America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - EVIL EMPIRE: US ADMITS Ukraine Behind RUTHLESS TERROR STRIKE Against Innocent Civilian | AF Ep. 1073

00:08:19.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:08:20.000 You're watching America First.

00:08:22.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:08:24.000 We have a great show for you tonight.

00:08:26.000 Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Wednesday.

00:08:29.000 We have a lot to talk about tonight, lots to get into.

00:08:34.000 Our big featured story is about Alexander Dugan's daughter, who, if you recall, was killed earlier this year in a brutal car bombing.

00:08:46.000 Which we never found out the culprit for that, but of course everybody suspected it was operatives from the Ukrainian regime.

00:08:55.000 And strangely enough, very bizarre turn of events, the U.S.

00:09:00.000 security state has... ...of regime that ordered the killing of Alexander Dugin, which...

00:09:15.000 Actually, he wound up somehow escaping and his daughter was killed instead.

00:09:20.000 Like I said, in a car bombing in Russia.

00:09:22.000 Very strange.

00:09:25.000 And it almost suggests that maybe more acts of terrorism like this are on the way, and that perhaps the United States is trying to preemptively distance itself from Ukraine, which may be acting more radically.

00:09:41.000 As the war continues.

00:09:42.000 I can think of not really any other explanation.

00:09:45.000 Very bizarre.

00:09:47.000 We knew they killed Alexander Dugan's daughter.

00:09:50.000 We knew they did this.

00:09:51.000 And this is, by the way, in complete contravention against international law to target not just a civilian, but a civilian's family member in a war.

00:10:04.000 And of course, Washington and Kiev are allies.

00:10:06.000 So for Washington to leak that to the press, to the American press, basically throwing Ukraine under the bus and saying, yeah, these guys are terrorists.

00:10:17.000 These guys committed this assassination of a civilian.

00:10:20.000 It's very bizarre.

00:10:22.000 So I know that was all over the press today, and that aspect of it sort of went under the radar, and we'll talk about that tonight.

00:10:30.000 We'll also be talking about Saudi Arabia,

00:10:33.000 And OPEC Plus, the oil cartel, which today announced their decision to actually cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day.

00:10:45.000 Which, if you're not familiar with energy politics, we'll explain the basics of how that works, but essentially this is a political hit job against Joe Biden.

00:10:55.000 If you've been paying attention, gas prices in the United States have been going down.

00:11:00.000 And gas prices are almost entirely controlled by the global price of oil.

00:11:07.000 And Biden has been going to great lengths to manipulate the price of oil in order to bring down the price of gas because he's got this very bad midterm election coming up in November.

00:11:18.000 So he's been releasing, I think it's a million barrels per day from the United States Strategic Oil Reserve in order to buoy prices.

00:11:27.000 And keep them low enough that gas prices are not so out of control right before the election.

00:11:35.000 And Biden earlier this year made his trip out to Saudi Arabia and fist-bumped the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

00:11:44.000 In an effort to reset United States-Saudi relations and get them to maintain high levels of production for that domestic political benefit.

00:11:53.000 And so today, Saudi Arabia with Russia, who's also an OPEC Plus member, get together and say actually they're cutting production, meaning that the price of oil will go up, and therefore the price of gas will go up, and this is happening just a month before the midterm elections.

00:12:11.000 Huge

00:12:12.000 It's basically just an open attack against the American president by our ally, by Saudi Arabia. 0.86

00:12:20.000 So we'll talk about all that and what that means tonight.

00:12:24.000 Should be a pretty good show.

00:12:25.000 Kind of a slow news day.

00:12:26.000 Not a whole lot going on.

00:12:29.000 Hopefully nuclear war will start soon so that we can all just die and there won't be one big news story and then it'll be over. 0.86

00:12:37.000 Okay?

00:12:38.000 One big news story, the nuclear war has begun and then no more news.

00:12:42.000 No more Super Chats, no more of that.

00:12:46.000 And it looks like, I don't know, I mean... And you can read more into this than is there, but there are signs that this may happen.

00:12:56.000 It's widely reported today that a nuclear missile, intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 11,000 kilometers was being transported to Moscow today.

00:13:05.000 I mean, people literally videotaping it on the highway.

00:13:09.000 They're shipping a giant freaking missile on the highway to Moscow.

00:13:14.000 And at the same time that the Ukrainian government has begun distributing potassium iodine to the residents in Ukraine, which is something that prevents your thyroid gland from absorbing radiation in the event of a nuclear blast, the United States made an order $290 million for the same thing for our population.

00:13:35.000 So, certainly don't really like where that's going.

00:13:40.000 Sort of worrisome.

00:13:42.000 So there's not a whole lot of news going on, but there is this sort of steady march towards a nuclear war, which we're watching every day.

00:13:50.000 So, what the heck?

00:13:54.000 There's this tiny, the tiniest bug I've ever seen is right here. 0.68

00:13:59.000 What in the world? 0.58

00:14:03.000 What the frick? 0.99

00:14:04.000 What the heck? 0.99

00:14:04.000 What is that? 0.99

00:14:07.000 I look over and I, you know, there's a little dust here around the pumpkin and I, and it starts to, it starts crawling around.

00:14:16.000 Something was brought, you know what it is?

00:14:18.000 I gotta tape this up where there's holes.

00:14:20.000 I think they smell, they smell this pumpkin's guts.

00:14:24.000 That's what they're coming for.

00:14:27.000 So I gotta tape, I, I punctured it with the Hamburglar the other day and now, you know, now maybe it's open season here for 0.91

00:14:37.000 Microorganisms here in the studio.

00:14:41.000 That was weird.

00:14:42.000 That's a bad sign.

00:14:44.000 Anyway, so that'll be our show.

00:14:47.000 Sort of a slow news day and I'm tired.

00:14:49.000 I just woke up.

00:14:51.000 I slept last night after the show.

00:14:53.000 I'm trying to reset my sleep schedule.

00:14:55.000 I went to bed right after my show.

00:14:57.000 I woke up early today and by 10 a.m.

00:15:01.000 I was like, I'm not making it through the day.

00:15:05.000 It was like 10 a.m.

00:15:07.000 I'm crashing.

00:15:07.000 I'm burning.

00:15:08.000 I'm in bed.

00:15:09.000 I'm falling asleep.

00:15:12.000 I say, I'll go and make some coffee.

00:15:14.000 So I go to the coffee maker and I say, okay, great idea.

00:15:18.000 I'll make a cup of coffee.

00:15:19.000 I'll wake myself up.

00:15:21.000 I open the coffee maker and I have a Keurig and I don't use the Keurig cups because there's so much plastic.

00:15:29.000 If you use a Keurig machine, there's so much plastic that goes through the

00:15:33.000 The individual cups you buy at the store.

00:15:36.000 So I have one of those reusable ones that I just fill with coffee grounds.

00:15:40.000 Anyway.

00:15:42.000 So I had not cleaned that out.

00:15:45.000 The last time I made a cup of coffee I didn't clean that out.

00:15:47.000 So I opened it up and the whole thing was filled with mold.

00:15:50.000 The whole canister was filled with mold.

00:15:53.000 The whole coffee machine was filled with mold.

00:15:56.000 So I had to clean that out.

00:15:58.000 And it's just like I had to brew like 10 cups of hot water to clean out

00:16:03.000 The system.

00:16:05.000 And at that point I said, this is just, I'm already tired. 0.70

00:16:08.000 Now I'm tired and I'm cleaning a freaking coffee machine.

00:16:11.000 So I just cracked open a monster and I got all charged up and I realized that I need to start doing drugs.

00:16:18.000 I think that's what needs to happen because with the sleep schedule and the tiredness and all of that, I don't know if it's diet related.

00:16:28.000 I don't know if that's McDonald's related illness, but

00:16:32.000 I was all tired today, I'm all ready to go to bed, end my day, fall asleep, and then I cracked open a monster and it was like I hit the limitless pill.

00:16:41.000 I'm reading articles, I'm writing notes, I'm making phone calls, I'm cracking necks, I'm in the text message, I'm driving around, I'm running errands.

00:16:51.000 And then I hit the wall.

00:16:52.000 Then I hit the wall later tonight.

00:16:53.000 Crashed.

00:16:54.000 Woke up.

00:16:55.000 Showtime.

00:16:57.000 So... So I don't know, man.

00:17:00.000 I'm just... I'm tired.

00:17:01.000 I'm over it.

00:17:04.000 I need to step up.

00:17:04.000 I need to step it up.

00:17:05.000 We need a higher dosage.

00:17:07.000 I need to go to the doctor.

00:17:08.000 I need something more.

00:17:09.000 The monster's not cutting it.

00:17:11.000 The caffeine's not cutting it.

00:17:12.000 Got anything else?

00:17:14.000 Adderall?

00:17:15.000 Cocaine?

00:17:16.000 Maybe I'll just start taking meth?

00:17:17.000 What would you prescribe?

00:17:19.000 What would you prescribe for this?

