The Duran Podcast - Collective west fantasy world and its constant failure to assess Russia accurately

Episode Date: January 15, 2024

Collective west fantasy world and its constant failure to assess Russia accurately The Duran: Episode 1804

All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in Ukraine. And on the front lines, is it me or has, have things quieted down a bit, at least on the front lines? That's how it seems. Yeah, I mean, I don't think he's any doubt about it. And we've had, we have a lull, and I'm sure it is connected with the Christmas holiday. I mean, there's been no formal announcement of a Christmas truce. but I think that the Russian military and Putin have taken a decision that the men on the front line deserve arrest and that's what they've been given. So I mean, we've had a, we have a lull on the front lines

and probably this will continue for a couple more days. Maybe next week we'll start to see things happen a little bit more, you know, with a little bit more energy. But it's important to stress, this is the front lines, the actual what's going on on the ground in the air. It's completely, different missile strikes going on all the time. And of course, the political crisis in Kiev continues. Putin's got a lot to say about things politically. Yeah. So, okay, so let's talk about the political situation in Ukraine. Zelensky is doing a tour of the Baltic nations asking for for money and building the narrative of Russia invading the Baltic nations. That's what this trip is really about. and Putin is traveling in the Far East.

He said some very interesting things about the Russian economy, especially compared to the economies of the European Union. But just to continue on the topic of what's going on on the battlefield, we do have missile strikes from the Russian side, specifically targeting Kharkiv. I think they've really singled out Kharkiv over the past couple of days. last week it seemed like they were singling out Kiev and Odessa, but Harkiv seems to be a target for the Russian military with missiles and drones.

And the Ministry of Defense says that they're targeting hotels where mercenaries are located. Obviously, Ukraine officials, they are saying that these are hotels, housing, journalists, and aid workers. So let's start with what's going on on the ground. mentioned the war in the air is very active. And then we could talk about Zelensky's travels and what's going on in Kiev, all the palace intrigue. And then we can talk about Putin's travels and everything that is going on in Russia with the Russian economy. Absolutely. Let's indeed start with, as a other situation on the front lines. And as I said, we are seeing along the fewer Russian attacks. In fact, in one or two places like Sinkofkand, the Kupyansk, for example, the Russians even pulled back a bit.

But generally, they are continuing this policy more quietly at the moment, but they're continuing to this policy of putting, continue to keep pressure on the Ukrainians all the time. And we've had a lot of information now coming out of Ukraine about the effect that all of this is causing in terms of casualties. And the very interesting thing is that Russian figures about Ukrainian casualties and Ukrainian figures about Ukrainian casualties. And I want to stress, these are informal figures, but they are starting to match up. And this is really very interesting. So we've had the former prosecutor general of Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko, who was somebody, by the way, who was involved Americans may remember him. He played a role of the first Trump impeachment case.

Anyway, he now says that over the course of the entire war, Ukraine has lost half a million men dead or severely wounded. We've had doctors, Ukrainian doctors, telling ABC that Ukraine is losing men. at the rate of 30,000 a month, dead or severely wounded. That is a thousand men a day, just to get some sense of what that means. And the Russian Defence Ministry, the Russian Defence Minister, Szilagay Shoyev said that over the course of 2023, according to Russian calculations, the Ukrainians lost 250,000 men, dead or severely wounded,

which, if you think about it, correlates quite closely with these Ukrainian figures. And this is the effect of the way in which the Russians are conducting the war, which is they're working towards depleting Ukrainian forces on the battlefields. They're conducting attrition, we've discussed this many times. In the summer, they conducted defensive attrition. They let the Ukrainians attack them, and they depleted the Ukrainians massively over the course of the summer offensive. In the autumn that has just passed, and currently this winter, this winter,

winter. Again, Shoygu set this out. He had a meeting in the defence ministry in Moscow. He explained this all there. The Russians are attacking, but they're not engaging in a general offensive. We've discussed this many times. They're only working with a fraction of their army. We've also discussed this many times, but they're still inflicting massive losses on Ukraine. And so we've gone from defensive attrition in the summer to what I've called aggressive attrition this autumn and winter. And that is the tactic. It is to gradually weaken the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians now tell us that Russian military units on the battlefronts are 95% up to strength.

