Alex Christoforou breaks down the latest EU chaos as Slovakia rejects Estonian PM Kaja Kallas’ threats, Brussels warns Serbia, and Zelensky mocks Hungarian leader Witkoff—while Ursula von der Leyen claims global leadership!
🚨 Key Highlights:
✔️ Slovakia’s Bold Stand – Pushing back against EU pressure & NATO escalation
✔️ Serbia in the Crosshairs – Will Brussels force Belgrade to pick sides?
✔️ Zelensky’s Mockery – Ukrainian leader taunts Hungary’s Witkoff amid war tensions
✔️ Ursula’s Ambition – Does the EU chief really lead the "free world"?
💥 Why It Matters:
The EU is fracturing, NATO allies are clashing, and global power shifts are accelerating. Who’s winning the geopolitical game?
#EUChaos #Slovakia #KajaKallas #Serbia #Zelensky #Witkoff #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #NATO #UkraineWar #Geopolitics #AlexChristoforou #Hungary #Russia #GlobalPowerShift #DiplomaticWar #FreeWorld #Balkans #EasternEurope #Brussels #Eurocrisis
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🚨 Key Highlights:
✔️ Slovakia’s Bold Stand – Pushing back against EU pressure & NATO escalation
✔️ Serbia in the Crosshairs – Will Brussels force Belgrade to pick sides?
✔️ Zelensky’s Mockery – Ukrainian leader taunts Hungary’s Witkoff amid war tensions
✔️ Ursula’s Ambition – Does the EU chief really lead the "free world"?
💥 Why It Matters:
The EU is fracturing, NATO allies are clashing, and global power shifts are accelerating. Who’s winning the geopolitical game?
#EUChaos #Slovakia #KajaKallas #Serbia #Zelensky #Witkoff #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #NATO #UkraineWar #Geopolitics #AlexChristoforou #Hungary #Russia #GlobalPowerShift #DiplomaticWar #FreeWorld #Balkans #EasternEurope #Brussels #Eurocrisis
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00:00But what was also discussed and very clearly said by different member states is that any participation in the 9th of May parades or celebrations in Moscow will be not taken lightly on the European side,
00:23considering that Russia is really waging a full-scale war in Europe.
00:30So I will stop here and I'm ready to take your questions.
00:34This is my video update on this Wednesday, April the 16th, coming to you from Limassol, Cyprus.
00:46Let's talk about some news and let's start things off with stunning and brave Kaya Callas and her comments the other day, which I reported on,
01:04where she warned, EU countries and EU candidate countries, don't you dare go to Moscow to take part in the Victory Day event.
01:24But don't you dare go to Moscow to honor the army, the brave men and women that defeated Hitler and the Nazis.
01:45Don't you dare go there to mark this very important day.
01:51That was her warning. And if you go to Russia, well, then we've got tools.
01:58If you go celebrate Victory Day, the defeat of fascism, well, then you will be punished.
02:09It is a clown world, man. It is a clown world.
02:14We went from Jungle Joseph to stunning and brave Kaya Callas.
02:19All right. The top diplomat for the European Union.
02:24She made those comments and obviously those comments were directed, at least when it comes to candidate countries.
02:33Obviously, it was directed towards Serbia and Vucic and I will get to that in a minute.
02:40But her warning, the Nags Head Pub. Good pub. Good place to watch.
02:48Football, Champions League. Grab a beer. Chill out.
02:54Close to the beach. Just about a minute walk to the beach.
02:59So, yeah. Directed at Vucic when it comes to candidate countries, Serbia and Vucic, who did say he is going to attend Victory Day.
03:10And also to leaders who have confirmed that they will be going to Moscow that are part of the European Union.
03:18So, EU member states, people like Vucic, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, who has confirmed his attendance in Moscow on May the 9th.
03:31And Kaya Callas and other EU officials warned, FITSO, don't you dare go.
03:41So, we have a reply from FITSO.
03:45And his reply is epic. It is epic.
03:49What was Kaya Callas thinking?
