In this episode, I talk about the anti-white racism in American schools, and how it s been perpetuated in the past 30 years, and why we need to call it what it is. I also talk about why we should ban critical race theory, and what it means to be a conservative in the 21st century. I hope you enjoy, and tweet me if you have any thoughts or opinions on any of the topics covered in this episode! Timestamps: 3:00 - Nick Fuentes 4:30 - Why white people hate white people 7:00 8:40 - What is racism? 9:30 11:00 -- How racism has been taught in schools 12:20 - Why do we have racial hatred 13:20 14:30 -- What does it mean to be white? 15:40 16:10 - What does racism mean 17:10 18:15 - How do we call it 19:40 -- What is racial hatred? 21:20 -- How can we stop racial hatred in schools ? 22:10 -- How have we all be racist? 23:00 | What is it? 24:10 | How did we learn about racism in America? 25:30 | How we have been engendered by racism in schools? 26:40 | What does race matter? 27:00 // 28: What is the truth about race? 29: How does racism matter to you need to know? 30: What are you going to do about race and identity? 35: What do you think about race 36:00-- How do you know it matters to you? 39:00 ~ What do we know about racism and identity 35 | What are we all need to do to stop racism and what does it matter to us? 40:00 + 39:30 // 40:20 | Calling it What it is? 45:00 & 45: Is it a thing that makes sense? 47: What does that make sense to you, right or what it makes you see? & so much more? Theme song by Ian Scott Stanley Music by Ian Dorsch Theme Song by Ian Macpherson ( ) Cover art by Jeff Kaale ( ) is & Other Music by Jeff Perla
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00:09:51.000If we are faced with the question about whether or not we will get the vaccine and surrender and capitulate to the system, a devil-worshipping system that hates us and hate our country, the answer has to be always no.
00:10:45.000But as soon as people start playing games, I stop.
00:14:42.000This little boy, Cash Gernon, was murdered, dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night in his home and murdered outside his house in the street by a black man because he was white.
00:14:56.000That black guy killed a white boy because he was white.
00:15:00.000And this black guy hated white people.
00:16:21.000They perpetrated the Holocaust against Jews.
00:16:24.000And that was, by far and away, the most obscene, worst genocide ever in the history of the world.
00:16:29.000And then, when all was said and done, white people were racist to the Muslims that blew up the World Trade Center.
00:16:35.000White people are racist to black criminals and the police.
00:16:40.000Basically, people are bred from cradle until grave thinking that white people are uniquely evil people.
00:16:47.000White people bear a special guilt for all the problems of this country, all the problems of every other group, and really, like, all the problems of humanity.
00:16:57.000And that's a guilt that is ancestral, it's not individual, everyone has it, and you can never overcome it.
00:17:05.000There's no clear way, discernibly, that you can ever overcome it and ever achieve equality with these non-white people.
00:17:14.000And it's as a consequence of this that these things are becoming more and more common.
00:17:23.000And when white people are dehumanized, black people are going to start killing white people because they see them as less than human.
00:17:31.000And other people are going to start killing white people because they see them as less than human.
00:17:36.000How much do you want to bet that this, uh, whatever his name is, Darren Brown, whatever, was radicalized by the media into thinking that white people are racist and responsible for his suffering, not just as a black man, but as a gay man too.
00:17:52.000And that he committed this crime in retaliation for that perceived prejudice, perceived hatred against him.
00:18:00.000That's the consequence of all this anti-white hatred and dehumanization in the media, education system, and it's even enshrined in the law systematically through the government.
00:18:10.000I mean, what do you think affirmative action is?
00:18:13.000And a lot of white people don't want to talk about it now.
00:18:17.000They want to pretend that that's not the case because
00:18:21.000Honestly, I think a lot of white people think that it's beneath them.
00:18:24.000I think that white people think that it's our job to be better, to strive towards a post-racial society, that we ought not to notice race, and we should try not to notice race, that it's a good thing to aspire to, to not notice race.
00:18:39.000I think that white people are under the impression that to be cognizant of race, and to mention it and act like it matters, is beneath us, like it's backwards, it's regressive, it's primitive.
00:18:53.000And a big part of that, too, is because white people have, I think, internalized a lot of what the media says about us, which is that, well, we're on top of the world, so what do we really have to complain about?
00:19:17.000And in a lot of ways it already isn't a white country anymore.
00:19:21.000And as the percentage and proportion of white people diminishes in America relative to non-white people, it's going to become more and more of a problem for white people that non-white people don't like us.
