Trump puts a pause on tariffs and people are going YIPPY — but is it celebration or deception? 🤔 Meanwhile, Estonia’s Kaja Kallas accuses China of fueling Russia’s war machine 🐲🔥. And in a dramatic twist, Zelensky is now asking the U.S. for $50 billion in weapons 💰💥.
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00:00What is clear is that China is the key enabler of Russia's war.
00:05Without Chinese support, Russia wouldn't be able to wage the war in the amount that they are waging this.
00:16We see that 80% of the dual-use goods are actually entering Russia via China.
00:22We also see the North Korean troops present in Ukraine and the military equipment coming from North Korea to Russia and to fight the war against Ukraine.
00:40So it's clearly that if China would want to really stop the support, then it would have an impact.
00:49This is my video update on this Thursday afternoon, April the 10th, coming to you from Nicosia, Cyprus.
01:02Let's talk about some news.
01:07And we are going to start things off with the cancellation of Liberation Day.
01:17Liberation Day is canceled, everybody.
01:20President Trump, he walked back the tariffs, the reciprocal tariffs, the blanket 10% tariffs.
01:36They are going to stay, but in a truth social post.
01:41And then he gave statements afterwards to the media, but he started it out with a truth social post,
01:48where he said that there will be a pause in the reciprocal tariffs for 90 days.
02:01A 90-day pause is what Trump announced.
02:10At least it's a 90-day pause for the countries that did not retaliate.
02:16But the countries that retaliate, that retaliated, or the country that retaliated, according to the Trump White House and Trump officials,
02:27will have the reciprocal tariffs.
02:32They will stick.
02:34They will remain, according to the statement from Trump.
02:38The country that will have those tariffs, where the tariffs will remain, is China.
02:47Every other country, and the European Union, from what I understand, will have the reciprocal tariffs removed.
02:55The 10% will stay.
02:57Everything else will go.
02:59And China, because, according to Trump, showed a lack of respect.
03:07Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets,
03:14I am hereby raising the tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125% effective immediately.
03:22At some point, hopefully, in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the USA and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable.
03:33And then Trump went on to announce the 90-day pause for every other country.
03:42China.
03:43China will have those tariffs remain.
03:46Even though I believe Canada did retaliate.
03:51Did Canada not retaliate?
03:52And the European Union also retaliated.
03:56Technically speaking, the EU, yesterday, they approved their tariff retaliation.
04:03The entire EU, all the member states, the European Commission, they announced that they had agreed on a tariff retaliation.
04:12And on April 15th, that retaliation was going to go into force.
04:17So they approved it yesterday.
04:19Technically speaking, they approved the retaliation.
04:24But it wasn't going to go into force until April 15th.
04:29So did the EU retaliate?
04:32According to Trump, from what I understand, he's not going to consider that a retaliation.
04:38A lack of respect.
04:39A lack of respect is what he's saying.
04:40China showed a lack of respect, not only to the United States, but to the world markets.
04:46So it's just China.
04:47It's the U.S.
04:50Going after China.
04:52Tariffing China with the reciprocal tariffs.
04:54That's what this is all about now.
04:55Oh, man.
04:58But before he put that Truth Social post, before that announcement of the 90-day pause was posted,
05:08Trump posted this on Truth Social.
05:13This is a great time to buy.
05:15Donald J. Trump.
05:17Hinting at what was about to happen.
05:22Because the markets went crazy.
05:25The markets went absolutely crazy.
05:28When the announcement of the pause.
05:33With the announcement of the pause.
05:35The markets went absolutely berserko.
05:38I think the biggest gains in the stock market since, I've read, since World War II or something.
05:47Just ridiculous gains.
05:51So Trump hinted at what was about to come.
05:58It's a game.
05:59It's chaos.
05:59It's chaos and it's a game and it's a pump and dump.
06:05That's what it feels like.
06:06Not really a pump and dump.
06:10I guess it's the Trump administration.
06:20They're sinking the global markets.
06:25They sink the global markets.
06:28Then they pump up the global markets.
06:34So it's a sink and pump, right?
06:42Global markets were down for a whole week.
06:46Everything was looking really bad.
06:49Everyone was, well, those invested in the stock market, they were losing money.
06:54401ks were losing money.
