Hasiera berria / A new beginning
Oso argi geratu denez, Palestina-ren aurkako eraso guztiek helburu bakarra daukate: genozidioa. Ezin da beste modu batez definitu.
Beraz, hemendik aurrera, genozidioaz arituko gara. Ea egoera eta epe berri batean sartuta gauden, to know whether we are in a new time or not.
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US President Harry Truman (1945-1953) stands next to a map showing the State of Palestine.
Israel is not real.
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“I SWEAR TO BE LOYAL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE” SIGNED BY ISRAELIS WHEN EMIGRATING FROM EUROPE IN THE 1930s
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Lord Rothschild Claims His Family Created Israel
Bideoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUpZT5hEh8Q
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Alison Weir reveals the secret of Israel’s creation:
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1807269838907224331
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UN General Assembly overwhelmingly calls for end of Israeli occupation
Read the resolutions text here: https://www.un.org/unispal/icj-and-question-of-palestine
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Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis@DrLoupis
The occupation of Palestinian land began 107 years ago today, in 1917.
The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government on November 2, 1917, expressed support for the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
This declaration was conveyed through a letter written by then-Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a prominent figure in the British Jewish community.
The declaration states:
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
This date represents the first official support for Zionist goals, ultimately leading, 30 years later, to the establishment of the State of Israel on occupied Palestinian land.
The Balfour Declaration played a significant role in shaping more than a century of ongoing war and chaos in the Middle East, culminating in the establishment of an Israeli state on Palestinian territory in 1948.
Today, the Balfour Declaration, in its outcomes, is seen as the foundation for the ongoing genocide, which in the past year alone has resulted in the death of more than 40,000 Palestinians, reflecting a failure to protect the historical and human rights of the Palestinian population in the region.
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuK97E07b2Q)
?La creación del Estado de Israel no responde a un desarrollo lógico de la historia, sino que la creación de este Estado es fruto de las confabulaciones políticas internacionales en las que participaron gustosamente los sionistas. Theodor Herzl fijó una hoja de ruta para crear el Estado judío y sus seguidores continuaron su legado. Antes de la creación de Israel en mayo de 1948, los británicos pusieron la primera piedra con la Declaración Balfour, la cual permitió crear el Hogar Nacional Judío, pero ¿cómo se gestó la Declaración Balfour? Quedaros hasta el final porque en este video os voy a hablar sobre la Declaración Balfour y todo lo que hubo detrás de esta promesa británica. ?
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Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1855599445863223457
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A promise was made to the Russians, but NATO decided to move its border 1000 km to the East.
That is not without consequences.
Brainwashed Ukrainians are now paying with their lives.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…..
This week, I am very honored to have been nominated for the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism, named after Serena Shim (1985-2014), a brave young American journalist who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of the truth, tragically killed during the Syrian Conflict while reporting from the Turkish-Syrian border about ISIS fighters crossing from Turkey into Syria. Her work helped to topple the wall western propaganda around the true nature of that war, allowing myself and others who covered that war to move forward in our work in exposing the bigger story and its profound geopolitical implications. We must never forget that far too many journalists, and their families, particularly of late (in Palestine and Lebanon), have sacrificed so much while carrying out their professional duties in informing the public of these uncomfortable truths, and speaking truth to power.
In addition to this, this award is especially meaningful for me as its selection comes via committee of my fellow journalist colleagues from all over the world – a formidable group of press & media professionals who embody the ethos and spirit which shapes a core pillar of independent journalism and punditry internationally.
This year has been a very difficult one for me personally, and this announcement has been a great source of encouragement, and I deeply appreciate being recognized by my cohort for my work over the past 15 years with 21st Century Wire and other various outlets I’ve also contributed to. Massive thanks also to all our readers and followers who have supported my work & media platform at 21WIRE. You are the engine that drives it all.
In the meantime, we shall keep pushing ahead, covering key events and stories – wherever we find them. Our best, most impactful work is yet to come.
– Patrick
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
NOTE: These are the names of no less than 188 Palestinian journalists – killed by Israeli occupation forces in the last 14 months…
Remember, people, it was only a one in 14 million chance. And it requires we the people to do the heavy lifting.
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What are UK forces doing in Gaza?
Aipamena
Sarah Wilkinson
I am declaring Saturdays the official “Shit on Finland” day! I’ve prepared some posts I think you all will like! These bastards don’t get enough hate and contempt.
Has Biden’s Decision Forced NATO into World War III? Protest Against NATO in Montreal this Weekend – Global Research
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Has Biden’s Decision Forced NATO into World War III?
By Michael Welch, Ken Stone, and Scott Ritter
Global Research, November 24, 2024
“So this is not about whether or not to allow the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia using these weapons, but about deciding whether or not NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not…It will mean that NATO countries, the United States and European countries, are at war with Russia. And if this is so, bearing in mind the change in the very nature of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”
– President Vladmir Putin (September 12, 2024)
For the first time during the war, Ukraine fired the U.S. designed and manufactured Supersonic tactical missiles, designed as part of the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), deep into Russian territory. [2]
Russia appears to have reciprocated. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired back for the first time ever an intercontinental ballistic missile on Ukraine’s central-eastern city of Dnipro Thursday morning – this was the first use ever of an ICBM in war. ICBMs are the vehicles of nuclear-capable weapons. [3]
President Vladmir Putin has furthermore stressed that the use of ATACMS missiles would require intelligence from U.S. and European (NATO) satellites, and also NATO servicemen making flight assignments to the missile systems. In other words Ukraine, its army and its leader Zelensky is kind of a dummy playing animated roles of heroism and valour while the mechanics and the targeting is done by the NATO. [4]
President Biden changed his position, allowing U.S. weapons to be used inside Russia. With Putin’s comments on the record, this means either the Russian President is “bluffing” or Biden wants NATO being involved in this war. Biden, or the neocon pulling his puppet strings, wants to start World War III!
The repercussions a global conflict involving nuclear weapons – sooner or later – would mean increased poverty, destruction, and most likely the extinction of the human species. Why is the retiring Democratic Government so determined to play with radioactive fire?
We plan to investigate this, and a lot of the issues around it on the Global Ressearch News Hour, beginning with Scott Ritter. The former U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Officer has frequently butted heads with White House Officials, particularly in criticizing the claim of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to be used on Americans or any friendly target. Today he is a figure in the peace movement, and making statements in defence of the “Bad Guys” that U.S. politicians and their various flunkies at home and abroad denounce on a regular basis. Scott will spend most of the show correcting widespread misconceptions about the war in Ukraine, the what and why of allowing long-range weapons to be used on Russian people, and about Operation Dawn, a major effort to stop this war before it gets to the point of Armageddon.
In the remaining few minutes, Ken Stone comes on to join us and talk about the 70th NATO annual Parliamentary assembly which is playing out this weekend in Montreal, Quebec. He will discuss the counter-summit put on by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network, and also speak of supporting a demonstration for peace in Place du Canada, both of which supports #CanadaOutOfNATO.
More general information, including the list of sponsors, is located at the website of the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network: https://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca/
Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of ‘Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union.’ He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector. He also co-authored the book Covering Ukraine: The Scott Ritter Interviews Through the Eyes of Ania K. Scott is also a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
Ken Stone is a long time antiwar, anti-racism, environmental and labour activist, and resident in Hamilton. He is also Treasurer of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. He currently coordinates the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network.