00:19:58.000People are very comfortable talking about racism against blacks or other non-whites, but nobody talks about the distrust, nobody talks about the resentment that non-white people have for white people in the country.
00:20:10.000And it's not everybody, but it is a lot of people, and everyone knows that.
00:20:15.000As the population becomes less and less white, and as the people in charge of the country, and the people enforcing the laws of the people of the country, in charge of the country, become less and less white, that's going to matter a lot more.
00:28:49.000Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Thursday.
00:28:53.000We have a lot to talk about, lots to get into tonight.
00:28:57.000Our featured story is about the Ukraine war.
00:29:00.000We're talking about oil and natural gas.
00:29:04.000We were going to cover this last night, but then I got a little bit carried away talking about Mark Levin and China.
00:29:12.000So tonight our featured story is about the gas crisis which is about to happen in Europe.
00:29:18.000And we talked about this I think either last week or the beginning of this week, but in case you missed it, Tsar Putin is now weaponizing natural gas against NATO and the European countries.
00:29:33.000And so Putin now wants all European countries, which he considers unfriendly, to pay for their natural gas in rubles.
00:29:43.000And this is in response to the United States and NATO's sanction on rubles, which is the Russian currency.
00:29:50.000The Europeans refuse to do it, so Russia says they're going to cut off their gas.
00:30:10.000And it may be turned off very soon and the United States can't make up the difference.
00:30:16.000So we'll talk about that too and if we have time we'll get into our story about general inflation which we're all supposed to cover yesterday but again ran out of time.
00:30:27.000So I mean it should be a pretty good show it's just I don't know the news just feels kind of slow these days this Russia-Ukraine thing it's been going on now for a month and there's no huge developments.
00:30:40.000I guess the Russians are putting in place something like a temporary ceasefire.
00:30:45.000They're pulling back some of their forces into Belarus.
00:30:50.000While the Russians pursue peace talks with the Ukrainians, moderated by Turkey.
00:30:56.000So it seems like it's almost wrapped up.
00:31:00.000And we covered, it was maybe Monday or Tuesday, Zelensky's giving up on NATO membership, giving up on nuclear status.
00:31:07.000So it seems like it's winding down and I miss it.
00:31:52.000I don't know if there's like a new audience watching the show.
00:31:54.000Maybe since my debate with Destiny, I'm thinking maybe it's got something to do with that.
00:31:59.000Because people have been pouring into the Telegram and the Cozy Channel lately.
00:32:04.000And I don't really know where the growth is coming from.
00:32:08.000I think maybe it's just like I said it's a new audience tuning in maybe people that don't normally watch the show maybe they found it after the debate or maybe people are interested after the debate either way make sure you hit the follow button you'll get a push notification whenever I go live and those are all our announcements I have to say we had a little bit of a weird show last night and I don't know how many of you tuned in yesterday but
00:33:19.000So anyway, yeah, I don't know what that was all about yesterday, but it's been happening.
00:33:24.000It happened to, of course we know it's been happening to Baked Alaska, it happened to Dalton this week, happened to Jayden at the same time, and it has also been happening actually to Tim Poole, who's not even in our sphere.
00:33:39.000He's not on this site, I've never talked to him, and he seems to be having the same issues, so I don't know what that's all about, but
00:33:48.000Hey, knock on wood, I'm okay, I'm safe.
00:33:50.000I know a lot of people were worried, but it was a very, I mean at least for me it was a non-event.
00:33:57.000I heard for Dalton they shut down like the whole, the whole neighborhood.
00:34:25.000And it's really intensified over the past year and a half, you know that, ever since January 6th, that's been the no-fly list, they took my money, they banned me from DLive, they banned me from my payment processor, like I got banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, they keep banning us on Discord, they keep banning us on everything, and then they write the hit pieces, and then they try and go after the cozy services, and then
00:34:51.000And now they're just straight up like, hey, can the police come kill Nick Fuentes?
00:34:57.000Come kill Nick Fuentes right now, you know what I mean?
00:35:00.000So, hey, if we're getting that much flack, you know, I know I've sort of tried to say this now, everybody says this, but if you're taking flack, it means you're over the target.
00:35:09.000That's when you get the most heat, so...
00:35:49.000And every day that this show is live, they hate that.
00:35:52.000They hate it, they wish it wasn't so, and then they work on all our other activities.
00:35:57.000You know, the conference, and the Super Chats, and all our political alliances.
00:36:05.000Our personnel, they're going after, there's a big report about our personnel the other day and they thought that was gonna do a big... There was this little hit piece that was published the other day and it was a behemoth.
