America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - The Iraq War 15 Years Later | America First Ep. 128

00:00:06.000 Good evening, everybody.

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00:00:12.000 Whoops, we got to bring this guy in over here, hanging out all the way over there.

00:00:16.000 But we got a great show for you tonight.

00:00:18.000 I was a little distracted there.

00:00:20.000 Very exciting, as I tweeted out, going to be some no holds barred tables, ladders, and chairs, submissions, falls count, anywhere on the show.

00:00:30.000 Rhetorically speaking, of course.

00:00:32.000 We are excited to be multi streaming once again, coming at you on YouTube, on Facebook, on Twitch.

00:00:40.000 On Periscope slash Twitter.

00:00:42.000 We have been doing really well with our numbers.

00:00:44.000 I checked in this morning for our first multi stream last night.

00:00:49.000 We had reached something like 8,000 views in total by noon or by 10 a.m. combined, if you were looking at all the metrics.

00:00:55.000 So we're doing very well with the multi streaming.

00:00:57.000 I think we're going to keep it up.

00:00:59.000 Facebook, we were doing very well.

00:01:00.000 Twitch, we only had about 100 people watch, so we're trying to up our game there.

00:01:05.000 Periscope, we had a pretty good audience, so we're feeling good.

00:01:08.000 We are competing tonight with Worski, which makes it a little bit tough.

00:01:11.000 Worski.

00:01:12.000 He gives us a hard time.

00:01:13.000 Worski and JF, I love them, but, you know, boy, do they give us a challenge in the ratings.

00:01:18.000 But nevertheless, we have an exciting show for you tonight.

00:01:22.000 So many things going on in the news that that's probably an inappropriate gesture given what happened in the news today, but so many things to talk about.

00:01:30.000 The big thing we got to get into is this school shooting.

00:01:33.000 That's why it was inappropriate, the gesture, but another big school shooting this afternoon.

00:01:38.000 And I don't say that in an excited way, but I say that because here's something interesting about this school shooting, which was Different than the Parkland shooting a couple of weeks ago.

00:01:48.000 This one, you had the shooter who was armed with a handgun instead of a rifle.

00:01:53.000 And in this case, you had a resource officer that was in the building that was able to engage with the shooter.

00:01:59.000 And as a result, a lot less casualties.

00:02:00.000 We'll get into that.

00:02:02.000 We are also today now celebrating or maybe remembering, maybe brooding over the 15 year anniversary of the disastrous Iraq War.

00:02:14.000 And we're going to talk about the legacy of Iraq. 0.58

00:02:16.000 We're going to talk about why we went in. 0.99

00:02:19.000 What a mistake it was, what a big fat mistake it was, and everything about that.

00:02:25.000 Some interesting stories today, which I think put it in perspective, to say the least.

00:02:29.000 So we'll get into that.

00:02:30.000 But before we get into any of that, I just want to say, I want to announce, it was talked about over the weekend.

00:02:36.000 We started to plan it, but I think we have it officially now as of today.

00:02:41.000 On Friday, I will be debating Mike Tokes on the Baked Alaska live stream.

00:02:47.000 It'll be at this time on Friday.

00:02:49.000 So 7 p.m. Central, I'll be debating Mike Tokes.

00:02:52.000 Mike Tokes, who's this new right, I don't know, whatever you want to call it.

00:02:56.000 He's with Jack Posobiak and all these characters.

00:02:59.000 I'll be debating him on Friday at this time about civic and ethnic nationalism.

00:03:05.000 I'll be arguing on the side of ethnic nationalism.

00:03:08.000 He'll be arguing on the side of civic nationalism.

00:03:11.000 It should be a great time.

00:03:12.000 I'm debating whether or not I will do a recap stream after the debate or if I'll do a pre show stream before the debate because it will be at the normal time for the show.

00:03:23.000 I think I'll probably do an after the show stream.

00:03:25.000 But it should be a great time, so be sure to tune in.

00:03:27.000 That is on the Baked Alaska channel.

00:03:29.000 I'm not sure what his new one is, but if you just look up Baked Alaska, you should be able to find it.

00:03:33.000 I think he's called the BA Experience now because his old channel got taken down.

00:03:39.000 So we are very excited for that debate.

00:03:40.000 I got to say, I expect to win handily.

00:03:43.000 I watched Mike Tokes' debate with Richard Spencer, and even though Richard Spencer, I don't think he comes up with the best arguments for ethnic nationalism, even still, I think he won it pretty convincingly.

00:03:56.000 Pretty persuasively.

00:03:57.000 So I'm looking forward to a big win.

00:03:58.000 It should be a great time, it should be a great spectacle.

00:04:01.000 We're going to bruise them just like RC, just like Halsey.

00:04:04.000 So, it should be a great time on Friday.

00:04:06.000 And then, one more thing before we get into it.

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00:05:06.000 Pretty cool stuff on the Streamlabs.

00:05:08.000 But with the housekeeping stuff out of the way, we got to get into this school shooting, which I think is so fascinating, not because of what happened here in the school shooting, which is, of course, tragic.

00:05:21.000 Which is, of course, and we say this every time there's a school shooting, we can look at it politically.

00:05:27.000 We can look at it the day that it happens, and we get to walk away from it.

00:05:31.000 You see the notification on your phone, or at least I do, from the Associated Press or from BBC.

00:05:37.000 You'll see it on your Twitter timeline.

00:05:38.000 You see it on the evening news.

00:05:40.000 And you can choose whether you want to think about it a lot or whether it's not really so important to you.

00:05:45.000 But the people involved, we have to always remember the people involved, they don't get to walk away.

00:05:51.000 They don't get to think about it politically and then, you know, as though it's just a little part of politics and then walk away from it.

00:05:58.000 The people that have been injured today, one of the girls is still in critical condition.

00:06:03.000 One of the victims is still in critical condition, I believe, with a head injury.

00:06:08.000 And she doesn't get to walk away from that the same.

00:06:10.000 Her family doesn't get to walk away from that the same.

00:06:13.000 Her classmates, Friends, family, the people in the community, they don't get to forget about it so easily.

00:06:18.000 So, of course, whenever we talk about a shooting or any kind of a tragedy like that, we have to give it the gravity I think it deserves.

00:06:24.000 I think each time we have to remember these are not normal acts of violence.

00:06:29.000 These should never be seen as normal or purely political.

00:06:33.000 We have to take a step back and look at them in their proper context, which is just horrible things that shouldn't be happening.

00:06:38.000 But that said, and of course, we give our thoughts, we give our prayers to the two people who are injured and to the families and everyone involved.

00:06:46.000 But To get into the meat of what happened today, so you had a shooting here, and it was at the Great Mills High School in Maryland.

00:06:54.000 And so what happened was you had a 17 year old who went into the school with a handgun, and he shot a girl who was 16 years old.

00:07:01.000 He shot a boy who was 14 years old.

00:07:04.000 And then he was engaged by the school's resource officer, who was also happened to be a SWAT officer as well.

00:07:10.000 And so it's not totally conclusive what happened yet.

00:07:13.000 They are reviewing the surveillance footage to see what exactly transpired because.

00:07:19.000 They say that the shooter fired a bullet, the resource officer fired a bullet, and then the shooter was dead with a head injury.

00:07:27.000 You know, he took a shot to the head.

00:07:29.000 And they're not sure exactly if he shot himself or if the resource officer shot him.

00:07:34.000 They're not even sure if the resource officer shot the 14 year old who just sustained an injury to the leg, and he'll be okay.

00:07:41.000 But they are reviewing what exactly happened.

00:07:43.000 But of course, the thing which is interesting about this is not really the shooting.

00:07:48.000 The shooting is not really what's spectacular here.

00:07:50.000 I mean, we've seen.

00:07:52.000 Several incidents like this already in 2018.

00:07:54.000 We saw, obviously, the Parkland shooting in Florida during Valentine's Day.

00:07:59.000 We saw the shooting at, I believe, Italy High School in Texas.

00:08:03.000 We saw a shooting in Kentucky in January.

00:08:06.000 So we've seen several mass shootings or shootings in schools since the beginning of the year.

00:08:12.000 But what's peculiar about this one is, of course, the way the media responds to it.

00:08:16.000 And we did a very similar story on Friday about how they took a quote by Vladimir Putin, how the media took a quote by Vladimir Putin.

00:08:24.000 And this was a great example of how the media distorts things.

00:08:27.000 Because if you remember, over the weekend there was an interview, or maybe this was last weekend.

00:08:31.000 There was an interview with Vladimir Putin, and he went on the air and he said, You know, people blame my country.

00:08:37.000 People blame Russia for this election interfering.

00:08:40.000 And you have these 13 people indicted and these four Russian companies indicted.

00:08:45.000 And he said, You know, and we don't even know who these people are.

00:08:47.000 Are they Ukrainians?

00:08:48.000 Are they Jews? 1.00

00:08:49.000 Are they Totters? 1.00

00:08:50.000 Are they that? 1.00

00:08:50.000 Are they this? 1.00

00:08:51.000 And the headline the next day, the headline the following day was Putin blames Jews for election meddling. 0.84

00:08:58.000 Putin believes in Jewish conspiracy and all this crazy stuff.

00:09:02.000 And we said the story was not the comments.

00:09:03.000 The story was not what was said or even the election interference.

00:09:07.000 The story was that this is demonstrably a case of the media lying to your face, of the media saying one thing, totally different, totally distorted from what actually happened.

00:09:17.000 And here again, we see another perfect, crystal clear instance of this where you have a mass shooting.

00:09:23.000 And by all, by every measure, this shooting should have been covered like the Parkland shooting.

00:09:29.000 Here you have another tragedy.

00:09:32.000 You have another terrible school shooting. 0.57

00:09:34.000 It fits right in with the gun debate.

