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Zelenskyy Hits Back as Trump’s Ukraine Plan Backfires

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Zelenskyy Hits Back as Trump’s Ukraine Plan Backfires

The situation in Ukraine has escalated dramatically, with revelations that Donald Trump refused to grant President Zelensky access to Elon Musk’s Starlink for targeting Russian ballistic missile launchers, following a July in which he teased but ultimately denied Patriot interceptor licenses. This perceived favoritism toward Putin coincided with a devastating Russian drone attack on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky’s hometown, killing 15 and injuring 130, including many children. Zelensky condemned the strike as a Russian atrocity and promised a response, while Ukraine launched counter-drone attacks on Russian infrastructure, including an Ozon warehouse near Samara and the Nizhnekamsk oil refinery, part of a broader campaign against Russian logistics. The conflict has highlighted the evolution of warfare, with drones dominating the battlefield—from Ukrainian FPVs downing Russian systems to a Romanian F-16 shooting down an unidentified drone near its Black Sea gas project. Meanwhile, the Trump administration fired General Randy George, who led a drone program learning from Ukraine, raising concerns about U.S. readiness. The commentator criticized Trump’s focus on expensive battleships over modern drone tactics, while noting global actors like China, Iran, and the Houthis are learning from these engagements. Zelensky urged the world to act, but Putin and Lavrov rejected talks, leaving the conflict at a volatile crossroads.

