All Hell Breaks Loose as Zelensky Won’t Cave

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Zelensky has publicly called out Donald Trump and Elon Musk's betrayal. You had Musk and Trump pointing fingers at each other for who was throttling or basically shutting down the access that Ukraine had to the Starlink or the military versions called the Star Shields, which Ukraine drones were linked to that were striking in Russia. As you now know. The Russian government has been using the Star Shields or Starlink put a cap on the miles per hour or kilometers per hour that drones could travel while utilizing Star Shields or Starlink controlled by SpaceX. And then the Trump regime said, actually, it's SpaceX who controls it. Then Musk and SpaceX is actually it's the Department of Defense and Star Shields that control it. In any way, it's prohibited Zelensky from using drones to strike in Russia and to use drone intercoms. And then Musk and SpaceX has been using drones to strike in Russia and to use drone intercoms. To stop the Russian strikes in Ukraine. Now, last night, Elon Musk posted the following message. Elon Musk wrote that Zelensky must go. His exact post, Elon Musk writes. And so the slaughter continues. Time for Zelensky to go. And then Musk is reposting a message from Steve Cortez, who writes in great corrupt. Zelensky says he has no interest. In a negotiated peace agreement. And it's a clip from the interview that Zelensky gave with Piers Morgan, which we played here on the Midas Touch Network, where Zelensky says, we're not selling our country. This isn't a business deal. I know for some people, they view this as some sort of real estate transaction. But this is a country. This is people's lives. This is Ukraine, not something that can just be traded off or sold. Just so you see what. Elon Musk was posting when he said time for Zelensky to go and what pissed Musk off. It was this statement by Zelensky over here about the sovereignty of Ukraine. Let's play this clip right here. We will we will just we are not selling our country. Look, guys, it's not about business for us. It's just our life. And this is our country. It's our body. So our home, our children. And this is very important for us. That's why it's painful. Now, in the past twenty four to forty eight hours, as it's been taking place for really since the catastrophic war began, Russia is continuing to strike Ukrainian power plants, the energy grid, civilian infrastructure. Ukraine is striking back. We talked earlier in this week about Ukraine striking the Yandex facilities, the data centers in Russia. And it does look like. Ukraine is already starting to strike some of the refineries in Russia since Zelensky said that we should talk about what's just transpired in the past twenty four to forty eight hours as well, just to get a clear picture of everything that went down. So you have Elon Musk statements right there about Zelensky must go. He made that statement last night. Yesterday, there was a report out by MSNOW, which was later retracted. They said. That the US FBI director, though, it pains me to say that that's the position that Kash Patel holds, was in Russia. He was not yet in Russia. He has a trip planned to Russia to meet with their security service over there. But after that story broke, Kash Patel posted the following from Russia with the love, dot, dot, dot, as though this is some big joke, as though this is all some hilarious thing. And so while you have Russia. Striking hard in Ukraine as Trump and Putin are trying to force Zelensky surrender, you have the FBI director of the United States posting from Russia with love. And then you have Russia's envoy to the United States, the head of the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund, Kirill Dmitriev. He reposted FBI director Kash Patel's post and Dmitriev wrote U.S. Russia law enforcement dialogue will benefit. Just as economic and energy cooperation will. So this may become a real message soon. Then it's an emoji of the Russian flag, a handshake, the American flag, and then a arrow to Kash Patel's statement. Kirill Dmitriev then posted a interview between right wing propagandists who sometimes you see on CNN, Scott Jennings and Melania Trump's advisers. that table. Of course, there was the reporting yesterday, and this was confirmed by Zelensky and all of his top advisors, about how the SpaceX, Starlink, and Starshield system was throttling the Ukrainian drones that would normally be used to strike these various targets in Russia, and that there was basically a cap. And there were different numbers of what cap was placed on these drones. So there was original reporting that it was closer to 60 to 75 kilometers an hour. Then there were some that said it was 100 kilometers an hour. And then some say it was moved to like 165 kilometers an hour or 100 miles per hour. And so whether it was some of the earlier numbers, 45 or 50 miles per hour for those keeping track of them. How we do it in the United States or 100 miles per hour, regardless, the Ukrainian drones go much faster than that. And so if you throttle the ability of the drone, which hooks up to the satellites, the Starlink or the Starshield, Starshield is the military version. But Ukraine has said we also use the Starlink. And if basically, you know, the way Internet gets throttled, if you have an Internet provider throttle, imagine you getting throttled. Like if you hit certain. But imagine that being the