06:55Across the entire world.
07:00So he was sinking everything and then he walks everything back and it all just pumps.
07:05Chaos, my friends, chaos, chaos, chaos theory.
07:15It was all a, it was all a ruse.
07:18It was all a ruse to figure out which countries would retaliate, which countries were against the United States.
07:25That's what this was all about.
07:26And they figured out it was China.
07:30China was against us because they're the ones that retaliated.
07:35It was all a game.
07:36I don't know what to say.
07:42I don't know what to say about any of this, man.
07:48So China retaliated yesterday with 84% tariffs.
07:55Then Trump retaliated back with 124% tariffs.
07:58And then we got the, the walk back.
08:01China was not backing down to any of this stuff, nor was the European Union.
08:07The European Union did not back down either because they approved their, their tariff package.
08:16But China is the scapegoat.
08:18That's what the Trump administration is trying to, to say here.
08:24This is the narrative that they're trying to, to spin.
08:27China is the, is the scapegoat.
08:29That's what this was all about.
08:31Isolating China.
08:38What else did, uh, did Trump say?
08:40So he had his, uh, his press conference outside of the White House.
08:46And, uh, reporters asked him about the, uh, tariff, uh, pause.
08:52And Trump said that, that he paused the tariffs.
08:58And this is interesting because Trump actually admitted as to why he, uh, he paused the tariffs.
09:05Outside of the whole China's, China's to blame thing.
09:09Which is what a lot of the White House officials were, were going with.
09:13This was all a game to, to root out China's bad behavior.
09:26Trump admitted the truth to the, to the media.
09:30He admitted the truth as to what was really going on.
09:32So reporters asked him, why did you, uh, walk back the, the liberation day tariffs?
09:41And Trump said that, uh, people were getting spooked.
09:45They were getting yippy.
09:46That's the word that he used.
09:48Yippy.
09:49At first, I thought he said zippy.
09:53They were getting zippy.
09:54Now they were getting yippy is what Trump said.
09:56Donald Trump explains his 90 day tariff pause.
10:00People were getting yippy.
10:05What did Trump say here?
10:07I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line.
10:11They were getting yippy.
10:12You know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.
10:15So one of the reasons that the, the liberation day was canceled, was walked back is because
10:26people were getting, people were getting freaked out.
10:31The markets were tanking, which leads me to believe that the Washington post reporting that
10:38I talked about yesterday, my video update was accurate where they claimed that Elon Musk was
10:44telling Trump to walk this thing back.
10:49And I imagine it wasn't only Elon Musk.
10:52I imagine it was a lot of the, the other big tech oligarchs.
10:55I imagine a lot of wall street oligarchs, Jamie Dimon and these types, and they were pressuring
11:02Trump to walk it back.
11:04And that's what he did.
11:05So that's reason number one for why there was a walk back of the, uh, the tariff policy.
11:12Reason number, number two confirms the, uh, the bond yield theory, because another reporter
11:21asked Trump, did the bond market persuade you to reverse?
11:27Trump said, I was watching the bond market.
11:29It's very tricky.
11:31If you look at it now, it's beautiful.
11:33The bond market right now is beautiful.
11:35But I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy, yippee and queasy, yippee.
11:45Yippee is from diehard, isn't it?
11:47Yippee, yippee, yippee, yay.
11:49That's diehard, right?
11:52So reason number one, people were getting yippee.
11:55Reason number two, people were getting queasy.
11:58The, the, the bond market, the bond market was making people queasy.
12:04So the theory about the, the bond yields that Trump was trying to get those, uh, those numbers
12:13to go down, they were not going down.
12:17They did not go down.
12:18They started to rise, which meant that, uh, there was going to be no, no cheaper, uh,
12:28financing, refinancing of about seven trillion in, uh, in debt.
12:35None of that was going to happen on 10 year notes.
12:39And, uh, and they were going up.
12:42And so the entire plan went kaboom, the entire tariff policy, liberation day, bond yield plan,
12:53not a theory anymore, not speculation confirmed in Trump's response to the media.
12:59That thing, uh, blew apart as well.
13:05So that's liberation day, everybody.
13:08He, and Trump, as he was speaking to the press, he hinted at, uh, how he does want to have a deal
13:14with China.