00:09:36.000 It fits right in with the school shooting debate.

00:09:38.000 It fits in with the legislative program that's being advanced in state legislatures and in the Congress.

00:09:43.000 And by every measure, just like the Florida shooting, this should have been the headline, the top story on every major paper.

00:09:50.000 How long were we talking about, just on this show, how long were we talking about the Parkland shooting?

00:09:56.000 We must have spent four, five, six episodes on the Parkland shooting dedicated exclusively to what happened, conspiracies.

00:10:06.000 Legislation, the gun issue, the mental health issue.

00:10:09.000 We spent hours on that shooting.

00:10:11.000 And how long did we hear it covered in the media?

00:10:13.000 You must have heard about it for at least a week and a half after the shooting.

00:10:17.000 You saw the day of the shooting.

00:10:20.000 We heard about it the next day and the day after, and then the weekend, and then the whole rest of the week.

00:10:25.000 And we saw the activists, the high school people that were involved peripherally in the shooting.

00:10:32.000 We saw them on Ellen, and they vaulted themselves to have millions of followers on Twitter, and they held a CNN town hall. 0.98

00:10:39.000 Where they looked in the eyes of a United States senator and said, You're the bitch of the NRA, and things of this nature. 0.99

00:10:44.000 And we heard about this. 1.00

00:10:45.000 We're still hearing about this.

00:10:47.000 They're still on these live streams on the internet.

00:10:50.000 They're still on television.

00:10:52.000 The activists are still out there getting the celebrity treatment.

00:10:55.000 And yet, we look at an incident like this.

00:10:58.000 And we look at an incident, for example, like the Halloween terrorist attack in New York City when a terrorist drove through a pedestrian crosswalk and injured several people.

00:11:09.000 And we see all kinds of stories like this where it does not fit the narrative and it doesn't last a day.

00:11:15.000 You didn't hear about this three hours after it happened, let alone two weeks, three weeks, four weeks.

00:11:20.000 What is it, March 20th?

00:11:21.000 And we're still talking about the Parkland shooting that happened on February 14th.

00:11:26.000 We had a shooting this morning, and by this evening, nobody's talking about it.

00:11:30.000 Top story on BBC, they're talking about Stormy Daniels.

00:11:33.000 They're talking about how Trump congratulated Putin for his election victory.

00:11:37.000 The only network, of course, which is talking about the shooting you got Breitbart, you got Fox News.

00:11:43.000 But every other network, New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, you name it, they're not talking about it.

00:11:47.000 They're not talking about the shooting.

00:11:49.000 And it just goes to show that it's never about the shooting itself.

00:11:52.000 It's never about the tragedy.

00:11:54.000 It's never about gun violence.

00:11:55.000 It's about advancing the narrative.

00:11:58.000 It's about advancing the legislative agenda.

00:12:00.000 And there it is, plain as day, for everybody to see.

00:12:04.000 It's so transparent.

00:12:06.000 And thank God for, I guess, the internet.

00:12:08.000 Thank God for social media that these days it's become harder and harder and harder for the media to dictate, for them to act as a monopoly in the gatekeeper of information, that if they don't report on it, nobody finds out.

00:12:23.000 In this day and age, you go on Twitter, you go on Facebook, and you can get what's actually going on.

00:12:27.000 But I think that just goes to show for everybody involved that it was never once about the shooting.

00:12:31.000 It was never once about the kids.

00:12:33.000 It was never once about the tragedy.

00:12:35.000 It was about the gun control legislative agenda.

00:12:39.000 Because you look at the shooting, and of course they're not covering it.

00:12:42.000 Why would they not be covering it as opposed to the Parkland shooting?

00:12:45.000 It's another high school shooting.

00:12:47.000 It's more gun violence.

00:12:48.000 Should fit the narrative, right?

00:12:50.000 They should be talking about it.

00:12:51.000 We had a mass walkout on the 14th.

00:12:53.000 We'll have a mass demonstration protest for gun violence in D.C. on the 24th.

00:12:59.000 There will be another mass protest on April 20th, and that's to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, which should be being talked about, right?

00:13:08.000 The hot button issue of the day is gun violence, school shootings, and yet it's not in the media.

00:13:14.000 It's not on television.

00:13:15.000 It's not in the newspapers.

00:13:16.000 And of course, why is that?

00:13:18.000 Because you look at this shooting in particular, and there is nothing useful for the people that are pushing the agenda.

00:13:24.000 There's nothing useful for people in the media.

00:13:27.000 There's nothing useful for the politicians.

00:13:29.000 Nothing useful for the people.

00:13:31.000 That had been advancing the Parkland shooting activists and the legislative agenda since February.

00:13:37.000 Because you look at the shooting, and this shooting was perpetrated not with the AR 15, not with a military style assault weapon.

00:13:45.000 You know, they concoct all these big, scary words, which really just comes down to aesthetics.

00:13:50.000 When they say military style, it means it's black and it's scary and it looks like what the military uses.

00:13:57.000 But this is not a real distinction.

00:13:59.000 When they say an assault style rifle or a military grade rifle, these are.

00:14:03.000 Arbitrary aesthetic distinctions, which liberals use to say it's a big scary gun as opposed to maybe a wooden hunting gun.

00:14:11.000 This shooting was perpetrated with a handgun.

00:14:13.000 And of course, the liberals are not going to come right out with handgun bans or anything related to handguns because, of course, that would betray their true intention, their true motive, which is subtle, gradual, slow and steady, creeping gun control.

00:14:28.000 Right now, they're going for semi automatic weapons ban and semi automatic regulations and mental health and raising the age.

00:14:35.000 To procure a firearm and background checks because these are all things that poll well.

00:14:39.000 Because these are all things that won't cost them in the midterms.

00:14:42.000 These are all things that, if you're running in Montana as a Democrat, it's not going to cost you the midterm to back a handgun ban.

00:14:49.000 If you're running for a midterm in Missouri, it's not going to cost you a midterm because you're advancing total gun control and revising the Second Amendment, which they would have to do if they want to go after handguns.

00:14:59.000 So they go after the semi automatic weapon bans.

00:15:01.000 And as such, this shooting is of no utility to them because, of course, this one.

00:15:07.000 Was used by a handgun, or the shooter used a handgun, just like most gun violence in the country, by the way.

00:15:13.000 If you look in Chicago, if you look in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., Boston, St. Louis, the vast, vast, vast majority of gun crimes in the country are committed with handguns.

00:15:27.000 You look at several other mass shootings this year, and they were also committed by handguns.

00:15:31.000 And it makes you realize it's really not so much about shootings, it's really not so much about gun violence, so much as it is about semi automatic rifles, so much as it is about gun confiscation.

00:15:43.000 And once you understand the Democrats don't really care about gun violence if it's committed with a handgun, they don't really care about school shootings so much as if it's committed by a handgun, and it's really more about the assault rifles, you really understand what the play is here.

00:15:57.000 You really understand what the motivation here is here.

00:15:59.000 It's never about the safety.

00:16:01.000 They may do their marches, they may do their demonstrations.

00:16:04.000 And I'm sure a lot of people out there who show up to these things have good intentions.

00:16:08.000 I'm sure those people care about the lives.

00:16:11.000 I went to one of the protests down in Chicago.

00:16:13.000 I cared about the people's lives, and I think a lot of people there cared about the lives.

00:16:18.000 There was a demonstration in my high school on the 14th where they did the mass walkout.

00:16:23.000 I'm sure those kids, in some virtue signaling sense, maybe they purported to care about the lives.

00:16:29.000 But those are the do gooders, the people that are putting up the money for these efforts, the people that are coordinating the media blitz.

00:16:36.000 And the propaganda campaign, these people don't care about the lives they care about the automatic rifles, the semi automatic rifles.

00:16:42.000 They want to disarm you, they want to take away your rifles.

00:16:45.000 That's number one.

00:16:47.000 And then number two, what was peculiar about this one, why they definitely don't want it publicized, is because in this instance, what prevented deaths, what prevented actual casualties, and one person is still in the hospital in critical condition, so it's a little premature to say that there were no deaths yet, but the difference between 17 deaths at Stoneman Douglas.

00:17:10.000 In Florida, and two injuries so far in Great Mills, Maryland, was a resource officer.

00:17:17.000 The difference between a complete killing field, a complete kill zone, where somebody goes into a school and they just start firing on vulnerable, defenseless children and teachers, people who just at the end of the day had to use their own bodies as human shields, and a school where you had somebody who had a gun, where he had bullets going in the opposite direction, where he had a good guy with a gun, was able to stop this guy.

00:17:40.000 So that's the other reason why they don't want to bring it up.

00:17:43.000 And that tells you something, I think, really sadistic about the Democrats, about the left, about the mainstream press.

00:17:51.000 Obviously, in this case, the resource officer, because he had a gun, because the school had an officer, and because the officer had a gun, it ended the mass shooting very quickly.

00:18:01.000 It ended the shooting so that there weren't 17 people dead.

00:18:04.000 There weren't 56 people dead like in Vegas.

00:18:07.000 It wasn't dozens or tens or five or six or 10 people killed, it was two people injured.

00:18:13.000 And the reason being is because he had somebody with the gun who was able to put a stop to it.

00:18:16.000 And this is common sense.

00:18:18.000 Everybody understands this.

00:18:19.000 If you don't have a resource officer or a teacher in the school with the gun, how do you respond to a mass shooting?

00:18:25.000 Who do you call?

00:18:26.000 Who do you call and why?

00:18:27.000 Why do you call them?

00:18:28.000 Because what do they have?

00:18:30.000 When somebody goes into a school and they start committing a mass shooting, first thing you do, you pick up the phone, call 911.

