America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - The Madman Takes Syria | America First Ep. 144

00:00:05.000 Good evening, everybody.

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00:00:07.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

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00:00:13.000 Still no strike.

00:00:15.000 Still no strike in Syria.

00:00:17.000 So we are entering.

00:00:19.000 We got a big show as we are entering.

00:00:22.000 What is it now?

00:00:22.000 What's today?

00:00:23.000 Thursday?

00:00:24.000 It was on Saturday.

00:00:25.000 So we're entering the fourth day of Syria Watch, the fourth day of our crisis in Syria.

00:00:34.000 Still no missile strikes.

00:00:35.000 Still no.

00:00:37.000 Action in Syria, and we're keeping a very close eye on it.

00:00:40.000 We've been watching the developments as they've come in, hour by hour, day by day, and still nothing.

00:00:47.000 So, we'll be talking a lot about Syria, obviously.

00:00:49.000 We have to talk extensively about Syria because there's some new information, there's new developments in every country involved in the UK, in France, in the US, in Russia.

00:01:00.000 So, we have to take a pretty wide lens look at it.

00:01:03.000 We talked briefly about it yesterday before JF came on, and big thanks to JF for coming on the show last night.

00:01:11.000 Very great episode, and we got the science in.

00:01:14.000 Usually it's a little abstract, it's a little out there, it's very political, very I don't know.

00:01:21.000 I think it's kind of the other side of science.

00:01:24.000 You've got, or rather, the other side of different fields.

00:01:27.000 You've got the more scientific minded and then the more literary minded or philosophical.

00:01:32.000 So it was good to have him on, grounded in test tubes and microscopes and that kind of thing.

00:01:38.000 Remember, tomorrow is our episode with Yusuf, the socialist slash nationalist who retired.

00:01:45.000 Steven Crowder last week at a Change My Mind episode at U of I.

00:01:50.000 So we'll have him on tomorrow.

00:01:52.000 And today, we had a big day today because I was also recording the third episode of 2018 Election HQ.

00:01:59.000 It's recorded, it's edited.

00:02:01.000 I forgot to post it up right after I finished it.

00:02:05.000 So I will be posting it after the show tonight.

00:02:08.000 And we cover in that one pretty in depth Paul Ryan and also some very interesting things about the white working class and why they vote for Trump.

00:02:16.000 So very curious things that we've learned about.

00:02:18.000 The data there.

00:02:19.000 And we go in depth in that on the 2018 podcast today.

00:02:22.000 Remember, for premium members only on Maker Support.

00:02:25.000 So it's been an interesting day.

00:02:27.000 It's been a very great week, I think, on the show.

00:02:29.000 We've had a really great week.

00:02:30.000 We've had a couple of guests.

00:02:32.000 We had a big Blood Sports on Tuesday.

00:02:34.000 And so here we are today with just a regular episode.

00:02:38.000 But a regular episode is a fantastic, great, huge show.

00:02:42.000 So I know we're excited.

00:02:43.000 It's a high octane slam in the face, punch in the face of content.

00:02:49.000 But we got to get into Siri.

00:02:50.000 We have to understand what's going on.

00:02:53.000 There, because everybody's watching it.

00:02:54.000 All eyes are on Syria.

00:02:57.000 And there are some new developments.

00:02:58.000 Of course, still no strike.

00:03:00.000 And that is curious because the chemical attack happened on Saturday.

00:03:04.000 If we recall the timeline from last year, there was a similar chemical attack in U.S. response last April, almost a year exactly to the date.

00:03:14.000 I believe it was April 7th last year in 2017.

00:03:18.000 If we recall the timeline from last year, the chemical attack was on Tuesday, the strike was on Thursday.

00:03:24.000 So it was very quick, it was within 48 hours.

00:03:27.000 This time around, the chemical attack was on Saturday.

00:03:30.000 There was a response, but the response was by Israel on Sunday.

00:03:34.000 President Trump promised that a decision would be made about an attack within 24 to 48 hours.

00:03:39.000 That was on Monday morning.

00:03:41.000 So within 24 hours, it would be Tuesday morning.

00:03:44.000 Within 48 hours, it would be Wednesday morning.

00:03:46.000 But still, no strike Monday, no strike Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

00:03:50.000 We'll see what happens tonight if there's a strike.

00:03:54.000 And I think that's been kind of the thing that's been the head scratcher here about this serious strike.

00:03:59.000 This is not.

00:04:00.000 What we would normally expect.

00:04:02.000 And certainly that's not the experience from the same episode that played out last year that there's been this hesitation.

00:04:08.000 There's been kind of this fumbling of this situation where no clear decision still has been made.

00:04:15.000 The latest development today was that President Trump met with the National Security Council and they said they still have not made a decision and one will be made soon.

00:04:25.000 Of course, we heard that on Monday and then on Tuesday and Wednesday.

00:04:29.000 They said after the meeting this afternoon that the decision would be made soon.

00:04:32.000 But they haven't made the decision.

00:04:34.000 There have been some white pills about it, I will say, because right out of the gate after the chemical attack, I was out there.

00:04:41.000 Tucker Carlson was out there.

00:04:42.000 Everybody was out there saying, look, this was obviously fake.

00:04:46.000 This obviously was directly related to Trump saying he would pull troops out of Syria just a week ago.

00:04:52.000 You know, Trump said, I'm going to pull troops out of Syria.

00:04:55.000 Two days later, the Syrians do something that would necessitate Trump to stay in.

00:05:00.000 So I was out there on Monday saying, this is BS. 1.00

00:05:03.000 We shouldn't be involved there.

00:05:04.000 We should not go to war against Assad.

00:05:07.000 But a lot of people are very upset.

00:05:09.000 A lot of people online, the eternal black pillars, said, No, Trump's already. 0.99

00:05:14.000 Trump's a Jewish puppet. 1.00

00:05:15.000 He's an Israeli puppet. 1.00

00:05:16.000 It's already said and done, they said.

00:05:19.000 Panicking, scared, terrified, they said, No, you know, Trump sold out.

00:05:24.000 It's happening.

00:05:25.000 He said it's going to happen, and we already know the size and the scope of the intervention.

00:05:30.000 We know that it'll escalate.

00:05:31.000 We know that it's against Assad.

00:05:33.000 It's going to turn into a war.

00:05:35.000 We're already done with him. 1.00

00:05:36.000 He's a shill. 0.99

00:05:37.000 And how.

00:05:38.000 And I love it.

00:05:39.000 Every time Trump does something or says something we don't agree with, everybody comes around to Nick Fuentes and they say, Wonder what Nick Fuentes is.

00:05:47.000 Watch Nick Fuentes defend this.

00:05:48.000 Watch this or that.

00:05:50.000 And it turns out that people's basic premise of what would happen is nothing like how it would happen, right?

00:05:54.000 I mean, we're still four days out and we have no idea what it's going to look like.

00:05:58.000 Will it be a strike?

00:05:59.000 Will they just attack the facility from which the chemical attack originated?

00:06:04.000 Will they take out Assad's entire air force?

00:06:08.000 Will they attack government infrastructure in the capital? 0.60

00:06:11.000 Will they try to decapitate? 0.51

00:06:13.000 The Assad government, what's it going to look like?

00:06:15.000 Could it be an all out intervention?

00:06:17.000 And I don't totally blame people because you look at how President Trump this time around has involved other countries, and certainly that's worrisome how he's involved the UK, France, Italy, allegedly Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, others.

00:06:31.000 It's a little bit worrisome because the more people are involved, of course, possibly the bigger the scope of the attack.

00:06:37.000 When it was the United States, we could simply attack unilaterally one missile strike on one facility on one night, and that was it.

00:06:46.000 When you get other people involved, the fear is, well, why would you get other people involved?

00:06:51.000 If it takes other people to execute a strike, is that because what?

00:06:55.000 You want to deter a Russian response?

00:06:57.000 Is that because you want to appear united in the world community? 0.53

00:07:00.000 Or is that because you want massive joint operations that could not be accomplished with only the United States?

00:07:07.000 So, a lot of questions about that.

00:07:09.000 But after Monday, after Monday, after there was a lot of pushback against the attack in public by Fox News, by Ann Coulter, and even in the United Kingdom, you looked at the polling for the UK.

00:07:20.000 And only 20% of people in the United Kingdom support an attack.

00:07:25.000 So there was this initial rush to condemnation.

00:07:27.000 I believe it was the evening of the Israeli strike on Sunday.

00:07:31.000 Israel launched eight cruise missiles at an unrelated air base in Syria.

00:07:36.000 That evening, President Trump and Emmanuel Macron of France, the president there, said they swore a joint response.

00:07:43.000 Theresa May joined up on Monday, Theresa May, the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

00:07:49.000 And although it seemed like everybody's very gung ho and the rhetoric was very strong on Monday and then on Tuesday, It seemed to kind of taper out where there seemed to introduce some kind of an element of uncertainty.