(Global Research News Hour Episode 450)
Notes:
- https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/putin-natos-direct-involvement-in-ukrainian-conflict-will-mean-it-is-at-war-with-russia-1120123826.html?ysclid=m3tnt9s2sj770550881
- Pjotr Sauer (Nov. 19, 2024), ‘Ukraine fires US-made Atacms missiles into Russia after ban lifted by Biden’, The Guardian; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/putin-warns-us-over-using-long-range-missiles-by-signing-new-nuclear-doctrine-ukraine
- https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/11/22/the-empire-strikes-back-en?ysclid=m3tqkk818v935918691
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Russian Deputy Ambassador to UN Tells Scott Ritter: We want good relations with U.S.
Full episode: https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1860128019236684259
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1860505898990375327
(5:56 m)
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Russian Deputy Ambassador to UN Calls for Normal Diplomatic Dialogue with U.S. Full episode: https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1860128019236684259
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1860505763426259326
(12:51 m)
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Scott Ritter/U.S. Tour of Duty@USTourofDuty
Current Nuclear Threat is Worse than Cuban Missile Crisis Full episode: https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1860128019236684259
Bideoa:https://x.com/i/status/1860505638272475621
(15:23 m)
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61 years ago today President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
A few years ago I had a long conversation with Bill Polk, the distinguished former diplomat and academic who served in the White House during the Cuban missile crisis.
We talked about how Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev worked together to prevent a nuclear war.
We talked about how these two leaders began working to repair relations and promote arms control between their two nations when Kennedy was killed.
We then engaged in a speculative journey where we talked about what the world would have been like had Kennedy lived and he and Khrushchev brought their plans to fruition.
We agreed we would be living in a much different world today, one defined by peaceful cooperation instead of nuclear-fueled crisis, if they had.
We talked about writing a book of historical fiction to imagine how this would have played out in the remainder of Kennedy’s first term.
Bill Polk died before we could durn this dream into reality.
I look at the world we live in today, where we are one mistake or miscalculation away from a nuclear Armageddon, and dream of this alternative world.
And then I come to my senses and realize we will all die unless we do something to stop the trajectory we are currently on.
@realDonaldTrumpwas elected on a platform which promised to end the war in Ukraine and prevent a nuclear war with Russia.
And yet President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have ignored the stated will of the American people by pursuing policies designed to escalate the Ukraine conflict and make a nuclear war possible, if not probable.
On December 7, myself and like minded Americans will be gathering in Washington DC to appeal to Donald Trump to step up and remind the Biden administration who won the election, and the imperative of preserving the legitimacy of American democracy by respecting the will of the American people as manifested through their vote.
For we, the people, to make clear to the leadership of the US and Russian leadership that we are not seeking a war, nuclear or otherwise.
December 7 is the day we commemorate the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of America’s participation in the Second World War.
Let us redefine December 7 as the day we the people saved our country, saved our lives, and saved the world because we came to Washington DC and put the Biden administration on notice that their mad march toward nuclear war with Russia will not succeed.
And then, on December 8, on the anniversary of the signing of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in 1987–the treaty that eliminated the most destabilizing missiles in the world—we need to make arms control relevant again.
To once again eliminate these horrible weapons which, because Donald Trump withdrew from the INF treaty, once again threaten us with nuclear destruction.
Plan on joining us in Washington DC on December 7.
Watch this space for updated information.
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Correction: The missile used by Russia was not the RS-26, but rather a previously unknown medium range missile known as the Orezhnik (Hazel).
A medium range missile is generally characterized as having a range of between 1,000 and 3,000 kilometers.
The range from Kapustin Yar to Dnipro is around 800 kilometers.
Vladimir Putin indicated that this missile could be used to strike targets throughout Europe.
Not much is known about the Orezhnik.
However, the Ukrainian government has reported that an RS-26 had been observed at Kapustin Yar prior to the launch, implying that they had access to satellite imagery.
As such, one can speculate that the Orezhnik physically resembles the RS-26, meaning that it uses a six-axle mobile launcher and is fired from a launch canister mounted on the launcher.
If this is the case, the Orezhnik may be a modification of the Rubezh, implying that it is a product of the Nadiradzhe/Votkinsk missile production team.
However, everything is speculation pending more definitive information.
US officials described the Orezhnik as an “experimental” system, implying that they were aware of its existence.
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My latest.
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Ep 773 Scott Ritter and the start of World War III
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1JhrsEmSJw)
Transkripzioa:
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okay this is the grass’s greener on WXR W 104.1 FM in Milwaukee I am the host of
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the program Gary graphs with me is my co-host B bet gruno hi and we’re very pleased to have
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Scott wi today uh Scott wi is a former Marine intelligence officer who
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implemented Arms Control agreements in sovet with Soviet Union played a chief
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uh role as the 1991 to 98 uh Chief weapons inspector for the United Nations
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in Iraq and um is uh welcome Scott well
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thank you very much for having me yeah um I’ve been seeing all this horrible horrible news from Israel and I know
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you’ve been extremely harsh about Israel maybe an outlier in terms of just how harsh you’ve been but all the news has
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basically been saying wow Scott rter was right um so we wanted to have you on for that but um in just in the last couple
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days uh we’ve had this major sort of escalation towards World War III and I thought you might want to talk about that well you know it’s it’s interesting
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you frame it like this because um I I did a uh an event in September on September
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28th together with Gerald Cante and others uh in Kingston New York and I at that event I ticked off what I called
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operation Dawn which uh was four questions that I posed to the American voter what would you be willing to do to
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save democracy to save America to save the world through your vote in November and I had um articulated that time that
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um there was only one existential threat to the United States and that was the danger of nuclear war that nothing else
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mattered received a lot of push back from um friends and and colleagues and
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allies um about Gaza and they said well no the genocide can’t be ignored um and
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my God my heart supports them like you wouldn’t believe I I can’t talk about the case of hindra the six-year-old girl
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that was slaughtered by the Israelis on purpose or mothers who walk their children across the clearance to be
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assassinated in front of their child only have the child while staring down at the body of their dead mother shot dead by the Israelis as well or those
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who are sleeping in their home homes in Gaza only to have their homes leveled and crushed to death by the bombs
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dropped by Israel American bombs dropped by American airplanes piloted by Israeli Pilots or the citizens of Beirut
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Southern Beirut who thousands have died I have friends in Beirut who contact me and talk about the the absolute horror
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of the situation they face my God my heart goes out to these people like you wouldn’t believe I scream at the top of my voice about the crimes being
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perpetrated the genocide and the need for Israel to be held to account but none of this matters if we’re all all
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dead no matter what happens in Gaza as bad as it is for the Palestinians and I
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just told you that my heart bleeds for them as bad as it is for the southern Lebanese my heart bleeds for them none
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of it matters if we are all dead and that’s what nuclear war will do and I
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have tried to emphasize to the American public that the Biden Administration is
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taking us down a path that inevitably leads to a nuclear war with Russia which will kill us all I ask people to read
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Annie Jacobson’s book uh nuclear war uh she runs through very realistic scenarios they’re realistic Because She
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interviewed dozens of former officials who made nuclear policy who manned the nuclear weapons who understand the
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reality of nuclear war and they painted a very realistic scenario about how such a war could start and what the
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consequences would be 72 minutes after a nuclear war starts all life as you know it is over the war is over and we all
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die 72 minutes and people would roll their eyes and say well you’re just being you’re hyperbole you’re panic
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mongering fearmongering you’re doing whatever ladies and gentlemen Joe Biden just trickled a nuclear war he allowed
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Ukraine to fire missiles that can only be fired if America targets them and enables their use onto Russian soil and
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the Russian government has said that this constitutes an act of War by the United States that the United States has
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in effect declared war against Russia and now we are waiting for the Russian response well we don’t know what Russia
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is going to do but Russia has said that it will respond decisively I remember yeah I remember when Putin made that
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statement he was very much I mean he the uh the reporter asked him the question
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um what will Russia’s response be if uh if NATO allows Ukraine to use these
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weapons to uh long range uh to go into Russia and he said um well let let me
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just reframe your question here because I think you’ve you’ve gotten it wrong because this isn’t really a matter of of
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them allowing Ukraine to do something because our intelligence says Ukraine doesn’t really have the capability to do
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this on their own they wouldn’t be just getting permission to do this this would be uh NATO uh troops officers doing
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these actions uh against Russia so at that point it would be NATO going to war
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against Russia and at that point Russia would respond yeah excuse me you’re you’re
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you’re 100% correct the characterization is accurate and it’s been mirrored by every Russian official that has spoken on subject and we should also point that
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there was no um my dogs are likewise upset by the notion of nuclear war um
