 million on Super Bowl commercials, 5 million for the big guy, 40 million in campaign donations. I wonder what he wanted in return, and everyone who's pointing at this story and saying, This is exactly why we need to regulate crypto. Remember that SBF stole billions. That's already a crime, and he spent a lot of it on bribing politicians also a crime in order to create a crypto monopoly for himself. Government regulations don't protect the customers. They protect the crooks. That's exactly what SPF was trying to do there. You go if you caught all of that . So, um, there was also something in the balance sheet of FTX that literally was an investment titled Trump Lose. That's what we're dealing with here, is somebody who, that's, that's the direction that he went with his financing and spent $10 million directly to Joe Biden. Directly to Joe Biden. Um, so there was one more thing here that I wanted to see on this. Oh, the World Economic Forum. Let me go ahead and just pull up this article. The World Economic Forum scrubbed the FTX crypto story from its website. So they had a full page dedicated to FTX on the World Economic Forum website and. Gone now. Gone. Completely gone. You can't find it. Right? And this is again, coming from, they, there's good verifiable screenshots and all the tweets and everything of, of where this came from. Um, but this was coming from, uh, somebody who had a good screenshot of it on the World Economic Forum website, which talked about FTX and said, FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange built by traders for traders. FTX offers innovative products including industry first derivatives options, volatility products, and leverage tokens. It strives to develop a platform robust enough for professional trading firms, and intuitive enough for first time users as well. Good sales pitch so that you can fund money to Joe Biden. And just like that, it's gone. That portion of their website is gone. The day this happened, yesterday that, or two days ago, this was now gone, took. Got the money, the from Ukraine over to Joe Biden, over to all of the little minions of the Democratic party, and then scrubbed it from their website, used their website to build legitimacy. Show that, you know, and here's, here's an interesting thing about this, is like, there's another person who ties this to like pedophilia in some weird way. Um, I don't exactly know if I agree with all of that. Um, it literally just had to do with like the logos and symbolism, and it definitely lines up with the symbolism surrounding pedophilia that the FBI and the CIA themselves came out with showing the symbolism that talks about that and, and being the, uh, I think it was the logo for Al Meda, the scientific research and, and investment firm that was an offshoot that, uh, Sam Bankman Freed was also the CEO of. Uh, but that's a another story that maybe look into. Now here's another one that we'll talk about on this, which is that the FTX founder Sam Bankman, freed funneled max donations to Nancy Pelosi's likely successor. Hmm. FTX founder, and this is coming from Fox Business ftx, founder and ceo, Sam Bankman Freeman donated the maximum allowable amount to an individual can give to the candidate to house Speaker Pelosi's likely successor bankman Free made a contribution of $5,800 to rep Hakeem Jeffries in 2021. According to the federal election, uh, commission data, while the amounts was relatively tiny compared to the roughly 38 million, the crypto entrepreneur funneled to candidates and political action committees ahead of the midterm elections. It represented the maximum contribution in individuals allowed to donate to a single candidate under federal campaign finance loss. Now, if you have to, if you have to understand the kind of the business model of how this worked, FTX was not a. Uh, it was not a, all of the billions of dollars that people put into this were never actually sitting in crypto. It was IOUs. It was all blank. It was all fabricated. And he took those billions of dollars. 10, it was like $10 billion or something crazy that it was worth, um, FTX confirms unauthorized transactions as 1 billion in crypto, reportedly vanishes. There's another headline for you. Um, but he took that money and did what he pleased with it. And, and then what has happened was that the Ukraine and put that money into the FTX exchange, the cryptocurrency exchange, gave this guy, you know, Sam freed whatever, gave back IUs as a result, Then sent the actual money to the Democratic Party, to Joe Biden, 38 million of what they received. At least. At least. And that's just what we know here. Two days after what's gonna come out in two weeks. Two months. So, Let's go ahead and, but, but you have to understand how that business model works. The, the, the money that people were putting into this, the people that were buying cryptocurrency only worked if they were liquid and they weren't liquid in any of their assets. They put the money into the cryptocurrency exchange and then he said, Okay, sure, yeah, you got 12 of, of FU coin or whatever, . And then it didn't, they didn't actually hold any of it. They had IOUs that said, Okay, if it goes up and you pull out and we're liquid enough to pay you, then we will, But it didn't actually hold the value of the coin, which is kind of weird when it comes to crypto because there should be some verifiable transaction when it comes to that. But I guess when it comes to these exchanges, it doesn't work that way. Uh, so, or maybe I'm wrong there too, but that's how, how I understand this now, it goes on to say that according to the fec, individual contributors are only permitted to give 2,900 per candidate per election. Individuals may combine two maximum contributions into a single donation of 5,800. Since primaries and general elections count as two separate elections. Wow. $5,800. That's what we're writing this whole article on Jeffries was the only house candidate who Bankman free gave $5,800 to. He donated the same amount to various Democratic and Republican senators in 20 21, 22. Jeffries who is currently the fifth highest ranked Democrat in the House, is considered a likely successor to Pelosi when she steps down from her role as leader of the House. Democrats. Politico reported the New York Democrat is expected to have more behind the scenes support from the Democratic leaders compared to Adam Schiff. Hmm. Yeah. I don't know if I care about $5,800. Bankman Free's donation than Jeffries, though it was a just a small place of his over slice of his overall political givings. During the midterm election cycles, the majority of his 38 million donations were sent to a Protect our Future Pack in house majority pack, both of which were exclusively supported Democratic Can. . Now, here is the bigger issue with all this is Super pacs. Never have to talk about where their com, where their money came from or where it went to. That's a huge issue that nobody's talking about while we're sitting here sifting through this. One individual's 38 million, A super PAC could have donated 38 billion. Just doesn't have the the laundering scheme that was set up through ftx. It says Bankman Free's donations made him the second largest donor to the Democrats in the cycle behind only George Soros, who donated nearly 127 million. So to correct myself, he was the number