03:55What was she thinking that a man like FITSO, who was shot five times, survived an assassination attempt, shot in the abdomen, was going to be afraid of a Kaya Callas warning?
04:14Is that what she actually thought was going to happen, that this man, who almost died, just about a year ago, that he was going to be scared of this warning from stunning and brave?
04:34Let me read you his reply.
04:37Let me read you what FITSO said.
04:41He posted it on X, and there is an English version of what he posted.
04:50And let me put this coffee down somewhere, and I will read you his statement.
05:02Yeah, I think it'll hold.
05:05All right.
05:07This is long, so let's get to it.
05:11From Robert FITSO, warning and threat by Ms. Callas are disrespectful, and I strongly object to them.
05:19The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaya Callas, is warning EU leaders against participating in the May celebrations of Victory Day in Moscow.
05:28She claims that such participation will not be taken lightly.
05:32I will go to Moscow on May 9th.
05:35Is Ms. Callas' warning a form of blackmail or a signal that I will be punished upon my return from Moscow?
05:41Now, I don't know.
05:42But I do know that the year is 2025, not 1939.
05:48Ms. Callas' warning confirms that we need a discussion within the EU about the essence of democracy, about what happened in Romania and France in connection with presidential elections, about the Maidans organized by the West in Georgia and Serbia, and how the abuse of criminal law against the opposition in Slovakia has been ignored.
06:10Ms. Callas, I would like to inform you that I am the legitimate Prime Minister of Slovakia, a sovereign country.
06:17No one can dictate to me where I can or cannot travel.
06:21I will go to Moscow to pay tribute to the thousands of Red Army soldiers who died liberating Slovakia, as well as to the millions of other victims of Nazi terror, just as I have paid tribute to the victims of the Normandy landings or those in the Pacific, or as I plan to honor the RAF pilots.
06:39And let me remind you that I am one of the few in the EU who consistently speaks about the need for peace in Ukraine and does not support the continuation of the senseless war.
06:50Ms. Callas' words are disrespectful, and I strongly object to them.
06:57I don't need to say anything further.
07:01I think Fico pretty much says it all in that response to stunning and brave.
07:11So let's move on now to Vucic and Serbia.
07:18So the Telegraph is reporting that EU officials did warn Vucic, don't you dare go to Moscow.
07:28Now, if you go to Moscow, then your candidacy to enter the European Union will be in jeopardy.
07:39Is that a threat or a promise?
07:42I don't know.
07:43Really?
07:44Will Serbia's candidacy be in jeopardy if I go to Moscow?
07:49Really?
07:50I think I better go to Moscow.
07:54And then when I return from Moscow to Belgrade, we can begin our process to enter BRICS.
08:02How's that for a plan?
08:06So look, it is a serious warning from the European Union.
08:09No doubt about it, because when you get a warning from the European Union, you're also getting a warning from NATO.
08:15And Serbia is in a tough spot, surrounded by a very hostile, aggressive NATO.
08:26So what does Vucic do?
08:30And very, very friendly to Russia, an ally of Russia, something that Serbia will never jeopardize.
08:40At least that's my belief that they will never jeopardize their friendship with Russia.
08:46So what does Vucic do?
08:48And his government and Vucic's government is also in trouble.
08:52So what does he do?
08:57He has to go, doesn't he?
08:59He has to go.
09:01There's no way that he would be able to not go now to the Victory Day in Moscow.
09:10Impossible.
09:12He has to go.
09:14If he decides to not go, then he will look very weak.
09:19Whatever excuse he were to make, he would look very weak.
09:22He has to tell Kayakalas, we're a sovereign country.
09:27We have a very long, very cherished friendship with Russia.
09:36And we are going to go to Moscow to honor all of those who defeated the Nazis.
09:45That's what he has to say.
09:48And whatever happens when he returns to Belgrade, so be it.
09:53What can you do?
09:54You have to go now to Moscow.
09:56Interestingly enough, it's the Baltic states that are actually warning Vucic.
10:07The Baltic states.
10:09Let me get to some shade because it is hot today.
10:16Let me put this coffee down again and let me read you what the Baltic states are telling Serbia.