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they should be at no at no point uh was there any wishy-washy Milly mouth or otherwise uh
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hesitance on the part of either Vladimir Putin or anybody else in Russia about this topic the Russians have been cleare
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eyed and clear voiced about this so there can be no room for uh misunderstanding the the issue here is
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that the United States and NATO believe Russia is bluffing that Russia has no intention of backing up these very
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strong words of Vladimir Putin with a military force let alone nuclear nuclear force Kier starmer made that point today
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when asked he he he calls the Russian words irresponsible but he is he he is
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under the impression that Russia is bluffing NATO is under the impression that Russia is bluffing France is under the impression that Russia is bluffing
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the United States is under the impression Russia is bluffing and now they’ve carried out an action which is in the mind of the Russians but in but
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also in reality an act of war the United States has in effect declared war on Russia because these missiles could not
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have been launched by Ukraine without the expressed not just permission but intervention action America loads the
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target data America enables the communications with the American satellites that guides the missiles
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America targeted them America gave permission America facilitated the attack this is an American attack against Russian soil and the Russians
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now will respond accordingly um well I don’t know what this will be um I know what some Russian politicians have
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suggested it will be and it would be devastating for Ukraine um but they also have indicated that the people
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responsible will likewise I saw uh an articulation by Russian military sources they know exactly how this attack took
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place they know what aircraft uh were used to gather the intelligence they know where the intelligence was packaged
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they know what satellite the communications was relay down to so what they’re saying is we know who to Target
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we know who is responsible and these are American targets with American Service members who will die if Russia does this
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um you know this is not a game anymore this isn’t a computer game this isn’t some sort of academic exercise this is
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reality um and this reality could become very very Stark very very soon I I mean
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in in real life you don’t call a bluff if you’ve got a weak hand uh you know and you don’t call a bluff if you’re I
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mean what what are the stakes if we get this wrong and we don’t call the bluff I mean it’s I mean I guess for the US it’s
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it’s a major blow to the Imperial Ambitions and their you know remaining a hedgman but the consequences on the
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other side of getting it wrong are just so astonishing just so out proportion to anything else but we need to we need to
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modify this somewhat um the American people went to the polls on November 5th
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and it doesn’t matter where you stand on that issue I don’t care if you voted for con Harris you voted for Donald Trump if you voted for Jill Stein if you wrote in
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Mickey Mouse it doesn’t matter the Maj majority of Americans maybe not an
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absolute majority but more Americans voted for Donald Trump than any other candidate and he won a decisive Victory
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uh that is a statement by the American people that they support the platform of Donald Trump and the platform of Donald
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Trump was no to war in Ukraine no to escalation in Russia with Russia no to
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nuclear war so you can’t make the claim that Joe Biden is trying to hold on to
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uh Empire the decision has been made by the American people that that’s not the direction they want to go so this makes the actions of the Biden Administration
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all the more egregious because they are not only taking America down a path where we could very likely have a
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nuclear war but they’re doing it against the expressed will of the American people who said no to this this is an
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absolute disregard for democracy U you know yes Joe Biden is President until
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January 20th but that doesn’t mean that he gets disregard the will of the people
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the people clearly rejected his vision of how we should proed with Ukraine and he must respect this part on of the
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American people he can continue you know to to to maintain the present policy course but this isn’t maintenance this
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is a radical redefinition of how America deals with the Russia Ukrainian conflict
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one which brings us dangerously close to the possibility and I would deem even say probability of nuclear war don’t
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presidents usually when they’re handing over to another president uh even before that happens don’t they consult with
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them or uh discuss matters with them um or I would think that they would do that
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um although I don’t know you know how much uh Biden uh is the one running in
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things I’ll give you an example um when the uh Bush
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Administration uh was going to transfer power transition to Brock Obama’s
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team one of the the big issues out there was the new start treaty arms control
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and how to move forward and the Bush Administration had made a decision that it was not going to um uh extend the new
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start treaty but Barack Obama ran on a platform that said that they were and so the Bush Administration instead of
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carrying out actions that would make a negotiation more difficult which they
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could easily have done they consulted with Obama and they deferred they punted they said look
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you’re going to be the president um you know we’re not going to make this problem worse for you we’re going to leave it where it is we’re not going to
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do anything to you know move forward that’s your job but we’re not going to make it worse for you um because we
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respect the fact that you won an election and that the American people are are supporting your policy
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prerogatives um this is what Biden should have done it doesn’t mean that he has to you know shut down NATO and cut
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off all support to Ukraine um but what he needs to do is respect the fact that
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you know Donald Trump will be president and Donald Trump has um you know options that he wants to pursue and if it’s
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something that Biden can’t support then at a minimum Biden just maintains the status quo and then allows Trump to make
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the changes that he wants he doesn’t have to facilitate the Trump uh you know policy objectives but he shouldn’t be
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seeking to undermine them because he was voted out there is not going to be a Harris Administration to continue the
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work of the Biden Administration Donald Trump will be the president for the next four years and he will make a decision
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on how we proceed regarding Ukraine Russia in war and Biden should respect that but this is absolute disrespect on
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the part of Joe Biden and his staff they’re trying to confront Donald Trump with a fat comple and that fatak comple
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revolves around the relationship between Ukraine and NATO um Ukraine wants to be
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a member of NATO that’s not going to happen before January 20th but what can happen is that NATO becomes so
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intertwined with Ukraine that Ukraine becomes a de facto extension of NATO and
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this is the direction that the Biden Administration is heading if Russia fails to respond to this use of American
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long range missiles the potential future use by Ukraine of British missiles and and French missiles the next thing
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because remember this is all linked to um zelinsky’s Victory plan and he has
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articulated what needs to happen and what needs to happen is he has to have permission to use long-range weapons the
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next thing that will happen is he will seek to have NATO air defense systems on NATO soil extend their protective
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umbrella into Ukrainian territory to shoot down Russian missiles operating in Ukraine that will be followed by the
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NATO Air Forces flying into Ukraine to do the same thing to engage Russian missiles the same way that uh the United
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States and others engaged Iranian missiles being fired against Israel um and then they will put boots on the
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ground what happens is you have Ukraine and NATO being thoroughly intertwined so you cannot distinguish between the two
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and that’s the reality that would be inherited by Donald Trump on January 20th this is the goal and objective of
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NATO of the European Union of Ukraine and the Biden Administration and it runs against the grain of everything that
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Donald Trump said he wants to achieve as president of the United States I mean I think I I’m I’m going to agree with most
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of that I think that uh you know Democrats really only have balls when
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they’re uh you know doing something that’s really close to their heart and a lot of the stuff that they’re doing is is just for show but uh they really
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really like the Ukraine war Biden has been you know I said for decades now
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he’s a foreign policy guy that’s where his heart really is is in foreign policy and he’s been pushing this hard and he’s
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he’s really is going to go to the wall to get what he wants and not let Trump decide that said I am skeptical of the
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idea that um Trump is necessarily anything at all like a peace candidate
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on this um you know he’s been submitting all of his potential cabinet people’s
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names under the presidential transition Act of 1963 to get vetted for clearances
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and some of the names of people he’s put up I mean uh I forget which one it was but they basically they basically
