Moscow Kremlin

Trump Tower, uh, there's a new Trump Tower deal, $85 million going to a sanctioned oligarch's family.

Now, this is, uh, billionaire pro-Kremlin oligarch, uh, Bidzina Ivanishvil- something.

I don't know.

There's a lot of I's in it anyway.

They're clowns.

Here you have a Kremlin.

This is what I love.

Like, to be honest, this

television.

He published glossy magazines in which Kremlin talking points appeared alongside luxury advertising, produced political talk shows that simulated pluralism while maintaining the state line, and worked within the milieu surrounding Vladislav Surkov, a name that will be familiar to those who watch this channel carefully, and of course other Kremlin political managers.

He now writes for outlets including The Atlantic and Air Mail.

lectures on information warfare and authoritarian media systems, and is publishing a memoir, I believe, called The Propagandist.

That was a major problem for him.

They took his funding away from him, which because still Vengadiktiv, so it's funny for those those listeners i guess who don't know russia's number one liberal um pro-democracy radio station which was it had quite a large following it was called echo of moscow it was led by this uh alexei venedictive that's long time editor-in-chief It was actually owned by Gazprom.

It was owned by Gazprom Media, which is very Russia, very Kremlin, very old style Kremlin, not as much anymore.

I think that people like Solovyov, people like Margarita Simonyan, they bent the knee in a way that no one else essentially has.

Russia is still gorging itself on violence and on war crimes, especially against civilian targets.

The Kremlin had named its price its unreasonable price as usual.

Dmitry Peskov called the American proposal a good idea and then explained that protecting refineries would not be enough.

The main problem, he said, is getting petroleum products to world markets.

while seeking concessions for the aggressor.

We've heard this song before and, quite frankly, it's getting somewhat tiresome.

The Financial Times reports what Kremlin insiders already know.

Putin does not want to halt these strikes before winter because burning Ukraine's grid in the cold is his last remaining instrument of pressure on Kyiv.

So we're entering the, what is this, the 13th year of war in Ukraine that started in 2014, backed by Russia.

And we see that from that time, even before that, Kremlin has been intensifying their attempt in rewriting Ukrainian identity.

claiming Ukrainians to be part of Russia, claiming that Ukrainians are actually Russian, that those are two brother states that actually have so much in common.

And they have a huge apparatus working, a huge infrastructure that is using the memory politics, the cognitive warfare, the propaganda, They're weaponizing the culture in the attempts to rewrite the identity of Ukrainians and to make the world and people both inside Russia and Ukraine believe that Ukraine doesn't exist.

There is actually some sort of a geopolitical mistake.

So Russia, for example, being a country that consists of more than 200 ethnicities and it has 10 time zones, it's a huge country.

It's been controlled by Kremlin using the storytelling and narratives and the same techniques applied to Ukraine.

When Russia is occupying new parts of Ukraine, the first thing that the army does is that they conquer the TV station and the TV tower and they are turning on the propaganda and they're turning on the propaganda channels in Russia.

If Ukraine and Russia continue attacks on energy sites despite Trump claiming they agreed to stop, Ukraine and Russia continue targeting energy infrastructure and attacks on Tuesday despite Trump claiming a day earlier the two sides agreed to halt such strikes.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Trump's suggestion was a good idea.

This said that overnight, the Ukrainians attempted to strike one of the energy facilities in Russian territory in one of the Russian regions.

For his part, Zelensky said Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in Sizran, western Russia, and attacked the frames of response to Russia continuing to target energy infrastructure.

So even that fails.

It's like, yeah, well, your hands are all over this.

The Kremlin also disputed the idea that the attacks on Russian oil refineries were the reason for rising prices, saying it was more related to sanctions on Russia and attacks on tankers.

Of course, we need to lift the sanctions, these illegal restrictions on energy supplies to the world, and only then will the world be saturated with these petroleum products.

Here are some questions I have.

Is it the case that Kremlin was in China with Putin just days before he attended the wedding and gave what appears to have been a lavish gift to the president's son? And what are his ties to Russia's security services? I mean, this is just another day in Donald Trump's America.

These folks are not just corrupt.

They're clowns.

He got powerful and rich because he was part of Putin's inner security circle.

We got to talk about Kushner for a second.

So he's over there polishing Putin's knob, as we like to say in the Kremlin.

That's a technical diplomatic term.

Another fact is that they literally did give money to Donald Trump Jr.

But who is that guy? Who is Umar Kremlev? It says here, in the same years that he began building ties of figures close to Putin, Kremlev started attending gatherings of the Night Wolves, an ultra-nationalist biker club whose leaders have long enjoyed close links to the Kremlin.

The Russian investigative outlet Proik wrote in a profile of the businessman.

At one of the bikers' meetings, he met Alexey Verbezny, a powerful major general in Russia's Federal Protective Service, which guards top officials.

Very interesting though, right? Kind of feels very UFC-ish.

It's a very interesting mirror here.

And in a sign of his growing influence, Kremlev joined the business delegation that traveled to China with Putin shortly before flying to the Bahamas Like others in Moscow's upper echelons, Kremlin has shown an open loyalty to Putin throughout his rise.

Quote here, thanks to one person today, there are really all kinds of opportunities to earn money and to strive for more, he said.

China advirtió contra una carrera armamentista en el espacio y un portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores chino dijo al respecto: «Urgimos a la parte estadounidense a dejar de expandir sus capacidades militares y de prepararse para la guerra en el espacio exterior».

El portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, sostuvo que el espacio debería estar libre de armas.

El gobierno de Trump ha aprobado vender a Israel bombas de más de novecientos kilos por el valor de dos mil ochocientos millones de dólares.

La partida incluye un total de cuarenta mil bombas, veinte mil MK-84 y veinte mil BLU-117.