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Scott Ritter talks about Ukraine & Gaza during the second Trump Administration

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjyaMTvlqws)

Scott Ritter talks about Ukraine & Gaza during the second Trump Administration #scottritter #trump #gaza #ukraine

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0:02

welcome to issues that matter I’m Cynthia perer my guest today is Scott

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Ritter and Scott and I will be discussing um the Middle East and

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Ukraine during the second Trump Administration

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so Scott are you optimistic it’s it’s hard to tell I mean

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um you know Trump has not been uh forthcoming as to what his

0:36

specific goals and objectives are in either Camp so you know observers are

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left you know reading tea leaves you know going up to empty you know teacups and putting them

0:48

down and look at the leaves and saying oh I think this I think that which is not a way to do business um I I will say

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that he has said some things about both topics that leave me um believing that

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he wants to um bring about uh Equitable conclusions to uh to

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both conflicts more so in Ukraine less so in in Gaza but nonetheless

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um you know in in Ukraine he just he gave a a presentation I believe yesterday where he said straight up that

1:25

this war was about you know NATO attempting to expand into Ukraine I I got kicked off of YouTube for saying

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that a couple years ago um and and the ukrainians just hate that and the blinking the Biden blinkin

1:37

Administration hates that the Europeans hate that they don’t want anybody to say that because it’s the truth and Trump is

1:44

saying it committing to it and uh that’s very important because if that’s the

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basis upon which he’s moving forward to resolve this issue it means he’s already

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um one step ahead of anybody else in the west because he recognizes that Russia

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has a legitimate grievance here so that’s uh that’s very important it

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also is a bad Harbinger for uh for NATO um you know he he isn’t buying into the

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you know NATO narrative that uh you know NATO has a right to expand uh any way it

2:23

sees fit he’s saying the exact opposite that NATO expansion is the cause of a conflict that’s bad for America

2:30

and I think this is part and parcel of his overall approach towards NATO which is one that I believe is going to result

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in Trump making a move to withdraw from nato in the coming years so um there’s

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there’s that on Gaza you know he has built one of the most Pro Zionist um go

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ahead SC I want to ask you a question there’s a lot of my friends who are of

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left of center persuasion and they even to this day

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that they’re belly aching over the fact that

3:06

um that uh Trump won but they I don’t think they fully

3:13

grasp the situation that you and I have been talking about for a long time that

3:19

the Biden Administration took us to the brink they don’t understand that we

3:26

might be better off with Trump because he might not bring us to the drink like

3:35

Biden did what do you say to those people who are lamenting over the fact

3:41

that Harris did not win you want to know what I honestly say

3:46

to them or do you want of course I say they are irrelevant as fly poop on a

3:53

window they’re they’re they’re the equiv of a bug on my windshield um you know I’m in a car I’m on a highway I’m

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driving forward I’m getting to where I’m going you’re a bug in the air you hit my windshield you no longer exist that’s

4:06

all the relevance they have to any discussion we have they don’t matter they’re not part of the discussion now

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as a human being and an American who believes that people are allowed to have opposite uh points of view and in the

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interest of furthering debate dialogue and discussion um I will tell them that

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um you know if before they get on with Trump I need I I want them to go back

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and honestly reflect on what happened um in the United States between September

4:39

13th and um November 20th on September

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13th I’d remind them uh Joe Biden backed down from um pressure from Kier starmer

4:51

to authorize or green light the use of attack’s missiles by Ukraine on Russia

4:57

first of all I’d like to have their opinion their expert opinion because clearly these are informed people uh

5:02

they wouldn’t dare uh you know put out a a an opinion on Trump unless it was

5:07

grounded in a foundation of in-depth knowledge and information and understanding and comprehension about

5:12

the complex issues that we face today so they are aware of how close we came to

5:18

nuclear war right Cynthia they understand that do they know how I understand it I know you do I’m not

5:23

picking on you Cynthia I’m talking about your friends of the you know left of center persuasion they want to engage in

5:29

a dialogue they’re having one they’re being critical of trump but before I let them even get there they have to earn

5:35

the right to do that in order to earn the right to do that they have to show a comprehension of the underlying issues

5:40

and the number one underlying issue is how close we came to a nuclear war because of Joe Biden because of Tony

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blinkin and because of people like this who condone that and don’t hold them to account so before they attempt to hold

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Trump to account are they willing to hold Biden to account because once they do hold Biden to account they’ll

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understand that what Trump is trying to do do is prevent the very nuclear war that Joe Biden and Tony blinkin almost

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got us involved in with Russia because when they green lit the use of attack’s

6:09

missiles on Russian territory on November 19th they brought us to the brink of nuclear war with Russia we were

6:16

that close and I will condemn these people forever and ever for allowing this to happen if they want to meet me

6:23

and talk to me understand I will get aggressive to them because I care about my life the life of my family the life

