ZE SHORT-CIRCUIT: BOMBING BEFORE THE TALKS. Deal with Iran. Melania “set up” by Epstein — Paskov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQdMg36qQY&t=1038s
FULL MACHINE (AI) TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH
(note: the translation is, I think, accurate but the machine gets a bit confused as to who is speaking so those labels are a bit suspect. when i have time I will try to sort them out.)
Title: ZE SHORT-CIRCUIT: BOMBING BEFORE THE TALKS. Deal with Iran. Melania “set up” by Epstein — Paskov
Host: Alexander SHELEST
Guest: Plamen PASKOV (Bulgarian expert)
Opening & Main Topic: The Bombing and Upcoming Negotiations
Hello, dear friends, respected guests, and subscribers of my channel. A big thank you to everyone for waiting for our meeting with Plamen Paskov, an expert from Bulgaria. Plamen, welcome.
(Plamen responds with greetings, thanking the audience for tuning in despite technical and other challenges, and notes the channel’s content is lively.)
Last night, Ukraine endured a massive strike. We will talk about this, how it will affect the negotiations. Thank you all for subscribing, liking… You can leave questions in advance… We’ll talk with the live chat at the very end.
Our question for today: How will the resumption of strikes on energy facilities affect the upcoming talks, which are set for tomorrow?
Yes? And just yesterday, Zelensky was saying they (Russia) are hitting non-strategic targets, that we are approaching some resolution. Today, Trump also stated there would be good news, that many things have been decided… in short, everyone was saying things are going well, but then came the heaviest strike. As Ukrainian monitoring public pages write (for the sake of a catchy phrase), it was the strongest bombardment of 2026. Well, that’s actually true because half the missiles hit their targets, half were reportedly shot down, but in general, it was very hot, bright, and the consequences are severe. For example, 110,000 subscribers in Kharkiv are without heat, and local authorities say it’s impossible to restore. Similar objects in Dnipro region, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Kyiv region… in short, here are the answer options:
How will this affect things?
Accelerate talks, Ukraine will be more compliant.
Delay them (which is what the "war party" wants – a common term for those interested in continuing the war; this plays into their hands).
Derail all talks, and the US will wash its hands (of it), saying "Okay, that's it, deal with it yourselves."
Have no effect; everything was already decided long ago in Alaska (referring to rumored US-Russia deals), and all this is just for show (giving a plausible pretext).Plamen, let’s start with this. How do you see the fate of the upcoming talks against the backdrop of last night’s shelling? Especially since another night is ahead.
(Plamen Paskov responds:)
Well, I think the fourth option is 70-80% likely, and maybe a bit of the previous one as well. Honestly, when it comes to destroying energy infrastructure, I don’t just refuse to understand the logic, I try but can’t understand it. If Russia’s goals are demilitarization and denazification or whatever, that means you intend to capture Ukraine and impose your order – to eliminate Bandera followers, fascists, Russophobes. That’s the only solution. But if you, on this… foolish path, are destroying what was built during the Soviet Union, will you be able to rebuild it later? How? How long will it take? And this population you’re terrorizing… Let’s say you take these four oblasts, or all 24 (or 26 with Crimea, 25… whatever), you take it all in, let’s dream, within six months. Who will restore it? At whose expense? What will you do with these people? These are cities of millions, housing stocks… It needs urban services, supplies – where will you get that? If you aren’t planning to take it and you’re destroying it… what kind of saviors of Russian-speaking, Russian-thinking people in Ukraine are you, when you’re terrorizing them? The heaviest blows fall on the most Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine! Whom are you going to feed this story (to deceive)?
(Alexander Shelest interjects:)
Plamen, your righteous anger is epic, but let’s, as someone living in a NATO country, you also relate to and answer your own question. It’s very simple to draw an analogy: who rebuilt Yugoslavia, or what was left of it after NATO’s heroic bombings? Or is Iraq an El Dorado now? In Iraq, of course, they restored the oil veins and pump what they need, but overall…
Now I like this approach regarding Iran. Talks are in Istanbul on Friday, a delegation is heading there… although they promised today or in coming days, seems everything is shifting. And these voices on the internet: “Why are you dealing with Iran? Shame!” Wait, this is normal practice! It’s normal for leaders and elites to sit down at the table so they don’t get bombed. For us, for example, the mayor (of Kyiv?) came out yesterday, said nothing because nothing is clear. You might hear some news about prisoner exchanges – that’s the only thing that could be squeezed from his comments to the media about the upcoming talks. Normal people have a clear question: Listen, since August you shut down Istanbul (talks), where issues of prisoner/body exchanges were discussed, where it was proposed to separate military-political, humanitarian, political issues… We said since August that Ukraine is not a victim but a fighter, so welcome, let’s fight. And yesterday, Zelensky’s wild rhetoric – nobody expected this from him. Look, they are hitting purposefully. Last night showed: purposefully. And this will definitely affect the talks. And it was definitely done on the eve of talks. A deadline was deliberately shown. After all, Ukraine and the Ukrainian elite were left out in the cold, told “who are you?” They learned from Trump’s message that a week ago he and Putin agreed on… something. But now, the deadlines are up, and here you go: frost, no frost, heating, pipes – that’s a secondary matter. Exactly the same way the NATO coalition treated the Serbs or Yugoslavs back then. Nobody claimed to be liberating Yugoslavia; they were destroying and killing it. Nobody claimed to be liberating Iraq. The situation is analogous.
(Alexander Shelest asks:)
Alexander (addressing himself? Or clarifying?), let’s ask this: Yes, I agree it was likely intended to influence the negotiations. Put yourself in the position of the Ukrainian side of the negotiating team. What would be a more powerful argument for you to change your political behavior and come to a decision? The fact that they tell you the energy sector is being bombed and destroyed, cities are plunging into darkness and cold? Or the fact that they tell you: “That’s it, all supply has stopped. All logistics, all those roads from Rzeszow to Lviv, where the other three points are, they’re in shreds. Not just a car, a baby stroller can’t pass.” This is done in a day. The entry points Poland-Ukraine become shreds, rubble. And you can’t say you have nothing (to fight with), because you do. And then you don’t kill such a number of people, don’t make tens of millions suffer by literally cutting this supply. Dry rations are running out, ammunition is running out, and the whole army surrenders, even if the negotiating group didn’t agree to anything in Abu Dhabi or wherever. You don’t need to terrorize tens of millions of people. You don’t need to be a “seven-span forehead” (very smart) and graduate from a couple of general staff academies to see this. It’s visible on a map, for God’s sake! Just look at the map, and everything will be clear. We will terrorize tens of millions – how will the suffering of these tens of millions affect the mood of this working group so they say, “Oh, listen, we feel compassion, our conscience awoke”? No, of course not. They will… Look, here… Zelensky will listen to Starmer’s instructions and that’s it. No, wait. Yesterday, sociology came out – how much the word “sociology” has become a curse word in Ukrainian lately – 40% say, “Let’s give up Donbas, let’s finish, please, we’re ready”; 50% say “no”; another 10% are undecided. This sociology was presented by the same sociologists who say Zelensky has 60% support or a very high level. It turns out this is an excellent card for Zelensky to say, “Look, people, even yesterday, the governor from Mykolaiv region, Kim (not that Kim), who once demonstrated the power of the start of the big war in ’22 in his socks, now says, ‘Yes, we’re ready for unpopular steps to end this.'” So another moment arises: now is a moment of truth. Either a démarche, or everyone, including the Ukrainian side, will turn a blind eye and say, “Yes, yes, but we are negotiating, we’ll negotiate more actively” (or not), and things will continue as they are. Now this group has a chance: either stop these sufferings you speak of, or… continue them. Simply two options, no third.