10:28Let's see here.
10:33From the Telegraph EU to ban, Serbia's president joins Putin's victory parade.
10:41Putin's victory parade, huh?
10:43From the Telegraph.
10:44Ah, the UK media.
10:49So manipulative with their articles, especially with their titles.
10:57Putin's victory day parade, right?
10:59As if there was no victory day parade before Putin.
11:04It's Putin's parade.
11:06It's not Russia's parade.
11:07It's not the people of Russia.
11:08It's not the people of the Soviet Union.
11:11It's not the people of the world.
11:13It really should be the world's victory day parade, if you ask me.
11:17Because the Soviet Union, Russia, they saved the world.
11:21But no, it's Putin's victory day parade.
11:23Okay.
11:24So, let's see what the Telegraph is reporting.
11:27EU official told Serbia that Vucic's trip would breach their membership criteria.
11:34This is according to the Telegraph.
11:35Serbia was granted EU candidate status in 2012.
11:38Kaya Kalis, the EU's top diplomat, said on Monday,
11:41that the bloc did not want any candidate country to take part in the May 9 events in Moscow.
11:47We need to ensure that they understand that certain decisions come at a cost.
11:53Jonathan Vesvlov, the Chancellor of Estonia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
11:59said the consequence is them not joining the European Union.
12:07He added that the issue will be an important litmus test.
12:13Latvian foreign minister, Mbaiba Brez, said that EU foreign ministers gave Serbian officials
12:21very clear guidance to skip victory day in Russia.
12:25So, we have the Latvian foreign minister, and we have some other dude in Estonia,
12:34some guy in Estonia, minister of foreign affairs, foreign minister of Estonia as well.
12:39Estonia and Latvia are warning Serbia.
12:42I live in a small country.
12:47Cyprus is a tiny country.
12:49Maybe even smaller than the Baltic countries.
12:53But, man, we don't run our mouths, man.
12:57We stay quiet here.
12:59We stay very, very quiet in Cyprus.
13:02And we have 36% of our country illegally occupied by Turkey.
13:09And we still keep a low profile.
13:12The Baltic countries, man, they really, really, the leaders, the leaders of the Baltic countries,
13:22they really, they really run their mouths.
13:25I'm telling you, you would think that, that Estonia and Latvia is a population of 500 million, the way they talk.
13:33Oh, boy.
13:34So, yeah, that's their warning to, to Serbia.
13:37It's a litmus test.
13:40Just, just so, just so we understand what the test is.
13:44Here's the test, according to the Estonian foreign minister.
13:48The test is, go to, if you go to Russia to celebrate the defeat of Hitler, then you don't get into the European Union.
14:04Is that the litmus test?
14:06Really?
14:07Okay.
14:10Okay, celebrate the defeat of the Nazis bad.
14:14Don't celebrate the defeat of the Nazis good.
14:16Okay, Estonian foreign minister.
14:20So, Maria Zakharova, she commented on, on Kallus' threat.
14:27And she said that Euro-Nazism is being revived.
14:32This is how the fascists, 80 years ago, forced those they considered second-class people to renounce their homeland, ethnicity, and faith, the spokeswoman added.
14:46So, let's talk about Sumi and what's going on there.
14:53Because Alensky, he fired the, the Sumi military leader, the, the regional military administrator.
15:06That's who, um, Alensky fired.
15:11What's the guy's name?
15:12Vladimir Artiuk.
15:15He was accused, by many people in Kiev, of, uh, organizing the awards ceremony in a way that made it very, very obvious and very exposed to the Russian military.
15:31And, uh, they wanted him gone, very prominent, um, Ukrainian parliament members and mayors of, of towns in, uh, in Sumi.
15:44They, they, they were calling on this guy to be fired because of, of the way this awards ceremony was organized.
15:52And in a way, in a way you could say publicized because even, uh, Bezuglaya, Mariana Bezuglaya published the itinerary of the event after, after the missile strike.
16:03She published the itinerary of this awards ceremony.
16:06And so under a lot of pressure, Alensky had to fire him.
