🔥 Russia De-Militarizing NATO (2.04.24) - Larry Johnson (Veteran of CIA & Counter Terrorism)

(7:44m) Larry Johnson says, " I gotta say I have become ashamed of my country. My ancestors didn't fight for this kind of wanton violence in in overthrowing other countries and other governments at will. Bombing whoever we want whenever we want, you know that's not what we fought for. We fought for freedom. We fought for a Constitution that would respect the rights of the individuals. With a constitution that said the rights of the individuals took precedence over the right of the collective and now we've come in almost full circle where the right of the collective is being asserted at the expense of the individual"

===Larry C. Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and the left, which means he must be doing something right. You can also follow him on telegram (t.me/sonar_21 (https://t.me/sonar_21) and https://sonar21.com.

TRANSCRIPT
0:03 now what's your take on what's going on in Ukraine in terms of the battle between Russia and Ukraine uh so what's the word in Portuguese telen NOA you know same in Spanish sooa NOA so uhh you know you got solusion and zinski thank God they both you know their name start with a z so the the Press has been filled with the warnings that Zusi was going to be booted and zalinski was going to replace him that zinsky met with the general Zusi and ordered him to resign and Zusi said you know you can go pound sand where the sun doesn't shine
0:51 and uh you know was it's apparently insubordinate um that the plan was to kick out Zusi and then replace him with budoff except then other reports come in and say booten off the head of intelligence he doesn't want it and SK
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cki the other General he doesn't want it so now they're stuck with solusion and so and let's not forget Victoria nulan went over there and this kid out oh man things couldn't be better I can you just feel the love feel the love everybody loves one another and you know we're all we're all rowing in the same direction
1:27 you know Michael row you're B sure and they're singing Hallelujah it's like I said if people weren't dying you know if if if you know hundreds of thousands of ukrainians weren't dead and maed this would be hilarious

