Speaker 1: You have to have a dude just kind of stand
Speaker 1: over your shoulder, just lurking, big goon dudes just like
Speaker 1: and it's love. Me's just walking around the lunch room,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Just the quad, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, or just just standing outside of stuff,
Speaker 1: like if you just find to go into the liqut
Speaker 1: st they just standing outside and just and we do nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean unless you got in line. But they're not finished.
Speaker 1: Like what did you standing there for? Like I mean,
Speaker 1: do I make eye contact? What you like? What what
Speaker 1: is you doing? Like, well I'm supposed to do with that?
Speaker 1: Why are they doing that? Well, it's just to remind
Speaker 1: you so you just remember whose yard this here is,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what I'm saying, Like you need
Speaker 1: to know who, don't you if if it ever you're
Speaker 1: thinking that you got any other options about who run
Speaker 1: this here spot? You know I'm talking about like they
Speaker 1: just maybe just be trying to remind you who neighborhood
Speaker 1: this is. You know, just just just don't get no ideas.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna stand over. You ain't gonna do nothing.
Speaker 1: Just I need you to remember with with where you
Speaker 1: are and I remind you just before you getting any ideas.
Speaker 1: They screaming last time that I checked. No, I'm saying
Speaker 1: there was no dirt on my rep. You feel me
Speaker 1: like they're just trying to remind you, like this, look
Speaker 1: this is my block. You know, country do it all
Speaker 1: the time. Poor Ukraine, they always got Russia always looking
Speaker 1: over their shoulder, just just to remind you you still
Speaker 1: just an old Soviet nation. Listen, let's talk about Russia
Speaker 1: in Central Europe right now, and you can cry me
Speaker 1: a river hood politics, y'all get it. Cried mea peninsula
Speaker 1: like Primier River back when j T just kind of
Speaker 1: sang songs that sounded like they was written for Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson because they were I think, uh, the Weekend taking
Speaker 1: that like these are these are these are Michael Jackson songs.
Speaker 1: Damn You're it's not a dis I'm just saying Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson songs. I like the new record. It's just that's
Speaker 1: this sounds like Michael Jackson. Like I'm not the only
Speaker 1: one that thinks this, right, I mean, I can't be
Speaker 1: the only one that thinks this. Whatever, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: We'll get into some foreign policy here, some stuff happening
Speaker 1: in the international news. What's so interesting about the American
Speaker 1: news cycle and the American psyche is like, we don't
Speaker 1: care about nobody else's blocked but ours. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, if it ain't if it ain't my hood,
Speaker 1: it don't matter, you know what I'm saying. I was
Speaker 1: watching the Georgia and Alabama National Championship game, but I
Speaker 1: didn't watch it to the fourth quarter because one of
Speaker 1: the homies text me and was like, man, I mean
Speaker 1: you roll Tighten or your bulldog. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: You go dogs, Like what are you doing? Right? And
Speaker 1: it's not that I don't enjoy football. It's not that
Speaker 1: I don't enjoy college football. It's just if the team
Speaker 1: I'm watching doesn't have the prefix Los Angeles in any
Speaker 1: way shape before, I don't care if it's a King
Speaker 1: of Bruin, a Trojan, a ram, a Raider, a Laker,
Speaker 1: or a Dodger. I didn't miss the Clippers on purpose
Speaker 1: if it ain't one of them, I'm just struggling to
Speaker 1: be interested. I'm not saying I'm cheering with a lot
Speaker 1: of people, Like what wait, Brewing and Trojan you asked me,
Speaker 1: I'm asking if I'm interested in it. Yeah, I'm interested.
Speaker 1: That's just if. It's not that I'm not interested. I'm
Speaker 1: saying like I'm trying to try to be. I watched
Speaker 1: from the side, so I watched the I watched that
Speaker 1: ball game because it was an interesting garls, an amazing gang.
Speaker 1: I understand that kind of that. These are you know,
Speaker 1: legacy football teams and you know foods like over there
Speaker 1: and that part of the world like every but y'all
Speaker 1: die over your college football teams. Yeah, saying like I look,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I remember once I got trolled by this,
Speaker 1: like one of my my first show with Mobile Alabama
Speaker 1: as a rapper. I was like, man, I don't never
Speaker 1: been down to Mobile. What do I do? Right? My homeboys? Uh?
Speaker 1: Father in law was like, yo, you should say roll
Speaker 1: tide when you go down there. I was like all right,
Speaker 1: So I got on stage. I was like, yeah, roll Tide.
