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Ritter’s Rant 022: Interviews
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Ritter’s Rant 022: Interviews
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfVOfYlu6dw)
Tucker Carlson has the largest audience on social media. As such, he should be better prepared when he lands the big ones.
Transkripzioa:
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[Music]
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Hello and welcome to this edition of
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Ritter’s Rant. Today we’re going to be
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talking about interviews and in
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particular Tucker Carlson’s most recent
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interview with the Iranian president
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Masud Peski. Uh, this is quite the coup
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that Tucker has pulled off. The first
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interview of the Iranian president by a
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Western outlet since the end of the
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12-day conflict war between Israel and
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Iran. A conflict that the United States
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participated in in dramatic fashion,
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sending seven B2 bombers um over Iranian
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airspace, dropping bombs
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on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Um, and in
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the context of this interview, you have
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both Israel and the United States
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talking about the possibility of
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resuming conflict. So,
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getting insight into what the Iranian
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president is thinking um about, you
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know, how to prevent a war, under what
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conditions Iran would continue to pursue
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armed conflict. This is an
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extraordinarily valuable interview. Or
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is it? See, the problem isn’t the
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interview, and the problem isn’t the
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interviewee.
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Um, it’s the interviewer himself, Tucker
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Carlson.
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Tucker Carlson has one of the largest
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audiences in on in social media today.
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Millions of people, millions of
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subscribers. Um, as he showed with his
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interview with Russian President
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Vladimir Putin in early 2004, he was
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able to generate over a billion views.
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That’s unprecedented. Nobody’s ever even
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come that close before. A billion views.
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But as he also demonstrated with his
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interview with Russian President
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Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson was
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illprepared for this interview.
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um he wasn’t ready to engage in the kind
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of stantive exchange with Vladimir Putin
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on uh issues of extreme complexity,
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issues of Russian history, Ukrainian
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history, um issues that required uh the
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interviewer to be able to put into
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context the answers he was receiving
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from the interviewee.
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As many views as Tucker Carlson got
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about his interview with Vladimir Putin,
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um, understand today hardly anybody can
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tell you about the substance of the
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interview. There was no news made other
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than the fact that an interview actually
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took place. And this is a problem
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because if one of the goals of the
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interview with Vladimir Putin was to
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expose the American people to the
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Russian president so that they could be
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empowered with knowledge and information
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and help overcome the Russophobia that
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had gripped the nation. Um then he
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failed because by being illprepared for
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the interview, Tucker Carlson was
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illprepared to provide the proper
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context of Vladimir Putin’s responses,
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leaving an American audience struggling
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to try and comprehend just what the hell
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was happening in front of them. And I
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would say that the same thing applies to
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the most recent interview with the
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Iranian president. A well-meaning
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interview, and it couldn’t have been
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better timed. But the the fact is Tucker
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Carlson was illprepared to talk about
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the substance of Iran, to talk about the
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true root causes of this conflict
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between Israel and Iran, between the
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United States and Iran, to talk about
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the nuances of Iran’s nuclear program.
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Um, and on this one, I will also cast
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blame on the Iranian president himself.
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Um today inside Iran um the social media
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world is a buzz and strong criticism
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against the Iranian president for the
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answers he provided. Um if his goal was
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to expose the reality of Iran, Iranian
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decision-making processes, etc. to the
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American public. Uh he failed because
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the Iranian people don’t seem to agree
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with the answers that were given by the
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Iranian president. And if the Iranian
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people don’t agree, that means that
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maybe the answers weren’t the best
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answers. And whatever the American
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people take away from the answers won’t
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be an accurate reflection of the reality
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in Iran today. No, this election this
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this this interview did not make
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headlines other than there was the
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interview itself. There’s nothing in the
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answers provided by the Iranian
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president that have dominated the
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headlines that is driving policy uh that
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is going to change the world we live in
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that has moved the needle one iota in
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terms of the Iranophobia that exists
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amongst the American people today. In
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short, this interview failed to
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accomplish what the interview should
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have accomplished, which is to enlighten
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people about the reality of Iran, to put
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the Iranian perspective out there for
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the American public to consider in its
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totality.