13:16He wants to speak with Xi Jinping, but he wants Xi Jinping to call him.
13:21Trump said that Xi is a smart guy.
13:24And he praised, uh, Xi Jinping.
13:27He predicted that there's going to be a very good deal with China and, uh, the United States,
13:32but he's waiting for China to make the first move.
13:34Not going to happen.
13:35What Trump needs to do now is he needs to either call up Xi Jinping directly or he needs, uh,
13:42a third party to, to mediate or something like that.
13:46Call up Putin.
13:48Call up Putin and ask Putin if he can, he can talk to Xi Jinping and, uh, and get some sort
13:57of, of a deal worked out between China and the United States, some sort of a trade deal.
14:01Where Trump can save face, provide, uh, Trump, a bit of an off ramp because this thing was
14:08a chaotic freaking mess.
14:11It turned out to be a chaotic mess.
14:15Trump, he's, uh, he, he's not, he's not doing well.
14:27He is not doing well.
14:29He, he knows where he wants to go.
14:32This is my sense of, of the Trump administration, especially when it comes to, to foreign policy
14:37and to stuff like, like these tariffs, he has an idea of what he wants, but he has no strategy
14:45how to get there and his team, his team is doing him no favors.
14:50The advisors that he has are not helping him out at all.
14:55The way he handled the tariffs is exactly the same way that he's been handling the Ukraine,
15:03uh, negotiations, the ceasefire and all of that stuff.
15:09The same way he's, he's been handling the whole TikTok thing, the same way he's, uh, handling
15:16Iran.
15:19There's, there's no understanding of, uh, of the strategy.
15:25I want Iran to not get nuclear weapons.
15:29Okay.
15:30You had the JCPOA, you pulled out of it in your first term.
15:33Fine.
15:33Let's forget about that.
15:35Let's, let's not talk about that.
15:37Now you're saying you want Iran to, uh, to, to not get nuclear weapons.
15:42They can't get nuclear weapons.
15:43If they get nuclear weapons, if we can't work out a deal, if we can't negotiate a deal.
15:48And I feel as if they're going to get nuclear weapons, then we're going to have war.
15:51So that's Trump's position.
15:53He understands what's, what he wants, right?
15:55He's saying, I don't want Iran to get nuclear weapons.
15:58How are we going to do this?
15:59Well, at first we're going to bomb Yemen.
16:02Okay.
16:03Why?
16:04What's, what's the angle?
16:05What are you going for?
16:07You're trying to scare Iran.
16:08You're trying to, to scare Yemen so they can talk to Iran.
16:12I mean, what's, what's the goal?
16:13You're trying to protect the shipping lanes.
16:17What is the strategy?
16:18So now he has the negotiations.
16:23They're going to happen over the weekend.
16:25He says, direct talks.
16:27Iran says, indirect talks.
16:28There's going to be a mediator there, whatever.
16:33So negotiate with Iran.
16:36Speak with them.
16:37Iran said they don't want nuclear weapons.
16:38You're saying you don't want Iran to get nuclear weapons.
16:41Close the deal out, man.
16:42This should be a slam dunk.
16:48This weekend.
16:49Should be very easy.
16:51Both sides are saying they don't want nukes.
16:53Both sides.
16:54Iran is saying they don't want nukes.
16:55The U.S. is saying they don't want Iran to get nukes.
17:00So this weekend.
17:02Settle this.
17:03Let's avoid a war.
17:05And, and we can move on.
17:06But this whole thing is the, the, the, the way, the way he got to, to these negotiations
17:14was, was chaotic and we're still not there yet.
17:16We still haven't gotten a deal.
17:18This could very well fall, fall through and we make it a war.
17:22According to what Trump is saying.
17:25The same thing with TikTok.
17:26I talked about this in a video I made a couple of days ago.
17:3075 days.
17:31We're going to solve it.
17:32We're going to get investors.
17:33It didn't happen.
17:34So let's roll it over to another 75 days, but we're so close.
17:38We're going to get investors.
17:39We're so close.
17:41TikTok cannot be a Chinese owned.
17:43It can't be Chinese owned.
17:44We're going to get U S investors.
17:46We're going to make it TikTok America.
17:47Didn't happen in 75 days.