1:51 I mean this this is like a comedy show that zalinski did when he was a comedian this is better than playing the piano with his penis you know
1:58 so they are are trying to play musical chairs at the very time that Russia is Intensifying its attacks on Ukrainian military positions
2:12 the Ukrainian political and Military leadership are playing musical chairs and you know how that game's played people marching around in a Circle and when the Music Stops they all rush to grab a chair and there's one less chair each time
2:26 so uh we still don't know who's going to be left standing I I I put on my blog the other day the um the old John Denver song you know all my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm standing here outside your door
2:40 I'm just speculating who's going to pack their bags and have to be leaving on a jet plane uh I'm betting zalinski even though the he's got supposedly the backing of the United States right now
2:55 and I my rule is just real simple the guy with the gun usually wins and last time I checked uh Z's got more guns than zalinski but hey you know I could be dead wrong and they they could be carrying illusion out feet first we have buen off shooting you know who knows but it's a mess I think that's the technical term it's a mess when it comes to these differences between zens and Zi
3:23 what are the main areas of these differences is that all about mobilization that they're talking about is that about going on offensive or being on defensive the differences are artificially created so they're looking for somebody to bring the the failure of the war on
3:45 so usually it's normally the military commander except zusy insists like he wanted to pull people out of of divka because he recognized they're in an untenable military situation they're going to if we continue to hold there Ukraine's going to lose troops that it cannot afford to lose and combat Vehicles he cannot afford to lose and yet
4:04 zalinski the little comedian insists oh no you got to we don't give up any territory he's he really is sort of acting like he's channeling the ghost of Adolf Hitler where Hitler would always issue these orders refusing to allow uh German troops to retreat when in fact the retreat was probably the best tactical move in order to preserve the force
4:30 so there's there there's that issue um zelus is more popular than zalinski and you know zalinski I think is fearful of having a military General more popular than him he's already cancelled elections and banned opposition political parties and locked up priests you know and and restricted the media coverage
4:57 so yeah a true Democrat if they want to remove removes the landscape from power they have to force him to have some sort of election in Ukraine are you talking about removing him legally or just getting rid of it no legally oh yeah legally he'd be replaced with an election but he postponed the election so it's like
5:18 hey remember that election we're gonna have we're not having it I'm still president so you know that that's the problem right there um he has declared himself King essentially
5:33 now I I don't want to present Zusi as some sort of uh military genius or really a good-hearted man you know he's just a he's just a great guy he's not a great guy uh he's a bit of a scumbag he's a he Embraces the Neo-Nazi ideology
6:02 uh he's been very careful to not insert the most ideologically driven Troops the asol and the Kraken units into the front lines where they get killed because he wants to preserve them instead he's sending the the cannon fodder
6:13 guys you know the the 50-year-old 60y old guys who get drugg out of their uh their bedroom or a cafe put in a uniform set to the front so it's just uh you know Z is part of the problem too in this conflict between zalinsky and Zi right now what's your understanding on the Biden Administration who's the favorite one
6:34 well so far it's zinsky based upon nand's trip um you know endorsing appears to be solidly behind zalinski but never trust the United States just go back to South Vietnam 1962 was it with an DM president neod DM
6:59 uh Catholic boy uh he was President over a country that was you know more Buddhist than uh than Catholic and boy the United States when the time came cut the cut the legs right out from under him even though that they had been pledging their support for him
7:24 uh so this is you know this has happened before look at muamar Gaddafi you know he cut a deal with the United States and you know the United States completely betrayed him uh so um you know he wound up with I guess what you'd call a bayonet enema you know someone was shoving a bayet up his backside killed him
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I gotta say I have become ashamed of my country uh my ancestors didn't fight for this didn't fight for this kind of wanton violence in in overthrowing other countries and other government governments at will bombing whoever we want whenever we want you know that's not what we fought for we fought for freedom we fought for a constitution that would respect the rights of the individuals with a constitution that said that the rights of the individuals took precedence over the right of the collective and now we've come in almost full circle where the right of the collective is being asserted at the expense of the individual
8:30 and the United States is Waging War in Yemen Waging War in Syria all Undeclared all unconstitutional and facilitating war in Ukraine you know if I'm sure uh your your foreign listeners and and viewers were thoroughly amused by the United States outrage last week on the 28th oF January when the Iranian back terrorists hit our base in Jordan it was oh my God we can't stand for that Iran's going to pay Iron's going to pay and you're going
9:08 so let me see if I got this straight you're saying that if Iran provided weapons to this Hezbollah Shia group in Iraq and those guys carry out an attack and kill your soldiers that by God it's Iran that's got to pay the freight absolutely that's our position
9:30 well guys I don't know if you paid attention but you've been arming Ukraine to the teeth Ukraine has been attacking and killing Russian civilians so by your logic Russia ought to come over and bomb the living hell out of oh no wait a that would be you know so it the hypocrisy
9:51 all of this gets back to this so-called rules-based International order and all it is is the United States saying you know we're going to play a game we'll decide what the rules are we may or may not tell you what they are but the bottom line is we win okay no matter what you do we win uh and if you do anything we don't like we get to hit you
10:23 and even if we hit you you don't get to hit us back okay everybody understand great let's play who wants to sign up for that and that's why I see you know rest of the world's going
10:36 you know what I'm pretty sick and tired of this game I no longer want the United States to be telling me what the rules are we prefer to have let's let's have it up on the table what the rules are so yeah if you militarily threaten somebody else and Carry Out attacks against them yeah you can be attacked which is exactly what Russia did to Ukraine Ukraine for almost nine years prior to the start of the special military operation was participating fully with NATO and carrying out Military exercises on Russia's border on
11:07 Ukrainian territory that represented a clear direct threat to Russia and that if the shoe was on the other foot and Russia was conducting those kinds of exercises in Mexico or in Canada thenited States would you view that as a belligerent act and worthy of attacking to stop it when it comes to the military industrial complex of the US if they were to learn some sort of lessons
11:35 through the war in Ukraine what would be the lessons that they would get by this war in Ukraine in terms of their weapons and their equipments the weapons are too expensive number one they're too fragile number two and and they don't uh the
11:53 they don't do well in the combat environment you know well that's been the bottom line you know what the United
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States is in a position because we lack strategy now I know you've had Andre martianov on your program and talked about Andre's books and I don't know if you've had time to read them but um
12:15 Andre really makes a very logical case that in Russia they have a national defense strategy that strategy entails what do we need to do to prepare our nation to have weapons that our nation could fight off an Invader not they're not thinking about what weapon systems do we need to launch offensive operations to conquer other countries
12:50 their weapons inventory is constructed largely of Weapons Systems for fighting Invaders and destroying Invaders and to that end when they allocate money to build C certain weapon systems whether it's a tank or it's a drone or it's an artillery piece or an artillery shell or a jet fighter it's all done within the context of a particular strategic plan and that weapon system is built to meet the needs of that plan so
13:24 uh when the defense industry in Russia sets out to build something they are Guided by that they're not worried about hey uh this member of the of of the uh the Duma who is a representative of uh you know say you know select your Republic in Russia and that he's got this many people that he wants to get jobs so we'll donate campaign money to him and then we'll end up putting a factory out in his district even though it doesn't make sense