00:18:36.000 Why?

00:18:37.000 So the police show up.

00:18:38.000 Why do you need the police?

00:18:39.000 Because the police have guns.

00:18:41.000 And the only way to stop somebody with the gun.

00:18:44.000 Is another gun, is a good guy with a gun.

00:18:47.000 So the difference between what the Democrats are proposing and what the Republicans are proposing is the three to ten minutes between a resource officer being on the scene and a police officer who has to drive through traffic, who has to, first of all, someone has to notice.

00:19:02.000 They have to pick up the phone.

00:19:03.000 They have to call.

00:19:04.000 They have to get some kind of a squad car.

00:19:06.000 They have to assemble some kind of a team, and then they send them in.

00:19:09.000 And so the difference between the Democratic and the Republican response or prescription for these problems is a difference of ten minutes.

00:19:16.000 And the difference of ten minutes.

00:19:18.000 Is we saw today 15 lives.

00:19:21.000 Do you want to save 15 lives?

00:19:23.000 And what's pernicious about this is that the Democrats see this.

00:19:27.000 They see this example where it worked, where the Republican, the right wing solution worked exactly as was supposed to.

00:19:34.000 That not only do guns in schools provide a deterrent, that if a shooter now sees what happened in this case, they think twice about shooting up a school again because they think, you know what?

00:19:44.000 If I'm going to go out, if I'm going to carry out this vindictive act, but I'm going to face this kind of opposition, I'm going to think twice about it.

00:19:50.000 If I'm going to go into a school and I'm just going to have my pick, if I'm this.

00:19:55.000 Troubled teen, and I'm getting bullied at school by the jocks and by the teachers, and people are taking my lunch and they're giving me wedgies and everything.

00:20:03.000 And I get to walk into a school, and there's just a whole cafeteria, there's a whole gymnasium, dozens and dozens of people, and I just get my pick.

00:20:11.000 I just get a room with them for 10 minutes to rough them up before the cops show up.

00:20:16.000 Who's going to have a second thought about that versus if you have a school where you don't know who has a gun, you don't know if the teachers have guns, you don't know if there's a resource officer?

00:20:24.000 You simply don't know.

00:20:25.000 At least you're going to think twice.

00:20:26.000 But then, additionally, in the event that a shooting does happen, And rightly so, people have pointed out that shooters will go into a school not just because it's vulnerable, but because they have a vendetta as well.

00:20:37.000 But then they get into the school, and guess who's waiting for them?

00:20:40.000 They're finding a teacher or a resource officer or somebody who maybe they don't have to have it on their hip.

00:20:46.000 Maybe they don't have to have it in a holster so that they prevent the first shot or the second shot.

00:20:50.000 But by the time they figure out and assess the situation, there's somebody on the scene with a gun to have real stopping power, real physical coercive power to respond to somebody with a firearm.

00:21:02.000 And you saw in this instance, Somebody who solved the problem, who saved lives, unlike the resource officer at Stoneman Douglas, who didn't go in, who didn't go into the school.

00:21:11.000 And he also had deputy sheriffs, three or four of them outside the school, who also didn't go in.

00:21:16.000 And what's pernicious, what's evil about this, to arrive at the point, what is just downright sinister about this, is here is a solution which has been proven to save lives, proven to save innocent, vulnerable children's lives.

00:21:30.000 We send them off to school, mom and dad send them off to school, they wave goodbye, they go on the school bus, and they head off to school, and they should be safe.

00:21:39.000 And here's a solution to keep them safe.

00:21:40.000 And the Democrats, the left, they don't want to talk about it.

00:21:44.000 They're not going to put it on the news.

00:21:46.000 They're not going to put any money behind this.

00:21:48.000 They don't care.

00:21:49.000 They don't care.

00:21:50.000 They will not invest in a solution which saves lives because it does not fit their political agenda.

00:21:56.000 And just think about that.

00:21:58.000 Just really spend a long time thinking about that.

00:22:00.000 Republicans are ready.

00:22:02.000 We are more than ready to look at background checks, to look at mental health, to look at what you can do with semi automatic weapons, to look at what you could do with bump stocks.

00:22:12.000 You know, if the language is good, you know, if we look at the language of the laws and given that there's not a lot of room for the judges or for the executive to distort it and enforce something bigger than the legislators intended, we are willing to look at all options on the table.

00:22:27.000 But the left and the media, they will look at this shooting today and they don't care that lives were saved.

00:22:33.000 They don't care that it wasn't semi automatic rifles and people could just as easily commit these crimes with handguns.

00:22:39.000 They're going to bury this story, bury this relevant data point in the conversation because.

00:22:44.000 It doesn't fit what they're trying to achieve politically.

00:22:46.000 It doesn't fit their political agenda, which is to seize our firearms, to end the Second Amendment.

00:22:51.000 And I think that should tell you everything you need to know about them, should tell you everything you need to know about the media.

00:22:56.000 The media in particular, which the people running the media, they're not liberals, they're not Democrats.

00:23:03.000 These people are downright evil.

00:23:05.000 They have no allegiance to our country, they have no allegiance to our people, they have no allegiance to the people even watching their program, no allegiance to the truth, no principles.

00:23:14.000 And you see it time and time again.

00:23:16.000 Where, whether it's the truth and they just wildly distort it, whether it's something like this, a data point that whether you think it supports the Republican position or the Democratic position, they're going to bury this example, bury this solution because it doesn't fit their agenda.

00:23:31.000 And the media does this, and that should tell you everything you need to know about them.

00:23:34.000 Stop watching the news.

00:23:37.000 Don't pay them another cent.

00:23:38.000 Cancel your newspaper subscription.

00:23:40.000 Cancel your online subscription if anybody even uses that.

00:23:43.000 I don't know anybody that does.

00:23:45.000 Stop using the media because all they do is.

00:23:47.000 Is lie.

00:23:48.000 All they do is distort, and obviously to very sinister ends.

00:23:52.000 So that was the Great Mill shooting, a tragedy, but thankfully one that was able to be mitigated, one that was able to be rectified, I think, in a good amount of time, where you had a resource officer who was there on the scene.

00:24:06.000 Now, they say that in this case, there was a student who he was carrying out some vendetta.

00:24:11.000 They say allegedly it was his former girlfriend or something that he shot.

00:24:17.000 And that's not conclusive yet.

00:24:18.000 Nobody's verified yet.

00:24:20.000 Verified that yet, but that was a rumor going around.

00:24:23.000 Either way, you have somebody in the school with a firearm, and the only person necessary to stop it, the only person who can stop it, is somebody with a firearm.

00:24:31.000 And so, thankfully, they were able to stop any other potential bloodshed.

00:24:34.000 So, I think that was a good thing.

00:24:37.000 It's obviously not a good thing that there was a school shooting, but a good thing that they were able to mitigate the loss of life.

00:24:43.000 But that was the school shooting.

00:24:44.000 The other thing I want to get into this is not really news, but this is, I think, something we have to think about, something we have to reflect on, which is that today, Is the 15th anniversary of the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the aptly titled Operation Iraqi Freedom.

00:25:02.000 The war in Iraq began today in 2003, 15 years ago, and I think it's a perfect day to reflect and look back on the war because here we stand at a crossroads.

00:25:14.000 Here we stand in our country today looking down two divergent paths.

00:25:19.000 I think we did this in 2016, but today, even more so.

00:25:22.000 Two paths which are the internationalist route and the nationalist route.

00:25:27.000 In 2016, this was a great example.

00:25:29.000 Today, it's a great example between Trump and the neocons, between Trump and people like John McCain, people like Lindsey Graham, people like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Bush, who continue to peddle for war.

00:25:39.000 We look at our country today where we can head down towards more fiascos like this.

00:25:43.000 We look at the current situation in the Middle East.

00:25:46.000 We look at the current situation in the Pacific theater of war.

00:25:50.000 We look at countries like Syria.

00:25:51.000 We look at countries like Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, where we're all involved right now, we're involved in all of these countries right now.

00:26:00.000 We're looking at other countries to be involved in, such as Iran, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, looking at a host of options in North Africa, the Middle East, and now even the Pacific.

00:26:11.000 We're looking at other options.

00:26:12.000 We're already in these countries.

00:26:14.000 And then on the other side, we have a president, we have a movement which is stridently anti war, which we elected, at least the country did.

00:26:22.000 I didn't vote.

00:26:23.000 But in 2008, Barack Obama was elected on the basis of we were going to end the wars.

00:26:28.000 Enough of these silly international projects, these silly crusades for.

00:26:32.000 The vaunted liberal democratic principles in foreign lands where we don't know the people, there's no American interest there, it only costs us blood and money.

00:26:41.000 And we had a movement in 2008, and people obviously were skeptical of it, rightly so.

00:26:47.000 In 2008, that under Barack Obama, they said, let's bring the troops home, let's end this silliness, we have no business there, let's build our own country.

00:26:55.000 We had a terrible recession, jobs are leaving the country, the economy is doing terribly, let's build our own country and stop worrying about.

00:27:04.000 What's going on in Baghdad? 0.86

00:27:05.000 That didn't work out so well.

00:27:07.000 We got eight years more of the same of Barack Obama.

00:27:10.000 Maybe pulled back somewhat in Iraq, but we ended up right back where we started.

00:27:14.000 Drone operations expanded, covert operations expanded.

00:27:17.000 We find ourselves now in countries in Western Africa.

00:27:21.000 We find ourselves all over the globe. 0.93

00:27:23.000 But now we have a serious movement, a serious candidate who says, finally, let's have a real end to the silliness.

00:27:29.000 Finally, let's actually do it.

00:27:30.000 Let's actually put America first again.

00:27:33.000 That's the name of the show.

