On this episode of the Power of the Future podcast, host Jack Posobiec is joined by Ian Crossland and Daniel Turner to talk about the latest Russian attack on a nuclear power plant in the United Kingdom, as well as some other crazy news from the past 24 hours.
00:00:17.000Certainly one of the largest in Europe, as far as we can tell.
00:00:19.000They may have larger ones in Asia, but this is the largest one in Europe.
00:00:22.000You can actually watch on live video on YouTube.
00:00:26.000At first, we had this breaking news report, and it said they're shelling or firing on a nuclear power plant.
00:00:33.000And so I titled this stream like reportedly doing this and then Jack was like, I've got the live stream and then we started watching the live stream and you can see fire, you can see what looks like emergency vehicles, you can see military equipment, you can see some kind of firing upon this nuclear power plant.
00:00:49.000So not, uh, not confidence building to say the least, but certainly one of the most shocking developments we've seen so far.
00:00:54.000And we've got a lot of other updates too.
00:00:56.000Russian, uh, warplanes entered, and be very careful how I describe this, violated Swedish airspace and Japanese airspace.
00:01:03.000People need to realize that Russia is like 50 miles from Sweden and 50 miles from Japan and 50 miles from the United States.
00:01:10.000So they certainly are very close to all of these countries and, uh, There seems to be a real possibility of dramatic escalation here, so we'll definitely get into all of that.
00:01:20.000And we also have some of the craziest news.
00:01:37.000Social media has labeled Americans, like Twitter has labeled like Russian state media, and Lee Camp, who is an anti-war, I think it's fair to say he's left, right?
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00:06:12.000I would love to have had someone who knows the finer mechanics of a nuclear power plant to tell us what this could mean, what could happen, because apparently they've already hit.
00:06:23.000So like, have they hit all of the of the power of the power station?
00:06:26.000Well, there's lots like at any nuclear facility that you're going to be involved in.
00:06:31.000And you know, someone who's, you know, as I say, as a military officer, I've got I've done, you know, some basic battle damage assessment training.
00:06:37.000So just like any military facility or large scale new power plant, You know, there's going to be lots of outlier buildings, administrative buildings, office buildings.
00:06:47.000There's way more buildings around this thing than the actual nuclear reactors that have the rods in them that have the ability to melt down or anything like that.
00:06:55.000Now, that being said, it's not a good idea to have a firefight at a nuclear plant to be firing artillery and throwing grenades and all the rest of that for various, very obvious reasons.
00:07:07.000So this is, is this, uh, what is this?
00:07:15.000Well, it looks like, yeah, it looks like in the English they're saying Zaporizhitsa, but in the Cyrillic there was a K. So that was throwing me off.
00:07:23.000But there's like a, it's, it's like Zaporizhitsa.
00:07:37.000So every every nuclear plant needs a water source, right?
00:07:39.000It's your basic nuclear power value proposition.
00:07:43.000So same reason, by the way, why most why a lot of US Navy ships, as all US carriers, and all US submarines are nuclear powered, because obviously, they have a Yeah, you know, access to water, plentiful access to water.
00:07:58.000I was gonna say, though, Russia has attempted, and it's, you know, kind of on again off again to make a nuclear powered cruiser.
00:08:06.000So actually, with the capability of essentially being able to fire fire cruise missiles, yeah, as this massive nuclear powered platform, which even the US doesn't do.
00:08:20.000It's a flash in the pan and maybe nothing bad will happen?
00:08:23.000Well, it seems, again, this is part of Russia's strategy, right?
00:08:27.000They are trying to take over all the strategic key points of Ukraine.
00:08:31.000And what they're trying to do really is cut the entire country of Ukraine in half using that Dnieper River.
00:08:37.000Did you see that map from Lukashenko Belarus showing the attack into Moldova though?
00:08:39.000towards Kiev, they're coming up from the south through starting obviously in
00:08:43.000Crimea which they had already annexed in 2014, coming up north they already took
00:08:47.000the city of Kursan so the next logical move for any military procession in this
00:08:51.000was that you would you would continue up the river. Did you see that map from
00:08:54.000Lukashenko Belarus showing the attack into Moldova though?
00:08:58.000Right. Yeah what do you think about that? I mean that could be a lot of things.
00:09:02.000Now, we already know that Russia does have some troops in that separatist region of Transnistria.
00:09:07.000So it could have been a reference to that.
00:09:08.000I mean, the quality of the map was hard to kind of really make out if there was any writing on it or anything like that.
00:09:14.000And obviously, I, you know, everybody knows that, you know, I live with a, I have a live-in translator when it comes to this part of the world, my wife being Belarusian.
00:09:23.000And so I asked her if she could see anything on there and she said I couldn't really see anything.
00:09:27.000But I remember the night that this all started, we were down in CPAC and we were standing at this place that had crappy hotel Wi-Fi.
00:09:35.000Nice hotel, but crappy Wi-Fi down in Orlando.
00:09:37.000And Putin's up giving his speech and she's translating it in real time and then I'm tweeting it out and then Zelensky's coming up giving his response and people are all like, you know, how's Posovic getting this stuff so fast?
00:09:47.000I'm like, I have a translator sitting next to me.
00:09:50.000That's always the most difficult things.
00:09:52.000I've seen a lot of videos of Putin's statements, and I don't know that someone's translated it properly.
00:09:56.000You know, do you trust a random person on the internet just posting quotes?
00:10:04.000Funny moment of that in 2007 with Condi Rice when she was meeting with Medvedev.
00:10:09.000Remember, and she kicked the translator out of the room, because she speaks Russian, and she said, you're not... She accused the Russian translator of purposely... The American translator of either not purposely, but she accused the American translator of botching the translation to a point that it was distracting her, and so she asked the translator to leave.
00:10:35.000We were talking about mistranslations in like Islam and that the word power and force also mean God and in Arabic and like come on talk about it.
00:10:44.000And you listen to the MSNBC translation of the State of the Union.
00:10:47.000Yeah, I was gonna say they don't even translate Biden properly.
00:10:50.000Just an update on as what we're seeing and the stream is freezing now.
00:10:53.000So I mean we might be losing, you know, our ability to see what's going on at this power plant, but I don't, I don't.
00:11:00.000Ukraine's energy ministry and again, fog of war, grain of salt, all the normal, you know,
00:11:04.000couching statements and corollaries that we have to say.
00:11:07.000But Ukraine's energy ministry is now claiming that firefighters have been fired at by Russian
00:11:12.000troops while trying to put out the fire.
00:11:15.000I don't because they're going directly into an active combat.
00:11:22.000Yeah, if you're a firefighter and there's conflict, they don't know who you are, they might fire upon you.
00:11:26.000But I just, I'm really not a fan of these comic book villainy claims that come out from the West and, to be honest, even from, you know, Russia.
00:11:35.000Oh, we don't want Ukraine to get nukes or whatever, or we're trying to denazify Putin saying, you know, we're gonna have an Antifa thing or whatever.
00:11:42.000But the idea You know, we're hearing the absolute comic book villainy of both sides from both sides.
00:11:48.000The propaganda is the Russians are evil, and they got these videos of POWs, Russian POWs, crying and saying, like, I didn't know they were going to make me kill women and children or whatever, and I'm like, dude...
00:12:00.000Don't parade around POWs to me, because I don't trust them when they say that, right?
00:12:22.000Yeah, but that actually, I did see some people pushing back on that.
00:12:25.000And as we were just saying, that may have been kind of a translation thing, where the connotation may have been more like, we're going to kill you in battle, so you won't be alive for us to take prisoner.
00:12:47.000No, that was, so I think that was either Kiev Independent or Kiev Post that was covering what was said, but they may have been going off of the mistranslation.
00:12:56.000But again, I mean, so here's what I keep saying throughout all of this, right?
00:12:59.000And the one thing I've instituted with all my team is saying, we're on a 24 hour, you know, rule with all this stuff.
00:13:07.000Because how many stories have come out since the beginning of this conflict, almost, I
00:13:13.000think one week, I think we're at the one week mark today, right?
00:13:16.000That within 24 hours have been completely debunked, right?
00:13:19.000This shelling or this pilot, or Snake Island, right?
