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Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter

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Scott Ritter: America Has Failed & Europe Will Collapse! | “Trump is a Threat to World Order!”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNTyhW-z7-A)

Eli Hassell talks to Scott Ritter, former United States Marines intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector.

Transripzioa:

0:00

Let me tell you the reality of Europe. What’s going to happen in the coming years if Europe decides to confront the

0:06

United States? We will crush you and then the European Union will collapse. The entirety of Europe, what Europe is

0:12

today, is completely dependent upon the United States. Scott Ret has worked as an intelligence

0:17

officer for the United States Marines and as a weapons inspector for the United Nations. Uh thank you so much for

0:24

joining, Scott. Let’s get straight into it. So, let’s talk about Greenland first of all. Uh so Trump really wants

0:30

Greenland. Uh he’s he’s threatened to put a 10% tariff on the European countries unless they agree to sell

0:37

slash give Greenland to him um to give it to America. And if they don’t agree,

0:42

he’s hinted towards military action. But just right now he’s just announced at Davos that he won’t do military action.

0:48

But you never really know with Trump. Um, in reaction to his threats, European Parliament seems like they’re going to suspend the new new trade deal that uh

0:55

they’ve been working with together with Trump, together uh with the US. Now, despite all of this, you’ve said that

1:02

you think Greenland is already a done deal. How come? H why do you think that?

1:08

Because the president of United States has said that he wants it. Um, and there’s no force in the world uh

1:15

position to prevent him from taking what he wants. Um I I don’t understand what

1:21

Europe thinks. Europe’s in an extraordinarily bad position primarily because of you know successive failed uh

1:29

policies. They have allowed themselves for decades to become completely subordinated to the United States

1:35

economically, politically, militarily. Um there is no genuine sovereignty in

1:40

Europe. They can sit there and meet and talk and plot, but at the end of the day, if they want a trade war with the

1:46

United States at a time when they have voluntarily severed their energy relationship with

1:53

Russia, allowing the United States to hijack their energy security, knowing

1:58

that we can strangle them in a heartbeat, I mean, come on. This is this is a tragic joke. I’m not happy about

2:05

this. I’m not sitting here extolling what President Trump is doing. and I condemn it in the harshest terms, but

2:10

the fact of the matter is there’s not a damn thing Europe can do to stop President Trump from taking Greenland.

2:17

Do you think he’s going to use military action? Well, you know, as you said, what the

2:23

president says one day is not necessarily what the president does the next. Um I think the president was

2:30

advised by um his national security adviserss to avoid uh pushing towards a

2:36

military confrontation with a NATO ally uh because this would be the

2:43

represent the immediate termination of the NATO alliance. Um and while that may be a desired outcome eventually for the

2:50

United States, uh I personally think it would be a wonderful outcome for the United States. um you know you don’t

2:57

jump off a cliff without a parachute and um you know we have a 80y year uh

3:03

transatlantic relationship uh that has defined uh you know the security architecture of uh Europe of the world

3:11

um and you just don’t terminate that without having a plan B and I don’t think Trump has a plan B the plan B is

3:18

you know fortress America um you know the the uh domination of the western hemisphere But we haven’t completely

3:26

consolidated our our position there yet. So I think uh and again this should be a

3:32

lesson to Europe. If you want a point of leverage, I just gave you one. Uh the NATO relationship. The United States

3:38

isn’t ready to divorce. Um and Europe should rapidly come up with a plan uh

3:44

for a Europeanonly security arrangement and then boot the United States the hell off your continent. Um but you’re not

3:50

going to do that because you don’t have political leadership. you don’t have courage, you don’t have anything. Um,

3:56

you’re pathetic. I I don’t mean to be too harsh, but Europe is a collective collection of pathetic leaders at the

4:03

head of pathetic states who are incapable of doing anything decisive.

4:08

Um, yeah. I mean, like like you spoke about, I mean, they’ve latched on to America and now that America is saying,

4:14

well, listen to us. You’ve got to do this thing. Give us Greenland, which Europe doesn’t really want to. Are you saying that Europe has no option but

4:21

just to listen to America because everything is relying on American uh companies? Everything in in Europe is

4:27

relying on America. You know, you always have options. Um if

4:32

you’re the 32year-old uh child still living in your parents’ basement, um

4:38

unemployed um eating mommy and daddy’s food, using mommy and daddy’s energy, and you know,

4:45

being secured by mommy and daddy’s home. Um, one would think you have very few

4:50

options. You do have an option. Get the hell out of the basement, go off, chart your own path, get your own job, make

4:55

your own way. Europe’s incapable of doing that right now because the entirety of Europe, what Europe is

5:01

today, is completely dependent upon the United States. The one aspect of freedom

5:07

that Europe had, the energy security that was provided by their relationship

5:12

with Russia has been terminated. Now Europe is committing suicide uh in Ukraine. I mean the dumbest place in the

5:19

world to commit suicide. I don’t know understand ideologically why Europe allows itself to uh be subjected to

5:26

revisionist history. This is a corrupt regime that has embraced a despicable

5:32

ideology. Um that is you know it’s a manufactured state historically.

5:39

That’s an accurate statement. And Europe’s going to commit suicide for this. Why? Because they were told by

5:46

daddy America that this was necessary uh that you know to sustain the NATO

5:52

relationship uh NATO needed an enemy and that enemy would be Russia. Well, it

5:57

turns out the enemy was the United States all along. Europe just didn’t realize it. I mean, you talk about here about uh the

6:04

need for Europe to become independent. So, I just want to read a quote for you that the European uh commission

6:09

president said yesterday at Davos. uh she said it’s time to build a new independent Europe and that the shift in

6:16

international order is not only seismic but is permanent and as well as that you start to see uh let’s say Canada who

6:22

used to think they were who thought they were allies with America the other day they made a trade deal with China uh

6:28

with a southern country they uh sorry an eastern country what they did was uh they opened trade barriers they removed

6:35

tariffs which Trump has been putting up so they said where else can we go to so they moved to China is this what’s

6:40

starting to happen where all these European countries are starting to realize, okay, we can’t do a deal with America. We somehow have to get

6:47

independent of America. And the only way to do that is to start partnering with China, with Russia, and those other

6:52

countries. There’s an awakening. There’s no doubt

6:58

about that. But let me I don’t want to predict the future. And first of all, I respect Canada’s sovereignty. Um I

7:05

respect Canada as a friend of the United States. Uh I mean they have been a you know loyal friend for a long time. Don’t

7:12

blame Canada for any um misperceptions of the equity of the relationship. It

7:18

was a relationship dictated by the United States for decades not dictated by Canada. Uh and suddenly to hold

7:24

Canada accountable for you know policies that are linked to president you know

7:30

previous presidential administrations I think is um intellectually unsound and unfair. But that’s what Trump is doing.