16:13So what does that tell you about the strike in Sumi?
16:18Alensky's office announced on Tuesday that it has fired the head of Ukraine's Sumi regional military administration, Vladimir Artiuk.
16:26The move follows accusations that Artiuk organized a military awards ceremony that was targeted in a Russian missile strike.
16:37So it always takes a couple of days for things to clear up, but eventually they clear up.
16:43And it looks like what Lavrov said in the interview to Comersant has proven to be correct that Russia, the Russian military did indeed target, uh, a military facility, in this case, a military, uh, gathering and awards ceremony.
17:01It looks like that is now, uh, that is now fact.
17:06And Alensky had to fire the person who was in charge of, uh, of this region, the military official in charge in Sumi.
17:22End of, end and investigation.
17:26From what I understand is still ongoing.
17:28So, uh, sticking with Sumi, with Sumi, Bloomberg is, uh, reporting that the G7, they wanted to put together a communique condemning Russia and condemning the missile strike.
17:48And guess what?
17:51The United States blocked this communique from the G7.
17:55Um, Canada right now is, uh, is heading up the, the G7.
18:02And, uh, they were looking to put together this condemnation of Russia.
18:06And according to Bloomberg, the U.S. told, uh, Canada, no, we're not going to sign up to, to this communique condemning Russia because we're in the process of, uh, peace negotiations.
18:18So we don't want anything to jeopardize that.
18:25Yeah, the minute something like this happens, the collective Western media, they jump on it.
18:31They jump on it.
18:32They condemn, uh, in this case, Russia.
18:35They condemn Russia for what it did.
18:37And then it always takes a couple of days for the, uh, for the truth, for the reality of what happened to, uh, to come out.
18:45It's always the, uh, the case with stuff like this.
18:52Anyway, uh, that's the, that's the update in, uh, in Sumi.
18:57And, uh, now we turn to Odessa.
19:04Odessa.
19:05A lot of collective West focus on Odessa.
19:10Odessa a lot, a lot of focus on Odessa makes you wonder why is the collective West all of a sudden so hyper-focused on Odessa?
19:22Because the NATO CEO, Mark Rutte, he made a surprise visit to Odessa, a surprise visit.
19:31Surprise.
19:32I'm here.
19:34And, uh, so that's a surprise.
19:36I've arrived in Odessa.
19:38And, uh, he, he met the green goblin there.
19:41And, uh, they went to a military hospital.
19:46And they were taking selfies at this military hospital.
19:52Rutte was taking selfies with soldiers who have been wounded in, in the conflict.
19:57And, uh, then they gave, uh, they gave some statements to, to the media.
20:04Rutte was asked about the, the U.S. peace process.
20:10And if he wanted to comment on the negotiations with Russia and Rutte said he has no comment.
20:14He said he didn't want to, uh, to comment on, on the talks between the United States and Russia.
20:19Of course, he didn't want to comment on the talks between the United States and Russia because NATO and Mark Rutte, they have been cut out of the, uh, talks between the United States and Russia.
20:31NATO and Rutte are not participating in those talks.
20:34So what could Rutte possibly comment about?
20:38I believe he said that, uh, that NATO never promised Ukraine entry, but then he said that Ukraine is definitely, um, on track to, to get into NATO.
20:53He said something, something along those lines.
20:55The, the one statement contradicted the other in a way.
20:57He said, we never promised, never, never promised Ukraine would enter, uh, NATO.
21:05We never said such a thing, but, uh, Ukraine is still being considered to enter NATO, something like that.
21:12Anyway, that's the CEO of NATO, Mark Rutte.
21:17Rutte, I believe in the Netherlands, they called him, or they still call him Pinocchio.
21:22Is that correct because of, uh, of all the lies that, that he told when he was, uh, prime minister.
21:32So he's in Odessa.
21:34He is in Odessa meeting with Alensky.
21:39And, uh, yesterday I talked about the rumors that Macron and France, they are in Romania with NATO officials planning some sort of military action.
21:53Towards Odessa.