00:13:23.000It sounds like a Hollywood script, right?
00:13:24.000It sounds like you're, yeah, you're like, like a movie script and you're and at first
00:13:28.000you're, oh my gosh, this is, this is, I can't believe it.
00:13:32.000And then it turns out, but you actually can't believe it.
00:13:34.000So keep in mind that you're seeing these situations and it's meant to emotionally affect you and emotionally hook you.
00:13:43.000And the Western media, by the way, has been leaps and bounds beyond anything Russia has put out in terms of their information operations here.
00:13:51.000Kind of one little corollary I threw out there was, you know, this sort of debunks all of Russiagate, right?
00:13:56.000Because it wasn't wasn't the predicate for Russiagate, the idea that the Russians were these masters at information warfare, they dominated the global information environment.
00:14:05.000And then it turns out that, okay, well, here's Russia in an actual shooting war, which they would really need to have their best info ops up.
00:14:12.000And they're, you know, screaming about genocide and Nazis.
00:14:16.000And sure, yeah, you know, we can talk about the Azov battalion, and we can be very truthful about what's going on.
00:14:20.000But at the same... And yes, there is shelling in Donbass.
00:15:05.000It's terrifying when TikTok, controlled by China, is operating here for the exact same reason.
00:15:11.000And what will happen if China moves into Taiwan?
00:15:13.000TikTok is going to light up, and all of these American TikTokers are going to be like, but Taiwan is China, and China has a right, and blah, blah, blah.
00:16:17.000Because I think we need to remember, too, that, you know, any of these statements now that that Lavrov is making, and you're right that he's he's been known as someone who's actually pretty highly respected in the international community, even though, you know, obviously they disagree with him on a lot, that all of a sudden he's throwing that away to, you know, throw off these these little like, you know, pot shot like W.D.
00:17:58.000Some poor 60-year-old librarian has been waiting to show her Russian blue all year, and she's from Idaho, and now she's like, what do you mean I can't go to the cat show?
00:19:02.000This is the same thing as the mass formation psychosis we heard about during COVID.
00:19:07.000This is people being like, Russia, I need to put a Ukrainian flag in my Twitter account and ban the cats!
00:19:14.000Oh my goodness, there's another sentence here I really have to read.
00:19:19.000On top of that, our Ukrainian fellow feline fanciers are desperately trying to take care of their cats and other animals in these trying circumstances.
00:20:57.000And a friend of mine, a friend of mine ate there last night and said, I've been coming to this restaurant for like the 20 years I've lived in D.C.
00:21:53.000Of course, I tweeted that, because I tweeted about it a bunch of different times, and I made videos about it, but that doesn't play well when they want to, like, criticize.
00:22:01.000Like, it's the weirdest thing ever, because I've been very, like, pro-Zelensky and, like, been supportive of Ukraine the entire time, so I don't know what they're trying to smear.
00:22:07.000But when they go nuts on this, and then I tweet, jokingly, because they're all basically like me just screwing around, when I say we must punish Russian-Americans, or my favorite tweet was, I said, whoa, how do we know that Russian-Americans aren't secretly working for Putin, or worse, Trump?
00:22:26.000Or when I said punish Russian civilians, that didn't make anybody angry.
00:22:31.000How dare you question the sobbing translators?
00:22:36.000Okay, well, y'all just banned cats, so you guys have lost your minds.
00:22:38.000What gets me about removing the Russian teams from the video game sports is like, okay, I understand trying, like, World War II, we put the Japanese citizens in internment camps, hardcore.
00:22:49.000I don't know if it was the right or wrong move, maybe they were spies, maybe they did the right thing, but like, I used to play Civilization, and Hitler's never led any of the German countries.
00:22:57.000If you ever play Civilization and you play Germany, Hitler has never been in the game.
00:23:00.000They've eradicated the memory of that man from the video game.
00:23:03.000Still, 80 years later, they're still eradicating the memory.
00:23:06.000So like, yeah, the Russian teams are gone from sports this year.
00:23:10.000What if in 80 years, they're still like pretending Russia never existed?
00:23:44.000But at the same time, you know, I think this is something that was planned out for months in advance.
00:23:50.000I guarantee you that Putin went around to all of like the top oligarchs, anyone who has any actual sway within Russia, and explained, this is what's going to happen next year.
00:23:59.000So you need to set up your stuff however you want to set it up.
00:25:55.000And there's, you know, there's a story that as cake was being served, they leaned in and told Xi Jinping that the strikes were taking place.
00:26:03.000But you remember when Putin just met with, when Biden just met with Putin a couple months ago, he came back and he said, we talked about seven things that I told him were off limits.
00:26:12.000I mean, right then and there, I was like, well, what if I'm number eight?
00:26:16.000You know, like, so seven things that you can't hit.
00:26:31.000I was going to say, well, I didn't hit any of those seven things, so I'm good to go.
00:26:34.000And if you watch the Super Bowl halftime show, he's like, they don't deserve to live anymore.
00:26:38.000We should just invade the West completely.
00:26:40.000I think people need to recognize that Vladimir Putin is passionate and he's old, which means he's got to make whatever move he's going to make now, because he's almost 70 years old.
00:26:51.000So I think Russia is going to win what they want to win.
00:26:56.000We already have these crazy stories about NATO's involved.
00:27:17.000Plus you've got the arming, you've got the resources, we'll put it that way, being given to Ukraine.
00:27:22.000So it's ridiculous that we're at this point where it's like, well, if NATO gets involved, they're involved.
00:27:27.000Yeah, so this is we're back under this is something that I've noticed, you know, kind of zipping around on Twitter, reading a lot of stuff that we seem to have kind of forgotten the sort of rules of the Cold War, like the reason that we don't go directly bullet to bullet, we don't fire upon Russian assets and Russian assets don't fire on us.
00:27:48.000So we have these proxy wars, right to We had Afghanistan throughout the 70s and late 70s, early 80s.
00:27:53.000Then we had the Vietnam War prior to that, where again, Russia, of course, was supporting the Viet Cong and supporting the NVA.
00:28:00.000And then we got involved in the South, but Russia didn't actually send, you know, they may have had a couple advisors, but they didn't send forces down.
00:28:17.000We don't want to get into this shooting war with Another nuclear power.
00:28:21.000So we end up doing all these proxy wars.
00:28:23.000And essentially, if you're looking at it from Russia's perspective, they view the current regime, the government of Ukraine, and Ukrainian military as an American or at least Western proxy force.
00:28:46.000The level of involvement is debated, yeah.
00:28:48.000There were certainly Western assets involved.
00:28:49.000I mean, you can have a debate about who started it or whether or not it was justified, but it certainly was US-supported.
00:28:57.000And that blockaded and hindered their ability to get oil into the Black Sea, so that's why he took Crimea almost instantly after that?
00:29:05.000Well, I mean, it changed a lot of things, obviously.
00:29:08.000But they were looking at a situation where, remember, the Russian Black Sea fleet that's at that port of Sevastopol has always been there, right?
00:29:14.000That's always been a Russian naval port.
00:29:16.000And that's their major port, their major Navy base on the Black Sea.
00:29:20.000So they were never going to give that up.
00:29:28.000Which causes issues with the Bosphorus in Turkey because Turkey controls... Russia's already in a weakened position with that being the case.
00:29:37.000Yeah, with Turkey being in NATO, I mean, how do they get through the Bosphorus?
00:29:39.000Well, so, I mean... That's why they're taking Ukraine so they can go over land.
00:29:42.000If you need to get through the Bosphorus, you know, just because Turkey says no doesn't mean you can't get through.
00:29:47.000Yeah, I think there was a big issue with that because Russia did it.
00:29:57.000I think a big part of why the military buildup in the Middle East that the United States has been doing is to protect the Suez Canal and the shipping.
00:30:03.000But also look at, if you want to go through and actually look at what we can see, not the apocalyptic, you know, version of Greta Thunberg climate change, but the actual climate change effects, that if you look at that Northern Sea route that's opening up across, essentially, the Arctic Ocean, Russia is a clear beneficiary of all of this because you can make it from Dalian, China to Rotenburg, Denmark in like two thirds the time or even half the time that you would take that you would need to go through the South China Sea and then the Suez Canal.