00:36:14.000It was like, it was really long and completely convoluted.
00:36:19.000And I saw one of those, one of those far-right beat journalists said something like, oh man, this is, this is it!
00:38:48.000And then, I play Valorant, and oh, he aims like a woman.
00:38:52.000Oh, wow, you choke, wow, you're terrible.
00:38:57.000So, I'm just, I'm sucking at the game, people are shitting on me in the live chat that I'm sucking in the game more, and I'm like, you know what?
00:42:02.000And I might stream tonight, maybe tomorrow.
00:42:05.000I was just listening to, there was this NPR podcast about me.
00:42:10.000And somebody forwarded it to me in a group chat and I just got a chance to listen to like 15 minutes of it before the show.
00:42:17.000NPR did a podcast about the American right-wing's affinity for Russia and the whole podcast was about me.
00:42:26.000And it's the usual stuff, but I thought maybe I could listen to that.
00:42:30.000I still want to go over my debate with Destiny.
00:42:34.000I still want to watch that and cover it point by point.
00:42:36.000That'll be a lot of content, because that was a two-hour debate.
00:42:40.000And when I review something, if it's a two-hour video, I'll spend an additional two hours on it.
00:42:45.000So that's like a four-hour stream just doing that.
00:42:48.000So I'd still like to do that at some point, even though it seems a little stale now.
00:42:53.000And I'm trying to think and let me know if there's any other maybe in the super chats Let me know if there's any other content you want me to review I'd like to do a I'd like to do a commentary stream But I'm just not watching enough content to get to get any material for it Because I've just been busy with other things So if there's anything you want me to watch let me know and I think I'll try to do one either tonight or maybe tomorrow
00:43:17.000And then, coming up, Saturday we're doing a VALORANT tournament, so I will probably stream that.
00:43:24.000We'll be doing a VALORANT tournament Saturday night, and it'll be me, VEDA, UX, Wurzelroot on a team, and I think Jaden and Jimbo are playing in it, Beardson's in it.
00:43:35.000A lot of gripers are getting involved.
00:43:37.000So we'll be doing a gaming tournament Saturday and then Sunday We may be streaming a game as well.
00:43:43.000So there's a lot of content on the horizon.
00:43:44.000We're just we're having some fun So I forgot to tell you about that, but yeah that's going on this weekend so
00:43:52.000So I'm just trying to, you know, because lately it feels like the show format is kind of restrictive.
00:45:38.000I think that's when you get the best content is when there's when there's disagreement and I think when there's sort of like a contentious thing because I know I mean I don't think my audience is big Lauren Southern fans or Destiny fans but that's okay I think that makes it a lot more fun you know it's like the same dynamic that me and Sydney Watson had it's the same dynamic you know that I had with I'm trying to think is if there was anybody else recently like that
00:46:42.000You could get lots of people on one stream.
00:46:44.000You could get the cozy community doing a gaming thing or a debate thing.
00:46:48.000So there's a lot of possibilities now that didn't exist a year ago, which I think is really interesting to explore.
00:46:56.000So I think there's lots of potential for crossovers, collaborations, debates.
00:47:02.000All of that and I'd really like to go back to putting the content first.
00:47:07.000I just, you know, you get so busy doing AFPAC and we're running candidates and there's there's so much work to be done and then the content is kind of on a back burner.
00:47:16.000I'd like to reprioritize the content a little bit this year.
00:47:19.000So anyway, so that's just some of the things I've been thinking about but
00:47:30.000Actually, I'll start with the Russian proposal here.
00:47:35.000So, as you know, Russia is entering, I think, week 5 or 6 of their war in Ukraine.
00:47:43.000We're all very familiar, I believe, at this point with the details.
00:47:46.000The United States and NATO has responded with an unprecedented sanctions regime against Russia.
00:47:53.000We know that the United States and NATO powers cannot intervene directly in the conflict, so they have taken unprecedented steps to isolate the Russian economy.
00:48:04.000And so you have all the usual kinds of sanctions.
00:48:06.000They've sanctioned the Russian elites.
00:48:08.000They have sanctioned certain Russian exports.
00:48:14.000They've also taken further steps with monetary policy and they've seized Russia's foreign currency reserves.
00:48:21.000They have banned Russian banks from interfacing with the international banking system.
00:48:27.000And they have banned or they have stopped buying rubles and prevented Russia from converting rubles into U.S.
00:48:36.000This is an unprecedented and shocking step the way in which the currency has been weaponized because the United States dollar is the reserve and the reference currency of the world.
00:48:47.000So all countries will have to buy dollars and use dollars to denominate their international trade with any other country.