7:37

Um, but I just want to remind the Canadians, uh, reread the national security strategy document, please,

7:44

because as long as Donald Trump is the president of the United States, your trade relationship with China will not be allowed to stand, uh, unhindered. We

7:51

will crush you. We will destroy you. I also want Canada to take a look at a map and see how far away China is from

7:57

Canada and how close Canada is to the United States and understand the situation you are in.

8:04

geographic reality means that daddy who lives just south of the border owns you.

8:09

Uh and you’re not going to find freedom in the arms of an Asian lover thousands

8:15

of miles distance across the Pacific. And this is this is a harsh truth. Um

8:20

you know the everybody has come to the realization now. I mean again I I

8:26

couldn’t agree more with the conclusions reached by um you know the the head of

8:32

the European Commission. It’s an accurate statement. It’s a fully accurate statement but it’s totally divorced from reality. What the hell is

8:39

Europe going to do? I mean it you don’t have an economy. Let

8:44

me tell you the reality of Europe. What’s going to happen in the coming years if Europe decides to confront the

8:50

United States? We will crush you. And then the European Union will collapse and then Europe will be a ser you know a

8:57

collection of sovereign states many of whom are going to gravitate to the United States because of their weakness.

9:05

Um others will gravitate away and now Europe is deeply fractured and the United States will exploit exploit this

9:10

fracturing. I mean to be honest the best thing Europe could do right now is get out of NATO and join a defensive

9:16

alliance with Russia but they won’t do that. Um because they’ve been conditioned not to. Um, but you know, I

9:24

think Europe needs to get rid of its current political and economic elite. Everybody

9:30

who’s sitting in Davos today is an enemy of Europe. These aren’t the friends of Europe. These are the people that got

9:35

you where you are. Don’t forget that. They’re all sitting there today kneeling before King um afraid to do anything.

9:43

But these are the people that got you to where you are. Nobody else got you to where you are but

9:49

the elites gathered in Davos. And to pretend that they’re somehow going to lead you out of the problems they

9:56

created is absurd thinking. Europe has to redefine itself. It has to elect new

10:02

leadership and it has to chart a new economic course. One that doesn’t have

10:07

them linked to for instance a G7 relationship which is by definition a

10:14

subordinate relationship to the United States. declare independence. The problem with declaring independence is

10:20

um you can’t expect a free ride. You’re going to have to earn it. And I don’t think Europe’s prepared to earn anything

10:26

at this point. They continue to look for the handouts from the United States, handouts that will not be coming. So do

10:32

you think the future of the world of um of Europe is that they will start to get

10:37

divorced from America and start you know start to break up these NATO relationships the EU and um and you know

10:44

start to become much more of a multi-polar world maybe something that we saw in the 20th century uh where like

10:50

you know there’s one side that’s Russia and there’s one side is America maybe even maybe even something like the Cold War again I don’t know uh but do you

10:57

think that’s what’s mo mostly going to happen each country is going to go for itself I not like Europe. There won’t be

11:02

like a European block attached to America. That’s

11:08

that’s the way I see it. That doesn’t mean that’s the way I want to see it. Look, the dream of a United Europe was a

11:14

nice dream. It was a it was a nice dream. Um but it’s a failed dream

11:20

because uh the United Europe concept was completely dependent upon a security

11:26

infrastructure and an economic infrastructure dominated by the United States. Uh Europe thought they were

11:32

charting a path towards uh you know regional sovereignty and all they did is

11:38

um ensure their collective subordination uh to the United States. Um can they

11:46

recover? Look, stranger things have happened. Um, you know, is there a

11:51

leader or a collection of leaders out there in Europe that have yet to be defined who can emerge and unite Europe

11:58

and guide them out of this difficult situation they find? Yes, but the leaders aren’t named Mcronone. He’s a

12:04

failed leader of France. The leaders aren’t named Starmer. He’s a failed leader of England. The leaders aren’t

12:10

named Merge. He’s a failed leader of Germany. Europe today is governed by a collection of failed leaders.

12:18

There is no way to escape that conclusion. And these failed leaders are advised by economic adviserss who have

12:26

led Europe down this path of calamity. Who the hell thought it was a good idea

12:33

to cut yourself off from Russian energy without a viable plan B?

12:39

I mean this, you know, I’m not an economist. I’m not I’m just a simple marine, you know. I I don’t claim to

12:44

have any uh you know complex uh you know global financial transactional capacity

12:50

in my gourd. But I know that 2 plus 2 equals four. And um when you take a look

12:56

at Europe and you take a look at how Europe became successful uh especially in the 70s and 80s a large part of that

13:03

was because Europe wasn’t paying a premium for energy. Uh Europe was getting a good deal from the Russians

13:09

and Europe was also living off the lar of the United States in terms of security. The American underwriting of

13:16

NATO um helped liberate Europe of the need to spend trillions of dollars over

13:23

the years on defense. Um and so because of this, Europe was able to prosper. I

13:31

don’t I’m glad Europe prospered. I’m glad the

13:37

German workers were able to retire early with good pensions. I’m glad the French were able to reduce their work hours. I

13:43

I think it’s great that the quality of life in Europe went up. But the Europeans have to be realistic. That’s

