In this episode of International Flavor: Where the Truth Just Tastes Better, Samuel Trapp starts far from the front lines—inside Egypt’s newly unveiled Grand Egyptian Museum, a 5-million-square-foot temple to ancient civilization and tourism power politics. From there, the show pivots straight into the brutal present: Zelensky’s corruption web around Timur Mindich, oligarch money fleeing to Israel, and a Ukrainian state eating itself while begging for more Western weapons. Samuel then tears into U.S. “narco-terror” strikes on small boats off Venezuela and Colombia—asking why Washington blows up fishermen instead of boarding suspects, and what that says about the so-called “rules-based order.” The centerpiece: a censored Italian interview with Sergei Lavrov that a liberal paper refused to publish. Samuel reads through Lavrov’s answers on NATO expansion, Ukraine’s neutral status, Russia–China ties, and Europe’s slide back into open Russophobia—letting listeners hear what the West tried to bury. Finally, he walks through the ugly arithmetic of Ukraine’s front: troop ratios, casualty swaps, and why even Ukrainian insiders like Arestovich and Western veterans like Larry Johnson and Daniel Davis now admit the numbers don’t work for Kiev. No propaganda, no buzzword patriotism—just a hard look at empire, collapse, and what comes after. International Flavor airs Sunday–Thursday, 9:00–10:30 p.m. (Chicago time).