00:48:55.000And so therefore, really all global trade is going through the jurisdiction of the United States.
00:49:02.000Because the US dollar is the reference currency for deals between countries, or it's the actual medium of exchange of trade between countries, that means that all countries, hostile or friendly, will have to go through the United States and the United States monetary jurisdiction to conduct all their trade, their exports, their imports, all their deals.
00:49:26.000This is a big step, and this is a big step to isolating Russia.
00:49:30.000As a consequence of this weaponization of the dollar, the ruble, which is the Russian currency, went down 50% in value, 50% against the dollar.
00:49:41.000Before the war, it used to trade at about 85 or 80 against the dollar, so you could get 80 or 85 rubles for every dollar.
00:49:50.000And then at the height of the war, in the weeks after, the monetary
00:50:22.000They'll have to buy rubles so they'll have to give their euros or their dollars to Russia in exchange for rubles and then we'll have to buy the natural gas in rubles.
00:50:31.000And this is a very smart move here because
00:50:35.000WESTERN EUROPE IS COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON RUSSIAN NATURAL GAS.
00:50:39.000THEY ARE COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON RUSSIAN ENERGY.
00:50:42.000THEY GET SOME NATURAL GAS FROM THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES.
00:50:46.000THEY GET SOME LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS FROM THE UNITED STATES.
00:50:50.000BUT, ULTIMATELY, THOSE PRODUCERS JUST CANNOT KEEP UP WITH THE DEMAND OF WESTERN EUROPE.
00:50:57.000They rely on the natural gas that is pumped through Ukraine and pumped through the Nordic Sea in Russian pipelines to supply their energy needs specifically in the winter.
00:51:10.000And some of the countries that are the most dependent are countries like Germany.
00:51:13.000And Germany is, in Europe, really the backbone of the NATO alliance.
00:51:18.000So, you have this very delicate situation where NATO is declaring an economic war on Russia while ultimately being economically dependent on Russia for its vital needs.
00:51:29.000And energy is one of the most vital needs for an economy.
00:51:32.000So, Russia is exploiting that dependency and saying, you know, yeah, you tried, you tried to sanction Russia, but if you want our natural gas, then you need to keep our currency afloat.
00:51:45.000And so, they really have no other option.
00:51:48.000Germany needs the natural gas from Russia, France...
00:51:51.000The other countries, they need the natural gas from Russia, and so that means they have to do business in rubles.
00:51:57.000And that means that they, by buying the natural gas in rubles, are going to have to prop up the value of the ruble.
00:52:03.000And so just since that policy was announced, the ruble has stabilized at just 15% below what it was trading at before the war.
00:52:12.000That's compared to 50% below where it was before the war, at the height of the war, three weeks ago.
00:52:19.000So we talked about that actually I think on Monday or last week, but there's been a new development.
00:52:52.000The Europeans need the energy, and the Russians need the money that they get from the sale of the energy.
00:52:58.000Russia, in particular, needs the money because they need to finance the war, and the Europeans need the energy because if they don't, energy will become very expensive, there will be shortages, and they're already experiencing very high inflation.
00:53:14.000So both countries can't really afford to go all the way.
00:53:17.000Russia cannot afford to lose the sale of the natural gas, and Germany in particular, but also the United States and Western Europe, cannot afford the inflation and the energy shortages.
00:53:32.000I'm gonna force you into this double bind you either you either finance our war or you're out of energy the Europeans are saying no I'm not gonna buy your rubles we're not gonna finance the war so you can turn off our gas but then you can't finance the war so then the Russians came back and they said okay all right well
00:54:06.000If the Europeans are not buying the natural gas in rubles, the natural gas will be shut off.
00:54:12.000And Germany, which gets 40% of its natural gas from Russia, they will now not get any natural gas from Russia at all, which is like a huge catastrophe.
00:54:26.000Russia has told unfriendly foreign countries they must start paying for gas and rubles or it will cut supplies.
00:54:33.000Vladimir Putin has signed a decree stating that buyers must open ruble accounts in Russian banks starting Friday.
00:54:41.000He said, quote, nobody sells us anything for free and we're not going to do charity either.
00:54:46.000That is, existing contracts will be stopped.
00:54:50.000Mr. Putin's demand is being seen as an attempt to boost the ruble which has been hit by Western sanctions.
00:54:56.000His decree means foreign buyers of Russian gas would have to open an account at Russia's Gazprom bank and transfer euros or US dollars into it.
00:55:06.000Gasprom Bank would then convert this into rubles which will then be used to make the payment for gas.