From the window of his Kyiv apartment, Ilyas witnesses a drone strike that results in the death of a pregnant woman and her husband. On military assignment in Western Ukraine, Seva's thoughts turn to his father who is about to undergo major surgery in a hospital within the compass of continued Russian strikes.Meanwhile, Oksana readies to return to a Kyiv that looks set to be plunged further into darkness.OUR DIARISTSIlyas is an IT specialist and married father who fled from Kyiv to Lviv shortly after the war started. His wife Natalia, and two young sons are taking refuge in Poland.As of October 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv and working, in part, for the Ukrainian government on various IT projects.Seva, 40, is a company CEO and husband to Oksana. Before the war, he travelled across Europe for business. Now, he makes regular supply drops of medical aid and rations to Ukrainian troops on the front line in Eastern Ukraine. He's originally from a small village near Dnipro.Oksana, 35, works in overseas education. She lives with her husband, Seva, in an apartment complex in central Kyiv and has remained in the Ukrainian capital since the war started. Many of Oksana's closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She's determined to stay.Ukraine War Diaries uses first-person audio, recorded on the ground in Ukraine, to give an intimate day-to-day perspective of life in a war zone. EP30 diary entries were recorded using WhatsApp voice note. From the producers of Sky News' multi-award winning series – StoryCast. Producer: Rob MulhernEditor: Paul StanworthDigital Promotion: David Chipakupaku

Radek Sikorski, Polish MEP, discusses the escalation of the Ukraine conflict as Russian missiles target areas close to Poland's border.

"Steve Green's Right Angle Lightning Round LVIV" is not, as you might assume, a show recorded in the largest city in Western Ukraine, but rather a demonstration of why we don't use Roman numerals for anything but Super Bowls and Lightning Rounds anymore. Topics included in Lightning Round LIX... —University of Pennsylvania nominates born-male swimmer Lea Thomas for NCAA Woman of the Year —Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom position themselves for the 2024 Democratic nomination should Biden decline to run. But would they run even if he does? —Portland Antifa to host summer camp for kids...really. Does every Babylon Bee headline eventually come true? —Gender activists push anthropologists to stop identifying discovered remains as male or female. After all, how could we know how ancient Homo identified? —The more critics say that Ron DeSantis is just like Trump (but smarter, nicer and not a womanizer), the more his star will rise as a 2024 presidential prospect. They think the comparison hurts DeSantis. Right Angle is a production of our Members. When you join, you unlock access to backstage content, and communication features of our site that connect you with committed conservatives, and let you become a content creator in your own right. For just $9.95/month, you can meet thousands of likeminded people who will assure you that you are not alone. As always, we offer a full, rapid and cheerful refund if you don't love your new friends within 30 days. Just click the big green button at https://BillWhittle.com To donate without joining, use the big blue button. Right Angle archive (5x weekly): https://billwhittle.com/category/shows/ra/ The Virtue Signal (twice weekly): https://billwhittle.com/category/shows/the-virtue-signal/ The Stratosphere Lounge (recorded live weekly): https://billwhittle.com/category/shows/tsl/

