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right let’s get started with what has happened to Scott rer he wanted to go to St to the St Petersburg International

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economic Forum but the state department has seized his passport in order to just not letting

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him go there what was the problem with Scott Rider in your opinion and why they did

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that it’s very simple they didn’t want Scott Ritter to have a major International platform to

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tell the truth now that’s Scott Rutter’s

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problem I say that factiously but he always tells the truth

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worse still he knows what he’s talking about okay now most people just know that

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Scott has been right about Ukraine right about Goda

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when Scott told me for example that the Israeli Army is not what people think it

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is it’s not going to Prevail in Gaza I was one of 99% of the other people said

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how do you know that well I don’t know how he knew it but he knew it and he was

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right you know I’ve been I’ve been trying to explain to people my

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experience my personal experience with Scott Ritter i’ known him of course as a

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un inspector and back in the 90s admired his work he succeeded in leading the UN

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Iraqi Inspection Team to verify that all those weapons of mass destruction had

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been destroyed okay in the 90s under his supervision under his inspection regime

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that’s why the Rockies hated him that’s why they wanted to get him out of there

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and you know what that’s why some highlevel American

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officials wanted to get him out of them get him out of Iraq uh let me just say this first

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personal contact I were with Scott was one when a very Progressive MP from

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London his name was Michael Meer he had been a minister in one of the previous

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governments he knew that the weapons of mass destruction was a lie

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prior to the war in Iraq and as soon as it broke out he invited me and Scott to

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come and talk to his uh Parliament friends just to tell them what the real story was we went over to London we

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tried our best they didn’t listen they weren’t interested Michael Meer was

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frustrated so was Scott and so is I but at least we made the effort to tell the truth now the more recent experience is

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kind of interesting later as I got to know Scott I got to ask him things that I was all

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all kind of fuzzy on before for example

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again right before the war of aggression on Iraq and I say that word

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advisedly the war of aggression is defined by the by nberg and the UN as

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the Supreme sueme International crime differing from other war crimes only in

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so far as it contains the accumulated evil of the whole what does that mean

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well think torture think all the other

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indignities that the irais and others suffered starting in March

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2023 so what’s that 20 21 years plus ago

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well let’s go back to earlier let’s go back before the Iraq War before the US

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before the bush Cheney government with the help of I’m sorry to say my former

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colleagues in the CIA falsified evidence to get Congress to authorize a war on

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Iraq how did they do that uh they phonied up material suggest thing there

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were weapons of mass destruction and ties between had Sadam Hussein and

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Al-Qaeda uh by inference so Saddam Hussein had something to do with

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911 then fresh in everyone’s Minds okay so that’s what the estimate that was

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conjured up said now as Scott rid watched all this he knew more about and

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about these weapons of mass destruction then non-existent because he had played

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a great role in making them non-existent so he came down to Washington tried to

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see a senator senator’s name was Clinton first Nam Hillary she wouldn’t let him

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in the door tried to tried to get into the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

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which is holding hearings with a whole stable of dcel academics to test oh yeah

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we think they are weapons of against dist Direction he couldn’t get in the door who is stopping the door fell named

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Tony blinkin Chief of Staff to this fellow named Joe Biden then chair of the

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee so he could have told them they wouldn’t let

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him so what did what did Scott do this is shows the metal of the person he’s

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not one to give up right he had the goods and he says what am I going to do

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well how I know this story is because on the 24th of

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February 2003 okay so this is the invasion was on

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the 23rd of March okay so this was one month before The Invasion Newsweek

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Newsweek has an article small one in their Periscope part not very much

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notice but it says Whoa We have a report that Hussein

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camel son-in-law of Saddam Hussein who

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defected uh he was debriefed by the UN by the UK and by the US and he said

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there were no weapons of mass destruction because they had been destroyed after the 1991 war and how did

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he know that he was in charge of those programs now when he when he told his

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debriefers CIA MI6 and the UN intelligence people he said look they

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were destroyed there aren’t anymore he told them that in 1995 okay now they asked him well how do

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you know and he said well I just told you I was in charge of those programs yeah but how do you know they would

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destroy I don’t know how it works in your country but I was in charge of that program right when I say they’re

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destroyed they get destroyed did you check did you see it was

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anyway are you trying to get me to say that there are still weapons of mass destruction there yeah I checked I check

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all the sites for God’s sake this is very strange what are you trying to get me to say now all that was rendered in a

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transcript which the UN put its official seal of approval on and which of course

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CIA and MI6 also got so there’s the the horse’s mouth saying there are no

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weapons of mass structure left in Iraq and who’s who knows this the inspector

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who was largely responsible for getting them to found bous and then destroyed so

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what does Scott do my God there’s going to be a war over non-existent Weapons of Mass destructure what does he do well

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all I know is that on the 24th of February

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2003 Newsweek had this report from Saddam from Hussein Kamel the son-

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in-law Saddam Hussein and uh what happened next was that whoa it appeared

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in newsweek’s print edition on the 3rd of March so just a couple weeks before the

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invasion and it said precisely that Hussein Kel said that these were

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all destroyed okay now what happened and this is this is an example par

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Excellence of how the mainstream media are simply lap dogs of the powers that

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be what happened next was with this with this in the hard copy of Newsweek the

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writers the journalists in Washington had to figure out what do we do what we do about this story and so what they did

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was guess they went to the CIA

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guy and they said my God this is not what you’ve been telling us and what

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they what do you think about this and the fellow’s name was Bill Harlot I’m

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not Harlot harlo okay and he said no this is bogus incorrect false and

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untrue and these dustel pundits said

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thanks so much Bill my God that we thought we might have to do it story on that and and Soto voce we wouldn’t be