00:55:11.000Although the order comes into effect for gas exported from Friday onwards, the payments for that gas will not be paid by European buyers until mid-May.
00:55:21.000That suggests there may not be an immediate threat to supplies.
00:55:25.000Mr. Putin said the switch to rubles was meant to strengthen Russia's sovereignty and it would stick to its obligations on all contracts if Western nations obliged.
00:55:35.000Germany said the change announced by Mr. Putin amounted to blackmail.
00:55:39.000Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Western nations have issued economic and trading sanctions on Russia, but the European Union has not placed bans on oil or gas, unlike the U.S.
00:56:27.000If you are 100% reliant on the United States for something like money, as an example, international trade, you can't really say that you're a completely independent nation.
00:56:41.000Because of course, here's a perfect example.
00:56:45.000Russia has a foreign policy about its western border with Ukraine that Ukraine cannot join NATO.
00:56:53.000Ukraine didn't listen, so Russia took action.
00:56:55.000And this is what a truly sovereign nation can do.
00:56:58.000A truly sovereign nation can launch its own military interventions.
00:57:03.000The United States says that's the worst thing ever, we don't use the military, this isn't the 19th century.
00:57:08.000But the United States does this all the time, with impunity.
00:57:12.000The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, invaded Iraq in 2003, they facilitated regime change in Libya in 2011, they put American troops in Syria in 2013 and 2014.
00:57:25.000The United States does military interventions all around the world, and we have military bases all around the world, and we have aircraft carriers all around the world, and we operate all around the world.
00:57:36.000Because we're a sovereign, we are a truly sovereign nation.
00:57:39.000You could argue, you know, who is really in charge in America, but the American regime has military assets everywhere and they conduct interventions where they can, when they want to, without anyone's permission.
00:58:13.000I mean, they can retaliate, and they can engage in hostilities, but for the United States to say, well, we're punishing you, and we're standing up to you, and these kinds of things, it implies that, well, ultimately, we're in charge of Russia.
00:58:26.000We make the rules, and we're in charge of everybody.
00:58:29.000So if Russia is completely dependent on the United States for all of its international trade, including its export of energy, and Russia is effectively a petrostate, meaning that its export of energy, specifically oil and natural gas, is the source of its revenue, if it's dependent on the United States to do that, to export its energy, it is not a truly independent state.
00:59:02.000Is the world order going to be American global domination and America controls the actions of every country?
00:59:09.000And every country is under the control of America?
00:59:13.000And if they step out of line, then they'll be isolated, they'll be ostracized, their international trade will be shut down, their regime will be attacked, there'll be a revolution in the streets fostered by American intel agencies.
00:59:26.000That's the tension that's at the heart of this entire debate, is sovereignty.
00:59:30.000Does Russia, as now a global power, does it have the sovereignty to conduct its own independent foreign policy?
00:59:57.000It's worth it for Russia to demonstrate this.
01:00:00.000And when they're using their leverage against Europe, I think that's actually a very positive development here because it's a little bit hypocritical for the United States and its allies to say, oh, you know, we're standing up to Putin!
01:00:13.000We put in place the worst sanctions ever!
01:01:19.000But then you're paying Russia 400 million euros per day.
01:01:24.000So, you go up and you give a great big speech about how he's the worst dictator since Hitler, and this is the biggest war on the continent since World War II, and he's a war criminal, and he kills children, and pregnant women, and homosexuals, and the Chechens are there to rape all the women.
01:01:38.000Oh, but we're... But then they go back to the Treasury Ministry, and they give him 400 million euros per day.
01:01:51.000Well, because if they were to do that, well then, they would actually have to pay the price for their self-righteousness, for their moral grandstanding.
01:02:02.000For all these really tough words and all the big rhetoric, all this self-righteous chest-thumping, they're still giving Russia 400 million euros per day and drinking up their oil and drinking up their natural gas.
01:02:18.000And if they really meant what they said, if they really believed that stuff, well that would be blood money!
01:02:58.000They won't do that because, well, in some sense they simply cannot afford to.
01:03:04.000But that's because it would be very, very costly.
01:03:06.000It would be costly monetarily and it would be costly politically.
01:03:10.000If they wanted to shut Russia down, they know what they have to do.
01:03:13.000Stop buying new oil and natural gas, but they won't do that.
01:03:16.000Because then gas prices go up, then energy prices go up, heat goes up.