00:08:00.000 We don't know if that's because these governments actually were uncertain or if it was because of the strength of the Russian response.

00:08:07.000 Russia made it very clear right away that they would shoot down any missiles, and when they say that, that would be an act of war.

00:08:14.000 When they say that they would shoot down missiles and they would directly engage with the United States or coalition powers, well, then the consideration enters into the minds of these different heads of state that we wouldn't just be attacking the Assad regime, we also might be risking escalation with Russia, possibly with Iran, possibly with.

00:08:33.000 China, even.

00:08:34.000 Who knows the scope, the scale to which this could escalate if we're not careful?

00:08:38.000 So it appears we've entered into this deliberative phase, this judicious phase where they're deciding should we go in, should we not go in?

00:08:47.000 And so some decisions have been made, and we'll read you the latest news from each country.

00:08:52.000 So, from the United States, on Wednesday, we saw a very interesting take.

00:08:56.000 We didn't get to cover this so much yesterday because we had JF on, so we didn't have too much time to cover it.

00:09:02.000 But yesterday, President Trump tweeted out some very curious things in the morning, a very strange tweet storm.

00:09:08.000 About the situation in Syria.

00:09:09.000 He made three tweets about Syria, the first of which was provocative.

00:09:15.000 He tweeted, Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. 0.66

00:09:21.000 Get ready, Russia, because they will be coming. 0.81

00:09:24.000 Nice and new and smart. 0.98

00:09:26.000 You shouldn't be partners with a gas killing animal who kills his people and enjoys it. 0.64

00:09:32.000 And, you know, well, we understand what this tweet represents, which is very bellicose rhetoric against Russia, against Syria, and. 0.75

00:09:42.000 Although politically, I'm opposed to the idea within it that we want to see us get along with Russia.

00:09:47.000 We want to see Assad, who's a secular, modern dictator, to possibly be an ally, at least to be diplomatic with them.

00:09:54.000 Although I understand we don't like this tweet, I have to say, I read it and I thought it was hilarious.

00:10:00.000 You know, they say, you know, Russia's going to shoot down the missiles. 0.56

00:10:04.000 Well, get ready because they're coming.

00:10:06.000 I mean, so you have that part, which is just kind of.

00:10:09.000 I have to say, I love Trump personally.

00:10:12.000 Even when he's threatening World War III, I don't justify it.

00:10:16.000 I don't justify it.

00:10:17.000 I don't rationalize it.

00:10:18.000 I understand where people don't like it, but I just think it's so funny.

00:10:23.000 And then he follows it up with, you shouldn't be partners with a gas killing animal.

00:10:27.000 I mean, I just love the fact that that's so New York.

00:10:30.000 That's so abrasive, so percussive, gas killing animal.

00:10:35.000 I just, as somebody who looks at politics, as somebody who looks at rhetoric, I just think it's hilarious.

00:10:41.000 Could you imagine somebody like Barack Obama tweeting something like this?

00:10:45.000 It's just hilarious to see.

00:10:47.000 You know, the contrast between former presidents where it's, you know, we're presidential and it has to be clean and sterilized.

00:10:54.000 And then you get this guy, you get this guy who walks in there. 0.96

00:10:58.000 Yeah, this guy's a gas killing animal. 0.97

00:11:01.000 Russia's going to shoot down our missiles. 0.99

00:11:03.000 Good luck because they're coming.

00:11:05.000 I mean, it's just, and people are going to say, How could you find that funny?

00:11:09.000 It's terrible.

00:11:10.000 That's risking war.

00:11:11.000 It's just comical to me.

00:11:12.000 But very, I think, something that we should be anxious about that we are.

00:11:18.000 Apparently, hurdling towards war with Russia.

00:11:20.000 At least that was the thought 15 minutes before he tweeted the next tweet, which just a little bit later he tweeted, which is, you know, notice the change in tone here.

00:11:30.000 The next thing he tweeted shortly after was, quote, Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War.

00:11:38.000 There is no reason for this.

00:11:40.000 Russia needs us to help with their economy, something that would be very easy to do, and we need all nations to work together.

00:11:46.000 Stop the arms race?

00:11:48.000 And so you think, wait a minute, you're asking in this tweet, At once, you're asking, you're saying Russian relations are terrible.

00:11:57.000 There's no reason for this.

00:11:58.000 Why does it have to be like this?

00:12:00.000 And 15 minutes before, you said, We're going to shoot missiles at Syria, Russia, whether you like it or not, and your partners.

00:12:07.000 So it's very contradictory.

00:12:10.000 It's very schizophrenic, I would say, the rhetoric out of the White House.

00:12:13.000 And I have to say, that's one of the things we've observed.

00:12:16.000 That's one of the only consistent patterns we've observed it's all over the place.

00:12:21.000 It's chaotic, it's schizophrenic, it's contradictory.

00:12:24.000 There's one message coming out of the Pentagon, one message coming out of the White House, one message coming out of the DOD.

00:12:30.000 We don't even have a permanent Secretary of State yet.

00:12:33.000 Pompeo hasn't even been confirmed in the Senate.

00:12:36.000 So it's very, it's all over the place.

00:12:38.000 And that's something to keep in mind.

00:12:39.000 This is by design.

00:12:40.000 It's all over the place.

00:12:42.000 Trump is saying one thing.

00:12:43.000 The Pentagon says another.

00:12:44.000 Trump says one thing.

00:12:45.000 And then he says himself something completely different where he goes from, we're going to shoot missiles at Syria and they're coming and you can't shoot them down and you deserve this, to then this conciliatory approach.

00:12:59.000 Right now, he's seeking a rapprochement with Russia. 0.50

00:13:02.000 He's.

00:13:03.000 He's saying, look, there's no reason for us to fight.

00:13:06.000 You know, first he says, you know, we're going to knock you out, but you know, wait a minute, there's no reason to fight.

00:13:10.000 And actually, we can help each other out.

00:13:12.000 You need sanctions relief.

00:13:14.000 You need help with connecting to our financial markets.

00:13:17.000 And we want everybody to get along.

00:13:19.000 Let's work on stopping the arms race. 0.90

00:13:21.000 And then finally, this one was really curious.

00:13:24.000 The last thing he tweeted yesterday about the topic of Syria he said, quote, much of the bad blood with Russia is caused by the fake and corrupt Russia investigation headed up by the all Democrat loyalists.

00:13:37.000 Or people that work for Obama.

00:13:39.000 Mueller is most conflicted of all, except Rosenstein, who signed FISA and Comey letter.

00:13:44.000 No collusion, so they go crazy.

00:13:46.000 So here you see a beautiful trilogy here, a beautiful trilogy of tweets where we go from, and these are, I think, the different messages of each tweet.

00:13:55.000 In the first place, a lot of people would take the first tweet and they would say that's Trump being a hawk, that's Trump being a neocon, that's Trump going and setting his sights on Russia.

00:14:06.000 I think that's actually a misreading.

00:14:08.000 And people are going to say, What are you talking about?

00:14:10.000 Of course it's bellicose.

00:14:11.000 Of course it's warmongering against Russia.

00:14:14.000 Did you even read it?

00:14:15.000 But think about it, what it says effectively.

00:14:17.000 You have this very provocative rhetoric, a very provocative tone, but think about the substance of the message.

00:14:23.000 The substance of the message is a warning.

00:14:27.000 It's a warning.

00:14:28.000 It's not saying we're going to go to war with Russia.

00:14:30.000 Think about it like a statesman.

00:14:32.000 If you're going to launch an attack on Syria where Russia is involved, where Russia has, I think it's a little bit less than 2,000.

00:14:40.000 Troops there.

00:14:41.000 They fly all kinds of missions there.

00:14:42.000 They're doing airstrikes.

00:14:43.000 They have a permanent military base they're establishing in TARDIS.

00:14:47.000 You're about to strike a country where Russia is heavily involved.

00:14:50.000 Do you want to have the element of surprise or not?

00:14:53.000 If you want to have an effective strike that will take out Syrian military assets, would you send such an explicit and overt warning of what the strike would be, what it would constitute, when it would be?

00:15:05.000 The missiles are coming.

00:15:06.000 So we know they're missiles.

00:15:08.000 We know they've decided on a strike.

00:15:09.000 We know probably it will be soon.

00:15:12.000 So, as this tweet, think about it in terms of that.

00:15:14.000 Is this tweet a declaration of war with Russia?

00:15:17.000 Is this tweet saying that we can never work again with Russia?

00:15:20.000 Or is this tweet, by its substance, effectively communicating to Putin and Assad, I'm going to strike you.

00:15:27.000 This is my warning.

00:15:28.000 This is going to happen.

00:15:30.000 So prepare for this accordingly.