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able to wear our nice khaki uniforms and and report this war from From The

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Trenches and and make big headlines and big profits for our news organizations

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so they said well thanks and it was all this it was all suppressed so what’s the

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end of this story I’m with Scott Ritter years later it must have been just about three years ago go okay and I said Scott

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you know I want to mention to you that Newsweek story you I often wondered who

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it was who gave that who gave that debriefing documentary evidence to

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Newsweek and he looked at me like I was kidding and he says you don’t know Ray I said no I

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did he said Ray that’s only half the story first I went to

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CNN two weeks prior in February 2003 and I said look here’s the

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transcript there are no weapons of mass destruction are you going to do a story or not and they did there was an

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incredible video program that they instituted they’re about to run it and

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the night before they got a call from the CIA this according to Scott they got

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a call from the CIA you’re not to run that you’re not to run that okay so what

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do we have here we have CNN in February we have Newsweek in March both of whom

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with the capability of blow the whistle and stop the war war of aggression against Iraq and they didn’t do it so

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you have not only the the Press involved here you have the government you have

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even the intelligence agency so what I’m saying here is that is that Scott rder

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doesn’t quit when it comes to telling the truth whatever the risk okay and

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there’s one more if we have time time with one more short vignette which speaks volumes okay Scott Ritter as some

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people know was a marine officer okay I think he was a captain serving on

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General Schwarz cops in his command there his

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headquarters now schwarzkop of course was Commanding General of Iraqi whatever

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the uh the storming the Desert Storm uh in

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January of 2000 I’m sorry January of 1991 okay so there’s Scott sitting in

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the intelligence he’s doing purview over a very important issue scud missiles why

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are scud missiles important because they can do a lot of Havoc where could they

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do havoc in Israel and elsewhere okay who has them Saddam Hussein has them

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okay now what’s the real danger here now if you step back for a second I look at

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the political realities George HW Bush had convened a coalition of all kinds of

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states to fight Saddam Hussein including Arabic States and all kinds of Muslim

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states and all and it just wouldn’t work okay it just wouldn’t work if those

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scuds hit Israel and Israel entered the war on the side of this Coalition you

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would see that Coalition very very quickly disintegrate and and evaporate

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okay so what was the premium the premium was find these find these missiles in

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Iraq and then destroy them and guess what they couldn’t do it with all the

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sophisticated photography from satellites they still couldn’t find them they were mobile of course they easily

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hit okay so what happens all of a sudden there comes a report unbeknownst to

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Scott Ritter ah we killed five of those scud scud launchers

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so Scott Scott s’s supervisor a fellow named uh uh

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McConnell he says say what’s going on here I don’t know any oh oh we just

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don’t forget about it five you got that right Scott five we got and Scot no I don’t got that you show me the evidence

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and there was no evidence and so so Scott said look I’m out of here I don’t

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I don’t participate in making up stuff about that same time there was a report

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that seven scud launchers were Zapped and there were photos of them being

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Zapped in a place in Iraq okay now Scott did have photography on that and he said

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those are not scud launchers I’m sorry to say those are oil

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tankers and his supervisor McConnell says no there’s scud launchers spot scop

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says so and Scott rter says Ritter knows he says they’re not I’m out of here and

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McConnell says you’re not out of here you’re fired okay now guess what there

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was such a bruhaha that this caught the ear of a fellow named General Powell

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back in the White House colon Powell uh chairman The Joint Chiefs then

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or what no I guess he was as National Security advisor to to u to Bush so he

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calls up Schwartz cop they says hey Norm uh you know uh scuds that those seven

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scuds somebody tells me that there’s a so these intelligence analysts say that they were oil tankers sh cop let’s loose

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for a spring of invective and profanity that you never heard in your life he

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says Hey Powell you’re gonna let me win this war or you’re not and Powell

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typically says okay Norm okay Norm they were scud

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launchers next day AP Reuters gets pictures of

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these oil tankers SP them all over the world and

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Scott rder says to his boss McConnell H hey what’s with this now people are

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feeling recognizing that I was fired for the wrong reason and McConnell said yeah talk to spart scop you’re hired on if

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you want to come on of course yeah I’ll come back on so now this is the way it

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works what’s the teaching lesson here teaching lesson is that Captain later

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major Ritter never got to be real big in in terms of the hierarchy just in terms

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of the truth who got big McConnell what happened to him he became Director of

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National Intelligence the the the guy in charge of all the

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intelligence agencies okay and uh so this is just example of how have the

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Press lets it just you know lets it Go by the wayside and the fact that when

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people like Ritter stand up the only the only satisfaction they get from It is

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Well my father used to say it’s out of this world meaning well Integrity is out of this world but there is a lot of

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satis faction and telling the truth we know that and we have the kind of community now of Truth tellers where we

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support one another and so I was happy happy when when I had the opportunity as

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unfortunate as it was with Scott being denied denied the the ability to go to

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Russia eventually and then most people don’t know that his intention was to do

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a video program traveling around all of Russia for about 40 days okay he was

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interviewing all kinds he had all set up they work for months and spend thousands of dollars on this thing that’s the last

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thing that the US authorities wanted okay they didn’t want the truth to come out so in summary just as before

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Iraq and it should be noted that Scott was on his way to Iraq before the war

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too he was invited to to speak there uh so just as before

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Iraq uh before Ukraine falls apart

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before the Russians win completely in Ukraine and as the prospect of a mutual

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exchange of nuclear weapons comes into four who best to tell the truth than

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this fellow who has this reputation to tell the truth Scott Ritter but God sake

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let him on a plane don’t let him on a plane and so he was on the plane he was taken

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off I don’t know of anyone who had the courage to even take an iPhone shot of

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what happened to Scott which shows again