Speaker 1: They was like exactly and that I was like, wait
Speaker 1: did I Then some people started booing and I was like, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm California. I don't know, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: What did I do? And They're like, oh yeah, not
Speaker 1: wrong side of town, bro? We don't roll tied here.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, so, basically I just walked into
Speaker 1: Englewood in an all blue jumpsuit. That's what you're telling
Speaker 1: me right now, That's what I did. Got it? Okay?
Speaker 1: My bad? Anyway, that made me be acutely aware of
Speaker 1: what might have been happening on the other side of
Speaker 1: the country. I feel like American like New Psycho or
Speaker 1: just interest is kind of like that, like we just
Speaker 1: kind of don't really understand how we're connected to the
Speaker 1: rest of the world. You feel me like, y'all don't
Speaker 1: follow associated Press, you don't follow a Jasira, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like you're not if you're lucky, you
Speaker 1: get maybe a BBC. You feel me like y'are just
Speaker 1: not We're just not into it because it's hard for
Speaker 1: us to, like because of the American myths, to really understand,
Speaker 1: because of how much chaos going on in our country,
Speaker 1: Like we have a hard time getting our brain around
Speaker 1: why you gotta care about the rest of the world
Speaker 1: and what they got to do with you and what
Speaker 1: your hand is in making that problem, even if it's
Speaker 1: like from a strictly racist like our understanding of like
Speaker 1: Mexico and Central and South America. Like our understanding of
Speaker 1: this stuff is just so it's it's so shallow because
Speaker 1: we just like look our hood and our hood only
Speaker 1: you feel me, that's all we under stay. But just
Speaker 1: the world don't look work that way. It's really one
Speaker 1: plane and there's some stuff like outside of our our
Speaker 1: scope that you need to know, like, it does affect you.
Speaker 1: You know, the keeping theme with the show at the
Speaker 1: Inner City Life, it's like, Okay, if there's a if
Speaker 1: the neighborhood down the street has some sort of like
Speaker 1: feud going on or they beefing, they don't get along
Speaker 1: with a neighborhood on the other side of you, do
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, that's your problem.
Speaker 1: The fact that them two neighborhoods don't get along, that
Speaker 1: that does affect you. You live right in between them,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And if not, that means that,
Speaker 1: like you know, at some point they're gonna come ask
Speaker 1: you to pick a side. You feel me like, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna be an issue. I don't know. Maybe you
Speaker 1: got some cousins over there you to feel me like.
Speaker 1: The point is it affects you but what's hardest for
Speaker 1: us to get our brain around is to understand that
Speaker 1: we might also be if we do care a side
Speaker 1: character at the story, like you, you just you're not
Speaker 1: the main You're not the main character. It's not as
Speaker 1: simple as like the movies are. So the stuff I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about today is really so you could like
Speaker 1: be a global citizen and kind of understand what's going
Speaker 1: on and understand maybe in a greater stretch, why this
Speaker 1: affects you. So I want to talk about the Soviet Union, Russia,
Speaker 1: Ukraine and believe it or not, Kazakhstan because all of
Speaker 1: these things going through some situations. Right now, you're already
Speaker 1: let's second break first mm hmmmm. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I would ask you why you're ready right before I'm
Speaker 1: about to go to the great That's ridiculous, But we're
Speaker 1: back anyway, here's the situation. I'm gonna get into the
Speaker 1: weeds with these situations in a second. But right now,
Speaker 1: overview overview, overview over. It's been like eight years that
Speaker 1: Russian Ukraine had these like tensions along their borders, right
Speaker 1: some of the uh, you know, the Russian trolls that
Speaker 1: we've been dealing with in our social media about just
Speaker 1: spitting out all kinds of disinformation. They did that too
Speaker 1: the Ukraine first and some of the separatist movements, some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that's happening over there like that. It's
Speaker 1: like they they perfected that on the Ukrainian people, and
Speaker 1: it's it's so sad, right, uh, to the points of
Speaker 1: where there was there was times in their sort of
Speaker 1: movements that just like our situation where we can't differentiate
Speaker 1: between facting and propaganda, you know, no pun intended. So
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing as far as like destabilizing,
Speaker 1: keeping people uncomfortable, you know what I'm saying. So right now,
Speaker 1: you know, starting it towards the beginning of this year,
Speaker 1: which we're still into, uh, there's been Russian troops on
Speaker 1: the borders where some Ukrainians were trying to get into
Speaker 1: Russia and the other way back around. It's like foods
Speaker 1: were like starving foods from hungry, but there's troops just
Speaker 1: there and the people are like, yeo, are you feeling
Speaker 1: like are y'all feel an invade You're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: invade us or not? You know, I'm saying like that's
Speaker 1: that's one of the one of the things that's going down.
