Vladimir Putin

the Russian...

Literally using the Putin term for it, yeah.

Now, interestingly, this story had passed me by, but the Bank of Scotland, two weeks ago, closed all Galloway's accounts, which he'd had for 39 years.

We heard his mortgage and his pensions in it.

And then he was going to be able to grab the resources by doing that.

And while I may or may not talk a lot about it today, do remember that this is a model that Vladimir Putin has used now for decades, right? So what it did is it rejected both the United Nations, not the mission, but the United Nations rules.

You're not allowed to go into other countries and take their stuff.

If you sign on to the United Nations and obviously the different alliances behind the United Nations tried to stop anybody from doing it, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO.

But Trump just threw all those alliances out and he said, I'm just going to do this rather the way Vladimir Putin has done stuff.

What he ended up doing, of course, was exactly what military advisors and State Department advisors have told American presidents now for decades, if you do that, the Iranians will close the Strait of Hormuz and they will shut off the transmission of up to 20% of the world's oil plus fertilizer and so on.

And Trump kept saying, no one knew they were going to do this.

Speaking on Thursday, Andersson said that the people of Sweden have voted for a new direction and against division.

Polls have opened in Eastern Russia for its three-day parliamentary election, which Vladimir Putin's party is all but guaranteed to win.

It's the first vote to elect members of the Duma since a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Only parties that broadly support the Russian president are permitted to run in elections.

Speaking on Thursday, Andersson said that the people of Sweden have voted for a new direction and against division.

Polls have opened in eastern Russia for its three-day parliamentary election, which Vladimir Putin's party is all but guaranteed to win.

It's the first vote to elect members of the Duma since a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Only parties that broadly support the Russian president are permitted to run in elections.

Speaking on Thursday, Andersson said that the people of Sweden have voted for a new direction and against division.

Polls have opened in eastern Russia for its three-day parliamentary election, which Vladimir Putin's party is all but guaranteed to win.

It's the first vote to elect members of the Duma since a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Only parties that broadly support the Russian president are permitted to run in elections.

So in the Ukrainian chapter, I look at Russia's role there, which is threefold, because it began in the Russian Empire, it was repeated in the USSR.

Now Putin is doing it again in the current invasion of Ukraine.

And then in the Kurdish chapter, that's where I looked at Turkey, Kurdish being uniquely attacked as a language that now finds itself spoken primarily between four different modern nation states, having themselves been denied statehood, sort of during the Great imperial land grab of the 19th century.

More covert forms of linguicide look a little different.

This hostility toward institutional democracies and failure to understand international trade contrasts sharply with his persistent affinity for autocratic strongmen.

Trump has repeatedly demonstrated a distinct preference for figures like Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, Kim Jong-un and other authoritarian leaders, openly expressing admiration for their centralised power, iron-fisted control and personal style of governance.

This affinity for strongmen has directly reshaped American foreign policy, leaving traditional allies exposed.

During his time in office and on the campaign trail, Trump frequently questioned the core tenets of collective security.

Eso significa enormes poderes para el presidente y pocas sorpresas políticas.

Las elecciones de este fin de semana prometen volver a dejar un parlamento controlado por Rusia Unida, el partido gobernante y compuesto por legisladores muy leales a Vladimir Putin.

This weekend's elections promise to return to a parliament controlled by United Russia, the ruling party, and made up of lawmakers very loyal to Vladimir Putin.

Las elecciones de este fin de semana prometen volver a dejar un parlamento controlado por Rusia Unida, el partido gobernante y compuesto por legisladores muy leales a Vladimir Putin.

Los críticos desestiman la votación por considerar que no es libre ni justa.

Critics dismiss the vote on the grounds that it is neither free nor fair.

In the previous Duma, everyone seemed to sing the same hymn.

En la Duma anterior, todos parecían cantar el mismo himno.

Can we afford to do whatever? our strategic planners say we want to do you look at your allies are our allies with us do we have additional help and obviously you need allies for resources you need allies for intelligence but you also need the political report in the u.n you want a resolution if no one agrees with you that your your military operation we're not going to call it a war It's a military operation, according to the president.

Very much like what Mr. Putin calls what he's doing in Ukraine, a military, a special military operation.

That's going to slow you down administratively in the world organizations.

It's going to slow you down with people who are not your allies.