(Plamen Paskov responds:)
Alexander, not a single person representing the “95th quarter” (Zelensky’s circle), the Presidential Administration, the working group ties their future to the territory of Ukraine, to the state of Ukraine. They all have foreign citizenships, all their most delicious bank accounts, with wives, mistresses, etc., are already abroad, long ago. They are just sawing the last money. They don’t care if this population dies, suffers, endures – they don’t care. You need to understand that. The same applies to all their governors. They all have planes on standby, not buses, planes, and they are ready. You need to view these people not as leaders, but as outright bloodsuckers (ticks) on the body of long-suffering Ukraine, who are sucking the last blood at everyone’s expense, and they don’t care about suffering. They are not surgeons, they are butchers. If you understand that these people are, by their function, butchers of their own people, only then can you look at the whole picture. Therefore, if they understand that logistics are cut off and that they still have some relatives, acquaintances, assets on Ukrainian territory to return to, they will very quickly change their behavior. Because people’s suffering doesn’t concern them – it’s not their suffering. But the safety of themselves personally or close relatives, that’s another matter.
(Shelest asks:)
You don’t believe in these promises of prosperity in Ukraine after the war, for which documents are being prepared now?
(Paskov replies:)
Prosperity will exist only to the extent there are oases in the Sahara. In the great Sahara, there will be such lush, beautiful, small oases with some threads between them. I believe in prosperity for the oases, why not? It’s simply a matter of normal vision and normal knowledge of history. Those who promise this prosperity… and a normal understanding of what 800 billion over 10 years means – it’s enough exactly for that, no more. And that’s without pilfering – but without pilfering is impossible, without, let’s say, crude pilfering… but even with more delicate “commission fees”, it won’t be enough for more. As for prosperity for the rest of the Sahara – well, sorry, who promised that to the whole Sahara? How?
So, if we assume everything is heading towards having to leave Donbas, leave with a fight, without a fight – that’s a matter of technique. Of course, you can slightly turn down the military machine and heroically retreat creeping – that’s the “Kvartal 95” variant. And I think if they agree on that, that’s how it will be. So Putin stops at the Donbas line? Or will he claim what’s written in his Constitution? Let’s correct: now all conditions are created for them to say, “Okay, let’s heroically, as a whole country, organize the evacuation from Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, let’s build a new Kramatorsk, new Sloviansk somewhere in Poltava region, let’s undertake such a national project, but in general, we’ll fulfill these conditions and that’s it.” The problem is that Zelensky’s elite, saturated with “black-bookish crackle” (dark, corrupt schemes/practices) – beautiful word, I’ll remember it – this crackle of Yermak’s tricks. We remember from the memoirs of, for example, Yermak and Kozak’s negotiations… They say Yermak hasn’t gone anywhere, he’s right there in power, a shadow adviser, shadow head of the presidential office, all the schemes go through him… Wait, wait. Yes, they remain through him. Yulia Mendel surfaced again, telling us what a bad person Yermak is, plus he uses water from corpses for his rituals and makes voodoo dolls and puts them in a chest, and then these people die. A very vivid image of a witcher, a magician, she painted. So, initially, this style had a message: “Let’s sign a blank sheet, with three or four points where you can put anything, any interpretation.” And this is what’s being offered to Russia now, to America. Europe, it seems, agreed to everything. And poor Orban in his pre-election campaign, for example, puts out posters saying “We’re against allocating money, enough giving money to Ukraine,” rallies are held – that’s within his campaign. So it turns out you can’t get away with empty chatter anymore. You’ll have to actually leave Donbas and take that decision upon yourself. Many say Zelensky is finished after this. How obvious is that statement?
Well, at a minimum, if not completely finished, although possibly completely, Zelensky will get a complete cross on the possibility of running in the upcoming presidential elections because you signed away Donbas in a truce. May 15th is generally a deadline for signing, not for ceasefire. I continue to hope the ceasefire should be very soon, by the end of this month. But signing a truce – that’s the Americans’ new deadline again, I’m not determining it, not predicting like a fortune-teller, they wrote May 15th. If it’s signed, then naturally, lifting martial law at least, or most likely simultaneously. And two demands: from the Americans and from these 28 points, including the spirit and letter of Anchorage, which they constantly refer to from the Kremlin and Oval Office sides… well, accordingly, elections in Ukraine. How can Zelensky even run in elections? And if this turbo-Russophobic part of the surroundings and not only, Westernized, and not just point a finger, but shove the barrel of a smoking gun in his direction and say, “When did he surrender Donbas? We were ready to fight there forever, it was a fortress forever.” And Zelensky won’t get into any elections, or maybe with bulletproof vests, maybe in an armored personnel carrier he’ll conduct this campaign. I don’t know how he’ll conduct it; whether there will be a campaign at all will be interesting. I’ll prepare popcorn because there will be something to watch. All sorts of adventures will happen. Surrendering Donbas – what will Putin do? You see, this is still a defeat for Russia. A huge defeat for Russia because the stated goals have nothing to do with Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts within administrative borders, with Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts on the line of contact, which are already in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Naturally, not only in these four oblasts do Russian, Russian-speaking people live, whose rights are being trampled on the territory of remaining Ukraine. That is, if you declared some goals, didn’t fulfill them, this cannot be considered a victory, cannot be considered a plus, big or small. It’s just one step, and one that came at great cost. But it’s a political enema of some sort.
Well, listen, so for four years Stalin… that red banner victory and in the Reichstag… I know it’s already a meme they constantly poke with, but it’s historical truth. But you couldn’t manage the last 40 kilometers to Kupiansk… or first you could, you even captured 9,000 square kilometers of Kharkiv region and so on, it was all near Dergachi, actually near Chuhuiv and so on, and then in September of the same year, the same 9,000 square kilometers were… how? With goodwill and those who helped you, and those who believed you when you told them, “We’re here forever, Russia has returned,” and they were shot, given amnesty? There are videos hanging… correct or not, how, who… these good intentions, in war light, Azov in SMO, in war light… from the point of view of Kvartal 95, this is a holy war, cleansing from orcs, from colorados… They’re not people in the end. That is, between the two Vladimirs (Putin and Zelensky?), I continue to choose only Alexander who is Grigorievich (Shelest, the host). So these two Vladimirs are equally guilty of this huge death of people. Some prefer to point a finger only at one Vladimir, some at the other. But I think they are equally guilty. Equally guilty for these four years. All differences, quantitative, qualitative, or others, have already been erased, and they are fully, let’s say, two sides of the same coin. For me. On this topic, I could talk long and unpopularly, but factually, documented. I won’t abuse your broadcast time now. You probably have other questions. But on these questions, I cannot be indifferent. I truly confess, you say I speak emotionally, epically. You’re probably right. I have too many close friends and simply friends on both sides. I can’t be indifferent, sorry. Because it’s the same side. It’s the same people. It’s a people’s tragedy. And I’m supposed to be indifferent and analytical. I can’t.