17:48Let's give another 75 days, Russia.
17:50The same exact thing where we're, we're, we're close to a ceasefire.
17:54Okay.
17:54We got an energy ceasefire, right?
17:56Ukraine broke the energy ceasefire on day one, but we're not going to, to get mad at
18:02Ukraine.
18:02We're going to get mad at Russia.
18:04So, so we get a black sea, uh, ceasefire.
18:09Okay.
18:10Black sea ceasefire.
18:12Europe says, nah, we're not going to go along with it.
18:15We're not going to honor this ceasefire.
18:17Trump's not mad at Europe.
18:19He's not mad at Ukraine.
18:20No, it's Russia's fault.
18:21It's Putin's fault.
18:22So Russia's saying, whatever, man, we're, we're just, we're going to continue.
18:28We're going to continue to do what we need to do to wrap up this conflict.
18:33And you guys just talk about your, your, your ceasefire, U S and Russia.
18:36What we can do is we can normalize relations outside of Ukraine.
18:39And that's, what's going to happen this weekend as well as in Istanbul, the U S state department
18:44and Russia, the Russian foreign ministry.
18:46They said, what they're going to talk about in Istanbul this Saturday is they're going to talk
18:49nothing about Ukraine.
18:51They're going to talk about embassy stuff and, uh, and diplomatic relations and things
18:57like that.
18:57Ukraine is not on the table this weekend, even though Trump has Russia's terms, the whole
19:07world has Putin's terms.
19:09He spelled them out a million times on June, 2024.
19:14And a thousand times after that, Putin has spelled out his terms for there to be peace,
19:20very reasonable terms, which the U S should jump at, jump at those terms.
19:27Man, take those terms.
19:30Now we're going to go with Waltz and Kellogg and we're going to talk about energy ceasefire
19:36and black sea ceasefire.
19:37And eventually we're going to get to an unconditional ceasefire.
19:41It's a three phase process says Rubio.
19:44It's a three phase process.
19:46First, we get the energy, then we get the black sea, then we get the, the total, the total
19:51unconditional ceasefire.
19:58The way he handled this whole tariff thing is, is the exact way that he's been handling
20:02all of these things.
20:05He understands.
20:06I want, I want good, good, good relations with Russia.
20:09I want good relations with Russia.
20:11He says, but he, he has no strategy.
20:14His team, Trump, his team, they have no strategy how to get there.
20:17And instead of Trump taking the good advice, which is walk away from Ukraine or take Putin's
20:22deal, he goes with the bad advice, which is a Kellogg and Waltz and ceasefire.
20:27So anyway, all right, that's that.
20:35The, uh, the entire, uh, tariff thing, 90 day pause, the whole world is looking on scratching
20:43their heads.
20:44Everyone's just, what was that?
20:46What were the, what were the last two weeks about what's going on here?
20:49Eventually he'll work out a deal with China.
20:52That would be my guess.
20:53Eventually he'll talk to Xi Jinping or someone will talk to Xi Jinping on his behalf.
20:58And eventually we'll get some sort of a deal in the next couple of weeks or a couple of
21:03months.
21:04And, uh, and that'll be that.
21:06And, and we'll enter a phase where the U S and China have a, have a, have a slow type
21:13of divorce, let's say that's, that's probably what, what's going to happen.
21:22But, um, you know, the rest of the world is looking, is looking at this and they're saying
21:26this is, this is not stability.
21:33We don't know what, what Trump is going to do the next day, tomorrow, how he's going to
21:37wake up and what decisions he's going to make.
21:39There's no stability in this.
21:40And if you're a business or if you're investing in the United States or doing business with
21:46the United States or entering into agreement with the Trump administration, you don't know
21:52if any of, of the stuff can be honored or if Trump changes his mind and throws everything
21:57out the window or turns everything upside down.
22:02The silver lining to all of this, this entire thing, I'll tell you what the silver silver lining
22:08is to this, to this big time, uh, screw up.
22:13The silver lining is that at least he ended globalization.
22:17That's, that's the one good thing.
22:20Globalization is done.
22:21We're moving into spheres of influence.
22:23We're moving into, I believe an Italian, uh, an Italian official said we're moving into
22:28the era of great powers.
