TOTAL WAR: Tsar Putin DECLARES WAR On The West, Annexes Ukraine | America First Ep. 1071TOTAL WAR: Tsar Putin DECLARES WAR On The West, Annexes Ukraine | America First Ep. 1071
On this episode of America First, host Nicholas J. Fuentes talks about the latest in the war in Ukraine and Russia, as well as the recent ban on YouTube's Sneeko, and why he's a liability. He also talks about how much money he's lost in the process of being banned from YouTube, and how much he's still got left in the bank. Plus, he talks about what he's been up to since being banned, and what's in store for him next. America First is a show where you get to know the hosts, talk to them, and ask them questions about current events in the news. This show is for you if you're interested in learning more about what's going on in the world, and want to support them in their efforts to make a difference in our world. Please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey. We'll post the results on the next episode of the show, and we'll announce the winner on Monday! Thank you so much for listening and supporting the show! We really appreciate it. - Your support is greatly appreciated and we look forward to covering more stories like this one in the coming weeks! - Nicki - Thank you for listening, supporting, reviewing, and supporting, and spreading the word to the world! and sending us your thoughts, love, support, and support! Peace, Blessings, Cheers, your continued support, your support, love and positivity! - N.J. - Your continued support is so appreciated! - Eternally. - NJP - EJ & J.JF.J., N.A.F. FuENTESP. ( ) ( ) - P. & SONGS: A. (NSFW - J.S. ( ), P. (A.S ( ) ( ) & A. M. ( ). (TAYL ( ) , J. ( ) ( ), & K. (P. R. ( ] ( ) AND AUGMENTED ( )( ) ( ), AND AVAILABLE . ( ) Thank you, J. FOSTER ( ) and J. , P. S ( ) is BACK! ( ) ! ( , ) - PODCAST: ) & JOSEPH ( ) . AND P. P. RYAN ( ) )
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00:02:01.000And they come out with the statement like three hours later and say, well, we're not gonna let Ukraine and NATO and we strongly condemn and here's some more sanctions.
00:02:46.000We'll also be talking tonight about my friend Sneeko, who has now been completely banned from YouTube.
00:02:53.000I was gonna cover his situation tonight anyway, and then this happened.
00:02:59.000I was gonna cover... He went out to Romania to do a stream with Andrew Tate, and they wouldn't let him on the stream.
00:03:08.000Sneko flew all the way out there from Miami to Romania and they wouldn't let him on the show.
00:03:15.000Andrew Tate would not let Sneko on his show, emergency meeting, and he said that Sneko is too much of a liability because he knows me, in part, because he knows me.
00:03:55.000$120,000 of his money in Google AdSense.
00:04:01.000That's the part that nobody tells you about.
00:04:03.000You get banned on YouTube and you don't just lose all your followers in your platform, but if you have any money that they have not paid out because the payouts are the succeeding month, they freeze the money.
00:05:00.000I don't know how, or... It was January after Groyper War.
00:05:04.000I don't know how much money I think it was only like it wasn't that much as I recall so I got lucky I didn't I didn't lose to I've lost so much money though over the years my maker support got banned years ago I actually saw the guy that runs makers old AF heads will remember this maker support was like an early patreon alternative stripe banned them they didn't pay out any of the money and so they were holding like $1,600 of mine
00:05:32.000And I remember emailing the guy that ran the site like, hey fuck you!
00:12:18.000I don't know how, I mean, Christmas is sort of equal with Easter, it's sort of co-equal with Easter, and Christmas is preceded by the others, by Thanksgiving and Halloween.
00:12:27.000And they're all, they all have their own mood, they all have their own theme.
00:18:23.000Me, you guys catch breaks all the time.
00:18:26.000You go out into the world, you have no problems, you go and you drink beer on a Friday, you know, and you go home to your wife and you go home and all this.
00:24:59.000So, like I said, I was gonna cover Sneako tonight anyway.
00:25:03.000Because he got banned from Andrew Tate's show.
00:25:10.000But then, he got banned on YouTube also.
00:25:13.000And if you don't know, Sneeko, he's a popular TikToker, YouTuber, and we've been collaborating a little bit.
00:25:21.000I went on his show a few times, or his stream a few times back in August, and we were on a panel together, and we went on this panel and it was huge.