Speaker 1: And what's so interesting about the city of Kiev, which
Speaker 1: I really love because I'm like, yo, this this resonates
Speaker 1: so deeply because if you you can walk around peacefully
Speaker 1: in Kiev, like January nine, I think, is there uh
Speaker 1: like orthodox churches Christmas Like they're doing normal Christmas celebrations
Speaker 1: at the same time they're getting updates about where the
Speaker 1: local bomb shelter is and which today warriors. Just that
Speaker 1: I'm like, if that's not living in the nineties and
Speaker 1: the gang bodises where it's like there's part of you
Speaker 1: that's like going about your regular everyday life that's like
Speaker 1: I went to the grocery store, you know what I'm saying. Uh,
Speaker 1: I bought some shoes, I went to the mall, went
Speaker 1: to school and went home. We outside playing, you know,
Speaker 1: and then there's like the other side of you that
Speaker 1: it's like, oh do you hear those guns? You hear
Speaker 1: those bullets? You hit them gunshots up the road Like
Speaker 1: oh man, they don't got somebody up there. You get
Speaker 1: a ghetto bird Like it's like this this this duo,
Speaker 1: like we're chilling, but we're also well aware that we're
Speaker 1: in an active where they're like, yo, so the people
Speaker 1: of your parents, like man spent eight years dog like
Speaker 1: they do this all the time. And that's that's the
Speaker 1: way we felt a lot of times when like big
Speaker 1: stories about like hood stuff happening in the news. It
Speaker 1: was just like, well, I mean we it's like we
Speaker 1: just we live here. Like this is like I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's not terrible. I'm not saying that, like we're
Speaker 1: not victims of this. That are that's not our family.
Speaker 1: Our brothers are sisters, and some of actually us in
Speaker 1: these streets, in these trenches, going to prisons, doing all
Speaker 1: the stuff, you know what I'm saying, Like that is us.
Speaker 1: At the same time, it's like, well, I mean the
Speaker 1: light bills still do like Nick's gotta go. We got
Speaker 1: jobs like you, you still go up about your life.
Speaker 1: You ask anybody that lived in a like in a
Speaker 1: in a failed state or like a collapsed region. It's
Speaker 1: like you still catch the bus to go to work.
Speaker 1: It's just the bus windows are blown out from like
Speaker 1: driving over a landmine. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: so life still goes on. It's so I I like, dude,
Speaker 1: hearing that report about how what's going on in Kiev?
Speaker 1: Like personally, I was like, dang, I resonate with that
Speaker 1: where it's just like, oh, it's a war going on outside.
Speaker 1: And also yo, y'all, y'all some tacos, you feel like tacos. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's look get some tacos. Know what I'm saying? Who now?
Speaker 1: Having said that, there's definitely the like who all gonna
Speaker 1: be there? Factor? Or like, well, where are we going
Speaker 1: to get tacos? You know, like I'm not, I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna eat over there, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: now you're asking for it. You feel me like you
Speaker 1: got sense enough to know not to go directly to
Speaker 1: the war. I know where y'all fighting. Not going over there,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But yeah, I mean so,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, it's like we're just brazenly walking
Speaker 1: around the city like we knew what parts to go,
Speaker 1: doing what parts not to at least to play your odds.
Speaker 1: But I mean, life went on. It's both, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'm like, dude, if that's not hood life,
Speaker 1: it's just it's both anyway, So that's going on down there.
Speaker 1: There's been like a ratcheting up of like Russian troops
Speaker 1: at the border of the Ukrainian in Russia. And another
Speaker 1: thing that's really interesting about this is like a lot
Speaker 1: of Ukrainians are ethnically Russian. A lot of them aren't,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them are. So there's this like
Speaker 1: weird like especially from like the West, like we have
Speaker 1: a hard time because we look over there and be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: white people, I don't understand white right, So when you
Speaker 1: say ethnic difference, it's like, I mean, I guess you
Speaker 1: feel me. But but there is there's some like like
Speaker 1: some like rival ethnics. Because again, remember state borderlines, nation states,
Speaker 1: they're modern like they're made up. It doesn't occur in
Speaker 1: the geology, Like it's just they're made up. So the
Speaker 1: line at the Ukraine in Russian border, like that's because
Speaker 1: of post Soviet Union, Like that's not you, yeah, y'all
Speaker 1: following me, Like that line was made. It wasn't always there.