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But instead, we were treated to a very
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fluffy feel-good interview that didn’t
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advance the true understanding and true
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knowledge of the complexities of Iran
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today. Just like Tucker Carlson failed
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to advance the true realities, the true
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complexities of Russia at the time he
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interviewed Vladimir Putin, Tucker
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Carlson has one of the best platforms
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available to anybody um in media today.
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And it’s not that Tucker Carlson can’t
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be an effective interviewer. He can be,
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but he just has to be better prepared.
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And what I would ask Tucker Carlson to
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do in the future is consult genuine
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experts on the issues at hand before you
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address world leaders because otherwise
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you just end up looking shallow in your
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interviews end up being ineffective.
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That’s my rant. Thanks for tuning in.
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I’ll see you next week or next time a
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thought crosses my mind.
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Ritter’s Rant 023: Bullshit
Ritter’s Rant 023: Bullshit
Trump is making claims that simply don’t add up about threatening to bomb Moscow and Beijing. But this is in keeping with his status as a Bullshit artist par excellence.
Transkripzioa:
Hello and welcome to this episode of Ritter’s Rant. The topic today is bullshit. And what I mean by this isn’t just normal everyday bullshit that we all run into. You know, you’ve experienced people will be talking about something maybe you know a little bit about and you’re listening and you go, that’s not right. That’s just bullshit.
No, this is a bigger level. I’m talking about the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Recently, the president has released recordings of him speaking during fundraising efforts in the lead up to the 2024 election. And according to his recordings, he claims to have spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
And he claims that when he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, he told Putin that if he attacks Kyiv, if he, Russia, Putin attacks Kyiv, then Trump would have to respond by bombing the shit out of Moscow. I call bullshit. That conversation never took place.
The President of the United States never addressed the President of Russia in those terms. It’s just a complete fabrication. Now, if I’m wrong, the Russian government should come out and say, yes, that’s right. Donald Trump did confront President Putin and threatened to bomb Moscow. And the Russian president said, I don’t believe you or something of that nature.
But it’s an unrealistic scenario. It’s the same. The idea of Donald Trump confronting Xi Jinping and saying, if you attack Taiwan, I’ll blow the shit out of Beijing. No, he didn’t say that. Because… bottom line is if you’re threatening to blow the out of moscow or threatening to
blow the out of beijing you do understand that the result will be that the russia and china will blow the out of washington dc and the rest united states because we’ll be in a state of war with nuclear armed nations the president didn’t say this
he couldn’t have said he wouldn’t have been allowed to say this so why is he claiming that he did because we’re dealing with one of the most insecure men ever to sit in the White House. This is a man who realizes that America and the world is starting to call bullshit on everything he does,
everything he stands for. Nothing. he promised is coming to fruition, except maybe the mass migration of illegal immigrants. And even there, we have caveats because apparently if you’re a farm worker or hotel worker or you work in critical industries, you’re not going to be deported.
So this is just a big show that the president’s putting on to impress people, to make it look like he’s tough to militarize American law enforcement. But it’s not achieving the net result that he claimed to be trying to achieve, the elimination of illegal immigration as you know, part of the American experience. Apparently, he is going to,
just as all his predecessors did, legitimize illegal immigration through one caveat or another. Tariffs. I mean, now we have Scott Besant, the Secretary of Treasury, out there bragging about how we’re going to have $100 billion in tariff income already achieved, and by the end of the year, we could even have more. Bullshit.
It just doesn’t work that way. First of all, he hasn’t collected a cent. He says he’s about ready to. The tariffs that he put on or threatened to put on in April haven’t been manifested. He put a 90-day moratorium on that. Those are going to be extended into August. So what tariff money is he collecting?
And how does he quantify this? And does it really have the impact on the American economy that he claims? You know, the vast majority of the income of the United States Treasury comes in the form of individual tax assessments. You know, the tariffs represent a very small percentage.