00:25:30.000There were like at least 30,000 live viewers, maybe more, maybe like 50,000, honestly.
00:26:10.000So it's not like I go on these streams and like offend everybody.
00:26:14.000It's not like I go on there and I'm just this terrible guy.
00:26:17.000I go on there and I have heterodox views, but I'm likable, I'm fun, I'm funny, I'm polite.
00:26:25.000But as always, I go on these streams, I get access to a huge audience, people like me, and then they sound the alarm and say, whoa whoa, he's getting too popular, shut him down.
00:26:36.000So since the panel, everybody has disassociated from me.
00:26:41.000Jideon and Abba both said, well we won't talk to him ever again because he's racist.
00:26:47.000And Destiny came up with some BS like we've been over many times over the past few weeks.
00:26:53.000Well, someone on Cozy told people to flag Mr. Girl and Destiny's against deplatforming, except for when he's in favor of it, when he's flagging people the same week that he's complaining about other people flagging, like Keffels and Hassan.
00:27:11.000And then Sneko got skittish about it because a clip from his stream was shown in the U.S.
00:27:18.000Senate and he got a temporary suspension on YouTube.
00:27:21.000So he said, I can't stream with you anymore.
00:27:25.000So since then everybody disassociates.
00:27:28.000And that's like another level of blacklisting.
00:27:33.000I'm on a blacklist, nobody will talk to me already, and then I'm on this double blacklist where people don't talk to people that talk to me.
00:29:06.000I don't want to go fully into detail, but from what I'm hearing behind the scenes, it's that I'm a risk.
00:29:11.000I was talking to Andrew for a long time last night, and it's funny to hear that from the most dangerous man on the internet, from the most cancelled man in history, cancelled on Uber, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Bumble, that dude is saying I'm a risk.
00:29:25.000He says Nick's more canceled actually.
00:30:33.000And I'm so banned now that not only does Sneko get in trouble with YouTube and go to the Senate just for having me on, but he'll fly out and someone else who is banned, Andrew Tate who is banned, will not associate with him because Sneko's associated with me.
00:31:58.000I don't think he is giving anybody any impression or any illusion that he's trying to be anything other than that.
00:32:07.000He's playing something like a character, and to the extent that he's got something to say, to the extent that he has a message, I think that's where it begins and ends, is that he's got a little bit more substance and maybe a different point of view or a different disposition than most people, but that he's expressing it does not by itself make him an activist.
00:32:27.000That he's got a point of view which is considered out there and because he expresses it at some personal cost, that does not make him an activist, that does not make him a political actor by itself.
00:32:39.000So I don't think he's ever claimed to be that.
00:32:41.000That being said, he does go out there and say, well I don't need this, I don't need streaming, I don't need money, I'm rich, I'm set, I'm off the matrix, they can't control me, I got 10 passports, I got 10 bank accounts, I got 10 driver's license, I can do whatever I want.
00:32:58.000He's banned on all the social media platforms.
00:33:01.000You could say, arguably, what does he have to lose?
00:33:03.000If he's rich, and he's in another country, and he's on an alternative platform that they're paying him to be on, what does he really have to lose?
00:33:12.000And when we say, what does he have to lose, what we mean when we say that is that, and this is an important point, the system controls people.
00:33:24.000That's how the system really exerts control.
00:33:26.000Nobody really wants to be controlled, but people allow themselves to be controlled because the society or the institutions will take things away from them that they want.
00:33:37.000And so they'd rather have the things they want than their true freedom.
00:33:49.000That could be your wife or your dating prospects.
00:33:52.000Typically the social aspect of it is the strongest one.
00:33:57.000Most people maybe are willing to put their money where their mouth is, but are they willing to lose
00:34:02.000Their social standing, ostracism, was considered one of the worst penalties in the ancient world because we can't live without that social component.
00:34:13.000We can't live outside the society in a solitary way.
00:34:18.000So most people, they're controlled by what they stand to lose and the biggest thing that most people stand to lose is their relative status, their sense of belonging, their community.
00:34:30.000And anyway, so that, and that's sort of a separate point, but when we say Andrew Tate has nothing left to lose, we say as a rich guy who lives in another country, what could they take away from him?
