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Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter

Scott Ritter: NATO is FINISHED

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Hi everybody. Today, Wednesday, August 27th, 2025, and our friend Scott Raider

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is back with us. Welcome back. Thanks for having me. Let me start with one of the most

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fundamental and basic questions when it comes to the conflict in Ukraine. I don’t know if the Russian president

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talked about it during the meeting that he had with Donald Trump. which is the case of sending more weapons to Ukraine.

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Here is what Donald Trump said. They didn’t pay the two and they paid

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the five. So, and as you know, we are selling a tremendous amount of equipment to NATO. We’re not spending any money.

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We’re making money, but I don’t want to talk about making I want to talk about we’re no longer uh involved with funding

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Ukraine, but we are involved with trying to stop the war or the killing in Ukraine. So, we’re selling missiles and

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military equipment, millions and millions of ultimately billions of dollars to the uh NATO people. We’re

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very friendly and we have great relationship, but that was an amazing trip. So, they’re funding the entire

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war. We’re not funding anything. I think it’s an important point to make because a lot of people don’t understand that.

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I don’t see Europe needing any sort of weapon. They’re not

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fighting anything. He knows these weapons are going to Ukraine if they get

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these weapons, Europeans. and he concerned he he somehow he confessed

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that he’s concerned about the his concerns of what’s going on in terms of casualties. How how how is that possible

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that you send more weapons and you are at the same time concerned of what’s

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going on there? Nemo, you’re going to go gray trying to

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um imagine rational thinking with Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy. It’s impossible. It’s a

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mission impossible. Um, Donald Trump, this isn’t about national security

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policy. This isn’t about foreign policy. This is about domestic policy. Donald

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Trump is trying to appease a domestic audience and several domestic audiences

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at the same time. Um, he has his base who says they’re tired of American money

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being sent off to fund Ukraine. Um, and then he has his political opposition or

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uh what I would say the um the traitors among us, those who claim to be

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supportive of Donald Trump but who actually vehemently oppose um any policy

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that would bring an end to this conflict on terms acceptable to the Russian Federation.

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And so he has to go through, you know, these very complicated machinations. Um

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it he doesn’t care about the dead because he doesn’t know how to count the dead. Uh he just repeats numbers that

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are given to him by people. If he cared about the dead, then he truly wanted to know what the reality is and understand

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whyity matters. Um he lives in a fantasy land where Russia is losing more

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manpower than Ukraine, where the Ukrainians are losing manpower at a sustainable rate, meaning that Ukraine

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has the potential of continuing this conflict. Russia according to his numbers is not uh able to sustain this.

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Therefore um the concept of continuing this war to put pressure on Russia uh

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seems to make sense uh to him. Um but the fact of the matter is we we now know

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that 1.7 million Ukrainians are dead or or missing. I think there’s a couple

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hundred thousand of those who could be missing but they’re probably dead. um that number is going to go up because if

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you know according to the same leaked data out of the uh Ukrainian Ministry of Defense um 625,000 of those dead/missing

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are this year alone. That’s 90,000 a month and that number is going up higher

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because Russia’s just dominating. So this means that every month another 90

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soon to be 100,000 Ukrainians are dying or disappearing. Um, that’s a those are

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big numbers. Um, if Trump cared about Ukraine, he’d say, “We have to bring this war to an end because those numbers

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are only going to get worse.” Russia’s numbers are big, but not that big. Uh, right now it’s estimated that, you know,

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Russia’s losing, you know, one dead for every 10, 13, 15 Ukrainian debt. So, you

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know, the Russian numbers are far less than the Ukrainian numbers. Still big numbers. I mean, not I’m not saying

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Russia’s having a cakewalk here. This is hard fighting. This is some of the most high intense combat um that’s been seen

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since the Second World War. At least Donald Trump gets that aspect of it right. And he’s starting to understand that it’s a new kind of war. He spoke

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the other day about drone warfare and the reality of drone warfare. But you

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know, he he can’t allow himself to be painted into a corner, meaning that he

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caved into Russia. So he has to say stupid things and do stupid things. This

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is why the other day he posted on social media about uh Ukraine needed to have had the ability to to attack Russia.

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Nobody ever won a war by on the defense, you have to have the ability to attack. He coupled that then with an

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announcement that the United States, it was reported in the Wall Street Journal, is going to sell 3,000 some odd um

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extended range, you know, attack missiles or I don’t know what the A stands for. Um uh to to Ukraine. Um, and

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on the surface of it, you say, “Well, what?” Because wasn’t it Donald Trump who realized back in December of 2024

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that the B administration’s greenlighting of use of attackums missiles uh for streets targeting the

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Russian strategic debt brought us to the brink of nuclear war. Trump recognized that then. That’s why he said, “I won’t

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continue that policy.” Now he’s doing that policy, just using a different weapon system. Um, but let’s parse this

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out because that’s what he said. He’s posturing right now so that nobody can say, “Oh, you’re not supporting

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Ukraine.” He said, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We’re just not paying for it. But NATO is paying for it. Remember

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those 10 Patriot batteries that they were going to provide the full compliment?” I mean, I love that term, the full compliment. It just it’s so

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wholesome. It makes you feel really good and safe and secure. Um, and now I guess we’re providing with the full complement

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of ERAM missiles, uh, too. But those Patriot batteries will never be

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delivered to Ukraine. First of all, they have to be produced. You have to get in line. There’s a lot of people looking

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for Patriot batteries and Patriot missiles. Uh, you know, Israel used a whole bunch of them. Needs replacements.

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Um, the United States doesn’t have any left. We need to beef up our forces. So, once we start producing them and we and

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we get them to Europe so they can transfer to Ukraine, we’re talking 2027, 2028.

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Uh, there won’t be a Ukraine by then. it’s it’s not going to last much longer.

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Um the ERAM, it was a system conceived in 2023. It didn’t exist. In fact, it

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doesn’t exist. I mean, they’ve spent two years developing it. I think it might have passed its last trial, but it’s not

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in serial production yet. That means that if you’re building it, you’re building oneups for testing purposes.

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They’re not designed to be given to Ukraine yet. And yet, in six weeks, Donald Trump says he’ll begin delivery. That means that let’s assume to make

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that announcement, the system now has passed its final, you know, evaluation.

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Um the maximum output that the United States will have with everything going

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full speed is a thousand missiles a year. Um that means that to get to what

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Donald Trump is, we’re talking at least three and a half years down the road before that full complement gets there.

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But some missiles may be delivered, a handful, um, a dozen, um, starting. But

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then there’s the fine print. Ukraine can’t use these missiles without America’s permission. Only America gets

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to designate the targets. And if you think Donald Trump is going to allow the United States to designate targets for

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the ERRA of missiles, knowing that in doing so, you close the door on any peace possibility because you become a

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direct participant in war. That isn’t going to happen. everything gets pushed off six months. I think Donald Trump is

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hoping that in six months there will be a new reality on the ground. One that um compels the Ukrainians to accept the

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Russian terms without compromise that can bring this war to an end. Otherwise,

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you know, this war will continue until Russia accomplishes all of its objectives. And unfortunately, to get

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those objectives, uh Russia will be called upon to destroy the Ukrainian

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army. There’s 800,000 of them in there today. I think Russia by the time this is finished will end up killing another

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250 300,000 Ukrainians. Um that’s just the way this cookie crumbles. That’s the

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way war goes. Uh so, you know, this is the reality. Donald Trump is saying

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things, but the reality is nothing of substance is going to be delivered. Um Donald Trump has bigger fish in mind. He

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has a strategic nuclear treaty he’s trying to revive with the Russians. She’s trying to come up with, you know,

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profitable uh joint enterprises, joint exploitation, exploration of the Arctic. Uh I think it was Chevron uh just

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basically was green lit to go back into the Russian oil business. Um you know,

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Trump said, “Yeah, we’re we’re friendly to that.” That’s, you know, billions of dollars and after Chevron will come

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other uh American u energy giants that’ll get back into the Russian market. This is what Donald Trump cares

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about. He doesn’t care about Ukraine. In fact, today or I think yesterday, he said, you know, what did Ukraine expect

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going to war with Russia? They got they got their butts kicked. He recognizes that reality. It’s just a political game

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that’s being played right now because there’s a tremendous amount of opposition inside the United States in

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Europe and colluding between Europe and the United States to um prevent Donald

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Trump from having better relations with Russia. And unfortunately, these people

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who oppose better relations with Russia are willing to sacrifice Ukraine uh to achieve, you know, their their outcome.