22:30I believe it was an Italian official who said that I'll, I'll try to find the quote and put
22:36it up on the screen.
22:38So the era of globalization is over and we're moving into a great power type of, uh, world
22:47order.
22:47That's the silver lining.
22:48If you have to find one to, to all of this, Besant, the treasury secretary, he sent a warning
22:58to Spain because, uh, the Spanish, I believe Sanchez, I believe the Spanish, uh, leader said
23:05that, that Spain's going to continue to, to trade with China.
23:10And, and Besant didn't like that because the way Trump's team, not Trump, the way Trump's
23:16team is framing this is you're either with us or you're with China.
23:21That's what this whole thing was about.
23:23That's what Besant said.
23:24That's what, uh, Caroline Levitt, that's what she said in a statement.
23:29The, the goal of this entire liberation day process was, was to, uh, to weed out who's with
23:37the United States and who's against the United States and who's with China.
23:40Who's with the United States and who's with China.
23:43And Spain was having none of it.
23:45Spain said, look, we're, we're not going to play this game, but we want to trade with
23:49China.
23:50We're all good with China.
23:51We want to continue trade with China.
23:53And, uh, then Besant sent out a warning, not only to Spain, but to Europe.
23:57He said, if Europe, uh, decides to, to continue relations with, with China and do business with
24:03China, something like that.
24:04Then he said that Europe's going to, to cut its throat or whatever with the United States,
24:09something, some warning, uh, along those lines from, uh, from Besant.
24:15It's like the, uh, this whole thing feels like it was the, it was trading places.
24:21Remember that movie?
24:23That's what it feels like.
24:24This was all just a game.
24:25Are you with us?
24:26Or are you against us?
24:27We're going to, we're going to ruin lives.
24:29We're going to ruin lives to see who's with China and who's with the United States.
24:34So trading places, Randolph and Mortimer Duke, they bet $1 to, uh, ruin the lives of, of, uh,
24:43Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, uh, Billy Ray and, uh, Lewis.
24:49They ruined the lives of Billy Ray and Lewis for $1.
24:53It was a $1 bet.
24:55Mortimer and Randolph Duke.
24:57We're going to tank the, the markets.
25:01We're going to talk about liberation day and tariffs to find out if you're with China or
25:08if you're with the United States.
25:15Oh man.
25:17If you don't laugh, you cry.
25:19If you don't laugh, you cry.
25:21So that's why I'm laughing.
25:23Otherwise I'd be crying at all of this.
25:27Um, Trump needs to, needs to fix things, man.
25:30He needs to get his, his act together, his team.
25:33I don't know.
25:34Get rid of Waltz, get rid of Kellogg.
25:35I don't know what you need to do, but he needs to fix things quick.
25:45So, uh, so even Ursula, even Ursula was, uh, was claiming victory when the announcement
25:55of the tariff pause was, uh, was, uh, posted on truth.
26:02Vonderlayen welcomes Trump's tariff U-turn.
26:05Even Ursula claimed victory.
26:09That's when you know things are bad.
26:11When Ursula claims victory.
26:13I welcome president Trump's announcement to pause reciprocal tariffs.
26:17It's an important step towards stabilizing the global economy.
26:21Vonderlayen said the European union remains committed to constructive negotiations with
26:25the United States with the goal of achieving frictionless and mutually beneficial trade.
26:30She added, let's talk about, uh, project Ukraine.
26:35Let's shift gears and talk about project Ukraine.
26:39Let's talk about China and project Ukraine because Alensky, he issued a statement yesterday
26:47saying that it's not just two Chinese soldiers that have been caught.
26:52Well, he's caught two Chinese soldiers, according to Alensky, but he is claiming that, uh, Ukraine
26:59is aware of 150 Chinese soldiers in, uh, in the conflict fighting on the side of Russia.
27:13150, he says, and maybe even more, Alensky said, there may be even more than 150.
27:18And he claims that, uh, the Ukraine military, they know who these people are.
27:23He says they have their passports, their documents, maybe even their bank cards.
27:29They haven't captured these 150 people.
27:32They captured two, but they know who these 150 people are, according to Alensky.
27:38He has all their documentation, how he got that documentation.
27:42Don't know.
27:43Don't care.