00:30:34.000If you cut that all around, that's the reason that Russia knows that going 15 years from now, they're going to be the ones in charge of that northern sea route.
00:30:42.000I would advise anyone that's listening to the show to pull up like a map, a Google map, or like some sort of map and follow along.
00:30:48.000Yeah, because it's really cool when you type in the names of these places and you can understand geographically what's going on a lot easier.
00:31:00.000Reportedly, Sweden's Air Force dispatched JAS-39 Gripen aircraft in response to two Russian Su-27s and two Su-24s briefly entering its airspace east of Gotland Island in the Baltic Sea.
00:31:12.000We also have reports Japan says a Russian helicopter violated its airspace and scrambled fighter jets.
00:31:18.000To give you context on the sheer size of Russia, We come over here to where we got Google Earth pulled up.
00:32:03.000But it does mean that they can reach many different people very, very quickly.
00:32:08.000And if Russia has been preparing this for some time, they can easily move troops and armaments into various regions Arguably, very close to many different countries you'd expect to be on the other side of the planet, without anyone knowing, or at the very least, without setting off alarm bells and pissing anybody off.
00:32:27.000So they put troops in the East and the West, and they can effectively be ready to fight on all spheres of the planet.
00:32:34.000And one of the things that Jack was just talking about when it comes to the Arctic is, we've been watching the Ukraine build up for a long time, the troop build up on the Ukraine border for a long time.
00:32:43.000The Putin's army buildup in the Arctic has been massive.
00:32:46.000It gets very little coverage, and the ones who are the most afraid are the Norwegians, because they're not members of NATO, right?
00:32:51.000I don't believe they're even part of the EU.
00:32:54.000They're the largest oil and gas producer up there, but Russia is saying, no, no, no, this is ours.
00:33:00.000And there's a reason why clearly they want the Arctic.
00:33:03.000They are building enormous, and have built, enormous LNG ports along their north coast in terms of export LNG now directly to to the world in terms of military force.
00:33:15.000I mean, it's it's it's pretty clear that Russia does have a strong command presence when it comes to the Arctic at this point, the United States, I think only has one icebreaker at this point.
00:33:25.000And it's it's always you know, it's kind of in a It's always stuck in the ice.
00:33:33.000It's barely, you know, barely works very well.
00:33:35.000China has a ton of ice cutters, but of course, China does not have any actual access to the Arctic.
00:33:40.000So if China, this is another part of that relationship, this burgeoning relationship that we're seeing between China and Russia.
00:33:47.000If China wants access to the Arctic, they've got to go through Russia.
00:33:50.000If Russia wants their financial backstop, they need to go to China.
00:33:54.000You kick them off swift, well, one belt, one road is right there for you.
00:33:58.000But Ian, in answer to your question, if I want to curb these excessive and obviously aggressive and insane behaviors of the Russian government, You know, you can say, all right, we're going to try to put sanctions on Russia.
00:34:10.000But obviously, they've priced that into this proposition.
00:34:13.000Have we tried putting sanctions or using economic leverage on China, on the oligarchs of the CCP, on CCP leaders, going after them, going after the Yuan, using anything that we can there?
00:34:24.000Because obviously, China and the United States do not have a strong trade relationship.
00:34:50.000Who, why the Russians, what is an American not trade leader?
00:34:52.000Is it just because it's like uninhabitable?
00:34:54.000Most of Russia, most of Russia is uninhabitable that those, the, your, yes,
00:34:58.000on a map it's, it's massive, but a lot of that area is, is either unused or
00:35:02.000it's not arable or they just don't have the people, the population to, uh, Putin
00:35:05.000was trying to hire, you know, uh, farmers for Siberia at one point or like
00:35:09.000recruit people to come in and, oh yeah.
00:35:10.000Give them a place for free as long as they were on the land.
00:35:12.000Right, they were talking about bringing, you know, the South African farmers up there as a way to, you know, get away from the issues they were facing, the farm murders down in South Africa.
00:35:19.000But yeah, for the majority of that area, right, you're really only looking at it in terms of resources.
00:35:26.000And when it comes to those resources, as Daniel, of course, would be able to explain much better than me, and knows it better than me, you know, we are competitors in those areas.
00:35:34.000Yeah, it's pretty terrifying to think of the 21st century and all those resources in Russia, with the actual amount of power Russia has, which is not that much, and the amount of land they have, which is very, very, very much.
00:35:46.000That's why the currency stuff doesn't hit them the way that we would expect it to, because they still have the resources.
00:35:52.000But I would disagree when you say they're not that powerful.
00:35:54.000They have, what, like 60% of the military capability of the entirety of NATO?
00:37:24.000You have to be a special kind of stupid to outsource to China and then pick a fight with Russia, who is going to be working with China.
00:37:34.000So now we're in this position where, like you brought up, fertilizer, but we've also got vitamin C, antibiotics.
00:37:39.000Now you get Biden coming out in the State of the Union address being like, We're gonna be investing in these these chips for your computer chips, and he's basically signaling War may be coming and we will lose Taiwan I can and I can verify that first thing you said in case anyone thinks that you're lying Which you never would or you're misrepresenting the truth married to an Australian in November of 19 Andrew said
00:38:03.000I was talking to my mom, and he's from a rural town in the Outback, and said, my mom said the weirdest thing happened.
00:38:08.000Like, she was at the grocery, and this bus of some Chinese people got off, and they bought everything.
00:38:15.000She said, like, what the heck was that?
00:38:17.000She said, and then, like, neighbors talk.
00:38:19.000This is November of 19, he was saying, it's so weird.
00:38:22.000Everyone I talk to in my little town says, a van of Chinese people will show up, and they will buy everything in the store, and it will disappear.
00:38:29.000Well, it's interesting because we've been talking a little bit about nuclear weaponry and mutually assured destruction.
00:38:42.000One thing not a lot of people consider is that biological weaponry is also considered to be a weapon or a form of a weapon of mass destruction.
00:38:48.000And China literally created one and released it.
00:38:51.000I know that there's still some debate around that technically, but I think it's pretty straightforward.
00:38:57.000I would say, yeah, well, it's so lab leak, but if a country accidentally detonated a nuke at another nation, I don't think we would give them a pass because it wasn't intentional.
00:39:06.000This is, again, to the moronic nature of our leadership, for Fauci to be working in any way with any groups that were working with China.
00:39:16.000You are working with a group that despises you.
00:39:19.000The Chinese Communist Party does not like us.
00:40:08.000Yeah, but that said yeah, I mean a huge part of this I think it's just indicative of our total inability to defer gratification as a people.
00:40:18.000So there's this country that we're trying to pick fights with while at the same time still giving away our resources to them because there's a short-term gain for it in it for us.
00:40:26.000We're not actually thinking about a long-term strategy here when they very much are.
00:40:30.000I wouldn't say that not trading with a country makes you more likely to go to war with them.
00:40:34.000I don't think that's a fair correlation.
00:40:40.000They were saying it the other way around.
00:40:41.000That if you trade, then you will not go to war.
00:40:43.000It creates a disincentive to go to war.
00:40:44.000And this is what we were told in the 90s when we gave China most favored nation status under Clinton.
00:40:49.000As they begin to grow and become a trading partner and as they get a taste of our world.
00:40:54.000It will open them up and it will make them more transparent.
00:40:56.000And what they did is they polluted capitalism.
00:41:02.000It's a very bizarre almost Marxist idea that the way we solve people's problems is just by increasing access to resources or building It's very materialistic.
00:41:11.000It's an issue of materialism, yeah, so we do see it with hyper-capitalist ideologies
00:41:16.000as well, but they meld together very, it's very ironic because people see like hyper-capitalism
00:41:21.000and communism as being diametrically opposed, but the reality is this idea that we can solve
00:41:26.000people's problems simply through materialism and that they will become more evolved and
00:41:31.000better people because their wealth has grown is obviously completely backwards and we're
00:41:35.000seeing the effects of that now with China.
00:43:12.000Jeff Bezos is like, he like wakes up and he goes to grab his coffee and then he like opens a tablet and he goes, Oh, Tim's sick.
