In a bizarre turn of events, the U.S. security state has revealed that the real culprit for the murder of Alexander Dugan's daughter is actually the Ukrainian regime. What does this mean for the future of the Ukraine conflict? And what does it have to do with nuclear war? We ll talk about all that and much more on tonight's show. America First is hosted by Nicholas J. Fuentes, and produced by Alex Blumberg, and features music from Ian Dorsch and Mark Phillips. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe to our other shows, The Anthropology, The HYPE Report, and HYPETALKS. Please take a moment to leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and we'll read out your comments and thoughts on the latest news and trends on the next episode of America First! Subscribe to America First to stay up to date with the latest in current events and discuss the things going on in the world, including politics, entertainment, and culture. Subscribe today using our podcast s RSS feed! Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Podcoin Subscribe on Stitcher Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code: "AVGOODbye" to receive $5 and receive $10 off your first purchase when you shop at VaynerMedia.com/Vaynermedia Subscribe on Audible Subscribe on PODCOLLAR and Vimeo Subscribe on the Podcoin Connections Subscribe on Vimeo Connect with Vimeo Learn more at Vimeo Learn more on this podcast, Podcoin? v=Vayler Media VaylerMedia Connect Listen to our new podcast, VayderMedia Connect? vaylermedia Connect with us on Podco Connect with me on LinkedIn & VeeceerMedia Connected? Subscribe & Subscribe to our podcast, Veever Media Connect & vayner Media Connect with you can help us spread the word out to the world? VynerMedia Connect & Subscribe on Social Media Connected to our Podcasts? , . Use code: Thank you! veevera_Veever_ And Veevers , Vee_co Thanks for listening to Veeveer_co_co Connected & Veeder Media , and Veeves etc. & so much more!
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00:09:25.000And 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.
00:09:51.000And 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.
00:10:04.000And of course, Washington and Kiev are allies.
00:10:06.000So 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.
00:10:17.000These guys committed this assassination of a civilian.
00:10:22.000So 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.
00:10:30.000We'll also be talking about Saudi Arabia,
00:10:33.000And OPEC Plus, the oil cartel, which today announced their decision to actually cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day.
00:10:45.000Which, 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.
00:10:55.000If you've been paying attention, gas prices in the United States have been going down.
00:11:00.000And gas prices are almost entirely controlled by the global price of oil.
00:11:07.000And 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.
00:11:18.000So 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.
00:11:27.000And keep them low enough that gas prices are not so out of control right before the election.
00:11:35.000And Biden earlier this year made his trip out to Saudi Arabia and fist-bumped the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
00:11:44.000In an effort to reset United States-Saudi relations and get them to maintain high levels of production for that domestic political benefit.
00:11:53.000And 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.
00:12:46.000And 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.
00:12:56.000It's widely reported today that a nuclear missile, intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 11,000 kilometers was being transported to Moscow today.
00:13:05.000I mean, people literally videotaping it on the highway.
00:13:09.000They're shipping a giant freaking missile on the highway to Moscow.
00:13:14.000And 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.
00:13:35.000So, certainly don't really like where that's going.
00:16:05.000And at that point I said, this is just, I'm already tired.
00:16:08.000Now I'm tired and I'm cleaning a freaking coffee machine.
00:16:11.000So I just cracked open a monster and I got all charged up and I realized that I need to start doing drugs.
00:16:18.000I 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.
00:16:28.000I don't know if that's McDonald's related illness, but
00:16:32.000I 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.
00:16:41.000I'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.
00:20:03.000And I said, we're going to wait until January to bring on anybody else because we got to test it and everything.
00:20:10.000And 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.
00:20:44.000We're not even technically, officially out of beta yet.
00:20:47.000I'd like to see a couple more essential things before I take us out of beta.
00:20:53.000There's a few things administratively.
00:20:56.000And 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
00:21:26.000Our peak traffic this year was seven and a half million.
00:23:02.000With all that business out of the way, we're gonna dive into the news here, and our first story is about Saudi Arabia.
00:23:08.000You 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.
00:23:17.000There's like nothing going on domestically.
00:23:48.000It stands for, what is it, Oil Petroleum Exporting Countries.
00:23:52.000This 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.
00:24:12.000Our 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.
00:24:21.000And the goal of the group is basically to control the price of energy in the global market.
00:24:29.000And they can produce really as much oil as we want.