00:27:35.000 And stop worrying so much about whether people in Baghdad, people in Kabul are going to be casting a ballot in an election and worry more about bridges.

00:27:44.000 Worry more about factories, jobs, taxes, if people are doing well, the opioid epidemic, health issues for Americans, health care for Americans.

00:27:52.000 And so I think now more than ever, it's an important time to look back and see and evaluate these two different courses.

00:27:59.000 And obviously, we took a very important one in 2003.

00:28:03.000 And I think there is a very good story today, which is kind of a good way to start.

00:28:08.000 We heard today, and I'll read you this quote because I almost couldn't believe this.

00:28:11.000 I almost couldn't believe it.

00:28:13.000 It was almost too perfect in terms of.

00:28:16.000 What we talk about with regard to the Iraq war on this show, and what many people say about Iraq, and what many people say about our policy in the Middle East, what people say about our State Department, and about our foreign policy.

00:28:27.000 Almost too perfect that this was reported today on Zero Hedge, 15 years after the start of the Iraq war exactly.

00:28:36.000 So, this was during the Juniper Cobra joint military exercise with the State of Israel.

00:28:43.000 Lieutenant General Richard Clark said the following.

00:28:46.000 Quote, as far as decision making, it is a partnership.

00:28:50.000 At the end of the day, it is about the protection of Israel, talking about the joint military exercises.

00:28:57.000 And if there is a question in regards to how we will operate, the last vote will probably go to Zvika, who is an Israeli general, the head of the IDF's Aerial Defense Division.

00:29:08.000 Washington and Israel signed an agreement which would see the U.S. come to assist Israel with missile defense in times of war.

00:29:14.000 And according to an Israeli commander, quote, I am sure once the order comes, we will find here U.S. troops on the ground.

00:29:20.000 To be a part of our deployment team to defend the state of Israel.

00:29:23.000 And those U.S. troops who would be deployed to Israel are prepared to die for the Jewish state.

00:29:28.000 Clark said, We are ready to commit to the defense of Israel anytime we get involved in a kinetic fight.

00:29:34.000 There is always the risk that there will be casualties.

00:29:36.000 But we accept that as every conflict we train for and enter, there is always that possibility.

00:29:41.000 So we're told by a top general, the lieutenant general of the 3rd Air Force Command, he said that our American troops are prepared to die for Israel.

00:29:53.000 They are prepared.

00:29:55.000 In their training, they're prepared not only to die for a foreign country.

00:29:59.000 I think it's kind of arbitrary that it is Israel, that any foreign country, our generals should say that we're going to send our brave, the best, and brightest of Americans, our soldiers, to die overseas for.

00:30:09.000 But on top of that, he says that at the end of the day, the deciding vote in an operational capacity goes to a foreign military commander, goes to the IDF, goes to General Zvika, not exactly Anglo Saxon name there.

00:30:25.000 And I think that kind of is a great.

00:30:27.000 I think that puts it all in perspective there.

00:30:29.000 Our foreign policy for the last 15 years, I think that really puts it in perspective. 0.75

00:30:33.000 Certainly, you see Israel as a major culprit of why we're in the Middle East, why we're in Iraq, why we're in Syria, why we're in Libya, why we're in Yemen and Afghanistan, and all over the Middle East. 0.63

00:30:45.000 But I think you could also say similar things about why we're in South Korea, why we're in Japan, why we're in Germany, in Eastern Europe, why somebody was dying in Niger from our military. 0.80

00:30:56.000 We see people all over the world dying. 0.91

00:31:00.000 And I think Israel is responsible to a large extent in this particular example with Iraq.

00:31:05.000 But I think this has defined the last 25 years of American foreign policy and the American defense policy, which is that we are willing to send our veterans, our volunteer army overseas in defense of, in service of foreign peoples. 0.65

00:31:21.000 And that's what defined the Iraq War.

00:31:22.000 That's what defined many wars in the past 100 years this idea that we owe it to the world, that it is our obligation to police the world. 0.65

00:31:30.000 That every time there's a tyrannical dictatorship, every time there's a humanitarian disaster, the world looks to America. 0.63

00:31:37.000 And it's America's responsibility.

00:31:38.000 It's the expectation of America, of you and me and our neighbors, to send our sons and our brothers and our nephews and increasingly our daughters, if you could believe it, and our sisters and mothers in some cases, overseas into the worst areas of the world where the people have failed.

00:31:56.000 Where, due to nobody else's fault other than the people in these countries, the country is terrible.

00:32:02.000 It's backwards.

00:32:03.000 Broken, it's dictatorial, there's horrible things going on, and we send our best, our bravest over there in these horrible conditions to get exploded, to get killed, to get their limbs chopped off, to get captured and tortured.

00:32:17.000 We spend taxpayer money to the tune of trillions of dollars, foreign aid money to the tune of billions of dollars.

00:32:24.000 And is the world grateful for all of this?

00:32:27.000 How does the world repay us?

00:32:28.000 They take our technology, they take our resources, they take our jobs, and the media, they slander us, they make fun of us, they call us fat. 1.00

00:32:37.000 And ignorant and stupid, and they say they were the biggest threat to world order, and they make fun of our politicians, and on and on. 1.00

00:32:44.000 And I think no better example of this was Iraq. 1.00

00:32:47.000 And if we look back at what exactly was Iraq, people, especially my age, I think a lot of people don't even know why we're there.

00:32:55.000 We look at these two wars in the Middle East, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and many people today, adults, but especially children, but I think it's really interesting that so many adults, it would be difficult for them to even tell you what these wars were about, what year they started, why they started.

00:33:11.000 You know, some people will tell you they'll get Afghanistan and Iraq confused.

00:33:15.000 I don't think many people could tell you the capital of these countries.

00:33:18.000 Many people say we went into Iraq because of 9 11. 1.00

00:33:21.000 And to an extent, that was true. 1.00

00:33:22.000 People don't really know about Afghanistan, they couldn't point to it on a map.

00:33:26.000 And so I think it's always interesting when we talk about these kinds of topics, when we talk about, we did an episode about Afghanistan a couple of weeks ago.

00:33:33.000 It always strikes me as interesting before we begin any conversation about this, how we've spent so much in these countries in terms of American lives and in terms of money.

00:33:43.000 And in how little import it has in the lives of Americans on their day to day routine.

00:33:50.000 Most people, they don't even know what we're in there for, and yet we're spending their money, and yet we're, you know, many people know people who die in these wars, and we don't know where these countries are.

00:33:58.000 We don't know what the capital is, and not like we're supposed to be geography experts.

00:34:02.000 We don't even know why we're there in many cases.

00:34:04.000 And in terms of my experience, I'm Generation Z.

00:34:07.000 I was born in 98, and so I've been alive for almost my whole life.

00:34:13.000 We've been in these wars.

00:34:15.000 And I was five, six years old when we got involved in these wars.

00:34:17.000 So, for people that don't know, we got into Iraq in 2003.

00:34:21.000 This was two years after 9 11 in response to and in pursuit of three major goals, which was number one, to destroy weapons of mass destruction.

00:34:30.000 This was obviously the most controversial one.

00:34:33.000 The propaganda of the day, the propaganda that was manufactured by the Pentagon, that was manufactured by neoconservative intellectuals and politicians in the Pentagon.

00:34:45.000 They said that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were in possession of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

00:34:51.000 And we had to go in there to destroy these stockpiles because otherwise they had it.

00:34:57.000 Saddam Hussein would have a nuclear capability, would have a weapons of mass destruction capability, and he would be giving these weapons to terrorists.

00:35:04.000 He might even use them in a state to state capacity against the United States or against other allies in the Middle East, other countries in the Middle East. 0.67

00:35:12.000 And so we had to act in the interest of non proliferation to prevent these weapons from getting into the hands of other people to go and end it.

00:35:19.000 And of course, spoiler alert, we went in and there were no stockpiles, there were no nuclear weapons, there were no biological weapons.

00:35:26.000 They found some chemical weapons stockpiles, but then again, we find these all over the world.

00:35:31.000 The second objective was to punish Saddam Hussein for his alleged role in 9 11, which of course turned out to be just an outright lie.

00:35:39.000 The propaganda of the day after 9 11 was that Saddam Hussein and Iraq were principally involved in the 9 11 attack, that they were complicit in it, that they aided and abetted it, that they gave Al Qaeda safe harbor.

00:35:52.000 And of course, all of this was a lie.

00:35:54.000 The lies in 2001, 2002, and 2003 that were told that Iraq had had even a remote involvement in 9 11.

00:36:02.000 Turned out all to be complete fiction, complete fabrication, completely manufactured by the Bush administration to get us into the war.

00:36:10.000 Because, of course, you had a country that after the Cold War, they said, we're having a great time.

00:36:15.000 After the Cold War, after 1991, economy is booming, technology is taking off, we're doing better than we ever have.

00:36:22.000 9-11 happens, and suddenly we're under attack.

00:36:25.000 Suddenly, the country that was the number one superpower, everyone's democratizing, it's the end of history, suddenly America's under attack. 0.99

00:36:33.000 We have this new threat coming from Islam, coming from the other side of the world, coming from the Middle East, and now we have to respond. 0.94

00:36:39.000 We go into Afghanistan, but we still got to find Osama bin Laden, we still got to hold those responsible. 0.93

00:36:45.000 And so, a public which was scared, which was anxious, which was badly intimidated by the worst attack on U.S. soil in 70 years, they were lied into a war that they would have never otherwise supported. 0.59

00:36:58.000 Because the war in the Middle East had no connection to 9 11, people wouldn't have supported a war for weapons of mass destruction.

00:37:06.000 Little heated there, but in the 1990s, you had weapons of mass destruction proliferating in Pakistan and India.

00:37:12.000 Israel got weapons of mass destruction in the 1960s.