6:29

for my friends and the future that I want for my children and I hold them accountable for facilitating this idiot

6:36

Joe Biden who took us to the brink of nuclear war now they want to talk about Donald Trump what are they upset about

6:41

that he might prevent a nuclear war do these people even understand where Ukraine is on a map can they Point

6:47

Ukraine out on a map can they tell me the difference between POA and lvo KV and neep Petro they can’t even pronounce

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Nipa Petro let alone spell it or tell me where it is or why it’s relevant so there I want to give them a seat at this

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table Cynthia no I don’t they have to earn the right they have to earn the right by

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actually taking the time to learn these issues otherwise bug windshield Splat

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that’s all they are okay sorry I I uh kind of dissuaded

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you from from your talk and go on about Ukraine wait a minute now I got to calm

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down you spun me up no look nuclear war I take it very seriously uh and I get

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angry I get furious at people because this is literally a life and death issue and we’re not out of the woods yet this

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this and chief right now um and and he’s not even held responsible because his brain literally doesn’t work

7:44

anymore Tony blink’s calling the shots on foreign policy in violation of constitutional procedure and he’s

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getting us to the brink of a nuclear war they’re doing everything they can to take us right up to the precipice but

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fortunately Donald Trump isn’t taking the bait and Donald Trump

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is again just an astounding um acknowledgement yesterday

8:07

when he said that this war is because of NATO expansion into Ukraine and that that’s unacceptable to Russia and he

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understands that that’s um that’s a key to um to

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getting us out of this this mess and avoiding a nuclear war to me avoiding the nuclear war is more important than

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just about anything

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that ruined my voice I’m sorry need

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to problem is you got me spun up early on a Friday I’m sorry I hadn’t exercised my vocal cords

8:49

yet no it’s not your fault it’s my fault I shouldn’t have taken the bait um but I

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did I do think there’s a path out a path out of the

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uh the debacle that is Ukraine today it’s going to be a path that many people

9:08

won’t understand but again I I start off and you know this is just to be hon I

9:13

just wrote a book called covering Ukraine it’s a a book I I I did with Ana K this uh this podcaster from Poland

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she’s actually coming to the United States next week and we’re going to do a short little book to her on the East Coast but um good she uh you know this

9:30

this book talks about the complexity of Ukraine and and how we got to where we are um including a big chapter on it’s

9:37

about NATO expansion um but the contents of the book run against the grain of

9:44

everything most Americans have learned about the Ukraine conflict from the mainstream media the mainstream media

9:49

has been lying to you from day one on this issue um you know just taking the

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government narrative and running with it um

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but the fact is uh America has been lied to about every aspect of this

10:07

conflict how we got where we are what our goals and objectives are see many Americans think that what’s going on in

10:13

Ukraine is about standing up for democracy and standing up for uh a little Nation

10:20

that’s been attacked by the bigger nation and you know we must stand up and defend democracy and freedom there’s no

10:27

democracy in Ukraine there never has been democracy in Ukraine and they certainly aren’t about Freedom they’re about corruption they’ve been about

10:32

corruption since the moment that they were uh that they were created as an independent state I say that with

10:38

firsthand knowledge I went to Kev in 1997 as a un inspector trying to get the

10:45

Ukrainian government to you know clamp down on black marketeers who are dissembling dis dis you know taking

10:52

apart Ukrainian defense industry and selling it on the black market to Nations like Libya and Iraq um and what

11:00

I found is that the the money that was involved in that goes into everybody’s pocket from kochma on down kochma at

11:06

that time was the president everybody in his National Security uh Council the the S spu their KGB everybody was making

11:13

money it is the single most corrupt Nation on the planet you can’t do anything without money greasing the palms of somebody

11:21

um but you know we also have to recognize that Ukraine has always been

11:27

seen by the United States as a tool to bring down the Soviet Union in Russia ever since 1948 when the CIA started

11:33

parachuting in um Ukrainian nationalists into Ukraine to reinforce the

11:39

organization of Ukrainian nationalist insurgents uh step on Bandera’s people uh in their ongoing struggle against the

11:46

Soviet and Russian rule um the CIA has been involved in in just that facilitating the use of Ukraine to take

11:53

down the Russians we most recently saw you know people talk about 2014 in

11:59

the maidon the the revolution of dignity is the absurdity that uh the ukrainians

12:05

the the the Ukrainian nationalists and their Western supporters call it wasn’t it was a coup dayah a coup that began

12:13

actually in 2004 2005 when the CIA and others George

12:19

Soros using George soros’s Foundation uh orchestrated what they call the orange

12:24

Revolution the orange Revolution overturned an election that had put Victor kovich who is a Russian uh an

12:31

ethnic Russian Ukrainian owers the presidency um you know they they tried to overturn the election they had a

12:38

followon election he won then they anold that in violation of the Constitution and uh installed Yenko who is a

