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Bringing you news from around the 🌍, we ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Hosted by Afshin Rattansi, broadcast globally. Our Channel: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground
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A Bayraktar drone factory in Kiev was bombed by the Russian🇷🇺 Air Force This should tell Western Europe that their plans to militarise Ukraine further as part of a peace settlement, or having troops on the ground, is a total non-starter
Bayraktar drone factory in Kiev, destroyed by the Russian🇷🇺 Air Force

The planned German Rheinmetall factories in Ukraine probably will have a similar return on investment
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Finland’s Air Force has decided, in 2025, to remove swastikas from the flags of its units.

Yes, they used swastikas until 2025.

Ukrainian Armed Forces units will probably buy up the old flags and start flying them shortly.
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🇺🇦🇷🇺‘Zelensky is losing support among the Ukrainian population…the trend line is in the wrong direction for him.’

-Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and former CIA External Advisory Board Member, on the latest episode of GU

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6y86y6-ex-cia-advisor-and-afshin-rattansi-have-heated-exchange-over-ukraine-proxy-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🇺🇦🇷🇺‘Zelensky is losing support among the Ukrainian population…the trend line is in the wrong direction for him.’ -Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and former CIA External Advisory Board Member, on the latest episode of GU…
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One of the many reasons Zelensky’s popularity continues to plummet:

Here’s his conscription thugs threatening a man at gunpoint to surrender and get sent to the frontlines to die in the failed, lost NATO proxy war against Russia
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🚨CAN RUSSIA🇷🇺 TRUST THE USA🇺🇸?

‘If I were in Russia somehow trying to think this through, I would want to know what kind of security architecture would be the long-term solution for Ukraine.

Because I would worry that the next American president might change his or her mind on NATO membership for Ukraine. And I wouldn’t want to just take some kind of a temporary promise as something that I could hold on to.

Now, as you point out, there are agreements and treaties that both sides have broken historically, the United States and Russia. So even treaties are not sacrosanct.’

But I think I would want to see evidence that people in the West had come to some kind of conclusion that Ukraine is especially sensitive for Russia.’

-Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and former CIA External Advisory Board Member, joins us for Saturday’s episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6y86y6-ex-cia-advisor-and-afshin-rattansi-have-heated-exchange-over-ukraine-proxy-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨CAN RUSSIA🇷🇺 TRUST THE USA🇺🇸? ‘If I were in Russia somehow trying to think this through, I would want to know what kind of security architecture would be the long-term solution for Ukraine. Because I would worry that the next American president might change…
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THROWBACK: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says “the most violent country in the world since 1950 has been the United States🇺🇸.”

The US has been breaking its own treaties since the time of genocide against the Native Americans.

Blind trust in a peace treaty with Washington could be fatal for Russia🇷🇺 in the future. Lessons from recent history show that the US will always use violence whenever the opportunity arises…

Russia’s deterrence capacity is the only thing that can ensure that Washington in future continues respecting a deal to end the Ukraine proxy war.
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Washington’s imperial hubris and quest to turn every country into a vassal has led to this:

India🇮🇳 and China🇨🇳, setting aside their differences with Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meeting at the SCO Summit.

The threat from Washington bluntly materialising with Trump’s economic war on India has shocked its foreign policy establishment into action, after realising that after China, India is next on Washington’s list, and the two options are:

1. A drawn-out campaign by Washington to turn India into a vassal, faced without China

2. Facing down Washington’s campaign of ‘vassalage or destruction’ with China, which faces a more intense version of the campaign, and have more chance of success

India and China, despite the disputes, are natural allies in the 21st Century. Washington will not accept a peer competitor, and will not accept multipolarity.

China has already surpassed the US by the measure of GDP by PPP, India will do the same in decades. New Delhi and Beijing will begin playing even more important roles in the world. For these reasons, India and China are destined for a showdown with the United States.

New Delhi and Beijing have finally realised that if they want to get serious about the threat from Washington, the disputes need to be put aside with urgency, or they risk being picked off one at a time by the full might of the US empire.
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It is 'time for the dragon and the elephant to dance together'.

-China’s🇨🇳 Xi Jinping to India’s🇮🇳 Narendra Modi

The US’ endless imperial arrogance makes New Delhi realise it’s either fight Washington’s domination and bullying alone, or fight it together with Beijing.
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🚨Ronald Reagan’s Former Special Assistant: Gaza has done ENORMOUS DAMAGE to the US’🇺🇸 reputation

‘I think it’s extraordinary the damage done to America’s reputation, also Europe’s, but especially to the United States. I don’t think Trump sees that. I think it’s long term damage. I’m not sure how to ever change that.

To basically have the blood of tens of thousands of people effectively on your hands. And not just his, of course. I mean it’s Joe Biden. This is a policy that started under the earlier administration. But to see the carnage that has occurred in Gaza, is just utterly horrendous.

And it’s no surprise that when the NATO countries and the US went to them on Ukraine, you know, they basically looked and said, you too. Who are you to kind of moralise about the invasion of Ukraine when you invade Iraq and you kind of turn that country into a charnel house?’