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adopted the zimsky plan they said they’re they’re the only way they’re going to you know get their their piece that they want in Ukraine is to like
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gloves off and you know let let Ukraine really go at Russia now and it’s you know they basically would have I think
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approved of exactly what’s just happened um and I’m not sure I really know where Trump stands because Trump has a record
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of sort of being on all sides of all issues to get elected and then when he gets in office he’s also very erratic
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and no one can kind of know quite where he’s going with things well I’ll push back on that um because I
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think I do have a insight into where Trump stands on this uh as part of operation Dawn I reached out uh to uh
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RFK Jr who at that time had made had jumped the ship he was now part of the Trump team and I said you really need to
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get Donald Trump to commit to a policy on Ukraine and on Russia and nuclear war
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we we need to know more about what he is going to do as president and Donald Trump Jr took what I wrote took it to
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RFK Jr took what I wrote took it to Donald Trump Jr and they turned it into an oped piece that was published on the
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hill um it’s the only articulation by a candidate for president of the United States of that scope and scale even Jill
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Stein never committed in writing to something of this nature and it was dead set against an expansion of the conflict
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in Ukraine the war had to end it wasn’t about unshackling Ukraine it was about bringing the war to an end and it said
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that the United States must normalize relations with Russia in order to prevent a nuclear war this wouldn’t have been written without the permission of
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Donald Trump so Donald Trump did commit to this and yes he has put people uh around him who have said things but we
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know again I’ll just bring up the example of the last time Donald Trump was President uh his uh effort to
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denuclearize North Korea his secretary state Mike Pompeo was dead set against it his National Security adviser John
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Bolton was dead set against it his Director of National Intelligence Dan coats was dead set against it his
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secretary of defense was dead set against it said his entire team was dead set against it but it went forward why
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because Donald Trump doesn’t care Donald Trump is a top- down manager and when he makes up his mind when he believes that
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there’s something he wants done it’s going to get done or they will betray him the lesson that Trump learned from this is not to surround himself with
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people who will betray him yes the people that articulated these things firmly believe that but these aren’t
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Mike Pompeo these aren’t John Bolton and when Donald Trump tells them as he will do that he wants to bring this war to an
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end there will be zero push back from them because that’s the way Donald Trump is operating nowadays he does not
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tolerate betrayal he does not tolerate dissent and he has committed to a policy
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that brings an end to this conflict in Ukraine and normalizes relations with Russia to prevent a nuclear war and I I
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firmly believe that that’s the direction he wants to go you will not hear a peep from anybody in his team today they may
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have said things before before they got the nod but since they’ve gotten the nod you have not heard a peep from anybody
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about this was a good thing Ukraine’s Shackled they get to do it because that’s not the policy that Donald Trump
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plans on implementing I would uh disagree with Gary on this a bit but I see it in a
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slightly different light and that is that uh yes he may be committed but the
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Biden Administration may just have done something very much like what the Eisenhower Administration and uh Nixon
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did to Kennedy Kennedy was interested in improving relations and had even spoken
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uh well of the uh Cuban Revolution when they were just coming into power and he was about to come into power um the
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Eisenhower Administration started up the uh Bay of Pigs um uh Fiasco um ahead of time and so
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that when he came in he sort of felt Kenedy sort of felt that he was uh kind
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of bound to it uh I’m wondering if the Biden Administration is trying to set
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things up so that the incoming Trump Administration just has nowhere to go
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well that’s exactly what they’re trying to do you know there’s another example of this I’ll just say it as a when I was a weapons inspector when um the Bush
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Administration George Herbert Walker Bush lost the bid for election and Bill Clinton uh came in I remember I was in U
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in Iraq meeting with senior Iraqi officials and they were almost mocking me because for the previous year year
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plus I had been leading very aggressive inspections in into Iraq and I told them they had no choice but to comply because
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the security Council passed a chapter 7 resolution blah blah blah blah blah and they finally you know I come in and they
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go your day is over Mr Ritter it’s finished for you you see Bill Clinton has won the election and we have our
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people in Jordan meeting with his transition team and when he becomes president sanctions will be lifted
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American oil companies are come into Iraq and everything’s going to be hunky dory and I was like well that’s interesting um but what happened is the
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Bush Administration found out about this uh the day of Bill Clinton’s inauguration
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the United States was bombing Iraq to guarantee that Bill Clinton when he became president was a president who was
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def facto at war with Iraq the same concept to undermine to prevent um you know meaningful challenge I believe that
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this is what the Biden Administration is is out to do they don’t necessarily want a shooting war with Russia they believe
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that Russia is bluffing and they want to exploit this perceived Russian weakness to the full extent so that when Donald
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Trump becomes president he is confront Ed with a situation where NATO is embedded in Ukraine that Ukraine is now
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thoroughly integrated with NATO you can’t separate the two this gives NATO relevance which means that Trump can’t
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back away from NATO he will have have to support NATO and he will also have to continue to support Ukraine which has
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become an def facto extension of NATO this is what the Biden Administration wants this is what NATO wants this is
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what the European Union wants and they are all conspiring to make this happen well there there have been stories for a couple months now about how the European
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Union was looking for ways to Trump proof uh NATO and Trump proof the war
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and it’s I mean while I’m not certain that I that I’m convinced that this is
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where Trump really stands or wants to go I I agree completely that everyone is
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you know who wants this uh conflict to go on is at best uncertain about where
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Trump will go with it and it’s afraid that he’ll try to end the war I mean there were obviously there were statements uh even before that up at you
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know JD van said I don’t care about Ukraine this is this isn’t our conflict we shouldn’t you know be be putting all
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resources into that and it was a very popular position to say look why are we
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spending you know tens of billions of dollars you know to ensure that this
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conflict keeps rolling on and ukrainians keep going into the Russian meat grinder and we keep trying to you know
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essentially weaken both countries uh that’s not what is that doing for us we’ve got people on the streets we could
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be you know solving homelessness we could be solving hunger we could be solving American problems we could just be putting this money into our economy
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more efficiently without going through the military industrial complex and without you know just give it to people so that they can live their lives why
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are we you know why is this our priority why why is the Biden Administration serving them over you right and so I I
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mean I believe that there’s a big popular sentiment for for this and I believe that there’s uncertainty about Trump at at very best but um yeah that’s
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the only place I disagree is I like I I see Trump even with that opad is still kind of an X Factor I I really never
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kind of know exactly where Trump is going to go but actually can I if I can go back to this idea that we think
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Russia is bluffing um I mean I I think that’s uh again I think we’ve seen that
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that line for a long long time and um you know it doesn’t seem to me that Russia has like internalized any like
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lesson in terms of how to make NATO or America understand that it’s not bluffing and I and I’m not sure exactly
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what I would tell Putin that he needs to do differently right I mean I’m not maybe smart that smart but you know what
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what can we do to make the officials in Washington understand that it’s not just
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a bluff well as long as Russia continues to articulate that if x is done uh it
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changes the nature of the conflict and then when X is done the conflict doesn’t change uh I think in defense of Russia
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they just simply look at uh the the results they point to the scoreboard they you know they’re winning on the
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battlefield they’re demolishing the ukrainians they’re winning globally uh diplomatically Russia’s not isolated
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they’re winning economically Russia hasn’t paid a heavy price from the sanctions indeed it’s Europe that’s paid the price economically it’s the United
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States has become isolated and it’s Ukraine that’s losing on the battlefield so in defense of Russia um there’s no
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need to change direction change what they’re doing what they’re doing is winning and indeed even with these
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attack him’s missiles uh of the six fired Russia says they shot down five and the sixth one was nipped and you