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how timid the US population has become including his co-passengers here

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somebody comes in takes my co-passenger I’m going to I’m going to try to take a shot at what’s going on nice shot please

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I’m GNA take a snapshot of what’s going on so Scott is I won’t say one of my

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heroes I don’t like the word Heroes he’s one of the people I emulate one of the people who’s taught me a lot about

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courage and I’m very happy to be called his friend and uh he’ll love to tell

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some more truth no matter what the US government tries to do to him sorry to

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carry on so long but as you can tell I feel strongly about people who tell the truth and what happens to

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them yeah when it comes to the Ukraine’s provocative drone attack on Russia we

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had they they were attacking on radar sites and when it comes to these type of

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strikes deep inside Russia what’s the danger of having this type of attitude

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on the part of ukrainians and what would be the escalation to this

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conflict in Ukraine Neema this is the important

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question right now and that’s one that would that Scott would would have been uh uniquely suited to answer um you have

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all kinds of people who are not entirely with it they’re Elite people who think

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that uh that they can change the world or mold it in their own image I have in

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in in in view here a fellow named uh

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stenback who used to be the president of Norway and has been NATO SEC Secretary

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General for a long time uh you know he was talking about

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sure uh we NATO countries should give Ukraine the means to defend itself

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to include uh Weaponry that can strike within Russia uh that’s their right and

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when we give them these weapons we’re just going let them do whatever they want okay now I want just want to quote

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a little found this as we were I Was preparing here this is uh this is poin

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talking about Stenberg

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Stenberg I should say uh in passing has a record of Mal appropri ISM he says the

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wrong thing at the wrong time and after years and years of saying that the

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Russian invasion the Russian special military operation whatever you want to call it into Ukraine was unprovoked

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right and was not really legal and uh it

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just it was completely out of the courts

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now it had nothing to do with the notion that the US wanted to make

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Ukraine as a member of NATO nothing at all to do with that Stenberg everybody

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and his brother and sister said that until stoltenberg in September of last year at

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a EU Parliament me uh a full Parliament

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session said this

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well Mr Putin wanted us not to enlarge

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NATO he said if we let Ukraine in NATO

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he will invade Ukraine we said no we won’t promise that

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instead Finland Sweden they are now enlarging

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NATO so Putin got an enlarge NATO even

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though his is invaded Ukraine but he said if you try to make

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Ukraine a member of NATO and we have a treaty here it says You must never do

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that and so we erupt a treaty and we s and he invaded

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Ukraine huh so after years of saying membership of NATO had nothing to do

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with why the Russians went into Ukraine here is the head of NATO so admitting and here’s pin’s comment on

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it you know I used to deal with the prime minister of Norway and we

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addressed issues of mutual concern and back in those days quote I am positive

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that he was not suffering from dementia period end

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quote but now says puin does he not realize that these

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weaponries these weapons that are being sent these sophisticated ones like Storm Shadow and attack comes and all they

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cannot be used without the direct participation of the United States and

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NATO allies will run the satellites The Guidance systems and the intelligence systems and the control system Med

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doesn’t Stenberg know that this is the case well I know and it’s not going to be permitted okay that’s when Putin

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started to make a big deal of uh of look these these weapons that can hit inside

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Russia they’re going to be retaliated against and of course although you don’t know this from the Western press the

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retaliation has come fast and furious the ukrainians don’t have much left in

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the way of uh Railways in the way of power stations and this is as Putin has

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said this is direct retaliation for that now what really worries the Russians why is

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it that Putin on the 5th of June just a couple days ago saw fit to say look this

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is so serious that we could resort to asymmetrical means to get back at you

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and retaliate for what you’re doing why did he go to that length well I’m going

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to give you uh my opinion which is strengthened by some scientists who know

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what they’re talking about in terms of Russian early Warning

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Systems two of them two early warning Radars were hit well inside Russia

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Thousand Miles I think inside Russia in one case uh damaged okay and uh they

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were done by Ukrainian drones okay so I put you now

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my job for I hesitate to say half a century but that’s what it was was to put myself in

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the in the shoes of kof or brn or now

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puin okay here he is with his military advisor his military advisor said my God

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Vladimir what are you doing gonna do about this and he says what well these they were drones right yeah Ukrainian

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yeah Ukrainian TR come on Vladimir you know that they can’t be done without the

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active participation of all kinds of sophisticated guidance systems and everything from those satellites that

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the US runs right yeah so yeah well maybe maybe the US didn’t know that the

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ukrainians come on Vladimir vladimirovich we have to assume the us

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know the US had have to give permission for the button to be pushed for God’s sake so what are we going do about this

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well Vladimir vladimirovich says well how serious is this and here comes here

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comes the push the push against shove most people do not realize that

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Russian early warning radar systems are not the same are not as good as the US

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ones us has the kind of global look at what happens all over the world

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okay that as long as a ballistic as soon as a ballistic missile is launch we that

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is the United States intelligence knows about it instantly it’s not the same

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with the Russians it has never been the same and this has been a weakness that they’ve really tried in vain to cope

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with so getting back to these two Radars these two early Warning Systems the ones

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that were hit okay how many are there there are 10 okay oh so that’s a fifth

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okay where were they pointed well they were pointed to the South okay to the Mediterranean to Africa okay so they

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were the least the the least valuable because um

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a ballistic missile attack probably wouldn’t come from that direction so

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what were what were the Americans trying to do here Mr poutin uh or they try to warn us that we

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can do away with these two we can do away with the other eight as well 2

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minus 10 is 8 if I recall correctly okay and that’s when puin said all right

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you’re right generals and Admirals we have to speak out about this this is

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beyond the pale we will not tolerate it and I will I will make a statement