12:45

Ukrainian nationalist what was the first thing Yenko did when he became um the

12:50

the the the the the the leader of U of of Ukraine he made step on Bandera a

12:57

national hero that tells you where his priorities are he made a Nazi the

13:02

national hero of Ukraine now this this orange Revolution was supposed to keep

13:09

these Nazis in power uh but yanukovich made a comeback in 2010 he wasn’t

13:14

supposed to but he did and this was seen as a threat by the CIA and Western

13:19

intelligence services to their Ukraine plan so 2014 was a coup to prevent yanukovich

13:27

from winning re-election and to oust him but not just oust him but to destroy him

13:33

and his Russian constituents uh in eastern Ukraine uh as being politically

13:38

viable it was the beginning of an ethnic war of um eradication a genocide

13:44

cultural genocide against the Russians that’s what triggered this war people don’t like to talk about that the fact

13:50

that the CIA put in Western nationalists whose sole function was not only to overthrow a constitutionally mandated

13:57

president but to eliminate an entire population’s political viability to ensure that never

14:04

again could the Russians speaking population of Ukraine elect a Russian

14:11

sympathetic president see it wasn’t Putin that put yanukovich in it was the people of

14:17

Ukraine the people of eastern Ukraine and so what happened after 2014 is the

14:23

nationalists backed by the United States went to war against the people of eastern Ukraine that’s what’s really at

14:29

stake here and it’s not Putin who’s the aggressor it’s us who are the aggressors

14:36

and um and Trump finally sees that he recognizes that this is a huge deal

14:43

because he’s now starting from a foundation of fact that will allow him

14:49

to come up with a reality-based solution to this problem one that Russia can

14:55

accept um because he understands what Russia’s needs and wants are you know the other there’s one thing he

15:01

has to do that he hasn’t done yet he hasn’t acknowledged that the policy of the United States um Mo most recently

15:09

articulated by Lloyd Austin when he came back from Ukraine in I think it was May of 2022 is the Strategic defeat of Russia

15:18

the Strategic defeat of Russia means the total defeat of Russia means the collapse of Russia it means the collapse

15:23

of Russian Society for Americans to understand what that means think about

15:29

how you would feel if Russia said we want to return America to the age of the Great

15:34

Depression you’d say well no you we’re not going to let that happen well that’s what we’re wanting to do to Russia

15:40

economically collapse Russia through sanctions squeezing off causing people to lose their jobs causing businesses to

15:46

collapse um making it impossible to sustain life that’s what we want now imagine you’re a Russian and you’re

15:52

hearing that how happy are you going to be about that uh we want the societal collapse again we want societies to

16:00

collapse for instance in Russia like they did uh in the 1990s where you don’t have pensions

16:06

where you don’t have health care you don’t have infrastructure millions of people have died that’s our vision for

16:11

Russia now imagine being a Russian hearing that going I don’t think so um

16:17

and we want the political collapse we want you know Russia to collapse politically we want Putin to go away and

16:22

we want to replace him with a compliant uh to like Boris yelson again Russians

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who live through the the 990s know that they don’t want to go back in those times um Trump is going to have to walk

16:35

away from that because the Russians will not talk to an American president so long as the official policy of the

16:40

United States Remains the Strategic defeat of Russia there’s no reason to talk with the Americans they have

16:46

identified themselves as an existential threat to Russia so why negotiate with

16:51

them United States has to end this policy of seeking the Strategic defeat of Russia and you take that combined

16:57

with Trump’s informed stance on the real cause of this conflict and we have the

17:03

potential for Peace So I am optimistic good so tell us a little bit

17:09

about how you feel about

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Gaza there’s not going to be a happy ending in Gaza um that’s my personal

17:19

belief I wish there was I wish in the happy ending would be not only an end of the conflict but the creation of a

17:26

Palestinian State Trump in the closing months of his administration his first

17:33

Administration um implemented what were known as the Abrahams Accords a series of agreements with Gulf Arab Nations

17:39

that sought to normalize relations with Israel and um because there was the need

17:45

to make a gesture towards Palestinian statehood they talked about you know what a Palestinian State could look like

17:52

no Palestinian who looked at the Abrams Accord said we we can agree with this it there wasn’t a Palestinian State there

17:58

was a series of you know what we can call bontu Lands that’s a reference to the black homelands that apartheid South

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Africa allowed to be created to give the notion of you know black autonomy and

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and uh Independence when in fact they were totally subordinated to white aarid and they did whatever

18:17

white aparte wanted them to do uh that’s the Israeli vision of a Palestine is a series of little you know bonto lands

18:27

that will be 100% dependent upon Israel and therefore never pose a threat to

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Israel um but even that now can’t happen um Gaza is finished um I mean I hope I’m

18:42

wrong the the Hamas continues to show a tremendous amount of resilience as do the Gaz and civilians but my my concern