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know broke apart and did minor damage but this isn’t gamechanging that it isn’t going to change the equation the
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difference here though is the politics behind the intent of what’s going on um Russia did draw a red line they said
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this will be an attack by the United States against Russia and this changes the qualitative nature of the conflict
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um and so now I believe people are waiting to see what Russia does um you know there’s some talk people talk about
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hybrid Russian response Russia will arm the hoodi so the hoodie can fire more modern missiles against American
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shipping they’ll give uh you know the the militias in Syria and Iraq better weapons so they can strike the American
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bases in Syria and Iraq but this is all you know hybrid Warfare mumbo jumbo nonsense U the indirect approach and
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things of that nature uh Russia needs to communicate directly which means that um there needs to be a meaningful response
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one that leaves no doubt as to the ious of the situation the way Russia treats this and there have been Russian
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politicians who have articulated this a senior senator who sits on the defense committee said that if this happens that
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uh Ukraine will pay a horrific price that the Ukrainian government will cease to exist and that Ukraine itself will
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become ungovernable um and he has specified the weapon that would be used what they call the father of all bombs a
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giant thermobaric bomb that if dropped would literally uh do nuclear type
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damage to Kiev without using a nuclear weapon uh this is horrible I mean we are talking about tens of thousands of
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people may maybe even more depending on where you drop the bomb dying the damage will be unbelievable and it would
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terminate the Ukrainian government um you know is that the kind of signal that Russia needs to send um it was
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articulated by a Russian senator who advises Vladimir Putin it doesn’t mean that that’s what Russia is going to do
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but you know this is the the danger of these academic type exercises where you have people like Jake Sullivan Tony
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blinkin and others you know playing you know at geopolitics if we do this the Russians will do this it’s a giant you
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know academic you know debate uh no this is real I don’t know if people realize it but hundreds of thousands of
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Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives uh tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have lost their lives millions of
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ukrainians have been displaced from their homes their lives have been forever waren this is not an academic exercise this is devastating to humanity
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we talk about Gaza and the harm that’s been done to the Palestinians in Gaza that is a drop in the bucket to what
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Ukraine has paid I’m not minimizing it I’m just trying to say that we tend to ignore what has happened to Ukraine
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right I mean just just in terms of overall population I mean I think I think you know Gaza has the prospect of
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of overtaking Ukraine because there’s so many people in immediate Jeopardy um but
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I I’m glad we’re coming back to the Middle East a little because the the it’s the same thing that that I’m seeing in the Middle East too um you know um
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Lebanon is attacked and Hezbollah will say or Iran is attacked and the Iranian government will say you know we will
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strike back at a time and place of our choosing and our retaliation will be wise and it will be intelligent and it
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will be felt and it’s very clear that these actors are very conscious of the
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risk of escalation and they’re very conscious of the dangers of going to an
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allout Regional war in the region and Russia likewise when it has retaliated it has retaliated in ways that were um
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effective and smart and at a time and place of their own choosing but it seems
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like the US government when they’re considering whether something is a bluff or not don’t understand intelligent
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responses they only understand stupid childish responses and that’s a
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conundrum for me because you want to have your position be understood and not
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be mised as a bluff but how do you get through to an animal as dumb as the US
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government I mean if it was your dog you know you wouldn’t respond to your dog you know crapping in your bed with an
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intelligent Wise Choice at the time and place of your own choosing you would immediately rub the dog’s nose in that
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before you spank the dog and that’s I think what needs to happen to the US government to get them to understand
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because they have less brains than your dogs um but I understand that that is also a horrible horrible thing and a bad
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road to go so to me it seems like this is a very difficult question well make
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easier um the consequences thermonuclear war that terminates life on the planet
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as we know it now when you put in that perspective I think now we can reverse it up and say yeah we really need a
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strong statement by Russia to prevent that outcome um because that’s what we’re talking about here we are talking about
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a situation that could easily spin out of control and end up in a general nuclear exchange between the United
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States and Russia this could happen very very quickly quicker than most Americans can even begin to comprehend um so when
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I put it in that perspective um I personally um would encourage Russia to
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provide the strongest possible non-nuclear response one where there is literally no doubt one that actually
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pushes NATO and the United States over the threshold of war and call their Bluff Russia needs to basically say you
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messed up we told you there would be consequences we told you that you would become a party to the conflict you are
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now a party of the conflict do you want to expand this conflict we have just signed a nuclear Doctrine your next move
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may be your last and that’s literally where we are because if Russia doesn’t do this then Joe Biden will slow roll
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this or fast roll this uh up through January 20th with Cons with continued
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escalations that will inevitably lead to nuclear war we’re going to get to a nuclear war if we let Joe Biden continue
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to do what he’s doing the only way to stop this nuclear war is for Russia to push back forcefully right now um it may
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be horrible uh the consequences but it pales in you know in in in comparison to
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what the consequences of a general nuclear exchange between the United States and Russia would produce and
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that’s the direction we’re heading we are dangerously close to Global Annihilation through nuclear war and
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Russia I think knows that I think one of the reasons why we have hesitancy is that the Russians understand the consequences and they have to be
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prepared to follow through but if Russia doesn’t send a decisive signal to the
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Biden Administration to Nato to Europe and compel them to back down for them to say nope we’re done we’re
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not escalating um then they’ll just perceive it as Russian weakness and they will continue to push the uh one aspect
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of that that I think it’s is important is if Russia takes something that to us
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looks like um or or let’s say to to the United States and to what we’re going to
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see in the mainstream media and to Europe and the you know quote unquote civilized world of Europe and six other
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countries um the rest of the world the real world the world with most of the power and most of the population and
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most of the economy is going to be much smarter about this and understand it in
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much more the context that you’re describing than in what we’re going to see in the mass media so you know if
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Russia were to engage in some really terrible but forceful uh demonstration
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that it is serious the reaction here in in our media is going to be this is horrible
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Russia is escalating the conflict Russia’s committing these terrible war crimes you know Putin should be banned
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from all civilized society he needs to be in for them to pay I to pay for it there’ll be calls for a very harsh
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response from our side but I think the rest of the world will see it differently they’ll see it as like yeah
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well they told you right and you kept pushing and pushing and pushing so we kind of see Russia side here one of the
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interesting things here is that the um if we go back again to September um when
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the United States was making noise that they were going to Greenlight Ukraine’s use of these weapons uh Lloyd Austin
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went to Ramstein Germany where he participated in uh the Ukraine contact group uh which is an ongoing meeting
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between Ukraine the United States and NATO to facilitate military support and the ukrainians went in there expecting
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that Lloyd Austin would give him give zilinsky permission to um to use these
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weapons and instead Lloyd Austin said these weapons won’t change the outcome they won’t change anything there’s no reason for us to uh to escalate in this
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manner and zalinsky was devastated and Lloyd Austin made it clear to the Biden White House that the Pentagon does not
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support this that it would lead to escalations that would produce a conflict that the Pentagon is not prepared to fight at this time and
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doesn’t believe that there was a need to fight it Tony blinkin at the state department took umage he flew to uh to
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to Kiev together with his British counterpart and their job was to give Ukraine permissions zinsky fully
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expected a change in policy but Lloyd Austin uh called the White House and said stand them down we will not support