21:53If, uh, if the United States walks away from Ukraine and Russia continues to advance and they break through the crumbling Ukraine defense lines, and they start making their way towards Odessa.
22:07The rumors are that, that Macron and the French military are going to try to, to get to Odessa before the Russian military.
22:15Those are the rumors.
22:16Those, I can't confirm this, but now you have, uh, Rutte in Odessa.
22:22Alensky, he told, uh, the media, or he commented to the media about talks that are taking place in Turkey.
22:30Now, I don't know the, at what level Turkey's involved in all of this.
22:36I don't know how, how high up it, this goes.
22:38And, uh, and Turkey is hosting this, uh, this meeting, which has, uh, the UK, France, and Ukraine.
22:50They are at this meeting and they're discussing the Black Sea and how to, uh, how to guarantee that the Black Sea is, uh, is protected.
23:02So, uh, that's, that's interesting.
23:05Whenever you're talking about the Black Sea, what city are you talking about?
23:08Of course, you're talking about Odessa.
23:12Let me see if I have a quote from Alensky.
23:15He said, military representatives from Ukraine, France, and UK, and Turkey are discussing the presence of a military contingent in the Black Sea.
23:23As part of those guarantees, the fact that these talks are ongoing, that we are preparing for this hopeful, soon-to-be-achieved eventuality, NATO tries to steer that in the direction we think would be advisable.
23:39This is from Rute.
23:40This is a statement from Rute, Rute said.
23:42Okay, so that's a quote from Rute.
23:44So, Rute is also aware of the meeting that has taken place in, uh, in Turkey.
23:49Rute, a meeting about providing security in the Black Sea, which basically means providing security to Odessa, the UK, France, and Ukraine, and NATO, and NATO, because Rute is commenting on this meeting.
24:09And Poland, Poland also wants to get in on the Odessa action.
24:16Now, I talked about this last week when I was in Aya Napa, about how the deputy agriculture minister of, uh, of Poland, in an interview, he threw out there that, you know what?
24:33Poland should have some sort of a presence in Odessa.
24:39And, uh, and, uh, and the presence they should have, they should have something, uh, in the port, where then Poland can control the, uh, the trade, the exports that, uh, that leave Odessa.
24:58And Poland can, uh, and Poland can, can be in charge of, of this part of Odessa.
25:04And that was, that was said by the agriculture, the deputy agriculture minister.
25:09I talked about that last week.
25:11Well, now you have Donald Tusk, Tusk.
25:16The prime minister of Poland, uber-globalist Tusk.
25:20He, uh, he, uh, he was giving a speech at some Euro summit and Tusk started to, to talk about how, how Poland would, uh, would absolutely support Ukraine.
25:37We're going to support Ukraine.
25:38And we've always been there for Ukraine.
25:40But he said that Poland is not naive and they're not just going to, to stand by Ukraine for free.
25:48And, uh, Tusk said that Poland is going to make money off of the, the protection, the security, the cooperation that it has with, uh, Ukraine.
26:01Poland is going to make money off of it.
26:04And then Tusk threw out there that perhaps Poland could have something in, uh, in Odessa.
26:13Something that, uh, that they could control at the Odessa port.
26:23And that would be one way that Poland could monetize project Ukraine.
26:30Ukraine, an interesting statement from Donald Tusk.
26:38And so let me read you what Tusk said.
26:48That's, uh, a very popular skate park in Limassol.
26:53Well, and over here is the Limassol Del Mar.
26:57So let me read you Tusk's quote, we will help Ukraine.
27:01Poland is in solidarity.
27:02We are a symbol of solidarity, but never again in a naive way.
27:06He said, it won't be the case that Poland will express solidarity while others profit.
27:12For example, on the reconstruction of Ukraine, we will be in solidarity and we will make money on it.
27:18Tusk cited a potential logistics hub in the south of the country run by Polish companies as a point from which materials could be exported to Ukraine from the EU.
27:36So this is what's going to happen.
27:39This is what's, what's going to go down or what could possibly go down.
27:45What the EU, what the EU and the UK are thinking.