01:03:21.000For the people in the country, for the voters, for the government,
01:03:27.000And then suddenly the people of Germany aren't so pleased after all, which the policy, you know, we support Ukraine, we stand with Ukraine, but not if we're paying 40% more for energy, not if we're paying $7 per gallon, which is what it is in Italy for a gallon of gas.
01:03:45.000Suddenly it's not so easy for the self-righteousness.
01:03:53.000For Russia to exert its sovereignty in Eastern Europe, they too have to incur a cost.
01:03:58.000Because when the Western governments sanction Russia, when the Russian currency takes a hit, Russia is going through economic pain of its own.
01:04:14.000And you see these scenes playing out in Russia.
01:04:16.000They're all jammed up at the metro station because they're swiping their card and it's not going through.
01:04:22.000And again, all the Western businesses have vacated and so there's lots of vacancies.
01:04:28.000But the difference is that Russia is willing to pay the price.
01:04:33.000Vladimir Putin's approval rating went up 10% since the war started.
01:04:40.000Even though the people are worse off, even though the people aren't paying the price for the war, they support Putin more.
01:04:47.000They're rallying around their flag, they're rallying around their leader, and that's because fundamentally what this is about is independence and sovereignty.
01:06:42.000And we have to think about if we want to be a country that has will, that is strong, well we need something that's a little bit more powerful for the people to rally behind than this human rights crap.
01:06:55.000It's liberal democratic, we all know it's bullshit.
01:07:27.000You've got a delegation from Italy, you've got a delegation from Germany, from France, and none of the delegates from the member states even get to propose their own bills.
01:07:38.000They all come from the central, the executive branch of the government.
01:08:54.000The Europeans think that Russia would not possibly lose the revenue from the gas because they just desperately need it for the war.
01:09:02.000And they think that Russia will not really turn off the gas and then Russia will continue the contracts in the native currencies, not in rubles.
01:09:11.000And Putin probably thinks the other way around.
01:09:13.000He thinks that ultimately they need the energy more than we need the money.
01:09:17.000We've gotten... Here's the thing too, which is funny.
01:09:21.000Russia does not have a 100% debt to GDP ratio.
01:09:29.000It's very funny that we project these kinds of, everybody says, oh the Russian economy is so weak, the Russian economy is terrible.
01:09:37.000I would take the Russian economy over the European or American economy any day.
01:09:42.000Because take a look at the ratio of debt.
01:09:44.000The Russian debt to GDP ratio, I don't know what it is now, but I think I saw three years ago or something,
01:10:55.000So if you don't know, the deficit is the annual budget shortfall.
01:11:01.000That is how much more you're spending than you're making in a given year.
01:11:06.000And then the debt is the accumulated deficits.
01:11:09.000So you have 30 trillion in debt and the deficit on an annual basis is in the trillions.
01:11:15.000With all these COVID relief packages and the 800 billion dollar military budgets which started under Trump, seven, eight hundred billion dollars per year.
01:11:24.000So, you know, the Europeans are saying, oh, Russia won't possibly go without all this revenue from the oil and natural gas.
01:11:30.000Well, Russia's a fiscally solvent state.
01:11:33.000Germany has 7% inflation and a more than 100% debt to GDP ratio.
01:11:38.000And a lot of the European countries, they have close to a 200%
01:13:00.000Liberal democracy, capitalism, freedom, it's a lie.
01:13:04.000If it wasn't a lie before, it certainly is after the pandemic when a government can say that you can't leave your house, you can't enter a restaurant unless you're vaccinated.
01:13:17.000The nation is weak morally, the nation is weak in terms of its patriotism, the leaders are unpopular, the institutions are not trusted, and then what's more is the economy is totally weak.
01:16:02.000And we're not willing to go all the way.
01:16:03.000We're not going to live with the gas shutdown.
01:16:05.000We're not going to live with the food shortages that will result with the sanctions against their fertilizer and their grain and their wheat in Russia.
01:16:15.000And this is the beginning of the end because it only has to happen once.
01:16:20.000All it takes is basic prison psychology.
01:16:24.000All it takes is one country to really stand up and say, you know what?
01:16:42.000And then a message has been sent loud and clear to the whole world
01:16:45.000This is not the same world order that it was three months ago.
01:16:49.000This is not the same world that we're living in.
01:16:52.000The United States is not what it appears to be.
01:16:55.000Aircraft carriers, military bases, Pentagon command centers in every corner of the globe, and they couldn't stop Russia, the 11th largest economy, smaller than the size of Texas, they couldn't stop Russia from invading a country that was supposed to be in NATO's backyard.
01:17:12.000And that sends a message to Iran and China and Syria and Venezuela and honestly it sends a message also to continental Europe, which has not always been 100% in agreement with how the United States leads the Western countries.