00:17:22.000 But, you know, I need something here, man.

00:17:26.000 Like I said, I wake up today

00:17:29.000 I slept like 5 hours, I woke up at 6, it's 10am and I'm like, I can't do it.

00:17:33.000 There's no way I'm getting through.

00:17:35.000 12 more hours, I'm falling asleep.

00:17:38.000 I hit a monster, and you know, that was good for a few hours, but by 4 or 5 o'clock, I hit the wall again.

00:17:44.000 Do I hit another one?

00:17:46.000 Do I drink 3 monsters a day?

00:17:48.000 Do I start taking drugs?

00:17:51.000 Do I start exercising and healthy diet?

00:17:53.000 No.

00:17:55.000 Nope.

00:17:56.000 Yeah, no.

00:17:57.000 Yeah, considered it.

00:17:58.000 I don't think so.

00:17:59.000 So that was my day.

00:18:01.000 But it was a productive day.

00:18:03.000 Got a lot of reading done.

00:18:06.000 And I was posting all day on Telegram and everything.

00:18:09.000 But I'm tired.

00:18:10.000 And now it's a slow news day.

00:18:11.000 It's hump day. 0.54

00:18:12.000 It's like, man, can I just go on vacation?

00:18:14.000 Can I just take my Christmas vacation already?

00:18:16.000 I'm over it.

00:18:17.000 Can Trump just announce and we get back on Twitter

00:18:20.000 Anyway, all right, but that'll be our show.

00:18:22.000 Enough out of me.

00:18:24.000 Enough out of me complaining.

00:18:25.000 That's the last thing you want to hear.

00:18:28.000 I'm just telling you what's up.

00:18:29.000 It's too hot in here.

00:18:30.000 It's too hot in here. 0.96

00:18:33.000 As always, my balls are already sweating. 0.85

00:18:37.000 All right, so let's get into the show. 0.90

00:18:39.000 Oh wait, one more thing.

00:18:40.000 And before we... All right, this show's off to a great start.

00:18:43.000 Before we get into the news, I want to remind you, smash the follow button here on Cozy.

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00:19:00.000 And huge stream this Sunday.

00:19:03.000 Ethan Ralph, the ledge, the legend, he will be hosting a one-year cozy anniversary stream.

00:19:12.000 It's called FriendFest.

00:19:14.000 All day Sunday, so looking forward to that.

00:19:17.000 Make sure you tune in.

00:19:18.000 I'm gonna try and stop over and make a guest appearance.

00:19:22.000 Unofficial FriendFest Cozy Festival.

00:19:26.000 One year anniversary.

00:19:27.000 Should be a lot of fun.

00:19:28.000 I guess everybody's gonna stop by and make a little appearance.

00:19:32.000 One year of cozy.

00:19:33.000 Can you believe it?

00:19:35.000 Pretty amazing.

00:19:36.000 I didn't think we'd make it this far in one year.

00:19:41.000 I remember when we announced the platform

00:19:45.000 Around a year ago, the plan was we were going to have two streamers, me and Vince James.

00:19:51.000 That was the plan.

00:19:53.000 It was just going to be us two.

00:19:54.000 We were going to try it out.

00:19:55.000 We were going to test out our capacity.

00:19:57.000 So when we announced, we said, okay, we got two streamers on the site.

00:20:00.000 It's me and we're bringing on Vince.

00:20:03.000 And I said, we're going to wait until January to bring on anybody else because we got to test it and everything.

00:20:10.000 And so we started with two and then we brought on three more and then three more after that and three and then it just grew and grew and grew and the UI improved and the UX improved and we got more features and now the site's like infinitely better.

00:20:26.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:20:28.000 Voice crack?

00:20:29.000 Hello?

00:20:29.000 Just woke up?

00:20:30.000 Can't blame me.

00:20:31.000 I just woke up.

00:20:32.000 Sites infinitely better. 0.99

00:20:34.000 We got like a billion people on here.

00:20:36.000 We got a billion people.

00:20:38.000 50 plus streamers.

00:20:39.000 We got all the legends, all the greats on here.

00:20:41.000 And it's only just been one year.

00:20:44.000 We're not even technically, officially out of beta yet.

00:20:47.000 I'd like to see a couple more essential things before I take us out of beta.

00:20:53.000 There's a few things administratively.

00:20:56.000 And and also in terms of features that I want to get done before we officially I mean we're not I don't even consider us officially launched yet really Because there's still a few essential things that we're not we haven't quite finished But it's pretty impressive one year One year down and we're competing with like every other all tech consider true social their peak traffic this year is 11 million visits

00:21:26.000 Our peak traffic this year was seven and a half million.

00:21:31.000 So Cozy has been around for a year.

00:21:33.000 I think TruSocial has been around for a comparable amount of time.

00:21:37.000 TruSocial has venture capital.

00:21:39.000 The media group, the holding company that owns TruSocial, is worth a billion dollars.

00:21:47.000 Okay, they've got a market capitalization of one billion dollars.

00:21:52.000 They have investment, they've got venture capital, they've got

00:21:56.000 Who's the congressman?

00:21:57.000 Devin Nunes runs it.

00:22:00.000 And Donald Trump is on it, along with every other major.

00:22:04.000 And we're at 80% of their traffic.

00:22:08.000 On our biggest month this year, we're at 80% of their biggest month.

00:22:13.000 Pound for pound.

00:22:15.000 And we've been around the same amount of time.

00:22:17.000 They're on the App Store.

00:22:18.000 We're not.

00:22:19.000 They've got millions, tens of millions in venture capital.

00:22:22.000 We have zero in venture capital.

00:22:26.000 They've got the sitting president as well as every other major person begging to get on verified.

00:22:32.000 We do not have them.

00:22:33.000 We do not have the president.

00:22:34.000 We don't have Tucker.

00:22:35.000 We don't have, you know, half the people they have on there.

00:22:39.000 Pretty impressive.

00:22:40.000 And that's before we're really even officially launched.

00:22:45.000 So Sunday we'll have a big celebration for that.

00:22:47.000 I'll come on and say some things and we'll be joined by some of the other streamers.

00:22:52.000 So it should be a lot of fun.

00:22:54.000 That's Sunday, and I don't know the time on that, but I'll post it.

00:22:57.000 I think I posted it on Telegram earlier today.

00:23:00.000 Okay.

00:23:02.000 With all that business out of the way, we're gonna dive into the news here, and our first story is about Saudi Arabia.

00:23:08.000 You know, it's a shame because I feel like every show is just about international relations these days, but that's the only news that happens.

00:23:17.000 There's like nothing going on domestically.

00:23:23.000 I read the news every day.

00:23:24.000 I read all the news every day, every site, and just like nothing really to speak of.

00:23:29.000 So it's just that's been the focus for so long.

00:23:35.000 So here we are again.

00:23:36.000 We find ourselves covering another one of these stories and it's about this oil production cut by OPEC+.

00:23:45.000 And if you don't know OPEC,

00:23:48.000 It stands for, what is it, Oil Petroleum Exporting Countries.

00:23:52.000 This is an international cartel of oil producing countries that's the biggest oil producers in the world, like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Nigeria, the Gulf States, all the big oil producers in the world, I think minus Iran.

00:24:12.000 Our part of this, it's an official recognized cartel called OPEC, if you don't know the history of this, and this was formed about 50 years ago.

00:24:21.000 And the goal of the group is basically to control the price of energy in the global market.

00:24:29.000 And they can produce really as much oil as we want.

00:24:34.000 The supply is virtually limitless.

00:24:36.000 The proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia, Russia, other Gulf states are absolutely massive.

00:24:44.000 And the supply more than meets the demand every year for 50 years.

00:24:48.000 People have talked for the last century about peak oil.

00:24:52.000 The idea that one day we will reach the limit of our productive capacity.

00:24:56.000 We'll reach a point after which we will no longer be able to increase oil production.

00:25:03.000 And the problem, the implied problem there is that demand is always increasing.

00:25:07.000 If the global population is growing, if the global economy is growing, if development is always increasing, then the humanity's demand for energy, humanity's demand for oil is always going up.

00:25:22.000 And at some point,

00:25:24.000 We're good to go.

00:25:39.000 What we have now is essentially we do not have that problem.

00:25:43.000 It's a cartel that controls the price by controlling the amount of production and so Saudi Arabia is the real leader and they will lead the other countries in this group and together with their the amount of oil that they produce which is most of the world's oil depending upon how much

00:26:01.000 We're good to go.

00:26:16.000 I don't know.

00:26:35.000 They make more money.

00:26:36.000 If they make more money, they can buy more stuff.

00:26:39.000 So they get together and they control the price of oil by controlling production and they do that so that they can make as much money as they need to make to make ends meet for their treasury.

00:26:51.000 In case you don't know.

00:26:52.000 I like to go over the basics because, you know, I assume everybody knows this stuff and maybe a lot of you do but probably your average person doesn't fully get it.