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saying that look not only will we not tolerate this uh not only will we assume

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that the US could not have known about this we have to assume they did for all kinds of reasons which I already told

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Stenberg and the rest of them and so don’t even try it because if you blind

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our early warning radar system well that makes our warning time of a nuclear

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attack on Russia or come down from 19 minutes to maybe nine 10 minutes we

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won’t tolerate that that’s the same problem we had when we

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saw missile installations going to Romania and Poland with the same kind of

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time to Target nine 10 minutes for a generic ballistic missile for a

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Hypersonic one if the US finally gets them five minutes five minutes for me Mr

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poochin me poochin to decide whether to blow up the rest of the world we won’t

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tolerate that and so what do we do I got an idea let’s let’s send our biggest

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naval fleet with admiral garkov of the big the biggest Flagship down to the you

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know down the Caribbean reminiscent of what Hof did

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with nuclear weapons in Cuba this time they’re not in Cuba uh this time for the

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US to take them out there would be open war between the US and the so and the

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Russian Navy in Caribbean okay that’s happening next week uh the Admiral

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garkov and its Fleet of of accompanying warships arrives in the Caribbean what

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else well there are all kinds of stern warnings against NATO exercises up

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around kaliningrad up in the north uh there are exercises out in the well out

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in the South Pacific out in the P East Pacific by get this the North

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Atlantic n the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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so uh so the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is exercising together with Australia and

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Japan new in the Pacific what’s that all about well uh the Chinese don’t like

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that just as much as the Russians don’t like that and the Chinese and the Russians are bound at the hip now if

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there’s a dust up elsewhere in the world you can you can depend on the Chinese to come to the the for and do more than

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just Sable saber rattle out there in the Pacific which they consider to be you

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know they’re pretty much their promise their U their territory now if you look

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at the map and you see how far the United States is from China well Maps used to mean something I

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mean we didn’t have uh people guiding our car so we didn’t need to read maps

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uh back in the day and maps meant something to President

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Obama because with direct relevance to Ukraine he said for God’s sake look at

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the map the worst thing we can do is give the ukrainians the idea that they could

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Prevail in war against a much stronger Russia with all kinds of capability to

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prevent them from prevailing just look at the map so uh there is a certain um

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uncertainty in in in Russia to figure out what these people are doing uh What

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uh what Putin said about Stenberg dementia well it’s more than

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dementia it’s what the Germans call vanin uh delusions of grandeur a feeling

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of uh immunity of exceptionalism of uh of just being able

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to work your will throughout the world who has this uh these Elite people that

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are advising Joe Biden who may be be susceptible a little bit to dementia

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at least judging from the way he moves around and about so I was asked

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recently uh are the Russians afraid of NATO and my initial impulse was come on

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NATO is a paper tiger to coin an old Chinese expression there is no NATO that

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could fight the Russians a conventional war in Europe but I said no no no no that’s that’s not the right answer the

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right answer is yeah they are what do you mean yes they are well they’re

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afraid of the people leading NATO they’re afraid of the people like Tony Sullivan or Anthony Anthony

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blinkin or Jacob Sullivan or uh or Biden himself who has vanen who who has me

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megalomania and thinks that we can push around the rest of world what are they

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likely to do well in ordinary circumstances that’s serious enough but

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in these circumstances where the Russians have all but won the war in

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Ukraine where the administration in the United States in an election year is

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about to suffer a definitive defeat in

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Ukraine and likely in the election and then likely as I said

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before in this program these same figures not only Hunter Biden but

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Daddy uh Tony blinkin and Jacob Sullivan uh the new fellow coming into

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Washington has the book on these people to include Court testimony to include

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documentary evidence not only of bribery but of guess what what interfering in

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elections in United States so this is not a laughing manner of course so

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what’s the implication here the implication is that history is replete with examples of people doing for

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personal motives to protect their rear ends getting into Wars or prolonging

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Wars or escalating Wars in a way that in this case is capable of destroying a

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good portion of mankind if not the rest of the world so the the the flag is up

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here and uh why I home in on this very dangerous this very dangerous fact that

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the Russian early warning system is not as good as ours you know people say well

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you’re basing that on uh on Antiquated information

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well the information goes back eight nine years but the reality is that we

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would know if they had that capability oh how would we know we have a spy to

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tell us no you don’t need a spy you look at whether they have a geosynchronous satellite up there you

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you look they can’t hide this kind of stuff all right so uh to finish off this

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little portion here I just like to quote a eminent uh scientist a physicist

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professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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also taught at Stanford and other uh High institutions of learning uh and he

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was also perhaps more more pertinent he was also Chief intelligence advisor to

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the chief of Naval operations uh a couple of decades ago his name is

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Theodore postal and he has been outspoken in pointing out that the Russi we had him on this

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podcast we talked with him oh did you yeah recently yeah recently recently

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recently okay well I tell you I think maybe uh I could add to something he

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said because I talked to him this morning and uh he shared with me some

38:20

information that indicates uh that the Russians realize they have this this

38:27

this disadvantage and the reason I I say that is because when Ted was mentioning

38:35

all this uh this goes back to 2017 now let me get the the exact dates

38:44

here yeah yeah on March 1st

38:53

2017 uh Ted wrote an article for the bulletin for theom IC scientists and he

38:59

pointed out this uh this lack that the Russians have now it was within the same

39:05

month namely March 24th 2017 that a very prestigious IMO in

39:13

Moscow very prestigous research organization people by for example the

39:20

prior director of the Strategic rocket forces and the head of the analysis in

39:27

unit that supports the Strategic rocket forces in in the Soviet Union and in

39:33

Russia okay now that fellow his name was dorin and dorin said let me see if I can