27:50If the US walks away, they believe that, uh, that their final card to play in order to, to salvage project Ukraine and call it some sort of a victory is to grab Odessa.
28:05It's that simple.
28:06I'm not saying they're going to do it.
28:09I'm not saying that they have the capabilities of doing it.
28:11I'm just saying that this is what they're talking about in Brussels.
28:16They're saying, look, the only way we can call this a victory, if the US walks away and as Russia continues to, to advance and to win, the only way we can call project Ukraine a win.
28:29Is if we, uh, make a, make a grab at Odessa.
28:35That's it.
28:36So, uh, Olenski, he was asked with Rute, uh, standing next to him.
28:46He was asked to comment on, uh, Whitcoff and, uh, the, the envoys, Trump's envoys negotiations with Russia, which according to wit, to Whitcoff are moving in a positive direction.
29:01And, uh, Olenski, he lashed out at, uh, Trump's, Trump's very good friend, his envoy to the Middle East, his envoy to Iran, his envoy to, uh, to Israel and, uh, and Gaza, his envoy to Ukraine.
29:22Whitcoff is doing a lot of work.
29:23He is doing a lot of work, but anyway, this is Trump's trusted envoy, his trusted friend, and Olenski lashed out at him.
29:33Basically, Olenski said, who is Whitcoff to talk about, uh, about Ukraine and about the territories?
29:42Zaporozhye, Hefson, Lugansk, Donetsk.
29:45Olenski said that these are Ukraine territories.
29:48We will never give them up, and, uh, and, uh, and Whitcoff has no right and no authority whatsoever to discuss with Russia these territories.
30:01I believe Olenski said the five territories, so he's throwing, he's throwing Crimea in there as well.
30:08So let me read you what the Green Goblin said.
30:12And, let's see here, do I have it bookmarked?
30:17Yes, I do.
30:18Olenski lashes out at Trump envoy.
30:22He said that, and he was talking about the five territories.
30:27Olenski, in his comments, he's talking about the five territories, and he said, Ukraine is a sovereign state, and all territories belong to the unitary state of Ukraine, and therefore only the people of Ukraine can speak about the territories of our state.
30:38Olenski replied, recognizing any formerly Ukrainian regions as belonging to Russia is another red line for Kiev.
30:46He added, therefore, the representative you mentioned is discussing issues outside his competence.
30:55He is discussing issues outside his competence.
30:59This is not the first time that Olenski has lashed out at, uh, at Whitcoff.
31:04He also, uh, he also commented very negatively, uh, about Whitcoff, uh, about a month ago.
31:14He said that Whitcoff was, was a Kremlin stooge, or he was parroting Kremlin narratives.
31:22He said that about two, two to four weeks ago, he made a similar comment.
31:27So this is the second time that he's lashing out at, uh, at Whitcoff.
31:31The representative you mentioned, he doesn't even say his name.
31:36The representative you mentioned is discussing issues outside his competence.
31:41Yeah, he called Whitcoff just a real estate agent, like two, three weeks ago.
31:44Who is this real estate agent?
31:47Conducting diplomacy.
31:48Eh, who is this real estate guy?
31:50Conducting diplomacy.
31:52Eh, maybe, maybe I give him a call, eh, Bedoliak?
31:54Maybe he has some, some apartments to, to sell to me in New York City.
31:59Anyway, that was, that was Olenski lashing out at Whitcoff.
32:03He lashed out at, uh, JD Vance during the 60 Minutes interview.
32:08Yeah, he lashed out at Vance.
32:10He, he, he didn't say Vance by name, but he said that there are people in the Trump administration
32:15who are also parroting Kremlin narratives and Kremlin disinformation.
32:20And obviously he was talking about Vance because 60 Minutes also brought up the, the argument
32:25at the White House and they were blaming Vance.
32:27And then Olenski started talking about how the Kremlin has infiltrated the Trump administration
32:32and the Trump administration.
32:34They're, uh, they're just repeating Kremlin talking points.
32:37And obviously it was, uh, in reference to, to Vance.
32:41Yes, Olenski is saying that Vance is now working for the Kremlin.