00:27:01.000 And so anyway, OPEC plus, which is OPEC I think plus some additional states that are not official members, they announced that they were going to cut daily oil production by 2 million barrels per day in an effort to increase prices.

00:27:18.000 And they say they're doing this in order to preempt a global recession.

00:27:23.000 And representatives from Saudi Arabia said basically, well, we're not going to wait around for a recession to hit.

00:27:29.000 We know a massive economic contraction will happen worldwide next year.

00:27:35.000 So we're going to preemptively offset that by helping our bottom line, cutting production, raising prices.

00:27:43.000 Now that's what they say, but realistically this comes

00:27:47.000 With the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and when we talk about OPEC Plus and we talk about petrostates and the states that are dependent on the export of energy commodities for their state revenue,

00:28:04.000 The salience here with the Ukraine war is that Russia is one of the petrostates, Russia is dependent on the sale of oil, and in particular they're dependent on the sale of energy to fund the ongoing war in Ukraine.

00:28:17.000 And one of the ways, as we've discussed recently in the context of Germany and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, one of the ways in which the United States is trying to wage war against Russia is by begging Saudi Arabia

00:28:31.000 To increase production, drive down oil prices, and thereby drive down the amount of money that Russia is able to raise from the sale of oil.

00:28:43.000 So, Saudi Arabia is coming out and saying, well, we're raising prices because we have to preempt this global recession.

00:28:51.000 Really, what's going on is two things.

00:28:54.000 You've got this war in Ukraine.

00:28:55.000 You've also got the upcoming election, which are very much influenced right now by the price of oil.

00:29:02.000 So this is the story from the New York Times.

00:29:04.000 It says, quote,

00:29:15.000 In a bid to raise prices, countering efforts by the United States and Europe to choke off the enormous revenue that Moscow reaps from the sale of crude oil.

00:29:24.000 President Biden and European leaders have urged more oil production to ease gas prices and punish Moscow for its aggression in Ukraine.

00:29:33.000 Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has been accused of using energy as a weapon against countries opposing its invasion of Ukraine, and the optics of the decision could not be missed.

00:29:44.000 The White House was not happy.

00:29:46.000 The Director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, and Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, said in a statement, quote, The President is disappointed by the short-sighted decision by OPEC Plus to cut production quotas while the global economy is dealing with the continued negative impact of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

00:30:06.000 The cut of 2 million barrels per day represents about 2% of global oil production.

00:30:13.000 By reducing output, OPEC Plus was also seeking to make a statement to energy markets about the group's cohesion during the Ukraine war and its willingness to act quickly to defend prices.

00:30:24.000 At a news conference after the meeting, the Saudi energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, said OPEC Plus was acting amid signs of a downturn in the world economy that might cause demand for oil to weaken and prices to fall.

00:30:40.000 He said we would rather be preemptive than be sorry.

00:30:43.000 The move appeared to have the desired results.

00:30:45.000 The price of Brent Crude, the international benchmark, which had slumped during the summer, rose more than 1.5% after the meeting, extending the gains recorded in recent days and bringing prices back to levels last seen in mid-September.

00:31:01.000 The average price of gasoline in the United States recently began to rise again, tracking with the price of oil.

00:31:07.000 In response to the announcement, the Biden administration said that the President would order the Energy Department to release 10 million additional barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in November.

00:31:21.000 Earlier this week, the administration said that it didn't have any plans to extend a six-month effort to release 1 million barrels per day, which was scheduled to finish at the end of this month.

00:31:34.000 So that's what's going on.

00:31:35.000 OPEC Plus says they're going to cut production in order to raise prices.

00:31:41.000 And they say that that's because of the economy.

00:31:44.000 When a global recession happens, energy demand will go down, and if demand goes down, then prices go down.

00:31:52.000 Prices go down, then revenue goes down for the oil-producing and exporting countries.

00:31:57.000 So they're saying, we want to get in while we can, we want to jack up prices while demand is high, while we can still get it, in order to offset the forecasted losses that will come when this recession hits next year or the year after.

00:32:12.000 Well what's really happening though is that there's an enormous political significance with what's going on in Ukraine.

00:32:18.000 And we've talked about that with Germany.

00:32:22.000 And that has more to do specifically with natural gas.

00:32:27.000 And I want to clarify again for people that may not understand, there's three products here.

00:32:31.000 You've got natural gas, you've got gasoline, and you've got oil.

00:32:37.000 Natural gas is what is pumped through pipelines in Belarus and Ukraine, and prior to the terrorist attacks in September, pumped through the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

00:32:52.000 And natural gas was pumped into Germany, and that was a part of their energy mix.

00:32:57.000 Russian natural gas, part of the natural gas that Germany imports, which fuels their homes when they heat their homes in the winter, which fuels their manufacturing and industry sector, the production of chemicals, and their production of automobiles and things like that.

00:33:14.000 You've got oil, which is different than natural gas, and then oil is refined to create gasoline

00:33:22.000 And gasoline is what we put in our cars when we drive.

00:33:26.000 It's a petroleum by-product.

00:33:30.000 And the price of gasoline is tied to the price of oil.

00:33:34.000 Because gasoline comes from oil.

00:33:36.000 Just so people understand.

00:33:37.000 Because we call it gas here.

00:33:39.000 We call it gas in America.

00:33:42.000 And so you might misunderstand.

00:33:44.000 Natural gas is different than gasoline.

00:33:46.000 Natural gas, which is going through the pipelines, which rushes the largest

00:33:51.000 Producer of natural gas in the world that's different than gasoline Which is what we pump into our cars at the pump just in case I'm not gonna okay.

00:34:00.000 Everyone knew that let's just say everyone knew that I'm not gonna you know It's okay.

00:34:05.000 If you didn't get that before but I believe it's my understanding Maybe I'm not a scientist or anything, but that's my understanding of it and so anyway

00:34:16.000 So we've talked in recent weeks about natural gas going into Germany.

00:34:20.000 But this has to do with the production of oil and the global oil market.

00:34:25.000 But it's really all one and the same in a certain sense because Russia is an energy exporter.

00:34:31.000 They're the world's leading exporter of natural gas.

00:34:34.000 They're one of the top three or top two exporters of oil in the world.

00:34:40.000 And the countries need both.

00:34:41.000 Countries need natural gas and they need oil for their energy needs.

00:34:46.000 And Russia is a significant producer of both, and Russia controls the production of both, or controls a lot of the market share for the production of both of those things in the world economy.

00:34:57.000 And so, the reason that this is relevant for Russia's war in Ukraine is not so much the same as the natural gas and the politics of the pipelines in Central Europe and Eastern Europe.

00:35:11.000 It has more to do with how Russia is funding its war machine.

00:35:15.000 The higher that the gas prices go, the more money they make and they're able to continue the war.

00:35:20.000 The United States is not just blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines to sever the economic interdependence between Germany and Russia.

00:35:28.000 They're also striving to drive oil prices down.

00:35:33.000 We're good to go.

00:35:51.000 Then the Russian state is really cash-strapped.

00:35:53.000 There's only so many markets for its natural gas.

00:35:56.000 And the natural gas cuts both ways in a certain sense.

00:36:01.000 It's difficult for countries like Germany that import Russian natural gas to replace it and find substitutes before the winter and get a supply of energy that they need.

00:36:12.000 By the same token, it is as difficult for Russia to find new partners to export their natural gas to, because in the same way that Germany can't build infrastructure to replace energy that they import, Russia cannot easily build new infrastructure to export energy to new markets or new countries.

00:36:34.000 So they can only export so much of the natural gas or oil that they were giving to Europe or other Western countries to countries like China or Iran.

00:36:44.000 There's only so much.

00:36:47.000 And so that's one of the ways that the United States was waging an indirect war against Russia.

00:36:52.000 Not just through the training of the Ukrainian military and the supply of

00:36:58.000 Long-range artillery, short-range artillery, light arms, cash, logistics, officers, mercenaries, intelligence, coordinates, things like that.

00:37:06.000 And it's not just the sanctions against their currency and against their exports, but they're also waging a campaign against energy prices in the global market to hurt Russia's ability to sell their commodities and get cash to continue paying for this war.

00:37:22.000 That's one of the means that they're doing this.

00:37:25.000 Now, Russia is a part of OPEC+.

00:37:28.000 And Russia, like Saudi Arabia, like the other energy exporting countries, they have collectively a vested interest in seeing oil prices being as high as they can be or as high as the market can bear without getting into other areas like people looking into alternatives or fracking becoming viable like what happened about 10 years ago.

00:37:53.000 So they want, so without getting too deep into it, they want oil prices and energy prices to be as high as they can be, to be as high as the market can bear, as high as consumers will pay for them without exploring long-term investment and long-term alternatives which will take away market share from them and their ability to control the price.

00:38:15.000 So Russia gets together with Saudi Arabia and they say, hey, yeah, okay, screw Washington.

00:38:20.000 We want to make oil prices higher.

00:38:23.000 We're about to enter a global recession.

00:38:25.000 Why is Saudi Arabia going to work with the United States and make less money?