39:40

find it here yeah here’s what he said in

39:46

reaction to what postel had said about this Luna this in this incap

39:53

incapability to to track uh missry as well as we can

40:01

quote the temporary incomplete capability of the Russian space-based ballistic missile

40:09

warning system would in no way affect our retaliatory

40:15

capability blah blah blah okay we can we can we can compensate

40:21

so what I want to do is make sure that I could find something the Russians said

40:27

that however implicitly recognized that they knew that what poster was saying was

40:33

right and here we have the former head of the analysis unit of the Strategic

40:39

rocket forces in Russia saying okay the temporary incomplete capability of

40:45

Russian space-based missile warning system component would in no way affect

40:50

our Retaliator straight capability well guess what this temporary incomplete

40:56

capability me in 2017 still exists today and as I say you don’t need to

41:04

aspy to verify that you can observe what the Russians have in space and what they

41:10

have not been able to put in space so last word here is that this is

41:16

very the Germans said liel it’s very tentative very

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dangerous it’s dangerous in a way where the Russians can’t do more than this

41:27

can’t admit I mean this is as close as they come to admitting yeah we’re our

41:33

system is not as good as yours so if we think a missile strike is coming H we’re

41:39

only going to have maybe nine or 10 minutes for an intercont intercontinental ballistic missile or

41:45

you know so you know they can’t admit that and so what puin does is says look

41:51

we can retaliate beforehand or during in in is it as symmetrical ways and you

41:59

here’s an example we sending a fleet down to Caribbean Waters first time that

42:04

SP in a long time right and of course they have opportunities in Iraq in Syria

42:11

and elsewhere Yemen they could certainly give the hoodis the wherewithal uh to

42:16

wreak more Havoc than they already have there so the Russians are very very

42:24

worried worried about NATO’s military capability no they worried about their

42:30

early warning system and what these what’s the word here I keep

42:36

forgetting what these demented people running NATO not only

42:42

stoltenberg he’s just a tool in the hands of equally questionable people

42:49

like blinken and Sullivan and Biden himself and all the more so in election

42:56

year or you can’t predict what these guys are going to do so um I think to his credit

43:04

poin exuded uh a an aura of complete

43:10

self-confidence at this Petersburg meeting both on the fifth and on the 7th

43:16

on the 7eventh it goes for three hours and 45 minutes I watched the first two

43:22

hours and 45 minutes it was a remarkable able a remarkable performance on the

43:29

part of uh pooing he let himself be interrogated by a real real right winger

43:37

uh a kind of a a fellow who talked with disdain uh to the to the president of

43:44

Russia well what about this well I don’t agree with you know this kind of thing and he handled it so well I would just

43:51

add that he spoke for the first hour and four minutes I timed it I was watching

43:57

ing it intently and it was all about Arcane

44:02

economic statistics and things having to do with with the gdmp and everything

44:08

else and it was pretty dry for Putin’s uh form everyone was listening but I

44:14

said you know an hour for this International audience and I think you

44:20

this is just my impression and I’ve watched this kind of thing for a long time I think what Putin was trying to do

44:26

is draw distinction draw a contrast between the president of Russia and the

44:31

president of United States President of United States in Normandy unable to

44:37

string a couple of sentences together much less facts or figures um the

44:43

contrast is invidious in terms of us U

44:48

imagery but what he was trying to tell the world and this was a world audience is look I’m in control here uh I know

44:55

what what we’re do doing and we have this kind of support uh nobody in our

45:01

government is able to Heckle us except for this right- Winger that I’ve allowed allowed him to ask me question

45:10

that we’re pretty United and yet now we need to stand together because God knows

45:17

what these demented people are likely to try on us so uh that’s my little take on

45:24

on how important These Warnings are from puin and they’re not directed in my

45:31

view at these missiles that Stenberg talks about in other words the attacks

45:37

or the storm Shadows or the the scalp scalp or even the Taurus because they

45:45

have no nuclear payloads okay that’s big that’s a big distinction so what I

45:52

describe in some of the things I’ve written are pin Pricks yeah you you should at this uh at this belel hospital

46:01

or this this oil refinery yeah that’s a pin prick it’s not going to affect the

46:08

the war in Ukraine much less the Strategic balance once you start hitting

46:14

early warning Radars that’s different and that would require a asymmetrical

46:21

response even today witness what’s going on in the Caribbean next week

46:27

off Cuba for God’s sake let’s hope it doesn’t it doesn’t come to what the

46:33

Chinese are found of calling a no good end yeah

46:41

R uh the head of defense of the United Kingdom in an interview with with Sky

46:48

News said that pun doesn’t want a war with NATO and he doesn’t want any

46:54

nuclear war and we know that pu repeatedly said that they don’t need a

47:00

nuclear war against in in Ukraine but when it comes to Here Comes the final

47:07

sentence of his comment of Tony Rakin

47:13

and he says that we have enormous overmatch because of the strength of

47:20

NATO here come here comes the problem with this concept that they’re thinking

47:25

that pun is a afraid of them and they can do everything they want in n in

47:31

Ukraine how do you see this concept pu at the same time Putin says we don’t need to use nuclear weapons and they’re

47:39

saying the same thing but they’re coming to the wrong conclusion that they think

47:45

Putin is afraid of them um remember what I said about being

47:53

delusional um now if I recall correctly L ran is an admiral right a British

48:01

Admiral you know he’s some he like something out of Gilbert and

48:08

Sullivan I [Music] am well there’s a whole song about being

48:14

in charge of the British Navy uh he’s delusional I mean and that’s the problem

48:21

I mean when Putin talks about people who are not fully with it you know people

48:27

who are delusional well you know that’s not something let me put it this

48:34

way when I was learning Russian okay my Russian teacher didn’t know that laugh

48:42

uh wasn’t a transitive verb okay you had to laugh at laugh with or something and so when we dust it up she would say who