00:34:40.000If he's got money, and he's got girls, and he's got his brother, and he's got his family, and he's got, he's all set, what do they really take away from him at this point when they've already taken his platforms, his payment processing?
00:34:55.000If they don't have that leverage against him, if they don't have levers to use to influence his behavior, then he should have total freedom.
00:35:06.000Well, if Sneko flies out there and hangs out and Andrew Tate says, you're a liability, I can't have you on my show, that creates a fundamental contradiction.
00:35:18.000Here's a guy who, his brand is, I have nothing left to lose.
00:36:38.000I don't exist on this horizontal spectrum where somebody's over here and I've got a more extreme position or I've got a more right-wing position.
00:36:48.000So, the differential, the variance, is latitude.
00:36:57.000I'm not somewhere else on an ideological spectrum where we're all equal and we all just have a difference of opinion and we all trust different but equal sources.
00:37:36.000And so when people look at me and they say, well, he's got these weird views, he's got these extreme views, he's got these right-wing views, I've got the views that have brought me more of the pain mechanism than anybody else.
00:37:49.000And you could see it comes in degrees, depending on what you say.
00:38:38.000And maybe a little bit further up, it's people like Alex Jones.
00:38:41.000And maybe a little bit further up, it's people like Andrew Tate.
00:38:43.000What are the kinds of issues that distinguish me from everybody else?
00:38:47.000Well, the main thing is I talk about Jewish power.
00:38:50.000That seems to be the one third rail that nobody will touch.
00:38:55.000And does that not in itself say something about that subject?
00:39:02.000Does the fact that that is the thing, or one of the things, that differentiates me from everybody else, and I have more of the pain mechanism than anybody else, does that not by itself say something about the subject?
00:39:16.000There are other people that talk about feminism like I do.
00:39:19.000There are other people that talk about Catholicism like I do.
00:39:22.000There are other people that talk about 9-11 like I do, or war, or Russia, or trade, or immigration, or even race like I do.
00:39:34.000But it's that issue, which is the one that very few people, really only me, I'm the only one that will go there.
00:39:41.000And as such, I'm the only one that attracts this level of attention, that attracts this level of pain from the lever pullers, from the institutions that wield the leverage.
00:39:54.000Does it not say something about the subject by itself?
00:40:36.000A lot of people look at me as sort of one character in a big cast of characters and my views as sort of qualitatively the same as everybody else's views.
00:40:46.000They're particular but they're of the similar characteristics.
00:40:49.000It's just one view among other kinds of views.
00:40:54.000But that ignores the context of the place that I find myself in the ecosystem, which is not just de-platformed, but de-banked.
00:41:02.000Not just de-banked and de-platformed, but persecuted by the government.
00:41:05.000Not just those things, but also blacklisted by the entirety of the mainstream and the left and the right.
00:41:12.000And what is it that has gotten me this far?
00:41:14.000Well, it's not all the control variables, the things that everybody else does that do not give them this level of oppression.
00:41:25.000And again, if you're getting the most flack when you're over the target,
00:41:45.000Then consider most people's avoidance of these subjects and the implications of that.
00:41:51.000If most people say, I'm not going to go there.
00:44:21.000And if you don't want to take that responsibility, then go and do something else.
00:44:27.000But I'm really sick and tired of being compared to other people, and people look at me a certain way and, oh, well, you know, here's all these problems with him, and, oh, the media attacks him, and, oh, he's got all these inconvenient baggage and things like that.
00:44:40.000I'm getting ripped to pieces by the system every day and all the time, and all the levers activated because I'm the one that's really telling the truth.
00:44:49.000And everybody else, they're only not receiving that insofar as they're not a threat.
00:44:55.000They're not threatening, they're not challenging, they're not talking about it, and what good is that?
00:45:01.000Yeah, what I'm doing, maybe it's not gonna succeed, maybe I'm gonna get killed, maybe we're all gonna get killed, and if that happens, people are gonna say, huh, we told you so, and look at that, and you know, they will detest our memory.
00:45:19.000But if there is an opportunity that we're going to win this, then we're going to be the ones that succeed.
00:45:26.000We're going to be the ones that are the tip of the spear.
00:45:28.000And if you're not doing that, then what you're doing isn't worth doing.