Speaker 1: The map, the globes that I looked at in my
Speaker 1: first few years of elementary school didn't say Russia. It
Speaker 1: said the uss Are, it said the Soviet Union. It
Speaker 1: was an entire, this entire swath, this big old chunk
Speaker 1: of the globe was all theirs. And then the colde
Speaker 1: War ended and the Soviet Union was broken up, and
Speaker 1: a lot of us don't really have a brain around
Speaker 1: like like how significant that was. You know, Kazakhstan is
Speaker 1: beckett Stan, like all these different Yugoslavia, all these different
Speaker 1: now became their own nations because the Soviet block was
Speaker 1: like was broken up. One of those countries, it's Kazakhstan,
Speaker 1: which right now is going through its own protests over
Speaker 1: this hike and like petroleum prices, so like they had
Speaker 1: this like super peaceful protest that was over uh this,
Speaker 1: like they had this three year sanction on raising sort
Speaker 1: of the prices on the gas that you know, most
Speaker 1: poor communities use. And remember like Kazakhstanard actually produces most
Speaker 1: of the oil and gas for a lot of Central Europe,
Speaker 1: you know, but they're getting it at this like super
Speaker 1: high premium, and they was like, Yo, this this is bonkers.
Speaker 1: I gotta stop doing this, right And and then that
Speaker 1: that price hike became sort of a catalyst or the
Speaker 1: symbol for just an overall corruption of their government, you know.
Speaker 1: And then like anything else, just like out here, when
Speaker 1: it got dark, some provocateers we're gonna call them that
Speaker 1: came out started getting violent, and was they paid? Was
Speaker 1: they really a part of the troop? I don't know.
Speaker 1: The internet was shut down over there, but there are
Speaker 1: some like corroberated reports, and again I'm a link all
Speaker 1: this stuff, their coroberative reports that are kind of that
Speaker 1: are expressing that like, no, no, they were these were
Speaker 1: paid bad actors like they not. They wouldn't have parted
Speaker 1: this movement. The homie Jake hadn't ra having uh also
Speaker 1: on network on his on his own stuff to popular
Speaker 1: front like podcasts like his his reporting on like conflicts
Speaker 1: across the world, like it's it's a really good um
Speaker 1: source to check out. So plugging that, I'll pope put
Speaker 1: that in a notes too. And then the government freakishly
Speaker 1: cracked down. They was shooting right, like you we think
Speaker 1: we think our cops like shoot. They was like no,
Speaker 1: they shoot right. So much so that Russia has their
Speaker 1: own version, Like I'm gonna get to why this is
Speaker 1: so important, But Russia got their own version of like
Speaker 1: of a U N. And it's called like the c
Speaker 1: S t O. Right, it's like a military alliance. It's
Speaker 1: the Collective Security Treaty organization. It's kind of like they're
Speaker 1: it's it's I'm gonna get to this in a second.
Speaker 1: But uh, they sent them in squashed the thing there
Speaker 1: was like because the president of Kazakhstan asked Russia to
Speaker 1: send these dudes to come like squash this beef, and
Speaker 1: they did and they left. They did it in a
Speaker 1: very Russian way. I'm gonna let you all feel in
Speaker 1: the blanks as to what that means. And then they
Speaker 1: rolled out. You know, what does all this have to
Speaker 1: do with the Nipsey Hustle sung? And why did I
Speaker 1: bring all this stuff up? And why am I talking
Speaker 1: about the Cold War? Let's tie it all together after
Speaker 1: this break, m all right. So here's the perfect collision
Speaker 1: of my street antennas with my political antennas. And these
Speaker 1: things only work if you understand history, and not only history,
Speaker 1: but history in terms of the dates and what happened
Speaker 1: in history, in terms of like, this is just how
Speaker 1: people act, This is how people lord and in this
Speaker 1: is if you understand how hard of a blow to
Speaker 1: your pride losing the Cold War must have been, and
Speaker 1: even accepting that it was a loss, it would be
Speaker 1: the equivalent if somebody just said you know what, all
Speaker 1: gang wars are done the crypts one, So all your
Speaker 1: bloods just everybody just turning your egs. It's all over
Speaker 1: there no longer you're no longer allowed to be bloods
Speaker 1: anymore because the crypt one. Every blood on earth would
Speaker 1: be like, wait, what, this ain't over. You can't just
Speaker 1: say it's over. We took some else maybe, but so
Speaker 1: did you? What the hell you mean it's over? It's
Speaker 1: never over, right, that's what you would say. So the
Speaker 1: type of this, and think about everything you know about
Speaker 1: Russian history, which is probably nothing except for Mikhail Gorvitov,
Speaker 1: maybe like Vladimir Putin, Like I don't know much, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, But if you understand something about that,
Speaker 1: that Russian way of life, that empire, I feel like
Speaker 1: anybody from that type of cold right, whether we talk
Speaker 1: about the North Sagas, the Scandinavian folks or these Russian
Speaker 1: when you come from that type of code, you're just
Speaker 1: angry and brawley and yo saying like you can't live
Speaker 1: in that type of code and have a good attitude,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Right, So that Russian Empire,
Speaker 1: when we think about like imperialistic expansion. Most time we're
Speaker 1: talking about like Western Europe, like you're talking about France
Speaker 1: and you know, and taking parts of Africa, and then
Speaker 1: we think about Portugal, parts of South America speak Portuguese, Spain.