48:50

are you laughing what are you laughing this is nothing to laugh

48:57

and we of course would go out of our minds laughing because of the way she said it now I just want to say this is

49:05

nothing to live okay I mean God I mean how many times have the Britain have the

49:12

British got us in deep Kimi in the world I mean without Tony Blair I don’t think

49:20

George Bush would have had the would have had the poor advice to go

49:27

into Iraq uh there’s all the history is littered with uh with instances where

49:34

the British have led even more major powers like the United States down the

49:39

Primrose path and the British Empire is over but they never got the word you

49:45

know and uh I reminded just to put a little lightness

49:50

into this conversation of my Irish grandfather’s admonition to me do you

49:56

know you know Raymond do you why why the Sun

50:01

never sets on the British Empire I say yeah I know I know you don’t know now now sit you down and I’ll

50:08

tell you the Sun never sets on the British Empire because the good Lord

50:14

would never trust the British in the

50:19

dark well that may be funny but it’s nothing to

50:24

laugh yeah sorry about

50:32

that let’s talk about the the other article that it’s it’s about pun he said

50:38

that the United States wouldn’t rescue allies in a nuclear war he says that

50:44

Moscow hopes Western escalation won’t lead to a nuclear exchange with infinite

50:51

casualties does Estonia or Lithuania or these small states think that the United

50:58

States would sacrifice New York for the little

51:04

country Neema this is an old question it goes back for as long as I’ve been

51:09

watching these things okay would NATO would the article five duties of

51:17

NATO require Washington to risk New York or

51:23

Boston or Washington itself if talin in

51:28

Estonia or uh R in in laia or attack

51:36

now smart people have always said well there’s a there’s a law against it but

51:43

my there’s a treaty commitment but wait a second let’s see what it says all it

51:48

says really is that each country would have to decide right away in their

51:54

legisl whether they want to retaliate okay okay so it’s not automatic that’s

52:00

number one and that’s very important number two no sensible people I that I

52:07

know of have ever thought that if it became clear that let’s

52:14

say the president of Estonia a woman recently said we’re

52:22

going to bring the Russians to their knees okay okay so let’s

52:28

say let’s say that U some hotthead in the Estonian Army such as it is started

52:37

a flare up against uh Russians on the other side of the Border okay or Beyond

52:45

Poland uh and the Russians retaliated uh do you think that the

52:50

estonians would be able to expect fullscale retaliation on the part of the

52:57

United States or even on the part of Britain or France and risk Paris London

53:03

or Washington and in the outcome I don’t think so and that just gives another

53:10

example of this vanin this feeling that you know we little Estonia we’re married

53:17

we’re married to a real powerful country the United States but if you look real

53:23

closely if you look real closely at going to work if they provoke things and

53:29

that goes for Poland as well you know Poland’s a bigger country but if they provoke things and get into a dust St up

53:36

with the Russians what Putin is saying explicitly which In My Memory Russians

53:44

have very been very loath to say in the before is saying look uh you think that

53:52

the that the us is going to come to your Aid and risk losing really important parts of the United

53:59

States think again because that ain’t going to happen now he doesn’t say it exactly that far but he does pose the

54:05

question and this is unusual and I have not seen a a Russian leader pose the question in so Stark a terms he say you

54:12

know well you know you have to think about whether the the West whether the US would actually fulfill this article 5

54:21

commitment which is short of an automatic commitment in the first place

54:26

so what does that mean that means Putin is is unwrapping all these nice little

54:32

diplomatic things and saying look here’s the real deal here you ought to come to your senses you may be a little scile

54:38

you may be a little venish a little crazy you may have uh dementia but you

54:46

know dementia is better contained than being dead and we can make it dead and

54:53

they can um you know the other thing should be said here is that the Russians

54:59

can do all this without using nuclear weapons back in the in the

55:08

2020 between 2020 and 2010 they decided look the US is building these

55:16

ABM systems which are never going to work which always can be penetrated

55:21

let’s not burn our money as Putin said at the time let’s develop missry and

55:28

other strategems where we can find ways around any such defense and they did and

55:36

the proof in the pudding has already been demonstrated Hypersonic missiles

55:41

which they have had now for about three or four years which the US has been testing and testing and testing doesn’t

55:47

seem to have the hang of it yet okay maybe they need a good Russian spy to tell them how to do it but they haven’t

55:54

figured it out yet now as Putin said back before the special military

56:01

operation in Ukraine he warned his generals and his Admirals and the

56:07

Minister of Defense it was the 21st of December

56:12

2021 what he said was look

56:18

um the bases that are already in Romania and Poland insallation that have missile

56:28

components missile capsules on them uh if

56:35

they’re if they’re full with u bruise missiles ballistic

56:42

missiles they can reach Moscow in nine or 10 minutes

56:51

now us says these are ABM missiles

56:56

and they are in the same containers as ABM missiles from those uh those uh uh

57:06

we those warships they have in the Black Sea problem is that those same capsules

57:14

can contain anti-submarine missiles ballistic missiles cruise

57:20

missiles and eventually Hypersonic missiles and we can’t tell what’s in

57:28

there now back in the Cuban Missile Crisis it was very different because the US had photos of these ss4 medium range