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And when I say sacrifice, I mean literally sacrifice Ukraine. They’re they’re they’re destroying the genetic

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uh pool of Ukraine. Uh soon they’ll be sending 18 year olds to the front line. And when they do that, that’s it.

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Ukraine’s finished as a race because you’ll have a bunch of women and you won’t have any men left and that that’s

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it. You said decision on the part of Ukrainians, but who’s going to decide

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about that? Is that all about Ukraine or you’re talking about Europeans and the

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establishment in the United States? Well, I mean the Europeans and the

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establishment of the United States believe they’re going to be the ones making a decision, but they’re not. The

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only person making a decision is Russia. Russia’s in complete control of this narrative here. Russia’s not budging.

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Russia offers um cosmetic compromises. Um but also Russia understands that even

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the cosmetic compromises they they are putting on the table Ukraine won’t offer won’t accept and you know so now Russia

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look at Steve Woodoff uh in the White House uh you know yesterday uh with the

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assembled cabinet saying you know Russia has made concessions Russia’s ready to concede Russia’s ready to work with us

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Ukraine’s not but he views that as a posit because the Russians are making concessions so you know at the end of

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the Hey, it’s not going to be the Russians that are going to be called upon to make dramatic. It’s going to be the Ukrainians who will be called upon

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to accept a unconditional surrender. And right now, Zilinski is incapable of um

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agreeing to this, which means this conflict will continue. Every day this goes on, it gets worse and worse and

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worse for the Ukrainians. There’s no good news coming out of Ukraine. None.

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And unfortunately, I I don’t know if you saw the interview, Scott Besson talking about the frozen Russian assets and he

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said they can Europeans can use them as a leverage on Russia. Here is what he

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said. Scott million dollars that is Russian assets sitting in European banks right now. I

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know it’s frozen and the EU has said that they’ll use the interest on that money to to rebuild Ukraine. But

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shouldn’t all of that money go toward rebuilding Ukraine to ensure that Putin doesn’t get his hands on that money

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anymore on the frozen Russian assets? I think that’s all part of the negotiation with

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President Putin. So I don’t think we should seize them immediately. I see.

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And you know they it it is a chip on the table during this big negotiating

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process and we will see whether part of that goes part all uh goes to the

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Ukraine rebuild. How do you see this big negotiating

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table that he’s talking about? What is the big is is it all about Ukraine or

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you think that he’s some he’s talking about something bigger than that? Oh, no. This if he’s talking about the

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seizure the potential seizure of Russia’s, you know, sovereign wealth that was illegally frozen by the West

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and they’ve been illegally skimming off the interest. Um, we’re talking about a very small table called Ukraine. Um,

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Russia’s not going to play this game. I mean, this Scott Besson has to understand that um Putin’s just not

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going to play that game. U so whatever you think you’re going to have with

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Russia ain’t going to happen if you seize their money. Sorry, Scott. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles. Um you

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and Europe recognizes that. You just saw um I think the the head of the Belgian government say we’re we’re not seizing

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their money. We can’t because once that happens begins this uh catastrophic uh chain reaction that ends with the

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destruction of the western financial system. Um and Scott Besset knows that

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he’s just playing stupid games. Again, he’s one of the guys that stabs Trump in the back because this is not the kind of

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advice that’s conducive to um an outcome that’s positive. This is the kind of

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Scott Besson is a, you know, russophobic uh guy who thinks in cold war mentality.

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He’s not a problem solver. He’s not trying to help solve this problem. Um he’s he’s like Marco Rubio sitting there

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pretending to be sitting next to Donald Trump and helping Donald Trump but stabbing Trump in the back when it comes to achieving better relations between

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the United States and Russia. the the notion that Russia’s sovereign wealth

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could be stolen and not create um insurmountable problems with Russia.

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It’s just absurd in the extreme. Um the good news is the world knows this.

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Uh the bad news is it it just creates confusion where there shouldn’t be confusion because should we should be

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talking about the big table. The big table is where we can be talking about strategic arms reduction. We can talk

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about Arctic uh you know joint Arctic exploration exploitation. We can talk about the return of the energy giants to

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Russia. We can talk about investments, lifting of sanctions, normalization relations, all the good things. Uh but

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you’re not going to get to that big table as long as the United States is holding hostage hundreds of billions of

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dollars of Russian sovereign wealth. Do you think that they talk about these

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things that but they’re not publicly announcing it?

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Well, they can’t take the money. I mean, I Besson doesn’t even knows how how he would begin to do that. It’s against the

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law. It’s against everything. Um, and when you’re talking about banks and financial institutions, this stuff sort

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of matters because a lot of it’s based upon confidence. Um, the the the quickest way to lose confidence in the

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dollar, lose confidence in the Western banking system, is to start seizing sovereign wealth assets.

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then nobody will want to deposit their money in western banks. Um and that’s the end of it. And for countries like

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Belgium, Luxembourg and others who have uh you know part of their economy is dependent upon banking um it would be

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the end of them. So I just I have to say there’s a couple people when they open

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their mouths I I listen but I I don’t I don’t overreact. Um you know Keith

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Kellogg, who cares? Um, Scott Besson, who cares? You know, Lindsey Graham, who

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really cares? No, but I mean, there’s there’s there’s a number of them when they speak, you’re just like, it doesn’t matter because they’re so far removed

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from reality that their opinion no longer matters.

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Russia, you Scott, you’ve been to Russia and you you saw what’s going on there. the mindset

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of these people there, do you think that they really care about how how sensitive

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does Russia feel about America, the United States sending weapons to

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Ukraine? I want to know that because in the meeting Putin had with Donald

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Trump, I don’t know if they talk about these things, the intelligence and the

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weapons that the United States is trying to provide. They may talk about NATO, but it’s all about Ukraine. It’s not

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about NATO. Look, Sergey Lavrov and other Russian diplomats have said it straight up. They

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know what’s going on. They know the United States continues to provide weapons. They know the United States continues to provide intelligence. They

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understand this. Um it’s just the reality that they’re in right now. Um it doesn’t change

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anything. It doesn’t change, you know, the what’s going on on the battlefield isn’t impacted by this. It’s just a

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reality. But the Russians have said that there can’t be a lasting peace with Ukraine so long as the United States

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provides intelligence, weapons, etc. That in order to get the peace that Donald Trump claims he wants, the United

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States will have to stop doing all the things they’re doing now. But Russia’s been dealing with this for over three years now. And they’re winning. So from

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the Russian perspective is they’ll just deal with it a little bit longer. Um, now that’s the Russian government.