13:49

the equivalent of the 30-year-old kid down in mother’s basement getting an

13:55

increase in their allowance. that you might appear to be wealthier,

14:01

but all it means is that you are forever beholden to mommy or daddy or whoever’s

14:06

paying your bills. And u that’s the reality of Europe today. America’s been underwriting your bills. Russia’s been

14:12

underwriting your bills. And what you’ve done now is cut Russia off and put yourself in a position where America now

14:19

ruled by again I can’t blame the Europeans. I I I

14:24

who the hell thought that the United States of America would be ruled by an

14:31

narcissistic egoomaniac who would replace constitutional rule with a cult

14:36

of personality. The speech he gave at Davos was an embarrassment. An

14:41

embarrassment to him, an embarrassment to Davos, an embarrassment to the

14:47

concept of law-based global order, and an embarrassment moreover to the American people. We are a constitutional

14:54

republic or we used to be. And yet we are governed by a man who says nothing matters to him. No law matters. Just his

15:01

own sense of morality. Who could have envisioned that? Was that on your bingo card? Wasn’t on mine. And

15:08

yet here we are. This is the reality that we face. We have an unprecedented threat to everything the world has stood

15:16

for for decades. And the threat is in the form of an American president. Who

15:24

would have thought that? No one. But it’s the problem we face. And

15:29

unfortunately, you know, as as critical as I am of Europe, understand, and I’m equally

15:34

critical of the American people. My god, what have we done to our republic? What have we done to our constitution? What

15:41

have we done? And as imperfect as we have been over the decades, we at least stood for something, something noble,

15:47

maybe never attainable. Maybe the shining city on the hill was just a pipe dream, but at least we dreamed big. And

15:54

the path that we wanted to get there was a path that was based upon principles. Today, we’ve just thrown all that away

16:02

for this this narcissistic orgy of egoomania, this modern-day Caligula that

16:10

rules over a failed state because America is a failed state. Because America is defined by the Constitution

16:17

and only by the Constitution and without the Constitution, we are nothing. We are failed. We may succeed on the ledgers

16:24

temporarily. Again, I don’t know how sustainable anything Donald Trump does is in reality, but America has failed.

16:31

So, as critical as I am of Europe, understand I’m as equally critical or even more so because this hits home

16:37

about America and what America has done. Uh just so just a question about the last question about Greenland. Why does

16:44

Trump even want Greenland in the first place? Denmark said you could put as many troops there as you want to. I think they used to have something like

16:50

15 25,000. Now they only have like 150 troops. But why do they even want to own

16:56

Greenland in the first place when they could just do whatever they want with it? Ego, let’s let’s be dead straight honest

17:04

here. Uh, as you what you said is absolutely correct. If the United States wants to build bases on Greenland, we

17:11

can build as many bases as we want. We can build whatever we want on Greenland. Uh, they will sign whatever treaty needs

17:18

to be signed to give us the ability to do this. There’s no objection to this whatsoever.

17:25

You know, Donald Trump speaks of, you know, Russia and China. See,

17:30

you do understand that I got debanked the other day. The US government, uh, you know, is continuing their attack.

17:36

So, uh, the more I speak, the more likely it is I’m going to be debanked in the future, but what the hell? Um,

17:44

you know, the the the fact is we are dealing with one of the most ignorant men in the world, advised by some of the

17:49

most ignorant people in the world. um this make America first, this make America great again uh you know grouping

17:57

that he’s surrounded himself with are just a collection of sickopants uh who

18:02

don’t represent the best of America, they be represent what’s best for Donald Trump. And so he has people whispering

18:09

in his ears about that which can make him great. Uh people who look at a map and say, “Look, Mr. president, we could

18:16

turn this big mass here into ours and we’ll have access to the Arctic Sea and

18:21

we’ll be able to block the Chinese and the Russians, but that’s just ignorant. I mean, yes, uh, you have access, but we

18:28

already had access. You see, we’re part of an Arctic organization. We’re part of a NATO alliance. That means that

18:35

Greenland’s waters are our waters. We have a collective responsibility to defend them. We don’t need to own

18:41

Greenland to, you know, to to to speak of that. Every argument this president makes is a lie.

18:49

Greenland’s resources, you know, the the the the the economic potential of Green Green Greenland will not be fulfilled in

18:56

Donald Trump’s lifetime. I mean, you know, we’re not going to suddenly turn Greenland into, you know, this mass

19:03

producer of rare earth minerals that’s going to, you know, challenge the Chinese. Uh that’s just another lie that

19:10

the president is telling and his advisers are telling. This is about ego. This is about Donald. Look, the Dimmitri

19:18

Pascov said it best, I think, the other day. He said, “If Donald Trump takes

19:24

Greenland, he will go down in history.”

19:30

He said, he didn’t say if this was going down in history in a good way or a bad way. He simply said he will go down in

19:37

history. And that’s all Donald Trump wants. Donald Trump wants to have his

19:44

name carved in some monument somewhere as a great leader. This is about his

19:50

ego. And the moment a president of the United States allow his ego to get in

19:55

the way of what’s best for the American people, the American nation, and indeed the world that he’s supposed to be the

20:01

leader of, um, it means that the world is no longer what we thought it was. In

20:08

Davos today, we saw a mentally ill person, a man who is

20:14

infected with narcissistic personality disorder of the worst kind. And because

20:21

this mentally ill man has the power of the United States behind him, he

20:26

represents a threat not just to the American people, not just to the Inuit of Greenland, not just to the Kingdom of

20:31

Denmark, not just to NATO, not just to Europe, but the entire world. If you don’t if you didn’t listen to that

20:38

speech and say, “Oh my god, what is happening?” Then you weren’t listening to that speech.