And even if he were able to collect what he claims he wants to collect, that wouldn’t fundamentally alter the reality that we still are dependent upon the individual taxpayer who will continue to pay, you know, pay the burden of funding the American government. Bullshit. His whole Iran thing is bullshit. We bombed three empty sites.
We knew they were empty when we bombed them. We warned the Iranians in advance that we were bombing them. And then we created a bullshit excuse to end the war by going through the theatrical display of an Iranian attack against an American military base that had been emptied out. It’s all bullshit. Everything about this man is bullshit.
And the American people are starting to recognize it. So too is the world. I mean, after all, this is the man who levied massive sanctions on the Chinese, expecting them to break and bend. And instead, the Chinese called his bluff, sanctioned back, making us break and bend. But then he lies about a phone call. Oh,
I received a phone call from the Chinese president, and he begged me for a deal to stop this, and we’re going to go ahead and stop this. The Chinese are saying, we never made such a phone call. It’s bullshit. It’s bullshit. And so too is the notion that he faced down the Russian president and threatened to
bomb Moscow. Bullshit. He didn’t face down the Chinese president and threatened to bomb Beijing as well. Total bullshit. We are governed by a bullshit artist. We are governed by a man whose every waking moment is defined by grift, by fraud. He’s a con man, a con artist. And that’s what’s at play here.
The world’s starting to calm out on his con, so he publishes more bullshit. And that’s it. That’s my rant. America, wake up. The man who’s governess in the White House is a bullshit artist, a con man, a grifter. Nothing he says is true. And if we continue to allow ourselves to be governed by this natural born liar,
don’t expect anything good to come out of the next three and a half years in which we’re stuck with the presidency of Donald J. Trump, an American bullshit artist par excellence. That’s my rant. Next time a thought crosses my mind, I’ll let you know. Have a good day.
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From the Ashes: The Birth of the German Fourth Reich
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From the Ashes: The Birth of the German Fourth Reich
The defeat of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich is historical fact. It’s fusion of militarism-nationalism-industrialism lived on, coaxed back to life by the very forces that once conspired to defeat it.
Jul 11, 2025
After the end of the Second World War, Germany was divided into four occupation zones, involving US, British and French troops in what was known as the western zone of occupation, and Russian troops in the eastern zone of occupation. In 1949, confronted by the collapse of the wartime grand alliance and the emergence of what Winston Churchill called an “iron curtain” separating the western powers from Russia, the western zones of occupation were consolidated into what became known as the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany.
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Ritter’s Rant 024: To the Last Ukrainian
Ritter’s Rant 024: To the Last Ukrainian
Donald Trump thinks sending weapons to Ukraine helps in their defense. All it really does is ensure that Ukraine will, as intended, fight its war with Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Jul 11, 2025
Transkripzioa:
Welcome to this edition of Ritter’s Rant. Today’s rant is going to be about to the last Ukrainian. Now that’s the war cry, the mantra that reflects the reality of the situation as it exists in terms of support provided by the United States, by NATO, by Europe, to Ukraine, to the last Ukrainian. But
Nobody in the United States truly wants to embrace this. Nobody in Europe or NATO want to admit that this is what we’re talking about. No, no, no. We are fighting this conflict in support of Ukrainian independence, in support of Ukrainian freedom, sovereignty. All of these notions that the people of the United States and Europe hold near and
dear to their heart, except they don’t. Because this conflict in Ukraine has nothing to do with sovereignty, with independence, with freedom. It has everything to do with the reality that this is a proxy conflict between the United States and Russia. None other than Secretary of State Marco Rubio has acknowledged this.