13:57 that doesn't happen that's exactly what happens in the United States and in the United States the weapons that are being proposed it's more like the pentagon's more like a kid on you know before Christmas where you know Mom and Dad said Son what would you like for Christmas oh boy i' I'd like a pony and a and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle a Lamborghini would be nice you give me a Lamborghini
14:26 and you know you make these outrageous requests and the the parents have go out and get it for them and and the way it works is these military-industrial corporations like Ron General Dynamics LED Martin you know those are the big three they will meet they've got lobbyists in uh Washington or they work through a lobbyist actually my former neighbor and his job is to put together dinners you know two or three dinners a week or lunches too fundraisers and members of Congress will come and then these representatives from Lock he Martin or general they walk in with
15:07 I think they're limited like a $5,000 check or so they got a 5,000 corporate check and then gee 10 of the guys who work at General Dynamics you know what they also wanted to contribute so there's another fight so it's just a money moving machine so that Congressman gets that money then when it comes time
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to appropriate the money approve the money to be spent oh yeah I'm all in favor bought and paid
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for you know it's just it's a it's a form of prostitution except in this kind of
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prostitution the ones getting screwed are the American public and there's no satisfaction involved whatsoever you
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know they're just being taken advantage of and so what you wind up with are
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these exorbitantly expensive weapon systems like the M1 ABS CH
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tank uh it requires a level of Maintenance that you would associate
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with a Formula 1 race car you know those cars can go really fast have you ever
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been to one of those uh races you if you're just staring Straight Ahead all you're going to see is the blur color
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running past your face well that's how they're building these tanks these tanks they're not
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going to be operating at the 24 hours of lons they're not going to be running around the track at Daytona they are out
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in combat conditions in mud and dirt and snow and rain and the maintenance
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requirements to keep the filters clean as such that it's very difficult to keep those tanks
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engaged so it's just you know and it's the same for weapon system after weapon
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system um look look at the tomahawk cruise missile so they're using
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tomahawks now to attack a missile site in um in
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Yemen that LA are launching let's say $100,000 missile
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okay that those tomahawks cost $2
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million spend $2 million to take out $100,000 a year stuff well we don't have
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an unlimited the United States does not have an unlimited Supply it has a limited Supply I think the inventory now
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down is less 3,000 total if they were firing them off at
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you know 50 tomahawks a day remember uh Donald Trump in
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2017 launched a a cruise missile strike on a base in Syria
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shat and he launched 59 tomahawk
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missiles so you know that 50 is almost $120 Million worth of missiles right
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there 118 million to be precise and there were not ready
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replacements for it so it's just there there's a complete disconnect of what the United States military industrial
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corporation's field put into the field and that soldiers use there when it
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comes to the Patriot systems and the same type of weapons on the part of
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Russians how do you compare these type of weapons because they're so important for this type of battle
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this battle of attrition the the old Soviet s300 which I believe was created in the
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1970s it has better performance and stopping incoming missiles than the Patriot missile battery does which is a
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much newer weapon um the Patriot can't hold a
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candle to the Russian S400 Russian S500 and the new one coming online is the
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Russian S550 which deals with with space weapons you know it's a piece of it's
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it's an expensive piece of junk that you know it's been good for its
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shareholders um I believe that's rathon that makes it but
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it's it's a bust it's not able to stop incoming hell it has trouble stopping
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drones slow flying drones much less missiles they can't cannot stop a
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Hypersonic missile a kinsal or a scander so it just all it's done is made
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the shareholders of that military Industrial Corporation quite wealthy taking into account the problems that
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you've mentioned with the military industrial complex do you think if they were to modify the system the whole
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system is there any shortterm solution for that no no there's none at all yeah
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let's just say that they woke up the morning said you know okay by God we're going to get back to doing what we
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were doing we're going to build stuff they they've shut down the
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factories they can't they can't just you know wave a magic wand this is not Harry
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Potter and you know create a factory the you know we talked about this before the
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factories that used to be in the Kansas City are are gone steel factories automobile factories uh oil oil
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facilities that were uh for you know uh processing petroleum and you know
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refineries gone and moreover a significant number
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of the essential Metals minerals that are required are overseas for example uh
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what's it called Nitric cellulose so what's used to make gunpowder well the major supplier of
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gunpowder is where China
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Russia United States needs gunpowder do you think China and Russia
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are going oh my God Uncle Sam get over here buddy we'll hook you up give you as
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much as you want no that's not happening they're gonna
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say hey sorry we're we're all out can't help you and then the United States is
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oh we got a lot of missiles that we're supposed to to make a lot of artillery shells and bullets you or ammunition and
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oh my God what are we going to do that's a good question but that's I I just learned
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that the other day they just recently had a major gun show uh out in um Las
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Vegas called Shot Show and it's the it's the largest gathering of arms
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manufacturing weap uh gunpowder everything that everything to do with guns firearms
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uh and the folks doing the gunpowder discussion were saying you know it's
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bad so the yeah the long answer to a short question there's nothing the
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United States can do in the short term is going to make a difference in the short term whatever changes they
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make it you know they might they might get a turnar around in a year maybe the long-term solution in your opinion does
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that include just breaking this Monopoly of these five six companies who are