20:43

Uh you spoke there about Trump’s ego and the other day, I think it was yesterday, uh Trump asked Mron to come on his uh

20:51

peace board for Gaza and Macron said no and then he got so personally insulted uh that Macron said no that he

20:56

threatened to put a 200% tariff on uh French wine. That just shows that and

21:03

we’ll talk about much more about Gaza later hopefully if we have a chance. But I just just one just one more thing I just have

21:09

to mention because you know it’s almost like we’re writing a comedy skit except it’s not. But this president wrote a

21:16

letter to the prime minister of Norway chastising him for the fact that the

21:22

Nobel Peace Prize committee didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize even though he

21:28

deserved it because he stopped eight wars. And therefore, because this man of peace was snubbed with the peace prize,

21:36

he’s going to choose war is his option now. And I mean, first of all, just the

21:41

childlike nature of that thinking. I mean, a third grader couldn’t come up with more childlike uh behaviors. The

21:49

ignorance that’s manifest in that letter, as if the prime minister of Norway had anything to do whatsoever

21:56

with the selection committee decisions made for who got the Nobel Prize.

22:03

We’re dealing with ignorance on a level that’s never been seen

22:09

before. Sure, we may have had presidents who may not have known everything, but they surrounded themselves with

22:15

adviserss whose job it was to know these things. So that when the president interfaced with the public at large,

22:22

especially on a global u in a global setting, he did so in a way that implied

22:29

intelligence, implied knowledge, implied fact-based certainty. This president is

22:35

just a joke. A joke. A tragic joke. I just felt I had to throw that in there

22:42

because it’s um I’ve never been more depressed being an American. I love my

22:48

country. I love my country deeply. I would die for my country and I will die for my country.

22:55

But this man doesn’t lead my country anymore because my country is a

23:00

constitutional republic. this man behaves if he’s some sort of deranged

23:06

syphiltic emperor of past times. Yeah, as you spoke about that letter

23:11

there, it’s it’s just crazy that the president of the United States would send a foreign leader a letter saying, “I don’t care about peace anymore

23:18

because I didn’t get a peace prize.” Crazy. But I want to talk about his speech today. So, in his speech in Davos, he said something very

23:24

interesting about Europe. He said that like, you know, in his national security

23:30

uh thing that he did a couple of months back, I think it was, he said that he considers Europe as um I think I think

23:36

it was like a civiliza going through a civilizational collapse or he used wording similar to that and sort of

23:42

civilizational eraser. That’s the one. Yeah. And but yet today he said that he needs uh Europe to be

23:50

strong and united because a strong and united west is actually good for America. So I guess my question is to

23:56

you. Does America see Europe as the enemy or as friends?

24:02

Does America or does Trump? Trump. Yeah. Because it’s two different things.

24:08

Um,

24:13

Trump, your question implies the existence of principled values

24:22

that are premised on knowledge and information, facts.

24:28

That’s not how this president operates. Look, if we’re to look at it from a

24:33

logical standpoint, the United States is comprised of

24:41

refugees from almost every nation in the world. But the heart and soul of

24:47

America’s history is derived from the

24:53

immigration of Europeans to the United States who brought their cultures, their values uh to the United States and then

25:01

adapted to the reality of the American Constitution. But we are a reflection of European

25:08

values and therefore we should always have close and personal relations with

25:13

Europe because we’re relatives, you know, and relatives are allowed to disagree, but relatives should never

25:21

fight. Um, even though we’ve gone over twice in the last century or so to fight

25:27

Europe’s wars, the whole purpose of the post-war order was to make sure that

25:32

that didn’t happen again. Um, and that should be the goal and objective of the United States. I’m not against a united

25:39

Europe. Not at all. Uh, and I think the the vision of a united Europe is a noble

25:46

thing and it’s good for America because it promotes stability. Um,

25:51

Donald Trump doesn’t stand for any of that. I mean, listen to the nonsense he was blathering on about Switzerland and

25:59

tariffs and the the arrogance. He couldn’t even he didn’t know was she a president was

26:05

she a prime minister I don’t know but it was a lady and she was very aggressive to me and she you know and she said please Mr. President don’t do this and I

26:11

I said I’m going to do it and I did it and then she said don’t do it and then I decided not to do it and it was purely

26:17

transactional based upon the the notion that uh Switzerland was stealing $ 41 billion

26:24

from America in terms of a trade deficit that had to be balanced through tariffs.

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Um it it it is it was dollars. The only thing that mattered to Donald Trump was dollars.

26:36

There was nothing in what he talked about in the relationship with Switzerland. While he did say, you know, great country, great people, wonderful

26:43

people. Wait, but you’re only great because of me. You’re only great because of America. Nothing else you stand for.

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Swiss democracy, Swiss neutrality, the history of Switzerland. None of that matters. Only me. me, the great Donald

26:58

Trump, and the United States that I lead. Uh, we made you, we are you, you

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can’t exist without us. That’s his attitude towards all of

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Europe. And if you didn’t pick that up as a European, I’m sorry. You might want to have to go back to university and

27:15

take a couple classes in logic and reasoning. Um, this is the sad state of affairs. I

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mean, look, economic relationships are important. I mean, we’ve been struggling. Every nation struggles to

27:28

try and find a balance, especially in a globalist environment where we’re supposed to be, you know, we we we we’ve

27:34

decided that trade barriers aren’t good for the economy. We need free trade. Um,

27:40

you know, market economy, etc. We’ve been struggling with that because tariffs do exist. Europeans impose

27:47

tariffs on us and we impose tariffs on the Europeans and we’ve been doing this for a long time. But we try and find a

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balance. We and because we’re allies, the United States has often

28:01

accepted a trade relationship that’s not to our exclusive benefit so as to help

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out our allies in you know economically and and thereby politically I mean because there’s a direct relationship

28:16

between economic stability and political stability and of course we want political stability in uh in Europe. So

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what this president has said is none of that matters. The only thing that matters is that this relationship is to

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the exclusive benefit of the United States because we made you. Um and this applies

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to everybody. There’s not a European nation that it doesn’t apply to. And so

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we have to be careful. I mean, Donald Trump’s speech, I’m all

28:50

over the map here, but I’m just so disturbed by what I just heard. Um, his speeches are amazing things because

28:57

they’re written by speech writers. You know, he’s reading from a teleprompter, but

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every third word is adlib. So, he’ll he’ll read us and you can tell where speech writers are because he’s saying

29:10

things that Donald Trump Yeah. Yeah. He’s saying things that Donald Trump would never say. as we move