27:44Don't care.
27:45I don't know.
27:46He just has it.
27:47Okay.
27:48He just has it.
27:49The other two guys that he caught, he has their bank cards, man.
27:52He has their bank cards.
27:55The comments yesterday from, uh, the video where I was talking about this.
27:59Man, some of the comments were so funny on the, uh, on the fact that Alensky has the bank
28:04cards of these Chinese soldiers.
28:06He claims he has the bank cards of these Chinese soldiers.
28:09The comments about, uh, about Alensky trying to get their pin so he can take out money.
28:17Very good.
28:17I was laughing hard when I was reading those comments, man.
28:22I could totally see that.
28:24Is this, uh, is this, uh, meerkard that you have?
28:28Okay.
28:29What is pin?
28:30I'm not going to give you my pin code.
28:32Give me pin code.
28:34I want to get the money.
28:41You know, the funny thing is I don't even think China uses cards.
28:47Do they?
28:48I don't know.
28:49Someone who, who knows how it works in China.
28:52Let me know in the comments down below.
28:53Let everybody know in the comments down below.
28:55Do, do they carry actual cards anymore?
28:58Do they just have their, their alley pay or whatever, whatever it is on their mobile device.
29:03I don't think they actually have physical cards anymore.
29:09I don't know.
29:10Just a guess.
29:11Just a guess.
29:14So Alensky is claiming 150 plus Chinese nationals.
29:22I believe he uses the words nationals and not soldiers when he talks about the Chinese fighting in, uh, Ukraine.
29:30By the way, Beijing, they rejected Alensky's, uh, claims of, uh, soldiers.
29:37Beijing is saying, nope, we don't have any national soldiers, anything like that.
29:44You could have, actually, you probably do have, uh, volunteers, mercenaries, call them whatever you want.
29:52You have from all kinds of countries.
29:54So why would you not have from China fighting on both sides?
29:56China, Colombia, of course you have, uh, American, Polish, British, French.
30:12There's all kinds of nationalities, countries who have, uh, volunteers or mercenaries fighting in this conflict.
30:20So I would not be surprised if you have, uh, Chinese, what China's saying.
30:25They're not, they're not military.
30:27And we tell, uh, we tell Chinese citizens, don't go to Ukraine and fight.
30:32So China has rejected this entire thing.
30:35Alensky has burned the bridge with China.
30:40What will China do in response?
30:42Nothing.
30:43They're not going to do anything in retaliation to, uh, to Ukraine.
30:51Kaya Kalis.
30:53Kaya Kalis.
30:55Stunning and brave.
30:57Kaya Kalis.
30:59She issued a statement.
31:01The foreign minister of, uh, of the European Union, everybody.
31:05The, the freaking foreign minister, the chief diplomat of the European Union issued a statement blaming China.
31:13Pretty much, pretty much blaming China for the, uh, conflict in Ukraine or for Russia's winning the conflict in Ukraine.
31:21She blames it all on China.
31:23If it wasn't for Chinese, Chinese support and dual, dual used goods.
31:29If it wasn't for those dual used goods, those washing machine chips, then Russia would not be winning.
31:39According to Kaya Kalis.
31:40It was those washing machine chips.
31:43That's what she said.
31:45So she, she is blaming China.
31:47And as she's blaming China, she is trying to, to rally the collective West, the United States,
31:55to continue to support Project Ukraine and to get more involved in, uh, the conflict in Ukraine.
32:02That's Kaya Kalis' angle in all of this.
32:04That's Zelensky's angle in, in all of this as well.
32:07But that was the statement that she issued.
32:09So the EU is, uh, is slamming China now.
32:15They're blaming China.
32:16They're slamming China.
32:18They're saying it's all your fault, China, that Russia's winning.
32:21It's all your fault that, uh, that we're in this mess in Ukraine.
32:26If you didn't provide those dual used goods, then Russia would never win.
32:34So, yeah, China is getting the blame from, from everybody, from all sides, from all angles.
32:42Is China going to do anything in retaliation to what Kalis said, what stunning and brave Kaya Kalis said?
32:52Nah.
32:53Nah, even though China should, they should teach, uh, the EU a little lesson here.
33:00Don't, uh, don't try to pin the blame on us.
