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The Pete Quiñones Show
Peter R Quiñones
Since July 2017, Pete Quiñones has been the host of The Pete Quiñones Show (previously known as Free Man Beyond the Wall). His program has focused on the opposition to the globalist project that has undermined historical endeavors. His current interests include philosophy and historical revisionism.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.
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False90% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Georgian War in 2008 lasted one month.Said by BThe claim that the 2008 Georgian War lasted one month is contradicted by multiple sources, which put the fighting at five days (about August 7 to 12, 2008). The post's comparison implies a month-long war, which the record does not support, though the Wikipedia infobox's 1 to 16 August span and one Military Review line about 'less than a month' are the only figures that come close.False60% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Ukraine had the highest percentage of citizens with advanced degrees in the world up until the war started.Said by BNo source says Ukraine had the highest share of citizens with advanced degrees before the war. The World Bank says Ukraine's tertiary share exceeded the OECD average and many other countries, and a 2016 Kyiv Post piece ranks Ukraine fourth for higher education, which contradicts the superlative. The claim's 'advanced degrees' wording matches the post, so the extraction is faithful.False60% confidence10 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Ukrainian military was created by the United States.Said by BThe claim that the US created the Ukrainian military is contradicted by the sources, which describe Ukraine's national military being established by Ukraine's own parliament after independence in 1991, with US assistance coming later and mainly in the 2014 and post-2022 periods. The post's broader point that the military is a 'golem' created by the US is opinion, but the extracted claim is a specific historical assertion that the sources do not support.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Lindsey Graham stated that the war in Ukraine is about killing as many Russians as possible.Said by BNo source contains the quoted line that the war is 'just about killing as many Russians as possible.' Reuters and related coverage show that Graham's 'Russians are dying' remark was spliced from two unrelated moments in a May 2023 Kyiv meeting, and he said the aid was valuable for security, not for Russian deaths. The post itself hedges the quote with 'something like,' so the claim is a firmer quotation than the passage made.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False80% confidence9 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Ukrainian military has suffered 650,000 deaths.Said by BThe claim that Ukrainian military deaths total 650,000 is contradicted by the sources: Western estimates put Ukrainian military deaths at roughly 100,000–150,000 (CSIS, Reuters, Genocide Watch), and even total casualties (killed, wounded, missing) are estimated at about 500,000–700,000, so 650,000 is a casualty-scale figure, not a death toll; the figure only comes from the claimant's unsourced assertion in the passage, and the claim as extracted matches the passage's wording (the post's 650,000 figure refers to Ukrainian dead) so it is graded as the poster's claim.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Ukrainian government admitted to 250,000 military deaths in November 2025.Said by BNo source reports that the Ukrainian government admitted 250,000 military deaths in November 2025. The sources instead show Zelensky's government figure at about 46,000 killed (February 2025), and report that Kyiv does not disclose official casualty figures, so the claim is contradicted by the record.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False70% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026Volodymyr Zelensky was installed by the United States.Said by BThe sources show Zelensky won Ukraine's April 2019 presidential election with about 73% of the vote, and a fact-check rejects the claim that the CIA or US installed Zelensky or any regime in Ukraine as an unsupported conspiracy theory. The claim matches the passage's wording, so it is graded as made.False55% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Israel admits to 500 military casualties in the conflict with Hamas.Said by BThe claim that Israel admits to about 500 military casualties is contradicted by the IDF's own figures, which put soldiers killed since October 7 at 970 in data released on 2026-10-07, roughly double the claimed number. No source gives an admitted figure for 2026-10-01 itself, and one dated article cites 281, so the record on that date is thin; the claim also departs from the post, which says 'something like 500' in the context of a larger 2,500 figure the speaker gives.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False65% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026There are 2.5 million people living in Gaza.Said by BThe extraction matches the post, which does say 2.5 million. As of 2026-10-01, however, the recent sources put Gaza's population at about 2 to 2.1 million: PCBS estimates 2.11 million, the UK government note gives 2.1 to 2.2 million, and Reuters and AP say roughly 2 million. The 2.5 million figure comes from a 2024-dated UN document and older estimates, so it is an outdated figure rather than the population as of the posting date.False85% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Approximately 5% of the population in Gaza and Jerusalem are Christians.Said by BThe claim that about 5% of the population in Gaza and Jerusalem are Christians is contradicted by the sources. Gaza's Christian population is about 1,000 to 1,300 out of roughly 2 million (about 0.05%), and Jerusalem's Christians are about 1.5 to 2% of the city's population, so the combined share is well under 1%, roughly an order of magnitude below the claimed 5%.False60% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026The European Union, Denmark, and Germany have banned references to Hamas except as savages.Said by BThe claim overstates the record. Germany banned Hamas activities, symbols, and some slogans in November 2023, and the EU has sanctions against people who support Hamas, but no source shows a ban on references to Hamas in general, and nothing shows Denmark banning anything of the kind. The extraction also adds the EU as a banning body, though the post does name it, and drops the speaker's hedge "I think".False80% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Jewish population at the turn of the first millennium originated from the conversion of Caucasus peoples in the Khazar Empire to Talmudic Judaism.Said by BThe claim restates the 'Khazarian hypothesis' that European Jewry descends mainly from Khazar converts, and authoritative sources reject it as academically refuted by genetic and historical scholarship. One 2012 genetic study (PMC) partly supports the hypothesis, but it is a single outlier against the broader record, and the claim's extraction faithfully matches the passage.