We've had previous reports that Ukrainian units are around 60% strength. So it's starting to see what the difference is. And we can start to see the effect that this is having. It's exhausting the Ukrainian army. It's depleting its manpower reserves. And of course, it's depleting the stocks of ammunition and weapons that the West has been supplying to Ukraine. And we can know all about the crisis of that.

And in the meantime, even as this aggressive attrition continues on the battlefronts, We see the Russians conducting a different kind of aggressive attrition through the air. And we've now got lots of photos coming through from Kiev, from the strikes on the 3rd and 8th of January. We've had more pictures from places like Melnitsky of the effect of the Russian strikes. On the 8th of January, we've seen, as you correctly say, more Russian missile and drone. strikes on Kharkov and this is clearly now becoming a key target for the Russians and it's clear that Ukrainian air defences are not working the Russians are inflicting massive damage on Ukraine's military industrial complex we're seeing warehouses destroyed we're seeing factories destroyed

and they're now focusing on Kharkov and that begs the question why are they focusing so much on Harcalf. Well, Harcalf is Ukraine's second biggest city. It is a major industrial center. One of the big tank factories, the Malishev factory, is located there. So in that respect, Harcath is clearly a target of some sort. But inevitably now, there are growing rumors starting to spread in Ukraine and in the West, some of the ones in the ones in the war. Some of the ones in West originating from Britain, that the Russians are thinking of some kind of offensive in the Harkath area, maybe targeting Harnikov itself, maybe targeting other places around Kharkov, and that this is why these strikes on Harkov are taking place on the scale that

they are. And they're attacking, as you correctly said, hotels where the Russians say mercenaries are based, but what also gets the sense that they're attacking industrial factories, logistical bases, commands, command positions, all of that sort of thing. And it seems to be taking place now on a big scale and all the time. And once again, no sign that Ukrainian air defenses are succeeding. Now, I'm going to express my own personal view. I don't think the Russians are yet ready to launch a general offensive. I think that they're still in the law. working hard to prepare for that. I think they would need many more troops on the front lines than they have at the moment. I'm getting reports about the equipment build-ups that are happening.

I know one location, one location where the Russians have stopped piled around a million shells, and that's just one place along the front lines. So I don't personally think that they're ready yet for a big offensive in Kharkov. But they're hammering Kharkov. Harkov is close to Belgarod, which Ukraine is shelling, you know, sporadically, but it's something that the Russians want to counter. And as I said, it is this big industrial centre. And I think, again, it's keeping the Ukrainians on the back foot, it's keeping the Ukrainians very, very worried about what the Russians might be planning in Kharkov. And there was a big meeting about a day or so ago in this area, which brought together Zaluzni, the overall military commander, Sirsky, the ground forces commander,

and Zerzluzni are known to be on very bad terms, but they had to come together. And the defense minister, Ukrainian defense minister, Rostemu Moumerov was there. So all of these three people came together in this area, in the Kharkov region, clearly worried about the situation, wondering what to do, probably going to commit more of Ukraine's dwindling reserves to trying to hold positions in Kharkov, worried about these Russian strikes on Kharkov city itself.

the Russians conducting aggressive attrition and keeping the Ukrainians guessing about their intentions. Yeah, big mistake to launch the attacks against Belkod from the Ukraine military from the Zelensky regime. That was a big mistake. Something tells me that Kharkov moved up in the priority list because of those attacks. Just a hunch. But, you know, if they go after Harkiv and not even in an offensive, if they just keep the pressure on Harkiv, then that really crushes Zelensky's Crimea, Hefson, Bridgehead narrative. I mean, you know, they're not, Ukraine doesn't, it's not going to be able to commit to both regions. And so the more they're going to commit to Hockiv, because the Russians keep the pressure on Hock.

give the more unbelievable and ridiculous Zelensky's big selling point, which is the bridgehead from Herzl to Crimea becomes. Oh, that's obvious, yeah. I don't think anybody, apart from Zelensky himself and a few people around him, take that idea seriously. And I think that the Americans are dead against it for once. I think the Americans, having been very badly burned with a summer offense, who don't want to see a repetition.