speed of a drone. And so when the drone would go a certain speed, you would lose connectivity to the drone and you need full connectivity for these drones to hit their target. So it basically stopped all of the drones from hitting their target. And similarly, the interceptors that block the Russian drones or the Russian cruise missiles that stopped working also because that hooks up to the. Starlink or Starshield system. And then you had Elon Musk saying it was the Trump regime Department of Defense that fully controlled Starshield. The Department of Defense says, nope, go and ask SpaceX. But ultimately, you have Musk and Trump at the top of this. So you could form your own opinion and conclusions of what was going down. And this is in addition to the fact that the Trump regime was also shutting down the early warning detection systems. That Ukraine has so critically relied on. So you have the Starshield Starlink issue of the drones and drone interceptors separately. You have the U.S. cutting off the early detection, early warning systems, which refers to the U.S. space based infrared sensors, which are often referred to as the space based infrared system or the Spires S.B.I.R.S. That provides. Advanced notice of ballistic missile attacks so Ukraine can activate air defenses and warn civilians. Ukraine officials have reported on recent nights they did not receive the U.S. advanced warnings for the first wave of Russian ballistic missile strikes. And that led to not alerting civilians and lots of people were killed there and lots of people were killed as a result. It seems is what people are saying as a result of the. Starshield or Starlink throttling or capping the miles per hour of drones or drone interceptors. Then separately, there's been a lot of reporting out how U.S. intelligence officials have been warning and threatening everybody in the Ukrainian diplomatic community from the highest level to mid-level to anybody who even has a Ukrainian last name. The Washington Post reports that U.S. intelligence officials. Are telling any Ukrainian that they basically know that any further strikes on Russian energy sites will now mean a halt to all intelligence sharing. The warnings were so widespread that anyone with a Ukrainian sounding last name received a warning from U.S. So you've got that. In addition, you had the Trump regime threatening European countries to unfreeze. Hundred billion dollars of Russian sanctioned funds. And so you had apparently Witkoff and Kushner when they've been traveling around, they've been trying to make these threats as well. And you have they've been rebuffed by the European countries who said, no way, you know, we're not going to remove sanctions from from Russia. Here's what we're learning. The U.S. has considered unfreezing. Russian assets with Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner planning a release of up to one hundred billion dollars of frozen Russian sovereign assets as an upfront incentive for a limited ceasefire on energy infrastructure. The Financial Times reports European officials rejected it outright, opposing giving up any control over the assets or returning any to Russia. This was just simply not going to happen. An EU official said. At the same time, the U.S. threatened Ukraine this week with a total halt to intelligence sharing if it struck Russian energy sites. Now, Zelensky, in addition to the Piers Morgan interview, he was on PBS and he was asked, well, what do you make of Donald Trump blaming you and Ukraine for everything? And all of the catastrophic economic issues that the United States is now suffering from the surging price of diesel and gas. Is your fault? Donald Trump says he's making you the Dr. Fauci or the Biden like you're the fall guy for all of this right now. There's other fall guys and gals also. But watch Zelensky's response when he was confronted with this here. How do you feel when you hear him blame those for the high cost of diesel like 100 percent like this is what's causing it? I can't. I can't be. It's OK for me. I mean, this is not the first time. That's why it's OK for me. I'm blaming you. OK. Yeah. Ukraine. Yeah. I mean, that. So when I know the truth, I'm strong because I know the truth. And I'm very strong because mostly people in the world know why their prices on any kind of energy, including diesel, raised up, why they increased because of hormones. So now we are seeing fires in the Russian area of Ryazan locals report a fire at the oil refinery there. Unclear if it is flaring relating to the attack in the region or something else. But the Ryazan refinery seems to be on fire. Ukrainian forces also seem to have carried out a strike on Russia's Borskelbysk air base yesterday evening. With us. At least one massive explosion and post strike fires being seen. And so I think we are going to see the continued escalation, as Zelensky said, that he's not backing down. Now, recall that the week began with Donald Trump announcing a fake ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, which then the Trump regime was like, well, this actually means that all Putin has to agree to is that he won't strike. And so I think we are going to see the continued escalation, as Zelensky said, that all Putin has to agree to is that he won't strike. WTF America. Put in the comments if you've ordered it. Thanks so much. Before you go, our book WTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this. We'll see you next time.