00:37:15.000 North Korea had weapons of mass destruction.

00:37:18.000 All kinds of countries were working on them Iran, Libya, Syria, they were all building them.

00:37:23.000 The American public would have never supported a war in Iraq if not for the fact that they were lied to, they were deceived, they were deliberately misled and told that Iraq and Saddam Hussein, you know, maybe has weapons of mass destruction.

00:37:37.000 Who cares?

00:37:38.000 But the reason the American public was sold is because we were told, we were lied, we were misled and told that he had something to do with the Twin Towers.

00:37:45.000 The 3,000 people, innocent people who died because the towers came down, they were just going about their daily lives.

00:37:52.000 That had something to do with this bad guy all the way over there, and that's why we got to go in and bust him up.

00:37:57.000 And the last objective, the last main objective, was, of course, the real objective at the heart of it all.

00:38:03.000 They may have told us about weapons of mass destruction based on faulty intelligence, which the CIA knew was BS, but they. 0.76

00:38:09.000 Went ahead with it anyway and was largely based on Israeli intelligence, which we're paying billions of dollars a year for.

00:38:16.000 But the real reason at the core of it was not 9 11, it wasn't weapons of mass destruction.

00:38:20.000 It was that you had a group of 25 to 30 intellectuals in the Bush administration, most of them Jewish, by the way, which is pointed out by Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, 25 to 30 neoconservative intellectuals who thought that we could build a democracy in Iraq.

00:38:39.000 That's the real reason.

00:38:40.000 They fought these intellectuals from the Ivy League schools, these liberals, anti communist liberals who came over to the right wing in the 1990s so that they could shore up the defense of their homeland, of Israel.

00:38:52.000 They came around and they said, let's build a democracy in Iraq.

00:38:56.000 It turned out to be an ideological crusade.

00:38:58.000 It had nothing to do with America's safety.

00:39:00.000 It had nothing to do with 9 11.

00:39:02.000 It had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction.

00:39:03.000 And they knew that from the beginning.

00:39:06.000 The overarching goal at the heart of all of it had nothing to do with any of that.

00:39:11.000 It had to do with building a democracy in the Middle East.

00:39:14.000 They didn't tell you that right away.

00:39:15.000 That was kind of on the side.

00:39:16.000 Hey, and while we're over there, while we're depriving them of these terrible weapons which could kill you and your family in New York City, and they already did 9 11, while we're over there, Might as well build the democracy.

00:39:28.000 Might as well build the new country.

00:39:29.000 How do we solve the war on terror?

00:39:31.000 How do we solve the war on terror? 0.93

00:39:33.000 The answer is not to end immigration.

00:39:35.000 The answer is not to stop taking in the people that commit terror attacks.

00:39:39.000 The answer is not increased security.

00:39:41.000 The answer is none of these things.

00:39:42.000 We have to go over there.

00:39:42.000 No.

00:39:43.000 Our answer, how we can cope with this, how we can move forward in a world where you're not sure if you're going to blow up on a bus or a subway or in a building, is we have to go in and fundamentally remake the world order.

00:39:55.000 It's the only way.

00:39:55.000 It's the only way, said George Bush, said Wolfowitz.

00:39:58.000 Said Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. 0.92

00:40:00.000 They said the only way that you could ever feel safe in your own country, the only way you could ever feel safe in your own neighborhood, forget about excluding Arabs from coming to the country, forget about surveilling mosques and the only kinds of people that commit these atrocities.

00:40:13.000 No, no, no.

00:40:14.000 The only way that you can ever feel safe in your own living room is if we go out there on these enormous, costly military expeditions and we bust up countries and we destroy them and we rebuild them with our own money.

00:40:28.000 With our own men, with our own blood, and we pave a road to democracy in the Middle East, in Baghdad, with our own people and money.

00:40:36.000 We build the democracy there.

00:40:37.000 And of course, the broader, I think the more sinister thing underlying that was the ideologues that are the neoconservatives, the 25 to 30. 0.72

00:40:46.000 When I point out that they're Jewish, that's not an arbitrary thing.

00:40:49.000 It's not an anti Semitic thing either.

00:40:50.000 It's not a conspiracy theory.

00:40:52.000 It's not to say people are incapable of impartiality, but it is to say that we look at the people that were responsible for this war, where George W. Bush was not a major hawk.

00:41:01.000 George W. Bush, I don't think.

00:41:02.000 Was too ideological. 0.92

00:41:03.000 Here was this playboy, Texas oil man, billionaire, I mean, spoiled brat. 0.65

00:41:09.000 But he was persuaded into this war by these 25 people, majority of them Jewish, majority of them intellectuals, who had a vested interest in the Middle East, a vested national security interest in the Middle East. 0.58

00:41:20.000 The only thing is, interesting thing is, it wasn't our nation that they were concerned of in terms of national security.

00:41:26.000 Of course, the country they were concerned about was Israel. 0.52

00:41:28.000 And we understand why.

00:41:30.000 What is Israel?

00:41:31.000 What is Israel?

00:41:32.000 The country founded in 1948, but the Jewish state.

00:41:36.000 The Jewish homeland founded for the Jewish people.

00:41:39.000 Persecuted everywhere.

00:41:40.000 They can't catch a break anywhere they go, so they have to have their own country.

00:41:44.000 And we look at Israel, a country that in the 1950s and the 1980s and the 1990s was their express foreign policy that to secure the greater realm of Israel, to make sure that they were safe, because they went to war with an Arab coalition in 48, 56, 67, and 73. 0.66

00:42:00.000 The only way to prevent against these kinds of catastrophic wars again is to make sure that the countries responsible for those wars.

00:42:08.000 Don't have the capability to go to war anymore. 0.64

00:42:10.000 And so they set out in our foreign policy establishment and our State Department to systematically undermine the capability of these Arab countries to make war with Israel. 0.72

00:42:19.000 And you don't believe me?

00:42:20.000 Look at every country in the Middle East today, and they fall into three categories.

00:42:24.000 Either they're at peace with Israel, they're receiving billions of dollars from the United States to remain at peace with Israel, to shore up peace treaties with Israel, they have bilateral negotiations enforced by the United States either coercively or through money, they have been destroyed by the United States in neoconservative wars, or they're in the crosshairs.

00:42:42.000 For United States neoconservative wars.

00:42:44.000 Every single country in the Middle East falls under these three categories.

00:42:48.000 In the first category, you have Egypt, you have Jordan, you have Saudi Arabia, you have the Gulf states. 0.68

00:42:54.000 To an extent, you have Lebanon, which has been pacified, but obviously Hezbollah is there. 0.51

00:42:59.000 In the second category, you have countries like Libya, Somalia, Iraq.

00:43:03.000 You have Lebanon, which was destroyed in 2006 with the help of the United States.

00:43:07.000 So, you know, even if they were relatively neutral, they were still destroyed.

00:43:10.000 You have countries like Afghanistan.

00:43:12.000 Pakistan maybe falls into the first category, Turkey as well.

00:43:16.000 And then in the third category in the crosshairs, you have Syria and Iran. 0.59

00:43:20.000 And that's every country in the Middle East.

00:43:23.000 Every major country in the Middle East that falls under these three categories.

00:43:27.000 And you look at the cost of the war, which we went in with these three objectives in mind.

00:43:31.000 We didn't secure any of them.

00:43:33.000 The first two turned out to be lies.

00:43:34.000 The third wasn't possible, and they, I think, knew it wasn't possible, but that wasn't at the end of the day the objective.

00:43:39.000 The cost of the war, 15 years later, was 4,500 dead, 35,000 injured in terms of Americans.

00:43:47.000 In total, a quarter of a million dead, violent deaths in Iraq since the war started, and $2.4 trillion.

00:43:54.000 This doesn't even count. 0.75

00:43:56.000 They say that it could.

00:43:57.000 Expand to upwards of $6 trillion in the next 40 years because of benefits for veterans and winding down the war and all the rest.

00:44:04.000 So you're talking about $6 trillion, 250,000 lives, 30,000 casualties combined with 4,500 deaths for Americans.

00:44:13.000 And on top of that, that's not even taking into account all the spin off wars that we see in Yemen, that we see in Iraq.

00:44:19.000 We're back there with ISIS and other possible engagements in Syria.

00:44:24.000 And so the cost of the war has been enormous fiscally in terms of lives, in terms of our effort, our national focus electorally.

00:44:32.000 And we achieved none of the objectives.

00:44:33.000 The only objective we, I think we achieved, was that Israel is now safer.

00:44:38.000 And here's why this is important to reflect on.

00:44:40.000 Here's why that element is highly critical.

00:44:43.000 You know, we're not, of course, we don't, of course, not all Jewish people are like this, of course, not all Israelis are like this, but we have to recognize that there is a very concerted effort in the country to pour our resources into these engagements.

00:44:55.000 We're still in Iraq, we're still in Syria, we're still in Afghanistan, and now they want us to go into Iran.

00:45:01.000 Now they want us to go even deeper into Syria.

00:45:04.000 And it's important that 15 years later, after the war, we take a long, hard look at what was done in the Middle East, not just with our people and our money, but with their people in their countries, where we went in and we ruined our reputation. 0.57

00:45:16.000 Whereas before, in the Middle East, we actually had a good reputation.

00:45:19.000 People have it like, oh, they hate us for our way of life, and they've always hated us.

00:45:24.000 They'll always hate us.

00:45:25.000 That's just simply not true.

00:45:26.000 For a long time, the Middle East held us in high esteem.

00:45:29.000 They respected us.

00:45:31.000 They didn't know much about America, but in the 19th century, in the early 20th century, they respected America.

00:45:36.000 As opposed to some of these other imperial powers that screwed them over time and time again in colonial wars and the world wars.