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They’re very pragmatic. I’ll tell you, the Russian people are furious because our weapons are killing Russian

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soldiers. Um, you know, there every day there’s a mom, a wife, a daughter, um, a

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sister who’s lost a loved one and

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they’re being killed by American provided weaponry. And the Russians have a hard time squaring the notion that the

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United States is trying to pursue peace at the same time providing Ukraine with the resources that enable them to kill

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Russian soldiers. Um that doesn’t mean Russia’s going to quit. Just means there’s a lot of bitterness now in the

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hearts of the Russians. Um and they don’t necessarily

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buy into the notion that Donald Trump is a good guy. Look, the Russians want peace. They made that point over and

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over again. But they also said it’s peace through victory. Meaning that you

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can’t have peace without victory. Victory comes first, then peace. And

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that’s the mindset of the Russian people right now. They want this war to come to an end, but they’re not willing to um,

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you know, make the concessions that would deny them the victory that’s been earned by the blood of the Russian

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soldiers who’ve been killed by the American weapons. Lav said that they didn’t talk about the

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meeting between Vladun and Zalinski during the talks and what it was when

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you look at the United States and the admin the Trump administration somehow Donald Trump came out saying so we’re

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done with the talks with Vladimir Putin next time we’re going to have Zalinski

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talking to Vladimir Putin they may invite me if they want me to be there I

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I wouldn’t I would be there. And so when they didn’t talk about how you can offer

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that in the aftermath of that meeting, well, let’s put it this way. Um,

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Donald Trump came into that meeting with a certain list of expectations.

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They didn’t talk about any of those. They talked about the ones Russia wanted to talk about. Um, but that list still

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exists. that list still influences um you know Trump’s you know policy

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options and so it’s you know it’s the equivalent of me saying okay Nean we’re going to meet and

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when I meet we’re going to be talking about things you’re going to be meeting with you know I’m going to make you meet with McGregor you’re going to meet with

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him face to face you and McGregor are going to meet you know that’s going to happen and we’re going to do this that and the other thing and then you and I

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get together and I don’t mention McGregor at all you don’t mention McGregor we don’t mention anything but when the meeting’s done I come out I go

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I had a good meeting with Nemo and uh you know I think the next time he’s going to be meeting with McGregor and we’re going to and you know that’s

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because it was on my piece of paper. It was on my agenda. I didn’t talk about it. It’s still on my agenda. I’m still going to talk about it. But you’re going

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to sit there and go we didn’t talk about McGregor. It didn’t come out of my lips.

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That’s that’s what’s happening here. You know Trump wants a meeting with Zalinsky, wants Putin to meet with

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Zolinsky. The Russians are like no. I mean, I guess we could say uh in

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theory, but we can’t have an agreement with him. He’s not a legitimate president, you know, and that really

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just really gets under the skin of Trump. You saw that the other day in that thing, you know, ah

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They’re going to accept it. No matter, excuse my language, but you know, the president said it, why can’t I? Um, but

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yeah, he just lives in a fantasy world. This is where he really needs highquality people around him. Um, you

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know, I’m not saying that I have all the solutions, but I I am working with a group of people that we call the the

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Pakitzy Peace Initiative, and we’re putting together what we call a civilian engagement team, and we’re offering our

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services to the president because we’re saying, you’re getting the world’s worst advice about Russia. Please give us an

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audience. At least listen to us. um bring in your team, your your your team A, and we’ll bring in team B, and we’ll

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call it the Super Bowl of ideas. And I can bet you at the end of the day, team B trounces team A because your team A

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does no clue what they’re doing. And you’re the president who claims he wants peace. I mean, this is how bad it gets.

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He’s just getting horrible advice, horrible advice from people. People who have an agenda that isn’t the

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president’s agenda. And I wish he could see this. You know, he was blind to John Bolton, Mike Pompeo when they sabotaged

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his efforts to bring about the denuclearization of North Korea. And today, I think he’s blind about, you

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know, Marco Rubio. He’s blind about Scott Besson. He’s blind about Keith Kell. These people don’t want peace with

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Russia. It’s the last thing they want. They’re going to sit there and say all the nice things behind it, but then

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they’re going to turn around and they’re going to be pushing, you know, these these fundamentally flawed narratives, these fact-free narratives. the

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president deserves better, especially if we the people want him to succeed. So,

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we’ll see. I don’t know if we’ll get an audience. I don’t know, you know, what’s going to happen, but I can damn sure

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tell you we’re going to try because, as you yourself have pointed out, the

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inconsistencies of the president’s uh policy approach is manifest. It’ll drive

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you insane trying to figure it out. what I see in the United States that

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these people are somehow managed to buy time for their agenda for the agenda of

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establishment in the in Ukraine. They did that before during the Russia gate

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that that sort but they have managed somehow to come out with some sort of

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it’s not that much strong in the media but they have managed Donald Trump so far the way that they want him to be and

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it’s not just Go ahead. Yeah. No, I agree with you. They’re they’re and they did it that first term.

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Russia Gate tied his hands like you wouldn’t believe. Uh guess what?

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Russia Gate’s over, man. Not only is it over, it’s becoming a criminal offense.

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People are being arrested. People will be arrested. People are being charged. Um, the people that embrace that

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narrative are out of power and soon to be out of society. Uh, I don’t know if I fully endorse this. Um, I I’m not a fan

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of polit politicized witch hunts. Um, but the point is the russophobes have

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been neutralized. Uh, two, um, there was

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no conflict the first term. There’s a conflict. Now, what are you buying time

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for if you’re the Europeans? For Ukraine to get their asses kicked. Okay,

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Russia’s ready to play that game. As I told you, the casualties are unsustainable. 90,000 a month soon to go

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up to 100,000 a month for Ukraine. A month

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can’t sustain that. So, what are you buying time for? It’s not as though there’s a, you know, rainbow. You’re

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going to hit a pot of gold here. There’s No, it’s a disaster. There’s just a bridge collapsed in a cliff and you’re

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going down into hell. Um, that’s the ride they’re on. So, all they’re doing

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is killing more Ukrainians and they don’t care about that. But they’re also bankrupting Europe. I mean, come on, Nemo. You’re smarter than I am. I know

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it. That’s why I come on your show because I learn a hell of a lot more from your questions than anybody learns from my answers. Um, you know what’s

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going on in Germany right now. You know the state of their economy. You know the French government’s about to collapse,

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literally. I mean, it may not last a month and the month’s almost over. Um,

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and you know, when when the French government collapses, Europe’s already said the next government will, you know,

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when Mcronone goes, he may go. Um, they said it’ll be the Putinists. The

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Putinists will be in Marie Le Pin and all that. Um, well, there’s the end of France and guess what else is going to

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happen? AFD is the most popular political party in Germany today. And I think they’re uh they’re their the lady

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who runs it came out and said, “Yeah, when we win, we’re out of the EU. We’re done. Finished. Goodbye.” Sayanara.