00:45:34.000So I see Andrew Tate, he goes, oh well that's a liability.
00:46:04.000Here I am drinking and having... Breaking out of the Matrix isn't about having sex with girls and buying fast cars.
00:46:09.000Breaking out of the Matrix is being able to stand here and say, on your own two feet, on your own platform, with your own money and your own niggas,
00:46:17.000That's what a real, that's what a real Top G would say.
00:47:18.000We've moved beyond the myths of 9-11 and World War II and JFK.
00:47:22.000We've moved beyond the myths of racism and anti-Semitism.
00:47:27.000We've transcended the false promises of liberalism and the secular and the Enlightenment.
00:47:33.000And we have recognized the limits of rationality and the empirical.
00:47:38.000It's about the totality of the worldview which is truly revolutionary, truly revolutionary,
00:47:44.000against the unipolar deep state in the United States and the people that wield it and the narratives they spin up to maintain their control over the population.
00:48:10.000And I hate to say that, because like I said, I like Andrew Tate.
00:48:16.000I'm not trying to say anything negative about him, but I am saying people look at all these others that are elevated and pushed up, and even to some extent when they become martyrs,
00:48:30.000And it's like, take a look at all these people.
00:49:33.000I told you, I hear that in politics, I've been told that by people that I like in politics, and it's okay, that's their prerogative, but I have very low regard, I hold that in very low regard.
00:49:45.000People have told me, we can't back you up, we gotta pull the rug out from under you, because we gotta live to fight another day.
00:49:51.000And it's like, what the fuck do you really think you're accomplishing when all is said and done?
00:50:32.000So... But that's how they get you with the sunk cost hanging on so we don't lose.
00:50:42.000I told you that's what differentiated Trump when he went on that stage in 2015 in August and said, if I don't win I'll run as an independent and I'll sink the whole ticket.
00:50:55.000And that's the difference between that and him campaigning for Leffler and Purdue and Georgia saying, hold the line.
00:51:40.000Elections, foreign policy, public health, immigration, race, you name it.
00:51:50.000And so everybody's trying to take care of their own fiefdom that they receive from the state, from the government, and it's growing smaller and smaller all the time, and they're just hanging on.
00:52:02.000At what point are people going to jump ship and say, we've got to do something about this?
00:55:11.000I don't know how many times I've heard people say, well I agree with you, you know like privately or whatever, but no boldness at all in how they operate.
00:55:57.000And I didn't do a show Friday because I was tired.
00:56:00.000I did a stream where I covered the speech.
00:56:05.000And then I was gonna go to bed, and then we had to ratio that congressman, so I streamed for a couple hours doing that, and I was very high energy, so I was just exhausted.
00:56:17.000I'm just going to bed, taking the night off, which I did.
00:56:22.000So I never got a chance to cover this, but Friday we went over it live.
00:56:27.000Vladimir Putin gave a lengthy speech, a voluminous, in his words, speech,
00:56:34.000Declaring essentially a global revolution against the United States, and I'll get into what that means specifically.
00:56:42.000Epic speech, and that was before the signing ceremony where he formally signed the treaties which initiated the accession of the four Ukrainian territories into Russia.
00:57:05.000Ever, declared the beginning of a new anti-colonial movement against the doomed governments of the United States and its allies, speaking at a ceremony Friday in which he formally declared dominion over parts of Ukraine.
00:57:18.000The remarks from the embattled leader in a grand ballroom filled with stone-faced bureaucrats as well as regional and religious leaders served as a ceremonial capstone on the Kremlin orchestrated process in recent days of forcing referendums on four oblasts in Ukraine,
00:57:34.000That it partially occupies, which resulted in conspicuously high levels of supposed support for joining Russia.
00:57:46.000In an extent, no offense, we like Russia today, but seriously, we couldn't get an editor to look at that?
00:57:52.000In an extensive speech, Putin railed against what he considered the West's growing influence and called for a liberation anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony.
00:58:02.000He said, quote, the West is ready to step over everything to preserve the neocolonial system that allows it to parasitize, in fact, to plunder the world at the expense of the power of the dollar and technological dictate.
00:58:15.000Western countries have, quote, nothing to offer other than robbery and racketeering.