Look, there’s such an episode. And I, yesterday, of course, laughed with… let’s express it politically correctly… lovers of the “fifth point” (close associates) of Zelensky’s office, former and past heads of his office. They are slightly adjusting their behavior, but nevertheless. So, two moments. First moment: yesterday, someone Podoliak comes out, a relic of Yermakism. And this confirms that Yermak hasn’t gone anywhere because Podoliak also hasn’t gone anywhere. And he starts long and tediously talking about how Ukraine must synchronize with historical narratives about WWII. Well, not the Great Patriotic War, so we must now reformat, restructure, and relate to those events not as it was in the Soviet Union. So, like this. Before that, a couple of days ago, they knock down letters… there was an inscription in Russian about how these names will be remembered forever, with that meaning. This is the Museum of the Great Patriotic War under the Motherland Monument statue. It was renamed simply to Museum of War. And today, windows in this museum are blown out, museum workers are photographed in this Hall of Glory, inside – who has been, who has seen photos – you enter, there’s a huge marble territory, names of Soviet soldiers who fought and won, liberated Kyiv, won the Great Patriotic War are inscribed. There are large stained-glass windows, their glass is broken. And the museum director stands, who exactly two days ago stood exactly the same, knocking down letters about the eternity of these names, and today he stands and looks… Russia treacherously struck at… heroes, at the memory of heroes, that is, Russia is destroying its own foundation. Comment on this moment. And the second interesting moment: today, Rutte is in Kyiv. Zelensky met him, they walked, laid lamps – such an official ceremony always, they take someone to Sophia Square, they took Rutte to Maidan Nezalezhnosti. Yesterday, these lovers of “fifth points” said Rutte is the best air defense. Look how clever. Now no one will shoot at Kyiv because Rutte is there. Rutte, at these minutes while we are live, is speaking in the Verkhovna Rada. And a question arises: yes, but the shelling happened. It happened when Rutte was arriving, when Rutte had already arrived. So, on one hand, this shelling, ideologically, emphasizes this history: “Oh, you are renouncing Soviet, Soviet victory. Here’s decommunization for you and of this symbol, so don’t cry, don’t post crying photos about something flying out in your museum, you just knocked down letters.” On the other hand, NATO? Russia is not afraid of NATO. It, please, massive shelling of all major cities, let Rutte warm them with the warmth of his heart. First of all, of course, the parliament members. What is this visit about? And what do you think about these two moments directly related to last night and the shelling? By the way, are there photos of Rutte, in what dress did he speak? In an ushanka hat, a fur coat, or a suit? Because it’s not heated, as I understand. The Verkhovna Rada is also cold, like most Kyiv apartments. I wonder, was he in a hat? Or just in a suit? Okay, just in a suit. Or maybe you’re looking at some canned person. Anyway, not the point.
(Plamen Paskov replies:)
Well, listen, what you ask about this museum, I honestly haven’t seen. I was listening carefully now. This is precisely, if you want, collective guilt and responsibility, for which it turns out like this. You can’t desecrate the memory of ancestors like that. Because if now they are trying to blame these windows on some Russian strike – which I honestly highly doubt, most likely it’s a setup, sorry for my paranoia, suspicion – these guys, with violence, not just monuments, heroes of the Great Patriotic War, of Ukrainian origin, who dug up graves in Vinnitsa region and transferred bones somewhere, I can’t even imagine where and how. Now, you understand, for some windows of some museum, again Russia is to blame. This really looks like “the cat abandoned her kittens, it’s Putin’s fault.” I, of course, am not a fan of Putin, everyone knows he’s not my hero, and I won’t start repeating why now. But, well, well, well, this is already… on whom is this calculated, this “Russia, you see, they are for this monument, for this museum, guilty”? Russia is guilty for the demolition of monuments to Pushkin, Catherine II, and everything else, Bulgakov, yes, yes, also Russia is guilty? Well, well… If you tear out your roots, you become a tumbleweed, which in any gust of historical wind – and historical wind is always, let’s say, responsible for such freely standing rootless sticks – will blow it away, and the stick from a vertical position will be in a horizontal, rotting, dying position. Those who refuse their history are forced to relive it anew, and as one wise Armenian (may the earth be soft upon him) told me in Moscow with a sad smile: if they relive it at all. That is, they need to relive it anew, if they survive at all. No one guaranteed you any eternity, neither to states nor to peoples. There are many loud peoples, empires, civilizations of the world that we study in history textbooks – they are gone. Where are the Inca, Aztec, Maya civilizations? Where is Genghis Khan? Where are they? On the long benches with the list of disappeared peoples and civilizations. They were big. If someone thinks we are big, so it can’t happen to us – it very much can. Don’t doubt it at all. It’s really a question of not knowing history’s lessons, not honoring your ancestors, not respecting monuments… because, well, understand, there either grandfathers or great-grandfathers, if a person is 20-30 now, it’s literally one generation away, were participants in all this, the Great Patriotic War, which is now forbidden to call the Great Patriotic, and which I don’t know how true it is in textbooks, but it’s some kind of Russian-Ukrainian-German war, I don’t know what devilry is written there. If you erase this heroism, whether they were heroes or not, interesting, who fought with us, they liberated Ukraine, Soviet and independent, they stuck this in, or how? What did they fight for? They fought for the image of the future, which for them was already the present: the Soviet Union, social justice, socialism, responsibility of power to the people, “man – that sounds proud,” a person should be a harmoniously developed personality, education for all, we eliminate illiteracy, work for all, technology, we fly into space – that’s what they fought for, that’s what they won for. And now, I, oh yes, Russia, by the way, both countries are good, Russia, the Kremlin, not Russia, the Kremlin is the same hypocrite, doesn’t restore the name of the city on the Neva, Leningrad, doesn’t even restore the name of the city Stalingrad, for a week each year they change signs from Volgograd, stand for a week. Malaya Zemlya in Novorossiysk, thank God, is still alive there, but for the rest of the time, the other 360 days, how is that? And both are hypocrites, and therefore they pay with terrible suffering, great blood, both of them, parts of the same people. This is a fratricidal war, externally managed, but still fratricidal, a purely Russian internal war. If there was no external management, it would have been resolved in a couple of months. It would have been resolved even in 2014-15 after Debaltseve, Ilovaisk, the militia would have simply reached and dealt with these young ones and back to Western Ukraine if not elsewhere, and that’s it. Who stopped them? The Kremlin. Who is responsible for this doubtful contentment, I won’t say guilty, responsible, the same Kremlin, with the same Vladimir. And that Vladimir, the Kyiv one, he came with words “we are peace, we are these ones, yes, 95th quarter, look, Servant of the People, I wanted so well” – wanted, didn’t want, did exactly the opposite, so he is also very much responsible. Sorry for not answering your question punctually.