00:15:32.000 So I think that was the substance of message one. 0.79

00:15:34.000 The message of substance two is we have no problem with Russia.

00:15:39.000 There's mutual interests here.

00:15:41.000 We can cooperate.

00:15:42.000 It's laying out the basis, essentially laying out a diplomatic offer here.

00:15:46.000 On the one hand, it says, You can keep going your way and you can get not nice guy Trump and you can get missiles.

00:15:52.000 Option two is look, there's no reason for us to be enemies.

00:15:56.000 Let's cooperate on your economy and us making the world a better place.

00:16:00.000 And hey, maybe we could even stop the arms race.

00:16:02.000 Maybe that's the point at which we enter these negotiations.

00:16:06.000 And the last thing I think he offers is a cop out for Russia.

00:16:10.000 The last thing he says hey, and look, the reason the tensions are bad with Russia, it's actually because of the Democrats.

00:16:16.000 There's no reason at all for us to be enemies with Russia. 0.99

00:16:19.000 It's the damn Democrats that's the reason that we have sour relations with Russia. 0.98

00:16:23.000 So I think a very interesting trilogy. 0.99

00:16:26.000 And it's tough.

00:16:27.000 To really understand because the situation is still developing exactly what he means, but I think overall what we see is an administration which is very chaotic, which is very unpredictable.

00:16:37.000 And overall, we can disagree about what he means, the substance.

00:16:41.000 At the end of the day, only Trump knows what Trump is doing until it all unfolds.

00:16:45.000 But I think what we can, what we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that this is deliberate.

00:16:52.000 Trump has done this every time with legislation, with North Korea, in all the negotiations.

00:16:57.000 What Trump does is he creates uncertainty.

00:17:00.000 He keeps his opponents and his allies off of their balance.

00:17:03.000 If you have a guy like Trump who's saying, you know, in one breath he's saying, we're going to send missiles, and the next breath he's blaming the Democrats and all this other stuff, there is no way that you could reasonably keep the same strategy.

00:17:16.000 There is no way that you could not have to write and then rewrite your response between all these different tweets and messages, and one office is saying one thing, one office is saying the other.

00:17:27.000 When it's Barack Obama, you can forecast his actions.

00:17:31.000 He telegraphs them in the way that he responds, how you're supposed to.

00:17:35.000 It's consistent.

00:17:36.000 It's, you know, and you could basically derive and discern what's going to happen.

00:17:40.000 With Trump, the strength of his negotiating ability comes from the fact that you can't pin him down.

00:17:45.000 You can't figure out what he's trying to do.

00:17:48.000 That's what you want to do.

00:17:48.000 And that's a good thing.

00:17:50.000 So people are saying, Trump used to say, if I, and he tweeted this, I think, in 2013, he said, if I was going to go to war in Syria, and he was just, you know, like talking about Obama, he said, if I was going to war in Syria, I wouldn't tell everybody about it. 0.97

00:18:03.000 I'd do it by surprise.

00:18:05.000 And so people say, what happened to that, Trump, of not telling other people your tactics?

00:18:09.000 That's part of the tactic this time.

00:18:11.000 Part of the tactic is in the warning.

00:18:13.000 He's well aware of the risk of escalation.

00:18:15.000 He's putting out there a warning.

00:18:17.000 And all this information, all of this rhetoric, is causing Russia to say, What exactly is going on here?

00:18:24.000 This is not the standard practice.

00:18:26.000 This is not the procedure.

00:18:28.000 And so now they are dependent.

00:18:29.000 Now they're reactive.

00:18:30.000 They have to wait on what Trump's going to do.

00:18:33.000 And that's his allies and his enemies.

00:18:34.000 It's a powerful tool.

00:18:36.000 And that's not just me.

00:18:36.000 You know, people might say, Oh, it's all part of the plan, right?

00:18:39.000 It's all four dimensional chess.

00:18:41.000 People who understand war, there's a great pilot from the 1940s by the name of, or I think he was maybe a little later, his name was John Boyd.

00:18:51.000 And he talked about something called the OODA loop, which is basically a process of decision making and of strategy.

00:18:59.000 They call this guy the greatest innovator in wartime strategy since Sun Tzu, who's the ancient Chinese philosopher.

00:19:06.000 And the OODA loop says that people make decisions in warfare, in tactics, In four stages.

00:19:13.000 The process goes that you observe, you orient, you decide, and then you act.

00:19:20.000 You observe what's happening.

00:19:21.000 So he was a pilot, and he used this in tactics as a pilot, but you could also, he extrapolated this out to war and to business negotiations to other things.

00:19:29.000 But as a pilot, you would observe what the situation is, where you are, how you're flying, your altitude, your direction.

00:19:37.000 You observe what the enemy is doing, if they make a turn, if they do this, if they do that.

00:19:42.000 You orient that in terms of you try to fit it.

00:19:45.000 And conform it to a strategy.

00:19:47.000 You're saying, well, if I'm flying this way and he's flying this way, I'm going to orient these facts.

00:19:52.000 I'm going to orient this present situation and say that he's probably, this will probably be his trajectory.

00:19:59.000 This is probably what he's planning on doing.

00:20:03.000 And this is maybe how I should respond.

00:20:05.000 You decide on a course of action.

00:20:07.000 You say, if based on these facts, I think he's going to go on this trajectory, I'm going to decide that's what's going on.

00:20:15.000 And I'm going to decide I'm going to respond this way.

00:20:17.000 And then you execute it, you act.

00:20:19.000 And John Boyd said, the faster that you could do that, the faster you could get in this loop of observing, orienting, deciding, and acting.

00:20:26.000 And this is what Trump does as a businessman in a negotiation observe the facts, force them to conform to a theory, decide what to do, and then execute it well.

00:20:35.000 The faster you could do that, the faster you could make this process happen, you'll be successful, the more successful you would be.

00:20:42.000 If you could do this faster than your enemy, you disorient them, you force them to react, and then eventually you're able to defeat them.

00:20:48.000 And that's essentially what's going on here.

00:20:50.000 That's what we observe from these tweets.

00:20:52.000 Then today, and so that's those tweets, that's the chaos strategy, the madman strategy.

00:20:57.000 Today we got a totally different approach from Trump.

00:21:00.000 He tweeted, quote, never said when an attack on Syria would take place.

00:21:05.000 Could be very soon or not so soon at all.

00:21:08.000 In any event, the United States under my administration has done a great job of ridding the region of ISIS.

00:21:13.000 Where is our thank you, America?

00:21:16.000 And so now it's just completely different from yesterday.

00:21:18.000 It went from yesterday, well, actually, it went from on Sunday, there will be a strong response, to on Monday, There will be a strong response, and I'll make a decision in the next 48 hours.

00:21:30.000 To Tuesday, an announcement from the Pentagon is imminent, and now is in the evening when a strike would have occurred.

00:21:37.000 To Wednesday, missiles are coming, actually, but we could still get along.

00:21:42.000 To Thursday, and so it's changed dramatically over the course of four days, chemical attack was on Saturday.

00:21:49.000 To today, he's saying, actually, I never said that this would even happen.

00:21:53.000 It could happen tomorrow, it could happen tonight, might not happen for a week, who knows?

00:21:58.000 And so now we're thrown again in limbo.

00:22:00.000 Russia's thrown off balance.

00:22:01.000 Syria's flown off balance.

00:22:03.000 And you understand that Russia's already taken reactive measures, right?

00:22:08.000 Russia has evacuated their naval base in Tardis.

00:22:12.000 They've evacuated all their battleships.

00:22:14.000 Syria, they say, their unconfirmed reports that Bashar al Assad and the presidential family have fled to Iran and they landed in Tehran this morning.

00:22:22.000 They say that they've evacuated all of their military assets in Syria, all their air bases, all their everything else. 0.98

00:22:29.000 And so they've acted, they've decided, and now I think they look kind of foolish.

00:22:33.000 Hezbollah has retreated from the region while Trump is doing Twitter diplomacy, while he sends a missile carrier and he tweets. 0.81

00:22:40.000 So you have to understand that's what's going on.

00:22:42.000 That's a big part of it.

00:22:44.000 See, the other developments today we had President Trump, he met with the members of the National Security Council, which was still inconclusive.

00:22:51.000 Some of the developments from that meeting, however, they say that John Bolton, who's the new National Security Council chief, got in a very heated fight.

00:23:01.000 With Defense Secretary Mattis.

00:23:02.000 And they didn't say what exactly the fight was about.

00:23:05.000 They didn't say who was on what side, but apparently there's some tension.

00:23:10.000 And then, I guess, in another way of analysis, you might even think who reported that?

00:23:14.000 Is that a real report?

00:23:15.000 Is that from the White House itself?

00:23:17.000 Was that intentional to portray that there's some kind of a fight going on, or did that actually happen?

00:23:21.000 Who knows, right?

00:23:23.000 But so that was a report.