00:43:17.000Dude, wouldn't it be hilarious if there was just this long con sabotaging or like this idea of warfare where the companies that own that IP are actually like selling it to China and then China ever so tweaks like, all right, I know this is healthy for him.
00:43:31.000We're going to tell him to do the less healthy thing instead of the thing that's more healthy for him because we're going to weaken him as a person.
00:43:36.000You'll notice people didn't really laugh when you said that.
00:44:20.000The concrete shells they have on this thing are capable of being hit by aircraft weighing 20 tons and not going They were not melting down.
00:44:28.000And it's, Ian, you and I were just talking about this before, you know, the reason Chernobyl melted down is because they were running a test and the test went crazy.
00:44:35.000It wasn't just some random fire that broke out and then it, you know, ignited everything.
00:44:39.000And Chernobyl, because it exploded, it shot nuclear fissile material into the atmosphere, I believe, and then it blanketed the area.
00:45:30.000Can you imagine, like, if we were able to document other historic events like this, if we were able to watch live streams that had occurred of, like, events in World War II and see the chat.
00:45:59.000I was talking about this, the Megaminds Ukrainians with massive balls meme, and I'm like, it was a really garbage meme, but you've got intelligence agencies spamming pro-Ukraine propaganda.
00:47:00.000But I do love what you said, because you have heard that a lot from politicians.
00:47:03.000This is an attack on Western civilization.
00:47:05.000We have to defend Western civilization.
00:47:07.000And the first thing I thought of was if Six weeks ago.
00:47:10.000I said something about Western civilization.
00:47:12.000You would have called me like a white nationalist You know now we love Western civilization again, you see Joe Biden when he said that the people of Ukraine are fighting for their homeland and they're like I have an iron will an iron will and And it was, Lauren Southern pointed this out.
00:47:29.000She was like, that was like every racist dog whistle.
00:47:32.000That if Trump said that, they would start writing article after article saying it.
00:47:37.000So her argument was he was accidentally racist by their own standards.
00:47:54.000I can see this is where it's going to go.
00:47:56.000They're going to turn around and say, you have to institute this because of the recklessness that we're seeing, because of the shelling, and you're going to have to institute a no-fly zone at whatever the cost.
00:48:07.000And I assure you, in the event that happens, they're going to liken it to Chernobyl.
00:48:11.000They're going to say, the risks of another Chernobyl should never be allowed!
00:49:29.000And everyone just collapsed and grasped their hearts and realized how wrong they were.
00:49:35.000For years, we were talking, and Dan, you and I used to talk about this when we were doing One American News, that it was always the Russians that were funding these anti-fracking groups for years.
00:49:45.000And if you turn on, so okay, they banned RT, right?
00:49:55.000But what was interesting, and not to get into the censorship angle, but you could see what Russia's strategic interests were based on the story selection there.
00:50:04.000And a huge chunk of their programming was devoted towards green groups, was devoted to anti-fracking, was devoted to this, so that you could watch that and you could say, oh, well, that's something that Russia wants to push.
00:50:47.000Let me tell you about Russia Today and Sputnik.
00:50:51.000I was at the RT and Sputnik offices in 2016 during the election with Cassandra Fairbanks and the people in that office Every single one save Cassandra was a pro-Democrat, pro-Hillary activist or individual.
00:51:07.000They were crying when Donald Trump started winning and then when he won.
00:52:43.000I don't think it's showing anything to do with... There we go.
00:52:46.000He says a great deal of anti-war and leftist shows are currently being deleted by Spotify, including my personal podcast, Moment of Clarity.
00:52:54.000You can continue to get all of my stuff by signing up for my email list at LeeCamp.com and RadIndieMedia.com My question is, if that's just LeeCamp's personal podcast, which he also has on YouTube, Moment of Clarity, he's got 18,000 subscribers, Why did he get banned from Spotify?
00:53:52.000Especially if, as you said, food's gonna get a lot more expensive and the establishment isn't gonna say that it has anything to do with their irresponsibility in printing trillions of dollars into basing our currency.
00:54:02.000It's because of what the Russians are doing in Ukraine.
00:54:06.000And your Russian next-door neighbor, if you happen to have one, is just as culpable as anybody else or more culpable than we are, certainly.
00:54:15.000And so, no, it's not out of the question.
00:54:17.000When food gets expensive and you have to decide who gets it, then the prisoners are not the ones.
00:54:21.000Dude, they're going to scapegoat somebody.
00:54:23.000I'm not saying it's necessarily going to be the Russians, but they're going to scapegoat somebody for their irresponsibility.
00:54:54.000You can't actually judge this the exact same way that you would somewhere else, right?
00:54:58.000And I don't remember the United States getting completely cancelled, every American cancelled, because of the Iraq war, the Iraq invasion, which was, by the way, yes, unilateral invasion.
00:55:06.000Obviously, that doesn't justify the aggression that Putin's doing right now.
00:55:10.000But at the same time, you have to look at this and say, look, These people are subjects of their regimes.
00:55:15.000They're subjects of authoritarian leaders like Lukashenko, like Putin.
00:55:19.000They don't have any way to effectively respond.
00:55:21.000Yeah, they can protest and then they all get arrested just like up in, you know, Canada.
00:55:26.000You know, another bastion of democracy up there.
00:55:28.000And so you're gonna turn around and yet blame all of the people who just want to live their lives.
00:55:33.000Who literally just want to live their lives and don't want to be involved in this.
00:55:36.000I don't think that our invasion of Iraq and Libya, our current invasion, that we are doing right now, we're invading those countries today, right now, I don't think it justifies the invasion, but it definitely explains it.
00:55:46.000Well, it destroys our moral standing in the world.
00:55:49.000And so how can you turn around from a governmental perspective and say, well, we disagree with you doing that when you look at what the United States, by the way, yes, through NATO has done throughout the years, right?
00:56:01.000And so when you look at Libya, when you look at Afghanistan, when you look at Iraq, you just go around, you could literally walk place to place to place.
00:56:07.000It's nothing but death and destruction other than, you know, the protection of some parts of Europe, which has been Why is someone yelling yeah, what's up, dude?
00:56:18.000I watched oh, this is this is the live stream.
00:56:20.000Okay, this is uh, that's the live stream I watched a video on Uday Hussain last night cuz Rogan I heard him mention he's talking to Majid Nawaz on a show about how horrible Saddam's kids were and I was like, oh, yeah, so Uday Hussain it looks like he was just like daddy's little boy who Saddam beat the hell out of growing up and then I Daddy was like, you can have anything you want, son, anything.
00:56:43.000Every video you find of Uday, he's tripping his balls off.
00:56:47.000It's like he's in a... Dude, and he just beat the... He would just abuse... I mean, the human atrocities... Okay, yeah, this is a little off topic, but America went in saying, we gotta stop human atrocity, and Uday was putting people in, like, bleeding machines.
00:57:01.000He was a psychopath, so... But still, the invasion is completely irrational.
00:57:05.000Let me pull this tweet from Kyle Griffin.
00:57:07.000Kyle Griffin, of course, was the MSNBC producer, says the National Association of Broadcasters has issued a statement calling on broadcasters to stop carrying Russian-sponsored programming that's affiliated with the Russian government or its agents.
00:58:08.000It's interesting, um, the way, I mean, we've said this before, the left constantly projects, and so that's part of why they're always accusing everyone else of being racist.
00:58:15.000They are extremely obsessed with race and ethnic identity.
00:58:18.000That's why they say things like, even if a person isn't white, when they're doing something that favors the system or the patriarchy, they are acting as a white supremacist.
00:58:26.000They're acting in the stead of whiteness.
00:58:29.000And now with all this going on, of course, it's all Russians, even ones who have absolutely nothing to do with the conflict, even though most of them living in the country had absolutely no ability to make any decision whether Or not.
00:58:41.000They're all being slapped with this label.
00:58:44.000And in the same way that you often see black political commentators who happen to be conservative labeled as white or white supremacists, I agree with Lydia that we're going to see people being labeled as Russian or Russian-adjacent.
00:59:02.000Or at the very least that that's very possible.
00:59:03.000And you've got to look back at History to see what will happen now that we can consider to be a rhyme.
00:59:51.000But this is where it starts getting really creepy, where they're basically going to start labeling people as like, Lessers or It's like the others.