No, understand, what’s the matter. Here Rutte came, says, “We are learning from you” from the parliamentary podium, “we will help you.” Well, he is finishing his speech these minutes, there will probably be news about it, but by and large, his message is read as… softening of heavy concessions or not? Mark Rutte has huge bureaucratic, administrative, political experience, he was Prime Minister of the Netherlands four or five times – Prime Minister, for understanding, is more important, stronger than President. There, the president, most Dutch don’t even know his name, like in Hungary. Everyone knows Viktor Orbán, and in Hungary, and not in Hungary, and he is Prime Minister, not President, and in Slovakia everyone knows Robert Fico, not the president. That is, where it’s parliamentary, the Prime Minister is a strong figure. So he knows. But he is a hypocrite because NATO’s budgets, if my memory serves, 68 billion… No, 6.8 billion for NATO itself, as a bureaucratic apparatus, administration, management, organization, 6.8, not 7 billion budget. With these incomplete 7 billion, you tell Ukraine, “We will help you”? At whose expense, with what? The Netherlands can help, Germany can help, other NATO members can help if NATO’s hat says so and if these countries agree and can. For example, Slovakia and Hungary are NATO members, are they strongly helping or strongly want to help, or even say clearly, “We won’t give anything”? Turkey is a NATO member. Turkey first helped, helped in quotes, with Bayraktars. Now something is not heard, I don’t understand if they help. The biggest NATO member, the biggest land army of NATO, the UK. NATO member, the UK helps, no words. Italy, NATO member, it sort of messed up, too strongly helping or ready to send someone there. Spain the same, Greece the same. How with these helpers? And Mark Rutte endured this cold in a suit, showed such endurance, as they say, said his speech, “Hold on, no money, endure.” Look, they supposedly turned on the heating, it’s a matter of suit, of course, it’s such a moment. They are not sitting in jackets, actually. You’ve repeated several times, partly, of course, it’s a joke, but every joke has a grain of truth.
“As soon as a peace agreement is reached, armed forces, planes in the air, and support at sea will appear,” says Rutte in parliament, announcing that the USA, Europe, and Canada expressed readiness to provide certain security guarantees to Ukraine, and a coalition of those willing reached, let’s say, concessions in design. Signed documents must not be a second Budapest Memorandum or Minsk agreements. This is all I quoted from Rutte, who is speaking right now in parliament. By the way, this may be a grain of truth, you know, if indeed Russia takes a step back regarding its so far publicly categorical, decisive demand not to see and not to get after ceasefire and after signing a truce a single soldier on the territory of Ukraine. But why, look, objectively, what are the prerequisites for Russia to change this position? A strong desire of Putin to get sanctions lifted and restoration of relations and recognition of Donbas. Because Donbas in the foreseeable, let’s say, short-term future, to take it with your own forces, well, practically impossible. By short-term I mean a couple of months until mid-year, I’m not even sure until the end of the year it’s possible. That is, in this regard, Putin has such difficult choices on the scales. I think this might… Wait, wait, wait, in what difficulty, let’s see. The war is going on and on, everyone is already used to it. It’s clear it exhausts both sides, the advancing side too, and Russia, too, everyone is tired of it. Yes, it’s too long. On the other hand, look, what Russia, for example, in the majority, besides border areas, doesn’t endure any terrible consequences from this war. The economy, again you’ll say, well, look, what Trump is doing with the economy now, everyone sees, right? He is weakening the dollar, the euro is on the rise, and they, sort of, need to cherish their currency, but it’s just flying down the pipe. That is, Europe itself should, in theory, crawl to Russia. Well, it’s doing it through India. Also an interesting moment. So, Ursula (von der Leyen) comes to Modi, they agree on trade relations, then Trump calls Modi today, starts telling something about “thank you, you agreed not to buy Russian oil.” He has obligations, including on energy resources to Europe, Modi, and he goes into public space, Modi says thank you that Trump appreciated it, reduced tariffs by 7%, this is a good sign, and says nothing about Russian oil, because everyone perfectly understands it’s all an exclusive game. That is, in this key, if you look from an economic point of view, well, Trump is giving a hard time to this whole support to a greater extent, it’s clear Russia is having a hard time under sanctions, but just lifting sanctions, well, doesn’t seem like manna from heaven for the Russian economy anymore. How does this Russian oil get to India or China? How? There are two exit points. Port Novorossiysk, port Ust-Luga. That’s all. Port Novorossiysk exits to the internal pond called the Black Sea, where British hooligans rule and misbehave, let’s say, under the packaging of Ukrainian and so on, with these sea drones, then goes to again an internal pond called the Mediterranean Sea, where also hooligans like and French racists and any others who are not lazy arrest these tankers. Port Ust-Luga exits to the Baltic Sea, where Finns, Swedes, Danes, whoever, also arrest these tankers. And if these tankers go out to the big ocean, as it was with the Murmansk, there already American pirates, now British pirates, they do the same. And yes, you correctly say that, to put it mildly, from an economic point of view, the situation for Europe and America, well, yes, it’s some kind of disgrace, it’s some kind of disgrace, Plamen.
Full quote of Rutte from the parliamentary podium: “Winter is very long, but spring will come, Ukrainians, remain strong, I know you are strong, strong.” And “as soon as a peace agreement is reached, planes in the air, support at sea, armed forces will appear” – this I already quoted to you. Mark Rutte either attended the same courses as Kristalina Georgieva, or she taught him, and he only forgot about lions, how to roar properly to warm up. Well, well, well, look, it’s all the same, well, this is religious fanaticism of these guys, religious fanatical hypocrisy of these guys, they say what they would never do themselves, they tell others to do what they never even thought of doing themselves. Well, “you hold on there” is like “no money, you hold on” – that was even softly said by Dmitry Anatolyevich (Medvedev) then, during his tenure. And here Mark Rutte, well, yes, it’s not a disgrace, it’s a revelation, I think. If after this, let’s say, the entire Ukrainian, or, let’s say, the population of Ukraine, I won’t say Ukrainian, as having an ethnic character, which in my opinion is specially invented here, but the population of Ukraine does not see this hypocrisy oozing from all cracks and contempt for those to whom this is said, because he despises those to whom he says it, he despises the long-suffering people, he considers them such idiots that you can tell them such a thing. Can you believe it? He considers everyone such idiots, this big Dutch sahib understanding. Well, listen, you know, I’ll open a bracket off-topic a bit, are you aware that in the Russian Empire they indeed sold serfs, but when they started doing it, they started after Peter I, well, brought European-ness, before that European-ness, i.e., slave-owning, was not on the territory of the Russian Empire, not a single serf was sold because they were treated as a person of lower social level, well, a person, and all rights, obligations, and responsibility, if you do something bad to this person against his will, it’s a crime, even for the master, and after Peter I started shaving beards and brought this Dutch-ness, Netherland-ish-ness, they started selling them, but it was European, they are all slave owners, are we here going to be different? And still in Russia they continued to treat the serf as a person because if they sell someone, they sell him with the family because you can’t separate the family, also a bit more human, it all was. So this representative of this European-ness, well, read by lips and movements of facial muscles, as they say.