00:23:24.000 Jim Mattis also said, and this was, I think, the biggest white pill of the day.

00:23:28.000 You had that great tweet by Trump this morning that says, We may back off based on what happens.

00:23:33.000 But then additionally, you had Defense Secretary Mattis who said very explicitly, and this is important what he said he said, We are not going to engage in Syria's civil war.

00:23:43.000 And that's a big difference because what we were looking at on Monday is we didn't know if we were going to go in and have regime change in Syria, if we were now going to get involved in the civil war in Syria.

00:23:56.000 We're going to intervene on the side of one party or another party.

00:23:59.000 This is our war now, or if it was just going to be a response to the chemical weapons attack. 0.99

00:24:05.000 And so we got our answer today, which is great.

00:24:07.000 If we're not getting involved in the war, that means that we have set an upper limit for our intervention, which means that anything that can or would or Might possibly lead to a war with Russia or further intervention in Syria, probably we're not going to go into that.

00:24:21.000 If the defense secretary says we have no plans on getting into Syria and that would conform with everything else we know about this administration, that Trump wanted troops out of Syria last week, that we have a big North Korea summit coming up, we could probably say, I think with a relative degree of certainty, that there is a very rigid upper limit as to what the intervention in Syria will be if it happens, which is to say that.

00:24:46.000 Maybe there's a limited response to the chemical weapons attack against the Assad regime.

00:24:51.000 Maybe they attack one airfield.

00:24:53.000 Maybe they attack a few targets.

00:24:55.000 But it will most likely not be ground troops.

00:24:58.000 It most likely will not be some kind of coalition air raid across the country for a long time.

00:25:03.000 Whatever it'll be, it'll probably be one off, very limited in terms of the duration and also in terms of the intensity of the attack. 0.94

00:25:11.000 So when I was saying all day long, I was right, Black Pillars were wrong, this is what I was talking about. 0.87

00:25:17.000 What I opposed was war in Syria. 0.92

00:25:18.000 What I opposed was war with Russia.

00:25:20.000 And we have just set an upper limit that that's not going to happen.

00:25:24.000 And that's been repeated consistently in various ways across the weekend for the duration of the administration.

00:25:30.000 So that's what the white pill is about.

00:25:32.000 That's why black pillars are blown out. 0.92

00:25:34.000 Not because there's no chance of a strike in Syria, but that there's no plans anytime soon to get us involved against Assad outside of a limited one-off strike, which is what we did last year. 0.65

00:25:45.000 So that was a major development.

00:25:47.000 The other development was that the U.S. reported that they received blood and urine samples, which tested positive for chlorine gas.

00:25:55.000 So, although they have various independent investigators going over to Syria in the coming weeks to look into it, the U.S. says, and we don't know if it's true or not, that they found some kinds of samples.

00:26:06.000 I don't really buy that, unfortunately.

00:26:08.000 I just don't think the government is telling the truth there.

00:26:11.000 But that's what they say.

00:26:12.000 They say that they're able to confirm that chemical gas was used, but Defense Secretary Mattis says that we don't know who was responsible for it.

00:26:19.000 Because the rebels have chemical weapons, the government has chemical weapons, they don't know who was responsible.

00:26:24.000 Was it Assad?

00:26:26.000 And how did that come to be?

00:26:27.000 So we established there was chemical, we don't know who was responsible.

00:26:31.000 And then tonight, Trump says that he will discuss the situation with Emmanuel Macron of France and Theresa May of the United Kingdom.

00:26:39.000 And so that's what happened with the United States.

00:26:41.000 The developments for every other country are a little bit limited.

00:26:44.000 The UK, after a long cabinet meeting tonight, decided that they will take action in Syria.

00:26:51.000 What that will be, they don't know.

00:26:52.000 They just say we're probably going to take action, even though a fifth of the population is against it.

00:26:57.000 France, there was an announcement today from President Emmanuel Macron that they have hard evidence that the Assad government was responsible for the chemical attacks and that they will be responding.

00:27:09.000 And you could probably count on a response from France because Emmanuel Macron won his presidential election on projecting strength, and also he set his red line, like Obama, on chemical weapons. 0.57

00:27:20.000 He said, If Assad uses chemical weapons again, then we will respond.

00:27:24.000 So it's likely France will be there.

00:27:26.000 Germany today said that they will not be intervening in any way, shape, or form.

00:27:30.000 They're out.

00:27:31.000 They say they condemn the use of chemical weapons, but they're not going to get involved.

00:27:35.000 And then from Russia, Russia has simply urged the U.S. not to take action in Syria.

00:27:40.000 They've called for an emergency Security Council meeting.

00:27:43.000 And most troublingly, from Russia, this was reported from The Guardian, they are evacuating, or rather, they are planning on a counterattack against a British naval base in Cyprus.

00:27:55.000 So this is from The Guardian.

00:27:56.000 We don't know if it's true or not.

00:27:57.000 It's not really confirmed.

00:27:59.000 But there are sources that say that Russia is planning, they're setting up for a counterattack on that British base in Cyprus, which would be.

00:28:08.000 Which would be not a good thing if there were a direct confrontation.

00:28:11.000 I think that's where we're at right now.

00:28:12.000 We're trying to negotiate this space of how can everybody save face, essentially?

00:28:17.000 How can the United States back down from this by saving face or while saving face?

00:28:24.000 How can we attack Assad but also prevent this from escalating into war with Russia?

00:28:29.000 It's really tough here where we have to thread the needle.

00:28:32.000 And it looks like that's what's going on between France, Britain, the United States, and Russia.

00:28:37.000 There's also reports that the United States and Russia are working to de escalate behind the scenes.

00:28:42.000 Regardless of what happens on the ground in Syria, regardless of what happens between these powers about Syria, you have to understand who's watching all of this unfold.

00:28:51.000 This is why this is important.

00:28:53.000 This is why this matters.

00:28:54.000 People say, why can't we just back down?

00:28:56.000 Why can't Trump just say, never mind?

00:28:59.000 We're not going to strike.

00:28:59.000 Never mind.

00:29:00.000 We can't do it.

00:29:02.000 Think who's watching this.

00:29:04.000 Who is watching this entire episode play out while they wait for their summit with the United States in two months?

00:29:10.000 It's China and it's North Korea. 0.86

00:29:12.000 Well, it would be nice, and I think in a vacuum, it would be a good thing for the United States to say, you know what? 0.97

00:29:18.000 We have no interest here.

00:29:19.000 The Eastern Mediterranean is not important. 0.95

00:29:22.000 Use chemical weapons. 0.68

00:29:23.000 We don't care.

00:29:24.000 Problem is, North Korea and China are watching.

00:29:27.000 If they see that President Trump says, we vow strong action and we're going to shoot missiles, we don't care what Russia says, I'm crazy, I'll do whatever it takes.

00:29:36.000 And then we back off and then we say, actually, that was just words.

00:29:39.000 Actually, when it got a little bit tough, when it got a little bit heated, At the end of the day, we said, you know what, it's better for us not to go to war. 0.53

00:29:48.000 North Korea and China see that.

00:29:50.000 And what kind of a credible threat can the United States offer up to North Korea to force Korea to denuclearize after that episode?

00:29:57.000 There's no way they can do it.

00:29:59.000 They'd have no credibility, they'd get laughed at.

00:30:01.000 The whole point why we're even having these summits in the first place with North Korea, why South Korea is having a summit with North Korea, why the United States, why Japan may, is because President Trump essentially used the same approach he's using with Syria right now.

00:30:16.000 I mean, we saw with Kim Jong un since the inauguration, it was, we will go to war against Kim Jong un. 0.70

00:30:16.000 Right? 0.70

00:30:21.000 I'm a madman. 0.63

00:30:22.000 We will invade. 0.99

00:30:23.000 We will go to war with them. 0.99

00:30:25.000 They'll see fire and fury conducting carrier drills, sending three aircraft carriers to the Korean Peninsula, shooting Minuteman missiles into the Pacific Ocean, and on and on. 0.98

00:30:34.000 No war.

00:30:35.000 But the point was, there's this credible threat.

00:30:38.000 And then they followed up on other credible threats so that it would shore up those threats to North Korea.

00:30:43.000 They said, Bashar al Assad crosses this red line.

00:30:46.000 We attack.

00:30:46.000 We attacked.

00:30:48.000 If we cuck on this one, there's no credibility for the United States in those negotiations.

00:30:53.000 And I think some people just want to pretend like these other considerations don't exist because I take a lot of heat for this.

00:31:00.000 When I say, look, a strike isn't ideal, but it furthers our interests with North Korea, people want to pretend like this logic just doesn't exist.

00:31:07.000 People want to pretend like that's not happening.

00:31:10.000 They simply want to ignore it because they're so anti war, they're so much more principled than we are.

