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that’s one of the main objectives of the

0:01

croa city hall was you know first of all

0:04

to disrupt the elections but also to

0:05

create uh a condition where Russian

0:08

society would start to unravel as the

0:11

Russians turned on the immigrants and

0:13

you started having these uh you know

0:16

these the various crises that thing

0:18

could be exploited because now you have

0:19

an you know a a segment of society that

0:23

uh now feels under attack and they may

0:26

now be induced into turning to Isis or

0:30

other Islamic fundamentalists to protect

0:32

themselves and now you have this fight

0:34

Russia’s an old hand at this they’ve

0:36

done they’ve done this they fought you

0:38

know these guys before in chchchchia

0:40

they fight them in in dagistan it’s not

0:42

their first rodeo so to speak but this

0:45

is the Strategic objective behind the

0:47

the crocus City Hall attack is to create

0:50

um a a sense of crisis between U

0:53

Russians and um Central agent immigrate

0:58

populations yeah I know I’ve I’ve kept

1:00

you longer than uh requested Scott but

1:04

maybe lastly on this I found Putin’s

1:08

response to this attack very interesting

1:11

and the ongoing response of course laser

1:14

focus on uh who is behind it right so so

1:20

initially I mean of course I I believe

1:21

there’s been lots of intelligence the

1:23

investigative committee has already uh

1:25

been doing a lot of work around um who

1:28

were the pay masters of this

1:30

operation and it’s likely we’re going to

1:32

find out who that is in some capacity uh

1:36

soon but I wanted your comment on the

1:41

political reaction from Putin was we’re

1:43

humanistic and he denounced a certain

1:46

kind of Russian nationalism which has

1:49

the risk of stoking these exact tensions

1:52

as you mentioned where uh there are

1:55

maybe a certain segment of the

1:57

population I don’t know how large which

1:59

sees uh Russia for Russians only when

2:03

Russia happens to be one of the most

2:05

diverse countries in the world with more

2:07

ethnic groups than even China I did not

2:08

even know that I believe uh Russia has

2:12

China is about 56 I believe Russia has

2:14

uh well more than that almost double

2:16

that if not more so Scott H what did you

2:20

make of that reaction and and a patreon

2:22

subscriber wanted to ask about Besson

2:24

the uh attack um in 2004 and how it

2:28

compares with regard to

2:31

Insurgency and uh maybe even the role of

2:34

you know outside forces uh uh in these

2:37

kind of attacks but I’ll kick it back to

2:39

you for maybe the last um comment well I

2:43

mean let’s talk about beston for a

2:45

moment this was an attack planned by a

2:47

um a

2:49

chin warlord uh Shamil basv um it was a

2:54

horrible attack it was launched against

2:56

a school uh if you know anything about

3:00

the former Soviet Union or or Russia um

3:05

there the

3:07

first I can’t remember exactly the date

3:10

but there’s a day in September where um

3:13

all the kids go to school and they dress

3:15

up they bring roses there’s a big

3:16

ceremony they present their teacher the

3:18

roses and it’s just the day of welcoming

3:21

the children to school and it was on

3:23

this day when parents had um arrived the

3:26

children went in that the terrorists

3:28

struck and took over the school and um

3:32

in a total chaos that followed um you

3:36

know Mis missed opportunities on the

3:38

part of the security forces um lack of

3:41

communication violence started it got

3:44

out of control and um tragically

3:48

hundreds of children lost their lives um

3:51

one of the great you know it’s in

3:52

Russian history it’s just it’s it’s

3:55

seared into the minds of everybody um

3:58

but this was in the middle of um the you

4:01

know the chin conflict um When Vladimir

4:04

Putin was working very hard with akmad

4:07

kadirov the president of uh of chia to

4:11

bring an end to this conflict and you

4:14

know this this kind of attack is is the

4:17

kind of attack that emotionally could um

4:20

have have gotten the Russian people to

4:21

rise up and say we will never ever ever

4:25

condone uh peace with these people

4:27

because remember at the same time I mean

4:28