18:51

is that um this is unsustainable at this point in time now that the axis of resistance has collapsed um and even if

18:58

Hezbollah re engages which they indicate they will do before this month is out because of the continued Israeli

19:04

violation of the ceasefire agreement that was signed in November um as’s

19:09

actions I be believe will be limited to evicting Israel from um Lebanese territory as opposed to expanding the

19:16

conflict into Israel um plus Trump has just made it clear that he doesn’t want this to drag on and he will be far more

19:23

decisive in terms of supporting whatever Israel needs to do to um to bring an end

19:28

to to Hamas and there won’t be any effective counter to that the United States will provide effective cover for

19:34

Israel on the international stage and we’re going to see um you know the what

19:40

what had been a a movement on the International Community towards condemning Israel and isolating Israel I

19:45

think we’re going to see that to start to break apart under pressure from um an American government that’s not afraid to

19:52

flex its muscles to achieve what it wants to achieve so um I’m I don’t have

19:57

optimism for Palestine but I will say this Trump the

20:03

other day um retweeted a

20:09

uh a statement uh a a video podcast of of Jeffrey Sachs

20:17

the noted Economist where saaks singled out Netanyahu and said Netanyahu was the

20:23

cause of the Iraq conflict the cause of the Syrian conflict the cause of all these conflicts

20:29

and Trump tweeted that out basically saying

20:34

I agree with this and now it appears that Netanyahu is so mad he’s not coming to the

20:39

inauguration um of course the Israelis are saying he wasn’t invited but that’s a whole another thing I mean I I I think

20:45

that you know Donald Trump gave a hint about how he felt about Nyo and Israel during the campaign when he said uh even

20:52

before the campaign he said look uh when we talk about the Palestinian issue you

20:57

crisis between the Palestinians and the Israelis he said you know it takes two to negotiate and in my experience one

21:03

party just doesn’t want to negotiate and it’s that’s the Israelis so I think he knows where the problem is and he knows

21:10

who the problem is and I don’t think he’s going to be allow himself to become a prisoner of Benjamin Netanyahu to the

21:16

extent that he was in his first Administration it was Netanyahu who leaned on Trump to get him to withdraw

21:22

from the Iran nuclear deal and now Trump I think understands that netanyahu’s

21:29

goal isn’t to get a better nuclear deal his goal is to have the Americans attack Iran on his behalf getting us involved

21:36

in a third Middle East war after Iraq and Syria and Trump says I’m not doing

21:41

that I’m not playing that game so for all the people that think that Trump is

21:46

just going to be a doormat for Israel I think they’re going to be um surprised

21:52

now if you’re pro-israeli it will be an unpleasant surprise if you’re anti-israel it will be a pleasant

21:58

surprise uh but I think you’re going to see a far more balanced approach um of Donald

22:03

Trump towards Israel in the Middle East than the composition of his C cabinet might otherwise suggest otherwise he

22:10

wouldn’t have tweeted that uh Jeffrey Sachs um you know segment what what do you see happening

22:17

with the Palestinians well first of all I I just

22:22

have a question I mean I look I’ve been very Pro Palestine in terms of the

22:28

creation of a Palestinian state but which Palestinians are you talking about are you talking about the

22:35

Palestinians of Gaza who are resisting Israel’s occupation um you know is part

22:42

of a a Insurrection led by Hamas or are you talking about the Palestinian

22:47

Authority Mahmud Abbas Abu maen U The Man Who Sold out the Palestinian cause

22:53

to the Israelis and is using Palestinian Security Forces right now to crack down on anti-israel

22:59

militants in the in the town of janin um which Palestinians are we talking we’re talking about the Palestinians in

23:05

diaspora who uh March in the streets and ask Americans to march in the streets with them as many Americans have done in

23:12

support of a free and independent Palestine and then stab every single one of those Americans in the back by

23:18

cheering on the victory of al-Qaeda in Syria because they’re not pro

23:24

Palestinian they’re anti-assad it turned out that they don’t care about Palestine when confronted one of these so-called

23:31

Palestinian enthusiasts said well we understand now that a Palestinian State

23:36

might be delayed by decades well what the hell then you’re not pro Palestine you’re letting all

23:44

these people sacrific their lives in a conflict that was supposed to lead to the creation of a Palestinian State and

23:51

you’re saying not we’re willing to sacrifice that because letting Al-Qaeda

23:56

take over in Syria is more important to us so which Palestinians are we talking

24:01

about I don’t mean to be too harsh but there isn’t a Palestinian Singularity here and the fact is the Palestinians

24:09

are their own worst enemies because they can’t even get along together they can’t

24:14

come up with a singular narrative they don’t believe in the same thing if you have some Palestinians at diaspora

24:20

willing to allow uh the dream of a Palestinian state to continue for 60 years unfulfilled they’re not pro