29:16

forward collectively to a greater world, but a world that’s only great because of America. See, that’s his adlib. You’re

29:22

only great because of me. I look around this room and I see many people. I mean, huh, you guys are like 50, you know,

29:29

there are 50 people wanting to get this seat for everyone and you guys are smart. I mean, your IQ’s are genius. You’re here. You know, that’s not

29:36

written by a speech writer. This is Donald Trump’s thinking. So please, all the Trump watchers out there, don’t get

29:43

confused by the words written by a speech writer, focus exclusively

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on the ad libs of Donald Trump. And that’ll tell you exactly where this

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mind, his mind is. And it’s all about promoting himself as the master of the

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world and having relationships that are to the exclusive benefit of the United

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States. How Europe fits into that is yet to be seen, but it’s not as an equal partner

30:15

or anything. Look, again, you have to listen to what he says. Europe has opened the floodgates to immigration

30:22

that have allowed I mean low IQ people

30:27

to come in. Um and then he you know then he you know conflates that or you know

30:33

relates that to the experience uh in Minnesota you know and now we have the

30:38

Somali who apparently are higher IQ because they are better thieves than we thought they would be. But you

30:44

understand the inherent racism that exists in in what this man is saying. It’s an us versus them. Um it’s a white

30:52

versus dark uh attitude. And basically he’s saying that Europe is not as white

30:57

as it needs to be. That Europe needs to purge itself of you know the racial

31:02

impurities that Europe is allowed to come in through immigration. And there are certain nations and this was spelled

31:08

out in the national security strategy document as well where they said there are nations whose demographic changes

31:14

are such that they would not qualify for NATO membership at the time that NATO was created. I don’t think NATO ever had

31:21

a uh a racial purity test. So again that just shows the inclination. But what

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he’s basically saying is, you know, when NATO was created and you thought of

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Germany, we all know what a German looks like, white. According to Hitler, they

31:38

should be blonde and blue-eyed. Um, you know, not all of them are. But the point is, we know what a German looks like. We

31:43

know what Brits are supposed to look like, white. We know what Swedes are supposed to look like, white. French

31:48

people are white. Um, this is the racist truth of what Trump is saying. And today

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when you go to Europe, you don’t see, you know, the the homogeneous uh white

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population. You see something different. And this is disturbing to Donald Trump.

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Um and Europe needs to reflect on that. Don’t believe the words written by the

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speech writer. That’s just pretty garbage thrown out there to confuse. Listen to the ad libs of Donald Trump.

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That’s where the truth lies. And the truth is very ugly.

32:24

So, we’ve talked a lot about Trump’s relationship with Europe. Let’s move on to talk about Trump’s relationship with

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Russia. Now, you’ve said that you think Trump uh well, the America, their goal with Russia is to have a subordinated

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Russia needing at Vladimir Putin removed from power. Is that Trump’s goal? Does

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he want a regime change? What does what does he want with Russia?

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I used to, you know, look, I’m somebody who believes in good relations between the United States and Russia for a

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number of reasons. Uh, first and foremost, because I want to stay alive and Russia has the largest number of

33:03

nuclear weapons in the world. And if we get into a uh confrontation that leads to military engagement, we all die. And

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so I have a very selfish reason behind wanting good relations with Russia. But this isn’t a st a situation where I hold

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my nose and go, “Well, this relationship stinks, but for the sake of survival, I’m just going to hold my nose, throw on

33:23

some perfume, and continue forth.” I like Russia. I’ve been to Russia many

33:30

times. I worked in the Soviet Union back in the 1980s and early 1990s. Um,

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I have appreciation for Russian history, Russian culture. I’m an imperfect speaker of the Russian language. Um, but

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it’s not that you have to you the concept of having good relations with Russia doesn’t require a giant leap.

33:50

It’s actually one of the most natural things one can imagine once you get to know the Russians. The problem is that

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uh because Russia has been painted as an ideological enemy, an economic enemy of

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the West, you know, and now a geopolitical opponent or adversary of the West. Um, it’s the same principle,

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you know, in during World War II. Um, in order to fight the Japanese,

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we had to fight the Japs, the NIPS, and you had to dehumanize them. We

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called them monkeys so we could kill them. And it’s the same thing when you fight the Germans. They become the Hun.

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You know, they’re no longer humans. They’re something different. You give them a name that dehumanizes them so you

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can kill them. So you can confront them without being um infected with basic

34:41

principles of humanity where if you see somebody needing help, you reach out your hand to help regardless of what

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color they are, regardless of what language they speak. No, when you go to war, when you have an adversary that you’re willing to confront militarily,

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you have to dehumanize them. And Russophobia is just that process.

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Russophobia is a infection, an intellectual infection that u the the

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west gives itself so that we can confront Russia because and the reason why we have to infect ourselves and I’m

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just being dead on I mean I don’t mean to put you on a on a in a Have you been to Russia? No, I’ve never been to Russia.

35:19

Okay. Um and I’m not going to ask you what your opinion is because it’s it doesn’t matter. But my point is then you don’t know Russia and you don’t know

35:25

anything about Russia. You may think you do. You may have read books, seen movies, etc. But until you go to Russia,

35:31

until you meet the Russian people, until you sit down and break bread with them, until you immerse yourself in their

35:38

culture and their traditions, and you realize that they’re not perfect, but

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they’re not bad either, that they’re the easiest people to get along with in the

35:48

world today. And I have been all over the world. The Russians are not hard to get along with. You just have to treat

35:54

them with respect and be respectful of who they are and what they are. They’re not seeking to dominate anybody. Um, but

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we’re not allowed to tell that truth. We have to posture the Russians as some sort of great evil because how do we

36:07

justify the existence of NATO? I mean, Dwight D. Eisenhower when NATO was formed in 19 in 1951, he said if

36:14

American troops are still in Europe in 10 years time, then this exercise has

36:22

failed. that exercise being NATO. And yet here we are 80 years later. Uh

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NATO is a failed there’s no reason for NATO to exist. It was it was created on

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you know a a a a artificial exaggeration of a Soviet threat that