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dominating the military industrial complex is that going to be considered as a part of solution for long-term
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strategy well again you got to come back and say what's your what is your purpose what's your goal from the from the
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standpoint of the United States if you're say well we want to keep the United States safe and
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secure all right then shut down the damn border deploy your milit let's recall
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our military we don't need afria we don't need US troops based in
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Africa sorry let the Africans take care of Africa you know what we don't need
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troops in you Europe either European command let's bring those troops back
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and we certainly don't need troops in southern command scattered throughout uh Central and South America bring them
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back they all go to the Border we defend the Border um what you know they're having
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trouble with recruitment okay let's change the law let's go back to we want
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to protect the United States from foreign threats well so that means we want to do a couple of things one
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reestablish the militias so everybody in every Community uh and you can make it
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male and female you know from the age of uh 17 or 18 uh to 21 must serve in the
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militia and as part of serving in the militia that means they'd be trained with Firearms they'd get some rudimentary military training but the
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training would be focused upon like the Swiss self-defense defending the
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country then you focus on what do we need to do from having a missile defense
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system so that we cannot be attacked we have a great greater guarantee of that so you know there variety of things you
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do but it would it would it would so shake up the the US economy
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uh that it would probably risk a financial collapse because the United States economy right now is addicted
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like a drug addict to spending billions tens hundreds of billions of dollars on
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defense weapons and defense systems and these defense corporations without any regard to
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actually how that stuff's going to be used uh and so anyone that dares to come
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in to change that is really really you know I think they're going to be in for some great push back the governor of
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Texas says to Biden stop playing with Putin do something substantial in the
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interest of the United States what would be the act that the Biden Administration
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should do in terms of what the governor of Texas is advocating for uh shut down
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the border with Mexico tell Mexico that you're not going to import another single product into the United States
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there will not be another export of product from the United States to Mexico until you control your own damn borders
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do not let another migrant Convoy come up through across the Mexican Guatemalan
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border down around esip pulas no stop and stop Patrol your side of the border
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to keep these people from Crossing get your cartels under control that's what you do for starter you deploy them
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troops all along that border along with Razer wire along with sensors and
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anybody that gets across they are immediately picked up and detained and deported within a day you know but the
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word's gotten out hey baby you get across the river you're good man you're gonna get hooked up with some free
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benefits and Social Security and go life is great you get to live better than any
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American citizen who's below the poverty line and that's why that's finally why
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Abbott you know got up off of his crippled ass I mean he's confined to a
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wheelchair but he acted like he was politically confined to a wheelchair for
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the last three years he didn't do a damn thing to stop this flood of migrants why
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is he doing it now because now it's a political problem it's a political problem for him it's a political problem
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for Eric Adams mayor of New York it's a polit political Pro problem for Bowser
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the mayor of Washington DC and and and this joker out in Chicago it's all of a
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sudden it's become a bipartisan political problem and now they're trying to blame it on Trump which is you know
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absurd but you know this this is where the real threat is uh you know we lost
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three soldiers in Jordan and and that story is still not clear you know you got one guy and two
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women killed and the missile struck the sleeping quarters I'm going are they sleeping
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together you know or the normally you don't put men and women in the same bunk
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room if you have an open Bay or if they had these individual rooms or the rooms
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like side by side okay that maybe that's acceptable but you know we still don't know the story there but we get three
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people killed there and oh my God we got to go to war with Iran meanwhile last year all well over 100,000 people died
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of fentanyl overdoses from drugs that were brought in from Mexico h no big deal okay that's a
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problem but it's just a 100,000 you know there a lot of
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Americans now increasingly upset about that and pushing back when
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it comes to the main goal of this conflict in Ukraine that the Republicans
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and Democrats they are so United in this goal of weakening Russia and sending
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some sort of message to China new defense minister of China just recently
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said that they're totally supporting Russia in this conflict against Ukraine
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and how how successful was the neocon type of agenda in this war in
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Ukraine oh it's been a complete failure you you know this this and we've
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talked about it before this uh unjustified animus directed at Russia
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and and they you know personalize it by specifically accusing Putin of every
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possible misdeed being an authoritarian dictator who takes all political
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opponents and locks them up and doesn't allow free expression etc etc etc and
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they use that to justify the United States spending literally hundreds of billions of
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dollars to try to get rid of bladimir Putin and we we've said it before in
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your program and I'll say it again the United States wants to carve Russia up
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into smaller parts say five different regions at least and and take the
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resources for ourselves just like some you know some
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parasite wants to latch on to Russia's body and suck the life out of it that's
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what the West wants and that's why they hate Putin because Putin finally understood that was what was going on