24:27

Palestinian if you have Palestinians who say no we’re willing to uh subordinate

24:33

ourselves completely to the Israeli occupier because they can pay us off so we live in mansions they’re not

24:38

Palestinian it turns out the only true Palestinians live in Gaza in some enclaves in the West Bank those who are

24:46

willing to stand up and fight for their freedoms and they’re not doing well right now because they’ve been betrayed

24:53

by everybody so it’s difficult to sit here and say you know what about the

24:59

Palestinians well if you’re if you support Hamas and you support Independence it’s not looking well if

25:05

you support Abu maen and you’re corrupt it looks great looks great because Abu

25:12

maen in fata his you know his military Wing they’re in a civil war against

25:18

tamas Palestinians are secretly happy that Israel’s destroying Hamas

25:24

Palestinians are happy that Israel is committing a genocide against their fellow fellow Palestinians in Gaza

25:30

because that weakens Hamas that’s how broken the Palestinian cause

25:35

is again don’t ask me to go in the streets don’t ask my daughters to go in

25:41

the streets and fly your colors and demonstrate on your behalf and then praise Al-Qaeda taking over in Syria

25:49

damn you to hell for that Al-Qaeda can never be tolerated Al-Qaeda can never be

25:55

supported Al-Qaeda can never be cheered on and if a Palestinian or Pro Palestinian Living in America and you’re

26:01

cheering on what’s going on in Syria get the hell out of this country because you have identified yourself as an ally to a

26:08

known enemy of America but it gets complicated there Cynthia because if it’s a known enemy then why did we just

26:14

take the10 million boundary off of jolan’s head why is the United States meeting with this guy see it gets

26:20

complicated here I have been you know vociferous in my hatred of

26:26

al-Qaeda and yet now I’m being what am I a fool am I a fool to say to believe the

26:34

narrative that Al-Qaeda is our enemy because oh my God we we’re now treating them like they’re our Ally like our our

26:41

co-conspirators which it turns out they are we have been co-conspirators with Al-Qaeda and the al-Qaeda wh uh

26:49

Philosophy from 1978 when Zig binski whispered in Jimmy

26:55

Carter’s ear we can radicalize Islam in af Afghanistan we can mobilize Saudi

27:00

Arabia to come in there to create a trap for the the Soviets to help bring down

27:05

the Soviet Union so we created the mujahadin we facilitated the rise of AMA

27:11

Bin Laden and his little engineering company to operate in eastern Afghanistan and we created this monster

27:19

that yes turned out to be a trap for the Soviet Union but then we didn’t know how to handle it right and it grew out of

27:26

control and the cancer spread and it ended up biting us back through 9/11 but how did we respond we responded

27:34

by going to war with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan but ignoring uh the the the the

27:40

fundamentalist aspect of it if you wanted to bomb the people responsible for attacking New York City and

27:46

Washington DC on 9/11 you would have had to bomb certain mosques in Hamburg

27:52

Germany that had the mosques and hurg Germany had far more to do with the

27:57

attack on the United States and any site in Afghanistan did yet we didn’t do anything about Hamburg Germany and what

28:04

we did is allowed Al-Qaeda to Fester until we once again made it a tool this time we use it as a tool in Syria to

28:12

bring down Bashar al-assad now Al-Qaeda has seized control of

28:17

Syria I I Cynthia we are so screwed as a nation when it comes to the Middle East

28:23

because we don’t know what we stand for we we lie to our own people we we lie to

28:29

everybody um and so why should I get mad at these Arab Americans who uh who cheer

28:35

on Al-Qaeda because they’re simply cheering on an outcome that the United States government

28:40

wants I mean it it’s it’s the that just we don’t have a moral

28:45

compass anymore when it comes to the Middle East we don’t know the difference between right and wrong good and evil we

28:51

just exist to so chaos and Anarchy to create this confusion hopefully Donald Trump will get us the hell out of there

28:59

because it is a place that we’re not the solution we are the problem when we dip

29:04

our fingers into the extremely uh divisive Waters of the Middle East all

29:09

we do is create currents that disrupt everything even further we we have to get out of there and I think Donald

29:16

Trump wants to get us out of there so again mildly optimistic two more two more issues the

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Panama Canal well it’s going to become an issue isn’t

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it it shouldn’t become an issue I thought we had resolved that in 1999 when we uh when we we turned it over to

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the control of the panamanians and there were certain you know there is a neutrality uh treaty uh that if Panama

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violates the neutrality of the Panama Canal the United States has a right to military intervene and take over but you

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know allowing Hong Kong based port management companies to effectively manage you know Port facilities

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associated with the panal is not a violation of neutrality um I don’t know what

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Trump thinks is going on in Panama but it’s not China occupying the Panama

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Canal but Trump I think has made a decision that the United

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States is going to control the Panama Canal I mean what is it uh 70% of all

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Container shipping between the west coast and East Coast United States goes through that for % of all our shipping