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That’s the end of Europe. If France and Germany drop out of the EU, Europe

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doesn’t exist anymore. Unified Europe. It’s finished. It’s gone. And then you’ll see a fracturing like you’ve never seen before. Um,

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so what are you buying time for? People have to understand the more time you buy, the more you sustain this

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absolutely insane failed process that’s captured Europe since the beginning of

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2022, the more you guarantee an outcome which is very good for Russia and very

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bad for Europe. And it’s not good for the United States. I mean, we need

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stability. I mean, I’m an American who doesn’t believe in the European Union. I really don’t. I don’t. I I think it was

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a failed experiment from the get-go. But I’m also an American that says it’s in our best interests. You know, you know

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that I’m sympathetic to the Russian point of view. I believe history’s on the right side of Russia. But

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I and I ask the Russians this all the time. Is it in your interest to see

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Europe collapse? Is it in your interest to see NATO fail? And the Russians are

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like, “No, we sort of like stability. We don’t want Europe to go away. We don’t want NATO to go away. We just want them

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to leave us alone. Maybe learn to live in peace and harmony.” The last thing Russia wants is chaos in Europe. That’s

28:07

not good for Russia. Chaos is bad. And yet, this is what the people who are

28:13

opposing a Russian victory and dragging out this war in Ukraine by, you know,

28:19

playing the delay game with Donald Trump. They’re just guaranteeing a really, really bad outcome for Europe. A

28:25

really bad outcome. The end of the EU, the end of NATO. Uh, and this is the

28:30

scary part because we don’t know what’s going to happen. But we have some hints. You know, the whole idea of the European

28:36

Union was to make sure that there were no more, you know, largecale ground wars in Europe

28:43

anymore. Well, they failed. We got one going on in Ukraine right now. But you do know that within the NATO alliance,

28:49

you know, Mark Rut, it’s the strongest alliance, it’s never been stronger. I mean, my god, it is so strong. I’m so

28:56

impressed. We can bench press more than the mayoral candidate of New York City. But that’s not saying much since he can

29:02

only bench press 135 pounds assisted by. So anyways, let’s take that out of the way. Um the point is you know within

29:11

NATO right now in the center of Europe you have a mini two mini NATO showing

29:17

up. Yeah. Yeah. One mini NATO that is uh I think it’s Kosovo,

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Croatia and um Albania. I think Croatia and

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Albania have that NATO membership thing going for them. Kosovo doesn’t. It’s not

29:34

a NATO state. So they’ve created a military alliance, a security framework

29:40

that’s outside of NATO with two NATO members. In opposition to them, we get

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Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia, not a NATO member, and

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they’ve created an alternative, an opposing military block. So when Europe falls apart, and it will,

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we’re going to see wars on Europe. We’re going to see wars that are going to be horrific. wars are going to rival what’s

30:05

going on in Ukraine in terms of death and destruction. Europe’s condemning itself to another hundred years of

30:11

conflict and the conflict won’t be limited to these marginal states. Um

30:17

we got Poland right now making some harsh rhetoric against the Banderists.

30:22

Um, and you know, if you listen to Narishkin, uh, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, one of

30:28

Russia’s objectives might be to rid itself of the Banderas cancer by somehow

30:36

having Western Ukraine fall under Polish control. There will be a purging like you haven’t seen. There will be a

30:42

retribution. It will be ugly. Um, but if Poland regains its eastern territories,

30:51

what are the Germans going to say about Cissia and Pomerania and East Prussia, which they had to give to Poland to

30:56

compensate for the land that was taken by the Soviet Union? You think the Germans are going to sit there idling

31:02

and go, “Yeah, that’s all right.” No. So, now we’re looking at what, a German Polish war. Who’s going to side with the

31:08

Poles? The Balts? Who’s going to side with the Germans? I don’t know.

31:14

Maybe France, maybe not. Maybe France won’t. So now you got a war against France, Germany, although I find that unlikely, but that could happen. The

31:21

British, they’re everywhere causing trouble. They’ve signed an agreement with Poland. They’ve extended their nuclear umbrella to Poland. So now if

31:28

the Germans, the Poles starting to get in a fight over Cissia and Pomerania and East Prussia. Where is the UK going to

31:34

come in? If the UK jumps in, France sort of extended theirs, too. So now Germany’s going to turn around and say,

31:39

“Well, we need nukes. either develop themselves or hey Russia we’d like to talk a little bit. See this thing Europe

31:46

will what we conceive Europe of being won’t be anymore. It’s over unless they

31:54

stop this insanity right now. Stop it right now. I’m not saying the EU

32:01

deserves to exist. What I’m saying is Europe doesn’t for the betterment of mankind. Europe doesn’t need to slip

32:07

into chaos and anarchy. It’s already got so many problems. The immigration problem. Um I mean if Germany was

32:14

invaded today, 16% of the male population said they’d be willing to

32:20

give their lives in defense of Germany. That’s if Germany was invaded, 16%.

32:26

What happens if Germany follows through on its uh promise to go to Ukraine? How many what percentage of the German

32:32

manhood is going to say, “Yeah, we’re going to go die in Ukraine.” None. Nobody in Europe wants to die in

32:39

Ukraine. And yet NATO and Europe are are are crucifying themselves on that cross.

32:45

Um anyways, that’s that’s the Russians don’t want that. The Russians don’t want that kind of instability. Russia likes

32:52

predictability. Russia likes to know what’s going to happen. It’s easier to formulate policy that way. It’s easier

32:58

to allocate resources if you have a good idea of what the future’s going to be. So the the idea that Russia’s gloating

33:04

over the collapse of Europe and the collapse of NATO is just an absurd notion. You know, Russia prefers stability.

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Russia pre preser prever Russia prefers um predictability. And

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right now we have nothing but instability and inpredictability, unpredictability. My English language is

33:23

horrible. I apologize. Too many syllables.

33:28

Yeah, Scott. When it comes to NATO, I think the crucial point about NATO is that

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NATO is not a defensive force, is an offensive force. This is

33:39

the problem with the strategy of these endless wars that NATO is pursuing. This

33:45

is the problem when it comes to Russia and right at border of Russia. You come

33:51

in close so close to Russia at doorstep of Russia, how you can imagine Russia

33:56

would not react to you. And on the other hand, I I don’t see if if the United States

34:04

decides to keep NATO as a defensive force, nobody would have any sort of

34:09

problem with NATO. Nobody would attack Germany. What is in it? What’s in it for

34:15

Russia to attack Germany? What do they want from Germany? Russia wants a better

34:20

relationship with economic ties with Germany. They don’t want war with Germany.

34:26

This is what Russia is fighting for in my opinion. Look,

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now we get into sort of a sensitive topic. Um, but Russia has a demographic problem. You see Russia passing laws

34:39

right now to encourage child birth amongst the Russian people because

34:44

they have a declining population. Um, and because of the conflict in Ukraine

34:52

and because of the expansion of NATO, Russia’s had to increase the size of its military. Now it’s up to 1.3. It’s

34:59

probably going to get up closer to 1.6 by the time the expansion is done. 1.6 million underarms. Um, and this takes

35:07

people out of the workforce. So you see Russia now, you know, talking about, hey, can we bring in Indians? Can we

35:14

bring in, you know, outsiders into our workforce? Um,

35:20

the Russians would love nothing more than to have NATO just

35:26

say, “We’re a defensive organization again, back to our roots.” Um, you know, and we will, you know, behave

35:33

accordingly. I I think you’d see Russia start dropping the size of its military

35:39

quickly because then it can take those mana that manpower and put it back into

35:45

the workforce. The workforce then that will be well paid. What happens when you have a well-

35:50

paid workforce? They get married. You know, give a guy some money, he finds

35:56

himself a pretty girl, and next thing you know, he has a house and some kids. And that’s what the Russians need. They

36:01

have these great family values, but it’s hard to raise a family if you’re in the military. That’s not the best place in

36:08

the world to raise a family. Maybe as an officer, a senior officer, but if you’re an enlisted man, if you’re out there in

36:14

the ranks, no, it’s disruptive as hell. And the Russians are moving away from a conscript system to a contract system.

36:21

So, we’re talking about long-term, you know, contracts. We call them enlistments here in the United States.

