Episode Details

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum opened with Russia trying to project strength, but the transcript follows how that image kept collapsing in real time. Ukrainian drones struck near St. Petersburg, satellite imagery showed the aftermath at the port, Taliban representatives appeared at the forum, Russian officials presented fantasy scenarios about controlling Ukrainian cities and collapsing the European Union, and the forum's menu and new Volga reveal showed how much of Russia's economic theater depends on propaganda and Chinese substitution.

Chapters

00:00 St. Petersburg Forum Opens Under a Cloud

00:45 Satellite Images Show the Port Strike

01:01 Taliban Flags at Russia's Economic Forum

01:44 Russia Celebrates an American Delegation

02:24 Russia's Fantastical Future Scenarios

03:25 Kasparov Calls It a Comedy Forum

03:42 The Forum Menu Becomes the Joke

04:50 Russia's New Volga Is Really a Chinese Car

05:33 Z-Blogger Asks What Economy Is Left

06:06 Russia's Forum Ad Writes Itself

06:24 No Drone, No Alarm, No Good Answer

07:00 CNN's False Equivalence on St. Petersburg

07:37 Candace Owens and Russia's Family Values Theater

08:38 Why the Candace Owens Appearance Matters

09:25 Russia Recruits the Anti-Liberal West

10:24 ISW Calls It Cognitive Warfare

10:46 Medvedev Praises Castro While Russia Abandons Allies

11:39 NATO Representatives Arrive in Kyiv

12:19 Ukraine's Weapons Industry Keeps Growing

13:09 Ukraine Can Produce 20 Million Drones a Year

13:30 IMF and Estonia Deepen Defense Cooperation

14:12 U.S. Troop Gap Opens in Lithuania

14:49 Latvia Moves to Cut Russia Trade

14:54 UK Summons Russia Over NATO Airspace

15:17 Orban's Cash Transport Scandal

16:11 Greece Protests a Ukrainian Sea Drone

16:44 Japan Pushes Patriot Missiles for Ukraine

17:20 Rubio Says Negotiations Are Going Nowhere

17:50 Saudi Arabia Defends Its Ukraine Deal

18:47 Dr. Oz Gets Asked About Bill Pulte and Intelligence

20:05 Iran, Kuwait, and the U.S. Tanker Strike

21:08 The Unluckiest Pilot in the Iran Conflict

21:21 Trump Must Pressure Putin

21:28 Russia's Robot Metaphor Falls Over

#ProfessorGerdes #Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #StPetersburg

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points.

***** To support me as as I provide Ukraine war context: *****

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorGerdesExplains

Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/professorgerdes

Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/professorgerdes

YouTube Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/@Professor-Gerdes/membership

🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your do