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goes through that uh 6% of the world shipping um this is an American Canal

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this canal serves American economic interests and I think you know Trump is

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of the concern that um because I think he he has a very simplistic um

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understanding of you know how China works but I think he’s under the impression that if a chinese company

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manages a port and receives direction from the Chinese Communist party to shut down that Port that uh that that’s

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what’s going to happen and uh that would be devastating for the American economy and so he I

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think what he wants to do is he wants to preempt uh Chinese capability because

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he’s looking at a larger economic uh war with China where he’s going to confront China on a number of

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different fronts and what he wants to do is make sure that China doesn’t have the ability to shut down the Panama Canal as

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a retaliatory measure so I think it’s a preemptive strike to deny a hypothetical Chinese capability

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but it goes against international law it goes against um you know Panamanian

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sovereignty it goes against everything but I don’t think Trump cares and I think Trump believes he has a mandate I

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don’t think the American people care by and large I mean we have some I mean myself I’ll say what about international

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law but the most Americans will go nah it’s our Canal you know we built it we

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uh we you know it’s it and then the argument that they make that it it’s it’s essential to American Economic

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Security that’s a correct argument um but I don’t think it can say that as

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it’s currently being managed it represents a threat to American um National Security I just don’t think

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enough Americans are informed about the canal sufficiently so that they will you

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know create opposition to what Trump wants to do I think most Americans will end up supporting him his efforts to

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take over the I remember there was an issue with the uh Panama Canal during the Carter

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Administration right well Carter Carter’s the one who said we need to get rid of it that uh you know that this

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canal you know doesn’t it doesn’t belong to America it belongs to the people of

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Panama um and he he was trying to write the uh um you know WR historical wrongs

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and trying to simplify America’s uh foot print U our occupation of the Panama

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Canal created problems in terms of um our relations with the you know nations

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in the region Etc so he began the process of returning the canal it led to the

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1999 uh treaty but remember between Carter’s uh desire to turn the canal

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back in the 1990 treaty there is a little thing that happened in 1989 I don’t know if many Americans remember it

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operation just cause um where we invaded Panama and over through uh Nora uh in a

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very short violent War um and I’m thinking that Trump believes

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we could do that again okay uh last area

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Greenland this one’s more serious than most people think um you know it started out as sort of a a meme on on the

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internet you know Greenland you know this that and the other thing um

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I mean there’s two two way two things we have to look first of all the issue of Greenland and American Security has been

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around for for decades Donald Trump didn’t invent this in fact he acknowledged that the other day when he said this is a problem that predates my

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presidency um the United States has a a vested

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strategic interest in Greenland um you know as part of a a shield that helps

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Protect America from potential nuclear attack from Russia over the Arctic Circle um and and and the early warning

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stations there um the American base at fo are all very important but that’s

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Cold War era stuff we have satellites now we have arms control for a moment um

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that doesn’t make that the issue that most important the most important thing about Greenland right now is the fact

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that global warming has created a thawing of the ice pack um and so now we

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are starting to see uh the ability of the Northwest Passage becoming a major

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Transit of shipping um and you just draw a line how you can get from the west

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coast of the United States all the way to Europe or from you know the the you know the Russian ports of rans all the

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way to uh vlasto and um how you shorten Transit

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how efficient this becomes um you know who controls those sea lanes and then take a look at a map um you know using

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the Arctic Circle as the uh as the focal point and see how Greenland dominates the Arctic Circle I mean in land mass

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wise and you suddenly realize holy cow Greenland’s hugely important when it comes to the Arctic and then we factor

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in that as the ice pack melts their’s territory will be opened up for um

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exploitation um mining there’s tremendous amount of resources natural resources there um you know precious

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metals and things of that nature um Rare Earth metal minerals um and who who’s

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going to control that Russia’s made a big play for Arctic security we are

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behind the effort uh and I think Trump is not willing to subordinate the issue

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of Arctic security to Denmark as an army of 177,000 all of most of whom are

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bogged down in Europe they could put a few hundred guys up with dog sleds to guard the Arctic that’s not security uh

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Canada a dysfunctional state right now with a very small military who hasn’t invested a lot in uh Arctic Warfare

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Trump’s saying we can do a better job and it’s imperative that we do do a better job and so he’s looking to um

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make Greenland and American concerns so that America is responsible for the security and can project American uh

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dominance over the Arctic Circle in an effort to control global economy again I

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talked about some of the things that Trump is going to be doing uh in terms of shutting China down China of course

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has talked about you know building an Arctic Silk Road China wants to project itself up into the Arctic uh region and

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one of the areas that they were flirting with was Greenland um you know China went in and made a bid in uh in in 2020

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on some mining um you know um camps in uh in Greenland and around

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2022 the the the viability of these began to falter but that doesn’t mean

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that China has lost interest and what Trump’s trying to do is just eliminate any possibility whatsoever that China