He said that the conflict in Ukraine is a proxy war between the United States and Russia, where Ukraine is used as the proxy. The secretary general of NATO has said the same thing. This is a proxy war between NATO and Russia. The Ukrainian defense minister has said that Ukraine is a proxy of NATO and the
collective West in a conflict between the collective West and Russia. This is just the reality of it. Now, what is the goal and objective of the United States of Europe, of NATO, when it comes to this conflict? Again, it’s not about sovereignty. They’re not asking the Ukrainians to die to the last man over notions of Ukrainian
independence or freedom. This is about achieving the strategic defeat of Russia. Now, there’s different definitions of what strategic defeat of Russia could entail. In Europe, what we hear is that they want to humiliate the Russian army, humiliate, not defeat, humiliate the Russian army so that Russia would never again consider engaging in
the kind of actions that they have undertaken in Ukraine. I know. See, that promotes the NATO concept of this being an illegal war of aggression on the part of Russia. It ignores the fact that Russia intervened only after eight years of Ukrainian Western lies about their intent to implement, you know,
peace plans in accordance with the Minsk Accords. That ignores the fact that the Ukrainian government had declared a war against the Russian speakers of Eastern Ukraine, of Crimea. Yeah. You know, no, facts don’t matter. We’re not talking about reality here. We’re talking about the fiction. And the fiction is that the West wants to defeat Russia.
The West started this war. This war was started by the West even years before the 2014 Maidan coup that brought in the current nationalist Ukrainian government, the West was posturing to position Ukraine as a source of conflict with Russia for the goal of the strategic defeat of Russia.
And that means not just humiliation of the Russian army on the battlefield, but the political demise of the the Russian leadership of Vladimir Putin and his government, the collapse of the Russian economy, the collapse of Russian society, the dismemberment of Russia. This is what the West is trying to achieve to the last Ukrainian in this conflict.
Now, the United States under Donald Trump may not have same shared outcomes. I believe it was the outcome that was desired by the former administration of Joe Biden. But Donald Trump seems to simply want Vladimir Putin to yield to Trump’s demands. Trump doesn’t care about Ukraine. He doesn’t care about Ukrainian sovereignty, Ukrainian freedom, Ukrainian independence. What
Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump. He cares about being seen as the most powerful man in the world. The person who, when he says something has to happen, it happens. And Donald Trump has said that Russia must make territorial concessions, that Russia must not take a hard line on issues regarding demilitarization or denazification. that Russia,
in short, must end this war on terms that are acceptable to Donald Trump, not necessarily Russia. So here we have Donald Trump demanding that Vladimir Putin bend the knee, that Vladimir Putin yield, concede. And the Russians have responded by just ignoring Donald Trump’s demands.
And so now we have a situation where Donald Trump is throwing a temper tantrum. He had made a decision that one way to stop this conflict was to slow down the provision of military aid and financial aid to Ukraine to demonstrate to Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian government that this war could not go on forever,
that eventually they too would have to make certain compromises. But the Ukrainians have shown that they are unwilling to compromise, especially since they continue to be supported by NATO and Europe, who insist on this conflict going on to the last Ukrainian. And as a result, you know, Trump is in the middle.
He’s not willing to call out Zelensky. So he turns his ire on Vladimir Putin. And now it appears that Donald Trump is given permission for weapons to begin flowing back into Ukraine. Now, these weapons had been shut down under the orders of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,
who rightfully said that America no longer has weapons that it can give to Ukraine without digging into and compromising the national security of the United States. Our arsenal is empty. We have given Ukraine everything we can give. And whatever’s left goes to Israel, who just finished fighting a 12-day war with Iran,
in which a tremendous amount of very expensive weaponry was expended, weaponry that Ukraine needs as well. No, Donald Trump now has made a decision that this weaponry will once again flow to Ukraine. What we’re talking about are Patriot missiles primarily, air defense systems. But it’s not going to come from the United States.
No, we’re not emptying our arsenals. Instead, we’re going to put political pressure on nations like Spain to give up a Patriot battery, pressure on Germany to give up Patriot battery, to put pressure on nations that have purchased Patriot rockets, Patriot missiles, to allow these systems to be diverted instead of being delivered to them to be
diverted to Ukraine so that Ukraine can, you know, reconfigure its arsenal, replenish its arsenal, and continue to sustain the fight against Russia. Now, this isn’t going to change into the battlefield realities. Nothing about the low of these weapon systems to Ukraine, if and when it actually happens,
is going to alter the fact that Russia has supremacy over the skies of Ukraine and that its drones and missiles can hit any target in Ukraine anytime they want without any effective interdiction on the part of Ukraine. No, this is about political posturing.
