All right, he had a log in and welcome to it. It is the Derrick Hunter podcast for the 26th of June 2023. I'm Derrick Hunter. I am your host.

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We'll give away the books tomorrow show. This show was I did fill in on WMAL on Saturday from 4 to 7. I'll be back there this Saturday from 4 to 7.

And so I'm just repurposing it because why try to recapture lightning in a bottle? Am I right? Of course I'm right.

So let us get right to it because it's actually longer than usual. So here you go.

The big news really is we've got a you go to bed one day and you got a coup you wake up the next day and you've got a stalemate or detente or some sort of agreement and you don't really know what the hell is going on. You're saying they're going I was promised a coup.

What's happening? And we don't really know what's going on over in Russia, the Wagner group. See over there, the filthy rich have military. They have their own armies.

The oligarchs, many of them, not all of them. Some of them just want to do a bunch of cocaine and well, they basically want to live 100 Biden's lifestyle. But others do have vested interests in political power, etc., etc.

And they want to have the ability to defend themselves. They know Vladimir Putin. And I think, well, if he comes after me, I'm at least going to have somebody a group of people on the payroll who can get me to the airport.

Right. And buy this fighter jet for nothing. You got to have a way out. You got to have enough power. It's really screwed up system. But you got to have enough power to be protected.

If you're on Putin's radar, to be able to make him think it probably would be costly at a minimum if I decided to go after this person. It's a really weird situation over there.

And one such person, if you have, is you've got any precaution of a mispronounce that name who cares. You're never going to meet him and it doesn't really matter. And he may not matter after this weekend anyway.

So he had his army down in Ukraine because you know, you're making it look at most of Russia operates on bribes, on graft, on throwing money around.

And there are frankly a lot of these oligarchs who really do like being out there and doing bad things.

But he eventually apparently got sick of the way things were going in Ukraine. As I think most people would, there's doesn't seem to be any progress. You're sitting there and you're going to, we can't take, it'd be like us going, we're going to invade Canada.

And then a year and a half later, we still haven't taken Canada. We haven't even gotten to Toronto or like what the heck is going on.

So people are starting to question things. And so Pregozin took his Wagner group, his private army and decided he was going to go in March on Moscow.

Anything's Vladimir Putin is weak enough that he could go do it. It's actually, it actually is an insurrection. It makes January six look like a picnic, but they're not really calling it that.

And that caused an uproar across the media and across the people who really do like there being a war in Ukraine.

If public sentiment in Russia starts to change to the point that a couple of other oligarchs decide, you know what, I'm going to use my private army to and we're going to surround Moscow and we're going to make sure that Putin either knocks this off or is deposed, then things wouldn't keep going as, as well.

Shall I say jokingly is as they have been. If you look at the government just last week, what do they find? $6.2 billion accounting air and we got $6.2 billion more than we thought we had to give to Ukraine because we counted stuff wrong.

So they're throwing money around left and right. And if you don't think beaks are not being wedded like it's a bird bath convention over there across the globe by the people who find a way to wet their beaks and such things.

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