But you're absolutely right. I mean, it's debatable whether Zalelski's. has the resources to conduct an offensive in Hurson region at all. But if most Ukrainian reserves have to be committed to defending Harker for the area around that against, you know, possible Russian offensive there, that's not going to leave anything for an offensive in Hurson region. Now, about Belgarod, you're absolutely correct. At Belgarod, again, it's one of these.

things that makes no strategic military, tactical, political sense. Now, a lot of people say these are sort of terror raids. They're supposed to create disaffection amongst the Russian population, perhaps in the run-up to the elections, the presidential election in March. Well, look at Russia, look at the size of this country. Count how many cities there are in Russia. Belgarod is one place. I'm not trying to diminish its importance or the seriousness of what is happening in Belgaron. But launching the odd rocket attack on Belgarot, smashing up some buildings there, wounding and killing people, it's not going to affect the overall morale of people in Russia. What it's going to make them is angry about what is happening in Belgarod.

And for every shell and rocket that the Ukrainians are able to launch at Belgarov, well, we see that the Russians massively outmatching by the damage that they're doing to Harcalf. And when I say that damage they're doing to Harukhov, I mean, they're, targeting specific buildings in Hanukov, which do seem to be connected in some way to the Ukrainian war effort, which the attacks on Belgarod, to all intents and purposes, are not. So it is a completely illogical strategy, but information terms, it sort of works. There's been a report in CNN about deserted streets in Belgarov. sort of attempt to create some kind of atmosphere of crisis in Russia over the events in Belgarod.

You talk about, if you're CNN, what's going on in Belgarod. You give it that kind of spin. You ignore the much bigger devastation that it's been wreaked on Harkiv, even though Harkat is Ukraine's second biggest city, a major industrial centre. And Belcarod is not. It's not Russia's second-biggest city. It's an important city. It's got a lot of industries.

But it's not vital to Russia in the way that Harkov is. But, you know, that's the war that Zelensky has chosen to fight from the very beginning is the media optics, narrative war. And CNN is happy to take part in that type of... of war. It fits CNN's narrative perfectly to talk about Belgrado in the abandoned streets and look at the defeat that Russia is suffering in one of its own cities. So, I mean, it's, it plays nicely to the collective West media. And that leads us into Zelensky's trip to the Baltics. Why is he going there?

He was in Lithuania the other day. Estonia, Latvia, I think he's going to another country in the United States. I think I want to say Poland, but I'm not sure. But anyway, he's doing this mini tour of, or maybe Finland or Sweden. He's doing this mini tour of Europe, North Europe, the Baltics. The obvious reason for him to go is the money. I mean, he needs the money and the support. But what do you make of this?

Yeah, again, he does need money and he does need support. And he knows that in the Baltic states he's going to get a sympathetic audience. And bear in mind, he's not had that. very much when he's gone elsewhere. I mean, his trip to the United States in the autumn is now universally acknowledged to have been an abject failure, in fact, a disaster. And there's just been an embarrassing event in Austria.

He apparently made another, you know, televised speech to the Austrian Parliament. Many Austrian MP were furious about it. They said it violated Austria's neutrality. You could see the drift. the gradual drift away in Austria, and the Italian defense minister is now coming out, making heretical statements about the fact that Western military aid to Ukraine now needs to be linked in some form to a requirement that Ukraine commit to negotiations.

So he wants to go to places, Baltic states, where he knows he's going to get a sympathetic perception and you know that's what he's doing but the baltic states are not in a position to give ukraine money in any quantities they're very small they're not in particularly good economic shape themselves by the way and of course as military powers they're insignificant and as industrial powers they're insignificant so why is he going well i think one of the primary reasons he's going is because he doesn't want to be in It's as simple as that. I mean, we've had this with him previously. Whenever he can find an opportunity to get away from Kiev now, he, he seizes it.

And he goes to the Baltic states. He says some terrible things there, by the way, which people aren't picking up. But he again basically is calling for the destruction of Russia. I mean, I mean, appalling things like that. this, nobody criticises this. In the Baltic states, some people lap it up because they won't to see that happen there too. Supposedly, that isn't Western policy anyway, but of course we know that in some cases it is. Nobody in the West criticises him. But as I said, he's able to find a sympathetic audience. He's able to find people who support him. And in the meantime, he gets away from

Kiev. And that, I think, is the single most important thing at this time, because the situation in Kiev is becoming increasingly unstable. And the mobilization law is, I suspect, the single thing that is causing the greatest problems. Yeah, I remember when they were making fun of Russia with their partial mobilization. They said it was a complete disaster. And Russia can't do anything right. And it was actually a very successful mobilization on the part of Russia. It had its bumps in the beginning, no doubt about it, but it's a big operation. It's a big and complicated operation to mobilize people. But Russia did it.