36:26

Um, but again, you’re going to be in the business of preparing for war or training for war. You’re not home

36:32

raising a family. You’re not producing anything. So, anybody who sits there and says, “No, the Russians want to really

36:38

build up their military and really do.” They don’t understand Russia. It’s not what Russia wants at all. It’s the exact

36:45

opposite of Russia wants. Russia will do what Russia needs to do to protect itself. There’s no doubt about that. But

36:50

the Russians would prefer that rather than expanding their military by 600,000

36:56

um to have those 600,000 in the workforce and have that workforce gainfully employed, making things that

37:02

are good for Russia and good for Russia’s economic partners, earning a good solid income, paying taxes, you

37:09

know, and uh and then getting married and raising kids, lots of kids because

37:15

the Russian needs kids. this this whole war thing, this whole

37:20

war footing, it’s not good for the health of a nation, the economic health,

37:25

but also the demographic health. Europe’s going to seeing that problem. You see declining birth rates

37:31

everywhere. This is sort of the danger of immigration. Uh, you know, because now you’re injecting

37:37

um non-traditional values into um you know, societies that are defined by

37:43

traditional values. uh it dilutes the

37:48

unique character of you know nations. Russia has spent 25 years rebuilding

37:55

what it means to be a Russian. You know there was a time when Russians were ready to abandon Russia. They were abandoning Russia. They didn’t believe

38:02

in Russia. They had lost faith in Russia. Not today. I have to say. I mean I’m deeply impressed with the Russians.

38:08

Not a perfect society. Nothing is. Nothing’s perfect. But they’re pretty damn good. I mean, these are people that

38:15

are by and large happy with who they are. Happy where they are. Could things be better? Sure. Are they working to

38:21

make it better? Yeah. Um, but you know, the the the Russians like being Russian.

38:28

They’re proud of being Russia, and they have a lot to be proud of. I think Russia would like the Europeans

38:33

to be proud of being who they are, too. The Russians don’t, you know, hold it against me for being proud American. I

38:40

mean, some of them scratch their head and say, “Well, what are you proud of?” And I, you know, say, “Well, the potential. I think America has more

38:46

potential than any place in the world.” Uh, because we’re not trapped by our history. We’re we’re, you know, we live

38:53

in a prison of ideas. And if we could just live up to those ideas and those ideals, we could we could be pretty damn

38:59

cool. Um, but we’re not doing that. So, yeah, you know, we’re But I love the potential of America. The Russians are

39:05

like, “Cool. Love a guy who loves his country.” The Russians love a person who loves their country. They will never

39:11

hold it against you for saying, “I’m a proud American or I’m a proud Iranian or I’m a proud Brazilian or I’m a proud

39:17

Canadian.” They’re like, “Good. You’re proud of your country. So are we. And therefore, we have a lot in common. You

39:22

love your country. I love my country. Let’s get along.” The Russians are are great about this. Um Europe, not so much

39:29

anymore. Um and it’s sad. It’s sad. I lived in Europe. I grew up in Europe. I

39:34

grew up in Germany. Um, and I traveled extensively, you know, back in the 80s.

39:39

I got the year the year rail pass, you know, and you throw a backpack on the back and you just go. And for two

39:46

months, I just basically caught trains and camped out and saw all of Europe.

39:51

Um, and you could drive places, uh, you know, drive my parents every time they

39:56

took a vacation, we’d go to a different place in Europe. Um, just fantastic. I I I loved Europe. I loved every aspect of

40:03

Europe. I I loved crossing the border. I loved going from Germany where I had my German marks and I had to go into Italy

40:10

and get the Italian lera and then you know one of the first things you do to get the train station is you go in and you exchange your money and you get the

40:16

other money and now you’re like in Italy and I really know I’m in Italy because I have I have lera you know not today it’s

40:21

all euro and they’ve sort of erased the borders and I know it’s supposed to be convenient but it’s sort Europe’s lost

40:28

its allure um lost what it means to be European. Anyways, I babbled on too far

40:35

about that. Do you feel that,

40:40

let let’s let let’s put it this way, can the former AustroHungarian states together with Serbia

40:47

realistically form a counter coalition to resist NATO’s forever war strategy?

40:55

Is that possible? You know,

41:03

if Europe was healthy and NATO was healthy, it’d be almost impossible for that to happen. But when we start

41:10

talking about collapse, and we are going to see collapse. Um, anything’s

41:16

possible. What will happen is that Europe will break up into different factions. And you just identified one,

41:23

which is the former AustroHungarian Empire. Um, it’s amazing how people forget their history and thank you very

41:29

much for bringing this up. Thank you for bringing this up because I, for instance, in Turkey, you know, people

41:34

are all talking about Turkey and I’m like, you guys, you guys do know that it’s just like just a little bit more

41:40

than 100 years ago that, you know, there was a a caliphate in Turkey,

41:45

the Sultan. Um, you know, the Ottoman Empire was there. When we talk about

41:51

Syria, we’re literally saying a 100 years ago it was, you know, was the Ottoman Empire. Um, Turkey, you know,

41:58

Iraq, the whole thing. People are just like, nah, 100 years isn’t that long ago. I mean, you know, we’re talking

42:05

about, you know, 1925, if I talk about American history, oh yeah, you know, you know, the the flappers, you know, the

42:11

roaring 20s, uh, you know, my grandparents were alive in the roaring 20s, you know. Okay. So you realize

42:17

there’s direct connectivity. But somehow when we apply it to the other part of the world, it’s like no uh no no that

42:24

Austro why you mention AustroHungarian Empire because it existed. It was real. And we’re talking about people’s

42:30

grandparents or great-grandparents. Um people are alive today who know people who were alive during the

42:35

AustroHungarian Empire. There’s a direct connectivity of you know of of historical transfer of uh you know

42:42

emotions and and knowledge and information. uh and so it’s not gone.

42:48

And so when people are looking when they look at the failure of the European state today and people are going to be

42:55

looking for alternatives, you can be damn sure that there will be people who say, “Hey, the core of the

43:01

AustroHungarian Empire, you know, we should like come back together and uh

43:07

and and you know, work with one another um to be allies.”

43:13

Yeah, you could definitely see that. And that’s what we sort of see with Serbia, um, uh, Hungary and Slovakia. That’s

43:21

sort of a that’s like a a core, the Slavic core of, um, of the Austarian

43:28

Empire. Not total Slav. The Hungarians aren’t Slavs, but, you know, it’s a it’s

43:34

a it’s a core that, uh, they have common values, common history. Um,

43:40

and they definitely have opponents in in Europe, the Croatians, the Kosvars, the

43:47

Albanians. Um, and who knows, maybe maybe Austria will, you know, join their

43:52

ranks. You never know once Europe starts to fall apart. Um, anything’s possible.

43:57

Sky’s the limit. Scott, do you feel that the Trump administration somehow is trying to

44:04

normalize the extreme violence and genocide in

44:10

Gaza? I don’t know if they’re trying to normalize it. I think they’re ignoring

44:16

it. Uh because they know it exists. They’ve they’ve facilitated this. Look, Donald Trump,

44:24

you know, I got to when when I’m wrong, I’m wrong. When I’m wrong, I’m wrong. you know, when when Donald Trump came

44:29

out and said, uh, you know, ah, you know, depopulation of Gaz and all, I you

44:34

talked with you about I said, he can’t really mean that. This has to be a ploy. And then, of course, when there was a

44:40

counter offer on there, I went, ah, see, it’s he put an offer. He didn’t really want it to happen. There’s a counter offer out there. Turns out he wanted it

44:47

to happen. Turns out he wanted it to happen. This is Donald Trump’s policy. that’s

44:53

happening today, the slaughter of the people of Gaza, the genocide. We have to

44:59

use that word. People don’t like to use that word. They get in. No, use the word because it literally fits the

45:04

definition. Look it up. Article two of the Geneva Conventions defines what genocide is. I forget what the American

45:11

law is. Section 1081 or 1089 of 18 US code. I don’t know. I’m not a, you know,

45:17

lawyer. Uh, but, you know, we define it. We know what genocide is. Hell, we could

45:23

just use our own president, you know, because the United States going, “Well, it doesn’t meet the category of genocide.” What were the standards for

45:29

the ISIS genocide against the Yazdi? The exact same standards that exist today in Gaza, except Gaza’s by an order

45:37

of magnitude greater. The inconsistency of America is is crazy. Um, but

45:44

inconsistency is one thing. Criminality is another thing. We are literally war criminals here. you know, they they um

45:51

when when the whole world is debating the issue of genocide and stuff, um you know, international lawyers were and and

45:59

and other concern people were quick to say genocide’s bad, but there’s there’s worse things than genocide.