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and he said n no no that's not going to continue that stops now and he gave the oligarchs
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a choice I you start working to rebuild this country or you can get the hell out
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we'll keep your money because it was it was bad that you
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know several of these oligarchs and surprised a large number of them were Jewish and they were connected uh with
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with Jewish people in the West and it was so that's what that's sort of one of these reasons that you know there is
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some some of the anti-Semitism is directed against them because they were seen as taking advantage of Russia's
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economic situation you talk about this conflict between the United States and
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Iran in Jordan they were hitting these American forces what was the problem
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there if that attack had taken place in Syria and they had killed three soldiers you wouldn't have had the reaction that you've had that's why this attack took
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place in Jordan and why Jordan well number one uh King
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Abdullah has been you know historically the one of the best friends if not the
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best friend of the United States in the Middle East and his you know he's educated in the United Kingdom speaks
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English as well as he speaks Arabic um has attended US Special Forces
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military training so he's considered really a very very Pro us guy and you know about
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10 years ago he was persuaded to allow the United States to
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set up a base they call it uh Tower 22 it's an outpost it it's a it's a staging
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base so think about it you're going to deploy someone from a the 75th Ranger
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regiment who's based in the state of Washington and you're going to deploy
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them to Syria well how you going to get them there they certainly can't fly into Damascus
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land at the airport and go hi we're American soldiers we're here to you know illegally occupied parts of your country
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no no no they can't do that uh they can't put them in a airplane slow enough
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flying that it can drop paratroopers all over the place so what they do is they fly into Jordan Jordan welcomes them
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they get processed they get on a truck they get on a bus they get on a helicopter and they're flown out up into
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the Northwest portion uh or yeah the Northeast portion of uh
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Jordan and they arrive at that base they process they get you know they get
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outfitted with what they need to go into Syria and then they are deployed from there into Syria so that was the purpose
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of this base it was a logistics Center uh US troops that were in Syria
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they needed to be resupplied the res Supply would come through that base whether by helicopter or by truck or by
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some other means so that that that's what it was doing there and just uh let's see I
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think it was um 18 miles on the other side of the Border or from uh Tower 22
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going north is where alom in Syria is which is considered a US military
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Special Operations base the US forces in Syria are there ostensibly you know this
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is why they keep saying we're we're here to fight Isis terrorism well that's number one that's
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a lie number two that's the cover story um because they have fought and battled
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some of the Isis the elements but they've also worked with some of the uh
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elements that would be considered Isis Islamic extremists that oppose the government of Bashar al- Assad and
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within that there is another state nation in the region that also is
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against Isis and wants to fight Isis that would be Iran but we don't work
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with Iran the United States does not work with Iran on that they we claim they work we're pursuing Isis what we're
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really doing though are protecting oil fields that are pumping oil that a lot
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of it's making its way to Israel and going via turkey so you know this is a this is a
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money making Endeavor and these soldiers are being asked to pay the price Larry
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when it comes to the reaction of the Biden Administration it seems that they're sending weapons to the Middle
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East are we G to have some sort of attack on Iran uh I don't think so uh because I think the Biden
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Administration realizes if they did so they would touch off a regional War it
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be a war between the United States and Iran and possibly draw in Russia and
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China that be a regional War it could escalate into a global war and the
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United States does not have the military power to destroy Iran short of using
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nuclear weapons it just doesn't Iran's got uh
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you know it has a a strong Air Force it has a strong ballistic def missile defense system U it has ample supplies
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of uh ballistic missiles and cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles
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um it's got Armed Forces uh it's so it's just you know hitting Iran would be like
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you know a waking Awakening uh a Tasmanian devil you know
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one of those vicious little animals it would be uh you know United States is
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not for the United States to go there and to Comal it put it under its control require you know two three
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million soldiers at least at least and then from where are they going to launch how are they going to get there
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how are they going to sustain Logistics those soldiers got to eat
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every day you know where do you bring that amount of food so it's just it's
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one of those things the United States really there you've got people like Lindsey Graham and John Bolton and
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others and say oh yeah we need to attack a Ron crazy Nicki Haley oh yeah let's just kill some of their leaders hey I
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tell you what how about if Iran kills some of our leaders is that going to be a problem you think the United States
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would go like they killed Joe Biden we go well we didn't like him anyway that's okay
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no that's why I said these people like Haley they're just they're they're crazy
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they they're out of touch with reality they live in a little cloistered magical world in your opinion if Biden wasn't in
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his last year of presidency would this attack on Iran be a boost for his
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position no no I don't think so whatever whatever initially you know for a day or
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two people might go yeah we showed those Iranians we we kicked their
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ass and then when Iran starts striking back and killing US soldiers in by by
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the hundreds at the various bases scattered in the Middle East and starts
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taking out us ships all of a sudden the Americans going wait wait wait a second I I