So, let’s talk about America a bit, yes, while news comes. Listen, here Russian media spread information that allegedly in these three and a half million files, Zelensky appears, who directly, well, indirectly, because all documents are indirect, also participated in sending girls, right? Well, in general… And adult ones, in general, sort of, for these pleasures. In general, now the world, of course, is divided. Sensationally looks one of the messages, well, this is one of the FBI agents during interrogation, that is, look, it’s not just… we have a big substitution going on in concepts, and I agree with this statement that, well, in documents, everyone is mentioned. For example, Tamobstein asks, sort of, to earn extra for Leonardo DiCaprio, for example, yes, to advertise some Russian goods or some European goods, well, or such, absolutely, let’s say, he is a financier, besides his there lustful bad activity, yes, there generally, sort of, this is a circle of people, such a circle, but sensationally looks that, in general, the head of one of the FBI employees in 2019 gave testimony and said that Melania Trump generally appeared with Trump on the tip of Epstein, practically, he literally set her up for Trump. Scandalous, of course, statement, well, it’s clear that 2019, it’s clear that it’s their own political internal struggle, not very pleasant to hear such, not very pleasant to read such, in general, there is very little pleasant in this matter. Well, and, in general, they write about Zelensky, about attitude to Ukraine and so on, and so on. On one hand, now two lacquers, some say, listen, yes, what Epstein case, yes, calm down, nothing will happen. Well, what are you? This, as you know, belief that girls poop butterflies, you understand, well, what did you think, that they there are such all elites, constantly such was and in some fifth century, and geishas in some century, in Japan there, in 17th or in some, it’s all sort of… And Roman senators, and Roman senators. These are such Greeks, this they loved, all sorts of different. In short, there everyone loved everything, and this is such, it’s old as the world, so don’t be too surprised, important to concentrate on what is happening now. However these files, precisely because these files, they are published right now, they have political consequences right now, a number of politicians simply for mention there, quit their there positions, left, and this is both European politicians, some diplomats, there Slovakia, in Britain, not only there Prince Andrew, who was expelled, but, you see, how intelligence works, in advance expelled Andrew, there several months ago deprived of home and royal honors, but the point is not in this, the point is what will be further, and how do you evaluate this leak, will it affect anything, first of all, and is it possible that, well, provoke turbulence, which somehow will reflect on the completion of the war, even so I sort of attach these files. And it is quite probable these files can play in the opposite direction on the continuation of the war. Look, here with this release the main thing is not only timing, that is time, that you clearly paid attention, but quantity, quantity such that naturally immediately today you’ll read, immediately today you’ll flip through, immediately today you’ll watch, immediately all this dirt, well, roughly speaking, won’t heal, this means that volume is such that enough for slices and until company until November 3 primaries, you can simply until shoot reputation from Trump and respectively Republican parties, because one of the important world news last week, which I did this scanned my review, it was rating of Trump, for the first time in the history of American presidents, dropped below 40% and even more precisely 38%. And there graphics such, which shows from the moment of Trump’s arrival, there was 38% disapproval and there even I won’t guess, it here I need to be at hand, here 31st number, here it is, here should be, so, so, so, and here it is, here it is, now I’ll say, what would need nothing to invent. Did this, how Americans think about Trump, about his policy of immigration, and they immediately made a poll, which lasts again in February 25 year by Chinese? varying 26 year, disapproval, was 39% in February 25 year, became grow now disapproval, average point 53%, approval in February 25 year was 46%, in March rose to 50+, well a couple-three times, further it went only down and by the end of January 2026 year, sorry, I deceived you by new percentage point, approval of him 39%, not 38, 39, that is less than 40, that is approval 39, disapproval 53%, well naturally, there is some fluctuation, because there are such, which, probably, cannot determine, or I have no opinions on this question, but this is the first time, this is historically, that is, if so it will continue, I think that by the end of February, of this same month, they will do the same poll, they thanks to these dossiers of Epstein, where he was mentioned more than 1000 or 1500 times his name, well from which even 10-20, if will be more such juicy, there not quantity of force of arguments, as they say, matters, but not quantity of arguments, then then, most likely, this will drop by several more percentage points, and will drop specifically and until the end of the year from these, don’t remember, there terabytes, or what, 1.5 terabytes, well in short, sufficiently large information they poured out, which fractionally already by months can as butter on a slice smear, so that dirty went, because what they can say about the Democratic party, they some pluses assets, positive things to say cannot, but then they have the most powerful mortar or howitzer, which will shoot this blackness, against Trump, against Republicans, we correctly said, immediately appeared result, immediately appear, I resign, I brought in resignation, I generally shame-shame, yes, this really is such a nuclear explosion, sufficiently most powerful, I won’t manage this process, because it turns out Pam Bondi, that is Pamela Bondi, the chief prosecutor of the USA, who was nomination of Trump, choice of Trump etc., either she was intercepted, or she issued already really the whole database, and this already cannot but hit on Trump, because you said about Melania Knauss, I, honestly, long knew about this, she in fact was, well yes, you can guess, and Trump she simply just then and so liked, and further appeared what we now see on these photographs, I mean official photographs, first lady, I therefore don’t want to specify, but all can easily guess, so this is not the first, let’s say, lady, who from nonentities, moreover specific nonentities, specific nonentities, rises to such heights, in the Roman Empire there was a situation, when one of the empress in the past of hers was a prostitute, and this is not hidden, this is known, that is, as you said, in ancient times, unfortunately, I don’t know, how, all this not just sinful, the world, such as it is, human nature with human weaknesses and sins, it is such, and Trump, honestly, not a saint, snap and angel, there white-winged, and Melania Trump, naturally, not a nun, this what is called, as, nothing, well Trump, with Trump with reputation, with rating will be a catastrophe, he urgently needs some victories, that Cuba defeat, that in Iran, well with Iran this is not free and not unpunished, that get peace between Ukraine and Russia, on his rule, the main thing, that he got these.