00:38:30.000 What's Washington offering?

00:38:33.000 It's in Saudi Arabia's interest. 0.61

00:38:34.000 It's in OPEC's interest to raise the price.

00:38:37.000 It's in Russia's interest to raise the price. 0.68

00:38:39.000 It's in the OPEC plus nations' interest to raise the price because they want to make more money because the recession is real and coming.

00:38:47.000 And it's in Russia's interest to raise the price not just for that reason but also because they've got a very costly war which is going on far longer than I think Moscow or maybe anybody anticipated.

00:38:59.000 So Washington and Biden made this bid over the summer to try and win Saudi Arabia over but really not offering anything substantial.

00:39:09.000 And so OPEC plus with Saudi Arabia and Russia as the two primary movers come out today and say, yeah, of course.

00:39:16.000 What are you kidding me?

00:39:17.000 Of course, we're going to raise the price.

00:39:18.000 So that's one part of the significance of it.

00:39:21.000 The other significance of this is how it affects Biden domestically.

00:39:26.000 And it seems like this is just like an all out attack, not just on America, but on this White House, on this administration, because I don't think it's lost on anybody the timing.

00:39:39.000 We don't just have this dilemma in Eastern Europe where Ukraine has to make this big push before the winter and a lot of things become complicated in the winter.

00:39:49.000 The battlefield literally changes because of the weather and the snow and of course then Central and Eastern European countries are really stepping in it with the high and inflated energy costs.

00:40:02.000 So it's not just that, but at the same time you've also got this midterm election coming up for Joe Biden.

00:40:09.000 And a huge part, the most important issue for American voters, which I'm sure the Saudis are aware of,

00:40:18.000 is inflation and gas prices.

00:40:22.000 And those two things are really one and the same because inflation is driven, and particularly this year, by surging energy costs, by higher gasoline prices, and also just plain higher energy prices.

00:40:37.000 Because understand, the price of energy has a ripple effect.

00:40:40.000 It's not just that you're paying more to fill up your car with gas.

00:40:45.000 It also costs more for truckers to fill up their trucks with gas and airplanes to fill up their planes with fuel.

00:40:51.000 And if it costs more money for truckers and for airplanes and for other transportation, well then it costs companies more money to deliver their goods.

00:40:59.000 It costs more for logistics.

00:41:01.000 And if it costs more money to heat your home, it costs more money to heat factories and manufacturing.

00:41:07.000 And it costs more money to produce things and manufacture them.

00:41:10.000 If it costs more money to do that, well then those costs are eventually passed down to the consumer.

00:41:16.000 So rising energy prices, it's one aspect of inflation in itself.

00:41:22.000 Because the consumer, an individual consumer, will have to pay more for a tangible good.

00:41:28.000 Heating their home, filling up their car with gas,

00:41:32.000 Things like that.

00:41:33.000 But you're also going to see those rising energy costs passed on in other ways.

00:41:39.000 Everything you buy is going to get more expensive.

00:41:41.000 If you travel, plane tickets more expensive, hotels more expensive, household goods, anything that comes across the ocean, anything that's delivered in a truck, more expensive.

00:41:51.000 Anything made in a factory that uses energy, more expensive.

00:41:56.000 So these things add up, and we've seen that in Europe and in the United States.

00:42:00.000 It's not just that energy prices are skyrocketing, which is a form of inflation on its own, but it's also driving core inflation, which is everything minus food and energy, which are highly volatile.

00:42:13.000 So not only is Riyadh, not only is Saudi Arabia striking at the United States strategic objectives in this war in Ukraine by helping Russia get this huge windfall, they're filling up their coffers with cash, selling oil at a higher price, but in addition to that they're also, it's also a shot across the bow at the Biden administration particularly, not just Washington and the deep state and the State Department and all that,

00:42:41.000 It's sort of like a partisan shot against the Biden administration against this president because this is really going to hurt him in the midterms.

00:42:50.000 And they know that.

00:42:51.000 Saudis know that. 0.97

00:42:52.000 The Russians know that.

00:42:53.000 They know that.

00:42:54.000 And it's interesting because in the same way that we're playing Russia's domestic politics, we're trying to cripple them with sanctions. 0.75

00:43:02.000 We're trying to deprive them of certain goods.

00:43:04.000 Our companies, our American companies like McDonald's and Nike and Netflix are boycotting Russia.

00:43:10.000 Because we're trying to facilitate a regime change.

00:43:13.000 We're trying to facilitate a negative public opinion of the war, of Moscow, of Putin, by the oligarchs, by the people.

00:43:22.000 In the same way, it's almost like that's being thrown back on us now.

00:43:25.000 Not just by Moscow, but also now by, it seems, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and the other Gulf states.

00:43:33.000 They're taking the serious shot against the Biden administration by causing inflation to get much worse before the election.

00:43:42.000 And the Biden administration, they've been countering the high energy prices by basically emptying the strategic petroleum reserve that the United States maintains.

00:43:52.000 It's almost empty.

00:43:54.000 And they weren't going to extend.

00:43:57.000 They were going to have a million barrels per day through the end of September.

00:44:01.000 Or is it the end of October?

00:44:03.000 And now they say that they're going to release 10 million more barrels in November.

00:44:07.000 Well, why do you think they're releasing 10 million barrels of oil in November?

00:44:12.000 Why do you think they're doing that?

00:44:14.000 Because if they're releasing 10 million barrels of oil, do the math on that.

00:44:19.000 If they're releasing 1 million barrels per day for however many months,

00:44:24.000 And then that is suspended at the end of October and now they're not releasing 1 million per day but just 10 million in November.

00:44:32.000 That's not enough to release 1 million per day.

00:44:35.000 That's enough to release as much as necessary in the first week before the election.

00:44:42.000 Literally before the election!

00:44:45.000 November 1st happens, and they release however much of this as they want in the week before the election.

00:44:52.000 The election happens, and then they're out.

00:44:55.000 Then they're done.

00:44:57.000 So it's almost like the day after the election happens, gas prices will go up.

00:45:01.000 The release of oil will stop, and it has to because we're running out, and the reality of the high price of energy in the global market will set in.

00:45:12.000 And if that doesn't tell you, like, what's wrong with democracy, and that's sort of a detour here because we're talking about the strategic imperatives, but if that's not a pretty damning indictment of democracy, I don't know what is.

00:45:31.000 Rather than fix a systemic issue, which is the fact that our energy supply does not meet our energy demand, we're not independent in terms of our energy production, rather than address anything like that by opening up more American lands to drilling,

00:45:49.000 Or pursuing fracking and giving up on this green initiative stuff, opening up clean coal and all of that.

00:45:57.000 Rather than tapping all of our available energy reserves,

00:46:03.000 What we're instead going to do is begin releasing our oil reserve which we've built up over 20 years and completely empty it so that we could just keep prices kind of low long enough to squeak by in the next election and then we're worse off.

00:46:21.000 We are literally worse off because prices will be higher the global price of oil will be higher than it was before

00:46:32.000 And now we're stuck with these high global energy prices, but with no reserve, with no backup, literally nothing left in the tank, but at least we'll have a marginally better performance for the ruling party in the legislative election, right?

00:46:52.000 I mean, if that doesn't tell you what's wrong with the system, and that's what they're doing.

00:46:57.000 So, it's a pretty sad day actually.

00:47:01.000 That's what they're doing, that's what's going on, and I guess the takeaway from all this is it's so ironic that they, for years, said that Donald Trump was responsible for this weakening posture of America abroad, and the world doesn't respect us, and we're losing our allies, and all this.

00:47:21.000 And look at this just abject, we're just getting slapped in the face here.

00:47:26.000 Saudi Arabia, who we gave a 700, what was it?

00:47:30.000 A 700 million dollar, 700 billion dollar arms deal in 2017.

00:47:35.000 Sweetheart, one of the biggest arms deals in history. 0.55

00:47:40.000 And we've supplied them with their war in Yemen, and we look the other way when they kill Khashoggi and all this kind of stuff.

00:47:49.000 And you've got Biden going over there to beg them, doing a fist bump.

00:47:53.000 Seriously?

00:47:56.000 And this is how they repay it.

00:47:57.000 This is their answer.

00:47:59.000 Is to undermine America internationally and domestically.

00:48:04.000 And siding with Russia.

00:48:05.000 And I'm here for it.

00:48:08.000 Saudi Arabia is slapping the American regime in the face, and I'm here for it. 1.00

00:48:12.000 I'm living for that.

00:48:14.000 I am living for Saudi Arabia reorienting its posture away from Washington and towards Moscow. 0.75

00:48:20.000 I'm living for Burkina Faso doing that and Central African Republic and Mali which are all flipping in the past two years. 0.80

00:48:30.000 I'm living for Sub-Saharan Africa flipping and Eastern Europe. 0.97

00:48:34.000 I am living for Berlin. 0.89

00:48:37.000 Hopefully waking up after they get totally de-industrialized and going with Moscow. 0.97

00:48:44.000 The entire world is reorienting to a multi-polar world order and I am living for that.