33:04Or actually, what China should do, here's what China should do.
33:07If I was running things in China, if I was running things in China, what they should do is they should say, oh, okay, so you're blaming us for the conflict, huh?
33:19Well, since you're blaming us, since we're going to get the blame either way, we might as well just start producing 10 million drones to give to Russia, right?
33:31We're going to get the blame anyway.
33:32We might as well start providing 10 million washing machine ships every, every week.
33:44You're blaming us no matter what, even though China has, has taken a very middle of the road position.
33:51They've taken a very neutral position when it comes to Ukraine.
33:53Actually, the first year or two, China was, was providing drones, drone parts to, to the Alensky regime.
34:01They were providing drones to the Alensky regime.
34:08Russia played it cool.
34:10Russia said, okay, look, we don't want to, uh, we don't want to involve you in this conflict.
34:14But if you want to still trade with Ukraine, if you want to provide them with drones and other stuff, we're not going to, to demand things from you, make demands from you.
34:28Anyway, that's, uh, that's stunning and brave.
34:31Kaya Kalis.
34:32By the way, she also said that the EU is going to give another 2.1 billion to the Green Goblin in Russian frozen assets.
34:44Ah, those Russian frozen assets.
34:46Interest, sorry, interest.
34:49She's going to take 2.1 billion in interest from the Russian frozen assets and hand it over to the Green Goblin.
34:54Man, the interest from the Russian frozen assets must be huge.
34:59I mean, every, every month there's a couple of billion in interest that's getting sent to, to the Alensky regime.
35:04How much, how much interest is the, is the Russian frozen assets generating?
35:09Because last I read, the Russian frozen assets generate 1.5 billion in interest a year.
35:16That's what they generate.
35:171.5 billion a year.
35:20And every month we're getting 2 billion in interest sent to the Alensky regime.
35:28Annalena Baerbock math, something is not adding up.
35:31All right, uh, one more story, two more stories and we'll get to a kind of clown world.
35:37And, uh, and we're going to stick with Alensky because Alensky is saying, and this is breaking news.
35:45He is announcing that Ukraine wants to buy a weapons package from the U.S. for $50 billion.
35:55Fueled with EU money.
35:58Fueled with EU money.
36:00And Alensky is saying that, that he wants to buy weapons that only the U.S. produces, Patriot systems and, and fighter jets.
36:14It would be the largest weapons sale the U.S.A. has ever made, surpassing the $23 billion sale of 105 F-35s, F-35s to Japan in 2020.
36:25There you have it, Alensky's plan.
36:31He's making a list, according to Politico.
36:33Alensky's making a list of all the things that he needs and he's making a list in, in coordination with France and the U.K., the coalition of the, of the willing.
36:41The coalition of the, uh, of the losers.
36:44He's, uh, he's coordinating with France and the U.K., and they're making a list of what they need in order to, uh, to get the, the peacekeepers in place and to, uh, to protect Ukraine going forward.
36:59That's what Politico is writing.
37:01That's what they're reporting.
37:02And, uh, he needs, he needs troops, he needs, uh, air patrols, and he needs, uh, sea patrol, and he needs a lot of patriots and weapons, which, uh, only the U.S. makes.
37:16And so, what's the plan?
37:18Alensky is saying that what he will do is he will take 50 billion euros of EU money and use it to purchase U.S. weapons.
37:29Sounds like, uh, yeah, sounds, sounds like a good plan, Alensky.
37:4250 billion in EU money.
37:43Where are you going to get that 50 billion?
37:45The EU's going to give you 50 billion?
37:47Maybe.
37:49Maybe they will.
37:52I don't think they will.
37:53I don't think they have that kind of money.
37:55But, um, to give just like that, that's what he's saying.
38:0150 billion from the European Union to buy weapons for Ukraine.
38:05A good use of EU funds, huh?
38:08A good use of European Union funds.
38:11Which, you know, the EU, if they were to give Ukraine any money, it would be given as a loan.
38:17Right?
38:17So, so I imagine the EU is going to loan Ukraine 50 billion and Ukraine is going to use that loaned EU 50 billion to, to buy weapons from the United States.
38:28So they can keep the, the conflict going because in a couple of months, the, uh, the drawdown, Biden's drawdown ends.