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thought we hit them and that they couldn't strike back and then when Iran strikes back then it's a real problem
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you know that's one of the reasons that the the founders of the the United States of this Republic put it in the
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Constitution that only Congress can declare war you know only Congress is going to get you embroiled in a in a
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fight it's not up to the if the president come can recommend can ask for a declaration of war certainly can do
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that but Biden is being very very stupid by launching these military attacks
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without Congressional Authority or approval because if it turns sour or if
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it goes badly well there's nobody to blame but him he gets all the blank whereas if you
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go to the Congress and the Congress the house and the Senate say yeah we yeah let's bomb the crap out of
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Iran and then it creates a problem well hey you know you guys you guys told me
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to do it I I really didn't want to but you told me to
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so that that's why you know I think he's been very shortsighted and not dealing with that when it comes to the financial
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support of this conflict in Ukraine what the Biden Administration is forcing the Congress to pass these kind of funds to
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Ukraine at the same time they're talking about confiscating 300 billion in
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Russian asset if they do such a thing to Russia what would be the consequences
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for China and India or other countries are they going to sell us
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treasuries well it will it it will accelerate their distancing themselves
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from the US currency from holding any deposits in US Dollars that could be
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seized and holding them in any banks that could be subject to seizure so I
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mean that's why it's really shortsighted on the part of the United States just like the
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uh imposition of sanctions against Russia was stupid you know when they cut when they cut Russia off of Swift so
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Swift is it's basically an email system for communicating between Banks about
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sending money from One customer to another Well when Swift was up and
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operating every time the Russians anybody in Russia any Russian businessman or Mafia type would send a
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wire transfer that information was going through the United States United States was intercepting it we could read what was
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going on we' know who was moving what money where now we don't that's been cut
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off so we're now blind we don't see and
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Russia China Brazil India South Africa are busy coming up with
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alternatives to sft and uh you know I think United States is going to really live to regret
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having done this it'll be on the outside looking in in this conflict between
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Russia and China and bricks on one side and United States G7 on the other side
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how do you see the position of Europe is that possible for them to be independent
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and not being leaning toward the us or toward Russia and China being just independent and being a Powerhouse and
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act in their interests Europe a Powerhouse
40:57
dude what have you been drinking this afternoon you're not you're not using
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any hallucinogenic substances are you oh look Europe is a mangy
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poodle it's not even it's a it's a tiny little dog you wouldn't even take it to
41:19
the dog show to be proud to show it off it's it's a joke the the one industrial
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power that used to be there Germany is in the process of de-industrializing itself the the continent is filled with
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these crazy people who keep talking about climate change oh my God we got we
41:40
got to stop using oil okay Al I I wish I I I had the power
41:48
that everybody wants to get rid of a petroleum products great I'll take every single petroleum product from you now
41:56
live without him good luck I mean it's just they're out of touch with reality but you know that's
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uh I was watching um Sky News and with all that's going on in the world they
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spent 20 minutes focusing on the murder of this transgender boy this boy who thought he
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was a girl dressed up like a girl and you know he got murdered which
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you know I think that's wrong but they're talking and talking about it and they got his dad on talking about his
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son as if he was a girl yeah she was she was this once he D and he I mean
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she when when you've got Collective mental illness like that infecting
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Europe there's no way Powerhouse they live with a
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delusion that they can actually militarily threaten Russia and so they
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they keep trying to scare each other oh Russia oh we got to we got got to stop Russia Russia's going to invade us
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Russia's not going to invade you they don't want the problems you know the the reason Stalin
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went into Eastern Europe when he did at the end of World War II was to secure the borders so that they wouldn't have
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another Invasion from the Nazis the Germans and lo and behold here we are 70
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years later and those damn Germans are back supporting neo-nazis and
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Ukraine and these are genuine Nazis swastikas praising Hitler the whole nine
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yards singing the horse vessel song wearing SS
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Insignia so uh you know Europe Europe is a toxic
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mess and they they don't have a unified Vision they have embraced this a woke
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agenda that includes glorification of homosexuality and uh sacrificing
43:56
modern industry to the alar of climate change uh wanting to drive electric
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vehicles that are made by slave labor you know the raw raw minerals the rare
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earth minerals that come out of Africa used to create you know some of the
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batteries you know that that's dug out by children that shouldn't be doing that but hey as long as long as some wealthy
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cat in France or Germany or Netherlands or Italy can drive around in their
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electric vehicle and you know signal that they H I'm morally Superior to you CU I'm I'm stopping climate
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change you know it's ridiculous so no it's you know Russia is going to as as they said
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at the outset they're going to den naify Ukraine they're going to demilitarize Ukraine and in the process they're
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demilitarizing NATO NATO already does not have
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enough inventory of weapons to get they don't have anything else to give to Ukraine they're tapped out I don't know
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if you saw this clip video clip of Boris Johnson talking with the young people of
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the United Kingdom and asking them and persuading then convincing them to join the military yeah why he's doing this
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he's he's he's totally insane are they really thinking of fighting Russia right
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now their army is 70,000 total now of that if you were going to deploy