00:45:44.000 We lost respect.

00:45:45.000 We went in and we committed horrible atrocities, rapes, war crimes, genocides, massacres, and to what end, for what purpose?

00:45:52.000 We have to seriously, seriously do some introspection as to what our foreign policy is and who we want to be as a nation.

00:45:59.000 Are we an empire?

00:46:00.000 Is it our obligation?

00:46:01.000 Is it our duty?

00:46:02.000 Is it even doable to create a world that is safe for democracy and build democracies out of nowhere? 0.98

00:46:09.000 In backwater, backwards third world countries, or is it time now to put America first, to bring the troops home and maybe enforce our own borders, maybe make sure that our own cities and towns and neighborhoods are liberated from gang violence and from drugs before we worry about going across the Atlantic Ocean, going into the Middle East, going into North Korea, going into Africa and worrying about other people's troubles when the people that pay the government's bills are suffering here? 0.99

00:46:35.000 So it's time to take a long, hard look. 1.00

00:46:37.000 I think we can say pretty safely. 0.98

00:46:39.000 Pretty fairly, that after 15 years, the Iraq War was a mistake. 1.00

00:46:43.000 It was a disaster. 0.98

00:46:44.000 Maybe even more than a mistake.

00:46:45.000 Maybe it was a crime perpetrated by people who knew what they were doing.

00:46:49.000 But either way, we have to have some serious introspection.

00:46:52.000 It can't go on like this forever, folks.

00:46:54.000 It just simply is not sustainable in any capacity.

00:46:57.000 And so, just a little bit of a remembrance.

00:47:00.000 We're coming down here on the wire on time.

00:47:02.000 So, we're going to get into our donations here for Streamlabs and into our Super Chats on YouTube.

00:47:07.000 We'll check our Streamlabs first and see what we got going on here, if we got any new ones.

00:47:13.000 I know we were having some trouble the other day, but it looks like we got some more Streamlabs.

00:47:18.000 So, people are adjusting to it.

00:47:20.000 And let's see what we have here.

00:47:23.000 Thomas Howard says, happy not to hand over 30% to the globalist, media dominant, European style socialist.

00:47:31.000 That 30% may be what keeps them from completely shutting down the right across all their platforms.

00:47:37.000 Might need to look into GabTV, pal.

00:47:39.000 Yeah, no, thank you for getting the money out of the hands of YouTube.

00:47:43.000 But the only problem with GabTV is in order to stream on GabTV, you'd have to pay another, in order to stream, you'd have to pay more money.

00:47:51.000 To get another custom RTMP server.

00:47:55.000 And Gab, barely anybody's on Gab.

00:47:57.000 Infowars has like seven people watching it at any given time on Gab 24 7.

00:48:02.000 So it's just tough.

00:48:04.000 Marcus Antonius, attention all knickers.

00:48:07.000 It is extremely crucial that you use Streamlabs to donate instead of YouTube.

00:48:11.000 YouTube constantly suppresses our guys and our message.

00:48:14.000 Do you really want to give them one third of your donations?

00:48:17.000 Nick keeps all of the Streamlabs money.

00:48:19.000 A good point, Marcus, a good point.

00:48:21.000 But actually, the money goes into the program.

00:48:23.000 Remember, it goes into the program.

00:48:25.000 But it's true, but it's true.

00:48:27.000 Begbie says, thanks, Nick.

00:48:29.000 No, thank you, my guy.

00:48:31.000 Melaforta with some dollar dues, thank you.

00:48:34.000 Beekeeper says, thanks for another fantastic show.

00:48:38.000 Question Do I bother to campaign for candidates who are less than desirable but better than any of the other options?

00:48:44.000 Example Josh Hawley versus Austin Peterson.

00:48:47.000 I think it pays.

00:48:48.000 It really does.

00:48:49.000 Because you look at some of these votes in Congress where they come down in many cases to one or two votes.

00:48:55.000 You look at Obamacare, for example.

00:48:58.000 If somebody had voted.

00:49:00.000 For a challenger for John McCain, however many years ago, I'm not sure what was the last year he was up for re election, but if somebody had voted for a less bad option instead of John McCain, we might have repealed Obamacare over the summer, right?

00:49:13.000 And that's the difference between one candidate who was the worst of the worst, or a Jeff Flake, or a Lindsey Graham, or a, you know, any of these people.

00:49:21.000 So I would say that absolutely it's worth it.

00:49:24.000 You don't have to be excited.

00:49:25.000 They don't have to be the best in the world.

00:49:26.000 We make do with what we have for now.

00:49:28.000 It's an election year.

00:49:29.000 So any kind of changes that we're talking about, it's not going to happen between now and November.

00:49:33.000 That we've got to work on for.

00:49:34.000 For 2020 and 2022.

00:49:36.000 But for now, you got to go out there and campaign for the people you believe in.

00:49:39.000 For example, I went out and I voted in the Illinois primary today for Jean Ives.

00:49:45.000 And you know, look, it wasn't an ideal choice. 1.00

00:49:47.000 She's a woman. 1.00

00:49:48.000 People know I'm not about women in politics, I just simply am not. 0.81

00:49:52.000 That said, she was the best option out of the whole field.

00:49:55.000 It was either her or Bruce Rauner, who's pro abortion, who made Illinois a sanctuary state.

00:50:01.000 And either way, he'd lose to whoever the Democratic challenger is.

00:50:04.000 J.B. Pritzker, who's this big, fat, billionaire Jewish guy who bought Chicago, who bought Illinois.

00:50:10.000 He's buying the election right now for tens of millions of dollars.

00:50:13.000 Who's been for, what, gay marriage, marijuana legalization, abortion, mass immigration, illegals voting?

00:50:19.000 I mean, you name it. 0.97

00:50:20.000 And, you know, Kennedy and Biss and these other clowns running for the Democrat candidacy. 0.89

00:50:25.000 So, you know, look, not ideal, but she's actually tough. 0.71

00:50:28.000 And I like her, and she's great on the issue.

00:50:30.000 So I went out, campaigned for, voted for, and we like her.

00:50:33.000 So you got to do it.

00:50:35.000 The count says, Hi, Nick. 0.98

00:50:37.000 The NRA are a bunch of cucks.

00:50:39.000 The gun owners of America are the real pro Second Amendment organization. 0.80

00:50:42.000 I like them both.

00:50:43.000 I like the NRA only because Wayne LaPierre named the European style socialists, which I really liked, but I like them both. 0.91

00:50:53.000 Nuevo Detroit says I'm certain that this Facebook Cambridge Analytica story is a nothing burger, but I can't help but root for something, bringing the Zuck monster down a few pegs. 0.93

00:51:03.000 Should we all be deleting and logging off?

00:51:06.000 No, because you've got to watch America First on Facebook, big guy.

00:51:10.000 But, yeah, I mean, I don't know.

00:51:12.000 I haven't looked into it, I don't know how bad it'll be.

00:51:14.000 They say that they could be charged $40,000 for every infraction, which they say conservatively would cost Facebook, quote, many millions of dollars, I read in BBC this morning.

00:51:26.000 So I don't know.

00:51:26.000 It could be a big deal.

00:51:27.000 I'm not a tech guy.

00:51:28.000 I don't even know what it means half the time.

00:51:29.000 They say that this political analytics company improperly accessed, like, the data of 50 million people or something to that effect, which would be, like, a major infraction, and they would have to suffer major fines.

00:51:42.000 And look, the Facebook shares dropped 8% yesterday.

00:51:45.000 I think it was, like, 6% this morning.

00:51:47.000 So, I don't know.

00:51:48.000 I have no idea.

00:51:48.000 They were holding crisis meetings.

00:51:50.000 I'm not a legal expert.

00:51:51.000 I'm not a tech expert.

00:51:53.000 I hope it'll bring them down, but I mean, I think they're pretty invincible. 1.00

00:51:56.000 Literally shaking says Nick, my guy, putting a MAGA hat on that Iraqi citizen to own the libs is the only way. 0.99

00:52:05.000 I saw a based black D.C. congressman say that Israel is manipulating the weather, so maybe they can send rain bombs to their neighbors next time instead of my tax funded ones. 1.00

00:52:15.000 That's a good super chat or a good donation. 1.00

00:52:17.000 It's true.

00:52:18.000 It's true.

00:52:19.000 You know, we just got to go over there. 0.92

00:52:22.000 In order to own the Libs, we have to kill innocent people in the Middle East and spend our money, and, you know, our brothers and nephews have to die to make a point to the liberals, right? 0.65

00:52:31.000 And, you know, and time and time again, people are so steadfast in their opposition to Islam and to Middle Eastern countries, and yet the one they don't seem to have a problem with is the one that seems to be the biggest pariah, right? 0.61

00:52:44.000 Isn't that interesting? 0.93

00:52:45.000 Isn't that interesting how on Fox News all day long you hear, Iran is evil. 0.99

00:52:50.000 Iran is a villain. 1.00

00:52:51.000 We have to kill Iranians. 1.00

00:52:53.000 We have to destroy Iran. 1.00

00:52:54.000 And Islam is evil and Muslims are evil and they have to be kept out. 1.00

00:52:58.000 But the minute you start talking about the other country, the minute you start talking about the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear arsenal, an illegal nuclear arsenal, the only country in the Middle East which has sold our technology to China, the only country in the Middle East which spies on us as aggressively, if not more so, than China and Russia, the only country in the Middle East. 1.00

00:53:20.000 To steal our uranium, to steal our nuclear infrastructure. 0.73

00:53:23.000 The only one they seem to get a pass. 0.97

00:53:28.000 The country that invented terrorism and doesn't deny it or apologize for it. 0.99

00:53:32.000 Invented terrorism. 0.97

00:53:35.000 Nobody seems to have a problem.