00:24:36.000The proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia, Russia, other Gulf states are absolutely massive.
00:24:44.000And the supply more than meets the demand every year for 50 years.
00:24:48.000People have talked for the last century about peak oil.
00:24:52.000The idea that one day we will reach the limit of our productive capacity.
00:24:56.000We'll reach a point after which we will no longer be able to increase oil production.
00:25:03.000And the problem, the implied problem there is that demand is always increasing.
00:25:07.000If 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.
00:25:39.000What we have now is essentially we do not have that problem.
00:25:43.000It'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
00:26:36.000If they make more money, they can buy more stuff.
00:26:39.000So 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.
00:26:52.000I 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.
00:27:01.000And 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.
00:27:18.000And they say they're doing this in order to preempt a global recession.
00:27:23.000And representatives from Saudi Arabia said basically, well, we're not going to wait around for a recession to hit.
00:27:29.000We know a massive economic contraction will happen worldwide next year.
00:27:35.000So we're going to preemptively offset that by helping our bottom line, cutting production, raising prices.
00:27:43.000Now that's what they say, but realistically this comes
00:27:47.000With 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,
00:28:04.000The 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.
00:28:17.000And 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
00:28:31.000To 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.
00:28:43.000So, Saudi Arabia is coming out and saying, well, we're raising prices because we have to preempt this global recession.
00:28:51.000Really, what's going on is two things.
00:29:15.000In 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.
00:29:24.000President Biden and European leaders have urged more oil production to ease gas prices and punish Moscow for its aggression in Ukraine.
00:29:33.000Vladimir 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.
00:29:46.000The 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.
00:30:06.000The cut of 2 million barrels per day represents about 2% of global oil production.
00:30:13.000By 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.
00:30:24.000At 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.
00:30:40.000He said we would rather be preemptive than be sorry.
00:30:43.000The move appeared to have the desired results.
00:30:45.000The 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.
00:31:01.000The average price of gasoline in the United States recently began to rise again, tracking with the price of oil.
00:31:07.000In 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.
00:31:21.000Earlier 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.
00:31:35.000OPEC Plus says they're going to cut production in order to raise prices.
00:31:41.000And they say that that's because of the economy.
00:31:44.000When a global recession happens, energy demand will go down, and if demand goes down, then prices go down.
00:31:52.000Prices go down, then revenue goes down for the oil-producing and exporting countries.
00:31:57.000So 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.
00:32:12.000Well what's really happening though is that there's an enormous political significance with what's going on in Ukraine.
00:32:18.000And we've talked about that with Germany.
00:32:22.000And that has more to do specifically with natural gas.
00:32:27.000And I want to clarify again for people that may not understand, there's three products here.
00:32:37.000Natural 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.
00:32:52.000And natural gas was pumped into Germany, and that was a part of their energy mix.
00:32:57.000Russian 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.
00:33:14.000You've got oil, which is different than natural gas, and then oil is refined to create gasoline
00:33:22.000And gasoline is what we put in our cars when we drive.
00:33:44.000Natural gas is different than gasoline.
00:33:46.000Natural gas, which is going through the pipelines, which rushes the largest
00:33:51.000Producer 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.
00:34:00.000Everyone knew that let's just say everyone knew that I'm not gonna you know It's okay.
00:34:05.000If 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
00:34:16.000So we've talked in recent weeks about natural gas going into Germany.
00:34:20.000But this has to do with the production of oil and the global oil market.
00:34:25.000But it's really all one and the same in a certain sense because Russia is an energy exporter.
00:34:31.000They're the world's leading exporter of natural gas.
00:34:34.000They're one of the top three or top two exporters of oil in the world.
00:34:41.000Countries need natural gas and they need oil for their energy needs.
00:34:46.000And 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.
00:34:57.000And 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.
00:35:11.000It has more to do with how Russia is funding its war machine.
00:35:15.000The higher that the gas prices go, the more money they make and they're able to continue the war.
00:35:20.000The United States is not just blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines to sever the economic interdependence between Germany and Russia.
00:35:28.000They're also striving to drive oil prices down.
00:35:51.000Then the Russian state is really cash-strapped.
00:35:53.000There's only so many markets for its natural gas.
00:35:56.000And the natural gas cuts both ways in a certain sense.
00:36:01.000It'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.
00:36:12.000By 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.
00:36:34.000So 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.