01:00:03.000They're gonna say are you an other was that a black mirror episode?
01:00:05.000What was that movie or was that TV show remember?
01:01:47.000The State of the Union and it's and by the way, you know, I look at that stuff and I saw there was like a photo op that they did with this like American Ukrainian flag thing.
01:02:29.000And Russia's not going to stop, because this is how Russia fights.
01:02:33.000And in the meanwhile, instead of, you know, actually helping the Ukrainian people that you promised, you're not going to do that, but you're going to hold photo ops, and you're going to put on lapel pins and put up hashtags as if that's actually going to stop anyone from dying.
01:03:28.000All of Al Jazeera is owned by the Qatari government.
01:03:31.000Al Jazeera, AJ Plus, all the rest of it.
01:03:34.000The amazing thing was about the demonization of Russia today, which always confused me, was that Al Jazeera Plus pushed the exact same opinions as RT, for the most part.
01:03:45.000And it was funded by the Qatari government, yet it was never demonized, and I was confused by this.
01:03:50.000It was clear the issue was the nation of Russia and not the propaganda of, you know, it's not the messaging of what they're doing, it's the fact that Russia owns it.
01:03:58.000So if another channel is state-owned and does literally the same thing, promoting the exact same things, who cares?
01:04:04.000I just find it very interesting that the elite in the ruling class have absolutely no problem with information being imported into our country that's going to destabilize our unity as a country.
01:04:13.000It just bothers them on the basis of who's doing it.
01:04:16.000Yo, there's some... Yeah, because they're the only ones who want to be able to do it.
01:04:34.000I want to see him stand by his campaign message about white nationalism and white supremacy and offer up his support to Zelensky and Ukraine, but condemn the neo-Nazis of the Azov Battalion.
01:04:46.000Tim, didn't you know the entire reason Joe Biden decided to run for president was Charlottesville?
01:04:52.000He's literally been on the record saying that.
01:04:53.000That's the entire reason he decided to run for president.
01:04:55.000So why isn't he saying something about this?
01:04:59.000Majid Nawaz on the show last night was really trying to hammer this one home.
01:05:02.000So what's happening is people from around the world are going to Ukraine to fight with the Azov, and then they're getting radicalized.
01:05:08.000And then when this is done, what he sees happening, or what he fears, is that they're going to go back home, newly radicalized, and with all this military training now, and then spread this Nazism around the world.
01:05:49.000Anyone who can be even tangentially associated with the right is a person who we can blame the entirety of the conservative movement for every single thing that they do.
01:05:59.000So they're constantly conflating regular conservatives with the far right, with Nazis, etc.
01:06:05.000And so if there are these attacks, if Majid's prediction comes true, and I think it's a very interesting and compelling one, Then what's going to happen is you will have neo-Nazis engaging in violence more often because they'll have acquired combat experience.
01:06:16.000And then what's going to happen is they're going to say, look at the rise in far-right violence.
01:06:19.000Now we need to censor regular run-of-the-mill conservatives because it was them who radicalized people by pushing them down these rabbit holes, which turned them into Nazis.
01:06:28.000It's also an excuse to ramp up federal military police when you have internal strife like Nazism on the streets.
01:06:36.000Do y'all know about the Office of Censorship in the United States?
01:06:39.000The Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up in the U.S.
01:06:43.000from December 19, 1941 to aid in the censorship of all communications coming into and out of the United States, including its territories in the Philippines.
01:06:52.000The efforts of the Office of Censorship to balance the protection of sensitive war-related information with the constitutional freedoms of the press is considered largely successful.
01:07:30.000I was just about to say, didn't we have the Biden administration pressuring social media companies to remove information that they considered to be misinformation?
01:07:35.000But I'm saying escalated to the next degree.
01:07:37.000The FCC commissioner nominee who is up, I can't remember her name right now, But they're trying to block it.
01:07:45.000We just saw, we just went through two years of understanding what it was that the amount of people that, you know, the critical mass amount of people would go along with.
01:07:56.000And they ratcheted things up and they ratcheted things up in the name of crisis, in the name of national emergency.
01:08:02.000And they just got, had a huge system-wide test.
01:08:06.000Of everything that they could roll out without seeing any meaningful pushback whatsoever.
01:08:12.000And in Canada, they're about a year ahead of us.
01:09:03.000They were trying to get rid of a double negative.
01:09:05.000When you say don't be evil, people hear evil, evil, evil.
01:09:08.000And then they just start thinking it and be, but when you write it and you read it, it interacts with your brain differently than when you hear it.
01:09:47.000The job of a translator is to translate.
01:09:50.000Why would you hire someone or keep someone on the job if they're crying?
01:09:53.000You'd be like, like I said before, you'd be like, oh no, he's crying.
01:09:57.000Let's get him into the break room and have some coffee and take a breath and get someone else in there who can do their job, you know, because it's manipulation.
01:10:03.000To follow up with what you said, Seamus, like we don't really need an office of censorship.
01:10:06.000They closed the office of censorship in 1945 when the war ended, but basically then they started the liberal economic order within like eight months.
01:10:13.000And I think they just winded in all that censorship ability into this new spy network of five
01:10:19.000eyes or, you know, of a global military industrial complex.
01:10:22.000I mean, it's interesting because for a long time you had what was it, the three and then
01:10:27.000the five major networks that everyone got all of their information from.
01:10:31.000And that was wonderful for them because it was very easy to control what people were
01:10:35.000And then the internet popped up and now it seemed as if there was a threat.
01:10:38.000People could get their information from everywhere.
01:10:40.000But fortunately for them and unfortunately for us, a lot of that power has been consolidated
01:10:45.000and we're not quite back in the same position, but in some ways we're getting there.
01:10:49.000I'm optimistic on some level that we won't quite be able to get back to that, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if people are too scared to speak the truth, and most seem to be.
01:10:59.000Yeah, self-censorship is as effective as forceful censorship in a way.
01:11:18.000Well, I know psychological suffering in general.
01:11:20.000And so if people feel as if they are being rejected by the group, Or they fear being rejected by the group for stating something.
01:11:31.000They're going to be very likely to keep quiet in the same way that they'd be likely to keep quiet if they thought someone would physically aggress upon them for speaking out.
01:11:39.000You watch The Lives of Others, one of the greatest movies on communist surveillance systems and the programs that they had, people informing each other in East Germany.
01:11:53.000By the 1970s, 1980s, the Stasi wasn't running these massive surveillance programs anymore, and they weren't running these massive incarceration programs the way they do it depicted in that film.
01:12:03.000What they ended up doing was they realized that if you were a dissident, if you were someone who was a troublemaker, they had a problem with you.
01:12:09.000It's exactly what Shane was just laying out.
01:12:11.000First thing they would do is start to ostracize you and then they would start to shame you.
01:12:14.000They would smear you in the media, they would drag your name through the mud, they would essentially blacklist you, and they would make it so that the social shame upon everyone else of even associating with you would be enough to destroy you.
01:12:27.000And it was actually much cheaper and far more effective than throwing you in prison and making a potential martyr of you.
01:12:51.000It is possible for now, but look at the forces trying to shut it down.
01:12:56.000I still feel like we're in the prelude.
01:12:58.000Yeah, I think a lot of it has to do with a large enough group of people communicating these ideas makes it hard to stop the idea.
01:13:05.000If it's one person alone in their room on a webcam, then you know, you get swatted.
01:13:09.000You gotta get up and go answer the door.
01:13:11.000That's why when I see censorship, I do speak out against it, even if it's someone I don't particularly agree with or don't particularly like or support.
01:13:19.000The idea that one person or one entity just has this ability to blanket wipe out all communications, right?
01:13:26.000That's actually a much bigger issue than some idiot on a podcast that I don't listen to.
01:13:32.000Yeah, the vulnerability of our system isn't talked about enough.
01:13:35.000From comet strikes to floods to earthquakes to volcanic super eruptions to just a power outage from a solar flare.
01:13:45.000For example, you're seeing these stories that Google and Apple Pay are shut down in Russia.
01:13:49.000And so suddenly, because they went cashless, now people are saying, wait, how do I get on the subway?