00:53:36.000 And not only do people not have a problem, but everybody has the same position, which is we love that country.

00:53:41.000 That country's the best.

00:53:42.000 They're the best ones.

00:53:44.000 They're the 51st state. 0.96

00:53:45.000 We should die for them.

00:53:46.000 They're so good.

00:53:47.000 And everyone holds this opinion every politician, every media person.

00:53:51.000 And if you have a problem with that, if you have a mild criticism, you're a little bit skeptical.

00:53:56.000 Maybe you don't buy it.

00:53:57.000 Maybe you say they're not all that.

00:54:00.000 Anti Semites, fired from your job, blacklisted, you can never work in this town again, you're gone from media.

00:54:05.000 Do you know how many times I was told?

00:54:07.000 Do you know how many times I've heard this stuff?

00:54:09.000 I was approached last year by some guy who said he was an agent.

00:54:14.000 Some guy who said he was an agent, he said, Hi, Nick, I'm a big agent, I do.

00:54:17.000 And he checked out, he sent me his information, and he was an agent for like NFL people.

00:54:22.000 Sports.

00:54:22.000 He said he had connections in news media.

00:54:24.000 He said, Hey, Nick, I'm this agent.

00:54:25.000 I do business with these football players and this and that.

00:54:28.000 And I think he got potential.

00:54:29.000 I said, Oh, okay, let's talk about this.

00:54:31.000 Here's my email, blah, blah, blah.

00:54:32.000 A month later, I don't hear anything, so I reached out to him.

00:54:36.000 I said, Hey, big guy, what's going on?

00:54:38.000 Weren't we going to work together or something?

00:54:40.000 He goes, Yeah, we were going to, but you just keep talking about this Israel stuff. 0.54

00:54:44.000 And I just can't, that's just not going to fly. 0.99

00:54:47.000 That's not going to go over so well.

00:54:48.000 And I said, Well, I'll try to tamp it down a little bit.

00:54:51.000 He goes, Okay, I'll send you an email if that works out.

00:54:53.000 Never get an email.

00:54:55.000 I was offered the first thing when I met Cassie Dillon, and this is when I was discovered.

00:55:00.000 When I was at Boston University, I debated their student body president in a very big public debate set up by the Young Americans for Liberty, I believe it was, about a month before the election at my school.

00:55:11.000 It was a Trump versus Hillary debate.

00:55:13.000 And I remember Cassie Dillon from Campus Reform, she was working for at the time. 0.88

00:55:17.000 She went out there to cover it.

00:55:19.000 And she was live streaming the debate.

00:55:20.000 And it got up to like 30,000 people watching it live.

00:55:23.000 Ben Shapiro was watching it.

00:55:25.000 Milo Yiannopoulos was watching it.

00:55:26.000 People were saying, this guy's the next big thing.

00:55:28.000 He's going to get in there.

00:55:30.000 And what was the first thing she offered me?

00:55:31.000 What was the first thing she said to me?

00:55:33.000 It wasn't, you've got a job offer.

00:55:35.000 It wasn't, you're going to work for this.

00:55:36.000 Even though there were job offers on the table, she said, do you want a trip to Israel?

00:55:40.000 I would love to arrange for you to have a trip to Israel.

00:55:43.000 And hey, I became good friends with her.

00:55:46.000 Elliot Hamilton from the Daily Wire, that sniveling yellow teeth coward, he called me up on the phone and said, You know, I want you to meet Ben Shapiro. 0.65

00:55:55.000 I want you to come and meet Ben Shapiro. 0.87

00:55:57.000 I think you'd really like to get along with Ben Shapiro.

00:55:59.000 And he goes, I want to arrange for this meeting with Ben Shapiro.

00:56:03.000 And I was so good.

00:56:04.000 I was good friends with all of them.

00:56:05.000 We hung out.

00:56:06.000 We got lunch and all the rest.

00:56:07.000 I went to a party with Cassie Dillon. 0.98

00:56:09.000 She got drunk.

00:56:09.000 I drove her home in her car and we slept over at her sister's house.

00:56:13.000 And, oh, we were best of friends. 0.65

00:56:15.000 But then, hey, I started criticizing Israel a little bit too much. 0.75

00:56:18.000 Then in that, That December, I started saying, hey, wait a minute. 0.71

00:56:21.000 You know, I want to put America first.

00:56:23.000 I want to make America great again.

00:56:24.000 What's the deal with $3.8 billion to this country that it seems like all they do is mess with us?

00:56:30.000 It seems like all they do is take our stuff, spy on our people, take our money with both hands.

00:56:35.000 And, you know, they go back on us with that.

00:56:38.000 I remember at the time, this is what really set me off Barack Obama allowed a resolution to go through the Security Council without vetoing it that allowed the Security Council to continue.

00:56:50.000 To condemn Israel for building settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

00:56:54.000 And you should have heard the kind of criticism from a foreign lobby, from a foreign country.

00:56:58.000 And I said, you know, there's something off about that.

00:57:00.000 There's something not quite right.

00:57:01.000 I don't like Obama, but that's not really right.

00:57:03.000 And suddenly I was on the outs.

00:57:05.000 Suddenly Ben Shapiro never wanted to hear from me again and actually wanted to hurt me.

00:57:09.000 And Cassie Dillon never heard from her again, except for when she called my boss and tried to get me fired for being a racist.

00:57:15.000 Elliot Hamilton never heard from him again, except for when he was calling me a racist online.

00:57:19.000 Cabot Phillips, you know, all day long, all these people.

00:57:22.000 It's just very telling.

00:57:23.000 That's all.

00:57:24.000 But it looks like those are all our Streamlabs.

00:57:26.000 We'll go and we'll check on YouTube for Super Chats.

00:57:30.000 We'll see what we have in terms of the Super Chats.

00:57:34.000 Let's see. 0.99

00:57:36.000 Jane Fondle with some hearts.

00:57:37.000 Thank you.

00:57:38.000 Thank you.

00:57:39.000 Nick says Left wing institutions threaten us youths with their gross propaganda.

00:57:43.000 The biggest threat is from academia and the left wing activism they support.

00:57:47.000 What do you think the steps are towards stopping this?

00:57:51.000 It's tough.

00:57:52.000 It's tough.

00:57:53.000 But I think it's just got to happen gradually.

00:57:55.000 I think, you know, necessarily what happens is.

00:57:58.000 Excuse me, the more people that you bring over to the right wing, the more people that become conservatives, I think the more you'll have conservatives in business and media and all these other places.

00:58:09.000 And also, I think we use the market against them.

00:58:11.000 You know, you look at media, and Fox News is doing great, and everyone else is being punished, and social media companies are being punished in a big way.

00:58:18.000 I think there's legislative solutions as well, specifically with social media.

00:58:23.000 You can bust up those monopolies.

00:58:24.000 But these major mainstream news outlets, they're on the way out, and I think a lot of more populist ones are rising.

00:58:30.000 Academia, it's a little bit more tricky, but I have to think that something similar has to happen with people just have to stop going to college and stop taking these classes.

00:58:39.000 I hate to say it.

00:58:39.000 People don't like to hear that, but it's true.

00:58:41.000 Stop going to college.

00:58:43.000 And I think more and more people start accepting people not from college, not under the sway and influence of professors.

00:58:49.000 But that's going to be a tough and a long term thing.

00:58:52.000 Audie Johnson, what kind of water filter do you suggest?

00:58:55.000 I'm not an expert, but just get an expensive one.

00:58:58.000 Who knows?

00:58:59.000 I just have a water filter on my refrigerator, but I'm not really an expert in that. 0.97

00:59:04.000 Mary Bova, have you ever had a crazy skewed teacher in school?

00:59:09.000 Yeah, I did. 1.00

00:59:10.000 I had this fat idiot as a speech teacher my sophomore year in high school. 1.00

00:59:14.000 This woman was, and I don't even want to be too nasty because she lives around me and she could probably sit on me and knock the wind out of me, crush my ribcage. 1.00

00:59:24.000 But I had this teacher in my sophomore year and she was just absolutely this hippie dippy liberal. 1.00

00:59:33.000 And I would go in there and I was pushing these like Bill Crystal, Irvin Crystal talking points. 0.83

00:59:38.000 This is when I was like a faggy, like libertarian type of person. 0.83

00:59:41.000 I'd be going up there talking about how minimum wage doesn't help people. 1.00

00:59:44.000 And she would just rake me over the coals with this stuff.

00:59:47.000 And I remember too, like, this was a speech class.

00:59:50.000 It was called, well, I don't want to say the name of the class in case, you know, it gets out.

00:59:54.000 But the class was, like, public speaking.

00:59:57.000 And I happen to be kind of a good public speaker.

00:59:59.000 Don't mean to brag or anything, but this is kind of my aptitude.

01:00:01.000 And so I would go up and give a speech about, you know, boom, bam, all this stuff.

01:00:05.000 And I would get B's and C's on these assignments because she didn't agree with me.

01:00:10.000 And you'd have all these other real winners, real beauties go up there and, you know, oh, I think that, blah, blah, blah. 1.00

01:00:17.000 And they'd get A's and A pluses, the women too. 0.94

01:00:21.000 So she was really skewed.

01:00:22.000 I didn't like her at all. 1.00

01:00:23.000 She was really nasty to me. 0.98

01:00:25.000 What did she say?

01:00:26.000 She said something really nasty to me one day, but I totally forget.

01:00:29.000 I think I made fun of her city or where she lived.

01:00:32.000 She got really mad.

01:00:33.000 But yeah, she was pretty liberal.

01:00:35.000 I'm trying to think who else.

01:00:37.000 Most of the teachers are pretty even handed, I guess.