00:48:51.000 I'm here for it.

00:48:53.000 Vladimir Putin, what's his name, Mohammed bin Salman, he is eating and leaving no crumbs.

00:49:01.000 I'm here for it.

00:49:02.000 I love to see it.

00:49:03.000 And it's so rich because they said that, and I was here covering it on this show for five years, that Trump is not respected, Trump is pushing our allies away, Trump is doing all this terrible stuff, and we can't catch a break.

00:49:18.000 We've got to commit terrorist acts against our allies in Germany. 0.55

00:49:22.000 We're begging Saudi Arabia to increase production.

00:49:26.000 They won't.

00:49:26.000 They refuse.

00:49:27.000 They cut production a month before the election.

00:49:31.000 And good for them.

00:49:33.000 Good for them.

00:49:35.000 And that shows the loyalty that all these other regimes really have to America.

00:49:40.000 This big narrative that has been spun up by the neocons and the deep state

00:49:46.000 About how we've got these obligations to Japan and the Kurds and every other actor in the world. 0.53

00:49:54.000 Look at how that loyalty is being repaid.

00:49:58.000 And it shows you the real dynamic here.

00:50:00.000 Who was really in charge of this relationship from the beginning?

00:50:03.000 Were we ever really in charge of Saudi Arabia?

00:50:06.000 Were we ever really in charge of any of these countries?

00:50:10.000 I don't know how much we, I mean we never had any say in it, but even the deep state, how much say they really ever had in it. 0.99

00:50:19.000 If Biden can't go over there and get them to not cut production right before the big midterm election while they got this war going on, we look like idiots. 0.99

00:50:29.000 And we sort of are. 1.00

00:50:30.000 The government is full of idiots. 1.00

00:50:33.000 If you're Saudi Arabia, if you're any of the allies, how seriously can you take Joe Biden? 1.00

00:50:39.000 So good for them.

00:50:41.000 But that's the situation with Saudi Arabia.

00:50:43.000 It's not going to make a massive difference.

00:50:46.000 I would say the impact is more pronounced domestically.

00:50:50.000 I don't think you can frame this any other way other than as a hostile action against Biden himself, against this administration.

00:50:59.000 It's what it is.

00:51:02.000 So, and I like to see that.

00:51:03.000 This is why I've been in favor for a long time of Russia and China being strengthened at our expense because this is the kind of thing that becomes possible.

00:51:14.000 Now it's not just us working against the Biden administration and working against the American deep state, but now it's like we got the cavalry coming and we got we got Saudi Arabia coming in.

00:51:26.000 Saudi Arabia can inflict a lot more damage on the regime than we can. 0.96

00:51:32.000 And so in a sense, it's like a shared struggle.

00:51:34.000 It's a good thing that Saudi Arabia and India and Germany will have other options that they can pivot to.

00:51:41.000 That's a good thing.

00:51:43.000 Because if that weakens Washington D.C., guess what?

00:51:46.000 Same enemy.

00:51:48.000 Same enemy.

00:51:50.000 And it's not necessarily to say the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

00:51:53.000 It doesn't mean that, you know, I love the Saudi state.

00:51:57.000 I don't.

00:51:57.000 The Saudi state is by no means a good actor in the world, by any stretch.

00:52:02.000 It's not.

00:52:05.000 It's not to say that they're our friends.

00:52:06.000 It is to say, if they're weakening Washington, that's a good thing.

00:52:11.000 It doesn't mean that we have any kind of sympathy for them necessarily, it doesn't mean that there's any kind of relationship there, but it does mean there's a cause and effect here.

00:52:21.000 If Russia and China are strengthened, if they're forming the foundation of a new pole in the world where other states and other entities can turn towards, and insofar as that takes market share away from Washington, that disempowers Washington,

00:52:39.000 Well, that's the same Washington that we're fighting against.

00:52:42.000 That's the same Washington that we're fighting against when we talk about the globalist world order, the globalist American empire, the American regime.

00:52:52.000 It's the same entity.

00:52:53.000 And I don't know how people don't see that.

00:52:56.000 They will at once talk about the capital rioters languishing in solitary confinement.

00:53:01.000 They'll talk about the weaponization of the DOJ.

00:53:04.000 They'll talk about the surveillance state turning inwards and being used against patriots.

00:53:09.000 They'll talk about the corruption and the lobbyists that manipulate our politics here, but then they'll go in turn and support the exact same people that are doing all those things at NATO, at the UN, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Ukraine.

00:53:30.000 And they cannot see the contradiction.

00:53:32.000 It is quite literally the exact same people.

00:53:36.000 When I say the same people, I mean literally the same human beings.

00:53:41.000 The same libtards, the same libcock, Biden, deep state, globalist spooks that are throwing patriots in jail, throwing people you know in jail for going to the Capitol. 0.86

00:53:52.000 They're the same people waging this war

00:53:56.000 Against the Deep State, or rather against Russia, against Iran, against North Korea, against China.

00:54:02.000 So I will never understand the boomer that goes and watches Bannon's war room and Bannon is going to talk about how, oh, our brothers are locked up in the Capitol, but we need to empower the FBI to take on the Chai cops. 0.73

00:54:16.000 It's like, what?

00:54:17.000 It's the same FBI.

00:54:19.000 It's the same people.

00:54:21.000 Do you do realize that

00:54:23.000 The more that our Cold War and arms race...

00:54:28.000 And antagonism against China, the more that that creates bigger budgets and more personnel and more everything for the intelligence community and the State Department and the Pentagon, you're giving all of that to the same, the exact same people that are arresting you, that are spying on you.

00:54:47.000 They're the same.

00:54:49.000 And boomers, it's just like, there's just like this firewall they can't understand 1.00

00:54:56.000 We need to do a new church committee, and we need to impeach Mary Garland, and we need to abolish the FBI, but we need to give the FBI everything they need to fight these Chi Com spies. 1.00

00:55:10.000 What?

00:55:11.000 No, no.

00:55:12.000 China needs to get way more powerful, okay?

00:55:15.000 Russia needs to get way more powerful.

00:55:19.000 And people say, you're a shill. 0.95

00:55:21.000 Curious, you're shilling for China?

00:55:23.000 I wish I was a paid shill!

00:55:25.000 I'm an unpaid shill!

00:55:27.000 I'm out here shilling for Beijing and Moscow and I'm not even getting paid!

00:55:30.000 I wish I was a- if I was a paid shill, I would tell you.

00:55:35.000 I'm an unpaid shill.

00:55:36.000 I am a pissed off and resentful unpaid shill. 0.58

00:55:40.000 Where's my cut?

00:55:42.000 Huh?

00:55:43.000 Russia's selling all their arms to Africa.

00:55:46.000 They're selling all their energy to China.

00:55:49.000 Where's my cut?

00:55:50.000 I'm holding down the fort here in America.

00:55:52.000 I'm going on Russia Today.

00:55:53.000 I'm calling it a special military operation.

00:55:56.000 I'm waving the Russian flag.

00:55:57.000 Where's my cut?

00:55:58.000 Now, I see what China's doing. 0.98

00:56:03.000 China's building government buildings in Africa and they're building highways and infrastructure and... Okay, where's my cut?

00:56:10.000 You know, the whole system's against you and it's just me.

00:56:13.000 Me and Darren Beattie.

00:56:14.000 Where's our cut, huh?

00:56:16.000 Bannon gets $30 million for Getter.

00:56:19.000 Where's the subsidy for Cozy from the People's Republic of China, huh?

00:56:25.000 I wish we were getting a little taste, but we're not.

00:56:28.000 I would tell you if I was, because 100% I support China and Russia growing, because if Russia and China grow, then our enemies shrink.

00:56:37.000 If Russia and China take, then we recede. 0.98

00:56:41.000 The United States government recedes.

00:56:44.000 It's quite simple.

00:56:45.000 And when I say it's literally the same people, I'll give you a perfect example.

00:56:49.000 What you have going on in Africa right now

00:56:53.000 is that, particularly in West Africa, there's been a few notable coups, a few notable civil wars going on in this past week in Burkina Faso, in West Africa, in the past couple of years in Mali, and in Central African Republic.

00:57:13.000 And these are all former French colonies.

00:57:16.000 If you don't know, France has maintained a sphere of influence over their former colonies. 0.94

00:57:21.000 And in all these countries, you've got rebels burning the French flag and saying these neo-colonialists are racist, they're arrogant, we don't want them here, we want them out, we want their peacekeepers out, we want their diplomats out, we want them out. 0.92

00:57:37.000 And they're waving the Russian flag.

00:57:40.000 And what has taken the place of, in these three countries, French peacekeepers and French military is now Russian private military contractors.

00:57:51.000 So you've got hundreds of Russian mercenaries now keeping the peace for these new government regimes, and you'll never guess who's on top of this, who's running the report, what's the narrative from the think tanks?

00:58:07.000 It's what you would expect.

