The Duran Podcast - Russia-Ukraine POW exchanges. If Iran falls, Russia underbelly exposed w/ Stanislav Krapivnik

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

Russia-Ukraine POW exchanges. If Iran falls, Russia underbelly exposed w/ Stanislav Krapivnik

I am here with Stanislav joining us once again on the Duran. Stanislav, how you doing? Good, good. Thank you for having you back. Great to have you on once again. Before we get started, where can people follow your work? Okay, so you can follow me on YouTube, Mr. Slavic man. That's Slavic with a K, not a C.

On Telegram, the Russian channel is Stastodaya Abratna, and the English language channel, Stas, was there. All right. I will have those as a pinned comment down below, and those links are also in the description box. So, Stanislav, I want to discuss what's going on between Iran and Israel, but from the Russian side of things. But before we get there, you've been on the front lines.

You've seen what was going on with the POW exchanges, with the drama that was going, that was unfolding with the bodies, the 6,000 bodies that the fallen soldiers that the Russians had and were waiting for the Ukrainian side to pick up. That has now progressed from what I understand, and the Ukrainian side is starting to collect those, to take back those foreign, those fallen soldiers. But you were, you were there, you saw what was going on. So fill in our audience as to what went down during. those days and weeks.

I was 40 kilometers from the border outside of Briansk. And the first attempt to return, first of all, just to understand these bodies. Ukraine lost about 60,000 troops killed in Kursk, and about 10,000 of those were mercenaries. As an example, there's been about 2,000 Polish mercenaries identified. And when I say mercenaries in the case of Poland, it's, you know, it shit-dipped the mercenaries, as they say. Because these guys are just Polish regulars. The whole battalions will quit, become mercenaries, get combat experience, and then become, again, part of the Polish Army. And they've lost 7,000, killed in these three years, maybe more.

Colombians, people like that, those are just flat-out mercenaries. They're there for a money. And there were about 1,200 of those killed. And by the way, about 200 Americans killed and about almost 100 English killed. That's been identified. This is according to Russian. This is according to Russian sources. Yes, yes.

Now, according to, there's about 50,000 Ukrainian dead, I mean, Ukrainian Ukrainian. And out of those, about 6,000 were genetically identified. Either genetically identified or because they had their paper on them, passports, what have. So they were able to identify exactly who those bodies belonged. As the first, it takes a while. I mean, processing, a lot of these guys are not exactly in the best condition when they get found, especially with the heat right now. When we were, Buryanski was 32 degrees, sunny. You know, bodies, Kursk isn't much colder than that yesterday to the east.

So the bodies are not in the best condition. you can understand. A lot of these guys are spread all over the wood lines. So it's, you know, hit or miss. A lot of them will probably never get found. I mean, there's still digs going on to pull up Soviet and Nazi remains from World War II. A lot of areas. There's tens of thousands of it from both sides. It just, you know, the body just went away into the woods and eventually the ground absorbs them. So it's the same thing here. Plus, you've got wild pigs. You've got wild. dogs eat them, and you've got rats that are literally this big, and that's the body of the rat. That's minus the potato.

They're getting that big because they're a lot of food for them. So these bodies were identified. The trucks went down there. So from the last negotiations, the Ukrainians, Yermolov, as in fact, Imalov offered to exchange bodies. And Russia said, we'll give you $6,000 right of time. So I'll give you $6,000, too, but they don't have $6,000. They don't have $6,000. They may have some from still left over.

They can pull up a couple hundred from 22 when the big move inward was. But once the retreat started and the front stabilized, you know, the bodies, if there were any Russian bodies, it was from failed attacks. And 23, but beginning started at 24. Russia's been mostly on the, almost everywhere on the offensive, the front's moving forward. So any bodies left are going to be left in Russian-controlled territory and that Ukrainian-controlled territory. So any Russian bodies are automatically pulled out and repatriated. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian bodies keep piling up. And another thing that Ukrainians used to do, especially during the great super counter-offensive,

is, of course, they were sending in meat waves for the end. At first, they tried to do NATO maneuvers. Of course, they lacked a lot of the firepower, the air power, the artillery power that they needed. And in the end, they broke down and were just sending in body waves. Mostly these guys were conscripted off the street body waves. Minimal training, and off they go to one big hurrah. Well, the wounded guys would be lying in the field screaming, and the Russian side would send people out to pick them out. and the Ukrainians were actually using their own wounded as targeting points for artillery.