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All hell is breaking loose right now in Russia's invasion of Ukraine as it has now been learned that Donald Trump is refusing to even allow President Zelensky of Ukraine to have access to Elon Musk's Starlink in order to target the Russian ballistic missile launchers. As you know, Donald Trump taps Zelensky along throughout the month of July, promising he would give Zelensky licenses for the Patriot interceptors that Zelensky desperately needed in order to stop the Russian ballistic missile strikes. Then Donald Trump pulled the rug from underneath Zelensky at the end of July that I'm not giving you an interceptor license and now we've learned that Donald Trump and Elon Musk gang up against Zelensky really favoring Vladimir Putin here and telling Zelensky we won't even give you Starlink access for the sole purpose of targeting ballistic missile launchers of Russia while we also don't give you the interceptors. I think the message has been very clear when Putin called Donald Trump on July 4th. They spoke for 90 minutes in my opinion. This was all part of the plan. Taps Zelensky along throughout the month of July, Putin starts to build out even more of the ballistic missiles capabilities, puts some more in Kalina grad, puts some more along the border and then right as Zelensky thinks he's getting the interceptors, Donald Trump says, "Sorry, I'm not going to give that to you." So let's talk about the consequences. What's going down right now? Let me show you the footage that's coming in right now. This is the moment a Russian drone looks like a Shahid hit a shopping center in the Pre-V-Ree area, this is Zelensky's hometown by the way. This attack killed 15 people and left another 130 people injured in Ukraine, including 23 children firefighting and search and rescue operations are ongoing. We have it on tape here, play this clip. And folks, it was repeated attacks on this shopping center in Pre-V-Ree. Again, this is Zelensky's hometown area. Let me show you the other footage, let's play this clip. This is what it looks like inside the shopping center, you can see the chaotic scene right there, let's play this clip. But folks, Zelensky and Ukraine are fighting back hard, here's a photo as multiple Ukrainian attack drones successfully struck a Russian ozone distribution center in the Chapeevsk area this morning, setting in a blaze you can see right here. Now this ozone warehouse, it's near Samara, a direct competitor to wild berries. The company also operates several warehouse and logistics centers throughout Russia. So as you know, we've been covering those Ukrainian strikes on the wild berry logistical facilities, wild berries is like the Amazon of Russia. And Ukraine says that Russia uses those facilities to do military production as well. Over half of those wild berry facilities, those huge warehouses have been destroyed by Zelensky's drones and I've been showing you footage over the past several weeks the wild berries campaign. Now they're hitting the ozone warehouses and we'll show you some other footage of it right here, you'll see the drone right here for yourself, let's play it. Now one of the things that have been interesting to watch is to see how both Russia and Ukraine have been trying to stop the respective drones from the different countries. So here you have the Russian helicopters missing the missile or missing the FP1 kamikaze drone, the fire point drone from Ukraine here play this clip. Show you the satellite image right here, the results of the recent attack on the Tamanif Goths oil terminal in the Krasnodar cry area right here, take a look over there, some Ukrainian strikes again. One of the things we're seeing also folks and we need to really talk about this is as Ukraine's been more effective in striking the Russian refineries and the Russian tankers and Russia's been striking in Ukraine, this adds on top of the fact that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, Iran controls it, we have major shutdowns there, you have the Babel Mondob Strait controlled by the Houthis, at least for purposes of the blockade on the Saudi tankers right there, we had the Houthis striking hard at the various Saudi refineries, Saudi Arabian refineries as well. And so we have a lot of the refineries are just utterly destroyed and what's that going to do, of course it's going to bring the price of crude way up and that's what we're seeing happen right now. Take a look right here, I'll just show you the scene at the evening hour after the strikes in Russia by Ukraine, I mean it literally looks like a hellscape, it looks right, it's out of a zombie apocalypse movie here playing this clip. Share with you the B-roll right here, this is the 68th brigade of Ukraine destroying some Russian remote controlled mind laying systems right here, you can see for yourself, show you a photo here, the Russian city of Saratov under Ukraine drone attack in the morning hours with multiple explosions and pillars of smoke scene rising right there. Show you over here the Ukrainian attack drone, swarming Russia's Nizhmanak's oil refinery in the morning, scoring multiple hits. You can see right here a Ukrainian Firepoint FP1 maneuvering and then diving into one of the already burning refinery process units we can play it right over here so you can see for yourself. I mean those images are, you know, I'm just when I grew up, when you grew up if you're around my age or older, when these wars would happen, remember you'd always have ABC, CBS, CNN when it was around, they'd be playing stuff like this around the clock, I mean why is this stuff being kept from us, right? Why is it solely relying on open source intelligence stuff like where is this on our news? I mean this is happening, everybody look at this early, did you even know this happened earlier today, yesterday at this point, a Romanian Air Force F-16 engaged an unknown seed drone operating near the country's Black Sea Neptune deep gas project, destroying it with a run of 20 millimeter cannon fire. Ukraine confirmed a Romanian and NATO officials that the drone was not theirs and so it looks like a drone of either Russian, North Korean perhaps, maybe Iranian, but I mean they get their stuff from the same places, but a Russian drone, a Romanian Air Force F-16 had to engage it. I mean are we talking about Article 5 of NATO, Article 4? None of this is even being described, but we have a Romanian F-16 having to basically shoot a Russian drone here watching for yourself. 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I mean we know that right, but we've been covering this drone warfare for a long time This comes at the same time, but in the United States the Trump regime fired general Randy George the army chief of staff Who was leading the main cutting edge drone program in the United States that was working with Ukraine and learning from the Ukraine drone program Because I can tell you you know who's learning a lot from what's taking place China. They're learning Russia's involved in the war So obviously they're learning in the battlefield North Korea is watching the Houthis have learned Iran is learning His Bola is learning you have all these different groups are learning these tactics And this is what's becoming the main staple of the battlefield right now like I've been covering a lot the Houthi Strikes on Saudi Arabia. So obviously, you know in Yemen The Houthis control much of Western Yemen Sanna being the capital. There's a government within Yemen That's recognized more by the international community, which is really just Installed by Saudi Arabia. It's like a Saudi Arabian back government And so it's the Houthis against the Saudi Arabian back government over there and the Houthis have been striking hard at the Saudi Arabian back government The Saudi weapons and so all of this real expensive armor these expensive tanks that Saudi Arabia bought from the United States The Houthis are doing what we've seen in the Russian invasion of Ukraine How the Ukraine tactics the Russian tactics also these FPV drones these UAVs they've got these, you know grenade like Devices and they just drop them, you know right on the tanks and the tanks blow up and these Million dollar billion dollar weapons see you later. That's the lesson from all of this It's so obvious we're in drone warfare interceptor drones unmanned submersives FPVs UAVs I mean, that's where we're at. So take a look right here. This was released by the Houthis This is footage of a Houthi drone dropping a munition on a Saudi M1A2 Abrams MBT near Mariebe causing the tank to basically, you know be destroyed here play this clip Yeah, and the Houthis who also go by on Surallah's one of their names The Houthis you'll see them targeting the Miller they release this video of how precise their strikes have been Yeah, they've released photos of it and you know that this is even the playing field for warfare for countries that don't have the billion dollar budgets yet the Trump regime is spending what? Half a trillion dollars just to do Trump battleships right now Half a trillion dollars of our taxpayer money. It's going to Trump class battleships when that's not how modern warfare is fought Just because idiotic Donald Trump's psychotic Donald Trump likes the way that battleships look between 1920 and 1940 let me show you over here going back to Ukraine I digress I apologize a Ukrainian mig 29 chasing a Russian jet-powered Shaheed drone at low altitude along the Odessa coastline you can see this for yourself right here And I'll show you the aftermath of the Ukrainian drone strike on the Volbalt 226 cargo vessel which was enroute to the Russian port of Novorisk you can see right here what that looked like on the ship. Let's play it Also Ukraine's defense ministry unveiling it had tipped a Kyrshan cat does a great job aggregating a lot of this stuff has unveiled the Alexis Spadium the country's first jet-powered interceptor UAV designed to hunt Russian jet drones the interceptor measures about 1.5 by 1.7 meters launches from a catapult then can return if it fails to engage its target Powerful stuff, and then we've been hearing from Zelensky Zelensky says a rescue operation is currently underway at the cry-v-ree Shopping center following a strike on the mall as them now 14 people we know that's now 15 people have been reported killed My condolences to their families and loved ones more than 100 people have been injured among them 11 children An absolute Russian atrocity says Zelensky their monsters we definitely will respond It is important that we have everything to protect the life It is important that the world does not remain silent about all of this There must be an end to this Russian war and we need the world to help us make that happen I think everyone who's helping the people right now They're in cry-v-ree on the ground and in other cities and communities Eternal memory to all those killed by Russian terror is what Zelensky is saying And then we showed you yesterday some of the statements from Vladimir Putin and Lavrov who are out there saying That they are there are not interested any discussions they Refer to the terror they called the Ukrainian terroristic regime is what they say at at Lavrov and what Putin are saying And they're saying they are attacking our logistics and there's and what's Donald Trump doing with all of this when Trump said on day one I'll make peace on day one. He said it'll be very easy. I got a good relationship with Putin I've got a good relationship with with Zelensky or I'll be able to force Zelensky into submission And it seems with that's Donald Trump's plan is to force Zelensky into submission And meanwhile you have Donald Trump What uh picking on canana trying to make canana submit with you know uh bullying canana into Trade negotiations and canana walks away canana's like we don't need this you want to impose 50% tariffs on us Will impose 50% tariffs on you will make this all a bloody mess Canana is prepared to fight elbows up while Donald Trump is out here pretending to the United States Oh, we're never been richer. We brought in all these trillions of dollars. It's BS Donald Trump is a psychotic lunatic felon. He's separately found civilly liable as a sexual predator He's covering up child sex trafficking rings in the United States with the Epstein files He has abandoned our troops in the Middle East and across this country He's a horrific human who's been a loser his whole life So we just have to recognize that that's the reality of the situation um, and you know, we have to remain strong. We have to show solidarity together That's it Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching everybody. We're grateful for you as always 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 (upbeat music)