00:58:09.000 Russian propaganda in West Africa.

00:58:12.000 It's not the result of Africans seeking new partners and looking towards other patron states.

00:58:19.000 They say that Russia is running a sophisticated disinformation campaign on WeChat and Telegram and other social media messaging apps in West Africa to turn the Africans against France and in favor of Russia.

00:58:34.000 You know who's writing those reports?

00:58:36.000 Which is, which by the way, parallel completely what's happening in America.

00:58:40.000 It's the same narrative.

00:58:43.000 When in 2016 you have the rise of the so-called alt-right and Breitbart and those things.

00:58:48.000 Hillary Clinton said that Putin was the great godfather of the alt-right in August.

00:58:53.000 August 2016.

00:58:54.000 And of course when Trump won, who did they blame it on?

00:58:57.000 Russia.

00:58:57.000 Russian collusion.

00:58:58.000 Sergey Kislyak and Jeff Sessions.

00:59:01.000 And in parallel, when they overthrow the government in

00:59:04.000 Burkina Faso is Russian disinformation.

00:59:08.000 You know who's writing the report on this?

00:59:10.000 You know who's drafting the report on that?

00:59:14.000 It's the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Lab.

00:59:18.000 You know who worked at the Digital Forensics Lab at the Atlantic Council?

00:59:23.000 Jared L. Holt from Right Wing Watch who stalks this show.

00:59:28.000 So think of it.

00:59:29.000 Okay, think about this.

00:59:32.000 Jared Holt is Antifa.

00:59:34.000 He is a literal Antifa operative, used to live in Washington D.C.

00:59:39.000 He worked for Right Wing Watch.

00:59:41.000 Right Wing Watch was funded by People for the American Way, which was funded by the Open Society Foundation, which is George Soros.

00:59:49.000 He graduated from that writing about this show and writing about the alt-right and Charlottesville to working at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Lab.

00:59:58.000 Where he created reports about January 6th and our streaming on DLive and those kinds of things.

01:00:05.000 And the same institution is now writing about how the Russian state is backing disinformation on social media in West Africa to overthrow neo-colonial French Empire and talking about the increasing influence of Beijing and Moscow in Africa.

01:00:29.000 So when I say it's the same people, I mean it's the same exact people.

01:00:34.000 And people ask me, they're like, you're shillin' for China, you're shillin' for Russia, it's a pincer, it's...

01:00:42.000 You think that I'm really gonna get hunted down by people at the Atlanta Council Digital Forensics Lab, but then go and shill for them when they talk about Russia and China in Sub-Saharan Africa?

01:00:55.000 Or Russia and China in Ukraine, or Syria, or Taiwan?

01:00:58.000 Make that one make sense for me.

01:01:01.000 We gotta get more funding for the Atlanta Council when they do their reports about China and Taiwan, because when they do that, it's legitimate and patriotic.

01:01:09.000 But now when they do it to me, like, hello?

01:01:14.000 So that is why it is in the best interest, and it's so obvious if you have a brain, it's clearly within the best interest of dissidents in America to support the creation of new poles of influence in the world against Washington, against the Washington deep state, against the Washington regime.

01:01:36.000 It's a good thing.

01:01:39.000 And so insofar as Russia and China are laying the groundwork for that and laying the foundation for that and they're attracting interested clients like Saudi Arabia or Iran or Qatar or Djibouti

01:01:53.000 Djibouti or Somalia or Turkey or you know, whatever, Libya, it's a good thing. 1.00

01:01:59.000 It's not a good thing for the American state, but then again, what's bad for the American state is good for us.

01:02:04.000 What's bad for the American regime is good for the American dissident. 0.94

01:02:08.000 Such is the logic that we follow here.

01:02:12.000 So for that reason I support it.

01:02:14.000 I support the pivot to Moscow on the part of what appears to be on the part of the Gulf states.

01:02:20.000 So that's that.

01:02:21.000 Alright.

01:02:22.000 I want to move on.

01:02:22.000 I want to get into the car bombing in Ukraine.

01:02:26.000 I'll say this.

01:02:28.000 Here's my problem with the international relations story.

01:02:31.000 Side note.

01:02:32.000 The reason I don't like the international relations story is because there's no way to make them fun, you know?

01:02:39.000 I think that's why people don't like the international stories.

01:02:43.000 Because when you talk about domestic politics, you can make it fun, you can make it funny, you can spin it.

01:02:49.000 There's not really, like, a fun angle to talk about, like, global energy politics.

01:02:55.000 What's the punchline?

01:02:56.000 Where's the joke?

01:02:57.000 You know?

01:02:57.000 Sort of hard to make light of that.

01:03:01.000 Because it's all very technical.

01:03:03.000 You know, we're talking about systems and dynamics and

01:03:08.000 And these sort of complicated, intertangling relationships.

01:03:14.000 I think that's why I don't like it as much.

01:03:16.000 Because even though I love the subject matter, I think you guys don't like it as much.

01:03:20.000 And for that reason, I don't like it as much.

01:03:22.000 Because when we talk about, like, flight attendants wearing, boy, flight attendants wearing high heels, we can make fun of that.

01:03:29.000 We can make a joke about that.

01:03:31.000 When you talk about the Saudi energy minister said they're cutting production, or they're, yeah, they're cutting production by 2% and that raised oil prices 1.5%.

01:03:40.000 It's like, how do you make a punchline out of that?

01:03:42.000 You just can't.

01:03:44.000 So, I think that's why we don't like it as much.

01:03:50.000 But anyway, with that, you know, we make do.

01:03:52.000 It's informative.

01:03:54.000 It's informative, we make do.

01:03:55.000 I hope you like it.

01:03:58.000 See, to me, I love... that's my true passion is international relations, you know?

01:04:06.000 I was at Model UN.

01:04:08.000 That's what I studied in college.

01:04:10.000 And that is, to me, what is most interesting because it's a level of analysis at the highest level.

01:04:15.000 I think you can't understand domestic politics without understanding international politics.

01:04:20.000 You can't understand the pressures and the dynamics of a state without understanding how it relates to other states in the world and other multinational institutions.

01:04:33.000 So, to me, that's like the study of civilizations.

01:04:36.000 It's a study of the world.

01:04:38.000 It's like the study of everything.

01:04:40.000 It's a study of economy, military, production, population, governance, administration, jurisdiction, law.

01:04:49.000 Like, it's an intersection of everything political.

01:04:51.000 So that's why I love it.

01:04:53.000 It's like the highest level.

01:04:54.000 It doesn't get higher than that.

01:04:58.000 I guess philosophy and religion.

01:05:00.000 But in terms of the pragmatic, there's nothing higher there.

01:05:04.000 So I love it.

01:05:04.000 I love it.

01:05:05.000 I like I like to read about it.

01:05:08.000 I like to explain it But it doesn't make for the same kind of show it's not as entertaining I know it's not as funny So it is what it is.

01:05:21.000 All right.

01:05:21.000 Why is this piece of hair sticking out?

01:05:24.000 Alright, well let's move on.

01:05:25.000 We're gonna get into our featured story here about the Ukraine car bombing.

01:05:28.000 I don't want to spend too much time on this because it's already like 1.15. 0.99

01:05:32.000 When did I start this stupid show? 0.99

01:05:35.000 Let me see. 1.00

01:05:40.000 Well, I don't really know.

01:05:42.000 Because it took me 10 minutes to get my hair together, so I really have no way of knowing, but anyway.

01:05:48.000 So um yeah so I don't want to spend too much time because it's been a long show already but our featured story is about this Ukraine car bombing and I don't know that we ever covered it on this show but if you missed it uh earlier this year the daughter of a major political theorist in Russia was killed in a terror attack

01:06:11.000 The name's Alexander Dugin.

01:06:12.000 He's a... I don't know if he's ethnically Russian, but he's a Russian philosopher and political theorist.

01:06:20.000 He's closely associated with the Kremlin.

01:06:22.000 He's got ties to Turkey.

01:06:23.000 Very controversial figure, and he's written some pretty influential books that are taught in the Russian military and which have influenced Putin's strategy and his thinking.

01:06:34.000 And so he's seen as a very prominent intellectual in Russia.

01:06:38.000 Let's just put it that way.

01:06:39.000 Earlier this year, his daughter was killed in an apparent attempted assassination attempt against him.

01:06:46.000 He was apparently driving someplace.

01:06:49.000 He got out of the car.

01:06:50.000 His daughter was still in the car.

01:06:52.000 I guess people didn't know that.

01:06:54.000 And somebody blew up the car.

01:06:57.000 The car was exploded with a remote explosive.

01:07:01.000 Killing the daughter. 0.63

01:07:02.000 Horrible tragedy.

01:07:03.000 And a clear, if that was supported by a state actor, clear violation of the rules of war, international law.

01:07:12.000 Not supposed to do that.

01:07:14.000 You're not supposed to target even military personnel like generals and civilian leadership, let alone a straight-up civilian, let alone the daughter of an intellectual.