Question immediately clarifying, because about Iran, why do you think that a military victory over Iran, this is needed by Trump, and why do you think that peace in Ukraine this directly raises Trump’s rating? Peace in Ukraine, he will record in his piggy bank peacemaker, and with efforts, let’s say, Fox News and other there media tools, which there they have, he can… Excuse me, well what media tools? Merger and Teller Green slams the door, says, MAGA LOSH speaks out specifically on Iran, on Trump’s foreign policy, well in general, you understand, what is happening now in America, this is growing into a fight of all with all. Grammys, revolutionary outcome, when they beat Aileeshi, all sorts of rappers come out and say, counter-revolutionary things, comrades against these ICE, these migration troops, Trump tears, beats hoof, cannot stand jokes of TV hosts, and comedians, who at this awards joked about Epstein’s island and Greenland island, that is Merger, in his wing, Trumpists, who were charged ideologically, and about MAGA spoke about MAGA, that is he is crumbling on all fronts, you understand, he needs to deal now with internal history. Ukraine here as such, well I simply understand, what’s the matter, when Elon Musk went to meet Trump, and, well in general, oh, Trump Fedorovo, and, actually, took these Starlinks attached to Russian drones, tried to neutralize, and sort of it worked, and at speed don’t work. And inside Ukraine this turned into that everyone, who has Starlink, now must go to the center of administrative services, everything became clear, and about MAGA, and about freedom, and about democracy, and about support, and about support of NATO Ukraine from the parliamentary podium, today spoke Rutte. Everything sort of, well begins, here come points, that you or, well, or panties, or cross, you understand, and the judge by everything chooses panties, and not the cross. Trump needs a victory, rather, ceasefire in order to launch companies of the club of three lions on the territory of Ukraine and Russia Russian Arctic, and thanks to that they will go there, they will help him, roughly speaking, repair his rating in order to survive on these elections. No one else will help him, except the club of three lions. Time is not enough. Wait. This is a problem for Trump, therefore and deadline and sets, therefore and nervous, therefore already begins emotionally there to swear, and he never was some model of Buddhist, let’s say, calmness and patience, and now this is on the verge of hysteria, yes, you completely correctly say. Precisely time is not enough, to launch them. If he launches them by the end of the year, rather even not by the end of the year, but at the beginning of the second half of this year, if they go as a result of ceasefire for new elections, in 60 days they will make them, not in 6 months, as in fact properly should be, well properly, as they say, they all will shorten now. And you ask about Iran, why does he need Iran? Because Iran feeds China with oil. All, who feed with oil, cheaply and with oil China, Venezuela, Russia, Iran must be cut off. And thus China must be already put in another position by April, therefore terms we constantly to this April remember, it already approaches with all already one and a half months, as they say, left. So, friends, let’s summarize our today’s question and move to your questions, thank you, that you leave them. How will the resumption of strikes on energy facilities affect the upcoming negotiations? Thirteen percent will derail, US will wash hands, seventeen will delay, which is what the war party needs, twenty-nine, say, Ukraine will be more compliant, will agree to Donbas and other questions and forty-one percent will have no effect, this all is already decided in Alaska. Do viewers believe in the spirit of Alaska and what is unfolding before their eyes? Not in the spirit but in the letter, Anchorage, because Lavrov a couple of times actually gave out the base, said not only the spirit, but said and the letter, so there was a letter, so there was a signature, and the letter in the beginning was the word, and then the word began to be written, so what is written, remains, and obviously takes this seriously, so yes, yes, I thought that what is happening now, I won’t again emotionally get angry, but my opinion and mood remained exactly the same, if you want really by military rules to play, to do something, doing exactly this, cutting all logistics, this would do and Stalin, this would do and Hitler, this would do and Suvorov, this would do and Napoleon, this would do and any strategist damn it, but if you have on this obligations, which bind your hands and you don’t let your generals do this, in order to save lives of hundreds of thousands of people from that other side, but we have what we have, as they say and popularity, rating and measure, and rating by the way of the Kremlin is higher, than of Trump, there PR guys work better, something this yes, there is there someone, from whom to learn, as they say, you say Zelensky’s rating also 60%, that is almost one and a half times more, than Trump’s, so PR guys Kyiv also generally not slouches, as they say, also know how to do their job, like this, somehow so. You understand, all this of course such nonsense, well I mean about all these PR decisions, about war today we spoke. I’m joking. When Kaja Kallas comes out and says that for 100 years Russia attacked different countries 19 times, well this is in this spirit we want to relate to the events of WWII Great Patriotic, much for the sake of a catchy phrase, very much, here everyone remembers, that at the beginning, in my opinion at the beginning, yes, or at the end of last week, in general several days ago exactly, Europe blocked as if the Baltic Sea for the shadow fleet of Russian. Well here, please, despite the message of London to take measures against the shadow fleet, under-sanction tankers continue to follow specifically through the English Channel, you understand, that is the Baltic Sea English Channel, well normal, 8 tankers there saw several days ago, meanwhile Ukraine debt increases, meanwhile Financial Times there us publish some, well this is exactly for PR, well you understand, that now here spread and after publication of Financial Times, that guarantees for Ukraine imply, that through 72 hours after repeated attack on that and USA enter the war with Russia. Well here, you understand, and all sort of here, what cool guarantees Financial Times, well done, here what is on the table, what is expected for signature, but here simply think, that is 4 years the war goes, it must somehow so stop, so that in case there of Relapse or Breakdown involve there all sides, that is European military contingents, and America must go to fight for what, here for what? America will not fight, will fight American people for the same good, which will extract and will ensure focal security and thread security, by threads by logistical will ensure security, by the way, they approximately there, if you look at military maps from Syria, there was visible Left and Berik and Frat, they there engage, but this must to some port then to divert, respectively, road from Dayr ez-Zor to through half the world then in the direction of the coast, there below and at the junction of borders of Syria, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Jordan, was a big such green, well there semicircle such American base At Tanf, air force, all the time was present on the territory of Syria and it was the operator and permitter, you will do this, were there several nomadic there spots, grayish ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which not far from the road precisely in Dayr ez-Zor half the world, Hobs and so to be able to terrorize for them the supply road from Iran through Iraq, then Al-Qaim the last point of Iraq and the first point of Syria it was Al-Bukamal, then along the coast of the river Euphrates and they there terrorized Iranian supply for Iranian infantry, their beaten, which fought on the territory of Syria and let through obligingly and disciplined all American cargoes, which there what pumped, there respectively on wheels there in order to these ports them not touched, that is selectively and disciplinedly arrived these ISIL guys there, ISIL prohibited many in decks, but permitted controllably precisely by the base from At Tanf. So it will be. Look at the history of Syria 2011-2025 year exactly the same will be with long-suffering Ukraine. If someone doubts, we’ll see, then to this conversation we’ll return.
Yes, friends, we move to your questions, such questions were left. In March June 1999 after multi-day bombings aviation NATO reads USA completely destroyed civilian infrastructure of Syria? Bombings continued until the Serbs refused Kosovo. Remind, please, did they disconnect America from SWIFT? Did they seize a tanker from American oil? Did Europe impose sanctions against USA? You ask a rhetorical question, this would be possible, only if there was the Soviet Union, which on the rights of Veto, let’s say, of the UN Security Council, where the Soviet Union so much was then 45th year highly valued in the contribution of participation and significance in this big victory, that to the Soviet Union in this UN, which was created as a result of victory. The Second World War were allocated three places, one to the Soviet Union, the successor of which became the Russian Federation, second, Ukrainian and Soviet socialist republic for its greater long-suffering in the Great Patriotic War, and third, Belarusian and Soviet socialist republic for the same reason, because the fiery roller went there twice, that is the Soviet Union then received in the UN Security Council and the UN, generally membership of three of its subjects, including itself. So the Serbs, by the way, never refused Kosovo, that is in the question contains a little untruth, the Serbs and now do not refuse, I in their place would not refuse and would not advise anyone to refuse, because Kosovo is Orthodox, sorry, this was more Orthodox, more Orthodox stronghold, than in Constantinople, than Athos, because there was more than 250 sketes, monasteries, churches and so on, all this burned and destroyed and slaughtered, in the literal sense of this word, in literal, therefore such firstly cannot forget, cannot forgive, cannot leave, Kosovo is, this is another and Kosovo is a long phantom pain, which to recognize cannot, that United state, by the way not United States of America, this then was defensive military alliance NATO, where Ukraine strives, very strongly under the leadership of the United States of America, which there sent even troops of the united nations, blue helmets there were called, which naturally assisted these head-cutters Hashim, not Hashim, Thaçi, well Hashim Thaçi, who then became president of Kosovo, when they gutted wounded or actually kidnapped Orthodox Serbs for organs and thanks to Madeleine Albright made actually this business on an envelope, on stream and many rich people of the world were able to get, well let’s say, fresh reserve spare parts, as they say, thanks precisely to this, this specific organization, which not there.