Speaker 1: My lord got went all over the place. And then
Speaker 1: the little engine that could, which was the UK. Right,
Speaker 1: and they don't conquered like the British Empire. People say
Speaker 1: the sun never said on it because they they still
Speaker 1: got colonies, you know what I'm saying, Like Britain conquered
Speaker 1: so much. Those are usually the only the expansions we're
Speaker 1: talking about now. Germany tried to get their expansion on two,
Speaker 1: but they were the Prussians, right, They tried to get
Speaker 1: the expansion on two. The problem was they were blocked
Speaker 1: in on two sides. One side was the Russian Empire.
Speaker 1: The other side was the French Empire. You understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, so Russia really couldn't get. Prussia, which
Speaker 1: became Germany really couldn't get. They couldn't get they colonized
Speaker 1: on You understand what I'm saying, Because youre in between
Speaker 1: two superpowers, my nigget, like you can't There was nothing
Speaker 1: they can do except for cause of war. You feel me,
Speaker 1: and then there's Austria, there's Hungry, there's Turkey. There's nowhere
Speaker 1: for them to go because everybody around them is about it, right.
Speaker 1: Russia came from that type of higher building that was
Speaker 1: much more like the old ways, more like Rome, more
Speaker 1: like Greece, like general, where it was like you expand
Speaker 1: just like you spread wide, like you try to you
Speaker 1: conquer the lands around you and try to like and
Speaker 1: then you and then you bring people there, and then
Speaker 1: you start commingling your ethnicity with their's and you spread
Speaker 1: kind of like with like surrounding areas. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of how Russia work. That's different than like the age
Speaker 1: of expansion, you know, the imperialism that we understand where
Speaker 1: it's like no, and you get on a boat and
Speaker 1: you go build these colonies weighs somewhere else, and it's
Speaker 1: to scattered plot across the land, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that's partially because again when you're looking at Western Europe,
Speaker 1: y'all all butted up against each other. There's nowhere to
Speaker 1: expand except for what they called the New World. Like
Speaker 1: there was nowhere for them to go. Russia was still
Speaker 1: cut from that old Claude. Russia was one of the
Speaker 1: later countries to even industrialize, like they was very much
Speaker 1: hella agricultural hella like Goryan, like much longer than the
Speaker 1: rest of Europe that modernized, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like that stuff was like that was a weird and
Speaker 1: they but but with that, they was up there in
Speaker 1: the Code balling out of control. If you want to
Speaker 1: stand like take take the time at some point to
Speaker 1: go look at Russian like oligarchy, the Russian monarchs, like
Speaker 1: the type of like rich people stuff they did. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just observed they were the opulets nigge, the balling
Speaker 1: out of control that the Russian oligarchies did. Like we
Speaker 1: don't have categories for that because it's not like we
Speaker 1: don't talk about them because because again out here in
Speaker 1: the West, they was considered the enemy, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, So we don't we ain't gonna ever like
Speaker 1: flex for them, Like you're not gonna really learn about
Speaker 1: the Russians, you know what I'm saying, But like their
Speaker 1: history because like it's absurd now once you get to
Speaker 1: the Code War, they even did things their own way
Speaker 1: during that time too, because remember we was chasing them
Speaker 1: all over the map and the code or wherever they
Speaker 1: was at, We was at there were it was our job.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. When you look at like
Speaker 1: some of the the the Monroe doctrine, it was just like, yo,
Speaker 1: we just gotta stamp it out wherever we find it.