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them into a combat operation say okay we're going to send you're going to go fight the Russians in
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Ukraine at most you get 30 to 40,000 tops okay so
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let's put those numbers in perspective right now the ukrainians are saying they need 500,000 new troops
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right so if you recruit 42,000 a month
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okay we get 42,000 troops they got to be trained somewhere where you going to train them can't train them in Ukraine
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because it's Russia can bomb and hit every base in there with missiles excuse
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me so you have to put him in Europe so you're gonna send him to uh Britain
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40,000 recruits that's bigger than what the the
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British army has they have to sign like one person per for Ukrainian and then where are they going
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to train you know they have to build new bases and the training is going to go on
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for 13 weeks for the math challenge out there that's three
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months okay so you recruit let's say you recruit 42,000 in
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January well it's now one February we're going to London to start training and they're going to train until February
46:52
March end of April okay end of April they've got BAS basic training that means they know to how to
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go to the bathroom properly and shave themselves and Mark March in formation they don't know anything else beyond
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that as far as carrying out combat operations and so that 40,000 would eat
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up all of Great Britain's resources so that's why Boris Johnson is pleading oh yeah we need to build up but it's not
47:18
going to happen they've got they've got too many people of foreign birth in
47:25
England uh in particular that no longer feel any loyalty to the crown to to uh you know
47:32
it's not God in country anymore it seems that Israel has agreed some sort of
47:38
ceasefire in Gaza is that a rumor or they're thinking seriously to have a
47:43
ceasefire in Gaza well Israel wants to have the ceasefire on its terms uh what I've heard seen come out
47:50
of Hamas is hamas's basic conditions are okay we'll do a ceas fire pull all
47:57
Israeli troops out pull them all out of Gaza and out of the West
48:04
Bank well Israel's not going to do that I they'll probably pull most of them out of gazi yeah because they're they're
48:11
getting they're getting beat bloody there you know they're not make they're not securing the the entire area at all
48:18
they it's been it's like that game whacka mole you know whack here and then
48:23
the mole pups over there whack there there and that's Israel's playing a ver
48:29
a lethal version of whacka and they're killing a lot of Palestinian civilians
48:35
especially children pregnant women but uh they're not really making much Headway against the uh the folks
48:42
carrying out the military operations is the Biden Administration considering some sort of forcing the N
48:49
administration because they're losing a lot of people in the United States for the presidential election in 2024 Biden
48:55
is caught between what you know I like the image of the he's caught between the dog and the fire plug okay and the dog's
49:04
lifting his leg and gonna pee all over Joe the problem they've got is within
49:11
the Democrat Party the big a lot of the big money doors are Jewish and they love Israel and whether
49:18
you're talking about stepen Spielberg or uh Bill Amman at Persian Square you know
49:25
the out of their love for Israel they will fun lots of money into Joe Biden so
49:31
Biden doesn't want to alienate them but the the voters the people
49:37
actually come out and vote who outnumber uh those Jewish Stoners uh
49:44
particular places like Michigan uh they are very vocal and very
49:50
outraged that Biden is facilitating genocide that he is facilitating the
49:57
murder of their friends family relatives and U almost every campaign
50:04
event that Biden's had over the last three weeks he's been greeted with chance a
50:12
genocide Joe how many kids have you killed today um ceasefire now and he just
50:21
stands up there you know we talked about this before looking blankly at the crowd and trying to figure it
50:27
out so uh I think there's going to come a time where the pressure from the base
50:34
what remains of the Democrat base is going to be so great to distance itself from
50:40
Israel that uh that may happen but Israel's you know Israel's much better
50:47
off with the Republicans Republicans don't quite have that
50:52
divide they tend to fall into the pro-israel camp uh by much larger number
51:00
than than in the Democrat Party Lori we had we had an attack on on
51:08
an on a hospital in in the West Bank by Israeli Special Forces what what was the
51:15
problem there what way they were killing three PE I think they killed three
51:21
people if I'm not mistaken and who who were who were unarmed you know this was a this was an attack
51:28
by cowards there special oper there socalled Special Operations forces there's nothing special about them
51:35
they're cowards they're unprofessional um if if they really believe these guys were were
51:42
terrorists but number one you'd want to have the information that they have so K so capture him take him they could have
51:48
captured him taken a prisoner that would have been appropriate but to shoot unarmed men
51:54
laying in bed one guy who's paralyzed you know where's the honor in
52:00
that yeah that's you know that's what the Nazis did the Jews so you all I can
52:06
say is I I find Israel's tactics and behavior and conduct
52:12
despicable Larry these guys were part of Hamas were were members of Hamas or well
52:18
that's what they that's they're claiming that they were some you know big-time terrorists again um it it
52:26
is the Israelis can say anything don't have to provide any proof it's just like this uh recent boy
52:33
the decision now to stop uh to shut down unra you know the
52:38
United J United Nations Refugee work Association or what you
52:44
know whatever UNR stands for and initially the is you know it's a
52:49
like 30,000 people in that organization so initially Israel claims that there were 12 that were working with
52:56
Hamas well that's you know they shouldn't be working with Hamas if they're with the UN doing relief work
53:02
but it was only 12 and then later the Israelis revised the number down I'm told to like
53:09
six but the West engages in Collective punishment they punish everybody they
53:15
treat everybody as if they're guilty and that's what that's been the biggest sin of Israel their Collective punishment of
53:22
the Palestinian people as far as they're concerned every Palestinians a terrorist and should be treated accordingly in
53:29
your opinion what's going on in Pakistan they didn't like Imran Khan because he
53:34
was too close to Russia and they're doing to Imran Khan exactly what they're trying to do to
53:40
Donald Trump they tried to use u in fact I I refer to Khan as the Donald Trump of
53:47
Pakistan you know he was a celebrity there too as a soccer player and what the what the West does
53:55
not like in the United States in particular is he wanted to go be
54:00
independent do Pakistan's thing uh with you know oblivious of what US
54:06
wanted so you know they're they're they're pushing back on that that's
54:12
what's going on we know that in the conflict between India and Pakistan us
54:17
was always helping Pakistan against India and right now they're trying to
54:24
have some sort of rebuilding their relations with with India how do you see
54:30
this communication that the Biden Administration is trying to do with India well remember the re the the main
54:37
reason the United States sided with Pakistan against India during that period was you know going back into the 1970s U India was seen as being closely aligned with the Soviet Union and Pakistan was going into 1960s it was a base from which uh spy planes were being launched over Russia over Soviet Union in fact I think Francis Gary Powers who was shot down over the Soviet Union if I recall correctly um was came out of a Pakistani base uh I know my my wife went on what was called a winter term from her College uh in 19 in January 73 I believe and um she stayed with the family of bandura shastri bandura shastri had been the Prime Minister and he had gone in the previous year he had been on a visit to Moscow died of a heart attack so but it just goes underscore that there was that relationship between the Soviets and India and then with arrival of Imran Khan he was going to upset that Apple car because he too was going to have good relations with Russia and so Russia was Russia had no desire to provoke confrontation between India and Pakistan and but others the United States did so you know that that's again this one more example of us meddling and and the Affairs of other countries all the while we get so exercised and upset that Russia interference or Chinese interference in our election how dare they meanwhile that's all do is interfere in the elections and Internal Affairs of other countries