shortly thereafter before I think it was

4:30

after um they you know the a group of

4:33

chin widows took over um a theater in

4:37

Moscow and um again there was an attack

4:40

mismanaged the use of knockout gas

4:42

people died uh horrible horrible uh

4:46

attack but the idea was to create a

4:48

division between white nationalist

4:51

Russians and um you know these chin and

4:54

it wasn’t just the chin the Russians um

4:57

you

4:58

know they’re there is a tendency among

5:01

Russia to be very racist against the

5:03

people of Central Asia and um and the

5:07

and the caucuses uh you

5:09

know Alexander naali is um on record at

5:14

one point in time talking about the

5:16

people of Georgia uh and calling them

5:18

cockroaches um in Vermin um there’s a

5:22

term um a Russian term chne and I won’t

5:26

use the second word but it uh it means

5:29

but

5:30

um you know but they call them black

5:31

asses um and they that’s what they call

5:33

you know that’s sort of the American

5:35

version of the nword and they use that

5:37

for Central Asians for southern Caucasus

5:40

people um and so if you don’t manage

5:44

this problem and and Putin was very

5:46

genius about how he brought peace to

5:49

chch you know working with the chin

5:51

elevating the catchin respecting their

5:54

religious differences their cultural

5:56

differences Etc to create this what I

5:58

call the chin miracle that that exist

6:00

today um and so Putin knows this he

6:03

knows the risks he knows because he had

6:04

to fight through this he had to fight

6:06

overcome that the the the desire on the

6:09

part of many Russians to turn on the

6:11

catchin to turn on these ethnicities and

6:14

Putin navigated Russia through that so

6:17

he understands what’s going on he

6:19

understands the dangers and so that’s

6:21

why his statement um about you know it

6:25

is a Russia is a a nation that has

6:28

multiple faiths um you know and and we

6:31

respect all religions and we respect all

6:33

peoples that we all have to get together

6:36

it’s it’s the perfect kind of leadership

6:38

statement that has to be made at the at

6:40

a time like that um and it needed to be

6:43

made when it was made to dampen down uh

6:46

the um you know the desire for Revenge

6:48

Revenge is an ugly business um you know

6:51

look at the United States after 911 how

6:54

quickly we uh you know Americans lost

6:58

all ability of rational thought all we

7:01

wanted to do is to attack uh the

7:03

president felt the political pressure uh

7:06

so we went into Afghanistan not to

7:08

defeat Al-Qaeda but we suddenly turned

7:10

it into we’re going to get rid of the

7:11

Taliban and take over the nation it’s

7:13

like what the hell are you thinking why

7:15

would you do that why would you take us

7:16

down this path where we’re not solving

7:19

the problem we’re supposed to be solving

7:21

and we never have by the way Al-Qaeda

7:22

has never been defeated it’s out there

7:24

functioning in fact at some point in

7:26

time we became allied with al-Qaeda in

7:28

Syria Insanity um you know because we

7:32

lost Focus we became Revenge oriented

7:34

and then we expanded the problem set to

7:36

a degree that we didn’t have an answer

7:37

for it Putin’s not gonna play that game

7:40

um he has a tremendous um success in

7:44

terms of stay remember it’s not just

7:47

what happened in Cheta a lot of people

7:49

don’t realize that um in in in in

7:52

tatarstan um you know during I think in

7:55

1995 the tatars were talking about um

7:58

breaking away from uh from Russia and

8:01

Boris yelson had to come in and

8:02

negotiate a deal that gave them control

8:04

of the tax revenue derived from oil

8:07

sales Etc um Putin inherited that and

8:10

Putin could have gone in there and

8:11

played heavy-handed games but he didn’t

8:13

he went in and he retreated the tatars

8:15

with respect and he you know they are a

8:18

um you know very much an autonomous uh

8:22

Republic um that has large levels of

8:26

autonomy in terms of the economic and

8:28

I’ve been to Kazan and I have to tell

8:29

you that uh the harmony between the

8:31

Russians and the and the tatars is never

8:35

it’s it’s there I mean they there is I’m

8:38

sure you can find tension there’s always

8:40

tension I mean there’s tension anywhere