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didn’t exist a misunderstanding. uh George Kennan’s long telegram uh which he wrote in February of 1946

36:49

uh which was used by the Truman administration to create the Truman doctrine one of containment um in

36:55

confronting the Soviet Union ideologically and economically transitioning into military containment

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through NFC68 passed in 1950. Tenan later reflecting back said it was a mistake that they

37:08

misunderstood what he wrote. So the Cold War was a mistake. A mistake for what reason? Well, let’s go back to the root

37:15

cause of long telegram. Kennan wasn’t asked to write a reflection on the

37:20

nature of the Soviet threat to Western society. He was asked a simple question by the Department of Treasury. Why

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aren’t the Russians buying into the International Monetary Fund in the World Bank? Why are the Russians rejecting a

37:34

Marshall Plan type of, you know, uh, you know, effort that that they could help

37:39

them rebuild? And the answer was because the Soviet Union didn’t want to subordinate its economy to the west.

37:45

Simple. They wanted economic sovereignty. Well, we couldn’t allow them to have that. Um, and so the the

37:53

whole cold war was premised online. Then what we did is we used the cold war to shape

38:00

a European reality. NATO, I mean, come on. People have to think hard here. Go

38:05

back and study your history. You know that Germany was a Nazi state that we defeated during the Second World

38:10

War. Most people I think today tend to forget that when they listen to U. Mertz talk about the remilitarization of

38:17

German society. Normally that one would that should elicit you know horrific

38:22

revulsion on anybody who knows the history of Germany. They would say never again. Um but no they’re like no that’s

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that’s a good thing because of Russia. And again the idea that Germany is going to remilitarize to confront Russia means

38:34

you are absolutely ignorant of history. Um, but the the point is the Germans

38:39

were never denazified. It’s just a statement. Do you think till today they’re still not denazified?

38:45

They’re not denazified. The same look the the the

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to create the bundes they had to resurrect the Vermach

38:57

inclusive of German generals who were guilty of horrific war crimes. We know

39:02

this to be the case. It’s it’s not even debatable. We know that many of the

39:07

German generals who were appointed uh into NATO positions were convicted of war crimes and they should have been put

39:14

to death or imprisoned for life. But um I think it was Mcclo uh the American

39:21

commasar that came in and took over. He pretty much oversaw the pardoning of them all, the whitewashing of them all.

39:28

Eisenhower set up a board of American generals who worked with German generals to publish their memoirs in a way that

39:34

purged them of any responsibility for the crimes of the Second World War instead focusing on the pure military

39:41

art of what they did. Um that is whitewashing. The industrialists who used slave labor

39:49

were allowed to not only stay in position but to thrive economically. and many of the Nazis who had skill sets

39:56

that uh we we wanted we brought to the United States and cleansed um you know

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so Germany never denazified they just simply um put on a different suit you

40:08

know they they took off the swastika put on the penstripes and uh and then sat there and um and pretended to behave but

40:17

deep down inside the Germans still have the same ambitions and we see the ambitions playing out today the concept

40:23

of Germany as a European power, the concept of Germany as being the dominant European power, um the concept of

40:29

Germany being the dominant military power. Um you know, these these are

40:35

there’s a direct connectivity between what many Germans now and you see it’s it’s it’s horrible what you see the on

40:42

on on on on you know on on social media where people are starting now to come out and say, “Oh, you know, America

40:49

fought on the wrong side. We fought on the side of the Bolevixs. we should have fought on the side of the Germans because the real enemy is the Jew. Um,

40:57

wait a minute guys, are we having this conversation? And the answer is yes, we are having this

41:02

conversation. There are people out there having this conversation and are growing in numbers. So no, Germany was never

41:09

effectively denazified. Um, NATO was always an artificial

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construct um pushed on the United States to be honest by Winston Churchill. um

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you know and and the need to uh sustain British Empire by creating an enemy

41:27

worthy of empire um and the United States bought into it. remember that what what uh what was it uh Lord um

41:36

h I can’t remember his name uh the first uh secretary general of the United Nations a British u um officer um

41:46

Hastings Ward Hastings what is the purpose of NATO to keep the

41:52

Americans in to keep the Russians out and to keep the Germans down. Um, wow.

42:01

Really? That’s what NATO was about? And the answer is that’s what it was about. But then at the end of the cold war,

42:08

why did NATO continue? Why did we because it became more than just this artificial artifact, the

42:16

artifice to, you know, shape Europe. It became a center of political and

42:22

economic power from which the European Union arose, by the way. Um, and in

42:28

order to sustain it, you need an enemy. And the enemy was the Soviet Union.

42:34

Um, but it we had to keep it as Russia. But in the decade of the 90s, after the

42:40

Soviet Union collapsed, we collectively put our foot on the Russian neck and we demanded that Russia be subordinate. We

42:46

tried to destroy Russia, to break Russia apart. Um, again, study your Russian

42:52

history. Go to Russia and talk to the Russians about the decade of the 1990s. It’s a horrific time. Millions of

42:59

Russians lost their lives. Millions of Russians lost their lives. Millions of Russians lost their lives. The life

43:07

expectancy plummeted. Suicide was outrage. the pinchioneers, the people who won the Second World War, who

43:14

defeated Nazi Germany were, you know, fell prey to predatory criminal uh

43:20

aspects of Russian society that emerged in the lawlessness that exists in the decade of 1990s. Russians were taught to

43:27

hate Russia. Russians were taught to revere the West. Russians were taught to turn their back on the on their culture,

43:33

on their history, on their values. Uh and this was good for the West. This is what we wanted from the Russians. Then

43:40

Vladimir Putin came into power and said, “No, it’s not the way it’s going to work.” And he taught Russians to fall in love with Russia again, to respect

43:46

themselves, to stand up, not to dominate the world, but to stand as equals among the world. And those in the West who

43:53

previously had their foot on the neck of Russia resented this. And so we’ve been looking to destroy Russia and get rid of

44:00

Vladimir Putin ever since. Donald Trump

44:05

believes in that. Again, you you just have to listen. You have to look at the reality. He’s a businessman. So

44:11

businessmen not only say things, but they do things to back up what they want to do. If you have a business plan of action, you should you put um building

44:20

blocks in place that that lead you in that direction. He claims to be want to be friends with Russia. But what has he

44:25

ever done to be friends with Russia? Name one thing he’s done to be friends with Russia.