00:31:16.000 You know, we who look at pragmatic angles, that they oppose it under any circumstances.

00:31:20.000 But Of course, we live in the world.

00:31:23.000 We don't live in a textbook.

00:31:25.000 We don't live in ideas land.

00:31:26.000 We live in the world as it is.

00:31:29.000 And the world as it is has it that in two months, we sit down with Kim Jong un.

00:31:33.000 We want them to denuclearize.

00:31:35.000 It is in our interest for them to denuclearize. 0.64

00:31:37.000 Whether you like it or not, the Kim administration or the Kim regime in North Korea, they have a nuclear arsenal. 0.62

00:31:44.000 They are rapidly hurtling towards a capability where they can strike us.

00:31:49.000 It's an unstable country.

00:31:51.000 It's an unpredictable country.

00:31:52.000 We don't know what it will look like in 100 years.

00:31:55.000 That poses an existential threat to our survival because maybe this regime doesn't blow us up, but we don't know what it's going to look like in 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years, and that's how long they would have this.

00:32:06.000 Arsenal until they decided to dismantle it.

00:32:09.000 And so that poses a threat to us.

00:32:11.000 We need to get them to denuclearize.

00:32:13.000 The best way to do that is through diplomacy.

00:32:15.000 We're trying to make that work.

00:32:17.000 And the only way to make it work is that we have credibility.

00:32:20.000 The only way to do that is to demonstrate that you mean what you say.

00:32:23.000 And there has to be some kind of a strike.

00:32:26.000 And people want to pretend like that doesn't matter.

00:32:28.000 People, I don't know what the counter argument to that is.

00:32:30.000 Because I spell this out quite clearly when I tweet it on the show.

00:32:34.000 And I get a lot of feedback from people about the show, which I take seriously.

00:32:38.000 Not if it's low IQ, not if it's.

00:32:40.000 Not really informed.

00:32:41.000 And that's most of what it is on this issue.

00:32:43.000 They say, we have no business in Syria anyway.

00:32:45.000 It doesn't matter whatever it is.

00:32:47.000 So we're going to kill innocent people so that we could denuclearize North Korea? 0.96

00:32:51.000 Yeah, 100%. 0.99

00:32:52.000 100%.

00:32:54.000 Because it's not a question of never kill innocent people at all or kill a few innocent people.

00:32:59.000 It's do you want a lot of innocent people to potentially die or do you want a few innocent people who are in the military anyway to die and whatever?

00:33:09.000 These are the realities.

00:33:10.000 We don't like it, but that's the way it is. 1.00

00:33:12.000 So that's Syria. 1.00

00:33:13.000 Those are the latest developments.

00:33:14.000 It's tough.

00:33:15.000 To forecast it right now.

00:33:16.000 I think those are, well, last year a lot of it was about North Korea.

00:33:20.000 I think this time around, unfortunately, a lot of it is about Russia. 0.93

00:33:23.000 It's about confronting Russia.

00:33:25.000 It's about finding a rapprochement with Russia that's built on trust and respect. 0.67

00:33:30.000 And this is the only way to do it, folks.

00:33:32.000 People think that we're going to befriend Russia by saying, we'll give you everything we want.

00:33:36.000 That's not how you befriend Russia.

00:33:38.000 We know that Russia is headed by a pragmatic statesman who's going to pursue his country's interests.

00:33:44.000 And he will pursue his country's interests at the expense of ours.

00:33:48.000 We will do the same, but vice versa. 0.54

00:33:48.000 And that's okay. 0.54

00:33:51.000 That relationship is only built based on a mutual respect by both sides asserting their interests, and that's the way it has to be done. 0.83

00:34:00.000 And I don't think we're beyond rapprochement with Russia.

00:34:03.000 Obviously, Trump's tweets demonstrate that.

00:34:06.000 He shows that he still wants to have some kind of a reconciliation with Russia.

00:34:10.000 He still thinks it's possible, and that's a good thing, but this is the way it has to be done.

00:34:14.000 Russia respects strength, so we have to be strong. 0.60

00:34:16.000 We don't have to go to war with Russia, but maybe we have to come close.

00:34:20.000 And that's not me saying I favor war with Russia.

00:34:22.000 It's saying I favor an alliance, but this is maybe how it has to come about.

00:34:25.000 So that's Syria.

00:34:27.000 The other big thing today I wanted to get at really, really briefly is that today, I don't know if you guys know this.

00:34:34.000 I don't know if you guys know this or not.

00:34:36.000 It's a big holiday.

00:34:37.000 It's a big holiday in the States.

00:34:39.000 It's a big holiday in Europe.

00:34:41.000 It's a big holiday in Israel, or it's a big day.

00:34:44.000 It's a big Remembrance Day.

00:34:46.000 Is that today is Holocaust Remembrance Day?

00:34:49.000 And so we are in mourning.

00:34:51.000 We are in deep mourning.

00:34:53.000 For what happened, what was it, 70 years ago, about 73 years ago?

00:34:59.000 And I couldn't help but wonder because I saw this trending on Twitter.

00:35:02.000 It was hashtag Holocaust Remembrance Day.

00:35:04.000 And I couldn't help but think, didn't we already have that this year?

00:35:08.000 Didn't we already do that this year?

00:35:09.000 I feel like there's been like a million, I feel like there's been like 6 million different Holocaust Remembrance Days this year already, right?

00:35:18.000 I mean, it's like every other week Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Museum, trip to the Holocaust Museum.

00:35:23.000 Remember this?

00:35:24.000 It was so bad.

00:35:25.000 It's like, yeah, we get it.

00:35:26.000 It was bad.

00:35:27.000 But I just have to talk on the subject because this comes around, it seems like, all the time.

00:35:32.000 And even, interestingly enough, this comes around conveniently when a lot of Israelis are invoking the Holocaust to talk about Syria.

00:35:39.000 I don't know if you guys have seen this, but on the Forward, on J Post, on all these different Israeli magazines, they're saying that we need to invade Syria because of the Holocaust. 0.51

00:35:49.000 Because if we don't, then Israel's at risk.

00:35:52.000 And if Israel's at risk, then that means another Holocaust is imminent. 0.88

00:35:56.000 And I think it's really important to To sit back, and we're not going to say anything too controversial.

00:36:01.000 Of course, we're going to show respect to the 10 billion victims of the Holocaust.

00:36:05.000 We're going to show deep respect to the 10 trillion victims who died and were turned into lampshades and bars of soap and were killed using steam chambers and masturbation machines.

00:36:16.000 This is what L.A. Wiesel wrote about in Night. 0.81

00:36:19.000 And, you know, some of it was lies, but I'm sure the majority of it is true. 0.98

00:36:22.000 So we're going to show a lot of respect about what happened, but I think it's important to understand what the Holocaust is all about. 0.99

00:36:30.000 Because this is the one thing that just we're beaten over the head about it. 0.80

00:36:34.000 You oppose Israel, Holocaust. 0.76

00:36:37.000 You oppose Jewish influence in media, oh yeah, Holocaust. 0.88

00:36:41.000 You want to have a country that is demographically makes sense, that is demographically has a degree of homogeneity, yeah. 0.96

00:36:48.000 Well, you know who else wanted that? 0.98

00:36:49.000 The guy that did the Holocaust. 0.94

00:36:51.000 And I think it is never, we can never repeat this enough on the show that this only serves to keep white people down. 0.91

00:37:00.000 That sounds harsh, that sounds controversial and provocative. 0.87

00:37:03.000 But at the end of the day, that's true. 0.98

00:37:05.000 You can say, you know, we can have great respect for the Holocaust, we can mourn the Holocaust, and all of that. 0.92

00:37:12.000 But at the end of the day, what Hitler, World War II, all of that has in common, that mythology has in common. 0.51

00:37:18.000 And I don't say mythology to cast doubt as to whether or not it happened.

00:37:21.000 I mean, that story that conveys powerful ideas about society, that only serves in the modern discourse to shut down people that are actually right wing, to shut down people that are against modernism.

00:37:34.000 To shut down people that are against mass immigration.

00:37:38.000 And you look just at any political conversation, what does it always go back to for somebody that is a little bit too right wing?

00:37:44.000 Can we take a guess at what you're called if you're to the right of Lindsey Graham, if you're to the right of John Kasich? 0.57

00:37:51.000 Nazi. 1.00

00:37:52.000 You're a Nazi. 1.00

00:37:54.000 You want to talk about race. 1.00

00:37:55.000 You want to talk about the white race in particular.

00:37:57.000 You want to talk about a country that is homogeneous.

00:38:01.000 You want to talk about media influence.

00:38:02.000 Oh, yeah?

00:38:03.000 You know who else talked about that?

00:38:05.000 Hitler.

00:38:06.000 And Hitler is the guy that you were taught.