8:42

you go but there’s not there’s not the

8:44

kind of tension that the West would hope

8:46

to exist you’re looking at the the

8:48

tatars who say we are part of the

8:50

Russian Federation and that’s the

8:51

mindset that we in the west don’t want

8:53

we want them to say we want to be

8:55

independent from the Russian Federation

8:56

but the tatars are very happy about

8:59

where they stand in the Russian

9:00

Federation one of the reasons why bricks

9:02

is going to be held in Kazan is that

9:05

Kazan is not just this city that has the

9:08

ability to absorb Outsiders um you know

9:12

they played host to the FIFA World Cup

9:14

um which meant a lot of people came

9:16

traveling in but it’s also a a Muslim

9:19

Republic and so when you’re bringing in

9:21

an expans of bricks that has a large

9:24

number of Muslim nations including Saudi

9:26

Arabia Iran and the United Arab Emirates

9:29

uh coming in you know that’s that’s the

9:33

Russia that Putin’s fighting for uh and

9:36

what he doesn’t want to do is give um

9:39

you know the enemies of Russia any

9:41

foothold into Russia by taking advantage

9:44

by breaking apart this harmony that he’s

9:46

worked so hard to to build and so that’s

9:49

why he gave the speech that he did it’s

9:50

a very important

9:52

speech yeah and I uh I I this is why I

9:56

bring you on Scott because you bring it

9:58

back out to the large picture a lot of

10:00

times when we’re looking at these

10:01

attacks even the conflict in Ukraine

10:03

we’re looking at the battlefield we’re

10:06

looking at um you know what’s happening

10:09

dayto day but this larger picture of

10:14

what benefits Russia’s larger strategic

10:18

Vision um as well as the uh political

10:22

and economic direction that uh Russia’s

10:25

on in this multi-polar world is always a

10:28

factor and it it makes a lot of sense

10:31

that this Division I mean this to me

10:33

feels like exactly like the image that

10:36

the wolfowitz doctrine had for Russia

10:39

this idea of you dividing up carving up

10:41

Russia similar to how the United States

10:45

and NATO wanted to divide up the entire

10:48

world especially in the post Soviet

10:50

period uh when it believed it had

10:52

everything that’s my kisan hat that’s my

10:54

T hat give it to me and you’re on your

10:56

way Scott any any final comments before

10:59

we head out of

11:01

here

11:05

um look we’re we’re we’re in a world

11:08

that’s in um in in transition right now

11:11

and the United States is uh is fighting

11:15

hard against the uh against that

11:17

transition because it means an end to um

11:20

the American Singularity it means an end

11:22

to the rules-based um International

11:25

order that when you look at the national

11:29

strategy documents of the United States

11:31

especially under the Biden

11:33

Administration um they they just say

11:35

that the foundation of of American

11:39

foreign policy national security policy

11:41

is the rules-based international order

11:42

and we’re looking

11:44

at the end of that and the Biden

11:47

Administration is starting to understand

11:49

that reality

11:51

but you

11:53

know we have an America that’s in a

11:55

state of Crisis right now political

11:56

crisis um

11:59

you know I’m

12:00

not neither option is a good option

12:03

right now um you know so you know it’s

12:06

it America is going to be in trouble no

12:09

matter who wins at the uh at the polls

12:11

um we have the fact that the Biden

12:14

Administration is totally

12:18

dysfunctional a president who um even on

12:22

his best day no one can articulate that

12:24

he is um in control of you know absolute

12:28

control of his faculty

12:29

um he is of diminished capacity and you

12:32

never want a president especially during

12:34

such a difficult trans transformation to

12:37

have um you know reduced mental

12:39

capacities and physical capacities of

12:41

being the president is a physically

12:44

demanding job and you need a president

12:46

who can wake up in the morning ready to

12:48

rock and work all day not a president

12:50

has to sleep in late get up be cuddled

12:52

maybe be given some supplements that

12:54

allow him to uh function more and then

12:57

he gets exhausted because supplements

12:59