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can use Greenland um as a as a springboard into the Arctic and the best

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way to guarantee that doesn’t happen is for the United States to take control of Greenland so again what started off as a

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meme turns out that there’s actually some real legitimate reasons behind Trump’s concerns the big problem is that

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Greenland belongs to Denmark and Denmark is a NATO Ally and um what’s interesting

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now is what’s happened here where you have the real potent you have the United States talking about militarily inv in

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and occupying a NATO Ally and you have Europe right now freaking out you have

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France saying this would be a Act of war and that Europe must prepare for a

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war with the United States I mean this is this is where we’re going on of course Europe will

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never fight a war with us Europe can’t fight a war with us and Trump will more be more than happy to destroy the

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European economy in retaliation if they want to do something um but it it’s it’s

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interesting to to show you how little concern Trump has about Europe and about NATO when I tell people that Trump’s

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going to unplug from NATO that quick they’re like no he never will he can’t I just the proof is in everything he said

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and what he’s doing in Greenland and the total disregard he has for NATO Article 5 Denmark and all that I think just

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proves that he’s going to unplug from NATO quicker than you can blink an eye so would you say the next four years are

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going to be very interesting I would say that you and I have job security for the next four

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years Cynthia that there’s going to be plenty of opportunity for us to come on here and pontificate about you know the

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situation world and I also believe that Trump will do his best to avoid a nuclear conflict so that you know we our

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job security is secure um I’m concerned that if you know I’ve always said that if kamla Harris were elected that we’d

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be in a nuclear war within six months to a year and I’m convinced that that is true because she’d continue this insane

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Biden policy but I do think it’s going to be it’s not going to be a smooth ride

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there’s no guarantee of success there’s going to be a lot of bumps and and turns but um the next four years is going to

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be one hell of a ride though it’s going to be one of those roller coaster rides that you scream the entire time you pee

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your pants you throw up but when you get to the bottom you go oh let’s do that

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again well we have one week to go before the Biden Administration

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ends right and one week for him to cause trouble and and a week is a long time in

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politics yep um I I do think though that Trump has been very good at um at

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nullifying thing plus the Biden Administration is is is has its attention divert I mean

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there’s this horrible tragedy taking place in Los Angeles right now the fires um and you know the B Administration

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can’t even control the narrative coming out of um out of the Ramstein group that’s meeting right as we we speak in

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Germany about provision of aidid of depression has dominated the AA because they understand what’s happening this is

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the last real meeting of this this is the last time they’re going to get together and talk about you know the

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United States and Europe working together to help Ukraine in the future this meeting may not even ever happen

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again so we it’s I I don’t think the Biden Administration is g to be able to end the world but I will remind people

40:51

of this the you know George Herbert Walker Bush hated Bill Clinton hat hated

40:57

him and was so frustrated with the fact that the clintons were talking about uh

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reversing the the bush era policy of sanctioning uh Saddam and stuff in the aftermath of the Gulf War you know

41:10

Clinton was talking about um wanting to you know hell I had Iraqis tell me that

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the Clint Administration sent people to Jordan to meet with Iraqis about opening up Iraqi oil exploration to the United

41:22

States to get let sanctions lifted to end this whole charade of weapons inspectors um what did the George HW

41:30

Bush Administration do on the day that Clinton was inaugurated they bombed

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Iraq they took the United States to a war footing with Iraq as Clinton was

41:42

being sworn in and so I think watch the last day of um of

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of Biden Administration I think you’re going to see some uh Tom fery uh take place in terms of um aggression in terms

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of provocations Etc so that the first day of Trump’s office is going to be

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about resolving um a crisis that was inherited from the Biden Administration

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and not so much about you know looking to implement some of the things he’s talked about I I don’t trust the Biden

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Administration as far as I can throw them so what’s on the agenda for Scott

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rer in 2025 ah well as I said I’m going to start the Year by

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um uh we got a we we we got this book uh this this this this book tour here an is

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coming in the 15th I’m doing a uh an event in um in Queens a dinner event um

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a ticketed event you know but you get a dinner you get a book and you get on K and I talking about uh the war in

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Ukraine on the 19th uh will be at bus boys and Poets in Washington DC doing an

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event no tickets there open to the public and on the 21st we’ll be returning to uh farmers and chefs in pyy

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New York Upstate New York where we had a fantastic uh event on um with disarm at

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the time of pistro we’re going to try and repeat that again a ticketed event you get a wonderful dinner the book

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conversation Etc um you know and that that’s keeps with the theme of

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continuing to view my work as uh dedicated to empowering people with

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knowledge and information but now the question is what are the topics that I’m going to focus on I’m afraid that a lot

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of my efforts going to be dominated by people like you who are going to be asking me questions about various things around the world which is fine uh but I

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I am going to try and focus on two major tasks in 2025 the first is continuing to push

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to not just prevent nuclear war but to promote Arms Control I’m going to make the promotion of Arms Control a