44:30

His first term ended with him saying, “I have been harder on Russia than any other president.” This is a man who said

44:36

he wants to be friends with Russia. I’ve been harder on them. During his first term, he allowed the CIA to build 20

44:42

bases inside Russia, inside Ukraine that were focused on bringing Russia down.

44:49

That’s not a friend of Russia. Today, he has a secretary of treasurer who says his sole goal with Russia is to collapse

44:56

the Russian economy. That’s not a friend with Russia. He tried to kill the

45:01

Russian president on December 29th by having the CIA work with the Ukrainian

45:06

send 91 drones against the Russian president residency in Baldai. That’s

45:11

not friends. So no, this president is 100% committed to fulfilling the same

45:18

policy objectives of his predecessors predecessors uh to strategically defeat Russia, to

45:24

collapse Russia, and to get rid of Vladimir Putin. So there’s two main things really that to look all of that

45:30

and if we have time maybe talk about Gaza but I don’t think we do. Um so I so the first thing is about Germany. So my

45:37

my grandmother um I think her her parents went through the Holocaust my great-grandparents and I would never

45:43

talk to my grandmother really anything about positive about Germany because I know if I mentioned to her and it brings

45:49

back all those memories about Nazi Germany it’s really hurtful like I think I mentioned before about all the cars

45:54

they make and you know she gets very upset. So um but I don’t know that much about Germany and but I’ve never I

46:00

haven’t been through that and I’ve never seen what you’re talking about the Nazification but I guess I’ve got to look into that. Um the second thing is

46:07

also about um let me before let me just quick throw a story. I know we’re time is important

46:13

here but I don’t want to but again just on that I lived in Germany. My dad was stationed in West Germany and

46:19

I actually graduated high school in Germany. Uh when we first moved to Germany, we lived in the tiny village of

46:24

Shalodenbach, which is u located outside of Ramstein, the greater Kaiser Slaughter area. Um and I made friends

46:32

with a uh a German teenager my same age, and we’d go out and kick the soccer ball

46:38

around, all that. And one day he invited me, he’d invite me into his house, as kids are want to do. You know, you go

46:43

raid the refrigerator and and all that stuff. One day I I I was taken down to the basement.

46:49

The basement was a shrine to Nazi Germany. The basement had all the war paraphernia of his grandfather, his

46:56

father, because this is in the 1970s, so the war wasn’t that far distant. Um, and

47:02

I’m talking about Nazi flags, photographs of the soldiers deployed,

47:07

um, medals, the whole thing laid out there. Uh, and when his parents came home and they saw that I was down in the

47:12

basement, they kicked me out of the house and I was never invited back again. And to me that just spoke

47:18

volumes. Um I mean we we’d go to Garmish

47:23

where the uh where where the Eagle’s Nest was. And as you walk up to the Eagles Nest, Hitler’s thing in Burchch’s

47:28

garden. Um there were men on the side who again it’s the 1970s. Um these men

47:35

are in their 50s which means that um they were in their 20s during the war

47:41

which means they fought in the war. And um at that time it was illegal to possess any paraphernalia that had the

47:48

swastika or any German things on it. Um and they were selling Nazi coins and so

47:54

they come up and they they try and sell you and some of them were selling Nazi metals. So these were Nazis

47:59

selling things they weren’t supposed to sell not because they needed it because they were profiting from the glorification the secret glorification

48:06

of the Nazi past which exists in Germany. Um, you know, this is just the

48:11

the reality of Germany. Um, it’s something the Germans forever have to guard against. Uh, it I’m I’m sorry,

48:19

Germany, but you are a prisoner of your past. Um, your grandmother has every

48:24

right to be angry with the Germans and to never forgive the Germans. That

48:30

doesn’t mean that we have to destroy them forever and punish them forever, but we must hold them to account and we

48:36

must remind them that their society, their people, their race um lost faith

48:43

with humanity and um we can never allow them to go down that path where they can repeat

48:49

those errors. And yet that’s what’s happening today. It’s happening today.

48:55

Uh, so I’m on I’m on uh Eli Hassel’s grandmother’s side. Um, I I

49:02

think the Germans have to be treated with a great deal of skepticism. Okay. And the second thing I wanted to

49:08

mention to you as well about what you just said before is about Russia. Now, like you asked me, I’ve never been to

49:14

Russia. Um, I’ve never been to Russia. You’ve lived there for two and a half years, I believe, when you were working for the United Nations. Um,

49:20

no, for me, I worked for the United States. I was there implementing a bilateral treaty, the intermediate nuclear force treaty between the United

49:27

States of America and the Soviet Union. Okay. So it was United States, not United Nations. Um, so you lived there

49:33

for a while. So you of course know much more than me. You you know Russian language like you said somewhat. Um now

49:40

so I guess from my perspective you know I I live in the west and I’ve always seen uh you know human rights

49:46

organizations and countries saying how uh how Vladimir Putin and Russia as a

49:52

whole have bad human rights abuses uh you know push down on opposition voices.

49:58

How would you respond to all of that? Well, I would I would start by pointing

50:04

out that um let’s go to 1994 um and the second long telegram written

50:11

by um a gentleman named Mary uh an American diplomat in the embassy of the United States where he reflects on

50:17

American policy and he said that um you know we are treat we are destroying the

50:24

the ability for Russia to build democratic foundations by overemphasizing a market economy. enemy

50:30

that’s dependent upon the most undemocratic leader imaginable, Boris Yeltson. Um, and that he said, you know,

50:38

we keep sending Americans over to be the savior of Russia who know nothing about Russia and they come over here and they

50:43

spout nonsense and garbage. Um, and it’s destroying Russia. Uh, and that, you

50:49

know, we will be we the West collectively will be responsible for what Russia uh becomes. He said that the

50:56

the the salvation of Russia, this is Mr. very sick. The salvation of Russia will come in the form of Russian nationalism.