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this and so blinkin had to stand down but then he coordinated with uh Kier starmer to have starmer fly to the White
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House where Biden was going to meet and sign off on the documents and only the forceful intervention by the Russian
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government prevented this from happening but my point is the Pentagon is not behind this the Pentagon is not pushing
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for this and it’s the Pentagon not the state department that goes to war so if the Russians respond decisively in a way
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that’s not lifethreatening to the United States but puts the marker on the table that Russia’s ready to go all the way if
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that’s the decision America wants I believe that the Pentagon will be briefing the president United States
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that this is a war that will lead to nuclear consequences and we can avoid
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this war by stopping right now the policy that we irresponsibly enacted the Pentagon was against that they
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articulated the dangers of this clearly they lost that policy discussion but the pentagon’s point of view will become
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very relevant if Russia responds is forcing Biden to make a decision between
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life and death because that’s what the next step would be if the the Russians do this right there will be no doubt
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that further escalation by the West will lead to a nuclear war and I actually believe that the American Media will
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pick up on this nuance and you’ll see a little bit different articulation because once it becomes clear that all
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life on the planet will end as we currently know it it’s amazing how Clarity suddenly seeps into the minds of
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those who’ have been promoting bad policy well I I I think I think you’re both right I I I I am a little less uh
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um uh I’m a little more skeptical of the US media I think you’re right I think you’re right that there that this this
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Narrative of oh my God it’s serious we’re we’re you know we we have we’re
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now the real brsm is really here and we haven’t noticed it until now but suddenly it’s like we really are at the
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threshold I think that’ll wake up a lot of people um I still think there will be calls uh I think you youve we’ve always
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seen this there’s been there’ll be a lot of pressure to counter escalate by doing something even worse and putting us one
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step closer to nuclear war and I think this will be a battle just like it’s been at every stage where you’ve got you
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know and it may it may the battle may you continue on into the Trump Administration where they’ve got
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different people in Trump’s ear where some people saying we need a forceful response we need to do this and other people saying no we’re too close we’re
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going to kill everybody uh and I I think there’s uh there’s I think I just have a lot of doubt and a lot of uncertainty
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and I think that there’s a lot of room in there for people to um see a place to
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like act on it and uh you know say this is something that could go either way I really need to make my voice heard
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against annihilating all life on Earth and this will be a a chance for people to I mean an unfortunate chance but a
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chance for people to um really make their voices hurt and they’ll need to make their voices hurt I think I don’t
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think it’ll be clear what the outcome will be without people’s input I certainly hope that people have the opportunity to let their voices be heard
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my concern is knowing a little bit about how these things work that um because nobody has uh compelled this kind of
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debate and discussion uh in the mainstream media uh in the halls of
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power that this will just sneak up on us and by the time we become aware of the danger it’s too late nuclear war like
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any other conflict has a certain inevitability at some point in time as decisions are made uh forces are moved
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um phone calls are made um and uh next thing you know know the thing that nobody wants is happening and there’s
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nothing you can do to stop it and um certainly it goes too fast it goes way too fast people need to understand the
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time pressure that uh uh leaders are on again Annie Jacobson um there’s a brilliant scenario in her book where the
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president of the United States together with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uh Secretary of Defense on the phone with the head of strategic command uh is
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still trying to figure out what’s happening as a nuclear weapon is inbound to the United States um he’s asking for
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more time but he’s being told there is no more time Mr President if you don’t give the order right now to launch you
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will die before we can do anything you alone can give this order Mr President but he’s calling around are we sure this
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is this and people are saying Mr President you don’t have time to ask that question if you don’t give the order now you are going to die you will
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die in one minute and 45 seconds that Warhead impacts you’re a dead man you need to give the order and he still
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doesn’t believe it because nobody prepares for this right and and and you’ve made the point before that
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because we’ve disabled all of our arms treaties the time to make that decision has gone down and another point I think
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that you you’ve made this point as well that you know in a state of heightened nuclear tension where we believe that
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the Russians might launch right and they believe that we might launch because
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we’re we’ve moved up to Defcon whatever right that is the condition where um it
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is most likely that a Chinese weather balloon or toy balloon will float over the head and someone will go nuts
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because at that point everything looks like a Russian missile or an American missile coming at you 100% look we we
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have policies which are called launch on warning launch on detect um it’s not
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about waiting for a nuclear weapon to hit before you response you launch when you believe a nuclear attack is underway
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and the goal is to get your weapons out of the ground towards the enemy before their weapons hit you and so if both
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sides now are leaning forward believing the other is going to attack preemptively therefore you need to be
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prepared to preempt their preemption things that for instance just
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historically we know that um a flock of birds LED Russians or Soviets to believe
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that they were under uh American um ballistic missile attack in the 1980s a flock of birds we know that a Norwegian
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weather rocket led the Russians to believe in 1995 that they were under attack by Trident missiles a lot of
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people don’t know this story that um this Norwegian rocket was launched the Russian Radars detected it interpreted
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as an incoming Trident missile which has very limited time they brought the nuclear football to Boris yelon um and
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they said Mr yelson you have to order our response right now this is a trident missile it’s on a reduced trajectory it
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will come in with 18 Warheads it will decapitate us and if you don’t act now then the Americans will come in and kill
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us all and we’ll lose the war you must launch now must launch now and yelson fortunately said uh no I want to wait
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and he waited beyond the window meaning that he made a decision that he was going to die but the phone call came in
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and said no it was a Norwegian rocket that’s how close we came to dying in 1995 um you know and and and this is the
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point when we have these tensions and we don’t have these treaties one of the beautiful things of these treaties isn’t just that they limit nuclear weapons but
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they increase confidence in between the two sides first of all we are working towards a common objective of the people
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that are planning nuclear Wars are receiving Russian Russian inspectors or inspecting ours we’re going over there inspecting
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their weapons we’re talking with the weaponers we’re talking at every level we humanize this and we build trust and
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confidence and we reduce uh the fear and uncertainty then allows us to do important things like take the missiles
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off of a permanent War footing the other thing we did during the early days was to detargeted
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this buys us time because now to respond you have to load the targets that buys you more time to find out what’s going
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on but when you have your missiles on a hair trigger alert targets already in ready to go because you believe the next
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move from the Russians is going to be the launch then a flock of birds becomes the threat and you’ll be told you have
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to make a decision to launch before you know whether that’s a flock of birds or incoming Russian missiles this is a very
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very dangerous situation we’re in because that’s the posture of the United States today Vis Russia we have loaded
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front loaded our system we have missiles that are spun up with uh the guide with the targets loaded in their guidance
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packages ready to launch on a moment’s notice we have submarines out there the same thing the targets are in they know
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what they want to do um and they’re waiting to be told to launch and they will be told to launch if we believe
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we’ve detected a Russian nuclear attack and we are as susceptible as anybody to being spoofed um and then it’s over once
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decisions have been made you can’t recall these systems uh there is no fail safe um and we all die that’s just the
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way it is and this is why it’s imperative that we do something to
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encourage dialogue the fact that the Biden Administration is not talking to the Putin team is disconcerting you know
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they had an ambassador anaton Antonov um he is an American expert uh he was the
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last man to negotiate Arms Control treaty with the United States He negotiated the new start treaty he’s an expert on arms control he’s an expert on