So when the Russian guys came out there to pick up the wounded Ukrainians, they get shells. Let's say, you know, that happens a few times, and they go, fine, whatever, then they'll just lay there until they die and rot. Can't go get them, and their Ukrainians are using their own wounded and dead as bait, artillery bait. So a lot of those bodies got left along in the entire front line. So when Russia gave up, was ready to give these $6,000. And they said, you know, this is the time we're coming, go pick them up. The four trucks, if you look on my channel, I do have a video, and I was also on RT with the video.

With those four trucks, they're 40-foot container trucks, refrigerated. And they came out there, and the rest of the bodies, and that's 1,212 bodies. The rest of the bodies were on a train with similar containers on the train. So, you know, we came out there. They came out there to the front. Thankfully, they didn't get shot at, which you never know with the Ukrainians. But nobody showed up to pick up the body. So they came back up to Briansk.

And we came out there. There was actually Russian and foreign journalists that came out. There was a group of 40 people. Honestly speaking, you're standing around. there's all these journalists and these four trucks and you're going, you know, shite, this is just the perfect

friggin' hymer start getting. Just out in the open of the road, all these people walking around. It's like, rah, yeah, and I don't have a, I didn't have my helmet on or didn't have any body armor on because we couldn't understand how far we're going to be from the border.

So it's like, yeah, this would just be a bad, bad situation. Thankfully, thank God nothing came flying in so the bodies were they didn't get any add-ons and those trucks are there overnight so we'll come in in in the morning got a brief from

one of the generals from the armed forces about the bodies and the fact that Russia Russia held up its side it brought the bodies Ukraine didn't show up and the trucks right after we left the trucks left again Like I said, 40 kilometers, 24, it's 24 miles.

Easy distance for any artillery that comes in to Brianska and things like that. Really, you're in drone range at that point. And, you know, even with the trucks at minus 11 and closed, you could still get whiffs of that corruption coming through the air when the wind spawn. And then they opened up the last truck and, you know, just to show there are piles of bodies and white plastic bags. So yeah, you know, it's a stench. It's not the first time I'm smelling that stench of my life

and probably far from the last time, but it's not a stench you ever get used to. It coats your nose. I'm breathing through my mouth, so none of those. But it'll coat your mouth too, your tongue and everything. So it becomes a taste after a while. But that's what that is. So the trucks left, after we left, the trucks left,

they wouldn't let us go with the trucks. Too dangerous. Because, you know, you just never know if they're going to get hit or not. Ukraine will do that. The second time, nobody was there. And then the trucks came back. And everyone was saying, oh, it's because the Ukrainians can't afford to pay for the bodies for the dead. Which, by the way, Ukraine did promise each of the family's $350,000, I'm sorry, $350,000, plus payment for life, for children or for missing spouse.

You know, really big sums. I mean, the U.S. Army automatic pay was $250,000 on insurance, and you could pay more into the insurance and get $500,000. And that came out of your salary. But that's U.S. Army. Of course, this is the United States that prints money. It's not Ukraine. So here, you know, it's a huge sum of money.

So, of course, they don't have it. The Rata passed the bill right about that time. The Rada passed a bill that said, once the body is identified, two years after the secession of the war, will they start paying? And they say, well, well, it's two years. Let's make it three years. Right off the past, and they had another year. But the thing is not from the time that the body is identified as the person is dead, not just missing, but from the point that the war ends.

But there is no declaration of war. So, yeah, you know, it's one of those, yeah, okay. So what does it ever start counting? Well, about two days, excuse me, about two days after our videos, they took the bodies. But interestingly enough, to take the bodies, because they've got the list, Russia started producing the list on their internet. Everybody was killed, time, place, rank, everybody's been identified. So the families are going nuts, obviously. There were several units that refused to go into combat.