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Donald Trump reportedly denied Ukraine access to Elon Musk’s Starlink for targeting Russian ballistic missile launchers, following a July where he teased providing Patriot interceptor licenses but ultimately withheld them.
  2. A Russian drone strike on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky’s hometown, killed 15 people and injured 130, including 23 children; Zelensky condemned it as a Russian atrocity and vowed retaliation.
  3. Ukraine retaliated with drone strikes on Russian infrastructure, including an Ozon distribution center near Samara and the Nizhnekamsk oil refinery, amid a broader campaign against Russian logistics and refineries.
  4. Escalating global drone warfare was highlighted
  5. The Trump administration fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy George, who led a cutting-edge drone program collaborating with Ukraine, raising concerns about U.S. readiness in modern warfare.
  6. Zelensky called for global support and an end to the war, while Putin and Lavrov dismissed talks, labeling Ukraine a terrorist regime; the commentator criticized Trump’s peace promises and spending on battleships over drone tech.

Summary:

The situation in Ukraine has escalated dramatically, with revelations that Donald Trump refused to grant President Zelensky access to Elon Musk’s Starlink for targeting Russian ballistic missile launchers, following a July in which he teased but ultimately denied Patriot interceptor licenses. This perceived favoritism toward Putin coincided with a devastating Russian drone attack on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky’s hometown, killing 15 and injuring 130, including many children. Zelensky condemned the strike as a Russian atrocity and promised a response, while Ukraine launched counter-drone attacks on Russian infrastructure, including an Ozon warehouse near Samara and the Nizhnekamsk oil refinery, part of a broader campaign against Russian logistics.

The conflict has highlighted the evolution of warfare, with drones dominating the battlefield—from Ukrainian FPVs downing Russian systems to a Romanian F-16 shooting down an unidentified drone near its Black Sea gas project. S. readiness.

The commentator criticized Trump’s focus on expensive battleships over modern drone tactics, while noting global actors like China, Iran, and the Houthis are learning from these engagements. Zelensky urged the world to act, but Putin and Lavrov rejected talks, leaving the conflict at a volatile crossroads.

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According to the transcription, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are denying Ukraine Starlink access for targeting Russian ballistic missile launchers, favoring Vladimir Putin. This follows Trump's earlier promise to provide Patriot interceptor licenses, which he also withdrew.

The attack killed 15 people and injured 130 others, including 23 children. Zelensky condemned it as a Russian atrocity and vowed a response.

Ukraine is using attack drones to strike Russian targets, including an ozone distribution center near Samara and oil refineries, causing significant damage. They are also developing jet-powered interceptor UAVs to hunt Russian drones.

A Romanian Air Force F-16 engaged and destroyed an unknown drone near the Black Sea Neptune deep gas project. Ukraine and NATO confirmed it wasn't theirs, raising concerns about potential Russian or allied drones, but no Article 4 or 5 discussions were mentioned.

Drone warfare is becoming the main staple, with FPVs, UAVs, and interceptor drones proving effective against expensive tanks and equipment. Groups like the Houthis are using these tactics successfully, leveling the playing field for nations with smaller budgets.

The Trump regime is spending half a trillion dollars on battleships, which the speaker criticizes as outdated, and fired General Randy George, who led the cutting-edge drone program, hindering learning from Ukraine's drone warfare.

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