create additional metabolism that

13:00

exhaust you further now you have to go

13:02

to bed early so you have a a president

13:04

who can’t fill that role then the

13:05

question is who’s filling that role and

13:07

when you have vice president like Camala

13:09

Harris that

13:11

is nobody likes um you know so you know

13:16

who’s running the government and to be

13:17

honest we can’t answer that question we

13:19

don’t know who’s running the government

13:22

and we’re supposed to be a democracy and

13:24

yet we don’t know who’s who’s really

13:26

pulling the strings um if it’s National

13:29

Security adviser understand that that

13:31

person wasn’t elected and they weren’t

13:33

confirmed by the US Senate um they’re

13:36

basically an unelected person handpicked

13:38

by the president that’s not a democracy

13:41

um and then we have his potential

13:43

replacement um you know Donald Trump um

13:47

whose big selling point is

13:52

chaos I mean on the one hand I’m I’m I’m

13:55

sort of you know like wow uh would he

13:58

really come in and Purge the Washington

14:01

DC establishment the way he claims he he

14:03

wants to um and what would the

14:05

consequences be because i’mi believes

14:07

that what we have is fundamentally

14:09

broken and so purging it and replacing

14:12

it might be an interesting exercise but

14:14

it’s a destabilizing exercise at a time

14:17

when what America really needs right now

14:18

more than anything is stability uh

14:21

economic stability political stability

14:23

geopolitical stability um and so either

14:28

way we’re uh it’s going to be an

14:30

interesting time which is why um believe

14:33

it or not for all the people out there

14:35

who hate Russia you know there’s all the

14:37

russophobe out there Putin’s a dictator

14:39

Putin’s this Putin’s that whatever you

14:43

don’t know what you’re talking about but

14:44

let’s just say that maybe you’re right

14:46

you’re not but let’s just I’m gonna give

14:47

you a chance to to feel good for a

14:49

moment

14:51

um if you take a look at Putin’s

14:54

response we come back to his uh his his

14:57

presentation after the the crocus City

14:59

Hall attack where he said we need to

15:01

take a chill pill we need to respect

15:03

religious diversity we need to respect

15:06

our ethnic diversity We Are One Russian

15:10

Nation um with different religions

15:12

different ethnicities but we work

15:14

together um this is the

15:17

mindset that we America need on on the

15:23

part of our adversaries um if Putin was

15:26

everything that we claim he is um he

15:29

would be seeking to destroy us to take

15:31

advantage of our weakness I’ve spoken

15:32

with enough senior Russian diplomats to

15:35

have a a good feel for the reality that

15:39

Russia doesn’t want a destabilized

15:41

America because that’s a destabilizing

15:43

force in the world today U Ambassador

15:46

anatol Antonov the Russian ambassador to

15:49

the United Nations one of his favorite

15:51

words is

15:53

predictability I mean it’s funny because

15:55

he’s like you know I I’d rather have a

15:57

president who has strong anti-russian

16:00

policies but stuck to those policies

16:03

because that provides predictability

16:05

that allows me as an ambassador as a

16:07

foreign policy practic uh practitioner

16:10

to you know understand where the United

16:13

States is going and how to formulate

16:15

policies to deal with this um I I what

16:18

he doesn’t want is somebody comes in who

16:21

pretends to be America you know to

16:22

friends with Russia but is really doing

16:24

this it’s unpredictable it’s exhausting

16:26

you don’t know what to do um so Russia’s

16:29

not in the business of promoting the

16:31

destabilization of America we are in the

16:33

business of promoting the

16:34

destabilization of Russia thank goodness

16:37

we have failed but Russia’s not in the

16:39

business of promoting either the

16:40

destabilization of Europe or America so

16:43

when we take a look at this as Americans

16:45

please take comfort in knowing that as

16:49

bad as it’s going to get in America

16:52

Russia and China are not in the business

16:55

of exploiting this because they don’t

16:58

want a destabilized America they want

17:01

America to get its act together again I