Speaker 1: The way the foods will move would be like we're
Speaker 1: not doing this old school, you know, colonial model where
Speaker 1: we just kind of pull up and take over. It's
Speaker 1: just like you look at areas that kind of maybe
Speaker 1: need some help, you know what I'm saying, and you
Speaker 1: just offer aid. You just backed the local government, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like you get in between little squirmishes,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like North Korea, South Korea.
Speaker 1: You know we you know, we went have these on
Speaker 1: North and South Korea between US and and in the Soviets,
Speaker 1: like we just went have these, you know, Vietcong. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like Contra in the sense Santonista
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying, Like you know, the Dirg in Ethiopia.
Speaker 1: Ethiopia can truly say they've never been conquered by a
Speaker 1: European civilization, but Russia did back one of their governments.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Asad in Syria, you just
Speaker 1: going there, you just be like, yo, no a big
Speaker 1: bag Russia got you, man. Don't go to U. S
Speaker 1: A for the bad, come to us for the bag.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like, that's how they will
Speaker 1: move you feel me, that's even more, that's even bo
Speaker 1: That's why, that's why there's like, uh, this whole thing
Speaker 1: about the co War and the spread of communist it
Speaker 1: was like Russia, which is how you're doing doing business.
Speaker 1: And again they still salty because they like they get
Speaker 1: you doing the same thing. So this empire who has
Speaker 1: only known empire who was determined because for years years
Speaker 1: nobody in Europe wanted it with Russia. Nobody want to
Speaker 1: do I'm not all the way up to World War One,
Speaker 1: nobody And part of why World War One with the
Speaker 1: way it was, was because Germany ain't wanted with Russia.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted it with Russia. It's too many of them,
Speaker 1: and they military is they scrapped telling you man, you
Speaker 1: can't be in the code and not like you gave
Speaker 1: me the code like that and not just be tough
Speaker 1: as nails. So anyway, so when you fast forward to
Speaker 1: to the Code War, like it was like the disrespect
Speaker 1: of this little, tiny, little you little toddler asked nation,
Speaker 1: y'all just got here. Who the hell are you to
Speaker 1: tell us the Soviets Russia? Oh, you got your little money?
Speaker 1: You got y'all, you got a little money. Now, yo,
Speaker 1: you you put on your little big boy pants. Now
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you, trying to get you to
Speaker 1: understand the mentality, like who is y'all? You don't? Oh
Speaker 1: so so you just you didn't figure out how the
Speaker 1: world should work. Y'ain't but two hundred years old? Three
Speaker 1: years Oh you're talking about you understand how to Like
Speaker 1: what did you talking about? We got restaurants older than
Speaker 1: your cold country? You understand I'm talking about like y'all
Speaker 1: wiped out your indigenous Like y'all got no tidy your
Speaker 1: history anyway, you don't know what you're talking about. So
Speaker 1: there was some pride in there. So look, the space race,
Speaker 1: sput nick all this stuff was like those were issues
Speaker 1: of like pride, like it wasn't really now it's a
Speaker 1: piston contest. Y'all got guns. We got guns, Well, how
Speaker 1: the hell, you think you are right? So our way
Speaker 1: of life, my nigga communism, ni get Soviet. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, this our way of life because like
Speaker 1: that's what's on the table here for them. So for
Speaker 1: them to lose East Germany, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: for this whole stuff to happen, for the for y'all
Speaker 1: to break up. You went into our empire and you
Speaker 1: broke this up. Like do you really think really think
Speaker 1: they was gonna let that ride? Do you don't think
Speaker 1: that stays in their psyche? I'm saying they not as
Speaker 1: in like the typical Russian, But you understand I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say, like as a as an institution, it's like
Speaker 1: that stayed. Like don't like we never forgot that. Y'all
Speaker 1: took our pride and you got all these other niggas
Speaker 1: who we conquered actually thinking they could mess with us. Man,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like we need our respect again.
Speaker 1: So I don't want nothing to do with nothing y'all doing.
Speaker 1: When we did the whole space race with Whitey on
Speaker 1: the moon thing China and Russia, like we got our
Speaker 1: own accords, like y'all got yours I don't want nothing
Speaker 1: to do with you. Listen, they created their own version
Speaker 1: of like NATO. You in there's like, no, this is
Speaker 1: ours we I don't want nothing to do y'all don't
Speaker 1: respect us and the fact that you're not letting me enter. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't respect y'all. And you got the whole world
Speaker 1: thinking we're crazy. We try to go to the damn
Speaker 1: we try to go to the damn Olympics. We can't
Speaker 1: even fly flags of our own nation. Awesome ship, you
Speaker 1: know you do too. I'm trying to put you in
Speaker 1: the Russia's brain here you like, man, you know what?