00:36:47.000And so that's one of the ways that the United States was waging an indirect war against Russia.
00:36:52.000Not just through the training of the Ukrainian military and the supply of
00:36:58.000Long-range artillery, short-range artillery, light arms, cash, logistics, officers, mercenaries, intelligence, coordinates, things like that.
00:37:06.000And 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.
00:37:22.000That's one of the means that they're doing this.
00:37:28.000And 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.
00:37:53.000So 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.
00:38:15.000So Russia gets together with Saudi Arabia and they say, hey, yeah, okay, screw Washington.
00:38:34.000It's in OPEC's interest to raise the price.
00:38:37.000It's in Russia's interest to raise the price.
00:38:39.000It'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.
00:38:47.000And 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.
00:38:59.000So Washington and Biden made this bid over the summer to try and win Saudi Arabia over but really not offering anything substantial.
00:39:09.000And so OPEC plus with Saudi Arabia and Russia as the two primary movers come out today and say, yeah, of course.
00:39:17.000Of course, we're going to raise the price.
00:39:18.000So that's one part of the significance of it.
00:39:21.000The other significance of this is how it affects Biden domestically.
00:39:26.000And 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.
00:39:39.000We 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.
00:39:49.000The 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.
00:40:02.000So it's not just that, but at the same time you've also got this midterm election coming up for Joe Biden.
00:40:09.000And a huge part, the most important issue for American voters, which I'm sure the Saudis are aware of,
00:40:22.000And 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.
00:40:37.000Because understand, the price of energy has a ripple effect.
00:40:40.000It's not just that you're paying more to fill up your car with gas.
00:40:45.000It also costs more for truckers to fill up their trucks with gas and airplanes to fill up their planes with fuel.
00:40:51.000And 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.
00:41:33.000But you're also going to see those rising energy costs passed on in other ways.
00:41:39.000Everything you buy is going to get more expensive.
00:41:41.000If 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.
00:41:51.000Anything made in a factory that uses energy, more expensive.
00:41:56.000So these things add up, and we've seen that in Europe and in the United States.
00:42:00.000It'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.
00:42:13.000So 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,
00:42:41.000It'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.
00:42:54.000And it's interesting because in the same way that we're playing Russia's domestic politics, we're trying to cripple them with sanctions.
00:43:02.000We're trying to deprive them of certain goods.
00:43:04.000Our companies, our American companies like McDonald's and Nike and Netflix are boycotting Russia.
00:43:10.000Because we're trying to facilitate a regime change.
00:43:13.000We're trying to facilitate a negative public opinion of the war, of Moscow, of Putin, by the oligarchs, by the people.
00:43:22.000In the same way, it's almost like that's being thrown back on us now.
00:43:25.000Not just by Moscow, but also now by, it seems, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and the other Gulf states.
00:43:33.000They're taking the serious shot against the Biden administration by causing inflation to get much worse before the election.
00:43:42.000And the Biden administration, they've been countering the high energy prices by basically emptying the strategic petroleum reserve that the United States maintains.
00:44:57.000So it's almost like the day after the election happens, gas prices will go up.
00:45:01.000The 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.
00:45:12.000And 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.
00:45:31.000Rather 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,
00:45:49.000Or pursuing fracking and giving up on this green initiative stuff, opening up clean coal and all of that.
00:45:57.000Rather than tapping all of our available energy reserves,
00:46:03.000What 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.
00:46:21.000We are literally worse off because prices will be higher the global price of oil will be higher than it was before
00:46:32.000And 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?
00:46:52.000I mean, if that doesn't tell you what's wrong with the system, and that's what they're doing.
00:47:01.000That'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.
00:47:21.000And look at this just abject, we're just getting slapped in the face here.
00:47:26.000Saudi Arabia, who we gave a 700, what was it?
00:47:30.000A 700 million dollar, 700 billion dollar arms deal in 2017.
00:47:35.000Sweetheart, one of the biggest arms deals in history.
00:47:40.000And 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.
00:47:49.000And you've got Biden going over there to beg them, doing a fist bump.
00:49:03.000And 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.
00:49:18.000We've got to commit terrorist acts against our allies in Germany.
00:49:22.000We're begging Saudi Arabia to increase production.
00:49:35.000And that shows the loyalty that all these other regimes really have to America.