This is about Donald Trump being able to say he stood up to Vladimir Putin to say that he didn’t abandon the Ukrainians. This is about Donald Trump able to say anything except the truth, that all he’s doing by providing these weapons to Ukraine is extending a war that Ukraine has already lost.
All he’s doing is guaranteeing that even more Ukrainian infrastructure will be destroyed, even more Ukrainians’ lives will be lost. But see, Donald Trump can’t come out and say that because to do that, he would have to admit that what this conflict is really about is a willingness of
the West to allow this war to go on until the last Ukrainian. So that’s my rant. I’ll be sure to make a new one the next time a thought crosses my mind. Until then, have a good day.
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Ritter’s Rant 025: Inconceivable
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Ritter’s Rant 025: Inconceivable
(https://scottritter.substack.com/p/ritters-rant-025-inconceivable?r=1vhv3f&triedRedirect=true)
Many Patinkin’s rant against Netanyahu falls flat in the face of the reality of the true state of affairs in Israel.
Transkripzioa:
Hello and welcome to this edition of Ritter’s Rant. Today’s rant is going to be on the word inconceivable. It’s a word that I’ve grown to love because it plays a central role in one of my favorite movies, The Princess Bride. It’s a term used by a Sicilian character named Vizzini, played by Wallace Shawn.
And throughout the scenes that he’s in, he’s always confronted with his various plots falling apart. And it’s inconceivable, he would say, that something could happen and then it happens. So it turns out that rather than just being conceivable, many of the things he talked about were inevitable, such as his own death,
which comes in a battle of the wits with the dread pirate Roberts. Inconceivable. But it’s not just the word, but that leads me to the movie itself. Inconceivable. Inconceivable. There’s a character in this movie, Inigo Montoya. You might be familiar with the character. He’s one of my favorite characters of all time, played by Mandy Potemkin.
He’s a Spaniard. He’s in the revenge business because years ago, a six-fingered man killed his father, and he spends his life hunting down, he’s dedicated his life hunting down this six-fingered man so that he could say the following words. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
And there comes a time in the movie where he confronts the six-finger man and he kills him. And then near the end of the movie, though, he’s confronted with what he has done. I have been in the revenge business for so long, he says, that I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.
Now, why is this important? Because Manny Potemkin brought up this very scene in an interview he recently did with the New York Times, where he was talking not about the Princess Bride, but he was talking about Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the policies of the Israelis in Gaza. And more importantly, from the perspective of Manny Potemkin,
what these policies, what these actions are doing to the security of Jews worldwide, not Israelis, not just Israelis, but Jews. He’s worried about his own security, the security of his family here in the United States. He’s worried about Jews around the world because The actions of Benjamin Netanyahu,
the horrific crimes of Benjamin Netanyahu is overseen in Gaza is destroying the reputation of the Jews. Now, I love Mandy Potemkin, and I know for a long time that he, you know, as he says, he says he is a supporter of the state of Israel.
Now maybe the Israel he supported similar to the Israel I once supported is this fantasy land where he believes, um, that people will behave justly in a difficult situation that in the end of the day, they will do the right thing.
But that’s not the Israel that exists today. So right off the bat, I can see the struggle that’s taking place with Mr. Potemkin as he says, I support the state of Israel. I care deeply about the state of Israel and I’m focusing my problems primarily on the person of Benjamin Netanyahu. But Mandy, you know better.
You know that if Benjamin Netanyahu disappeared today, he would be replaced by a modern Israeli leader who will have the support of a significant portion, percentage of the Israeli population to carry out the same policies against the Palestinians, the same genocidal behavior that Benjamin Netanyahu is doing. You see, to blame Benjamin Netanyahu,
you’re simply ignoring the reality that it’s not Netanyahu whose presence is incompatible with civilized society. It’s the state of Israel. The state of Israel is incompatible. The state of Israel has bought into a Talmudic prescription for resolving problems that’s premised on the notion of Amalek.
