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welcome to KH mahora With Me George

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Galloway on Almine television the

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fastest growing television service in

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the arab-speaking

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world tonight we're discussing the

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Ukraine Russia and its collapsing

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relationship with Western Powers

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especially the United States of America

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but also some of its key allies

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including this one the United Kingdom

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now the first point I want to make clear

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is that the West has been mad at Russia

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for a very long time you could say right

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back to

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1917 when the Russian revolution

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occurred and the Western allies landed

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hundreds of thousands of soldiers not

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often Remembered in the territory that

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became the Soviet Union in order to try

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and reverse the Russian Revolution then

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it became obvious that the Russian

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Revolution wasn't going anywhere and so

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they transformed hot war against the

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Russians to Cold War and that Cold War

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lasted a long time they got even more

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mad at the Russians when it was they who

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conquered Berlin in

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1945 they got really mad when the

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Russians developed a nuclear bomb ending

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the Monopoly on nuclear weapons held by

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the United

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States ultimately the Soviet Union

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collapsed and the West began to love

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Russia for the first time in almost a

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100 years they loved it because it was

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ruled by a drunken fool called Boris

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yelson who allowed Russia's national

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wealth to be privatized and stolen by a

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whole plethora of uh uh

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plutocrats of the former Soviet Union's

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nomenclatura as well as others much of

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Russia's national wealth went

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abroad and some of it quite a lot of it

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actually here to London but the drunker

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yelton got the more stupid he got the

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more he allowed Russia's wealth to be

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stolen the more they loved

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him and when he was replaced by

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President Vladimir Putin the West got

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mad at Russia all over again because

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Putin is many

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things but the one thing he's not is a

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pushover his name's Putin not

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pushover and he has stood up to not just

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the West

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but the oligarchs within Russia itself

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many of whom are now in prison and one

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of the main political missions of

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President Putin is to return Russia's

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wealth back to Russia so far so good as

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far at least as I am

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concerned that's what the Russian people

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deserve after all their sacrifice in the

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second world war when they lost 26

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million people in the

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War it's the least that they deserve

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that their National wealth should be

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their own preserve I'm making these

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points because I don't want you to think

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that this crisis is about Ukraine it

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started long before

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Ukraine in fact you can say that it

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began to

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Peak far

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from the Russian area itself in relation

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to the Arab Republic of Syria you see

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the the United States and the United

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Kingdom and France the former Colonial

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Powers wanted to overthrow the regime of

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Bashar alassad in Syria and Russia said

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no and Russia made clear in the United

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Nations where it has veto power that

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they would never allow a repeat of the

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Libyan

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Fiasco where a resolution was taken from

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the United Nations

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misused turned into the opposite of what

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it said it was and used to overthrow the

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regime in Libya with the catastrophic

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results that everyone has

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seen so they began to get even more mad

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against Putin even more mad against

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Russia because of Syria and by extension

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because Russia refuses to go along with

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the policy of sanction quarantine and

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double standards against the Islamic

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Republic of Iran

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then came the Ukraine what happened in

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Ukraine is widely misunderstood amongst

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the Western public and deliberately

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misunderstood by Western politicians and

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media they say that

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Russia has invaded

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Ukraine the truth is that NATO invaded

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Ukraine and everything that Russia has

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done since is a response to Nato

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intervention in Ukraine what do I mean

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by intervention Ukraine had an elected

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president and an elected Parliament I

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didn't care for either of them they're

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not my choice they're nothing to do with

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me but they were chosen democratically

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in an election by the people of the

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Ukraine and moreover another election

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was du in less than a

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year but the Western Powers principally

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the United States principally Victoria

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nuland who's now at the state department

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but was then the US ambassador to

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Ukraine by her own admission pumped

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millions and millions of dollars into

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the protest that became known as the

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maidan which ultimately overthrew the

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elected president by force invaded the

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Ukrainian Parliament by force set it on

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fire and held guns literally to the

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heads of the members of parliament until

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they agreed to support the dissolution

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of the parliament the overthrow uh of

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the president and the First Act of this

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revolutionary new Parliament was to

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Outlaw the teaching and speaking of the

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Russian language in the Ukraine

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now

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45% of the people of Ukraine are Russian

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speakers

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it is a bilingual country and suddenly

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Russian was equated with some kind of

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terrorist language and the language

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banned from all official

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discourse the people in the East and the

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south of Ukraine completely

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rejected the coup which took place in

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Kev a

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fascist right-wing Ultra Ukrainian

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national IST takeover of power was

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always going to be rejected by the

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Russians speaking people of Ukraine and

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so they said well if Ukraine wants to be

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led by such people we don't want to be

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in Ukraine we want to rejoin

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Russia which of course in the past

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historically they had been a part of in

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Crimea where the Russian Republic had a

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treaty in what was called the autonomous

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Republic of Crimea the clue being in the

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wordss autonomous

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Republic the people of the autonomous

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Republic said we want to be back with

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Russia where we historically always have

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been given that the Russian naval base

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there was critical to Russia's whole

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defense posture

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Russia supported the decision of the

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people of Crimea to rejoin their country

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and now in the East and the south of

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Ukraine there is fullscale war it is a

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war that was chosen by the coup regime

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in Kiev it is a defensive war that is

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being fought by the people of east and

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south Ukraine Russia has not invaded

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Ukraine if Russia invaded Ukraine the

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the war would have been over in an

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afternoon because anybody that thinks

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Russia can be played with militarily

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doesn't know The Facts of Life if Russia

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wanted to it could end this war this

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evening by moving its forces to defend

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the Russians speaking people of eastern

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Ukraine but it has not done so of course

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there are Russians helping fellow

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Russians inside eastern Ukraine but

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that's not the Russian State

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policy diplomacy has been The Stance of

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the Russian government from the start uh

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Putin his foreign minister all his

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ambassadors and plenty potenti is around

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the world have been trying to find a

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diplomatic solution to this

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crisis in a way that would not lead to

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war but the West is bent on encroaching

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on Russia n

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has constantly Advanced closer and

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closer to the Russian

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Frontier well you don't know The Facts

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of Life if you think Russia is going to

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allow a hostile military Alliance to

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have bases and missiles all around it

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pointing at it the Russians reject this

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and so they should and so they must

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sanctions have been imposed upon Russia

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just like the ones on Iran getting

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Tighter and Tighter and Tighter and now

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we have the absurdity in Britain where

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the language that's being used in the

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media and in Parliament is like the Cold

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War as if Russia were still some kind of

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communist enemy of Western Powers when

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it is not and it's getting dangerous

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just in the last uh few

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days Russian military aircraft flying in

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international airspace this is important

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flying in international airspace were

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buzzed by British Air Force jets and

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threatened and the Russian Ambassador

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has been called into the foreign office

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to be given a lecture by the jumped up

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foreign minister of the United Kingdom

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whose name nobody in Britain even knows

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wagging his finger at the Russians for

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daring to fly in international airspace

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this from people who are invading other

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people's countries all over the world

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sending their army navy Air Force to

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bomb and shell and occupy other people's

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countries all around the world lecturing

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Russia about flying in international

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airspace that's the backdrop I've got an

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audience of gifted professionals and

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enthusiastic amateurs like me and the

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discussion starts after this

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