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Political Commentator
Yeah, Donald Trump was huffing and puffing during a disastrous press conference. He looked sickly and weak as he was there with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia announcing a fake peace deal, which was actually a surrender by Armenia of the territory known as Nagorno Karabakh, which azerbaijan invaded in 2020. During Donald Trump's first term, Donald Trump pledged to the Armenian community, to the diaspora here in the United States, that he would stand with them and fight with them to make sure that the land, the Nagorno Karabakh land home to 150,000 indigenous Armenian Christians who had to flee, would be returned to those indigenous Armenian Christians. But Donald Trump basically presiding over the surrender right there, not providing support. Another promise broken, a fake peace deal being announced, which was really a victory for Azerbaijan. Now during this disastrous press conference, Donald Trump also bragged how he is responsible, he says, for stopping World War three. So even though he did not bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours as he promised. The same way Donald Trump says he deserves the credit for this surrender of this critical land to Azerbaijan. Donald Trump's also saying, give me the credit for what's taking place in Ukraine now because there's no World War three. There would have been without me. Just listen to how pathetic this is. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
Could have escalated in something much better. That could have been a world war. I think if we didn't come, Ukraine, Russia would have ended up being a world war. And I stopped that. That stopped. Now the only question is, when is it going to be settled? And it could be very soon, but when is it going to be? But that would have been a world war if I didn't come along with a very talented group of people sitting largely right here. But there are others not in the room that are very talented. I think Russia, Ukraine would have had a very, very high degree. I think even probably would have ended up being in a world war.
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Political Commentator
And then Donald Trump talks about wanting a Nobel Peace Prize. He says that because he's of a persuasion, really don't know what that means, that he will not get a Nobel Peace Prize. But he's like, look at all the things I've done. I deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. Here, play this clip. The Norwegian Nobel Committee will make their.
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Donald Trump
Announcement as it relates to this year's Nobel Peace Prize on October 10th. Friday, October 10th. Is that date circled on your calendar, Mr. President? I can't say. I mean, a lot of people say, you know, no matter what I did because, you know, I'm of a certain persuasion, no matter what I do, they won't give it. And I'm not politicking for it. I have a lot of people that are. I know, I mean, I read the same things as you do, but it would be a great honor, certainly. But I would never politic. I'm not doing it for that. I'm doing it because of I really, number one, I want to save lives. That's why I'm involved so much with Ukraine and Russia saving lives of Russians and Ukrainians. It's not American lives.
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Political Commentator
Now then Donald Trump says that America is not giving Ukraine any money anymore. NATO is the one paying for it. And he says that is a good thing. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
We'll say, why are you bothering? We're not losing people. We were spending hundreds of billions of dollars. Now we're spending nothing. We're spending no money. I guess we're making money because, you know, our great. We have the best military equipment in the world. We're selling it to NATO, but you're losing thousands of people a week. Russians and Ukrainians mostly, mostly soldiers, but, you know, missiles are lobbed into cities and towns, Kiev, lots of places. You've been reading the same stories that I've been reading, and we got to get it solved.
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Political Commentator
Donald Trump is asked if Zelensky is going to be forced to give up territory to Russia based upon a purported deal that Trump is negotiating with Putin. And Donald Trump basically says yes. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
Now, President Zelensky has to get all of his, everything he needs because he's going to have to get ready to sign something. And I think he is working hard to get that done. Well, you're looking at territory that's been fought over for three and a half years with, you know, a lot of Russians have died, a lot of Ukrainians have died. So we're looking at that. But we're actually looking to get some back and some swapping. It's complicated. It's actually nothing easy. It's very complicated. But we're going to get some back. We're going to get some, some switched. There'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both and, but we'll be talking about that either later or tomorrow or whatever.
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Political Commentator
Now, I think it's important to note the context that I gave you at the beginning of this video as well, that this deal with the leader of Azerbaijan and Armenia is basically saying that the territory of Nagorno Karabakh, the Republic of Artsakh, no longer exists. It belongs to Azerbaijan. And, and the ethnic cleansing of the ethnic Armenians, 150,000 is basically being rubber stamped here by Donald Trump. He's showing absolute weakness and he's being asked questions here. Will Zelinsky be forced to give up territory? And Donald Trump, you heard, they're basically saying, yeah, there's going to be some give and takes and swaps. That's what Donald Trump wants to see Zelinsky do tap out. And again, what Donald Trump could have done with Armenia is, is reached out and help them or not allow a deal like that to happen where Azerbaijan is given the approval to take over that land. Donald Trump then repeatedly can't hear or understand a question about if he'll visit Azerbaijan. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
Visit our countries, do you consider to visit. Which one do I consider?
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Political Commentator
And then Donald Trump basically makes these leaders from Azerbaijan and Armenia say that Donald Trump should get a Nobel Peace Prize. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't want to go into the history of some very strange decisions of Nobel Peace Committee to award the prize for someone who didn't do anything at all. But President Trump in six months did Miracle. So I think that my Armenian colleague will support it. And judging by the reaction of the audience, I think as soon as we come back we will agree to issue a joint letter and hopefully and I also join when President is awarded. We hope that he will invite us to the ceremony. You certainly will be. Thank you very much. Do we have draft to sign now? Well, we'll see what happens.