01:13:57.000And so we've outsourced all, you know, if you're signed up for all these things, now you're outsourcing your very ability to function in society to Silicon Valley.
01:14:22.000So you think we need some sort of federal power that gains that currency valuable?
01:14:27.000I think you need a physical, not necessarily cash, but I think we have to have a system that you can have a physical commodity that I can hide under my bed.
01:14:34.000Because if Jack doesn't like me, and he's able to call the guys who own Apple Pay and say, shut down his account, if I can't go to the grocery store, if I can't buy things, if my credit, quote-unquote, is stuck in my phone, and my phone is useless because Jack doesn't like me, That I'm a powerless, I have no agency left.
01:14:54.000I want to add a caveat to something I said earlier.
01:14:56.000I wanted to pull up information about what I referenced.
01:15:00.000What I was referencing, it's not a study about social rejection versus physical pain.
01:15:03.000There's two articles I'm looking at here.
01:15:06.000But basically the idea is that they have shown that we process social pain in the same part of the brain that we process physical pain with and there's also a very interesting
01:15:18.000perspective from Psychology and psychologists. I I'm not sure if it's the
01:16:22.000They said, we have overwhelming force. You should surrender.
01:16:25.000You should stand down so that we can take over this plant and do so peacefully.
01:16:29.000The defenders refused. And that's when the firefight started.
01:16:32.000Wow. So those were Russian soldiers on the ground.
01:16:34.000So it was Russian soldiers on the ground, and it looked like there were defenders.
01:16:37.000And if you look at that clip that a few people have pulled out of that livestream, it looks like you can actually see tracer fire rounds being fired from the roof at the Russian artillery.
01:17:19.000I remember a couple modern feats of social media.
01:17:23.000The first was when the Al-Qassam Brigades in Palestine were firing rockets into Israel and the IDF and the Al-Qassam Brigades were tweeting at each other in a flame war during a hot war.
01:17:34.000And a lot of people were actually laughing because it was like, You know, Al-Qassam was like, we will wipe you out, and the IDF was like, try it, we'll stop you, and I'm like, they're tweeting at each other.
01:17:43.000But then there was, in the Middle East, we got video, a GoPro attached to a tank.
01:17:53.000And the soldiers who were shooting back at it or being fired upon were also, they also had GoPros.
01:17:58.000And so the footage made it to the internet where researchers were able to find both perspectives and put it in a single video where you could see both sides of a conflict online.
01:18:08.000Could you hear both the voices of the people from either side?
01:18:11.000You couldn't hear anything from the tank because the camera's outside and the people are inside, but you could hear the people on their Well, have you seen the Chechens and the Azov leaders are now sending are cutting videos about each other about talking about essentially how they're gearing up for this massive fight in Mariupol?
01:18:27.000And so that those are your kind of your considered your most brutal fighters on either side.
01:18:30.000I mean, and for Azov, I mean, you can find very quickly, videos of Azov committing beheadings, committing crucifixions of ethnic Russians.
01:18:38.000Chechens, I think, goes without saying, extremely, extremely brutal.
01:18:42.000Or if you know anything about the Battle of Grozny or the Chechen Wars.
01:18:45.000And so the leaders of Kartarov, who is the leader of the Chechens, is now coming in.
01:18:50.000He's pro-Putin, fighting for the Russians, going in, specifically targeting that Azov battalion.
01:18:57.000And some of the messages I was getting from a contact that I have that's active duty right now, was that they were, you know, possibly trying to get Azov to at least surrender.
01:19:07.000And they were saying, hey, if you we just want the city, we don't need we don't need to kill all of you just leave and we'll let you go out to the West.
01:19:13.000Well, you can go to Lviv, we won't even, you know, we will let you surrender and just just evacuate.
01:20:17.000Technically, you could argue it was a State of the Union because at the very end... You notice, nobody's actually, nobody's even questioning why Putin is doing this now.
01:20:41.000Everybody kind of gets that, yeah, this is the time.
01:20:43.000Well, he actually, so what happened was Biden pulled him aside and really intimidated him and made it very clear that there would be repercussions if he tried to take the hearts and minds of the Iranian people.
01:20:57.000He whispered, come on man, don't do it.
01:20:59.000I want to mention this too, Ian, your point about it being more of like a campaign speech, I completely agree, which is why we just released a cartoon about this today for Freedom Tunes.
01:21:09.000If you guys want to check that out, I just want to plug that because that's very much along those lines.
01:21:15.000When he said he was going to help cure, what did he say, he was going to cure cancer?
01:21:18.000He said we're going to end cancer as we know it.
01:21:27.000He's gonna do gain-of-function research.
01:21:29.000He's gonna change the definition of the word.
01:21:31.000He's like, so I fulfilled my promise, called up Merriam-Webster and said, you know, put another word in there and now it's different as we know it.
01:21:40.000He was talking about astrology cancer.
01:21:45.000He was talking about these people, oh man, I just can't stand the cancer.
01:21:50.000When I think people who hate Trump, and there's people who dislike him, I think when they would hear Trump tell a story, I can imagine what their reaction was, like this guy, he's so full of himself, he's such an idiot, blah blah blah.
01:22:01.000When Biden told that story, I looked at Putin and I said, I don't think you have a soul.
01:22:06.000And he looked at me and said, we understand each other.
01:22:10.000Did anyone believe that that actually happened?
01:22:14.000So Trump tells a story, and they're over the top, and they're silly.
01:22:17.000Biden tells a story, and even his supporters are like, yeah, dude, that didn't happen.
01:23:36.000Do you, but do you, do you like, what an unbelievably insane thing for him to ever, even if he did say that, do you think that, um, do you think that somebody on the international stage wants their enemy to think they have a soul?
01:23:48.000Do you want to be seen as a bleeding heart type?
01:24:08.000A good four panel comic would be like Trump saying, I'll nuke Moscow and Putin looking to Lavrov and being like, let's hold back for a minute.
01:24:16.000Then Biden saying you have no soul and he'll be like, okay, we're good.
01:24:18.000No, it's only like Trump gives a direct threat of violence and Biden's like, you're mean, man.
01:24:23.000Don't attack me in my vulnerable spots, which are here, here and here.
01:24:26.000He's like, hey man, it'd be really mean if you did this.
01:24:40.000It's a fundamental risk misreading of this, you know, and you can dig into some of the philosophical aspects of this where, you know, when you look at the United States in, in many ways, at least in terms of how our regime is positioned, you know, we are, it's, it's Athens and Sparta, right?
01:24:55.000So we are the sea power, you know, we want commerce, we want trade, we want these sort of globalized rules.
01:25:00.000We want to be able to do business with the rest of the world.
01:25:07.000We were just talking earlier about how they have so many issues for them to be able to, uh, get to see.
01:25:11.000So they have that, that mindset of strength over everything, um, power over everything might makes right.
01:25:19.000Um, and it does have a deeper sense of cultural traditionalism, whereas in the U S it is this more, you know, sort of progress, you know, small P progressivism of this enlightened, Oh, we can always be better.
01:25:34.000These are two very, these are two ideas that are in not only philosophical contention, but spiritual contention as well.
01:25:42.000And I think if we fail to understand that, we are completely misreading the situation.
01:25:46.000Not only, and Bill Roggio had a great article about how we've completely misread Russia's strategy in the war.
01:25:51.000I think that's obvious, but at this point, right, Russia isn't losing just because they didn't take Kiev in the first 24 hours.
01:25:56.000But I think we completely misread the way Russian leaders are, even just even the way that they think.
01:26:01.000So if you can't understand how or appreciate how your adversary thinks, how can you ever attempt to get ahead of their decision cycle, get inside their OODA loops, or even predict their future moves?
01:26:12.000Lawrence Southern made a great point about this yesterday when referring to China or two days ago.
01:26:16.000We have no idea how the Chinese think, but they know exactly how we think, because they go to the UN and say the United States of America is racist and they don't care about black lives.
01:26:26.000We know China doesn't care about minorities.
01:26:29.000China, in order to sell the new Star Wars film in China, they had to reduce the size of a black actor on the poster.
01:26:38.000I get messages from time to time from Chinese citizens that are like, CCP is not China.
01:26:42.000So if you really want to understand Chinese, read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, or watch the movie and then read the book.