38:37You know, the whole 60 billion package.
38:40That's coming to an end in a couple of months.
38:42And even Searsky gave an interview, a huge interview, uh, yesterday.
38:46And he said that weapons are running out from the United States.
38:49He said that weapons are running out.
38:52And, uh, once they run out, we're screwed.
38:55That's what Searsky said.
38:56And Searsky said that Ukraine needs 30,000, uh, new soldiers, 30,000 recruits every month to keep up.
39:04Because they're losing a lot of men.
39:05He didn't say they're losing a lot of men, but that's what he was implying.
39:08He said, we need 30,000 new recruits every month.
39:12At least, at a minimum.
39:16So that's Alensky's plan.
39:19And there was a big prisoner swap.
39:22How am I doing on time?
39:24Yeah, I got to wrap this up.
39:26There was a big, uh, prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia.
39:32CIA director John Ratcliffe said a prisoner exchange with Russia took place in Abu Dhabi.
39:38Russia and U.S. Russian and U.S. citizen Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison in Russia
39:45for treason.
39:47According to the investigation, she sent money to the armed forces of Ukraine.
39:53And Russian Artur Petrov was accused of smuggling and evading sanctions.
39:58He was detained by Cyprus at Washington's request in August 2023.
40:02I remember both cases.
40:04I remember both of these cases.
40:07And so they've been exchanged.
40:09And I believe they're both dual citizens.
40:11I believe the Russian guy is Russian-American.
40:13That's, that's going to, to Russia.
40:16And Ksenia is Russian-American, but she's going to, to go to the U.S.
40:21So that happened today.
40:25I think that went down or that was announced that this was finalized today, this exchange.
40:29And finally, Tucker, he had, uh, Alex Jones on his podcast and Tucker Carlson admitted
40:37that, uh, that the U.S. lost the war to Russia and Ukraine.
40:42That is what he told Alex Jones.
40:44Tucker said, we just lost a war with Russia.
40:47The former Fox News host declared the U.S. was running that war.
40:53The U.S. military, the Pentagon, State Department, CIA running the war against Russia.
40:58It was not, was never about Ukraine.
41:01Carlson expressed concern that nobody will say that out loud, that we're overstating our power.
41:08He likened the U.S. to a divorced 60-year-old man attempting to woo a 25-year-old woman, oblivious
41:15to how absurd and humiliating he appears.
41:18That's what Tucker Carlson said to Alex Jones.
41:21And Tucker is referencing that New York Times article, which reveals the U.S. command center
41:30in Germany, showing that the United States was indeed running the entire war against Russia.
41:41And the Ukraine soldiers were just that.
41:44They were just the foot soldiers that the U.S. was using.
41:48Everything else was under the U.S.'s control.
41:51That's what Tucker is referencing.
41:53He's talking about this New York Times article.
41:55And he is, he is saying that, that Ukraine did not lose the war to Russia.
42:02The United States lost the war to Russia.
42:04And it's time that the United States admit this.
42:06And it's time for the United States to get out of this.
42:10Get out of this.
42:11Take June 2024 root causes deal.
42:17Take that deal.
42:18I'll walk away from this and start focusing on your U.S. America first agenda, Trump.
42:26My God, it's not hard.
42:28It's not hard.
42:31Anyway, is there a clown world?
42:33Kind of a clown world.
42:36Kind of.
42:37Kiev seeking arrest of man aboard space station.
42:40Russian cosmonaut Alexei Zubrytsky is listed in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's database of draft dodgers and is wanted for treason.
42:49Yeah, so this guy is wanted for treason now.
42:52Russian cosmonaut.
42:55I believe he's on his way to the space station.
43:01Or he's there.
43:03He's on his way to space.
43:04Or he's about to go to space.
43:06I don't know what's going on there.
43:07But from what I understand, he was born in, or he's from, or lived in Zaporozhye.
43:14Then he lived in Crimea.
43:17And now he's, or he was in the Russian military.
43:22He became a cosmonaut.
43:24And Ukraine is unhappy with him.
43:26And so they're, they tried him in absentia.
43:31And they want to arrest him for treason.
43:34That's kind of a clown world, everybody.
43:36I think this whole video was a clown world, in a way.
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