They said, you know, fine, you know, it's one thing, I die, it's nothing, you're not even going to return my body to my family. This is beyond the pale of all pales. This is Path Titanic at this point. And so there's a lot of pressure. So Ukraine took the bodies, but they took them under a specific condition. Each of those families had to sign off that they had no claims on money, and the government wouldn't even help them bury the bodies. I mean, this is below low. This is, if you haven't understood that you are just meat for the grinder, I mean, that just tells you are just meat for the grinder.

I mean, that just tells you are just meat for a grap. You're such meat that we don't even want you back. Just go rot. You're past your usefulness. You've died for our cause, which probably wasn't your cause, and just go die, go rot off and disappear. I mean, this is the level that the Zelensky regime is at, that, I mean, they're just spitting into the grave of everybody they've sent off to die. Whether those people wanted to fight or not. It's hard to even pinpointed history.

where you've dealt with a regime like that before. They didn't want the bodies. And they didn't want the bodies because they couldn't pay. Obviously, they weren't going to pay anyways. They didn't want the bodies because they were afraid of the wave of anger that was going to grow up. It's one thing when the people are missing. And according to the Red Cross, there's 400,000 missing, Ukrainian, presumed dead. So 600,000 or so that they officially say are dead, and then they're 400,000 are just missing.

officially, in quotes, because they were officially, Zelensky's saying, you know, he's lost like 20,000 people or something like that, some ludicrous number. The Cokehead I don't know if he's just lying or the Cokehead really doesn't have a clue about what's going on. It could be both. I've heard from people,

you know, in the Ukrainian government that either came over to the Russian side or were captured. They were saying that, you know, ranking people that Zelensky has no clue about what's really going on. He can't handle them. So they don't really tell them anything. Keep them like a mushroom. Keep them in the dark.

I feed them shun. So that's the situation there. They did take the bodies back. But again, each family had to sign a document that they waived all rights for payment, support, or even better. Incredible. Okay. Let's shift gears and talk about what's going on between Iran and Israel. But approach it from the Russian side of things.

Iran is part of bricks. Iran is very important to China, critical for China, their relationship. But Iran also has a very good relationship with Russia. And for Russia, this is an important region of the world. And Iran is an important country for Russia. So what's going on? Well, you know, Trump reminds me of some kind of protagonist in the cartoon that Every episode he just gets himself into some kind of ridiculous trouble, maybe like Simpsons.

Along that line, I mean, what ludicrous things can we create to really get ourselves into trouble today? You know, Trump's got the problem of MAGA because the people that elected them don't want the U.S. and wars. They want them out of everything. Go secure the borders, bring the troops back, end this insanity. And what do we get? We get the exact opposite. I mean, just spit in the eye of the people that elected you.

Make sure Vance gets a hammer blow upside the head when it's his turn to run because, you know, because. Because Israel owns you or some other idiotic concept like Kellogg and his, well, Kellogg was singing the praises for Zelensky the other day. God, remind you, it was it was puke-worthy, consider his daughter's making money off of, you know, he's. His daughter makes money off of the Ukraine War by evacuating wounded and dead American mercenaries. Because those Haimars and those Patriots are crude by Americans. And I'm pretty damn sure they're not Merks in the whole concept of Merks.

They may be a contractor. Many people they signed their resignation papers and became contracts and they're going to resign their contract with the U.S. Army afterwards. because it takes a long time to prepare those people, especially mechanics and commanders of anti-air system like the Patriot. We're talking a year to prepare a person. So we've got, okay, so Iran, you know, there's two problems. Russia had reasonably good relationship with Israel, and there's a lot of people with dual citizenship,

just like with the U.S., in Israel. That's on the one hand. But on the other hand, Russia also had very good relationship. with everybody around Israel. And while Israel had massive amount of sympathy after 7th of October, massive amount of sympathy, they've managed to burn it all

out and burn out sympathy for the next 50, 60 years for what they've been doing. And it's all over Russian television on and off. You know, the jihad, I won't call it jihad. I don't know what it's not a crusade. I don't know what to call it. The drive for

the greater Israel where they're just wiping You're committing genocide. The first real genocide of the 21st century. I mean, on camera right before everybody's eyes. So the sympathy isn't with Israel, with the vast, vast majority of the Russian population for obvious reasons. Plus, you know, when they're hitting Orthodox, there's about 10% of Palestinians are Catholics are Orthodox.

