Government Secrets Podcast · Lee Camp and Graham Elwood

Century Old Plan To Crush Ukraine & Dawes Act of 1887 - Gov Secs Ep 186

August 25, 2025·1 hr 2 min·1 clip

Trump's painting the wall black to stop climbers. They just crossed a desert. He thinks they're climbing nude.

Government Secrets episode features irreverent political commentary mixing satire with historical research. Topics include Trump's black border wall policy, 1957 CIA invasion plans for Ukraine, the long history of US-Russia proxy conflict, declining Ukrainian public support for continued war (74% → 24%), and broader critiques of American foreign policy theater and imperialism across administrations.

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Politics, history, and jokes keep crossing paths, but the receipts hold the line.

Government Secrets ties Ukraine, Crimea, Donbass, and the Dawes Act into one anti-imperial line and keeps the pace moving with a crab mug, Baltimore, and a deliberately clumsy cold open.

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Press play for episode 186's Ukraine history, CIA-map context, and two hosts who keep the distance anything but polite.

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