HEADLINE: Russia-Belarus Nuclear Drills, ISIS in West Africa, and European Political Turmoil GUEST NAME: Gregory Copley SUMMARY: Gregory Copley reports on routine Russia-Belarus nuclear drills and provocative Russian drone activity near Poland. He details
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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GUEST NAME: Gregory Copley
SUMMARY: Gregory Copley reports on routine Russia-Belarus nuclear drills and provocative Russian drone activity near Poland. He details aggressive ISIS operations in West Africa, critiquing Nigeria's President Tinubu. Copleyhighlights surging populism and anti-immigrant sentiment across Europe, exemplified by a massive London "remigration" rally. He also discusses King Charles's potential constitutional role in addressing Britain's political crisis.
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:40.9 | Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs joins me to comment on report from the Polish frontier, |
| 0:48.7 | which is the NATO frontier. Moscow and Minks rehearse launch of nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus, |
| 0:56.7 | according to the dictator of Belarus, a man by the name of Lukashenko. The media quoted the Belarusian chief of staff as saying the exercises also featured Russia's hypersonic missiles, which it test-fired last |
| 1:02.7 | year in the war with Ukraine. Gregory, a very good evening to you. This looks either provocative |
| 1:08.9 | or sentimental. I'll go with both. Russia right now is |
| 1:13.9 | demonstrating that it is on the frontier of NATO and using offensive weapons. Do we read more |
| 1:21.6 | into this than the Russian ability to rattle a saber? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. |
| 1:27.4 | Well, I think we'd have to say that |
| 1:29.1 | NATO is on the borders of Russia rather than the other way around. This was not the case when the |
| 1:34.0 | Cold War ended when the West President Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK, said that |
| 1:40.2 | they would not expand NATO toward the Russian borders, and they've done so. |
| 1:44.9 | What we did see, however, was the regular routine Zappard exercises. |
| 1:50.4 | This is Zupad West 2025, started last Friday, ends today, and the use of, or the exercising |
| 1:59.5 | with tactical or theater nuclear weapons is something which has done |
| 2:03.2 | on every occasion just as the major NATO and Western exercises also take into account the potential |
| 2:12.7 | use of and the rehearsal for the use of tactical nuclear weapons on the western side. |
| 2:17.8 | So this is nothing to be alarmed about in that respect, really. |
| 2:23.7 | What was really of a more provocative nature was the sending of Russian military unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, over Poland in the past week or so. |
| 2:39.0 | That was, in fact, something which appeared deliberate and in line with the old Russo-Soviet approach of |
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