The Lebanese are the third of the Lebanese are Christian, mostly Orthodox plus Catholics and so on, and that hits home too. As a matter of fact, before the Bolshevik Revolution, the Russian Orthodox Church was the main patron church of the people living in Palestine, today's Israel and the Palestinian states in that area. The Russian Church put up schools, orphanages, and things like that. It was one of the biggest landowners, too,

because it used that land to help the people who were relatively poor. Even considering those areas were part of the Ottoman Empire at that point, Russia got that right to defend the Christians out of the Ottoman Empire. So the ties go back pretty deep and pretty far. And then we get to Iran. So first of all, yes, Iran is part of Bricks. It's the first wave that came in after the initial Bricks formation. because the I's for India, not for Iran, but for those people that don't know.

But Iran is a special thing, case. First of all, today, or I'm sorry, yesterday, Iran confirmed the agreement with Russia, the Iranian parliament. It's waiting a signature from the president. And that means it's a joint defense agreement. So that takes it a whole, whole new levels, the same thing Russia has with North Korea. Now, Russia, under no circumstances, would defend Iran if Iran started the conflict, and that's in that agreement. But defend Iran when it's defending itself, absolutely.

Additionally, for those people don't know. I mean, Iran, go look at some videos of Wax or Tehran. They're not these all-women covered from head to toe. It doesn't look like Saudi Arabia. The religious sector is, yeah, it does. The less religious, the more liberal areas, you know, the women who have scarves on their heads or maybe around their shoulders. They're dressed conservatively, but they're dressed, they're not in Burakas, like most of Westerners seem to think they are. Women are able to drive.

They're able to have careers. They're scientists, their teachers, their doctors. It's a whole different. And as a matter of fact, just to understand the level that Iran works, Iran is a republic. Let's begin with that. Iran has a sizable enough Jewish minority that has never left Iran, and they pledge their loyalty to Iran. And they have a member of parliament that's Jewish. They have a member of parliament that's an Orthodox Christian. And they have a member of parliament interesting enough that's Zoroastrian, the original religion of Persian.

These that are basically for Islam just idol worshippers, Zoroastrians. And they do also have representation in the parliament. Obviously, they're not a big minority, so all of them have one person in parliament. But the fact is, they do have representation in parliament. So this isn't some super totalitarian state that the U.S. and the Western media constantly keeps selling it at. It's far from it. They're really very well-educated, very cultured. I mean, for God's sakes, they had a flourishing culture, one of the biggest cultures in the most flourishing cultures in the world,

back when most Europeans were sharpening sticks in the fire. That's the reality of it. My ancestors included, for that matter. So, you know, you can't look at these people at some kind of barbarians. Though the Western media constantly portrays them as that. So I ran to Russia. It's not just an ally. And here's the really, really important point.

Not only is it not just an ally to Russia, it is an existential crisis for Russia, just a little lower than Ukraine. And why? Because of location of Iran. Iran is closing the gates for the U.S. direct intervention into the caucuses, starting with, well, Armenia's already been flipped, basically. But starting with the Caucasus, where the Georgian dream would fall if Iran isn't going to be there. because Iran does support them too. It keeps a lot of Western elements from being able to penetrate from the south and into Central Asia. Because you have Iran and Afghanistan. And for U.S. regime change and lots of equipment moving in, it's pretty difficult to get in there.