00:38:08.000 Since you were five years old in kindergarten, that's the. 0.98

00:38:13.000 He's evil. 0.85

00:38:13.000 He's the bad one. 0.85

00:38:15.000 There's no other view.

00:38:16.000 There's no alternative opinion.

00:38:18.000 You can't.

00:38:19.000 He's not a statesman.

00:38:20.000 He wasn't just a bad leader.

00:38:22.000 He wasn't just a leader who committed a genocide.

00:38:25.000 Like, there are many leaders that commit genocides.

00:38:27.000 Saddam Hussein committed genocides. 0.65

00:38:30.000 In Turkey, they could. 0.68

00:38:31.000 Do we even know the name of the Ottoman ruler who committed the Armenian genocide? 0.72

00:38:35.000 No, we don't.

00:38:36.000 You had a genocide against Ukrainians in Russia. 0.84

00:38:38.000 Is Joseph Stalin a dirty name like Hitler? 0.85

00:38:40.000 No.

00:38:41.000 So, he's not just another statesman.

00:38:43.000 He's not just another leader who rose up, took advantage of popular dissatisfaction, and led the country to war, just like Japan did, just like Mussolini did.

00:38:52.000 No, no, no. 0.93

00:38:53.000 He was Satan. 0.96

00:38:55.000 He was the worst thing you can be, and unequivocally. 0.86

00:38:58.000 And if you disagree with that, even slightly, if you're not enthusiastic about your hatred for this person, you're probably just like him.

00:39:06.000 You're probably sympathetic to him. 0.81

00:39:07.000 You're probably a Nazi yourself, just as bad, if not worse. 0.72

00:39:13.000 And we understand the role of that mythology in the conversation today. 0.71

00:39:17.000 When we talk about race, when we talk about immigration, when we talk about the elites of the country, it always gets carted out.

00:39:23.000 And the reason being is to guilt white people.

00:39:25.000 The reason being is to censor or to guilt white people because this is the most heavily invested propaganda piece in the utility belt of the left, of the Marxists, which is to throw this out and to shut you down because nobody wants to be called that.

00:39:40.000 And I think it's important to remember that.

00:39:42.000 On the same token, while we show, because not for nothing, but there were people that died.

00:39:48.000 It was a horrible tragedy.

00:39:50.000 And whether you think it was 6 million or 200,000, whatever your opinion on, I know some people on this show think there's an alternative way that it happened.

00:39:58.000 I, of course, believe the official story, but regardless of what you think, it was a bad thing.

00:40:02.000 It happened.

00:40:04.000 But in the future, we have to have some kind of sober assessment about when these things are being taken advantage of, when they're being used deceptively, and when it's actually observed, right?

00:40:16.000 I mean, somebody like Ben Shapiro perfectly understands that a guy like Piers Morgan stands on the graves of the victims at Sandy Hook to take away your guns.

00:40:26.000 He takes advantage of a tragedy and he says, You don't care enough about it.

00:40:30.000 You're just like them.

00:40:31.000 And, and that's why this political agenda has to stick.

00:40:34.000 We all understand it with gun control. 0.53

00:40:36.000 But with slavery, with the Holocaust, with the Native American genocide, anything like the KKK, anything like that, all of these are tools to shut you down if you want a country that looks like it did 50 years ago. 0.64

00:40:48.000 If you want a country that makes sense. 0.73

00:40:51.000 If you're not against the, the mass replacement of the population in the country, we're gonna take a country that was 100, you know, no, I'm sorry, it was 90% white, 97% Protestant, and you wanna take it and make it 40%, Excuse me, 40% Hispanic and 30% this and 20% that, and it's Muslim and it's atheist, and you have a problem with that, you're going to be shut down because of this. 0.52

00:41:12.000 So I think it's just important to really lay out that case because, you know, I think that's the place, you know, people lose me when they talk about, you know, when they're obsessive about it and it's always, oh, you know, this or that.

00:41:24.000 On both sides, I have a problem when they make this their whole ideology. 0.58

00:41:28.000 But to find a middle ground, I would say can we all agree that the Holocaust was an exceptional case and you are not in favor of Holocaust?

00:41:38.000 If you want to talk about controversial issues, I think that's got to be what we pursue because this has been the battering ram that's kept down the right wing, that's kept down white people for a long time.

00:41:48.000 And until, really, until we confront that, until we confront that label, it's not going to stop.

00:41:53.000 Until you're not going to get banned from social media, ostracized from your peers for being called, oh, you think race is important?

00:42:00.000 Okay, literally, Hitler.

00:42:01.000 Until that goes away, you're never going to have the conversation. 0.90

00:42:04.000 You're never going to have the reform.

00:42:05.000 So that's how we're remembering it today, of course.

00:42:08.000 Of course, we're deeply thoughtful about the horrible tragedy.

00:42:12.000 And hey, look, if we talk about media ownership, it could happen again.

00:42:16.000 So we have to be careful.

00:42:17.000 But we're going to jump into our Super Chats and our Stream Labs.

00:42:20.000 We will see what people are saying today.

00:42:23.000 What do people think about Syria?

00:42:25.000 Am I going to get nagged?

00:42:26.000 Am I going to get yelled at? 0.90

00:42:27.000 I was being very provocative today on social media the way I was owning the Libs, owning the Black Pillars. 0.99

00:42:33.000 But I have to do it. 0.53

00:42:35.000 Black Pillars, it's the same story every time, same thing.

00:42:38.000 It's the rerun of my favorite show.

00:42:40.000 Trump says something we don't like.

00:42:42.000 Panic, freak out.

00:42:43.000 Trump's a shill.

00:42:44.000 Nix is a shill.

00:42:45.000 And then they get proven wrong.

00:42:46.000 And then they quietly sulk away.

00:42:48.000 And then if I say anything, it's, you're dividing the movement.

00:42:51.000 All this. 0.99

00:42:51.000 You're nasty. 0.99

00:42:52.000 It's like, okay, really? 0.99

00:42:53.000 But we'll see.

00:42:55.000 Ian Weber says, I know you see things the way you do, but it is not necessary to practice our strength on Syria for North Korea to denuclearize.

00:43:03.000 China knows we won't act on North Korea.

00:43:06.000 See, that's just where you're wrong. 0.74

00:43:08.000 Of course we have to do it, we have to demonstrate that we're willing to do it.

00:43:13.000 China may think that we're not going to do it, but they don't really know.

00:43:16.000 Trump is a new president.

00:43:18.000 He's unpredictable.

00:43:19.000 He's taken action before against campaign promises.

00:43:22.000 So, I think it's extremely naive to say China already knows we won't act, and we already know we won't act.

00:43:29.000 I think that's very presumptuous.

00:43:31.000 And again, it betrays a very deep misunderstanding of foreign relations.

00:43:37.000 I think people have kind of this weird, like, with some things we're going to interrogate them rigorously, with other things it's like, yeah, well, China basically knows.

00:43:44.000 And if you can guess it, North Korea can guess it.

00:43:47.000 A lot more complicated than that. 0.58

00:43:49.000 And it's not even just about it doesn't matter, China knows.

00:43:52.000 It's if we make a credible threat and then we don't follow up on it. 0.60

00:43:56.000 You have no leverage with North Korea. 0.59

00:43:58.000 You have no leverage at all.

00:43:59.000 And that is just the logical, that's how human beings understand each other.

00:44:06.000 Logical conclusion of tolerance says, Nick, you will never ever have a normie job.

00:44:11.000 I'm not trying to get a normie job, but hey, never say never, right?

00:44:15.000 People say never about all kinds of things, but don't hate. 0.98

00:44:19.000 Don't be one of life's losers. 0.91

00:44:21.000 Spoiler alert says, Netanyahu threatened Iran in his Holocaust Day speech. 0.99

00:44:25.000 There you go.

00:44:26.000 Every time.

00:44:27.000 Every time.

00:44:28.000 Still hearing about it.

00:44:29.000 USS Liberty.

00:44:30.000 It was a long time ago.

00:44:31.000 Who cares?

00:44:33.000 You think it happened that way.

00:44:34.000 I think it happened this way.

00:44:36.000 Who cares?

00:44:36.000 But with other things, none of that applies.

00:44:39.000 Vlad Hogan, rather than a singular person, could the Antichrist be the state of Israel?

00:44:44.000 I don't know about that.

00:44:45.000 I wouldn't go that far.

00:44:47.000 The J-22 report, keep this. 0.96

00:44:49.000 You deserve it.

00:44:50.000 Keep up the good work.

00:44:51.000 Much appreciated.

00:44:51.000 Thank you, my guy.