17:04

can’t speak for the Chinese directly but

17:06

you’ve you’ve dealt with them the

17:07

Chinese would prefer I believe a

17:10

predictable America an America that says

17:13

this is who we are this is what we do

17:15

this is what we stand for and China

17:16

would go all right now that and and

17:19

we’re against that but now we know where

17:20

you’re at we can create policies that

17:22

are designed to deal with this reality

17:24

and then begin to try and win you over

17:26

into normalized relations with China but

17:29

having an America that’s vacillating all

17:31

over the place that because of domestic

17:33

political crisis um is going to create

17:36

artificial Global crisis to off you know

17:39

distract away from domestic problems at

17:41

home but those crises aren’t found in

17:43

anything real the Chinese are going why

17:45

are you why are you doing this it’s not

17:47

about anything we’re doing it’s all

17:49

about what’s happening in America and we

17:50

can’t control that so you have a

17:52

situation where America’s you knowa

17:54

chaos translates into Global chaos but

17:57

the Chinese and Russians can’t deal with

18:00

that because the root cause isn’t

18:01

anything they’re doing it’s what’s going

18:03

on in America they don’t need that they

18:05

don’t want that they don’t desire that

18:08

so the good news is out there that um

18:11

the these these nations that we condemn

18:14

these nations that we spit on are

18:15

actually our best hope for survival in

18:17

the long term because they aren’t going

18:19

to exploit our weaknesses our mistakes

18:23

and they will be there to help us

18:25

stabilize because they need a stable

18:27

America they need it we’re too big you

18:29

know you’ve heard that term when it

18:31

comes to Banks too big to fail America’s

18:34

too big to fail in the world the world

18:35

can’t survive without America I know

18:38

there’s all the American haters out

18:39

there oh we don’t need America try

18:41

living without America just think about

18:43

it that’s what I tell Americans about

18:45

China try living without China just

18:46

imagine a world without China right now

18:48

you can’t because it’s there it’s a

18:51

reality well the Chinese understand that

18:52

about America you can’t imagine a world

18:55

without America America’s there it’s

18:57

everywhere and um and and so we’re too

19:01

big to fail uh but we can still cause a

19:04

lot of chaos as we thrash around they

19:06

want a stable America they’re actually

19:09

our best friends and in many cases our

19:12

best hope because they are going to

19:14

create political buffers and economic

19:17

buffers that give America a chance to

19:19

heal itself um but again given the two

19:23

choices we have for President I mean

19:25

that the period of healing could be

19:27

considerable

19:29

Oh indeed we didn’t even get to talk

19:31

about uh the US training Marines to

19:34

fight a war against China all across the

19:37

first island chain as if that’s going to

19:40

end well I mean the this you’re exactly

19:43

right Scott the Russia and China they

19:46

want the United States to be stable and

19:50

they want what’s in the best interest of

19:52

the entire global economy and the United

19:53

States will always be in it no matter

19:55

what shape or form that it takes of

19:58

course Russia and China would prefer the

20:00

shapee and form of the United States to

20:02

be one that is friendly that respects

20:05

international law that cooperates rather

20:08

than militarizes cooperates rather than

20:11

uh uh prepares for preparing for or

20:15

Waging War it would rather a United

20:18

States that is a partner in this

20:22

larger U uh world order that is emerging

20:26

that’s Unstoppable I mean it’s there’s

20:28

not going to be a

20:30

hegemonic uh world order one that is

20:32

dominated unipolar uh in terms of

20:35

unipolarity in terms of the United

20:36

States that’s just that’s not going to

20:38

be the future it already is looking like

20:41

it’s the past so uh Russia and China of

20:44

course are not they they don’t want war

20:46

war is coming to them and Scott you put

20:49

it very uh uh I think couldn’t have said

20:52

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