00:49:40.000This big narrative that has been spun up by the neocons and the deep state
00:49:46.000About how we've got these obligations to Japan and the Kurds and every other actor in the world.
00:49:54.000Look at how that loyalty is being repaid.
00:49:58.000And it shows you the real dynamic here.
00:50:00.000Who was really in charge of this relationship from the beginning?
00:50:03.000Were we ever really in charge of Saudi Arabia?
00:50:06.000Were we ever really in charge of any of these countries?
00:50:10.000I 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.
00:50:19.000If 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.
00:51:03.000This 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.
00:51:14.000Now 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.
00:51:26.000Saudi Arabia can inflict a lot more damage on the regime than we can.
00:51:32.000And so in a sense, it's like a shared struggle.
00:51:34.000It's a good thing that Saudi Arabia and India and Germany will have other options that they can pivot to.
00:52:05.000It's not to say that they're our friends.
00:52:06.000It is to say, if they're weakening Washington, that's a good thing.
00:52:11.000It 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.
00:52:21.000If 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,
00:52:39.000Well, that's the same Washington that we're fighting against.
00:52:42.000That's the same Washington that we're fighting against when we talk about the globalist world order, the globalist American empire, the American regime.
00:52:53.000And I don't know how people don't see that.
00:52:56.000They will at once talk about the capital rioters languishing in solitary confinement.
00:53:01.000They'll talk about the weaponization of the DOJ.
00:53:04.000They'll talk about the surveillance state turning inwards and being used against patriots.
00:53:09.000They'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.
00:53:30.000And they cannot see the contradiction.
00:53:32.000It is quite literally the exact same people.
00:53:36.000When I say the same people, I mean literally the same human beings.
00:53:41.000The 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.
00:53:52.000They're the same people waging this war
00:53:56.000Against the Deep State, or rather against Russia, against Iran, against North Korea, against China.
00:54:02.000So 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.
00:54:23.000The more that our Cold War and arms race...
00:54:28.000And 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.
00:54:49.000And boomers, it's just like, there's just like this firewall they can't understand
00:54:56.000We 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.
00:56:45.000And when I say it's literally the same people, I'll give you a perfect example.
00:56:49.000What you have going on in Africa right now
00:56:53.000is 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.
00:57:13.000And these are all former French colonies.
00:57:16.000If you don't know, France has maintained a sphere of influence over their former colonies.
00:57:21.000And 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.
00:57:40.000And what has taken the place of, in these three countries, French peacekeepers and French military is now Russian private military contractors.
00:57:51.000So 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?
00:58:12.000It's not the result of Africans seeking new partners and looking towards other patron states.
00:58:19.000They 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.
00:59:41.000Right Wing Watch was funded by People for the American Way, which was funded by the Open Society Foundation, which is George Soros.
00:59:49.000He 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.
00:59:58.000Where he created reports about January 6th and our streaming on DLive and those kinds of things.
01:00:05.000And 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.
01:00:29.000So when I say it's the same people, I mean it's the same exact people.
01:00:34.000And people ask me, they're like, you're shillin' for China, you're shillin' for Russia, it's a pincer, it's...
01:00:42.000You 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?
01:00:55.000Or Russia and China in Ukraine, or Syria, or Taiwan?
01:01:01.000We 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.
01:01:09.000But now when they do it to me, like, hello?
01:01:14.000So 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.
01:01:39.000And 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
01:01:53.000Djibouti or Somalia or Turkey or you know, whatever, Libya, it's a good thing.
01:01:59.000It's not a good thing for the American state, but then again, what's bad for the American state is good for us.
01:02:04.000What's bad for the American regime is good for the American dissident.
01:02:08.000Such is the logic that we follow here.
01:03:31.000When 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%.
01:03:40.000It's like, how do you make a punchline out of that?
01:04:10.000And that is, to me, what is most interesting because it's a level of analysis at the highest level.
01:04:15.000I think you can't understand domestic politics without understanding international politics.
01:04:20.000You 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.
01:04:33.000So, to me, that's like the study of civilizations.
01:05:42.000Because it took me 10 minutes to get my hair together, so I really have no way of knowing, but anyway.
01:05:48.000So 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
01:06:23.000Very 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.
01:06:34.000And so he's seen as a very prominent intellectual in Russia.
01:07:14.000You'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.
01:07:27.000That's so beyond the pale in terms of what is permissible in a war.
01:07:33.000So 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.