That is to literally carry out genocide against the enemies of the state of Israel. Now, this isn’t just some fanciful spewing of a right-wing radical rabbi in some darkened corner of a synagogue somewhere in the remote suburbs of Israel or around the world. No, this is mainstream Israeli policy as articulated not only by Benjamin Netanyahu,
but by his cabinet members, by the chief of staff of the Israeli forces, acted out by the Israeli Defense Force every day in Gaza, in the West Bank, against people they view as subhumans. Inconceivable, one might say. No, Mandy, it’s conceivable. The problem isn’t Benjamin Netanyahu. The problem is Israel,
and the problem is Jews like you who continue to believe that Israel is capable of coexisting as a normal civilized state when it’s not. Inconceivable. That’s my rant. Thanks for tuning in. I’ll see you next time a thought crosses my mind.
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Ritter’s Rant 026: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind
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Ritter’s Rant 026: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind
Germany is about to learn some harsh lessons by failing to heed the lessons of its past.
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Ritter’s Rant 026: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hA977W3_k)
Germany is about to learn some harsh lessons by failing to heed the lessons of its past.
Transkripzioa:
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Hello and welcome to this edition of
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Ritter’s Rant. Today we’re going to be
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talking about the Old Testament, about
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the book of Hosea,
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chapter 8, verse 7.
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They that seow the wind shall reap the
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whirlwind. Now, this is the totality of
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the biblical reference. I just wanted to
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plant this idea in your heads. They that
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sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
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What is the perspective I’m trying to uh
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put here? Well,
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it’s in the context of a conversation
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that the German defense minister um Bors
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Ptorius had with Pete Hedet, the US
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Secretary of Defense, in which they
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discussed Germany’s acquisition of what
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is known as the Typhoon weapons system.
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The Typhoon is a um it’s it’s a it’s a
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missile launch system. Um it enables
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two different kinds of missiles to be
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fired. One is the SM6 missile which is
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the standard missile
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six. It’s a it’s a advanced version of
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the the the standard missile. The SM3 is
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um the you know the primary surfacetoair
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missile or anti-bballistic missile
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system used by the United States Navy on
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board uh the various Aegis class ships.
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Um and it also can use the Tomahawk
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missile which is a um a cruise missile
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with a range around 2,200
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miles. Uh both can be fired from um the
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the same quadra, you know, quad uh pod
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uh that the the Typhoon system uses. Uh
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the SM6 is can also be configured for a
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surfacetosurface missile role. It’s not
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just something that can be used to shoot
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down missiles, shoot down aircraft, but
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it can also be used to interdict um you
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know targets um mobile targets, etc. And
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then the cruise missile, the the
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tomahawk is just basically a long range
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strike system. We saw the United States
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recently fire 38 tomahawks against
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Iranian targets uh in and around the
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city of Isvahan during the uh final
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phases of the 12-day war between Israel,
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the United States, and Iran. Um now,
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this is a strategic system that’s just
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only been initially deployed with the
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United States. The United States has
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used um has deployed this on exercises
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in Europe and has deployed it on
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exercises in the Pacific. Um Russia has
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cited the decision by the United States
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to deploy the Typhoon system into Europe
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for these exercises as an excuse to
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begin uh production of intermediate
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range missiles. Russia had put a
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moratorum on producing intermediate
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range systems even though the United
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States had withdrawn from the
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intermediate nuclear forces treaty back
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in 2018. Uh Russia said they will abide
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by it so long as the United States
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doesn’t deploy systems into Europe.