So, a number of questions, Anna Penkevich asks, how do you think, Ursula, Underlay, NCA, Akala were on Epstein’s island, and Meloni, do you know, who was the initiator of Epstein’s arrest? Well, Alex clarifies, how do you think, why everyone was called to Epstein’s island, but Angela Merkel not. Listen, Anna, Angela Merkel, as far as I knew, that she is into a healthy lifestyle, she either my age, or even younger than me, well let’s not, yes, in fact, in my opinion, this is a question of genetics and other things, so I perfectly understand, but the first part of the question, it is more important, Epstein, let’s say, either was assisted, or so happened, that a month after his detention he hanged himself incredibly creatively, one can say, in an unnatural way, after that, at his detention he said so, listen, there is also Trump, there is also this, why only me then in general, but this is somehow not so. And a month after his not was, rather he sent before the supreme court and, let’s say, joined probably in a better world, they say by his own courageous, let’s say, decision of despair, and others say, that for this is needed really a super-creative approach and some unnatural conditions in these non-physical circumstances, well I delicately of course express, I thought, that on the conscience of Trump may be not such a long list of coffins, as on the conscience of Hillary Clinton, there during, when she was Secretary of State, there almost 60 people, who were there direct witnesses about these her, softly speaking, terminations, which should have ensured her lifelong several times, as they say, but they also decided to leave for a better world, because probably this is a better world, either they were helped, or they were convinced, or they themselves took these responsible and irresponsible non-Christian decisions, but so it was, but to say, that only Hillary Clinton, let’s say, by these tools of power used not in the family, as they say, in the family of her own, clan rather, Don Frederick Trump will have some moral delays and he will say, no, but I am not such, but I am different, but I am such, moral, you understand, conscientious, of course one can believe in this, if to someone this gives pleasure, but I for some reason have some, well, let’s say, doubts, and it seems to me, that this dirt between them, this is not a struggle of good with evil, even this is not a struggle of the Republican party with the Democratic, and even not a struggle of conservatives with liberals, it seems to me, that this is an intra-species struggle, intra-species for, well, get up, so that I sit in your place, in general, like this, no more than, or I guard my place with teeth, claws and any dirty tricks and blows below the belt, all, which have or do not have grounds not to claim it, because I like this place and the Oval Office, the most rectangular office of the world, and it is closer to my heart, therefore I am a big fan, there I build, tore down completely a wing of the White House, in order to, well, dance, well, a person already must triumph, like a Roman you understand, or a warlord, who as a triumphator in a film there returns, and for this one needs to defeat someone. I on this topic remove I aside about victory and Trump. This he needs, understand.
Natasha asks, Plamen, how do you think, why did the agenda with Epstein come out now, if there is such a sore problem, as the destruction of cities of millions, and about this somehow remembered, for a whole week, and why Trump asked for only a week, simply, simply would be more, why ours do not ask, proud, or what? Well, firstly, must somehow free oneself from the illusion, the launch of these documents on Epstein was done, let’s say, with the approval of Trump, and he even tries to present this as if this is the wish of Trump, the will of Trump, this he there himself wanted, because he is so confident in his, let’s say, innocence, that let’s damn it, enough already with this. And I am not sure, that he agreed to this, I know, that he publicly says so, but, of course, he does not lie. He, when he lied in general, was there such, that a politician or an American politician ever lied, or generally another politician? Well, such does not happen, but I thought, that the release precisely of this portion and this volume, which is enough for the fire of these documents until the primaries, and maybe more, quite can lead to that they will ask for impeachment of Trump even before the primaries, that is may turn out so, that Trump will be presidenting in the mode of impeachment to these primaries, which will ensure already the final defeat of the Republican party and he more will rule in the remaining hour of his tenure, well, will be able purely figuratively and purely so ritually, procedurally, as it were, like this, no more than.
So, we move to the live chat.
Marina Plavin with all respect you yourself suggested, in what Russia is mistaken, used this, and now you nervously discuss this, maybe it’s time for Ukrainian military to also turn on brains, if they, of course, exist. I honestly did not understand, what she means, that is what is the question, well I think, that Ukrainian military have brains. Well, logistics, wait, logistics also hits Russia in this same question, you understand, not there in the West, although also today such information very interesting passed about that a drone flew, fell in the area of base Rzeszów and another military base, there supply of Ukraine also goes. Love probably. Love probably, no? So, there some village, and so these military could do nothing, observed, as it flew, this is a reconnaissance drone non-strike, it fell, landed, they grabbed it, began to drag into some shed hangar, and it continued to film, and should cover with a tarp, there something, well, in general, sort of deactivate. Well, that is, absolute Poles showed their helplessness, confusion, chaotic actions, you understand, therefore logistics now hits Russia and firmly hits, therefore and quickly, quickly, look, if Musk did not limit Starlink, we would see the radius of destruction and the dead zone not 20 kilometers, kill zone from FPV drone, but 50-60, and there, look, may be more, because there fly very far these lightnings, these all, well, these shahids with Starlinks, therefore here people, they, of course, criticize, here Musk took the side there of Ukraine, AFU, this and that, no, simply think, this would be a history, which then a week, this week terrorized specifically arteries, roads and railway automobile, moreover there camera, it sees, where it hits, here a military vehicle, it hits a military vehicle, here some bus, where loaded, there miners turned out, you understand, also there, don’t understand how, that is this, this is serious, sort of history, this would be a turning point in the war, this logistics in 2-3 months Logistics is like a tree, there is a trunk, then go big there branches, and then small branches, that is now they hit on small branches, and my opinion is that must take, take on the trunks, and the trunks are the entry points, there only 3-4-5 at most, further they branch, if you missed there to destroy this road infrastructure, further cannot maneuver, and further more difficult to catch them, where, where and how, that is, if you look on the map, I understand, that even I talk with Russian military, say, this to us far 600-700 kilometers, they cannot get there, cannot, this is the thing, listen, guys, you have allied states, from where you entered towards Kyiv, there is near the city of Brest, the city Domachevo, and there descends below Malorita and so on, from there you have literally 50-60 kilometers, just to this there main highway to Lviv, you haven’t seen the map, or what, or cannot them understand, this captain must suggest to you, or how, and this is the main idea, automobile there are another couple-three, but the main idea from there enters, and all heavy, all big, all shells, and all armored vehicles, it on the idea goes by trains, moreover, it there stops to change gauge, that is it is convenient, shoot not x, as they say, but no, but no, in Lviv them then, when they branch out across the whole territory of Ukraine and use all, let’s say, loopholes every day and automobile fool, I talk about this, don’t know, how else to explain this, on the map must simply look.