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Russian us relations and he was the Ambassador for seven years and we didn’t talk to him I met with him many times
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for seven years we didn’t talk to him we didn’t talk to him wow he sat there and we didn’t talk to him he had as his
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defense atese um a a Russian uh Major General U who was a strategic missile
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forces Commander he was sent here to help the United States get a better understanding of the danger of nuclear
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war to talk about the potential for a new treaty we didn’t talk to him we didn’t just not talk to him uh we
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allowed the ukrainians and NATO to isolate him there’s a defense adese uh
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Club when you join you you go on the cocktail circuit they took him off of it they didn’t allow anybody to interact
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with him or his men and so at a time when it’s absolutely imperative because I remind people that the Cuban Missile
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Crisis was resolved largely because we were talking to the Soviets directly and indirectly we had official channels and
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we had back channels today we are not talking to the Russians anaton Antonov has left the United States there is no
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Russian Ambassador in the United States today and we’re getting ready to precipitate what could become a nuclear
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war this is as dangerous as a is and you know you’ve heard all this
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rhetoric about uh I mean when when Obama was coming into office right you know
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one of the things that you know he said in the campaign Trail you know is that you know he would be willing to talk to our opponents right and then uh Trump
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took office and the line immediately became oh this horrible person he talks to dictators you know he’s he’s you know
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shakes their hands and is nice with them and it’s like you know he loves dictators so much it’s like it’s it’s
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actually kind of nice to have someone back who’s willing to talk at least I mean I I don’t have much faith in in any
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of them I I really hope that they’re all a lot smarter than they look I don’t know about
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that as optimistic as I try to be um I will say this and the reason why I laugh
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is you know first of all no president is you know a Russia expert um there very
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few presidents are expert on anything they’re politicians who have spent their lives playing a con game based upon
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their own narcissism they’re surrounded by people that shake their head yes and say yes to everything um but they should
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surround themselves and out of politics and you know putting it that way makes you really feel like like Trump has been
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very qualified well he’s as qualified as anybody that’s ever been put up there because he’s not qualified to do
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anything um and neither is anybody who’s ran for president of the United States just to be honest they are politicians
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who made so many compromises on their way up to be effectively neutered as U
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is is as true independent voices I will say this that Trump came up a different route he hasn’t always been a politician
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he’s been a businessman of uh some you know dubious pedigree but it doesn’t matter he’s different uh but the the
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point is he’s not a Russia expert and now you have to surround yourself with people who are experts when it comes to
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Russia the United States has not been in the business of producing genuine Russian experts for some time now what
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we produce are what I call Putin Whisperers uh people who uh came into academic prowess by writing a PhD thesis
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on the dictatorial qualities of Vladimir Putin how he is the worst man on the planet and then they go and join um you
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know think tanks or the government where they’re surrounded by like-minded thinkers and so all you get is Vladimir Putin is evil Russia is bad you know the
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you know etc etc etc and you don’t have anybody who actually knows the truth about Russia and we don’t encourage
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people to go to Russia I know this because I made two trips to Russia uh since May of 2023 and I was getting
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ready to make a third trip and the FBI came and took my passport and shut me down because the United States
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government is afraid of what I was doing in Russia that I was going over and actually talking to the Russian people
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talking to Russian leaders and coming back and Reporting the truth about Russia this was unacceptable so they
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shut it down they don’t want to have genuine Russian experts out there and I’m fearful that no matter what happens
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with Donald Trump he needs to get real Russian experts in there so that he can better understand what’s going on inside
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Russia he will meet with Vladimir Putin there’s no doubt my mind he will meet with them and he’s not going to do it the way Joe Biden did by calling a stone
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cold killer um you know before the meeting undermining any chance of uh of success Trump will meet but the question
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is will he understand what Vladimir Putin what Sergey lavro what other people are saying or will he have his
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own prejudices that will prevail he needs genuine Russian experts surrounding him telling him you know
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what what is relevant what is real what is fake um because otherwise he’ll be a prisoner to um this this community of U
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you know pseudo Russian experts who are nothing more than Putin haters the uh some of these announcements regard
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regarding that the us is going to authorize these these type of long strikes they talk specifically about the
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presence of North Korean troops and and it’s like well it’s like is there a single nuclear power left in the world
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that isn’t involved in this I guess there’s I guess there’s India Pakistan which is its own issue but it’s like you
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know we’re picking fights with nuclear powers or you know um you know helping I
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mean we Israel is is a mess but you know that’s that the nuke is on our side supposedly but I don’t trust that nuke
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either so well let’s talk about North Korea for a second there’s no evidence that there’s any North Korean troops in
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Russia no evidence has been provided um we have people saying this the United States government says this but they
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haven’t backed it up with anything um I’ve been to Russia uh I know Russians and I will tell you this they are very
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contract oriented very legally minded um and the idea that North Korea would
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dispatch 10,000 combat troops to Russia without any legal framework whatsoever
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is absurd in the extreme and but we know that Russia and North Korea were negotiating such a legal framework just
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last week I believe that Russia ratified this framework that now said that if there is a conflict uh that they have a
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strategic relationship and that either side can come to the other’s assistance um why would North Korea send 10,000
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troops to go to Cur and engag in combat when that final agreement hadn’t been to ratified there are no North Korean
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troops in in KK they can’t me you see all these pictures on Twitter of like uh you know um you know Russians from the
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Far East of the country right and you know people like label him oh look it’s Chinese people F you know the Chinese
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Army is there it’s like no you idiots it’s like those are Russians right there’s a interesting video on on
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Twitter of a Ukrainian troops surrendering to uh to you know Asiatic looking soldiers and they’re screaming
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don’t shoot don’t shoot we don’t speak Korean we don’t speak Korean and the the soldier right replies in perfect Russian
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I’m from tuon you idiot speak Russian you know and and you have you know entire brigades of buot troops who
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again are Asia there are U three million I believe um uh Korean um ethnic Koreans
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in Russia there’s a huge Korean community in Russia um who get uh
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you know integrated Etc that the the idea that Korea sent 10,000 troops first of all militarily it makes no sense the
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Koreans up until recently have had no military to military training with their Russian counterparts you can’t take
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10,000 North Koreans put them on a battlefield and have them integrate with the Russians with fire support with command control with maneuver with
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anything their tactics are different their operations are different everything’s different this is stupidity in the extreme uh and yet it’s been
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promulgated there I think we’re projecting because that’s you know that’s like the we we put the Ukrainian troops through like a five-week NATO
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training regimen and send them back so I think we’re just uh uh projecting our own uh stupidity onto them yeah it’s um
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it’s it’s it’s ridiculous but the the you know the main reason for this is that Ukraine needs South Korea to
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provide it with arms and Munitions and South Korea has been hesitant so the United States together with NATO has
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cooked up this fantasy of North Korean troops being dispatched in order to get UK uh South Korea to say well if North
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Korea is involved then we will get involved and this is just one giant psychological operation um I have seen
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no evidence whatsoever that there are North Korean troops operating on Russian soil especially in kers in a forward
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area and I would tell you that legally it’s impossible for that to be until they sign that but here’s the ultimate
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irony the United States just attacked Russia with six attack of missiles fired
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by Ukraine Russia has ratified this security agreement with North Korea
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Russia is now under attack by the United States and North Korea has every legal right and indeed do responsibility under
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this pact to come to Russia’s assistance so we just made it possible for North Korea to send troops to Russia that’s
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how stupid we are um uh bet asked a little bit about the Middle East though so if we could