57:37

ballistic missiles and it was as though they had a sign there we are an ss4

57:42

ballistic missile sight okay why because we had a hundred pictures of ss4

57:48

ballistic missile sites in in in the Soviet Union they all looked the same

57:54

the the the nuclear weapons were stored it a very so we knew exactly what it was

57:59

now fast forward now to today and the Russians looking down their satellites

58:05

or their Os or whatever they use over Romania and Poland and say oh my God

58:13

these capsules have caps on them that’s probably why they call them capsules

58:20

okay we can’t figure out what’s in there but we do know that m missiles can fit

58:27

in there that are intermediate range ballistic missiles and as Putin warned

58:33

his top military there in December of 2021 we can’t tell and we do know he

58:40

said this is important we do know that the United States will eventually

58:47

get uh Hypersonic missiles and we also know the US will

58:54

give those Hypersonic missiles to Ukraine

59:01

whoa now this is worth repeating what happened that was the 21st of

59:08

December now I was not a fly on the wall but it’s very easy for me to discern that those generals and Admirals and the

59:15

Minister of Defense went to Vladimir Putin and said Mr Putin if what you say is right and our

59:23

intelligence verifies it uh that would give us four to five minutes give you

59:28

four to five minutes Hypersonic missil as you said Putin said this actually on

59:34

the 21st so what we going do about it if they’re in Ukraine because Ukraine is much closer

59:42

as you know because you know geography Mr Putin what are we gonna do what are we going to do if they go into

59:48

Ukraine and Putin said wow um so what happened was nine days later

59:56

so the 21st of December 2021 on the 30th of December

1:00:04

2021 a phone call from the Kremlin uh please tell President Biden that Mr

1:00:11

Putin wants to talk to him right away the White House was

1:00:16

flumix why why we talked uh two weeks ago and we set up this negotiation

1:00:22

strategy in Geneva to start in just 10 days why does please please Mr Putin would really like

1:00:29

to talk to Mr bid right away okay what happened well Biden was in

1:00:35

Delaware whoa where was Jacob

1:00:40

Sullivan where was Tony blinkin where was Victoria noan to to hold his hand

1:00:47

they weren’t around apparently okay so Biden to his credit I guess accepts the

1:00:54

call and Mr Putin says look we don’t want to be in the position

1:01:01

of you putting offensive strike missiles possibly Hypersonic missiles in Ukraine

1:01:10

now when I mentioned this to my military they said this is out of the question so

1:01:17

if we want to work out some sort of deal in Geneva just in 10 days it would

1:01:23

really help Mr Biden Mr President if you would promise not to put offensive

1:01:29

strike missiles in Ukraine and particularly Hypersonic ones could you give me that so we get off off to a good

1:01:36

start now all I know is what the readout says from this conversation and the

1:01:42

readout says quote Mr Biden said that the US has no intention of

1:01:49

deploying offensive strike missiles in Ukraine period end quote

1:01:57

great rejoicing in Moscow on New Year’s Eve the next few days will you foric

1:02:05

Geneva the delegations were going to meet us and Russian and talk about these issues guess what the US delegation had

1:02:13

no instructions about this they feigned ignorance we don’t have any instructions

1:02:19

about negotiating the absence of offensive strike missiles in Ukraine you

1:02:25

say our President promis we don’t know about that and here’s the here’s the the

1:02:31

day noral here on the 21st of January 2022 now so what’s it just a month later

1:02:40

okay after Putin the total generals and hope uh on the 21st La um the foreign

1:02:49

minister of Russia met with Tony blinkin and of course the most natural

1:02:55

thing he was okay secretary blinken let’s talk about the undertaking that

1:03:01

your president made not to put offensive strike missiles in Ukraine let’s talk

1:03:06

about that and according to what La admitted just two months ago now for the

1:03:13

first time to my knowledge blinkin said why I don’t know anything about that we

1:03:19

assert the right to put offensive strike missiles wherever want especially in Ukraine uh maybe would talk about

1:03:26

limiting the number of them but I we’re not we’re not that’s no that’s no promise that’s not so what’s the outcome

1:03:34

of that the outcome of that is Biden made this promise in my view we have the

1:03:41

readout and the Russian I have to tell you that I’ve checked with fellow historians uh of

1:03:49

Soviet as well as Russian practice never have we uncovered a situation where the

1:03:56

readout from a summit conversation has been falsified in any way in the Russian

1:04:03

readout okay so bear that in mind the Russians have never in the past to the

1:04:09

knowledge of all these historians uh falsified readout from a summit doesn’t make any sense anyway but they haven’t

1:04:16

and they didn’t this time okay so what happened Biden apparently said sounds

1:04:21

good to me and he was overruled thought what does that mean what does that mean to puin and his generals and Admirals

1:04:28

now I mean you can’t deal with the president of the United States you can’t deal with blinkin and Sullivan and these

1:04:35

people that have this uh concept of themselves as as exceptional and able to

1:04:41

work the will wherever they wish so what do you do well you keep your powder dry

1:04:46

you make sure that you uh you warn them as explicitly as you can uh to the

1:04:52

extent of warning about asymmetrical um problems that they would would face

1:05:00

and then you just crush your fingers and remain on high alert because even though

1:05:07

uh the the the Russians are in a position of Paramount uh superiority in

1:05:15

Ukraine um the fact that a definitive defeat for the West might at first

1:05:22

appearance seem very good for Russia could be the opposite because because

1:05:29

they’re reasonable people and they would expect unreasonable response from these

1:05:34

demented these vanen these these people who clearly can’t afford to lose a war

1:05:41

and then an election and then as I said before their freedom so we’re in a very

1:05:47

delicate position here and I think the early warning Radars was the one that

1:05:52

really made Putin think well we got to serve some other warnings and who knows

1:05:57

who knows what’s going to happen in the Caribbean or uh in I’d say Iraq or uh

1:06:05

the hooes there uh or even in Syria where we still are and haven’t been

1:06:11

invited I I think that those were warnings I think that Putin would prefer

1:06:17

not to follow through on those I think it’s uh not really smart to keep uh

1:06:23

expatiating or predicting exact what he do in these cases uh he’s just laid down

1:06:28

a marker and he said this is so important to us now there are no Mutual

1:06:35

conversations going on that anyone knows about unlike the Cuba Missile Crisis

1:06:40

where despite the tensions Kennedy and H could communicate it was by teletype I

1:06:46

mean I know Jack Matlock my friend was on on the he was in the in the US Embassy in Moscow with with tell