Will western Ukraine become Polish territory? The Polish leadership is working on various plans for the division of Ukraine, said the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin. Thus, Warsaw plans to deploy its "peacekeeping contingent" in the west of Ukraine . In addition, it is possible to create a proxy state controlled by Poland on the Eastern Kresy , which will be "under the protection" of the Polish armed forces. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 7/11/22.It's the Final Day! The day when Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick's book, Final Day!  https://tru.news/3LknyuL

To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod ---------- We slide on back to Utah for our third episode on the alleged ritual abuse case — and for our second episode on a fake Native American. Close your eyes and drink the ayahuasca, we're going to pretend church. James Mooney's Ghost Dance recordings (1894): publicdomainreview.org/collection/james-mooney-s-ghost-dance-recordings-1894 NOTE: Since this episode was recorded it has emerged that David Leavitt attempted to broker a deal between former Ukrainian president Victor Yuschenko and the Northern Cheyenne to export buffalo to Western Ukraine in exchange for custody of his step grand foster niece. He also lost his June 28th re-election bid.

Ukraine says seven people were killed in the city, which had largely escaped attack until now. Also: South Africa deploys thousands of troops to help with the rescue efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province where flooding and mudslides have killed more than 400 people, and China acknowledges for the first time that there have been deaths in the current coronavirus outbreak in Shanghai.

The January 6 Committee is fed up with the DOJ's inaction, the Russians are pulling back in Western Ukraine, and Trump is hiding over seven hours of call logs from the day of the insurrection. That and more on tonight's #RickShowOur guests tonight are:Scott Paul of The Alliance for American ManufacturingTrygve Olsen of The Lincoln ProjectUS Senate Candidate from Wisconsin Tom NelsonCall-in at 1-866-416-RICK (7425) to join the show.Did you miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work? Download the podcast at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com.The Rick Smith Show also streams live every weeknight from 9p-11p EST on YouTube & Twitch, and you can also find us on Free Speech TV. Be sure to add the FSTV channel on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, on the FSTV iOS app, or find it in the regular channel lineup on DirecTV or Dish.Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The January 6 Committee is fed up with the DOJ's inaction, the Russians are pulling back in Western Ukraine, and Trump is hiding over seven hours of call logs from the day of the insurrection. That and more on tonight's #RickShowOur guests tonight are:Scott Paul of The Alliance for American ManufacturingTrygve Olsen of The Lincoln ProjectUS Senate Candidate from Wisconsin Tom NelsonCall-in at 1-866-416-RICK (7425) to join the show.Did you miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work? Download the podcast at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com.The Rick Smith Show also streams live every weeknight from 9p-11p EST on YouTube & Twitch, and you can also find us on Free Speech TV. Be sure to add the FSTV channel on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, on the FSTV iOS app, or find it in the regular channel lineup on DirecTV or Dish.Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The January 6 Committee is fed up with the DOJ's inaction, the Russians are pulling back in Western Ukraine, and Trump is hiding over seven hours of call logs from the day of the insurrection. That and more on tonight's #RickShowOur guests tonight are:Scott Paul of The Alliance for American ManufacturingTrygve Olsen of The Lincoln ProjectUS Senate Candidate from Wisconsin Tom NelsonCall-in at 1-866-416-RICK (7425) to join the show.Did you miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work? Download the podcast at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com.The Rick Smith Show also streams live every weeknight from 9p-11p EST on YouTube & Twitch, and you can also find us on Free Speech TV. Be sure to add the FSTV channel on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, on the FSTV iOS app, or find it in the regular channel lineup on DirecTV or Dish.Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Russia is now stepping up their attacks on Ukraine's fuel supply as President Biden makes no apologies for saying Putin cannot remain in power. Plus, negotiators, including a Russian oligarch, trying to hammer out a deal between Ukraine and Russia recently experienced skin peeling and sore eyes after a negotiation session. What happened? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

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President Zelensky says Russia is targeting more cities in Western Ukraine, and that he won't sit down with Russia if it continues to spin the reasoning for the deadly invasion as ‘demilitarization' or ‘denazifying'. That, as CNN takes you inside hard-hit Mariupol where President Zelensky says the ‘humanitarian catastrophe is unequivocal'. And, Biden backtracks, telling reporters he wasn't calling for regime change when he said Putin shouldn't remain in power. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Ukrainian authorities say there has been a Russian missile strike outside Lviv. Also: Poland continues to welcome Ukrainian refugees and Facebook's parent company Meta is facing legal pressure in Australia to act against scammers.