32:48Ah, the Green Goblin.
32:51The Green Goblin.
32:53I didn't know that Olenski did, uh, did a skit on, uh, 300.
33:01Back when he was still just, uh, just a comedian playing the piano with his pee pee.
33:05Yeah, he did a skit back in the day on, uh, on 300 where he was playing, he was pretending
33:14to be King Leonidas.
33:17You are no King Leonidas Olenski, not even close.
33:27So what was Vance's response to all of this?
33:31Vance's response was not positive, diplomatic though.
33:35I will, I will give it to Vance.
33:37He was very diplomatic in his response.
33:40Vance basically said that, uh, that Olenski should not be, uh, criticizing the vice president
33:48of the United States.
33:49The United States in general should not be saying that we are on Russia's side because
33:55it is the United States that is, uh, that's holding up the entirety of, uh, of the Ukraine,
34:01uh, government, which is true.
34:05That is true.
34:06It is the United States that pays for just about everything that has paid and continues
34:12to pay for just about everything in Ukraine from weapons to the salaries of, uh, of all
34:19the government officials to the salaries of, of teachers and policemen and firemen.
34:25Um, that's all being paid, paid for by the United States.
34:35And while it is very much a U.S. war against, uh, against Russia, Ukraine being the proxy,
34:42Vance is correct that the United States could, if it wants to stop waging a conflict against
34:51Russia and, uh, just call it a day and pull out its support and with it, its money.
34:58Yeah, Lenski's really pushing his luck, man.
35:06He is really pushing it.
35:08He is constantly trashing, uh, Trump officials.
35:15Witkoff, Vance, even sometimes Trump, even, even Trump.
35:19Sometimes he trashes in a very passive, aggressive kind of way, but he trashes Trump.
35:30I'm just wondering, when is, uh, when is the Trump administration going to say enough?
35:35What are they going to say enough, man?
35:37We're sick of this guy.
35:39Enough trashing us.
35:40Yes, we are, uh, we are in a war with Russia, but you know what?
35:45We're, we're no longer in a war with Russia.
35:51We're done.
35:52We're sick of this guy trashing us.
35:54We're out of here.
35:56I wonder when they're going to say that.
36:00And then what is Lenski going to do?
36:04He thinks that the Europeans are going to, uh, to save him.
36:08He's very, very mistaken.
36:10Anyway, that's the, that's the whole drama around the Green Goblin.
36:16How we doing on time?
36:18Yeah, we got to wrap this video up.
36:21Let's wrap this thing up.
36:23A tariff update.
36:24We are getting reports that China is blocking, uh, Boeing.
36:29China orders its airlines to dump Boeing, according to Bloomberg.
36:33China's top three airlines, Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines
36:39had plans to receive 45, 53, and 81 planes from the U.S. aerospace giant, respectively,
36:46over the next two years, according to Reuters.
36:49China is one of the biggest markets for aircraft and has, in the past, accounted for up to a
36:53quarter of Boeing's output.
36:56U.S. President Trump seemingly slammed the decision in a truth social post on Tuesday.
37:00Beijing just reneged on the big Boeing deal, saying that they will not take possession
37:05of fully committed to aircraft, the president wrote.
37:12Yeah, this is going to hurt Boeing.
37:13Boeing was already hurting from all of the, I guess you could say, the scandals, everything
37:18that was happening around their, uh, their airlines.
37:21Doors opening, fire exits, exit doors opening, and stuff like that.
37:25So Boeing was already in, in a bit of trouble, but, uh, this is going to hurt them a lot.
37:31China's a huge market for Boeing.
37:35Anyway, uh, I know a market that the U.S. can, can try to reopen.
37:41It's not the size of China, not even close to the size of China.
37:44But I do, I do know a market that Boeing used to have a presence in, and then it was cut
37:50off, and perhaps Trump can, can reopen that market, Russia, but we'll see.
37:57We are also getting reports that the U.S., according to Israeli media, the U.S. is going
38:02to leave Syria in about two months.