01:17:28.000The United Kingdom slavishly does whatever the United States says, but Germany and France, for 70 years, have resisted the United States on strategic matters.
01:18:25.000You know, it's funny how history repeats itself 170 years later, and it's the same story.
01:18:32.000It's this war ultimately over Crimea, over Donbass, over Ukraine, which is now reshaping the balance of power on the continent and across the world.
01:18:42.000But fundamentally it's about those things and it's really interesting.
01:18:46.000Russia is willing to turn off the gas.
01:18:48.000It's willing to eat the pain for its true sovereignty.
01:21:43.000We've become a weak, hollow shell of what we used to be.
01:21:47.000It's not over for us, but this entire debacle, which is what it should be called, which really was a long time in the making, it has demonstrated, not just to the world, but even to the United States, what has transpired and what our new relative position in the world is.
01:22:46.000I don't know who's going to break first.
01:22:48.000But, ultimately, something has got to give here.
01:22:53.000And the idea of Russia as invincible, this idea of Putin as being a brilliant guy, and either he will break and Russia will fall, or, conversely, all of this doubling down, standing up to dictators, is going to have to stop.
01:23:10.000And ultimately the Germans and the French and the EU broadly will have to relent and they'll have to buy the rubles and use the rubles to buy the gas.
01:23:20.000And all that tough talk is just going to have to crash upon the rocks on the shore of reality.
01:23:39.000Either the Putin regime goes down and Russia is just pacified and like they've been dominated.
01:23:45.000It's a big deal if they get shown up here.
01:23:47.000Or the United States is no longer the leader of the world.
01:23:52.000This is a high stakes thing which will have consequences across the world for many years.
01:23:57.000And so, this is going to be one of the strategically important issues here.
01:24:03.000And if you underestimate this, this is how World War II started, more or less.
01:24:08.000You know, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, it's because of our oil embargo.
01:24:13.000Roosevelt let that happen, he wanted in the war, but...
01:24:17.000The Japanese attacked the United States because of the oil, because of the energy.
01:24:23.000They thought that they could win the war before the United States would mobilize and get involved.
01:24:28.000And of course, the Nazis, even the Nazis, when they launched Operation Barbarossa and it started to stall, you know, initially they went for Leningrad and Moscow and Stalingrad.
01:24:41.000Petersburg, it stalled in Moscow, and they said they would focus on getting the oil fields, the energy, in the Caucasus, in the oil fields in Baku.
01:24:49.000And that's where it all fell apart for them.
01:24:52.000So, don't underestimate this energy stuff.
01:25:04.000It's the oil and natural gas in the Black Sea in Ukraine.
01:25:09.000I mean, ultimately, that's really what these things are about.
01:25:14.000You know, and then how the conflict plays out, then that is actually a real sort of demonstration of where the current world order is.
01:25:22.000It's kind of like a, it's sort of like a hard credit check on where world power sits.
01:25:27.000You know, okay, here's a, here's a crisis, here's sort of an energy diplomatic crisis, and you know, who has the military, who has the balls to exert themselves?
01:26:07.000It's all about how it plays out on the ground, because if Russia is able to lay siege to these cities, what's happening right now on the ground is that the most advanced Ukrainian forces are fighting the Russians in Donbass.
01:26:20.000And the Russians are focusing on completely securing Luhansk and Donetsk.
01:26:24.000And so what's happening is these elite Ukrainian forces are being encircled in Donbass in the east, and what the Russians are really doing is just destroying the Ukrainian military.
01:26:35.000They're destroying their equipment, they're killing their soldiers, and once that contingent is destroyed in the east, these cities are just gonna go.
01:26:44.000Kiev is gonna go, Mariupol's gonna go, all the big cities are gonna go, and Russia's really gonna take over Ukraine, and it's gonna be over, overnight.
01:27:15.000Counter-offensives, offensives because they don't have the capability and they don't have the capability because their logistics have been so depleted and degraded by Russia.
01:27:26.000It's this war of attrition now where really they're just holding out and they're waiting for Russia to be destroyed by other means.
01:27:33.000The Ukrainians, they cannot win this war.
01:27:37.000In a matter of time, Russia will completely destroy their military, and without a military, Russia will just take over Ukraine.
01:27:44.000And there will be an insurgency, but it will not be... I mean, this is not going to stop Russia.
01:27:50.000So what the Ukrainians are doing is they're just stalling.
01:27:54.000They're waiting for Russia to be depleted by other means and for...