They accomplished it. They accomplished their goals. And, you know, they moved forward. Ukraine's mobilization can't even get up off the ground. I mean, this is a complete disaster. But I also think another reason for Zelensky's trip to the border. Baltics is also to stir up the fear, the narrative of Putin invading Europe. I think he's hoping, he's hoping that Johnson in the, in the House or the Republicans that are against funding

Ukraine are going to listen to his speeches and say, oh my God, we better get him 60 billion or else Putin's going to be marching into Estonia and then onwards to France. I think there is part of the part of that. Oh, yeah. I mean, this is and he's not just Zelensky, but. the way. I mean, there's flesh-creeping articles now all over the place. I mean, there's one in the Daily Telegraph today by our old friend, Colonel Hamish DeBrette and Gordon, saying that if we don't defeat Russia in three, in Ukraine, then they will attack us. I mean, literally, you know, carry out a sort of invasion of Europe within three years. That's what he's saying. I mean, you know, this narrative it's there and there's a

really a shocking film I mean I say shocking in multiple levels which has come out in Germany which simulates

Russian missile strikes on Berlin so you know you see you know Russian missiles crashing into Berlin and smoke and all the rest and the television tower in Berlin

you know shrouded and smoke and all of that and I mean you know, there is a major effort under way to play up this narrative, you know, that if Putin takes, it's always Putin, by the way, if Putin takes Ukraine,

he's going to march on to Berlin and beyond Berlin, he's going to go on to Paris and London and New York and, you know, the world is his objective. And, you know, you could, this narrative is absolutely there. And I think

it has also been plugged by him, by Zelensky's and relentlessly in the Baltic states, and of course in the Baltic states, they do have reasons to be nervous. Let's be straightforward at a moment. They're tiny. They can't defend themselves against the Russians. They know that perfectly well.

They must be very, very worried about the drift of events in Ukraine and about the fact that the West is losing. Many people in the West are starting to become skeptical about this continued war in Ukraine. but you know who ultimately do they have to blame for this except themselves i mean they have supported the most extreme anti-russian positions now ever since they gained independence of the soviet union they were told when they joined nato that they should make a serious effort from that point on to try to Mend relations with Russia. They did the exact opposite.

They pursued these intense anti-Russian positions, intense anti-Russian policies. And so, of course, now that it's all coming apart, they are starting to feel nervous. And they're saying, well, you know, if Ukraine goes down, if the Americans aren't able to save Ukraine, what chances of way? The reality is that the Russians have no interest in attacking the war. the Baltic states, no intention to occupy them.

And I think this is a universal view. I don't think anybody in Russia thinks otherwise. So they're not actually threatened unless they themselves do something really stupid, which is unlikely, but not impossible, like perhaps stop participating in the war in Ukraine themselves. ways or doing something with respect to Belarus, in which in case, of course, the situation will become even worse for them than it is already. But, you know, they brought this on themselves, and they don't see to have any ability to take a step back and think about what they've done. Yeah, they got drunk on the neocon promises of global domination. They bought into all of that.

they they bought into the narrative that the sanctions are going to destroy the Russian government and Putin's going to fall. So they bought all of that. And they were, they were 100% behind the Biden White House and the neocon plan to destroy Russia. And it wasn't only Russia. You know, they went hard against China as well. People forget that Lithuania went hard against China. So, I mean, they've made foreign policy, I don't need, I think blunders. It's just, too nice of a word, to be quite honest. So, yeah, you're exactly right. They have no one to blame but themselves for this position because I think they all understand that deep down inside, they understand that sooner or later the U.S. is going to leave them and NATO was going to disappear.

They understand that. And when that happens, they're in very big trouble. Not from a Russian invasion. I just think they're in big trouble because they've antagonized. They went hard against their biggest, most powerful neighbor who they shouldn't have gone hard against. Well, indeed. They should have found a way to get along with them. Absolutely. And their major economic hardland. I mean, at the end of the day, if you look at a map, you can see why it makes absolute

economic sense for the Baltic states to try to maintain good relations with Russia. But of course, they didn't. And more and more people apparently are leaving the Baltic states. This is what I'm hearing. I'm not going to pretend I'm up to date. with the internal situations there. But anyway, things are not good, and they're going to get strategically worse, and they're going to get strategically much worse.