46:05

Um you know, war crimes and massive human rights violations uh can operate

46:12

on a scope and scale that um far exceed the harm being done by genocide.

46:17

Genocide has specific legal terms that have to, you know, that have to be met to get that term there. But there’s bad

46:23

things that can happen, too. And however you cut Gaza, it’s it’s a war crime.

46:29

It’s a massive human rights violation. And I believe it readily fits the definition of genocide as put forward by

46:36

both the Geneva Conventions and US US law. Um and

46:42

by US precedent, you know, the standard we ourselves have set for defining

46:47

genocide is easily surpassed in Gaza.

46:52

So yeah, I mean gosh, here we are. On

46:58

the one hand, I’m trying to say I’d like to create a civilian engagement team to

47:04

work with Donald Trump to promote good relations between United States and Russia. And I and I do I do. But on the

47:12

other hand, I have to recognize that Donald Trump is one of the greatest war criminals the world has ever seen

47:17

because he not only is facilitating Israeli war crimes, he’s an architect of these war crimes. They are they are

47:24

implementing his plan, his strategy. He’s guilty. If there were ever a Gazin

47:30

Nermberg trial equivalent and there was a court of jurisdiction and Donald Trump could be bought before it, you’d be

47:36

found guilty and hung by the neck until dead and so would a whole bunch of other Americans because what we’re doing is

47:42

unforgivable. And for the American people, you know, I I’ve sat there and I you’ve you’ve heard

47:49

me say it, scratch a German, get a Nazi. I don’t forgive the Germans for what they did in World War II, and I never

47:55

will. Um, I’m just that way. I I I can live in

48:00

peace with them as long as they recognize who they are and what they were, you know, and and make sure that

48:05

they guard against ever going back down that path, which they’re not doing right now. Um, but my god, what are we? We the

48:12

people of the United States of America. We have embraced Zionism,

48:17

and Zionism is the modern day equivalent of Nazi ideology.

48:22

It’s literally about imposing genocidal policies on a people. The eradication of

48:28

the people of Gaza, the Palestinians of the Palestinian state, this targeted eradication, this the wholesale

48:34

slaughter. I mean, what’s going on in Gaza City right now is the equivalent of what the Nazis did to the Warsaw ghetto,

48:40

you know. Um, and yet nobody wants to acknowledge those parallels. Oh, how dare you? Blood liable. No, no, no, no.

48:49

I’m actually being nice. If I say, “Oh, all you’ve done is the Warsaw Ghetto. I’m being nice because what you’re doing

48:54

is worse than the Warsaw Ghetto.” Um, and and the American people are complicit in this. And every American

49:00

has to look in the mirror and say, “I am a war criminal. I am the equivalent of the good German. I’m the person that sat

49:07

by and let this happen. I’m the person that walked the streets and had the ash come on my shoulder and I brushed it

49:12

away and pretended it didn’t happen. I knew what was going on down the road there, but I just closed my eyes to it.

49:18

my neighbors who you know you know used to do this that and the other thing disappeared and uh then I watched people

49:24

come in and steal their property and I said nothing. We’re standing by while the United

49:29

States is facilitating the mass murder of Palestinians. Truth is now a a a

49:37

death sentence. Journalists telling the truth and Gaza now being killed because the last thing Israel wants is the truth

49:43

to be told. You have Benjamin Netanyahu coming out just admitting that they’re losing the narrative. Therefore, uh, Israel must find a better way to alter

49:50

the algorithms and to do this. No. And to kill journalists. Any journalist that dare stands up and says, “You are

49:56

committing genocide gets killed. If I went to Gaza, they would kill me in a

50:01

heartbeat instantly. Anybody who went who goes to Gaza has a it’s a death sentence, you know. So,

50:09

that’s where we are right now. I mean, we we can’t sugarcoat it. We can’t pretend it’s not there.

50:15

How do we chew gum and walk at the same time? And what I mean by that is I mean I struggle with this every day because

50:22

um people hit me all the time. They say, “Scott, why aren’t you focused more on Gaza? That’s why I’m trying to stop a

50:27

nuclear war between United States and Russia.” I’d like to think that that’s sort of like a big deal. And that’s

50:33

where my skill set is. You know, about, you know, 70 to 80% of my skill set is

50:38

there. Yeah, I got a lot of experience in the Middle East. A whole bunch of experience in the Middle East. And I’ve got a lot of experience in Israel.

50:45

I’m learning about Palestine. It never was my cause, but my god, it’s become my cause today. Um, but when I look at what

50:52

I can bring to the table, I’m more efficient dealing with the Russia question than I am the Gaza question.

50:59

But man, it’s hard. Man, it’s hard because it’s just there. Mass done in my

51:06

name, my taxpayer dollars. And then I sort of feel guilty because I’m so

51:13

focused on trying to prevent a nuclear war with Russia that I don’t

51:20

spend the time that I should on what’s going on in Gaza. And I have to admit I I’m tired of looking at the pictures.

51:26

I’m tired of looking at the pictures. It breaks my heart to see, you know,

51:33

these these dead children, these dead mothers, these dead civilians, people just trying to live, starving to death.

51:39

Mass starvation. What the How can that happen today? How can that happen today?

51:47

Today in this day of mass information where it’s there right in front of your eyes. It’s not like you’re reading a

51:52

newspaper about the starvation of the Indians in World War II, reading a story that’s three months old. No, it’s

51:58

happening right now. And what are we doing? What are we

52:04

doing? Ah, man. I’m going to go crazy. I mean, this is this is this is the kind of

52:10

stuff that just drains your soul. But we got to soldier on. I mean, that’s the

52:16

whole thing, you know. Um, you can’t win every battle. You got to win the ones you you got to fight the ones you can

52:21

win. Right now, I’m dedicated to the Russia thing, and I’m not getting off the Russia thing. But it breaks my heart. It

52:27

drains my soul because every morning there they are, dead children, dead

52:33

parents, dead civilians, and the Israelis just gloating over them. And we’re backing the Israelis and we

52:38

somehow pretend that this is normal. We pretend that Israel is a normal functioning state. It’s not. It’s a

52:45

cancer to the world. It’s a cancer to the soul of humanity. I’m not advocating

52:52

the annihilation of the Jewish race. No, this has nothing to do with religion. Although

52:58

increasingly it does because what’s happening is the Israelis are using, you know, religious themes. Amalecch, why

53:06

have we forgotten this? the repeated invocation of Amalch, you know, the the

53:11

the this the creation of a subhuman um you know, identity uh for the

53:17

Palestinian people that justifies their annihilation in the name of the Jewish faith. We can’t forget this. Do we know