01:07:50.000It 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.
01:08:11.000And so this is the article from Russia Today.
01:08:15.000spies 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.
01:08:26.000The 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.
01:08:44.000When 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.
01:08:53.000of having any role in the assassination.
01:08:57.000According 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.
01:09:06.000They also said they were not aware of the operation ahead of time that would have opposed the killing had they been consulted.
01:09:12.000The closely held assessment of Ukrainian complicity was shared with the U.S.
01:09:19.000The spies were reportedly concerned that such a covert campaign could widen the conflict
01:09:24.000And are frustrated with Ukraine's lack of transparency about its military and covert plans, especially on Russian soil.
01:09:32.000While Russia has not retaliated in a specific way for the assassination, the U.S.
01:09:38.000is 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.
01:09:57.000You can see that what's going on here is that Washington is losing control.
01:10:03.000And this isn't the first time that we've seen this.
01:10:07.000The most recent example is just a few days ago.
01:10:09.000If you remember on Friday, Russia formally signed the treaty bringing or initiating the process of accession of the four Ukrainian territories into Russia.
01:10:20.000And almost immediately after, Zelensky held his own signing ceremony and signed an expedited application for NATO membership.
01:10:31.000Which apparently we find out that day that none of the NATO members knew was coming.
01:10:42.000And Zelensky put NATO in this unfortunate position where Jen Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, is supposed to give a speech a few hours afterward.
01:10:53.000He said, I'm making this unprecedented announcement and so on.
01:10:56.000And in the build-up to this, Zelensky goes out there without telling anybody and says, hey, we're applying to NATO.
01:11:49.000So 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.
01:12:00.000You know these unnamed sources, that's legit.
01:12:02.000The New York Times and the intel community are like this.
01:12:05.000They have people that worked in the intel community, they're kids, right, for the New York Times.
01:12:11.000The USIC, intelligence community, leaked this to the Times to put out there in the press, regime media,
01:12:20.000And they're saying, essentially, we've lost control here.
01:12:25.000They'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.
01:12:38.000That the Ukrainian regime is totally outside their control if they're trying to get into NATO and they're killing civilians.
01:12:44.000Maybe there's more of this on the horizon.
01:12:47.000And so, and this is why I say the U.S.
01:12:54.000security apparatus, is putting this message out there.
01:12:57.000They're disseminating this as an unofficial public position through the Times to say, hey everybody, just so everybody knows, we are not with them.
01:13:08.000If they start killing people, we got nothing to do with it.
01:13:10.000If 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.
01:13:31.000That's the inner workings of this, which tells you a little something about the relationship of the media and the security state.
01:13:38.000The 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?
01:13:55.000That's besides the point for a second.
01:13:58.000Now why would the United States try to disseminate this in an unofficial capacity?
01:14:03.000Why would they throw Kiev under the bus?
01:14:41.000It 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.
01:14:50.000And taken together with the story we just covered about Saudi Arabia,
01:14:55.000Look at how much this has just gone outside the control of Washington in every way.
01:15:03.000We're having to attack our allies by blowing up Nord Stream 1 and 2.
01:15:07.000I mean, that's literally a flagrant, blatant terror attack on our allies.
01:15:38.000Russia 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.
01:16:23.000They're trying to join NATO, trying to start World War III, talking about nuclear bombs.
01:16:28.000Saudi 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.
01:16:41.000They'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.
01:17:15.000We'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.
01:17:27.000Everywhere 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.
01:17:41.000That'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.
01:17:55.000That'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.
01:18:03.000It's us holding on for dear life to unipolarity, to global hegemony, but yet everywhere you look, just slipping through our fingers.
01:18:12.000And 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.
01:18:28.000That'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
01:18:42.000Tit-for-tat escalation, which gets closer to nuclear exchange every day.
01:19:53.000That's how this... It's not how it started at the beginning.
01:19:57.000You don't have to go all the way back.
01:20:00.000But really, the precipitating cause of this crisis was the annexation of Crimea.
01:20:06.000After the Maidan in 2014, are we really going to go to nuclear war?
01:20:11.000Because 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.
01:21:29.000And 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.
01:22:07.000Because 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.
01:22:36.000I'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.
01:22:47.000This Russia-China versus NATO thing, it is happening everywhere.
01:25:04.000The 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.
01:25:13.000And I chose one and you chose the other.