Question, would Plamen wish to be born not Paskov but Epstein? No, would not wish, I am completely satisfied with my surname, and my life, and my nationality, and my being, therefore I feel perfectly precisely in this my status, no more than.
Well they joke, is it time to compile a list, who was not on Epstein’s island, you understand? Well let’s in deborse, let’s say, well okay, let’s not, this is not poetry.
Well yes, yes, yes, so did not understand, what political views does Plamen adhere to, who are you, Plamen, SSR some? Imperial-socialist, or socialist-imperialist, if you want so, all Slavic, that is pan-Slavic socialist-imperialist, like this, I advocate for our common state, first federal, then unitary, in which all these parts of our people will be united with all ethnographic dialects and other features, let it be so, but in a single state and then we will be under 300 million now, and under billions in 50 years. And then with access to these oceans, to these paths with possession of this third world’s wealth, to us no one is a decree and to us no one can compete in the world, no one. The main thing, to unite these ore droplets, not to forget all bad, but forever remember this bad, in order to never more it not allow, all bad must carefully describe, explain and teach, in order to never more such not be, because we now are a single people, separated only, only politically, where local dialects are officialized as supposedly separate languages, but such in fact not, we understand each other, but this is a long conversation, which now me want evidentially now to take out and begin to throw words, words of names of months, names, let’s say, days of the week, names of surrounding, let’s say, universe, anatomical parts, family hierarchies, all in us the same and damn it, and only stupid, lazy and enemy of his people does not want to see this and understand, the word earth-earth, the word sky-sky and the word sun-sun, all the same. Well, the main thing, this is the word “mama”, you understand. Glory, the word “mama”, yes, father too. Used. Brother too, sister too. Used not in vice, not in curse, but here are things, which really unite people and not only there peoples. And hundreds of times more, than what divides us, hundreds of times more. Well, you see, how with us, with us differently, with us is emphasized precisely on other absolute things, but I am grateful, that we do not forget, despite different emotions, impressions and events, which happen and about these things.
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COMPREHENSIVE SYNOPSIS & ANALYSIS
This 2+ hour discussion between Russian host Alexander Shelest and Bulgarian analyst Plamen Paskov is a dense, emotionally charged, and wide-ranging analysis of the Ukraine war’s critical juncture in early 2026, framed around a massive Russian missile strike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure the previous night.
Core Thesis: The strike is a deliberate, pre-negotiation signal. The central debate is whether it will force Ukrainian concessions, derail talks entirely, or is merely theatrical, as the real outcomes were pre-decided in US-Russia talks (“in Alaska”).
Main Arguments & Themes:
The Logic (or Illogic) of Striking Infrastructure: Paskov is furious and perplexed. He argues that if Russia aims to "denazify" and control Ukraine, destroying the Soviet-built energy grid it would need to administer is counterproductive. It terrorizes the very Russian-speaking populations Russia claims to protect and creates a humanitarian and logistical nightmare for a future occupying power. Shelest counters with realpolitik: this is standard practice, citing NATO's destruction of Yugoslavia and the US in Iraq—destroy first, worry about rebuilding later (if at all).
The Ukrainian Elite as a "Detached Butcher Class": A brutal and recurring theme. Paskov asserts that Zelensky's circle ("95th Quarter") and officials have no stake in Ukraine's future—they hold foreign passports, have wealth stored abroad, and have escape planes ready. They are "ticks" or "butchers" profiting from the war and indifferent to public suffering. Therefore, terror bombing the population won't sway them; only cutting their personal logistical escape routes or threatening their offshore assets might.
The Upcoming Negotiations & "The Moment of Truth": Talks are imminent. Shelest presents a poll: Will the bombing make Ukraine more compliant (29%), delay talks (17%), derail them with US washing its hands (13%), or have no effect because deals are already made (41%). Paskov leans heavily on the last option, referencing the "spirit and letter of Anchorage"—hinting at a secret US-Russia understanding. The strike is seen as a "deadline" to force Ukraine, which has been "left out in the cold," to accept pre-arranged terms.
Zelensky's Impossible Position & The Donbas Conundrum: The discussion predicts a ceasefire soon, but a formal truce by May 15th. The core issue: Ukraine will have to sign away Donbas. For Zelensky, this is political suicide ("he is done for"). His turbo-nationalist, West-leaning surroundings will turn on him. For Putin, it's also framed as a "defeat" or "political enema," as it falls short of his constitutional goals (four oblasts fully). Both leaders are portrayed as "two sides of the same coin," equally guilty of the bloodshed.
Geopolitical Chess: The US (Trump), Iran, and China:
Trump's Motives: Trump is depicted as desperate. His ratings are historically low (<40%), and the Epstein files leak (implicating Melania) is a "nuclear" political weapon that could sink him before the primaries. He urgently needs a "win": either peace in Ukraine (to claim "peacemaker" status) or a strike on Iran. A Ukraine ceasefire would allow his donor "club of three lions" to access reconstruction and Arctic resources, helping his reelection.
Iran & China: Attacking Iran is about cutting off China's cheap oil supply (along with Venezuela and Russia) to pressure Beijing by April. This is part of a larger economic war where Trump is also weakening the dollar and euro.
European Hypocrisy: Mark Rutte's visit to Kyiv is savaged as empty "religious fanaticism." NATO's tiny central budget (€6.8B) is ridiculed as insufficient for real help. His speech ("winter is long, but spring will come") is compared to the infamous Russian "hold on, there's no money" line—a sign of contempt for Ukrainians.
Historical Grievance & "Fratricidal War": Paskov delivers a passionate monologue framing the conflict as a "Russian internal war," a fratricide of one people externally managed. He mourns the shared Soviet history being destroyed in Ukraine (renaming museums, knocking down Soviet memorials) while also criticizing Russia for not restoring names like Leningrad or Stalingrad. He sees both sides as hypocrites destroying their common heritage and future.
Military Analysis & Missed Opportunities: Paskov, adopting a military strategist tone, criticizes Russian tactics. He argues they are hitting "small branches" (internal logistics) instead of the "trunks" (the 3-5 key entry points from Poland). He claims a full Starlink-enabled drone campaign could cut all supply in 2-3 months and force a surrender without mass terror. He implies Russian high command is restrained by political deals from achieving a decisive military victory.
The "Saharan" Future of Ukraine: Post-war "prosperity" is dismissed as a fantasy for the masses. Ukraine will be like the Sahara Desert with small, prosperous "oases" (for the elite and foreign investors) connected by thin threads, while the rest of the country languishes. The promised $800 billion will be largely pilfered.Conclusion: The broadcast presents a deeply cynical view of the war. It is seen as a managed conflict where the Ukrainian populace is a hostage, their elite are predatory and detached, and the outcomes are being negotiated between Washington and Moscow. The massive bombardment is theatrical pressure to make local actors sign a pre-written script. The final takeaway is a blend of despair over the fratricidal slaughter and a pan-Slavic imperial socialist wish for a reunified, powerful Slavic state as the only “true” solution, blaming current leaders on both sides for the tragedy.