53:24

that there’s battalions of Talmetic scholars specifically recruited into units who are going in there and

53:30

carrying out these horrific crimes? They believe that they’re permitted by God to rape Palestinians to death. And they do

53:36

so. They have no qualms about killing killing women and children because they

53:42

believe God wills it. I mean, there is a religious aspect to

53:48

this. And this is where I condemn American jewelry. I’m sick and tired of walking down my street saying we stand

53:53

with Israel. That means you stand for genocide. You stand for mass murder. We stand for Israel means we support

53:58

murder. That’s it. You can’t support Israel. You can’t stand with Israel and not realize that you’re supporting

54:05

murder. And the American Jewish community, they deserve all to go to hell. Now, I

54:11

know there’s a handful of them out there doing this, that, and the other thing. Maybe more than a handful. I’ll give them credit. But collectively, the big

54:17

Jewish organizations, they if you stand with Israel, you stand with the devil. That’s just there’s no

54:25

other way to put about you’re on the side of Satan. Don’t tell me you’re on the side of good. Don’t tell me you’re God’s chosen people. You are literally

54:31

doing the devil’s work because that’s what genocide is. And I’m going to get in a lot of trouble for this and I don’t want to get your channel banned on

54:37

YouTube for my emotional outburst. So, sorry about that. I think the last

54:44

targets when you go and fight something like the way that Israel is killing

54:50

people is attacking hospitals and journals because this is the last thing

54:55

that you would attack. These people, they don’t do anything to you, fighting you. They don’t do anything. They’re

55:03

literally doing nothing but helping the people who are damaged, who are suffering and the lives that the Here is

55:11

what is Israel has attacked a hospital in Gaza. And then the journalists went

55:17

there to see what has happened and they attack again and killed journalists. And here is what the Israeli government

55:23

spokesman said. Let’s go. Noble profession. But many journalists

55:30

who have reported from Gaza, so-called journalists, are simply terrorists with

55:36

a press vest on. His British accent is somehow amazing to

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hear that and the way that he’s trying to say his point of view. And here is

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what we’ve seen in in the media. Scott. Many people may wonder what is this?

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This is the UK spy plane just gathering

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information on July 28th and hand it over to Israelis to attack people in

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Gaza. Yep. And at the same time they’re trying to say that we condemn what’s going on in

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Gaza. I think the British we can I think what’s going on with the

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British government, the mindset, their strategy, the sort of manipulation in the Middle East is unbelievable. Any

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case, I I I’m I’m not ignoring the case of Ukraine. I put the case of Ukraine in

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the same scenario. It’s all about the British and the way that they’re thinking of these things that are

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happening. Yeah. Look, it’s it’s it’s the British trying to hold on to relevance. Um, it’s

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the British stepping into a leadership vacuum by the United States. You know,

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we used to be able to control the British because we worked very closely with them and we subordinated them to

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our will. Uh, but now that we’ve created opportunities for

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um gaps to appear in the relationship, the British have have stepped up to

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that. there there is no moral um look as as bad as the United States is and we’re

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pretty damn bad. There are, believe it or not, you know, moral barriers. There’s there’s there’s

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things that, you know, we say no, enough’s enough for the British. There’s no such thing as enough is enough. The

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British are the is the worst nation in the world when it comes to this sort of thing. They truly can embrace policies

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that cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of millions and they won’t even blink an eye. Um, that’s just who

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they are. Their intelligence services um have no soul at all. Um, you know, the

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CIA has done horrible things. I’m not going to pretend they haven’t, but I will say at the end of the day, you

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know, there’s a reason why CIA officers all end up alcoholics because at the end of the day, they know what they’ve done

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is evil and they they’re ashamed of what they’ve done. Um the the British,

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there’s no shame there. They all go out and get their nighthood and they’re they sit there and they retire and they, you know, they have their little posh

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parties and they all chuckle and chart and laugh over the stuff they’ve done, the crimes they’ve done in the name of,

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you know, her majesty or his majesty the king, you know, and so no, the British, they’re out there playing games of

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empire right now. That’s what they’re doing. They’re trying to manipulate behind the scenes. They’re everywhere. Everywhere you find death and

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destruction, you find a British hand.

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Before wrapping up this session, I want to play a clip in which it’s a tragedy

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in my opinion, but here is what’s going on in the mind of the president of the United States.

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Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Hamas. We’re having meetings all this week on

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all three of those conflicts and we hope to settle them before the end of this year. Your team is nothing short of

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incredible. And there’s only one thing I wish for. That that noble committee

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finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since the noble piece this

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Noble award was ever talked about to receive that reward beyond your success

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is gamechanging out in the world today. And I hope everybody one day wakes up and realizes that.

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It seems somehow we are living in different time and universe.

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I mean it’s shameful first of all uh for a president is supposed to be make America great again. um to be pursuing

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this narcissistic egotistical goal of having some award issued by a Norwegian,

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you know, group of elitists. Um award that has lost its meaning, become so

1:00:03

politicized down the road. I mean, they gave it to Barack Obama for noon doing nothing, nothing. And they sit back and

1:00:10

they don’t look at the people actually promote peace. They just hand it out for political reasons. Uh, actually it wasn’t for nothing. It was

1:00:16

for bombing Yemen. For bombing Libya. Sorry. Well, yeah. Well, actually, they gave it

1:00:21

to him before he bombed Libya, though. Before. Yeah. Yeah. He should have turned it in after he bombed Libya. He should have

1:00:27

said, “I haven’t lived up to the uh to the values that are that are put in here.” But um you know, at least he got

1:00:33

it for the potential. You know, Trump, what war has he stopped?

1:00:40

What war has he stopped? You know, India, Pakistan, he didn’t stop that. They stopped it.

1:00:49

Cambodia, Thailand, there’s still some tension there. He didn’t stop it. They say he just sticks his nose into

1:00:54

everything. Says, “There, I touched it. I stopped it.” Armenian Azerbaijan, man, that could actually the Zangazar

1:01:00

corridor could actually turn into a major war because of his meddling. Uh, he didn’t solve any problems there. He’s

1:01:07

not here. Here I am. See, I’m trying to get a meeting with this guy and uh I want to, you know, say, “Hey, I’m here

1:01:13

to help you on Russia.” So, I have to It’s time I start behaving a little bit more politically and diplomatically, but

1:01:20

he’s not smart enough to know any of the nuances of these details. The reason why we’re trying to engage with him on Russia is that he’s advised by complete

1:01:27

imbeciles. I mean, with all due respect to Steve Wickoff, he doesn’t know a damn thing about Russia. He has good

1:01:33

relationships with Kuriel Demitriv, but it’s a relationship that’s only brought about by the fact that Trump, you know,

1:01:39

has sent him and and Vladimir Putin has empowered Kurill. So they they have this relationship, but you just listen to

1:01:45

Wickoff. He doesn’t know anything about what he’s talking about. Nothing. Keith Kellogg is 100% a Ukrainian shill. Hell,

1:01:52

they just gave him a medal before for being such a good Ukrainian shill. That’s all right, Keith. Good job.

1:01:58

You’re But at least admit what you are. Don’t pretend to be some sort of uh unbiased envoy looking for peace. You’re

1:02:05

solidly on the side of Ukraine. That’s why you got a medal. Um you know, Marco Rubio is just a wararmongering hawk who

1:02:12

hates Russia. Just go back and he’s never said a nice thing about Russia in his entire life. Hates hates communists,

1:02:19

hates the Russians, the whole words. Pete Hagath isn’t smart enough to, you know, lead a box of bricks, let alone

1:02:26

the Department of Defense. apparently the Department of War soon to be. Um these are the people that advice Scott

1:02:31

Besson. We’ve already talked about just the imbecilical approach he has towards this this Russia issue.