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THE GATEWAY PUNDIT ARTICLE WRITTEN BY LARRY JOHNSON
I received the following query from Sputnik on Saturday:

Britain has proposed sending a NATO expeditionary corps to Ukraine.

London also allegedly suggested establishing a no-fly zone over Kiev-controlled territory and did not rule out strikes on “strategic infrastructure facilities in Russia’s northern regions”.

After that, according to the British plan, NATO forces would create a “buffer zone” within the occupied positions, including the border with Belarus and the territory around Kiev, and the released Ukrainian army forces should withdraw to the Special operation zone.

We would be happy if you could comment on this matter.

Please, see my questions below:

1. How do you assess this decision and do you think it is realistic? Should we take it seriously (or is this an attempt to appease Zelensky)?

2. June 2023 Putin already said that Russia is considering the creation of a buffer (sanitary) zone in Ukraine “to solve the problem of shelling of Russian territories.” Is NATO trying to seize the initiative and why won’t they succeed?

Here are my answers to these questions:

With regard to your first question, this is a fantastical delusion on the part of the Brits and has no foundation in reality. But, just because the Brits are insane does not mean Russia can ignore them. It is a serious proposal. But the British Army is a hollowed-out shell. It is one-fifth the size of the force rescued from Dunkirk in World War II. The British Army is a toothless, bedraggled poodle. Can’t even deliver a serious bark, much less a bite.

In response to your second question, Yes, NATO is desperate to prevent Russia from securing all territory to the east of the Dneiper River. Up to this point the NATO countries have enabled the criminal activities of Ukraine and have not suffered any consequences. I believe they interpret Russia’s failure to respond as a sign of weakness. They confuse patience with ignorance. Given the growing turmoil in Kiev as the fight for control between President Zelensky and General Zaluzhny heats up, the Russians appear content to continue their attrition strategy as they systematically dismantle the Ukrainian Army. Russia, however, is enjoying an unexpected benefit — NATO also is being de-militarized.

Serendipitously, I discussed these issues with Nima the day before I received the questions. Enjoy. (SOURCE OF THIS VIDEO) https://youtu.be/_qIL-nUinmY

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/russia-de-militarizing-nato/