00:44:53.000 Logical conclusion of tolerance says Nazism is actually a hastily thrown together and contrived mythology that is not genuine. 0.96

00:45:01.000 Actually, a bizarre, noble lie. 0.99

00:45:02.000 Get real, Nazbole cutters. 0.99

00:45:04.000 I don't really know what you mean by that, but I mean, Nazi in the first place, we're talking about Nazi, the word, started out as a slur against Bavarian peasants. 0.96

00:45:14.000 The real term is National Socialism, which does have a very deep intellectual roots. 0.56

00:45:20.000 There's mysticism in it, there's this esoteric Hindu element of it, there's a lot of weird stuff that goes on with National Socialism.

00:45:28.000 I wouldn't call it contrived.

00:45:30.000 Michael Jones, is Trump playing a game of hold me back, bro?

00:45:33.000 I think that's maybe a way to describe it.

00:45:36.000 If so, he made the entire world flinch in a few tweets and is well aware he can't live without his base.

00:45:42.000 I think he knows.

00:45:43.000 I think he's well aware of the fact that the base is against war in Syria.

00:45:47.000 That's why he said he would pull his troops out of Syria in a rally, a pandering to the crowd.

00:45:52.000 I'm pulling out of Syria.

00:45:53.000 Then he forgot about it, so we had to remind him, right? 0.99

00:45:56.000 I mean, the black pill logic is just so asinine. 0.98

00:45:59.000 Yeah, we needed to remind him. 0.98

00:46:01.000 He was there pandering to his base. 0.96

00:46:03.000 I'm going to take us out of Syria.

00:46:05.000 I know my voter base intimately because I hire people to gauge this kind of stuff. 0.99

00:46:10.000 I ran on this.

00:46:11.000 I was against it for 40 years.

00:46:13.000 But then I totally forgot about it this week.

00:46:16.000 Everybody who watches the news is smarter than me, who has the highest level intelligence and who runs my own campaign.

00:46:24.000 And I needed people to call the White House to remind me that my base cares about Syria.

00:46:28.000 I mean, it's just, I disagree with that.

00:46:30.000 I just think that's silly.

00:46:32.000 Ian Weber, shout out to Nick's mom.

00:46:34.000 She makes sure the show is running properly for no pay. 0.83

00:46:37.000 A great mom indeed.

00:46:39.000 Very true.

00:46:40.000 The mom is there.

00:46:41.000 Well, I mean, some people call it mom.

00:46:43.000 That's what I refer to my producer as.

00:46:45.000 I'm not really like my mom.

00:46:47.000 It's my producer.

00:46:48.000 But that's, you know, in a very colloquial way, that's like mom, the mother of the show.

00:46:53.000 Cameron, Nick, are you aware of the new Gamergate?

00:46:56.000 I saw that floating around, but I never got to the bottom of it.

00:46:58.000 I clicked on the hashtag GamergateHD, and Beardson was just all the top tweets.

00:47:05.000 So I didn't even, I was scrolling and scrolling trying to find, like, what is this, what's going on, and it was all Beardson posting about Gamergirl P and, you know, things like that, so.

00:47:14.000 I didn't really, I don't really know what it's all about. 0.98

00:47:17.000 Ben Nowak, how do we wake up Christian Zionists, Nikki Goy? 1.00

00:47:22.000 I love when people, oh, Goy. 1.00

00:47:24.000 Hello, Fashi Goy. 1.00

00:47:26.000 How do we wake them up? 1.00

00:47:29.000 I think you just point at the facts.

00:47:30.000 It's very difficult because people have a religious conviction in Zionism, many Christians.

00:47:35.000 I've talked to Protestants. 0.64

00:47:36.000 I've talked to one Protestant who was a hardcore Zionist, and this person could not be shaken. 0.83

00:47:42.000 They could not be swayed. 0.67

00:47:43.000 Presented with copious evidence about foreign aid, about Palestinians, about.

00:47:48.000 All about the spying, the USS Liberty, all this stuff.

00:47:52.000 And their resolve is just simply not shaken.

00:47:54.000 They're beyond reason, many of them.

00:47:57.000 I think we just always have to be there with good arguments.

00:47:59.000 And hopefully some of them will come around.

00:48:01.000 If we show them the Schofield Bible stuff, that Marching to Zion is a great documentary.

00:48:06.000 But I'm not going to fool you and tell you it's easy.

00:48:08.000 It's something people hold very close to their heart.

00:48:11.000 These southern evangelicals.

00:48:13.000 I'm friends with people in the south, and they say, I can't share the Israel stuff with my parents because they'll freak out.

00:48:19.000 My family loves Israel. 0.99

00:48:20.000 And it's like, you know, fair enough. 0.86

00:48:21.000 But.

00:48:23.000 It's got to change.

00:48:25.000 Let's see our super chats. 0.99

00:48:26.000 We've got a Mr. Joe the Croat who says, It's Joe the Boomer. 0.94

00:48:31.000 Wanted to say sorry for putting a damper on your morning by asking business stuff earlier. 0.97

00:48:36.000 Hope you're having a good day.

00:48:37.000 Having that big brain isn't easy, bro.

00:48:39.000 Also, why is everyone trying to figure out what my job is IRL and Discord?

00:48:43.000 Stop, kid.

00:48:44.000 Well, don't worry about it, Joe.

00:48:45.000 It's not you.

00:48:46.000 It's just, you know, I go into the Discord.

00:48:49.000 Here's the thing about the Discord, all right?

00:48:50.000 You understand.

00:48:52.000 I'm not you, Joe, but I mean just everybody.

00:48:54.000 You understand, it's my job to talk about politics.

00:48:56.000 It's my job to research politics.

00:48:58.000 I do a live show five days a week.

00:49:00.000 I do the podcasts.

00:49:01.000 I do blood sports.

00:49:03.000 I have to tweet about it.

00:49:05.000 And so it's like my whole day.

00:49:07.000 And so when I go into the Discord, and this is like, this is just my preference.

00:49:12.000 I'm not mad at anybody.

00:49:13.000 I'm not, I don't hate you.

00:49:15.000 But I get into the Discord to hang out with my friends, to play video games.

00:49:19.000 And you'll have people who will wander into the voice chat, and not the regulars, but like random people saying, And they'll come in, it's like, hey, Nick, oh, it's great to be on with you.

00:49:27.000 And, you know, I love the fans, but then it jumps into, I'm playing Fortnite, you know, we're trying to coordinate where we're going to land.

00:49:33.000 Are we going to land at Tilted Towers?

00:49:35.000 People are like, hey, Nick, so what do you think about, you know, insert topic I talked about for 45 minutes on my show?

00:49:42.000 And it's like, can't a guy catch a break, you know?

00:49:45.000 So that's all.

00:49:46.000 But that wasn't you, Joe.

00:49:48.000 Joe, you're very good about it.

00:49:50.000 You're always friendly and fun.

00:49:52.000 But, yeah, no, I think people want to figure out your job because you got a great pool.

00:49:57.000 And you're doing well, you know, and I don't know.

00:49:59.000 I think people are just curious.

00:50:01.000 You're a celeb.

00:50:02.000 You're a part of the show now.

00:50:04.000 Cactus Blah says Trump doesn't want to attack Syria.

00:50:07.000 This was all just to appease the warmongers while looking tough on Russia. 0.75

00:50:11.000 True.

00:50:11.000 I think that's definitely a part of it.

00:50:14.000 Reagan says Could Trump be playing some kind of good cop, bad cop game with Syria?

00:50:19.000 Acting himself up as the hawkish madman to appease the boomer base and project strength to North Korea, but having Mattis be the calm voice of restraint.

00:50:28.000 Yeah, I think, I don't know if it's like.

00:50:30.000 So clearly defined as good cop, bad cop.

00:50:33.000 But I think the whole Trump approach, if you read his book, he says he has many balls in the air at one time.

00:50:39.000 He always has multiple approaches going at one time, and he never stays to a single approach.

00:50:44.000 And I think that's what you see.

00:50:46.000 I think you have Trump let these different approaches fight themselves out.

00:50:49.000 He sees the reaction by the press, by his base, by different actors like Russia, domestic actors in the cabinet, and all the rest.

00:51:00.000 I think he just lets it play out.

00:51:02.000 I think he takes initiatives, he observes the facts, and then he decides on what he's going to do.

00:51:06.000 So I think when I say that's part of it, I'm saying all of these are to some extent true.

00:51:11.000 I think all of these are considerations when Trump is doing these different things.

00:51:16.000 I think, for example, he's definitely trying to appease warmongers in the cabinet.

00:51:20.000 I think that's definitely part of it.

00:51:22.000 I think he also wants to look tough to Russia.

00:51:24.000 At the same time, there is this hawkish madman thing to go against China and North Korea, but also you want to have different voices like the Pentagon and the DOD.

00:51:33.000 So it's all there, it's all happening.

00:51:35.000 I don't think Trump sets out that's the biggest misnomer with four dimensional chess.

00:51:41.000 I don't think Trump has a plan.

00:51:42.000 I don't think Trump ever goes into it thinking, With few exceptions, I don't think he ever goes into it thinking, this is my stratagem from here to there.