01:07:27.000 That's so beyond the pale in terms of what is permissible in a war.

01:07:33.000 So that happened earlier this year, and we never got a definitive conclusion, but everybody suspected, and all signs point to it was the Kiev regime that was attempting to assassinate Dugin wound up killing the daughter.

01:07:50.000 It didn't get a lot of media coverage in the West and it was sort of swept under the rug and people forget about it But it's part of this escalating war well today the big announcement is that the New York Times got a tip from the Intel community in America and They're able to confirm that it was in fact Ukraine That put out the hit on Dugan.

01:08:11.000 And so this is the article from Russia Today.

01:08:13.000 It says quote

01:08:14.000 U.S.

01:08:15.000 spies believe that the Moscow car bombing that killed journalist Daria Dugina in August was authorized by parts of the Ukrainian government, according to the New York Times today.

01:08:26.000 The anonymous intelligence officials also claimed Washington had not been involved in any way, would have opposed the operation if they had known about it, and admonished Kiev afterwards, none of which could be independently verified.

01:08:41.000 Dougina was killed on August 20th.

01:08:44.000 When the car she drove exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, Russian authorities blamed Kiev and named two Ukrainian nationals as suspects but never accused the U.S.

01:08:53.000 of having any role in the assassination.

01:08:57.000 According to the story in the New York Times, it says, quote, the United States took no part in the attack either by providing intelligence or other assistance.

01:09:06.000 They also said they were not aware of the operation ahead of time that would have opposed the killing had they been consulted.

01:09:12.000 The closely held assessment of Ukrainian complicity was shared with the U.S.

01:09:16.000 government last week.

01:09:19.000 The spies were reportedly concerned that such a covert campaign could widen the conflict

01:09:24.000 And are frustrated with Ukraine's lack of transparency about its military and covert plans, especially on Russian soil.

01:09:32.000 While Russia has not retaliated in a specific way for the assassination, the U.S.

01:09:38.000 is concerned that such attacks, while high in symbolic value, have little direct impact on the battlefield and could provoke Moscow to carry out its own strikes against senior Ukrainian officials, some of whom have less protection than President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Times.

01:09:56.000 So this is sort of interesting.

01:09:57.000 You can see that what's going on here is that Washington is losing control.

01:10:03.000 And this isn't the first time that we've seen this.

01:10:07.000 The most recent example is just a few days ago.

01:10:09.000 If you remember on Friday, Russia formally signed the treaty bringing or initiating the process of accession of the four Ukrainian territories into Russia.

01:10:20.000 And almost immediately after, Zelensky held his own signing ceremony and signed an expedited application for NATO membership.

01:10:31.000 Which apparently we find out that day that none of the NATO members knew was coming.

01:10:37.000 Wasn't planned.

01:10:39.000 They didn't know about it.

01:10:40.000 They didn't approve of it.

01:10:42.000 And Zelensky put NATO in this unfortunate position where Jen Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, is supposed to give a speech a few hours afterward.

01:10:53.000 He said, I'm making this unprecedented announcement and so on.

01:10:56.000 And in the build-up to this, Zelensky goes out there without telling anybody and says, hey, we're applying to NATO.

01:11:03.000 So Stoltenberg goes out and says,

01:11:05.000 Yeah, uh, no.

01:11:06.000 That's not happening.

01:11:07.000 That's not happening anytime soon.

01:11:09.000 Ukraine's not joining NATO.

01:11:11.000 Like, that's just... you would need... It couldn't even happen if they wanted to.

01:11:15.000 You need a consensus.

01:11:17.000 Hardly any states in NATO even support that.

01:11:19.000 It's not happening anytime soon.

01:11:22.000 So Friday was like a total disaster.

01:11:25.000 So who does Zelensky think he is?

01:11:26.000 He goes out there in the streets of Kiev and signs this thing saying, we're going to join NATO.

01:11:32.000 And NATO says, whoa, whoa, whoa, no you're not. 0.96

01:11:34.000 Like, what are you crazy? 0.96

01:11:37.000 We want to bleed Russia. 0.99

01:11:38.000 We want to bleed their economy. 0.98

01:11:40.000 We want to bleed their military.

01:11:41.000 And we're going to do that with your people.

01:11:43.000 But we're not going to enter World War III like this by bringing you into NATO. 0.99

01:11:46.000 What are you crazy?

01:11:49.000 So we see that, and then not five, four days later, you see this huge report in the New York Times sourced by spies in the United States, and you know that's legit. 0.64

01:12:00.000 You know these unnamed sources, that's legit.

01:12:02.000 The New York Times and the intel community are like this.

01:12:05.000 They have people that worked in the intel community, they're kids, right, for the New York Times.

01:12:10.000 So that's all legit.

01:12:11.000 The USIC, intelligence community, leaked this to the Times to put out there in the press, regime media,

01:12:20.000 And they're saying, essentially, we've lost control here.

01:12:25.000 They're saying Kiev killed this person, killed this civilian, and they're putting this out now, months after the fact, because probably they suspect that there's going to be more of this.

01:12:38.000 That the Ukrainian regime is totally outside their control if they're trying to get into NATO and they're killing civilians.

01:12:44.000 Maybe there's more of this on the horizon.

01:12:47.000 And so, and this is why I say the U.S.

01:12:49.000 press is regime media.

01:12:52.000 The U.S.

01:12:52.000 regime, the U.S.

01:12:54.000 security apparatus, is putting this message out there.

01:12:57.000 They're disseminating this as an unofficial public position through the Times to say, hey everybody, just so everybody knows, we are not with them.

01:13:07.000 We're not with Kiev.

01:13:08.000 If they start killing people, we got nothing to do with it.

01:13:10.000 If they start killing and assassinating more people, and they provoke a massive Russian response, if they provoke a reciprocal response from Moscow, hey, we had nothing to do with it.

01:13:21.000 We didn't support that.

01:13:22.000 If we knew about it, we wouldn't have permitted it.

01:13:28.000 And why else?

01:13:29.000 And so that's how this works.

01:13:31.000 That's the inner workings of this, which tells you a little something about the relationship of the media and the security state.

01:13:38.000 The security state is using the media to disseminate, again, its unofficial status, which is like, okay, so how can you say the media is independent if they're just going to take what the US spies say and publish it pursuant to the US strategic objective?

01:13:55.000 That's besides the point for a second.

01:13:58.000 Now why would the United States try to disseminate this in an unofficial capacity?

01:14:03.000 Why would they throw Kiev under the bus?

01:14:05.000 It's because they've lost control.

01:14:07.000 If they had Kiev under their control, they would have slapped them on the wrist and said, hey, we're not playing that game.

01:14:14.000 Don't assassinate Russian officials.

01:14:17.000 And Kiev would say, oh, OK.

01:14:19.000 All right.

01:14:20.000 We won't do it anymore.

01:14:23.000 But if the United States security state

01:14:27.000 Has to go to the New York Times and put this out there unofficially and say, whoa, whoa, remember that thing that happened two months ago?

01:14:33.000 Yeah, nothing to do with it.

01:14:35.000 We're gonna put some distance between us and that.

01:14:39.000 It says that they're out of control.

01:14:41.000 It means that clearly, probably more of this is going to come and the United States has maybe tried to intervene and has not been successful.

01:14:50.000 And taken together with the story we just covered about Saudi Arabia,

01:14:55.000 Look at how much this has just gone outside the control of Washington in every way.

01:15:03.000 We're having to attack our allies by blowing up Nord Stream 1 and 2.

01:15:07.000 I mean, that's literally a flagrant, blatant terror attack on our allies.

01:15:14.000 That's what that is.

01:15:15.000 The only countries that even had the capability to destroy Nord Stream 1 and 2 were the United States and Russia.

01:15:22.000 And if Russia did it, NATO would have activated Article 5 and they would have blew Russia to smithereens. 0.86

01:15:27.000 It would have been just the pretext they needed.

01:15:30.000 They say that Russia did it as a false flag to create division in the NATO alliance.

01:15:36.000 Doesn't make any sense.

01:15:38.000 Russia couldn't have done it undetected, and if they did, it would have provided the perfect pretext for the United States to escalate and get Russia to bow out.

01:15:46.000 Easily.

01:15:47.000 So there is no doubt that we did that in the Baltic Sea.

01:15:52.000 So we're committing terror attacks against our allies because we can't restrain them.

01:15:57.000 We did that because we could not prevent Berlin from having some form of rapprochement with Moscow.

01:16:03.000 So Germany's out of control. 0.76

01:16:06.000 We have to go to the New York Times and put Kiev on blast and throw them under the bus.

01:16:11.000 This country we've given 80 billion dollars.

01:16:14.000 Because they've become some kind of out-of-control, belligerent terror state that is no longer under our influence anymore.

01:16:21.000 They're killing civilians.

01:16:23.000 They're trying to join NATO, trying to start World War III, talking about nuclear bombs.