51:03

Um that teaches Russians to respect Russia again and that responds

51:09

exclusively to the needs of Russia, the legitimate needs of Russia, not dictated by uh western uh market economists, but

51:16

dictated by the needs of the people. Um that’s what Vladimir Putin is. I mean,

51:22

Mary predicted Putin. But see, notice that Mary’s spin is that Vladimir Putin is a natural byproduct of Russian

51:29

reality. Um, now Putin came in, and I’m not going to pretend that Putin’s

51:34

perfect, but let’s just be clear. He inherited a Russia that had been destroyed by a decade of abuse at the

51:42

hands of the United States, who empowered entire classes of oligarchs who stole the collective wealth of the

51:47

Russian people for their exclusive benefit. Putin had to tame that beast.

51:54

All right. So, the first thing he told the oligarchs is the money you have is your money. I can’t undo that. But the

52:01

money you make in the future is the money it belongs to Russia. You have to reinvest it in Russia. And two, stay the

52:06

hell out of politics. You’re not going to be allowed to take your stolen wealth and leverage that into political gain.

52:14

Uh Mikuel Kot Kodorski, I think, uh thought differently and he lost his uh

52:20

his company and was put in jail. Now, you’re going to say, “Oh, that’s human rights violation.” No, the man was a criminal. He stole the money of Russian

52:28

people, a thief, and he was told to stay the hell out of politics, and he didn’t.

52:34

So, he paid the price. Is that a human rights violation? Hell no. The human rights violation, we allow the oligarchs

52:40

to continue to steal from the Russian people, from the Russian nation, from the Russian Federation. Now, Vladimir

52:48

Putin believed in democracy. still does. But

52:53

how can you have a democracy when the West destroyed, again, I want to bring you back to Mary’s Long Telegram, the

53:00

West destroyed Russia’s ability to build democratic institutions. There were no viable democratic institutions in Russia

53:07

when Vladimir Putin became president. Every institution that existed was by

53:13

design subordinated to the United States, controlled by the United States, controlled by Europe. Putin had to start

53:19

over again to rebuild the institutions that the West didn’t allow. And that’s not me making it up. That’s not Putin

53:25

making it up. That’s a senior American diplomat saying this straight up. And he

53:31

was right. How do you begin to build a political opposition, which Putin said we need? He

53:37

said we absolutely have to have viable political opposition when the CIA and MI6

53:43

is funding it. because now it’s not a political opposition. You become a paid agent of a foreign

53:49

power who’s seeking to do what? Collapse Russia, eliminate Vladimir Putin. So the

53:56

human rights organizations too, understand this, they were funded by the West to promote not genuine human

54:04

rights, but to bring down Vladimir Putin across the board. There’s not a single example that you can say of a major

54:11

non-governmental organization that had clean hands in Russia. They were funded by the National Endowment for Democracy,

54:18

which we know is just simply an adjunct for the CIA. They admit it in their founding documents that their job was to

54:24

do the uh political covert action that the CIA used to do, but now they’re

54:30

going to disguise it as democracy. Um, over and over and over again, we see

54:35

this. There’s Noni. I mean, I know he made a movie and everybody watch it and they think he’s God’s gift. Well, he’s a

54:41

CIA asset recruited by Michael McFall. He was groomed by a CIA operative who was brought in from uh the Ivy League,

54:48

set up a a a a parlor in Moscow where she brought people in, did it uh

54:54

identified them. His name was given to McFall. He was sent to the United States for a six-month recruitment thing, brought back to Russia to do the bidding

55:01

of the United States. Fact. Fact. And yet everybody treats him as if

55:06

he’s a legitimate he was a racist pig who my wife is Georgian. And he called

55:13

Georgians cockroaches. And he said that the way you deal with Caucasian immigrants is to shoot them.

55:21

And this is the man that the West is embracing as the paradigm of democracy.

55:26

No, he was handpicked by the CIA to do a job. His job was to create the um the

55:32

the the argument that Vladimir Putin was a corrupt leader um leading a corrupt

55:37

society and that uh there needed to be change. But what change were they promoting? It was after all Noni’s

55:44

deputy that met with an MI6 operative in Moscow saying I need $10 million to carry out your bidding. That’s

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democracy. It’s not democracy. And that’s the problem.

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We are critical of Russia because Russia is not playing our game. We’re critical of Russia because Russia refuses to do

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that which we demand they do. But you know, Joe Biden went to Russia in March of 2011 as part of the so-called Russian

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reset. He gave a speech at Moscow State University where he spoke of the

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wonderful relationship that’s enjoyed between United States and Russia. But it came down to the following. Russia can

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only thrive if it agrees to enter into a market economy dominated by Western

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venture capitalists. That we will open up the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to Russia um and allow

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them to thrive. But before that can happen, Russia has to make democratic changes. And what changes did we want?

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We wanted Vladimir Putin out and we wanted Dmitri Muve in. Why did we want

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Vladimir Putin out? because he wouldn’t play our game. Why do we want to midvid? Because there was a perception at the

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time that he would become Boris Yeltson 2.0 that he would allow American

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investors back into the Russian economy so that we can repeat the control of the Russian society that we had in the

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1990s. That’s the real state of affairs. That’s what is it. That’s what we’re talking about here. Don’t be confused by

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talks of you know you know a thriving market and a thriving democracy. It’s all a control mechanism used by the

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United States to achieve uh the domination of Russia, to uh reassert

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American dominance over Russia that we enjoyed in the 1990s. That’s what it’s all about. So, no, I reject outright.

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I’ve been to Russia. I’m telling you right now, there’s more free speech in Russia than there is in Germany. There’s

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more free speech in Russia than there is in the United Kingdom. There’s more free speech in Russia than there is in the United States.

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You can speak freely in Russia. You just can’t take the money of the CIA and speak freely in Russia.

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Well, thank you so much for your time, Scott. Thank you. Well, thanks for having

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1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)