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Political Commentator
And here that is again. I mean this is so utterly embarrassing. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
I think President Trump, Trump, deserved to, to, to have a Nobel Peace Prize. And we will. We will defend that and we promote. We will promote for that. And that's obvious.
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Donald Trump
And today's event, I think, is a very bright expression of that. And hopefully you will invite us. Front row. You'll be front row. Yeah. Yeah. We are in favor. Thank you. Thank you. Can I have a suggestion? Yes. So maybe we agree with Prime Minister Pashinyan to send a joint appeal to Nobel Committee to award President Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize. Because.
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Political Commentator
Now the executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America, the anca, says the following. The same Donald Trump who failed to stop Azerbaijan's 2020 attack on Nagorno Karabakh is now rewarding this very aggression, compromising Armenia's security and sovereignty while aiding and abetting Azerbaijan's normalization and formalization of its ethnic cleansing, its genocide of more than 150,000 indigenous Armenian Christians. Now, here's what Donald Trump said on October 25, 2020, about 15 days earlier, is when Azerbaijan, or right around this period, launched a full fledged assault while Trump was in office of this territory. I mean, the war has been going on since 1994 or so, but it accelerated, of course, now when Donald Trump was in office then, and now the full surrender, basically. But here's what Donald Trump said on Nov. 25, 2020. Let's play it.
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Donald Trump
So now we have Armenia. Look at the Armenia. They are incredible people. They're fighting like hell, right? They're fighting like hell. And you know what? We're going to get something done because. Thank you. And I love you, too. You know, the Armenians have had a tough. They've had a tough go. But I saw, in fact, I was in yesterday, Ohio, actually, I was in Ohio during, because I went to various stops. But in Ohio, we had a tremendous group of Armenians with the flag and the whole thing, the spirit and the problems that they have and the death and the fighting and everything else. We'll get that straightened out. That's going to be. I call that an easy one. Okay, we'll get that. Go back and tell your people. Go back and tell your people. All right, we'll get that straight. Now our media line up. It's easy if you know what you're doing. If you know what you're doing, it's like that. If you know what you're doing, it's easy.
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Political Commentator
And just a reminder of kind of what's taking place in this region and the surrender that just took place in the Oval office. Here's how France 24 describes what took place and how Azerbaijan basically removed all of the symbols and all of the signage showing the our ethnic Armenian presence in this area in the Republic of Artsak in the region. Here, play this clip.
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It was one year ago, an exodus of 120,000 Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh forced to flee in the face of Azerbaijan's military offensive in the region, a territory disputed by the two nations since the fall of the Soviet Union. Karabakh's flag trampled by the victors. Armenia denounces ethnic and cultural erasure. Journalists are not allowed to enter the enclave. But by analyzing social media and satellite images, we can see the changes made by Azerbaijan. Among the first elements found these photos proudly posted by the new occupants at town entrances. On these blue signs, the names are now written in Azerbaijani. The Armenian name now gone. Stepanakerk, the capital has now become Kankendi. This 50 meter high cross has been the city's emblem, both a Christian symbol meaningful to Armenians and a telecommunications tower. We locate it in May 2022 in the satellite images. Then in September 2023, these images posted on social media show the cross broken into two pieces across the region. Azerbaijan, a Muslim majority nation, has been removing Christian iconography.
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Political Commentator
We're getting more word from individuals from the diaspora. You have comments like this as well. Armenians want peace, but erasing Nagorno Karabakh is not peace. Normalizing ethnic cleansing is not peace. Abandoning Christian holy sites is not peace. Forsaking Armenian hostages and prisoners of war is not peace. Accepting the occupation of Armenia is not peace. Peace at gunpoint is not peace. The peace agreement is again likely to upset Armenian Americans because it doesn't address the ethnic cleansing, it doesn't address the genocide, it doesn't address everything that Azerbaijan did. Real peace must be predicated on justice and accountability for Azerbaijan's ongoing human rights violations. These issues shouldn't be left on the back burner. Alex Galitsky, Program director of the Armenian National Committee of America Advocacy, says a deal that rewards Azerbaijan's aggression, undermines Armenia's sovereignty and denies justice to Artsakh's Armenians will only make it harder to resolve these critical human rights issues down the line. Putting a gun to the head at an at risk Christian nation, the first Christian nation, a landlocked, blockaded, genocide surviving state and calling it peace is as cruel as it is cowardly. Armenia is a victim of a century plus of genocide and this deal aids and abets her enemies. Armenians in Armenia and worldwide reject the fake peace deal being forced on Armenia at the point of a gun. Another is not a peace deal. And I think we need to view this also into the context of Donald Trump's discussions here with Putin, because this is exactly what Trump wants Zelinsky to do as well. Give up, give all the territories to Putin, say goodbye to Ukraine and the United States just kind of sits back and lets the aggressors do this versus the United States doing what it used to do in the world. I hope that gives you a broader geopolitical perspective also of what's happening there. And shout out, by the way, to all of my Armenian friends here in California, across this country and across the world, thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's get to 6 million subscribers.
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