It's not impossible, but it's difficult. And then further on, you wind up with China too on there. So it makes a nice little wall for Central Asia. It isolates it more from Western influence. There's still plenty of that. If Iran falls, you know, the West is going to go for the Russian underbelly. 110%. They're going to start slapping in mercenaries under Islamic jihad, international, under ISIS,

whatever they're going to call them this time around or for this week. They'll start slapping them in there really, really quickly. They'll start overthrowing the governments in the areas and creating a lot of problems. So for Russia, the Russian underbelly is very exposed if Iran falls on top of all the other things. Trump decides to go to a war with Iran in order to support Israel. Will Russia and China do something? And what can they do to support Iran? Will they do something?

Because there is a belief in D.C. and in Israel, I believe, which is that. Russia and China will not do anything and cannot do anything. So will they do something? And what can they do? Can they, can they provide weapons? Can they provide intel? Can they do something more? Will Iran, will Iran ask? Will they do something? I mean, they probably will not do anything unless Iran asks for help, I imagine. And right now, Iran hasn't asked for anything. And I don't know if Iran asks or if it needs. Does Iran need Russia and China? Would it need Russia and China to help? Well, in my opinion at the moment, Iran needs Russia to supply fuel. because Iran is an importer of gasoline, of petrol.

It's had several its refineries hit. So it's going to need fuel. It needs electricity. Iran has already been having problems short of electricity, which is why it was building nuclear power plants. And Russia is in a process of building nuclear power plants in Iran and a peaceful atom, which the U.S. wanted to deny. Iran can't do that.

So, and Russia has the Caspian Sea to deliver all of this very quickly to Iran. Missiles possibly. But Iran has enough missiles, ballistic missiles, short, medium, long-range ballistic missiles to do an incredible amount of damage. Iran has several cards it has not yet played. One of them is to close the Straits of Karmuz. And to understand, the Straits of Karmuz are very shallow, relatively narrow waters. They go right by Iran.

And by shallow, there are, I think, 11, maybe 12 canals that have been dug up so these big oil tankers can go back and forth up and down. To close that, you don't need to wait for a tanker. You take a corvette, you take a larger, but still relatively small ship, and you scuttle it in each one of those lanes. And that's it. No tankers moving up and down that lane. It's blocked. And if they continue to try or they try to remove it, Iran, there's a much. There's a mountain range right on the coastline full of natural and man-made caves that are full of land-to-sea missiles, missile batteries.

Very easily you can take out whatever's trying to unblock those canals. And just so to understand, there's about 32, 33 percent of the world's oil daily traveling out of the Persian Gulf through those canals. The U.S., just so we understand, when America say, oh, we're the biggest pumpers in the world. Well, yes, but shale oil has actually been going down for the last two, two and a half years. A, B, U.S. imports eight million barrels of oil per day. Even if there's still flow of oil to the U.S., say from Canada, what have you, the cost of that oil is going to go up well over $100, $150. I mean, you're talking third of the market supply is gone.

good that everybody's not starting a bidding war for. And that's going to hit any Trump's redeeming qualities and trying to fix the U.S. economy are going to go right out the window. We're not going to have, we're not talking $5, $6, $7 a gallon. We're talking $12, $20 a gallon, depending how far this goes. And if Russia's oil goes off the market, another 10%, then it's just basically economic collapse over a very large chunk of the world. And that's a fact.

Additionally, within short-to-medium-range ballistic missiles, and by ballistic also I'm talking about cruise missiles, hypersonic, etc. So within five, six hundred kilometers of Iran are located over 60,000 American troops. On all these nice, neat little bases, with aviation assets, with naval assets, and so on. I mean, you're talking about large quantities of future casualties that Trump is going to get hit with. And that people, you know, a lot of MAGA, if you go read or you talk to people, they're angry. They don't want to fight for Israel. And they see Israel started to fight.

And a lot of people sort of remember that, you know, Netanyahu spent 30 years telling the world in America what just now, in a month, in two weeks and five days, Iran's going to have a nuclear weapon. I mean, 30 years has been crying wolf, right? There's quite a few people understand that, and it's one thing to support Israel. It's nothing to send your son to die for Israel, which, by the way, Israel has not a single-signed alliance document with the U.S., not a single-signed document. Never signed any documents. But the U.S. does everything, and you know why. I mean, it's obvious enough. So that weighs on those voters, too.