Speaker 1: And Ukraine over here? Who your little Ernst you're gonna
Speaker 1: go over there and partner with America. First of all,
Speaker 1: we can't folk number one. Ukraine like, oh if this
Speaker 1: how you treat your kid? I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to be a part of this, But Ukraine say no,
Speaker 1: not all skinned folkus can folks. Now you know that
Speaker 1: y'all don't love us. Nick if you if you Russia,
Speaker 1: you're like, man, we can't folk man, what like, don't
Speaker 1: let them niggas gas you up that you can have
Speaker 1: a better way of life than us. And I think
Speaker 1: even in that statement, Russia kind of scared because if
Speaker 1: if if Ukraine actually starts flourishing, then the people of
Speaker 1: Russia are like, hold up now, wait you're telling me
Speaker 1: they live in better than us. Uh, this is gonna
Speaker 1: start exposing a little mor lives. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: at steak here. Russia can't let I can't let you
Speaker 1: succeed because if you do, it makes us look bad.
Speaker 1: So as an issue of pride, because all the reports
Speaker 1: coming out of the border is like it don't look
Speaker 1: like as of today you know Janu that they're gearing
Speaker 1: up for or it looks like they just posted up.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like that goon that just be walking
Speaker 1: the quad. Just so you remember out here sing it.
Speaker 1: Last time that I checked, there was fifty chains on
Speaker 1: my neck. I was never dirt on my set. Last
Speaker 1: time that I checked. You know what I'm saying, there
Speaker 1: was no dirt on my rep i'hmself made from the
Speaker 1: driddle like nigga. Like last time I checked, Nigga, I'll
Speaker 1: run this here. I was the man in these streets.
Speaker 1: Don't you ever in your life get it twisted. Don't
Speaker 1: let the USA fool you. Day A long way away.
Speaker 1: We right next door. Don't you ever, I ever get
Speaker 1: it in your head that you are ever safe? You
Speaker 1: know where you are, you know what it is. I
Speaker 1: saw Russia doing nigga cry me a river, because like,
Speaker 1: you know who we are, you know what it is.
Speaker 1: Don't you ever? Don't you ever ever think no different
Speaker 1: s just gonna post on the They're just gonna post
Speaker 1: on the border. Right, what that got to do with Kazakhstan. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what's interesting about that. It wasn't none of Russ's business.
Speaker 1: But guess who was asked to come in and help.
Speaker 1: You know what that is? It's boss moves. It's showing
Speaker 1: everybody else around that, like listen, we still Y're not
Speaker 1: calling nobody else. Don't call nobody else, and nobody else
Speaker 1: gonna come help you. We are we this are block.
Speaker 1: I know it may look like we have taken an
Speaker 1: l in the eighties and ain't recovered since, but we're good.
Speaker 1: RUSSI are gonna always take shots at us, US is
Speaker 1: in the is in the USA because like you just
Speaker 1: like you're not appreciating the disrespect, the spit in the
Speaker 1: face of being Like Russia was the first to space,
Speaker 1: but America was the first to the moon. Like the
Speaker 1: disrespect homie, you don't you y'all piste off like think
Speaker 1: about like don't matter what this little dumb errs like
Speaker 1: y'all always win it. Everybody take y'all side. I'm not
Speaker 1: even saying Russia rock. I'm just they like this take
Speaker 1: position is like you like you, I can't let this ride.
Speaker 1: We will never let this ride. We need our pride back.
Speaker 1: And when you desperate for your pride back, you won't
Speaker 1: bully everybody around you because you I need somebody to
Speaker 1: feel this. How frustrating that is when you know somebody
Speaker 1: fraudulent running around here acting like they the moral compass
Speaker 1: of the whole world, Like I mean that's what like
Speaker 1: aint that with America? Act like you know, you're calling
Speaker 1: us the the evil Empire can eat we evil? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, oh, like we're the problem,
Speaker 1: We're the problem, Like yo, like yo, ship don't stick,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like how frustrating that must be?
Speaker 1: So what that got to do with us? Dog? You
Speaker 1: know how good it must have felt if he was
Speaker 1: a Latin ir Putin to have somebody like Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in office where you could like like this might be
Speaker 1: the move, this, it might be, this might be it,
Speaker 1: it might be time, you know, and then that not
Speaker 1: lasting very long and knowing that it might possibly be
Speaker 1: he might be back up again. You don't know, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, But what that must have felt,
Speaker 1: what that has to do with us is the fact
Speaker 1: that like they have such a vested interest in America
Speaker 1: and by extension, the West looking like a mess because
Speaker 1: a we're in the u n where allies with Ukraine,
Speaker 1: which now times are shifting, you know, but we were
Speaker 1: seeing as like top dogs, superpower. Now you he's not
Speaker 1: talking about China like they're supposed to be talking about
Speaker 1: China trying to run in things right now, like China here.