-Doug Bandow on the latest episode of Going Underground, as the powers of the multipolar world meet at the SCO Summit in Tianjin

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6yb55c-doug-bandow-enormous-damage-done-to-us-reputation-over-gaza-trump-easily-ma.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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Ronald Reagan’s Former Special Assistant: It’s DERANGED to dismiss the threat of nuclear war with Russia🇷🇺 over Ukraine🇺🇦

‘I think dismissing the threat is deranged. The problem is everybody seems to have come to the conclusion that Putin is really a wimp. He wouldn’t dare go to nuclear weapons, he wouldn’t dare escalate, et cetera.

But what they forget is he believes he’s winning. And if you believe you’re winning, you’re not going to escalate, you’re not going to broaden the war, you’re not going to attack a NATO country. But what if he thinks he’s losing? What if the US provides missiles that can hit Moscow?

You start playing this out. There are a lot of scenarios where you can imagine Putin deciding ‘I’ve had enough.’ And then it becomes the game of, okay, I’m going to blow up the warehouse in Poland that has all those missiles you’re sending to me, and I dare you to respond.

And then you can imagine, the Europeans would all be wetting their pants and they’d all be coming to Washington saying, do something. And then the White House would have to say, are we prepared to risk escalating this further?

So I’m very concerned about this sense that, oh, we can do anything that we want to Russia. Back in the election campaign in 2020, Joe Biden was complaining that the Trump administration had not done anything to Russia, which had allegedly been paying the Afghans to kill Americans…

So what do you think the Russians think? They’ve had thousands of people killed because of Western weapons. I think that the proxy war with a nuclear-armed power that’s fighting over existential interest is a very dangerous thing.’

-Doug Bandow on the latest episode of Going Underground as the SCO Summit continues in Tianjin, China

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6yb55c-doug-bandow-enormous-damage-done-to-us-reputation-over-gaza-trump-easily-ma.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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‘Israel and Netanyahu have calculated that no American President will take any meaningful sanction against Israel. Israel can do what it wants and nothing will happen.’

-Doug Bandow, Former Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6yb55c-doug-bandow-enormous-damage-done-to-us-reputation-over-gaza-trump-easily-ma.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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‘Israel and Netanyahu have calculated that no American President will take any meaningful sanction against Israel. Israel can do what it wants and nothing will happen.’ -Doug Bandow, Former Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan on the latest episode of Going…
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Western politicians and the media: ‘Putin is isolated’ as he stands with Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi, leaders of the two most populous countries in the world that will shape the 21st Century…

No. It’s the US and its European vassals that are isolated, seen by the majority of the world with disgust over the Gaza genocide.
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🇨🇳🇮🇳MODI-XI JINPING SUMMIT: THE RESULT OF THE US’ HYPOCRISY

‘From the Indian standpoint, the US has spent a couple of decades trying to make friendly with India because the US wants to pull them away from China and become a friend of the US.

And then to have Trump do this with no warning, and it’s not as if this is a consistent policy. Well, why not sanctions on China and Turkey for buying Russian oil? Why is the US buying uranium from Russia?

So if you’re Modi, you look at this and say: why am I the only one? Why are Indians? What is this? If it’s immoral for us, how about everybody else?

So I’m not surprised at Modi. This is a very nationalistic country. They’re growing fast. The largest population country with a very long history of a non-aligned international policy. They matter a lot more. They’re growing. Why on earth are they going to suffer being treated that way by Donald Trump?’

-Doug Bandow, former Special Assistant to US President Ronald Reagan and Senior Fellow at the CATO Institute

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6yb55c-doug-bandow-enormous-damage-done-to-us-reputation-over-gaza-trump-easily-ma.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨Donald Trump says he is awarding former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Here’s when Rudy Giuliani broke the news of the Hunter Biden laptop on Going Underground, which the corporate media falsely labelled as Russian disinformation.
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Donald Trump:

‘Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, or of any corporation or state I have ever seen. Israel was the strongest. Today it doesn’t have that strong a lobby.’

Will Israel call Donald Trump anti-Semitic for discussing the power of the Israel lobby?

*Note: AIPAC-endorsed candidates had an 89.2% win rate in 2024. The Israel lobby’s propaganda is now seen increasingly as lies by a growing number of Americans, but the overwhelming majority of Congress, and the foreign policy elite are loyal to Israel.
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‘India🇮🇳 was the richest country in the world before British🇬🇧 colonialism.’

-Shashi Tharoor on Going Underground on the legacy of British colonialism
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France🇫🇷 has ordered its hospitals to prepare for IMMINENT WAR in Europe, and to prepare for a possible major engagement in Europe by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné. 

The French government predicts that the country would take in massive numbers of wounded French soldiers, and wounded soldiers of allied states.

Europe has lost the plot, seemingly stuck in a suicidal path of endless escalation against Russia. Will Washington allow itself to follow a delusional Europe into Armageddon?
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France🇫🇷 has ordered its hospitals to prepare for IMMINENT WAR in Europe, and to prepare for a possible major engagement in Europe by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné.  The French government predicts that the country would…
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Vladimir Putin on the fear-mongering over Russia🇷🇺 allegedly planning to attack European NATO countries:

‘They’re not specialists in fairy tales, they’re specialists in horror movies. Any reasonable person understands Russia has no plans to attack anyone'
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