01:00:39.000 I had a lot of problems with teachers, not so much because of their politics, but because I didn't do my homework and I fell asleep in class every day.

01:00:46.000 You know, people are always like, Nick, What are you talking about?

01:00:49.000 You weren't a good student in high school.

01:00:50.000 I would think you were a great student in high school.

01:00:53.000 I was such a delinquent.

01:00:55.000 I was such a truant in high school.

01:00:56.000 I wasn't doing anything like bad, like drugs or like alcohol or fights or anything like that.

01:01:02.000 But I just didn't care.

01:01:03.000 I would show up, I'd fall asleep.

01:01:05.000 That was my program, literally.

01:01:06.000 I'd show up to school and I would take a nap in first period, wake up, fall asleep in second period, wake up, fall asleep in third period.

01:01:13.000 I'd eat in every class, I'd be on my phone in every class.

01:01:17.000 Never did any homework.

01:01:18.000 I had to get bailed out my second semester of my senior year because I was getting an F. In one class, because I just completely neglected it.

01:01:26.000 So I was never a great student.

01:01:27.000 It wasn't really the politics that was so much of a problem, it was that I didn't really do the work.

01:01:34.000 We'll see what happens.

01:01:34.000 But we'll see.

01:01:35.000 I just can't wait.

01:01:36.000 If I ever make it big, if I ever make a lot of money, I just can't wait.

01:01:39.000 Because that's the really big thing I'm looking forward to.

01:01:42.000 I don't even want to become successful because I care about money or anything, but because I just want to keep score and say, all these teachers who are so rude and they said, you'll never be nothing and all this stuff.

01:01:54.000 I just want to be able to.

01:01:55.000 Teachers didn't really say that, but they were mean to me.

01:01:58.000 Juan Castillo with Dollary Do.

01:02:01.000 Peace Lily with a few as well. 0.81

01:02:03.000 Area 51 says Twitter is a Jewish no go zone.

01:02:06.000 Well, I don't know about that.

01:02:08.000 I don't know about that anti Semitic, right?

01:02:10.000 Could you cool with the anti Semitic remarks, big guy?

01:02:13.000 Simon Skolin, did you see the Beardson and James Alsop debate?

01:02:17.000 I can't really talk about the James Alsop situation as much as I'd like to because things are still ongoing.

01:02:17.000 I did.

01:02:24.000 We want to resolve it amicably.

01:02:26.000 And until then, I have to refrain from being too out there.

01:02:31.000 But once things resume, hopefully I'll be freed up in terms of what I can say.

01:02:35.000 But I did catch it.

01:02:37.000 I have to say, Beardson came away handily.

01:02:39.000 I was loving your super chat, Simon.

01:02:41.000 I saw a couple of yours, which I enjoy pretty immensely.

01:02:44.000 Juan Castillo says, Hey, Nicholas, it's Juan Abiel saying, Hi from Boston.

01:02:49.000 Hello, hello, hello.

01:02:50.000 Good to see you, my guy.

01:02:51.000 Spooky ghost.

01:02:53.000 Even if you couldn't change their mind then and there, what would you explain to someone to begin the red pill process?

01:02:59.000 It's different for everybody.

01:02:59.000 I don't know.

01:03:01.000 I guess you just start to notice.

01:03:02.000 You just start to notice things.

01:03:04.000 It really just takes, in my opinion, The willingness and the ability to see the truth.

01:03:10.000 That's what it comes down to.

01:03:11.000 The writing is on the wall for anybody who wants to see what's going on.

01:03:15.000 It wasn't like I was indoctrinated or like they have it, the press has it, like you're incubated in a lair of hate. 0.99

01:03:25.000 You're in a dark room and you're scrolling on Fortune Pole, like in that stupid television show, and you're watching racist, vile propaganda. 1.00

01:03:33.000 It's brainwashing you. 1.00

01:03:34.000 Nothing of the sort.

01:03:35.000 It's like you just start to realize things you always noticed, things you always knew, maybe some things you never noticed before.

01:03:41.000 And you start to say, wait, I'm kind of, I just want to be honest about these things.

01:03:44.000 You know, ethnic conflict is a big one.

01:03:46.000 I think the biggest part of red pilling is realizing that ethnic conflict is real, that we can't all live together in the same country.

01:03:54.000 And further questioning, why would we even want that? 0.77

01:03:56.000 Why is that desirable?

01:03:57.000 I mean, really, people might say, what?

01:04:00.000 How could you say it's not desirable that we have different people living here together in harmony?

01:04:04.000 Like, why do you want that?

01:04:05.000 Why is that a good thing?

01:04:07.000 Because it's diverse.

01:04:09.000 And, you know, people cannot tell you.

01:04:11.000 Why they want what they want, why they think what is virtuous is virtuous.

01:04:15.000 They simply cannot.

01:04:16.000 And you just start to notice these things that people are different. 0.91

01:04:20.000 Race is real.

01:04:21.000 These cultures, these histories are real. 0.92

01:04:25.000 And we just have to have a realistic, a pragmatic way of looking at the world, not one that's blinded by ideology of egalitarianism and liberalism and democracy, but really have a sobering look at the world, which is if your country is less than 80% of a certain ethnic group, you're not going to have a good time. 0.75

01:04:42.000 And if you have a multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural society, it's probably not going to work.

01:04:48.000 And that's not racist.

01:04:49.000 That's not evil.

01:04:50.000 That's just the fact.

01:04:50.000 That's not sinister.

01:04:51.000 That's just the historical record.

01:04:53.000 You don't have to like it.

01:04:54.000 You don't have to think that's the future.

01:04:56.000 But that is what we're grappling with.

01:04:57.000 And whether you agree with that or not, we're staking our country on a coin toss, essentially.

01:05:02.000 Is this going to be the one time in human history that it all works out?

01:05:06.000 That we could have different peoples and not have majority and not have any kind of national unity and it'll all just fall into place? 0.88

01:05:13.000 Just like every other time, is it going to end in war and ruin and disaster and ethnic cleansing?

01:05:13.000 Or is it?

01:05:19.000 You're flipping a coin, and you have to admit that.

01:05:21.000 The liberal establishment has to admit that.

01:05:23.000 Maybe it works out, but odds are it's not going to.

01:05:25.000 And I think that's the big part of the red pilling is just understanding, forget all the other stuff.

01:05:30.000 People are different, they have their own interests.

01:05:33.000 And when we're all trying to come here into this one narrow door, into this one country, it's probably not going to work out.

01:05:39.000 So I guess that's a good way to describe it.

01:05:41.000 But it looks like those are all our super chats and all of our Streamlabs stuff.

01:05:49.000 Yeah, Willie Sackett.

01:05:50.000 We have one more, and then we got a call tonight.

01:05:52.000 Willie Sackett says the biggest modern threats don't come from any state.

01:05:55.000 They come from non state forces, be they insurgents, criminal syndicates, or unaccountable intelligence agencies not acting in the nation's best interest. 0.71

01:06:03.000 That's true.

01:06:04.000 This was written about 25 years ago in Robert Kaplan's The Coming Anarchy.

01:06:08.000 He talked about how great book.

01:06:10.000 I recommend it to anybody.

01:06:11.000 Very short read, very good read, good writing, and cheap, too.

01:06:14.000 Its paperback was pretty cheap.

01:06:15.000 But the coming anarchy talks about after the Cold War how you're going to see the world order break down, not along national lines in terms of states, but along, like you said, the lines of criminal syndicates, non state actors, terrorist cells, militant organizations, militias, insurgencies, things of this nature, even big tech companies, big multinational corporations, departments and agencies within governments.

01:06:40.000 These are the new power centers in the 21st century, and this cannot be refuted. 0.55

01:06:45.000 So when people talk about Russia is our enemy, Russia is the enemy. 0.76

01:06:50.000 Iran is the enemy.

01:06:51.000 It's simply not true. 1.00

01:06:52.000 The real threat in the 21st century are these non state actors.

01:06:57.000 And that's where the fault lines are being redrawn now.

01:07:00.000 I think these are the real bad actors, the real bad apples these days.

01:07:04.000 And you see a decentralization happening now that there's better communication, better transportation, better internet type of technology, cyber technology.

01:07:16.000 You're seeing it that it's really having a destabilizing and decentralizing effect on power, where it's not so much.

01:07:22.000 Whereas before, the state had a monopoly on these kinds of resources because the state had the most money, the state had the best technology, and for many different reasons, the state was the most powerful institution in society.

01:07:34.000 Well, now power is decentralizing, it's going away from the state.

01:07:37.000 And because you look at the advances in weaponry, the advances in communication, technology, transportation, et cetera, non state actors have an asymmetrical advantage.

01:07:46.000 For example, whereas before, a terrorist group, it was like, good luck, good luck fighting against the U.S. government.

01:07:52.000 The U.S. government has.

01:07:53.000 The best guns.

01:07:54.000 We have armies.

01:07:55.000 We have planes.

01:07:55.000 We have tanks.

01:07:56.000 And what do you have?

01:07:57.000 You have a couple of guys with a couple of rifles.

01:07:59.000 You know, good luck. 0.62

01:08:00.000 In this day and age, you have dirty bombs.

01:08:02.000 You have regular and more sophisticated bombs.

01:08:06.000 In this day and age, you have people who can do cyber attacks.

01:08:09.000 You can have terror cells that operate outside of the country and inside of the country, connected to people outside the country or inside, you know, and on and on and on.

01:08:17.000 You have people who could just fly a plane into a building.

01:08:19.000 Talk about transportation technology.

01:08:21.000 So it is a changing world.

01:08:23.000 But looks like that's going to do it for us here on the show tonight.

01:08:26.000 We're a little bit over.

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The Iraq War 15 Years Later | America First Ep. 128

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