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Well, we did. We sent it to Denmark for
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a training and the Russians said okay
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we’re going to move forward. But then
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the US withdrew that and you know there
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was hope that maybe there could be um a
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continuation of this moratorum. But that
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hope now is faded because Germany is now
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talking about buying the system. And why
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why would Germany want to have the
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typhoon system? What threat could
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possibly exist uh in the minds of German
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politicians that would necessitate
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um the use of the Tomahawk missile? And
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there’s only one answer, Russia. We have
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seen a lot of irresponsible rhetoric
3:56
coming out of Germany recently about
3:57
Russia. Uh we have Boris Ptorius, the
4:00
same defense minister, talking about the
4:02
absolute need now to um bring back
4:06
conscription because Germany needs to
4:08
massively expand the size of its
4:10
military to fight Russia. To fight
4:13
Russia. Germany’s talking about
4:16
empowering the Ukrainians to strike deep
4:18
into Russia. Germany says that Russia is
4:20
the threat. There are uniform German
4:22
generals on German television talking
4:25
about basically this time we’re going to
4:27
get it right when it comes to Russia.
4:29
What do you mean get it right? uh you
4:31
know one would hope that the Germans are
4:33
extraordinarily apologetic about the
4:35
mistakes they made uh during the Third
4:37
Reich uh to the time of you know Nazi
4:40
Germany and that the June 22nd 1941
4:44
invasion of the Soviet Union by the
4:46
Vermacht um is not seen as you know a
4:50
mistake because they lost but rather a
4:54
mistake because they began it to begin
4:56
with but this time it appears the
4:58
Germans don’t have any remorse over what
5:01
they did to the Russians, what they did
5:02
to the Soviet Union. The only remorse is
5:04
that they didn’t win, that they lost.
5:07
This time they want to do it right.
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The Russians are paying notice. We hear
5:14
the uh Demetri Pescov, the spokesperson
5:18
of the Kremlin, say that Germany is
5:21
becoming an enemy again. Becoming an
5:24
enemy again. Um the Germans don’t want
5:27
to be the enemy of Russia. The enemy of
5:30
Russia never finishes victorious. It’s
5:34
not a happy ending. But this is the
5:36
direction that Germany’s going, but it
5:38
was an inevitable direction. This was
5:40
predictable. I’ve been c talking about
5:42
this for some time now. I mean, I get in
5:45
trouble a lot because I say things like
5:47
scratch a German, get a Nazi, and people
5:49
say, “You can’t say that.” And I
5:51
absolutely can say that, and I will say
5:53
that, and I will continue to say that.
5:55
You know, back in um 1943 at the
5:57
Montreal conference, uh Franklin
6:00
Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill to
6:02
talk about the future of Germany once
6:04
the war ended. By then, it was u
6:07
conceded or at least, you know, it was
6:09
accepted by both sides that Germany was
6:11
going to lose the war. Um and that there
6:13
would be not be conditional surrender.
6:15
It means that unconditionally
6:16
surrendered and the west is responsible,
6:18
the victors are responsible for
6:20
deciding, you know, what Germany will
6:22
look like. And Winston Churchill said,
6:25
you know, we need to deny Germany all
6:29
industry because it industry is at the
6:31
heart of, you know, what what is driving
6:34
this this tendency of Germany to become
6:36
a dominant power in Europe. Um industry
6:39
combined with nationalism combined with
6:41
militarism. But if you eliminate the
6:42
industry, the nationalism, the
6:44
militarism can’t manifest itself. Um,
6:48
and so his goal was to de-industrialize
6:51
Gerby, to make it an agrarian nation.
6:54
Franklin Roosevelt went a little step
6:56
further. He said, “No, it’s not enough
6:57
just to make them an agrarian nation.
6:59
The only way you solve the German
7:00
problem is to castrate the German men.”
7:03
Meaning that the fact that Germans will
7:06
procreate, the Germans will continue to
7:08
create Germans. um points out that the
7:11
future um is at risk not because of
7:14
industrialism but because of the Germans
7:17
themselves.
7:18
They are incompatible with notions of
7:22
modern uh civility, modern peaceful
7:25
coexistence. The German people are an
7:28
inherently warlike people that view
7:32
themselves as a superior race. This
7:35
isn’t something that’s simply about, you
7:38
know, Adolf Hitler and Aryan supremacy.