Speaker 1: I think we did an episode on this on the
Speaker 1: Big Bank take little Bank, Like China's not you're not
Speaker 1: paying attention, like then China ain't playing, But Russia wants
Speaker 1: to be like want some respect on their name, and
Speaker 1: and they're just like, yeah, we're just fundamentally different than you.
Speaker 1: We just run the world differently than y'all. And it
Speaker 1: would bring so much joy to see y'all take elves
Speaker 1: and everybody that's connected to y'all to take elves. So
Speaker 1: the political dance you gotta take where you can't if
Speaker 1: you're the U S, especially a US like president, you
Speaker 1: can't go over there and look like a punk because
Speaker 1: you're gonna get pumped. At the same time, you have
Speaker 1: to remember you dealing with somebody that will kill their
Speaker 1: own people because that just like we said before, don't negotiate.
Speaker 1: Putin don't negotiate. That's why he do what he do.
Speaker 1: So if you do, if you are quote unquote the
Speaker 1: reasonable one, hell I don't. I mean, this is why
Speaker 1: secretary of State positions, headed national security positions, why these
Speaker 1: other cabinet members, why you gotta think about this, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because like, it's not just it's
Speaker 1: not just theater. It's not the theater. A lot of
Speaker 1: times that we see in like some of the governatory
Speaker 1: or like Senate races where you know that there's there
Speaker 1: are times that like, even though I understand what's at stake,
Speaker 1: that just kind of looks like, yo, y'all look like clowns, man,
Speaker 1: Like this is what's all this acting? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. When you get up to this positions to
Speaker 1: where you like being a foreign dignitary like your ambassador
Speaker 1: to different countries, like you gotta be a stone coach.
Speaker 1: G you can't go up there playing game, you know,
Speaker 1: saying like they do, especially somebody like Russia. Russia. Shoot.
Speaker 1: So it matters, man, It matters our our stance with
Speaker 1: the rest of the planet. It matters our our national myths.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm black, so like they are already a joke.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, to think that a foreign
Speaker 1: actor couldn't cause the demise of our nation, to think
Speaker 1: that you're above that is like, oh, you're not paying attention.
Speaker 1: They moves matter that we are in the same planet.
Speaker 1: How are you gonna govern if we just all saw
Speaker 1: you get played by somebody that far away, like you
Speaker 1: ain't got no authority no more. Not only that, if
Speaker 1: you understand how the economy works, like we don't make
Speaker 1: everything we have. You know what I'm saying, like, if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let this other country just like bully us,
Speaker 1: make us look dumb, like we can't even do our
Speaker 1: commerce like you, it's a lot at steak you lest
Speaker 1: somebody bully you like this, You do that mess around
Speaker 1: And you know Brazil down there in South America who
Speaker 1: make most of the ten Like they start being like,
Speaker 1: oh oh oh you can, you can get touched. All right,
Speaker 1: we've been a triple our price of aluminium. I'm making
Speaker 1: these things up. But like the price just went up,
Speaker 1: fat Joe. The price yesterday is not the price today
Speaker 1: because we just saw you get bullied, so I know
Speaker 1: now you can get touched. I ain't gotta agree with
Speaker 1: everything you say now because oh I just watched Russia
Speaker 1: bully you. Right now the steaks is high, and you
Speaker 1: like the price of aluminium. What the hell that got
Speaker 1: to do what? It's exactly what they got to do with,
Speaker 1: like how much your phone costs, how much your gas cost,
Speaker 1: how much your car costs, niggd, how much you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, your dinner costs. Like all of that come,
Speaker 1: all that stuff plays together. Man, it's a lot of steak.
Speaker 1: So you can go and let it be in the
Speaker 1: background for a while. But at some point, whether it's
Speaker 1: what happened in Syria with the side, whether it's another
Speaker 1: proxy war somewhere, at some point sometimes these like big
Speaker 1: esoterag national beachs, they start knocking at your door. So
Speaker 1: you can't have nobody down the street, convinced that they
Speaker 1: are the bully of the block because when they're hungry,
Speaker 1: there's no telling what they do. Politics. Yeah, this here
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