And if their economic well-being is going down the drain, because oil is just doubled in price, you know, it jumped $15 just at the start of the firing by Israel. Overnight, $15, you know, basically 25% jump in price off the 60-something there was at. So, yeah, that's a pretty big hit. It doesn't matter if the U.S. can still get enough oil in. That was going to be much, much more expensive. So that's going to be a big hit right there. Plus, the Americans are within easy range.

Plus, you know, no aircraft carrier is going to go into the Persian Gulf. It's a future reef the moment it goes into a Persian Gulf. So they're going to stay out in the Red Sea. You've got the hoofies that are also firing. It becomes a very difficult situation. You don't need to sink an aircraft carrier to knock it out of business. You just have to damage the flight deck. That's it.

You got one good drone explosion on a flight deck or anything larger. The aircraft carrier is useless. And what's it going to do? It goes off to some poor to get fixed. So there's still a limited war of what the U.S. can also do as far as force projection. U.S. is never going to invade Iran. Iran is a country of almost 100 million people, mountains and forested. This is an Iraq and flat open desert.

It's going to allow the U.S. to build up for six months before it does something. This is an active war theater. The U.S. troops in the middle of all this. they're also mostly locating in areas where there's lots of Iran-allied Shiite militia running around. So they're going to be busy trying to keep themselves alive from these Shiite militia attacks. So it's a bad situation. The U.S. is actually in a relatively bad and weak situation. And a loss to Iran is just going to whatever is left of the American fables, just like the idea of, until it went into Gaza,

it had this big pumped up image. The one went into Gaza, that image went away really, really quickly. It's going to get deflated. The U.S. Army is going to get really fast in the U.S. military is going to deflate really fast. Because Iran is, again, Iran is a large, very large country. The best chance they have against Iran is vomiting internal disorder through the minorities and trying to drag Iran into a multi-front insurgency. How is this going to play out if, you know,

you understanding the military tactics of the United States, what do you think they're going to try to do if these assets are going into the Middle East to support Israel? U.S. has since World War II been very high, I mean, like, high on the concept of, The Air Force, or back then it was the Army Air Corps, can change the war by just bombing civilians. And to that degree, the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force, or the U.S. Army Air Corps and the Royal Air Force burned alive five million Germans, out of the six million German civilians that died in World War II, and there was no regime change.

But they've tried it every single time. Hocchemen, Hanoi, I'm sorry, not Huchman City. Hanoi got more tonnage of bombs on it than Berlin did. Was the North Vietnamese regime or government removed? Of course not. And it's been that way every single time. They blew up how many hospitals, trains, and markets in Yugoslavia and Serbia? It doesn't work because I'll tell you this.

Even the liberal elements turned toward the government because they see who's killing their people. There was a demonstration, a video came out, a demonstration from Texas. Tehran, from liberal party members. Yes, they have multi-parties. Liberal party members, women that are sure as hell not going to cover their head, screaming, why the hell do we not have the bomb to stop them? A bomb being the nuclear bomb. I mean, what it does is it energizes society to get around the flag, right?

It can dens a society into one more or less homogenous mass, at least while the conflict is going. So it doesn't undermine the power of the government. It actually enhances amongst the people. Yeah, it can do a lot of damage, infrastructure damage. But the people rally around the flag. That's the natural tendency of any society that's being bombed from without by some foreigners.

There's some foreigner that's radically different from them that keeps talking about, you know, we want to destroy your country. Well, you know, okay. And you can see that even in Russia with lots of our little, liberals ran away. But, you know, I know plenty of people that were conservative that didn't like Vladimir Putin for one reason or another that were now praying for him and his health. Because they quite well understood what we're in the middle of. You know, the country's fighting for its survival. For not just its right to be this or that, but for very survival. So it energizes the people to defend their country. Iran has a gigantic stockpile of missiles.