1:06:53

translating from e so but it was it was not instantaneous but it was almost so

1:07:00

now there is nothing not even I was thinking about when other

1:07:05

very delicate situations happen who do we who do we go to well we would go to the the

1:07:12

sweds the swets were neutral nowm oh we go to the Swiss oh

1:07:19

Swiss yeah neutral not anymore

1:07:25

where do we go to have an interlocutor well my guess is and there’s a little snippet of information

1:07:32

that suggests this is going on that the Chinese are talking to our

1:07:40

military on behalf of their Ally Russia and saying look do you

1:07:49

realize how perilous this is there have been or are about to be new highlevel

1:07:59

contacts between the Chinese military and the US military I read that in the

1:08:05

news I don’t have that in special way so my guess is that if the Russians are

1:08:11

trying to communicate in any sensible way they can’t depend on the Press they

1:08:16

certainly can’t depend on the nonneutral sweds they can’t depend on

1:08:22

the non can you Swiss not neutral any my what non- neutral Swiss and so what do

1:08:31

they do I think I think to the degree they maintain any contacts at all they do it through a third party my guess is

1:08:38

that the Chinese are up to that and the Chinese has as much a stake in putting some some Reigns on us uh us pretensions

1:08:48

to Grandeur that they would happily fulfill that purpose just to wrap up

1:08:53

this session there is an article in foreign policy it says Ukrainian forces urgently need a counter

1:09:01

offensive and at the same time you’re hearing that they’re reducing the duration of

1:09:07

training in Ukraine to 15 days how do you see do they really think

1:09:15

that they W to they want to make this war we know that we are at the final

1:09:20

stages of this conflict in Ukraine but it seems to me that the West is trying to make this conflict in its final days

1:09:29

as bloody as possible that’s why they’re advocating to a new counter offensive as

1:09:36

we know the last counter offensive or offensive has failed

1:09:45

totally NE I just have to say this is very sad we’re talking about human

1:09:51

beings here uh most educated people understand

1:09:57

that up to 500,000 young Ukrainian men the the

1:10:04

flower of Ukraine’s youth the ones that didn’t weren’t Rich enough to buy their

1:10:11

way out of the country died I mean how many how many hundreds of thousands do

1:10:18

you need to have a genocide we get two genocides going on at the same time for both of which the

1:10:25

United States is largely responsible be because it’s funding funding the

1:10:34

genocide so I don’t know how to explain it other than to say that us politicians

1:10:43

don’t seem to care we have people like Lindsay gram saying this is a great

1:10:49

investment we’re bloodying Russians and to be sure Russians have

1:10:56

died as well I mean best estimates are over 100,000 Russian troops have been

1:11:01

killed too I mean that’s a lot okay so we’re bloodying the Russians and not one

1:11:07

American has been sacrificed how cynical is that okay so

1:11:14

why are they doing it well zalinski seems to be still blessed by the powers

1:11:21

that be in the west not in the east the East uh interestingly enough has this

1:11:28

legalistic attitude toward his staying on as illegal which it is of course but to the

1:11:35

degree that he stays in power and is willing to waste what’s left of the

1:11:41

Ukrainian Youth and they’re down down to almost recruiting 18 to 24 year olds now

1:11:47

as well as people almost as old as me for God’s sake you know as long as he’s willing to do that in a in my view V a

1:11:55

attempt to prolong the war until the election in Washington in November well

1:12:03

what’s the lose it’s a good investment right not only to bloody the Russians

1:12:09

but to enrich the people who make and sell weapons and give the proceeds to

1:12:15

the Congress people who appropriate money for more weapons and so you know how that works neemo so it’s terrible

1:12:23

terribly cynical and I just hope that uh that good sense prevails and that U

1:12:32

that Mr poin as he faces his own pressures from his generals and his

1:12:38

Admirals uh will be able to come to a

1:12:44

perspicacious uh course of action where he decides how quickly to finish the

1:12:52

Western forces off in Ukraine uh without giving the West a

1:12:59

CB to to uh escalate even even further

1:13:05

and I don’t know what that could be this is all you know kind of very tentative here but I think he’s been very very

1:13:13

cautious I would perceive that he would continue to be cautious and uh it is is

1:13:20

possible that that he could go to the gppa river now and uh

1:13:25

consolidate the Russian gains there since the beginning of the war whether

1:13:32

he’ll do that I think depends on whether there’s any gleam of rationality on the

1:13:37

part of the West are they ever going to say all right well we’ve wasted enough of Ukrainian youth uh yeah uh we’ve

1:13:46

taken control of a lot of their black Earth and you know we but you know we

1:13:52

ought to stop it now are they going to do that or not well Hope Springs Eternal that rationality will prevail meanwhile

1:14:01

Russia has the upper hand and that is the basic thing here the trajectory of

1:14:07

Russian Victory here cannot be reversed uh whether Congressman or

1:14:15

whether Tony blinkin or Sullivan or newand who’s still around lurking in the

1:14:21

corridors or Biden himself realize it they can’t reverse that trajectory and

1:14:28

if they start fooling around with nuclear weapons while the Russians are going to be prepared matter of fact

1:14:35

they’re trying to deter precisely that by the pronouncements that we mentioned already by pooing and others

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