00:58:21.000In fact, they spit on the natural right of billions of people, most of humanity, to freedom and justice to determine their future on their own.
00:58:29.000He described as slaves the economic powerhouses that since World War II have allied with the United States, specifically South Korea, Japan, and Germany, the last of which Russia has targeted with particular political and economic pressure, and he made paranoid allusions to those governments being watched with listening devices not only in their offices but also in residential premises.
00:58:53.000Putin's likening to the last time Europe witnessed warfare on a scale of his own invasion follows a central play by his regime in Moscow of attempting to rally Russians around a collective identity of historically vanquishing invaders like the Nazis.
00:59:09.000He concluded his remarks saying, the truth is behind us, Russia is behind us.
00:59:51.000So, you could say that the world is multipolar, bipolar, unipolar, and describes what the dynamic of power in the world is between states or between political entities.
01:00:07.000So, during the Concert of Europe in the 19th century, you had a multipolar... I'm sure a lot of you guys know this stuff.
01:00:14.000In the 19th century you had a multipolar world order where you had various great powers with industrialized economies and advanced technological armies and bureaucratic states.
01:00:26.000You had the British Empire, the French Empire, the German Empire, the Italian Empire, the Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, all vying for colonies and influence in Europe.
01:00:38.000That was multipolar because there were multiple poles of power exerting influence.
01:00:43.000And then after World War II, he had a bipolar world order.
01:01:48.000It's like in an economy where there's a monopoly.
01:01:51.000If there's a monopoly on a particular product, the monopolist can determine the price and the quality and they can have whatever practices they want because there's no competition.
01:02:06.000And that is borne out with the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, with their intervention in Serbia, and their intervention in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Libya, and Syria, and where we've acted with impunity and without restraint around the globe based on our own whims.
01:02:25.000And even not just in those places, but in other places too, where we've used hybrid warfare and covert means of subterfuge.
01:02:50.000And so Putin is saying that he's declaring, that's the basis of the speech, is he's saying we're leading a revolution against the Unipol, against unipolar globalist rule.
01:03:01.000And the irony in this whole Ukraine conflict is how the United States has portrayed the conflict.
01:03:08.000Because they've portrayed Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a David and Goliath story.
01:03:15.000But that Russia is Goliath and Ukraine is David.
01:03:19.000And that is just a complete context denial because, of course, Ukraine is being used as a forward operating base for the United States, which is vastly more powerful than Russia.
01:03:33.000So, to say that Russia is the big bully picking on Ukraine, the little guy, is true in a very narrow sense.
01:04:26.000Russia's an autocratic empire trying to assert fascism and autocracy and is going to threaten smaller nations and that's why the United States has to come to the defense of Ukraine.
01:04:41.000And when I point out that the United States has a military budget of $750 billion and Russia has a military budget of $65 billion, just Washington against Moscow, Washington spends 10 times more.
01:04:57.000But then that doesn't include all of the alliances, all the other economies, all the other countries which have contributed their military support and they've got billion dollar budgets.
01:05:10.000And all of their economies, the G7 economies, which have pledged to sanction Russia and cut them off from the world currency market.
01:05:19.000It completely ignores the real and the most salient dynamic, which is how Ukraine fits into the last 30 years.
01:05:28.000Which is not Russian expansion westward, but NATO expansion eastward.
01:05:34.000Not Russia trying to take over the world, but the United States trying to undermine and destroy all possible adversaries and subordinate every country, every government to its will.
01:06:31.000Is it Russia gobbling up countries because it hates freedom?
01:06:34.000Or is it the United States backing a neo-Nazi puppet government which it installed with a revolution through spies and espionage which is now doing
01:06:46.000Horrible things against the native population.
01:07:45.000But when the Communists got control of Russia in 1922, they effectively declared war on the entire world.
01:07:52.000They said, we're not paying back any of Russia's debts, we're stealing all the property that's here that other governments had, and we are now going to support revolutions around the world.
01:08:02.000They called it the Communist International, and they had specific policies which varied between the Lenin government and the Stalin government.
01:08:10.000But they supported communist revolutions everywhere, which is very hostile action.
01:08:15.000And so it wasn't until the 1930s when other governments even recognized them as the rightful, sovereign government over Russia, because they were considered a pariah state.