But there is no Russian plan to invade them now, or next year, or the year after. That danger, that risk does not exist. But it was Zelensky. It's his interest to play it up, and he's playing it up with the Baltic states, and he's talking in the same way about Poland and Romania and Germany, most of all. And of course there are people, especially in Germany, I'm sorry to say, who are joining in on this game, that there is some great Russian plan to march on Berlin all over again, which again is absolute foolishness. I mean, I just wanted to quickly say, as a matter of historical fact, if the Russians did get to Berlin in 1945,

It was only because the Germans attacked them in 1941. That is the only scenario in which I can see the Russians going to Berlin. And that is if the Germans attack them again. I hope people in Germany, in Berlin, understand that. Once upon a time, just a few years ago they did. All right. So we're talking about the west of Russia, the east of Europe. let's talk about Putin's trip to the east of Russia and the Far East. He said some interesting things

about the Russian economy, and we have some interesting numbers coming out about the Russian economy. Everything being revised up, it seems. Steadily and remorselessly being revised up. Well, I mean, the first thing to say is that this is, again, a tremendous contrast with Zelensky. I mean, Zelensky wants to stay away from his capital because there's a political crisis. There's a mobilisation law, which, as you correctly say, hasn't got past first base. It's still stuck in the Parliament.

They can't agree. They can't finalise it or haven't been able to finalise it up to now. There's worries on the part of people that if they are called up, it's a sentence of death or severe wounding or incapacitation and all of that. And so that's Zelensky. Well, Putin is able to go away into the Far East on what is in part, let's be frank about this, an election, you know, part of his election campaign. He's now meeting people. Remember, he's standing for president in March. So he's able to go to the Far East. He's able to meet people there. He's able to converse to them. He's traveling note within his own country. He's meeting people. He's taking questions from people in a way that Zelensky, basically no longer is able to do. He's full of optimism, full of bounce,

and he's giving a fundamentally optimistic message. The war is progressing according to plan, because it is, but the economic outlook is becoming better. And he's now telling people, you know, this is in response to question, It seems that GDP growth might again be revised upward for 2023. The last prediction was that it would come out at 3.5% growth. It's now, there's some word now that it might be as high as 4%. Putin was careful to say this has not yet been finalised.

We don't yet have the final figures. We probably will sometime in late January, early February. have to wait and see what he has to say that. But there's no doubt at all that the economy is growing and growing fast, in manufacturing output is rising, real incomes are rising, people are feeling better off, and Putin also gave hints, suggestions that the inflation point, the inflation spike has now reached its peak and that sometime next year, this year rather, we start to see inflation fall. Now, about that, here's a politician on campaign, politicians on campaign, want to give good news. Some people I know are more skeptical about the inflation numbers.

I think he's probably right about this. And I think what we're going to see is inflation falling and perhaps growth easing, but easing to significantly higher levels, higher levels of growth than what we got before the original crisis. And we've had data now from Rostat, the Russian Statistical Agency, and the Economics Ministry, which suggests that the underlying ability, of the Russian economy to grow has been underestimated and the growth rates from this point on will be higher than it was expected before that they would be. And you could see what's happening. Now, you know, I remember being involved in some discussions about the Russian economy

about 10 years ago. And there was, I remember a school of thought which said that a lot of the inflation that Russia suffers from is imported inflation. The reason is that the Russians were importing a lot of sub-components of their factories, they were importing aircraft, they were importing food products. This is before 2014 mine. And that made the cost of these things, these items, very vulnerable to exchange rate fluctuations. if the ruble fell, the prices of all of these things rose. And we saw that in a big way when the ruble devalued in 2014.