As we move into “Day 20” of the war in Ukraine, Russia broadens their assault, intensifying attacks in already besieged cities. It comes as the pregnant woman photographed after the hospital bombing in Mariupol dies, along with her baby. Meantime, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy plans to virtually address members of Congress on Wednesday. And NBC News reports President Biden is considering a trip to Europe in the coming weeks. Clint Watts, Mike Rogers, Marie Yavanovich, Michael McFaul, Neil Thomas, Igor Novikov and Dr. Bill Novick join.

New explosions are rattling Kyiv tonight as Russia once again bombards civilians in the Ukrainian capital and Putin's army inches closer and closer to the city limits. The Pentagon now warns Russia is expanding its targets in Western Ukraine, just miles from the Polish border, raising new fears the violence could spill over into NATO territory. Major Ukrainian cities in the South are now facing relentless attacks from all directions. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

While U.S. officials track Russian troop movements near Ukraine's capital, they're also detecting airstrikes on military airfields in Western Ukraine. Meantime, President Zelenskyy is demanding Russia release Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov after claims he was abducted by troops. Plus, President Biden formally calls on Congress to end normal trade relations with Russia. Garry Kasparov, Tom Nichols, Eugene Daniels, Olga Khazan, Julia Davis and Sergiy Stakhovsky join.

For the first time, Russian forces have expanded their invasion towards the west of Ukraine. One Ukrainian lawmaker says no city is safe. Cal Perry reports live from Lviv and NBC News National Security Analyst Clint Watts tracks Russia's military movements. And 2 years into the COVID-19 pandemic, CNBC's Meg Tirrell takes a look at the progress we've made and what's ahead. Plus, Gabby Petito's parents have filed a civil lawsuit in their daughter's death against the parents of Brian Laundrie. Also, bringing brightness back to a struggling Michigan city in the Detroit area that lost most of its street lights in 2011.

Russia launched air strikes on new targets in the west of Ukraine on Friday morning, a sign that, as the war enters its third week, Russia is expanding its military operation. And since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, international observers and bodies have started to document potential war crimes by Russia's military. Meanwhile, Russia denies any responsibility for its actions in Ukraine. Tracking war crimes has so far proven challenging. Plus, the world remembers Paralympian snowboarding champion Bibian Mentel, who helped bring her sport to the Paralympic Games. The Dutch athlete died in March last year, but her legacy lives on.

Russian forces attacked western Ukraine for the first time, launching strikes on airfields, and thus widening the two-and-a-half-week war. Russia also hit a major industrial city in the east, as it continued its brutal campaign, while U.S. officials said Russia is making incremental advances toward Kyiv. NewsHour's foreign affairs correspondent Nick Schifrin reports from the western city of Lviv. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The invasion had focused on eastern parts of the country. Plus, domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer reports on U.S. hesitancy to send fighter jets directly to Ukraine, reporter Jessica Guynn talks about doomscrolling, a Texas judge hears a case against the governor's directive to treat gender-affirming care as child abuse and the Major League Baseball lockout comes to an end.(Audio: Associated Press)Episode Transcript available hereAlso available at art19.com/shows/5-ThingsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Journalist Andrei Soshnikoff, with the help of insider Lyudmila Savchuk, exposed the Internet Research Agency, a troll farm set up by a Russian Oligarch close to Putin. It was a new disturbing phenomenon in the global information wars. This was the moment American's came to know the concept of fake news and disinformation. This came to forefront thanks to the groundbreaking work of the aforementioned Russian investigative journalist Soshnikoff and whistleblower Savchuk. who was disgusted by the murder of Boris Nemtsov. But the ability of Russian journalists to cover the news has now been challenged as never before. In the wake of Putin's latest and more vicious assault on Ukraine, the Kremlin has launched a harsh new crackdown on the press. Threatening journalists with up to fifteen years in prison for spreading "false information" and banning them from even referring to the events in Ukraine as a war. Soshnikoff joins us to discuss the state of Russian media. And also, Maryan Zeblotskyy, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament joins to discuss the latest from Western Ukraine.GUEST:Maryan Zeblotzkyy, Member of Ukrainian ParliamentAndrei Soshnikoff (@Soshnikoff), Current Time TV, former BBC journalist/Transparency International RU analystHOSTS:Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo NewsDaniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo NewsVictoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)RESOURCES:Yahoo News' Tom LoBianco's latest piece on Putin - Here.Yaoo News' Niamh Cavanagh's latest piece on Zelensky - Here.Follow us on Twitter: @SkullduggeryPodListen and subscribe to "Skullduggery" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with feedback, questions or tips: SkullduggeryPod@yahoo.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.