If anything, Russia will send more missiles and China can send missiles. Russia will send fuel. Russia will send radar systems. And that's another thing that's actually come out. Iran set up a lot of dummy equipment. From the last attack they had by Israel, they had enough time to figure out, okay, these guys more or less know where our equipment is. So a lot of the equipment that was hit was actually dummies.

They left them, they brought in copies, empty facades, and put them in the exact same look. that the other equipment was in and moved that equipment to other locations and kept setting up these dummy locations There's quite a bit of what was destroyed was actually And there's lots of videos of photos coming out. It's just empty shells right with a facade with a veneer on it So what the actual Strength of Iran is you know it's still hard to say But what the question then becomes sooner or later one of these B-52s is going to get shot down

or B-2s are going to get shot down. And U.S. pilots are going to be lost. And then how does that resonate? And God forbid, the U.S. loses an aircraft carrier of 5,000 sailors on it. What's the U.S. going to do? I mean, tuck tail and leave or try to escalate to a nuclear conflict? And if it escalates a nuclear conflict, it quite literally may have a nuclear conflict, just with Russia on top of that.

Because Russia is duty-bound. and if Legimer or Ladgish, because the U.S. again, US likes to look at people as these overarching dictators that can do whatever they want. It's like a video game and you're in charge of a nation in the video game. I can do whatever I really want in this game. Well, real society doesn't work that way.

And Vladimir Leidemich is, he's got, you know, parameters in which he can function and he's got different parties or parties of people that are influencing. And now Russia is duty-backed. by agreement to defend Iran. And there's no limit on how far to defend Iran.

So, I mean, Iran can ask for nothing. Iran can ask for everything. If Iran is in a defensive position, you know, if Russia doesn't come through, there's going to be a lot of problems in the government and society in Russia, from patriots, from the right, for the right actors. And the president has to understand that. I mean, he does understand it.

He has to take that into account. So what his actions are going to be, he can't turn his back on Iran. That's going to be asking for a whole lot of problems inside of Russia itself. And the unfortunate part about an escalation cycle is every time you make a decision, unless you're a very, very strong leader, and Trump isn't. Every time you make a decision, your choice of further decisions just keeps getting narrower and narrower and narrower that you only have one decision that's war. And it takes a very strong man to walk away from that.

And Trump is definitely not that man. I don't believe that for a second. Especially with the people around him who are just, you know, slabbering at the mouth, rabbit war pigs, particularly those that never served themselves. But even those that serve. Very few exceptions, Tulsi Gabbard being one of them. Well, by the way, if you saw it or not,

Tulsi Gabbard put out a video of, we don't want nuclear war just so what nuclear war could be. Really shocking video, I mean, all things considered. It looks like she's been sidelined. Yeah, she had. Like the group of people around Trump for some reason, Trump himself, but you would have to imagine as chief of staff. I mean, that's who I would imagine is setting up whatever meetings.

It looks like they're deliberately uninviting Tulsi Gabbard to these meetings. That would be my guess. Yeah, I'm afraid that's probably, you're absolutely right. I'm afraid that's what's happening. And I'm not surprised it did happen. It's an unfortunate fact. But she was one of the few voices that actually had any kind of, you know, calming effect on this situation. But like I said, you know, there was a mem.

Bolton went to the hospital with a heart attack. He had a hard on for three hours. We found out that we're going to have a war with Iran. But, you know, you laugh at it. But the unfortunate part is there's probably a lot of people that have got permanent smiles on their face. right now. We're going to have a war. We're only going to get our Iran war. It's not going to be good for the U.S. or anybody else, but. It never, it never ends well. The neocom plans never, never end well.

No, no, it doesn't. They always get what they want. It never ends well, but they always get their way. And they never learn. They never learn. They never learn. All right. On that note, we will end the video there. Statslav, where can people find you? Again, YouTube at Mr. Slavic Man, and that's Slavik.

man and that's Slavic with a K, not a C, a K, a Kegraim, Stasudai Abratna is the Russian, and the English one is Stas was there. All right, I will have those links in the description box down below and as a pinned comment. Take care.