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maybe wrap up with a little a discussion about um you know what’s at stake there
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and you know I mean you know if you if you want to because I I I recognize that uh the overarching issue is still going
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to be uh World War III which I mean our our mutual friend Dan K this morning that it had just begun as of
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today well it has just begun today I mean it’s uh this is World War III but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other conflicts and you know world wars
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don’t have to go nuclear um I do believe that left unchecked if Russia doesn’t if Russia fails to do something decisive to
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call Nato and America’s Bluff um that we are going to be looking at um a direct
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confrontation between Russia and nato in the not too distant future and my fear is that once that happens uh we will uh
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it will become nuclear but there are other hotpots in the world you know we have touched upon the Middle East um you
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know we’re still waiting Iran’s uh retaliation I actually believe that Iran is holding off until the Trump
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Administration comes in out of the belief that um Donald Trump was serious when he said that he is looking to lift
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sanctions against Iran and he’s looking he’s not looking for regime change in Iran and I think the Iranians are saying
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okay um you know we’re not in a rush our missiles can hit Israel at any time um let’s let’s hold plus the other thing
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the Iranians are saying and this is a major aspect to uh what’s going on right now Israel is losing Israel is losing
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across the the the the the entire spectrum of this conflict militarily Israel is not winning in in Gaza U
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troops are terrified they have to go back into Gaza and fight for the same terrain they’ve already fought for three times knowing that Israeli troops will
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die um everything’s booby trapped you know they’re they’re they’re yeah yeah the desertion rate in certain units is
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between 12 and 24% we’re now getting more and more reports of Israeli soldiers reservice when called up committing suicide rather than going
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back um against uh Hezbollah the Israelis aren’t having meaningful advances that just today the Golani
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Brigade suffered another crushing defeat on the battlefield the Israelis have sent the seventh armored Brigade in it too will more than likely suffer
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crushing losses as it fails to accomplish its Mission they’re going into terrain that Hezbollah has been prepared for 18 years waiting for this
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opportunity um the Israelis aren’t prevailing militarily um they’re getting hit by Anala they have no response and
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the Iranians have shown that they can penetrate the Israeli defense missile defense Shield at will so militarily
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Israel’s in a horrible position economically they took a 67 billion dollar hit last year this isn’t the cost
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of the war this is money their economy is not making that they should have made they’re going to take a hundred billion doll hit this year no tourism um
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nobody’s investing there it’s an economic basket case and it’s only going to get worse um politically internally
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Israel was in a near Civil War status uh on October 6th October 7th changed
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things as Israelis rallied behind the government but now the government been exposed as lying cheating stealing
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Benjamin Netanyahu is under any number of ongoing investigations including A Renewed effort by Israeli courts to
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bring him on trial right now as he sits as prime minister for corruption charges new charges are brought together for him
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lying to the Israeli people about October 7th they’re now talking about opening an October 7th investigation and
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also lying about the hostages um let me put it this way if we if we took Israel’s problems
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and turned it into a briefing where we changed the word Israel to Iran and um
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and and and and and I painted a picture of Iran with all of the problems I just said we’d be American officials would be
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high-fiving each other saying it’s over Iran is collapsing it’s in a state of freef fall it can’t recover um I mean
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you’ve got you’ve got this huge Exodus from the country with all these people just leaving and fleeing you’ve got you
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know uh Yol of Gant you know you know audibly sniping against Netanyahu they’re in a big fight you’ve got smot
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saying why is it all people from my party that are dying in the war we need to put other people in the war let’s get the let’s get the you know religious
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people all and draft them and send them down everything is falling apart politically inside Israel and Israeli
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leaders including former generals Etc have said that Israel is fatally injured that Israel will not recover from this
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and I happen to agree uh and so if I was advising the Iranian government and I’m not and I won’t U but if they’re
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listening that’s their issue um this show has been listened to in Iran by the way well there we go
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you don’t have to do anything you have won Israel is poisoned Israel will die
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the Israeli State cannot continue you don’t need to in you know escalate Etc
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there’s nothing Donald Trump can do to change this fact that the Trump Administration is like a team of doctors
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arriving to a patient who has consumed a fatal amount of poison you can make their passing easier but you cannot save
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their lives Israel has poisoned itself the world is rejected Israel the genocide that’s taking place is
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recognized globally as a reality and the Middle East has fundamentally changed the Trump administration’s greatest
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diplomatic achievement in the Middle East with the Abrams Accords and one of the key factors of that was to get U
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Saudi Arabia ready to recognize Israel to you know uh to work with Israel as part of this massive reimagination of
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the Middle East um that’s over Saudi Arabia has just met with Russia and said
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that Saudi Arabia will never recognize Israel will never work with Israel until which time there is a Palestinian state
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and its capital is in Jerusalem and that’s something that the lukud government and the far rightwing parties
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in in Israel said will never happen and so Trump can’t change this outcome China brokered reproach M between Iran and
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Saudi Arabia Trump will not reverse that Saudi Arabia is actively working with Iran cooperating militarily Trump will
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not change that this is a whole different world so it doesn’t matter how many zionists Trump surrounds himself
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with he’s not going to be able to change the outcome the fact is Israel is on a
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path towards uh eraser they they will erase themselves at some point in time Israel
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will have to commit to um a two-state solution and when they do that they will
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have to dismantle the West Bank settlements and the second they try to do that Israel will dissolve into Civil
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War and you will see a demographic shift as millions of Israelis flee the country
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and when the demographics Dro to a certain level the viability of a of a Jewish State no longer is there and now
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we have a one-state solution and that state will be called Palestine and that’s the trajectory that we’re on right now
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so good look at it um the what I feel is
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that Israel will realize what is happening to them will try to stop it
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they won’t be able to stop it and then we’ll decide to take a whole lot of people with them yeah you’ve got a
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country descending into chaos that has hundreds of nuclear weapons so that’s that’s an X Factor it is but remember
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South Africa the apid State created nuclear weapons to um be used against
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black nationalists that were surrounding it and they had the equivalent of the Samson option meaning that they were
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going to take down all of black Africa um if if if they were going down but they collapsed from within and the final
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thing that the Botha government did before they turned over was to turn their nuclear weapons over to the international atomic energy agency and
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voluntarily be disarmed because they didn’t want black nationalists to have nuclear weapons I believe that Israel is
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going to collapse from with then they won’t be able to cite the Samson option because the people killing Israel will be the Israelis themselves and at some
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point in time uh the Israeli people will say we don’t want the Palestinians to have access to our nuclear weapons and
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our nuclear technology and when the writing is on the wall I firmly believe that Israel will return to the United States the international atomic energy
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agency and voluntarily get rid of their nuclear weapons um and that’s the path that I believe is that we’re headed on
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and this path can happen if you if Iran doesn’t attack Israel if at the end of
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the day people stop attacking Israel and just let Israel die okay can hope you’re right all right
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well we’re definitely out of time but I thank you so much for uh for being with us it’s this has been absolutely great I
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hope to have you back again soon well thanks for having me um as I said before you know this is this we live in a world
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of alternative media and um believe it or not we have far more influence today collectively than the mainstream media
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does uh the mainstream media the Legacy Media is on the decline um I I hope that
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this uh this podcast this this discussion we just have gets more hits than CNN has viewers and there’s a
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possibility to make that happen so thank you for being part of this family of podcast this collaboration and uh I
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would encourage your listeners to support you as uh as as much as possible so that you can keep doing the Fantastic
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work that you do well thank you very much SC
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