01:08:27.000And they were a pariah state, they were a revolutionary regime because of their ideology.
01:08:33.000It was a regime of ideological zealots that were pushing something that was revolutionary against the capitalist, liberal world order.
01:08:44.000And so that's what made them this sort of burgeoning, bursting at the seams with domino theory, spreading communism to all their neighbors and supporting these fifth columns and spy rings and things like that.
01:09:00.000And we properly understood during the Cold War that that was a threat.
01:09:03.000And that's why we went to war with the Soviet Union in every way other than with guns and with like a hot war.
01:09:49.000The communists said, we are throwing off the chains of capitalism, we are throwing off the chains of the colonial powers, and the bourgeoisie, and that kind of thing.
01:10:00.000And now Vladimir Putin is saying, we are throwing off the chains of globalism.
01:10:04.000We're throwing off the chains of liberalism.
01:10:07.000Or the false siren song of liberalism which is really about domination by the American deep state and by the bureaucracy in Washington D.C.
01:10:19.000And so when he concluded his speech by saying, I eat and breathe Russia, my soul is Russian, I fight for Russia, Russia's victory is my victory, Russia stands behind us,
01:10:32.000He's animating this revolution with the idea of, which is non-ideological, but of a totally different qualitative character, national.
01:10:44.000Because you could say the 20th century was the war of ideology, of ideas, communists versus capitalists and socialists, and even the 19th century was like this.
01:11:07.000I'm fighting for our people to control our affairs and for the people in our government to serve the people of this nation, not other entities.
01:12:34.000That means NATO is not breathing down your neck and putting missiles in Ukraine and overthrowing governments on your border and bringing them into the fold.
01:12:43.000So Putin's truly the freedom fighter, and this speech was his declaration of a revolution based on national identity and sovereignty against the United States.
01:13:18.000Not everywhere, and certainly there were horrible atrocities.
01:13:24.000But you look around the third world in the 20th century, and a lot of the revolutionaries were communists.
01:13:32.000Not because they were communists, but because communism was the only language of revolution.
01:13:40.000During the decolonization period after World War II, Africans, Latin Americans, Asians, they were really, it was really an expression of anti-colonialism.
01:13:52.000It's just that only in communism did they find their voice, because only the communists literally were writing the books.
01:13:59.000Only the communists were supplying the arms and writing the books about revolution and critiquing the colonial governments.
01:14:05.000Now, I'm not a communist, and I don't support communism or Marxism or Leninism or anything like that, but it's to make a broader point, which is this has been going on for a long time.
01:14:17.000And you could say that even the 20th century was less about ideology than we think it was.
01:14:22.000And you could say that the 19th century was less about ideology than we think it was.
01:14:33.000It's really just about the question of who will rule.
01:14:36.000And ideology in the era of mass media has just been part of the tools of warfare, of how you are able to conscript large amounts of people to wield guns and form armies to march on your behalf.
01:14:50.000That's really the purpose of ideology.
01:14:52.000And ideology can't be separated from the technology of its age.
01:14:58.000You don't have an age of ideology without an age of technology.
01:15:02.000And that's how we have to understand things going forward.
01:17:17.000We're this total, like I said, unchecked, unrestrained, unipolar power and look at the people in Washington or in the other cities that are pulling the levers.
01:17:28.000It would be one thing if they were Catholic or something, or even for that matter like liberal, but they're devil worshippers.
01:17:39.000They fly the flag of trans and gay and BLM.
01:17:44.000When they invade countries and overthrow governments.
01:19:07.000Everyone in the international community agreed he should have went even though they disagreed the manner in which we went about it.
01:19:12.000Still not a good thing but there was some consensus there in the United Nations in 99.
01:19:18.000And here we are 20 years later and we're blowing up the infrastructure of our allies against their own wishes and dooming them to a recession and the end of German manufacturing.
01:19:46.000And if, like, if you don't see that and begin to understand what's going on here, who's the problem?
01:19:53.000Then I don't know what to tell you, but some people are so high on their own supply with this democracy, freedom fighter, NATO stuff, they just, they can't see it.
01:21:10.000I was pissing so much the other night.
01:21:15.000Don't they say that when you're diabetic you have to pee all the time I had to pee like I Don't know what was going on, but I didn't pee at all today.