01:16:28.000 Saudi Arabia, who we do billion-dollar arms deals with, just gave us the middle finger, and not just our country, gave the President the middle finger by hiking gas prices before the midterm elections.

01:16:39.000 North Korea,

01:16:41.000 They're set to do another nuclear test, their first one in five years, which is apparently the build-up to that is all these missile tests where they're flying ICBMs over Japan.

01:16:52.000 Over Japan! 0.81

01:16:53.000 Not west of Japan in the Sea of Japan, over Japan into the Pacific.

01:17:00.000 Everywhere you look, do you see a robust, solid, US-led world response, or do you see everywhere you look the world is out of control?

01:17:12.000 India will not sanction Russia.

01:17:15.000 We're trying to play Pakistan off of India because India was supposed to be our ace in the hole to check Beijing, and now we can't get India on board with our sanctions against Russia. 0.52

01:17:27.000 Everywhere you look, in every region, in West Africa, in Southeast Asia, in East Asia, in Eastern Europe, in Central Europe, everywhere you look, it is slipping out of our control.

01:17:41.000 That's a good thing for us, but it's a very dangerous prospect because that is happening and yet simultaneously the regime in Washington is unwilling to let it happen.

01:17:55.000 That's what this whole Ukraine war is about, that's what these trips to Taiwan are all about with Pelosi and all these other high-ranking officials.

01:18:03.000 It's us holding on for dear life to unipolarity, to global hegemony, but yet everywhere you look, just slipping through our fingers.

01:18:12.000 And when the question is now concerning nuclear war, and we're at war with Russia in everything but name, and they're talking about defending themselves with nukes, that's a very dangerous predicament.

01:18:28.000 That's a very dangerous situation, which is happening with the background of America trying desperately to hang on to its international control to no avail in the middle of this

01:18:42.000 Tit-for-tat escalation, which gets closer to nuclear exchange every day.

01:18:47.000 It's a bad setup.

01:18:50.000 So, the situation with Ukraine, not good.

01:18:53.000 And at one point, our cooler head's gonna prevail and say, you know what?

01:18:58.000 Not worth it.

01:18:59.000 Let it go.

01:19:00.000 Ukraine belongs to Russia. 0.82

01:19:02.000 Let it go.

01:19:03.000 Nord Stream 2 and 1 are blown up.

01:19:06.000 Germany is de-industrialized.

01:19:08.000 They're offshoring their manufacturing to the United States.

01:19:12.000 Russia's been weakened by this.

01:19:15.000 Europe has been brought closer into orbit with Washington against China.

01:19:20.000 Okay, let's call the quits.

01:19:21.000 What more do you want? 1.00

01:19:23.000 This guy's a nutjob. 1.00

01:19:24.000 He's gonna get us all killed. 1.00

01:19:26.000 Clearly the sanctions against Russia are backfiring in multiple ways.

01:19:30.000 Countries like India are trying to do their deals now, not in dollars.

01:19:36.000 At what point do you cut your losses and say, we don't rule the world anymore?

01:19:42.000 Do we have to go to a nuclear war to prevent Russia from annexing its borderland, its historic territory?

01:19:50.000 Seriously?

01:19:51.000 Over Crimea? 0.52

01:19:52.000 That's what this is about!

01:19:53.000 That's how this... It's not how it started at the beginning.

01:19:57.000 You don't have to go all the way back.

01:20:00.000 But really, the precipitating cause of this crisis was the annexation of Crimea.

01:20:06.000 After the Maidan in 2014, are we really going to go to nuclear war?

01:20:11.000 Because Khrushchev gave Ukraine Crimea in 1956, and when the Soviet Union collapsed and this administrative part of Russia became independent because of a fluke of history, and then they inherited Crimea, and then we overthrew the government, so this pro-Western EU has the Crimea now.

01:20:33.000 And then Russia takes it. 0.59

01:20:34.000 We're gonna go to nuclear war over something as ridiculous as this? 0.99

01:20:37.000 Seriously? 0.99

01:20:39.000 That's greed! 0.83

01:20:40.000 That is just straight-up greed and wrath and hubris.

01:20:43.000 It's all of it rolled up into one.

01:20:46.000 That's what this is about.

01:20:48.000 Because we couldn't let Russia have Crimea. 0.87

01:20:51.000 We couldn't let Russia have a favorable government in Kiev.

01:20:54.000 Seriously?

01:20:56.000 Because why?

01:20:56.000 No takesies-backsies?

01:20:58.000 Okay.

01:20:59.000 Khrushchev gave Ukraine Crimea and, well, when your country freaking collapsed in 1991, one part of your country declared independence.

01:21:09.000 Okay.

01:21:10.000 That's how it is forever now.

01:21:11.000 Set in stone.

01:21:12.000 We're locked in.

01:21:15.000 We can never change the borders again.

01:21:16.000 Your country collapsed.

01:21:17.000 Oh well.

01:21:18.000 Now we're going to dismember all of it. 0.99

01:21:21.000 And if you want any of it back, you're a warlord Hitler fascist and we're gonna go to nuclear war over this? 0.99

01:21:27.000 It's insane. 0.99

01:21:28.000 It's insane.

01:21:29.000 And we can have a strong American foreign policy without having an American foreign policy that's just suicidal, which is what we have right now.

01:21:40.000 All across the board.

01:21:41.000 And Trump led the way on this.

01:21:44.000 You can have detente with North Korea. 0.96

01:21:48.000 And people say, he's playing footsie with dictators.

01:21:51.000 Would you prefer nuclear bombs exploding in North Korea or not?

01:21:56.000 It's that simple.

01:21:58.000 He's playing footsie. 0.98

01:21:59.000 Kim Jong-un is a heinous dictator, be that as it may.

01:22:04.000 Do you want a nuclear war or not? 0.54

01:22:07.000 Because I would much prefer Trump stepping into North Korea over the DMZ and meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore over missiles flying over Japan and another nuclear bomb test in a few months.

01:22:24.000 I don't know about you.

01:22:25.000 And same thing with all these other situations.

01:22:31.000 Not good.

01:22:33.000 But that's that.

01:22:34.000 We'll watch all these situations.

01:22:35.000 It's fascinating.

01:22:36.000 I'd like to get into all these other areas because it's... people don't realize how this is... how we're really setting up for a truly global conflict.

01:22:47.000 This Russia-China versus NATO thing, it is happening everywhere.

01:22:54.000 It's happening in Africa. 0.61

01:22:55.000 It's happening in Central Asia, in Eastern Europe.

01:22:58.000 It's happening in the Middle East.

01:22:59.000 It's happening in Southeast Asia.

01:23:02.000 It's happening everywhere.

01:23:04.000 People don't even really understand.

01:23:05.000 People think this war is in Ukraine.

01:23:07.000 The war is in Armenia.

01:23:09.000 The war is in Kyrgyzstan.

01:23:10.000 The war is in Burkina Faso.

01:23:13.000 The war is in India.

01:23:15.000 This war is going on in Libya.

01:23:17.000 It's going on everywhere.

01:23:19.000 People just don't see it.

01:23:22.000 So, playing a very dangerous game here.

01:23:25.000 And as you can see, by developments like this, we're not even fully in control, which is scary.

01:23:31.000 So that's the situation with Ukraine.

01:23:33.000 I hope they just level these people. 0.99

01:23:35.000 I hope Putin just kills Zelensky and just gets it over with. 0.99

01:23:38.000 But, I mean, we'll see what happens. 0.99

01:23:41.000 We're gonna move on.

01:23:42.000 We're gonna take a look at our Super Chats and we'll see what all of you have to say about this.

01:23:47.000 This crazy world we live in.

01:23:49.000 Let's take a look.

01:23:54.000 Let me pull this up.

01:24:01.000 Okay.

01:24:09.000 Get my water bottle here.

01:24:11.000 Alright.

01:24:20.000 Okay.

01:24:22.000 No, we're not alike.

01:24:23.000 How could you say we're alike if there's two meals?

01:24:25.000 There's a chicken nugget meal and a burger meal and we chose differently.

01:24:27.000 How could you say we're alike?

01:24:49.000 It's the same meal.

01:24:50.000 You get a surprise toy, but it's the same.

01:24:52.000 In terms of choice, you made a totally different choice than me.

01:24:56.000 How are we the same at all?

01:24:58.000 You're a chicken nugget guy.

01:24:59.000 I'm a Big Mac guy.

01:25:01.000 Totally different.

01:25:04.000 The happy meal, you get your fries, your drink, your toy, which are the same, and then the entree is the only thing that's different, and there's only two.

01:25:13.000 And I chose one and you chose the other.

01:25:16.000 That means we're opposites.

01:25:17.000 That means we're completely different.

01:25:20.000 So, how could you even get Hamburglar?

01:25:24.000 You didn't even get a hamburger.

01:25:27.000 So, no.

01:25:29.000 We're nothing away.

America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - October 06, 2022

EVIL EMPIRE: US ADMITS Ukraine Behind RUTHLESS TERROR STRIKE Against Innocent Civilian | AF Ep. 1073

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