01:26:47.000Yeah, but I think I know what you're saying, and I agree with you a hundred percent, but I would go even a little further.
01:26:52.000Right now in America, it is not just like we have a small P progressivism.
01:26:58.000It was not long ago that the American flag on a Nike sneaker caused uproars.
01:27:03.000So not only do we have a progressivism, we are intentionally, led by this administration, quite frankly, or the progressive left, we are intentionally destroying the pillars of our foundation.
01:27:15.000And the smallest things, and we've talked a lot about this on the show, the smallest things that unify us, like the national anthem, Well, you should be able to protest that.
01:27:23.000And this little moment, well, that should be up for debate.
01:27:25.000And George Washington, maybe we should change the name of the school.
01:27:29.000So I think if you're Putin, and this is not, you know, shilling for him at all, don't get me wrong, but if you are him and his administration and Russian power, and you look at the West and say, they don't even respect their George Washington.
01:28:06.000Russia saw the threat of the West, diversity trainings, and he was sweating bullets and he was like, we have to invade now before it's too late.
01:28:14.000Once they all learn about diversity, inclusivity, and equity, We're done.
01:28:17.000What you're seeing is so we've we've become quite decadent in in this sort of 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union, this idea of Fukuyama's, you know, end of history and everyone's going to adopt.
01:28:29.000So instead of thinking that our values were Western or that they were derived from the Bible, that they're, you know, Greco Roman, Legal practice, European law, et cetera, principles, enlightenment, all of that.
01:28:42.000We decided that these were universal principles and that we could go on these nation building projects around the world and that we could impose our way of thinking on everyone because our way of thinking was natural.
01:28:52.000And we don't even need all this history as you're describing to back it up that we've, you know, that we've advanced from or that we've developed from.
01:29:23.000And so that's why you're seeing now, instead of actually focusing on the things that would make our country strong, like energy, strong currency, we do need a strong U.S.
01:29:33.000dollar falls off its perch, that's really going to be bad for a lot of Americans.
01:29:37.000Because I think that a lot of the people out there that are living paycheck to paycheck, that don't have a lot of savings, you know, you always see those studies out there, and I'm sure it's much worse now about how many people have less than, you know, $5,000, $2,000 in their checking accounts.
01:29:50.000What happens to them when that checking account becomes completely worthless overnight because the U.S.
01:29:55.000dollar loses its World Reserve status?
01:29:57.000They'll print like another $8 trillion and try and just give everyone $4,000 to get them to flow for two more months.
01:30:03.000So you're seeing now a complete reworking of the world order and that's why even as horrific as these scenes are that are coming out of Ukraine, The long-term implications of this might actually be worse.
01:30:37.000If Russia is already planning to get off the dollar, then they don't need it.
01:30:41.000Well, isn't it interesting how we like to play philanthropist and act like we are exporting Western values around the world and helping people live better lives because we care about the downtrodden, when in many circumstances it's either militaristic intervention or economic bullying to force our way of life onto other people, even in countries where they're not ready for it.
01:31:02.000Or, ready for it is the wrong term, because some of the things that we try to import into these countries aren't things people should ever be ready for.
01:31:08.000I find it fascinating, and I don't think it's a coincidence, that the intellectual founders of neoconservatism were former Marxists.
01:31:16.000And look at the neoconservative mission.
01:31:18.000Look at what we tried to do in Afghanistan.
01:31:20.000Oh, we're going to completely and fundamentally restructure a culture at the barrel of a gun.
01:31:26.000And this country, this entire nation, With a history that we don't even care to understand is going to bow before the order we have determined is the culmination of history, which is how they conceptualize democracy now instead of Marxism as neoconservatives, because we ordered them to at the barrel of a gun and were able to restructure their thinking.
01:32:03.000Well, the thing that I find bizarre about this whole conversation from the 30,000-foot level, especially, are we invading, do we not invade, what is the role of NATO, etc., etc., it was not very long ago that, like, a million and a half Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda slaughtered each other with a machete, and the West just sat there and watched it and said, wow, that's bad.
01:32:23.000I mean, like, literally over a million five hundred thousand, and the majority of them were hacked to death.
01:32:29.000And we just sat there and were like... With Chinese machete.
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01:37:01.000I do civil and urban conflict, which means up until that point, I was like, that's my limit.
01:37:07.000I've been on the ground in numerous countries.
01:37:09.000I rode in the back of this truck in Thailand during the Yellow Shirt, you know, Red Shirt Monarchist and Parliamentarian protests and there were bloodstains on the ground because someone in a motorcycle drove by and threw a grenade into it.
01:37:22.000We got in it after they scrubbed it clean, and then we rode down the street wearing body armor and helmets like, these are the vehicles that get attacked.
01:37:29.000That was the extent to my capabilities in a conflict zone.
01:37:33.000When it comes to what's happening now in Ukraine, I don't have the experience, the skill, nor the courage to be in a firefight.
01:37:39.000Which, and by the way, if you're thinking, I mean, I shouldn't even say this, but if you're thinking, I'm going to go by myself, right?
01:38:13.000Telling people to go and throw Molotov cocktails and run up in civilian clothes against a professional military with mechanized armored vehicles with 14 millimeter, 30 millimeter cannons, right?
01:39:46.000Okay, that's not what I'm referring to, but actual war correspondents.
01:39:49.000When I went to Thailand, I was sent with a guy who lived in Thailand for five years and who spoke Thai.
01:39:53.000They were like, it's, you know, we're in this lull period where we can have you go in and produce an English-speaking, like, experience of what's going on.
01:40:01.000If it gets too hot, you come back out.
01:40:03.000We keep our crews on the ground who are war correspondents trained with high-powered rifles, with body armor, military tactics.
01:40:11.000A lot of the journalists that go on the ground in these situations are former military as well.
01:40:14.000People need to understand that it's not... These people on Reddit who are like, we're going!
01:40:41.000Let's read some more Super Chats, though.
01:40:42.000We've got, uh, MJ says, I work in nuclear.
01:40:44.000As long as they don't hit the reactor, uh, building, coolant supply pumps, or the off-site power lines, they will be able to stabilize the reactors with no risk of meltdown.
01:40:53.000We got, let's see, it says, Dan Brockman says, Tim, the collision of COV ammo in that pig lard video is far more likely, uh, it's far more likely it's 5, uh, 5.45 by 39, not 7.62 by 39.
01:41:34.000So, it's funny when I show people bullets.
01:41:36.000I love showing people bullets, because you ask them which one's the weapon of war, and I'll show, like, I'll show a polymer-tipped .450 Bushmaster, which is huge, and then I'll show, like, a 9mm Luger or something, and then they're just like, oh, and they point to the big one every time.
01:41:49.000But sometimes, some people are like, you're tricking me, it must be the small one, and I'm like, yeah, you know why?
01:42:26.000Clayton Johnston says, as someone who has worked a few outages at nuke plants, the transmission substation would be a main and likely the primary target in a power plant unless they are attempting to cause a meltdown.
01:42:43.000GBP says if the narrative that Putin wants the USSR back is true, it wouldn't make sense for him to attack the most valuable and volatile infrastructure, ruin the land, and then cause yourself further problems.
01:42:55.000That's true, too, and that's why if you could win a war without firing a shot, propaganda and influence, you would.
01:43:02.000My view on this is the West and Russia are already at war.
01:43:06.000The West is playing a propaganda-influence war, and Russia's in a third-generational hot conflict.
01:43:26.000The children of Russian politicians and oligarchs are begging for the war to end.
01:43:30.000When you also see that the US is providing, and I don't think this comes as a surprise, but You know, I think it's been publicly acknowledged now.
01:43:38.000I saw Zero Hedgehog, the article that the U.S.
01:43:40.000is providing real-time intelligence to Kiev.
01:43:42.000Wait, you said that these children want the war to end?
01:43:44.000These are the hot models of Instagram?
01:43:46.000The children of government officials in Russia.
01:45:18.000What I was told by people in Ukraine was that by calling it the Ukraine, you are saying the people who live on the border as opposed to their national identity of Ukrainians.
01:45:27.000So saying Ukraine does this, you're saying their name is a proper noun as a people when you're saying, you're basically like saying like the hill people when you say like the Ukraine, you know what I mean?