There was a big inflation spike the following year, 2015, because imports became much more expensive. And also, if you are dependent on imported goods, if you're relying on imported goods, you don't have the same degree of ability to control their price, that you would if you were manufacturing these things internally. And what Putin is saying, again, I think this is probably true, is that as the Russian economy becomes more domestic,

as the Russians set up their own supply chains, they've already largely done this with food products, but as the Russians set up their own manufacturing supply chains, as they produce their own subcomposed. as they rely less on imported products, as they are able to establish long-term economic partnerships with their major trading partners, China, India, Iran, other countries, in a way that they were never ultimately able to do with the European Union. The price pressure will fall and that will contribute to a general

fall in inflation. In other words, the underlying inflation in Russia will start to come down. And this against a background of higher growth altogether. And he made a point that given that Russia is essentially a self-sufficient

economy, it produces all the food. It needs. It reduces all the energy products. It needs. It's pre-able. to produce all the raw materials it has, provided it can get its supply issues sorted out, its manufacturing sorted out, so that most products that you buy in Russian shops are made in Russia with Russian equipment and with Russian sub-components, that ought to ultimately start to exert a downward push on inflation. And I think he's probably right. Now, this may

some time to work its way through. But, I mean, it does seem to me that we are in that direction. Yeah. I like how he compares with the Russian economy to the EU economies. I mean, he's, he is taking a victory lap in a way. I mean, he's cautious. He always says we have a lot of work to do. He says we have a lot of work ahead of us.

But he does take a little bit of a victory lap, which is interesting to see for Putin. Absolutely. I mean, I want to just add one other. thing. I mean, we're talking about the Russian economy. We've just discussed it. And we're talking about the actual real economy in Russia. Again, I am going to the media in Britain especially, I think also to some extent in the United States. And they're still clinging on to an image of a Russian economy that has no reality. And I've now seen about three articles, which claim that defense spending now makes up for 30%, 3,0% of Russian GDP.

And the only reason, supposedly, why Russia's economy has proved resilient is because of this colossal surge in defense spending and that in fact that it's become an out-and-out war economy. I mean, this is absolute nonsense. And I think this is something people really do need to grasp. They're talking about, again, an economic reality that does not exist. I mean, you were there in Russia a couple of months ago. I mean, did it look like a war economy to you with all the shortages and rationing restrictions that you expect with war economies?

Obviously not. But this is now, I've noticed, become the new narrative frame. that it's a war economy. If you see people talk about a war economy in Russia, you can, I think, immediately say to yourself, this article, you should not bother with. I mean, it is a fantasy. Certainly, obviously, defense spending has risen.

Certainly, military production has risen significantly. But every other part of the economy is responding and growing as well. And the idea that this is a war economy in the way that, say, the United States was during the Second World War is utter nonsense. The U.S. spends $900 billion a year on defense. I mean, for them to call any country a war academy is that sense. It's absolutely not sense. This is how they cope, is their coping mechanism. It is. It is a coping mechanism.

But there's this. I'm sure we're going to get people who are going to be writing to us about this. I mean, just as a few months ago, if you remember, they were telling us that the Russian budget was about to collapse. The year before, the country was going to be pushed into default and all of these things. The latest one, as I said, this war economy thing. I mean, you know, you all, I'm sure remember that about a year ago, there was a professor at Yale who was telling us it was all smoking.

mirrors anyway. So, I mean, you know, this is the latest narrative that people are coming up with. It is not a war economy. It is able to expand military production because it is so vast. Its scale and size and diversity and sophistication are continuously underestimated. They always have been all my lifetime they've been underestimated. And, you know, that is still the case that, you know, we've now got this latest narrative about it, which has come up. And going back to what you said about the Russians planning this great war on Europe, I'm starting to see how some people are putting the war economy narrative with the Russian advance into Europe together. And they're saying that the Russians have to launch this vast invasion.

of Europe because that's the only way they can keep their war economy going. They live in fantasy world. All these people in the West, all these people coming out with these narratives, they just live in fantasy world. It's just one lie after another lie. And just to end the video, you know, the constant underestimation of Russia is the reason they are where they are with this conflict in Ukraine. It's the reason why every time they go to conflict with Russia, they always, you know,

loose because it's this constant underestimation of Russia. This is absolutely correct. One person has just made that point, by the way, and that's Robert Fidso, the new Prime Minister of Slovakia. He's written an article, and he's made exactly that very same point. He said that

there is a constant failure to assess Russia properly and accurately. And instead of people taking a step back and saying to themselves, well, you know, maybe it's different from how we thought. Instead, what they do is they invent new narratives in order that they can go on

with the same denials as we've seen before. All right. We'll end the video there. Derad. Dot locals.com. We are on Rumble, Odyssey, bitch, shoot, telegram, rock fin, and Twitter X and go to the Duran shop, 15% off all t-shirts. Take care.