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centerpiece of of the work that I’m trying to do we have a year between the time uh Trump

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has sworn in and uh 2026 to save the new start treaty um and if Trump doesn’t

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want to you know Embrace that treaty wholeheartedly at least extend it while

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he engages in good faith negotiations with the Russians about a followon treaty but we need to preserve the

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framework of arms control because without that we get into an arms race that neither side can afford and it’ll

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become a very dangerous thing there’s no sense in trying to create stability in Europe by ending the conflict in in

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Ukraine and then not do anything about the threat of nuclear war so that’s going to be it in the in a supporting

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operation to that because in order to move forward with arms control and and and such we have to re-educate the

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American people not only about the danger of nuclear war but the fact that Russia is not a threat worthy of uh

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building up this nuclear Arsenal that we we don’t need to be adversarial we don’t need to be enemies

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with Russia but we are infected collectively with russophobia and um I

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plan on getting my passport back and uh and resuming my travels to um to uh to

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Russia to uh you know continue the work that was begun in uh in 2023 and

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2024 and um so you still haven’t gotten your

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passport I still have it it’s it’s even more funny now the uh Department of

45:29

Homeland Security has said they they have no

45:35

record of my passport being seized they’re they’re pretending it never happened and so now I have to file

45:42

a petition for remission or Mitigation Of forfeiture and penalties um to to get them to investigate um as the first step

45:49

of an ongoing process to get them to return my passport but now they they’re just saying no we never took your

45:55

passport we don’t know anything about that we don’t have any Rec CU you know they never gave me a receipt they just took my passport and that was it now

46:01

they’re pretending they never took it so um we live in funny times they really don’t want me to travel I tell you that

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wow so when you do get your passport back are you gon to resume the movie

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that you were working on yes um no that’s going to be part of

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the movie and a in a related book waging peace uh will be resumed uh it’s a Timeless topic it’s an important topic

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um and yes we will we will move forward with that project um you know it’ll

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there’s some things that I I have to clarify um one of them is that my um the

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host uh that that brought me to Russia those two the first two times Alexander ziranov he’s still in prison he was

46:47

arrested on trumped up you know corruption charges by a corrupt novais political Elite um and he remains in

46:55

prison um they had to drop the original charges because there’s nothing to them but they’ve created new charges just to

47:02

keep him in prison because they’re trying to break him get him to plead guilty this is a standard tactic uh that

47:07

that happens throughout Nova subers and maybe elsewhere in Russia uh where they arrest you they throw a bunch of charges

47:13

at you and they get you to plead guilty uh and and to a lesser charge so that you destroy your political um viability

47:22

U Alexander is a very strong man he will not plead guilty but he’s been in jail since uh June 3D under some very

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difficult conditions and he was supposed to be a star of this movie you know um this waging peace project was you know

47:36

about he and I collaborating on this it’s hard to make a movie when your co-star is in prison so that issue has

47:43

got to be resolved so he he was thrown in prison the day that They seized your

47:49

passport at Kennedy correct are you trying to make 2 plus 2 equal four there Cynthia yes am are you trying to do that

47:57

there’s a lot of people that believe that um and I’m increasingly moving in that direction um

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there’s I have to be careful what I say because he’s still in prison and therefore the people that mean him

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harm are so I I will just say that there’s there’s a reason to believe that

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there’s a relationship between okay what happened there and what happened to him what happened my Caesar my passport and

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what happened to him okay I’m going to nothing to do with corruption so I’m GNA

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do a plug for myself okay please you and I get great um great views I’m creating

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a holiday I’m creating a holiday called

48:44

National candidate recognition day candidates after they they run if they

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don’t win they’re forgotten the next day so I want to keep this Spirit Alive

48:58

candidates throughout the country and candidates are more or

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less like we saw with Camila Harris she was

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chosen by the elite she wasn’t and then

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she was thrown to the public and the public said here this is your candidate

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she was selected Not Elected so I wonder how many other candidates dates in the

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country for lesser office are in the same boat so I’m going

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to hold up my sign and if anybody out there is a candidate who would like to

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join my Facebook group and help me plan August 2nd on National candidate

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recognition day I would love to have you on board so here’s my

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sign no it’s out of focus you got to get it closer or pull it back I can’t read it pull it back

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further now lift it up a little higher ah there’s a problem with your

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camera because it’s all blurred out can you take a a JP can you take a photograph of it and insert it as a as a

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you know I’ll be mentioning it in subsequent and tell take a picture of it and send

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it to me and I’ll put it out on my on my Twitter and all that to help promote okay great that sounds good okay so

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Scott it’s been a pleasure talking with you in the new year thank you everybody for listening and buckle buckle your

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seat belts CU next week there’s going to be a brand new Administration in

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Washington thanks Scott you have a wonderful day and thank you everybody

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for listening uh take care

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