7:40
This is a German problem of German
7:42
supremacy, Germany’s rightful place in
7:46
the world. Um, it began with, you know,
7:49
Bismar and the Prussians and it carried
7:52
on to Adolf Hitler and now it’s
7:53
manifested itself today. The the Fourth
7:56
Reich, the Fourth Reich is is is alive
8:00
and well and breathing in Germany today.
8:03
people that don’t feel ashamed about
8:05
what happened during the Third Reich
8:07
other than the fact that they lost, that
8:09
they got beat, but this time they’re
8:12
going to do it right. No, Roosevelt
8:15
said, “You have to castrate them.” And
8:16
indeed, Henry Morganthau, his secretary
8:18
of treasury, put forward a plan, the
8:20
Morganthou plan, which was supposed to
8:22
break Germany up into small pieces,
8:24
de-industrialize it, and then basically
8:26
stand by while Germany depopulated,
8:29
starved to death, or just wasn’t able to
8:31
sustain the population uh through the
8:34
inability to u you know, procreate. But
8:36
the bottom line was to significantly
8:38
shrink Germany, to fracture it, to
8:42
disembowel it, to disenfranchise it, to
8:45
make it
8:46
a nothing in the middle of Europe. But
8:49
that didn’t happen because when the
8:51
second war ended, World War ended,
8:53
almost immediately the United States of
8:55
Great Britain transitioned into an
8:57
antis-siet posture. And we saw from the
9:01
very start people like William Donovan,
9:02
the head of the OSS, operation uh the
9:05
office of strategic services, the
9:06
precursor to the CIA, began whitewashing
9:10
uh the reputation of the German
9:11
military, the German generals. They
9:13
weren’t Nazis, apparently. They were
9:14
just good Germans who got caught up in
9:16
this this Nazi thing, but don’t blame
9:19
them. And this wasn’t just about
9:21
cleaning the reputation, but the purpose
9:22
behind cleaning the reputation was so
9:24
that they could take these millions of
9:26
Germans who were in uniform trained to
9:28
fight the Soviets and remobilize them
9:31
against the Soviet threat. And this is
9:33
what happened in 1955.
9:36
After being cleansed, after having their
9:38
reputations restored, the Nazi Germans
9:42
of the Vermach became the heart and soul
9:45
of what became known as the Bundes, the
9:48
German army for West Germany, led by
9:51
Nazi generals, staffed by Nazi NCOs.
9:55
It’s it never ended. The Third Reich
9:59
never ended. And you know what else
10:00
never ended? the the industrialists the
10:03
ones that you know Winston Churchill and
10:05
Truman rightfully
10:07
said these are the problem no they never
10:09
ended corrupt steel Ryan metal Porsche
10:12
Mercedes all of these industries which
10:15
today we say are the you know you know
10:18
proof positive of efficient German you
10:20
know uh construction and manufacturing
10:23
they are war-based industries that
10:26
promote German nationalism and German
10:28
militarism Ryan Metal is is at the heart
10:31
of the current push of German
10:33
militarism, anti-Russian German
10:35
militarism.
10:37
No, scratch a German, get a Nazi. The
10:39
Germans aren’t apologetic about their
10:40
Nazi past today. That the only remorse
10:43
they have is that they didn’t win, but
10:45
this time they’re going to do it right.
10:49
Brings us back to Hosea 8:7.
10:53
Sew the wind, reap the whirlwind.
10:56
Basically, if you sew this problem, you
10:59
sew the turmoil, you will pay the price.
11:02
And the Germans need to know and
11:04
understand the following. If they seek a
11:06
conflict with Russia, they will have a
11:09
conflict with Russia, but it won’t end
11:11
the way they think it will. It’ll end
11:13
with the total destruction of Germany.
11:15
And this time, I think the Russians will
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get it done right. That’s been my rant.
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Thanks for listening. Next time a
11:22
thought crosses my mind, I’ll let you
11:23
know.
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