01:27:58.000For Russia, maybe the political pressure in Moscow to ramp up against Putin, they're waiting for the economic pressure against Russia to hurt the economy enough that there will be popular discontent with the policy, or financially it will be impossible for the war to continue.
01:28:16.000They keep talking about defunding Putin's war machine.
01:28:20.000They want to make it so that Russia can't finance the war anymore and that the Ukrainians are holding out so that Russia will just have to pull back and stop the invasion either under financial or political pressure.
01:28:32.000But it remains to be seen now in these next six weeks how that plays out because if Russia destroys the military and well this is how the peace talks play into it as well.
01:30:10.000And all this stuff about, oh it's a stalemate, it's all a bunch of propaganda, it's all a bunch of lies, that's meant to keep morale up for the Americans who are going to have to deal with higher food prices and everything.
01:30:23.000But I honestly, I think how it will play out is that Russia will destroy the Ukrainian military, they will dictate the terms, Ukraine will agree to them, and then probably
01:30:36.000The Europeans will have to buy their energy in rubles, because there is going to be no... Russia will not be as badly hurt.
01:30:44.000If they can dictate the terms in Ukraine, then the military operation ceases, and then the financial hit that they take, without selling the oil, the same pressure isn't there.
01:30:56.000So then all the pressure is on the Europeans.
01:30:58.000Hey, no oil and natural gas for you, no money for Russia, but the war is over.
01:31:03.000So I think the imperative is for Russia to win this thing as quickly as possible, which I think they can do, and then the onus is on everybody else.
01:31:11.000Then the pain is all on the Americans, it's on the Europeans, and then Russia dictates the terms.
01:31:17.000But this is a very bad situation for the United States and the West.
01:31:22.000And ultimately, and this is the last thing I'll say because we're out of time here, you have to ask yourself, was it worth it?
01:32:09.000Okay, well they're still not backing off.
01:32:11.000Now it's all of our credibility on the line.
01:32:14.000Now, it's all of our credibility, our whole reputation.
01:32:17.000It's like the entire House of Cards will be undone by this conflict, because that's how fragile American power really is.
01:32:26.000And if Russia's able to pull this off, the results, diplomatically, economically, politically, will be catastrophic for the West, and there will be ripples from this for decades, I believe.
01:32:40.000So, and you have to ask yourself why we did that.
01:32:43.000We could have just let Russia have Ukraine, but it wasn't enough.
01:34:14.000It's a real possibility because these people are nuts and it seems although they would almost rather end the world than give up this charade about democracy and liberalism and standing up to dictators and all that crap.
01:36:01.000You know, when I, and this has historically been true, whenever I talk about Afghanistan or North Korea or Iran or Russia, I get a much smaller audience.
01:36:12.000So I don't know how you guys, obviously now it's far more relevant than ever, but I'm wondering, do you guys like the shows about foreign relations?
01:36:57.000Mmm, I just had a head rush You know when you get that feeling you get that like pins and needles feeling when you stand up too quickly It's too hot in here I have my shoes on that's why I was out to dinner and then I came back and I
01:38:44.000I always every time it gets to the weekend Well, I plan stuff out for the weekend all week then it's the weekend and I'm like, oh man I just wanted to take the night off and then I filled it up with shit over the past week so So I never really get a break.
01:49:51.000Based Mongoloids, as a reminder, if you want updates for a free and unbiased source of news on the conflict, go follow Intel Slava Z on Telegram.
01:50:05.000Dsharp says, Nicholas J. Frentes, yeah.
01:50:08.000Wonderpet says, I gave all my money playing DJ in Dalton's Civ stream, but in all serious, Nick, thanks for, thanks a million times for making cozy.
01:52:26.000Sebastian says, So I'm at the gym trying to converse.
01:52:29.000With one of my fellow Roid Ragers and he can't stop looking at all the ass like the little sex addict he is so annoying so much muscle yet still a simp anybody it can happen to anybody and honestly a lot of muscle heads are muscle heads because they're simps the vanity
01:53:20.000It's not all of them, but a lot of them, that's the motivation.
01:53:23.000It's not that deep, it's not about looking like a Roman statue, it's about getting attention from women, and then they get dopamine from that, and that's what it's about.
01:53:31.000So, I mean, they may say, oh, I wanna be like, I wanna build muscle, cause the body's a temple, and Socrates said, it's like, nigga, it's not about Socrates.
01:53:43.000You're an average-looking guy and you just want female attention.
01:54:52.000Have you... You swear, it's like these people have never seen a girl before, the way they go in public, and it's like, whoa, did you see that?