38:05This is coming from Ynet, which is, uh, a reliable, uh, media source in, uh, in Israel.
38:13So for them to be reporting this means that it's probably true.
38:18They do have good, good sources from what I understand, um, in the Israeli government.
38:25So they're saying that the U.S. has told Israel that it's going to begin withdrawing troops
38:30from Syria within two months.
38:32Because Israel's trying to convince the United States not to pull out of, uh, of Syria, because
38:38the claim is from Israel, the claim is that if the United States pulls out of Syria, then
38:46that places Israel in direct confrontation with, uh, Turkey, because you're not going to
38:51have the U.S. presence there to prevent some sort of a direct smash between Israel and Turkey
38:57in Syria.
38:58So that is the report coming out of Ynet.
39:03And let's do a clown world and we can wrap this video up.
39:07And the clown world is courtesy of Germany from the publication Zeit Online, which interviewed
39:15Ursula von der Leyen.
39:17And the title of their interview is, we have no bros and no oligarchs.
39:23I'm not making this up.
39:24That is the actual title of the interview with van der Leyen.
39:28We have no bros and no oligarchs.
39:30We don't have any oligarchs in the EU because the EU officials, we are the oligarchs.
39:36I'm the oligarch, Ursula, I'm the oligarch, Kaya Kalish, she's the oligarch.
39:42We don't have any other oligarchs.
39:44We're the oligarchs.
39:45We're the bros.
39:46We're the bros.
39:47Anyway, that's the title of, uh, Zeit Online.
39:50And let me just read you two questions from this article.
39:56They threw a bunch of questions at Ursula and, uh, and basically, uh, Ursula is, well,
40:05she's delusional.
40:06She, she actually thinks that she's doing a good job and Zeit Online is actually, uh, presenting
40:12Ursula as doing a good job.
40:14When you read the interview, you understand that Ursula actually believes that she is doing
40:19an awesome job as commissioner of the European Union.
40:24She says everyone is calling the EU since Trump launched the, uh, the Liberation Day.
40:29She said every country is calling the EU and they want to do business with us because she
40:35said that the EU is all about stability.
40:37She said, we provide stability.
40:42Yeah.
40:43Stability.
40:45Except when they're stealing Russia's, uh, Russia's money.
40:49Well, freezing Russia's money, except when they're, uh, when they're preventing democracy
40:56to take place in Romania.
40:59Other than that, it's, it's, it's all about, uh, stability when they're preventing democracy
41:05to take place in France, when they're organizing color revolutions in, uh, in Georgia and Slovakia
41:12and Hungary, except for all of that stuff.
41:16Europe is all about stability, continuing to escalate war with Russia and stability.
41:24Anyway, here are, uh, here are two questions from Zeit.
41:27There has been nothing but crisis since you took office, office.
41:31Isn't that right?
41:33And Wanderlein said, yes, I had been in office for 90 days when the WHO declared the KUF,
41:39a global pandemic.
41:41We weren't yet back on our feet when Putin attacked Ukraine.
41:45Soon after we got into the worst energy crisis we've ever had because Putin shut off the gas
41:52and now we have a transatlantic crisis.
41:55So yes, there has been one crisis after another.
41:58Damn it, Putin shutting off the gas.
42:01Cause Putin woke up one morning and said, you know what?
42:06All of this gas going to the EU, just, just turn it off, man.
42:11Just turn it off.
42:12Anyway, Zeit then says, Kaya Kallis, the union's foreign affairs representative, said after Aletsky
42:23was expelled from the White House, the free world needs a new leader.
42:27Are you the leader of the free world now?
42:31And Wanderlein's response is, I don't like these labels.
42:36So, so Zeit asked her, are you the leader of the free world?
42:41And Wanderlein said, I don't like these labels.
42:46So her, her response is basically, yes, I am the leader of the free world.
42:50That's what she, that's what she's saying.
42:52I'm the leader of the free world now.
42:55I'm the leader.
42:56I'm the leader.
42:57Yes.
42:57Tatters, Tatters, I am leading the free world.
43:01And Russia's using washing machine chips to power up their fighter jets.
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