00:51:50.000 I know every step of the way from beginning to end.

00:51:53.000 I think he's got a general idea of a direction that he wants to go in.

00:51:57.000 I think he's got a few ideas that he wants to pursue, and he sets them all off at the same time, essentially.

00:52:03.000 And that's what we say when we mean four dimensional chess, that he is always looking at it from multiple points of view.

00:52:08.000 It's like a Rubik's Cube.

00:52:09.000 You know, he's always looking at it in different ways, tinkering with it, different approaches, different methods, different rhetoric.

00:52:15.000 And so I think that's what's always going on.

00:52:17.000 And so that's in contrast.

00:52:18.000 When we say 4D chess, that's in contrast with the idea that he just does whatever he's told. 0.98

00:52:24.000 You either believe, and I really believe this, I think you either believe that he is a strategist, he's always thinking about it from different angles, he's very creative about the solutions he proposes and how he solves problems, or you think that he's a buffoon, he's an idiot, he just does whatever he's told by whoever's whispering in his ears, or he wants to look good in the media, but basically he's just this buffoon, and he has to be pushed really hard in one direction or the other. 0.97

00:52:48.000 That's why I'm against. 0.97

00:52:49.000 Making a big stink so much because I don't really think that has an effect because I don't buy this interpretation that he needs pushing.

00:52:56.000 I think he's basically already there.

00:52:59.000 It's just you're seeing different strategies unroll.

00:53:02.000 So it's just a different worldview on both ends.

00:53:05.000 Problematic White Knight says of the 2.6 million Jews that lived in Europe, 3.8 million survived the Holocaust.

00:53:12.000 Tragically, the remaining 6 million perished.

00:53:15.000 Stop saying anti Semitic things.

00:53:18.000 You could go to jail for that in Europe. 0.99

00:53:21.000 If you question the validity of those numbers, you must hate Jewish people. 0.98

00:53:26.000 If you think that this historical event happened a different way than most people think it did, what do you hate, Jews? 0.97

00:53:33.000 What do you hate, minorities? 0.69

00:53:34.000 What do you hate, Hitler?

00:53:36.000 You're telling me you think that that historical event happened a little bit differently than they described it in the textbooks.

00:53:42.000 Really? 1.00

00:53:44.000 Nazi, racist, idiot. 1.00

00:53:46.000 Oh my God. 1.00

00:53:47.000 You should be put in jail for that. 0.81

00:53:48.000 This is the mentality, folks.

00:53:50.000 Of the establishment.

00:53:51.000 Really?

00:53:52.000 I mean, come on.

00:53:53.000 Nobody sees a problem with that.

00:53:54.000 Nobody thinks there's something wrong with that.

00:53:57.000 I certainly don't because I like having a job.

00:54:00.000 I like getting not banned from payment processors.

00:54:04.000 I like being able to make money on the financial system.

00:54:07.000 So I, of course, believe the same thing as the system.

00:54:11.000 Spoiler alert, my gas killing animal.

00:54:14.000 Alfredo Coronado, how can I red pill my class on traditionalism?

00:54:21.000 It's tough.

00:54:22.000 Tough.

00:54:23.000 It's hard even for me to red pill my friends on traditionalism.

00:54:27.000 I think you just have to appeal to things that are already prevalent in people, right? 0.98

00:54:32.000 I mean, like, to come up to somebody with this LARPy, like, Wheatfield, my fair maiden, my beautiful maiden, who's going to be my wench and I will be the king. 0.92

00:54:44.000 I mean, like, you could get into some very LARPy traditionalist talk. 0.85

00:54:49.000 You know, who's that fella?

00:54:50.000 Who I like?

00:54:51.000 The Golden One from Sweden, I think he's from.

00:54:56.000 I like his content, but this, like, he calls women fair maidens, and it's all very old world, very LARP y in many ways.

00:55:03.000 And like I said, you know, people are going to say Nick is counter signaling, Nick is starting a fight.

00:55:08.000 I'm saying let's look at that strategy. 0.91

00:55:10.000 If you were to go into your class in high school or college, whatever, and go to a girl, hello, fair maiden, would you like to bake me a black sun pie? 0.89

00:55:19.000 Would you like to bake me a chicken pot pie in the shape of a swastika?

00:55:22.000 I mean, like if you come across, and these are the kinds of things I see on social media, you know, hello, my fair maiden, would you like to prance in a wheat field?

00:55:31.000 I mean, that is not going to sell.

00:55:34.000 That's not resonant.

00:55:35.000 That's not relatable.

00:55:37.000 You're not going to win anybody over.

00:55:38.000 Here's what you can appeal to.

00:55:40.000 Every young person understands hookup culture, what that means, the connotations, what that says about the state of the world.

00:55:47.000 Just say that hookup culture, people know exactly what you mean.

00:55:50.000 And this is one example.

00:55:52.000 They think about hollow, meaningless, carnal interactions between men and women that are not meaningful, and it's terrible.

00:56:00.000 This is something everyone can relate to because every young kid, for the most part, is on a dating app, they're on Tinder, they're on whatever.

00:56:07.000 Maybe they do it through Facebook or Twitter, through DMs, Snapchat.

00:56:11.000 But they all understand what this means.

00:56:13.000 That you go to a party or you do this weird hookup.

00:56:15.000 We've been sold into this idea that sex is the highest thing, pleasure is the highest thing, as opposed to virtue and love and all the rest.

00:56:24.000 And something like that is easily communicable, it's relatable.

00:56:27.000 And this is where traditionalism presents a much better alternative.

00:56:31.000 You know, hookup culture hey, fellas, isn't it a problem when, you know, we have this world where we're supposed to just sleep with them for one night and then we never see them again?

00:56:42.000 Doesn't that suck? 0.92

00:56:43.000 Don't you just want like a wife? 1.00

00:56:44.000 Don't you just want like a nice girlfriend to settle down with? 1.00

00:56:46.000 You know, that kind of thing.

00:56:47.000 And I don't know.

00:56:49.000 I'm a little bit autistic, so maybe you don't say it exactly like that.

00:56:52.000 But these are the angles you can come at it from.

00:56:54.000 You know, talking about what it'd be like to have a wife, what it'd be like to have somebody you love, and all that.

00:57:00.000 And even for women, it's a big appeal.

00:57:02.000 Women who they want to have strong men, women love strong men.

00:57:06.000 They want that. 1.00

00:57:07.000 They want a husband. 1.00

00:57:08.000 They want somebody that can provide for them. 0.85

00:57:10.000 And men want somebody that's going to be. 1.00

00:57:13.000 They want someone that's going to be all the things that a woman is. 1.00

00:57:15.000 Someone's going to raise their kids. 1.00

00:57:18.000 These are the entry points.

00:57:20.000 Forget about the wheat fields.

00:57:21.000 Forget about that kind of stuff.

00:57:23.000 Don't forget about it.

00:57:23.000 Keep it in mind.

00:57:24.000 But how do we get there?

00:57:25.000 Good, resonant, relatable tactics.

00:57:29.000 So that's traditionalism.

00:57:30.000 Looks like we got one more super chat. 0.58

00:57:33.000 Joe the Croat. 0.99

00:57:34.000 I hear you, Nikki boy. 1.00

00:57:35.000 Sorry.

00:57:36.000 I'll do my best to make your time in the Discord more leisurely.

00:57:40.000 Also, these anime guys are pissing me off. 0.99

00:57:43.000 And I don't hate anime, but they better chill or I'll start emptying nags and frags. 1.00

00:57:48.000 Nick might be getting a huge knife level up. 1.00

00:57:51.000 Oh, that sounds good.

00:57:52.000 Well, I look forward to the knife level up.

00:57:54.000 And, you know, we like the anime.

00:57:56.000 We love the anime, right?

00:57:57.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:57:58.000 I'm having a lot of trouble because I counter signal the Groypers, the anime, right? 0.61

00:58:02.000 And suddenly my whole base is gone.

00:58:04.000 We love anime. 1.00

00:58:05.000 We love the Groypers.

00:58:07.000 The anime just has to be careful that it doesn't degenerate.

00:58:10.000 There's this weird problem.

00:58:12.000 We all know what I'm talking about.

00:58:14.000 The anime avatar who is not exactly the model of traditional living.

00:58:19.000 And so just saying, just a little warning of temperance, of restraint on the part of our anime friends.

00:58:29.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:58:30.000 Do we love anime or what, folks?

00:58:32.000 I'm probably the biggest anime fan you've ever met.

00:58:35.000 But that said, there has to be some restraint.

00:58:38.000 But it looks like those are all our Streamlabs, all our Super Chats.

00:58:41.000 So we're going to call it a night.

00:58:42.000 We're right there at about 8 o'clock.

00:58:44.000 So we're going to call it a night.

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The Madman Takes Syria | America First Ep. 144

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