1:02:38

There’s no peace coming out of any of these policies um with Russia. This is why we’re trying to put together this

1:02:44

civilian engagement team. Um I may be excluded because if I were Donald Trump, I wouldn’t let me anywhere near the

1:02:50

White House after what I’ve said. But I’m sorry. I’m not going to apologize. It’s the truth and it has to be said.

1:02:55

Um, but he’s he’s he’s supposed to be America first.

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Why is it that he puts so much credence into this bobble from a Norwegian group

1:03:08

of elitists? Um, it tells you he’s not America first, he’s Donald Trump first. This is make

1:03:15

Trump great. That’s it. That’s the That’s the movement. And

1:03:22

no, that’s not good for America. if he really wanted peace, he could

1:03:27

solve the Russia problem today. Just pick up the phone and tell Zilinsky it’s over. Call up the Europeans and say,

1:03:33

“Nope, we’re done. We’re not playing stupid games anymore.” Um, but he won’t.

1:03:40

Instead, he’ll facilitate the continuation of this conflict with the promise of American weapons. This thing

1:03:46

will go on for more months. Look, we’re talking 90 to 100,000 dead Ukrainians a month. Okay? You got September, October,

1:03:53

November, December. That’s four. I’m telling you right now, that’s 400,000 dead Ukrainians by the end of the year.

1:03:59

In addition to what’s going on, that’s in addition to 620,000. That’s more than a million dead Ukrainians this year. If

1:04:06

the conflict goes over into next year, the death rate’s going to go up even higher. So, you’re going to talk by June, if this war goes on for another

1:04:13

year, another million and a half. So, two million more dead Ukrainians.

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That’s what Donald Trump’s given. You want to give him the Nobel Prize for that? Are you crazy? And then we get

1:04:25

into Gaza. What he’s done in Gaza alone is disqualified. Disqualify. Finished.

1:04:31

You It’s like giving Adolf Hitler a uh a Nobel Prize because he um you know,

1:04:37

evacuated troops from, you know, some corner of the world. No, but you you

1:04:43

committed the Holocaust. You invaded the Soviet Union. You allowed the commasar order. You carried out mass crimes. We

1:04:49

can’t forget that Donald Trump is the total package. And right now, the total package is indelibly corrupted by what’s

1:04:56

going on in Israel. There’s no forgiving this and there’s no redeeming this. Yes, we can try and prevent a nuclear war

1:05:02

with Russia and we must, but that doesn’t absolve Donald Trump of the crimes that he’s committed with Israel

1:05:09

at all. And the fact that he doesn’t see that and the fact that he thinks this is a selling point

1:05:16

just shows two things. one that he truly is a narcissist blinded by his own

1:05:21

egoomania and you he’s an irrational player at this point in time and two the

1:05:28

American people are truly the dumbest people on the planet because we’re buying into this because we’re nodding

1:05:33

our heads and saying oh yeah I mean his base come on guys do better really

1:05:40

you say you believe in American values but yeah I mean now we’re going to get you now we’re going down a different path but you know flag burning I love

1:05:48

the flag. I got one above me. That flag flew in Vodkkins. That’s why I have it there. That’s the flag that flew over the Vodkkins headquarters while I was in

1:05:54

Vodkin. Um, and I I I I love it. Um, I love the American flag. I former, you

1:06:00

know, Marine officer um officer of the day. I had to read the flag manual, know the laws, know how to treat the flag,

1:06:06

how to handle the flag, how to raise the flag, how to lower the flag, how to fold the flag, all the things. Uh, it’s the

1:06:11

living emblem of our country. The living emblem of our country. I didn’t say that. That’s the flag law. Um, and yet I

1:06:19

will defend somebody’s right to burn this living symbol of America because the Supreme Court has deemed that to be

1:06:25

constitutionally protected free speech. And I love my country so much that I’ll

1:06:30

stand by with tears in my eyes as you burn my flag and and say you have a right to do that. I disagree with you. I

1:06:38

resent you, but you have a right to do that. Um, but no, not in Donald Trump’s America. You know, we have a third

1:06:45

amendment that prohibits the quartering of soldiers in people’s homes, which means that it’s reflective of the notion

1:06:50

that we don’t want to live in a militarized society. Yet, Donald Trump now is sending troops into the major

1:06:56

cities of America to fight crime. But as Benjamin Franklin said, if you’re willing to sacrifice liberty for, you

1:07:04

know, security, then you deserve neither. And that’s where we are today. and the cities he sent him to aren’t

1:07:09

necessarily, you know, you have to be suspicious because they’re also the, you know, the heart of

1:07:17

the political opposition. So, he’s literally sending American troops to occupy cities where the greatest

1:07:23

opposition to Donald Trump exists. We live in a dictatorship. I mean, the

1:07:30

Constitutional Republic’s on the verge of being destroyed by this man who claims to be all about making America

1:07:37

great again. But the only thing that makes America great is the Constitution. We are a constitutional republic, not a

1:07:42

Trump dictatorship. Yet, this is the direction we’re headed down. I may get the FBI to visit me again because of

1:07:48

this, but so be it. There are things we’re dying for, and one of those is the Constitution of the United States of

1:07:54

America and what it means to be an American. And today, sadly, the American

1:07:59

people are a drift. You know, my wife, when she came here, had to take a test to become an American citizen, a test on

1:08:06

civics, on the Constitution. And the only pass, the passing grade is 100%. You’re not allowed to get any wrong. I

1:08:12

will tell you right now, if every American citizen took that test today, natural-born American, I dare say over

1:08:18

95% would fail. We don’t know what it means to be an American. We’ve lost touch with who we are, what we are.

1:08:25

This is why we get these policies that we have because real Americans would never support what’s going on in Israel. Real Americans who believe in human

1:08:32

rights, who believe in the dignity of mankind, all men are created equal.

1:08:37

You ever thought about that? So anyways, there’s that’s where we are. Sorry about it, man.

1:08:43

Tough topics. Yeah, it was amazing. Thank you so much,

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Scott, for being with us today. Great pleasure as always talking to you. Okay. Thanks a lot. Have a have a great

1:08:55

week. Great. Bye-bye.

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The Man from Lugansk

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Scott Ritter

Aug 28, 2025

In this episode of The Russia House I speak with Spiridon Kilinkarov, a longtime Ukrainian political figure from Lugansk who was forced to move to Russia in the aftermath of the Maidan events of 2014.

Transkripzioa:

Welcome to this special edition of the Russia House. We’re carrying out what we call People Diplomacy. I want to thank TASS for providing us this wonderful studio in their headquarters in downtown Moscow. And I want to thank the National Unity Club for helping organize it. And I want to thank Spyrdan Kalinkaro for coming back.

Thank you.

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The Journalist

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Scott Ritter

Aug 31, 2025

In this episode of The Russia House I interview Abbas Juma, a renowned Russian journalist who covers the Middle East, and get his perspective on the events that have recently transpired in that troubled region.

Transkripzioa:

Hello and welcome to this special edition of the Russia House. Here we are in downtown Moscow in the headquarters of the TASS News Agency. I want to give a thanks to the National Unity Club for putting this together. And I want to give a special thanks to my guest today, Juma Abbas. You’re a journalist. independent journalist,

Wonderful conversation. This has been the Russia House. Thanks for tuning in. And again, I want to thank the National Unity Club for making this happen. I want to thank TAS, but more importantly, I want to thank my guest. Thank you very much.

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