01:45:37.000Like, oh, the people in the outskirts.
01:46:02.000I saw somebody saying, because I looked for it and I couldn't find it, but somebody was even saying that the Azov you could find like on eBay and Amazon, like Azov shirts and stuff.
01:46:11.000I don't think people realize it's a neo-Nazi.
01:46:13.000I saw the tweet, but then I went and checked it and I couldn't find it myself.
01:46:17.000How many people you think understand it's a neo-Nazi group?
01:46:22.000But I think it's important to say that there, it's like Lauren said, there's components of it that are Nazis.
01:46:30.000Is it more correct to say that that way?
01:46:32.000Like some people have super chatted saying, saying the Azov battalion is a Nazi group is missing the nuance of components of the Azov battalion are Nazis.
01:46:41.000Well, there's many battalions as well.
01:46:44.000And so and there's one overall, you know, oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky, who's funded them and funded a lot of politicians in Ukraine, as well as media outlets.
01:46:54.000And that's really been bankrolling a lot of this stuff.
01:46:57.000So yeah, I mean, again, you know, to say Russia is controlled by the oligarchs, it is and then Putin on top of that, but Ukraine has just as many oligarchs as Russia does, you know, proportionally.
01:47:07.000Justin Wooten says, are you suggesting anchor kittens is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
01:48:32.000There was like a livestyle that we had a secret sealed off swimming pool underground bomb shelter at our high school and no one ever found.
01:48:54.000I remember in, I remember doing at least one desk drill and I remember even then thinking like, I don't know how this stops a missile, but okay.
01:49:03.000You know, I guess the idea is if it hits the school, it stops the rubble.
01:49:06.000Or if the windows get blown out, you don't take it in the face.
01:49:09.000So, you know, shrapnel and things like that.
01:49:10.000But then in the 80s, if you were in a, which I am, if the propaganda in the 80s that this was all Reagan's fault, he was gonna do this, all the little kids, please Ronald Reagan, stop us, stop the war.
01:51:16.000It's about having fun, but I would love to film some kind of... If we took all of the politics today into Twilight 2000 or a game like that, and then played out a scenario and like... Yeah, Twilight 2000.
01:51:37.000Rather than a dungeon, it's like the Hall of Congress and you have to go from room to room and I can be Nancy Pelosi and these are my powers and you roll the dice and there's a quorum vote and you all have to... Oh my gosh, I would play that game in a heartbeat!
01:51:52.000But it would be funny to be like, 2024 Donald Trump is getting elected because they did this.
01:51:56.000Like John Podesta and a bunch of Democrats did a war game.
01:52:01.000They basically played what is essentially D&D about the 2020 election.
01:52:05.000And then apparently like Donna Brazile and John Podesta were like, we secede from the Union or like trying to get California to secede or something.
01:52:23.000Nemetin says, Jack, can you speak to speak some to your understanding of China's 100 year plans, and how this may play into their current geopolitical position?
01:52:32.000Few people get to develop much longer strategic plans and are ridiculously patient.
01:52:36.000Well, look, I mean, you know, I think this has been said before, but in a nutshell, so the founding of the CCP was in 19, or not the founding, but the founding of the PRC was in 1949.
01:52:46.000So their 100-year plan will come to culmination in 2049.
01:52:50.000That is a key year for them because that is their centenary of taking over all, or their centennial of taking over all of China, with the exception, of course, of Taiwan.
01:52:59.000And so the idea is, they want to be in the position where the United States was at that point.
01:53:08.000And if they can have Russia in their back pocket, if they can have Putin, this belligerent, thug, mafioso, you know, Russian mafia type, who's willing to keep, you know, keep Europe at bay, then they will do so.
01:53:20.000And of course, what China will do here, it's very simple, by the way, they'll come to Europe and they'll say, look, We can keep Putin in check.
01:53:27.000You just need to make an economic deal with us.
01:53:29.000You need to give us the most favored status with the EU.
01:53:37.000But as long as you go through us, everything's going to be okay.
01:53:40.000It's your basic, it's your basic mafia protection racket that's going on right now.
01:53:45.000And unfortunately, it's the people of Ukraine who are the ones who have to suffer.
01:53:50.000All right, we got this from Eric Vasilyev.
01:53:53.000Vasilyev, Russian guy here living in Maryland, getting my bags ready for these camps you're talking about.
01:53:57.000If it doesn't work out there, can I come stay with you guys?
01:54:01.000Rest assured, Russian-Americans, if you are but a humble American or green card holder or just someone who is uninvolved but you are Russian, we will absolutely hide you beneath the floorboards.
01:54:12.000They can come and knock in and we'll just be like, I don't know what you're talking about, anybody here?
01:57:43.000He needs to resign because this is dangerously close to informal war declarations.
01:57:49.000I don't know whatever Russia's Politburo, if a similar person had called for the assassination of Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham himself would be talking about how that is an act of war.
01:59:23.000Like, even if it would be a good strategy to have him assassinated, it's such a stupid thing to say.
01:59:30.000The reason assassinations are never a good strategy, just in general, is because you don't know what's... Look what happened when Brutus assassinated and the rest of the senators assassinated Julius Caesar.
01:59:41.000And he turned the Republic into a full-on empire, and the triumvirate had them all killed.
01:59:46.000I want to give a shout out to, uh, I agree.
01:59:48.000I mean, my point is like read the rest of this.
01:59:50.000It's just, it's not like the way, I guess my point is like, it's, it's an insane thing to even propose, but then the way of, of just like saying it on Twitter.
01:59:59.000And that's how he's going to make that thought known to the world.
02:00:02.000I want to give a shout out to Troy Rubert, a super chat who said Lindsey Graham calling for Putin assassination wild times.
02:00:08.000He, he posted that, um, before we, we, we got the source, we picked it up, but, but, um, free speech, super chat.
02:00:14.000If he's in Congress and they're debating this and he brings it up, free speech.
02:01:18.000Lindsey Graham is right if you want nuclear annihilation.
02:01:22.000Lindsey Graham is right if you want war to reach every, every inch of this globe.
02:01:28.000Lindsey Graham is not correct in how you end war and conflict.
02:01:31.000He's talking about how do you, how do you stop Vladimir Putin as an individual?
02:01:36.000Because if something like this happened, especially now that he's called for it, they're going to, they would, what, respond with a war declaration against us?
02:01:43.000If somebody took a move to kill, and it was because of Lindsey Graham.
02:01:46.000Oh, you get some crazy communist Does he not understand, by the way, that the Kremlin is more than just one person.
02:01:51.000There's an entire infrastructure inside that building.
02:02:38.000I don't know how many times I can say it's stupid and dangerous and still be effective.
02:02:42.000And it makes, and as Tim was just saying, it makes Putin now, it gives him the opportunity to go on the camera tomorrow and say, the United States government is calling for my assassination.
02:02:51.000And not only have they punished us financially, now they are calling to kill me.
02:02:55.000And all I am trying to do is fight for Russia.
02:02:58.000So you- He's going to say- Let's specify this.
02:02:59.000So now you've given- Lindsey Graham doing this and not the American government.
02:03:02.000Yeah, you've given Putin another weapon now.
02:03:04.000He's going to say a country that invaded another country, Iraq, and then later came out and said it was an intelligence error and destroyed a country has the nerve to lecture us because we're defending our borders.
02:03:20.000As they attempt regime change, and now because of Russia's willingness to defend itself, they have called for my death.
02:03:26.000That's what he's gonna do. By the way, you know, Lindsey Graham was a huge supporter of your my Don he went over
02:03:30.000there with John McCain With Victoria Nuland with so many of these people very
02:03:34.000early on in 2013 2014. He's with poor Shenko He's he's been tied into this directly. So that's at the
02:04:10.000The establishment has chosen its narrative, and they're going to just steamroll it through, and you're going to get sycophants and lunatics who are going to be like, we have to, we must do it.
02:04:20.000The anti-war voices, I mean, Lee Camp is a strong anti-war voice, so of course he's going to- Well, and the question becomes then, do people like Lindsey Graham know what they're doing?
02:04:28.000Do they know exactly what they're doing?
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