00:00:33.000Some people are not so happy, I have to say, from the episode yesterday.
00:00:38.000We covered the Serious Strike yesterday.
00:00:41.000And if you watch, if you look at the like to dislike ratio, we still did very good in terms of there's still almost double the amount of likes that there are dislikes.
00:00:50.000But that said, the Dislike Brigade was out in full force yesterday.
00:01:00.000And I said yesterday, I titled the episode, Why I Support the Serious Strike, which is a very provocative title, admittedly, and it's to get people.
00:01:09.000But I prefaced the whole show by saying, look, you have to listen very carefully to what's about to be said because I laid out, I think, pretty convincingly and factually, a pretty solid case for why one might support the Syria strike.
00:01:23.000Even if you support Bashar Assad, even if you're against the neocon foreign policy establishment, even if you think we have no business in Syria, I think I laid out a pretty convincing case.
00:01:33.000And I laid it out before I laid it out, I said, you have to listen very carefully.
00:01:40.000Hear everything, not just the things you don't want to hear, the things you want to hear.
00:01:45.000And it's astounding because all the comments, and I delete all the comments because I'm not about to let my show become a platform for people to insult me.
00:01:53.000But I read through the comments, and it's either just completely not substantive.
00:01:58.000It's, I'm disappointed that you disagree with me.
00:02:03.000You know, we're going to do mental gymnastics to support Trump.
00:02:06.000Or it's something that was totally covered in the show.
00:02:08.000And at least I give credit to the people.
00:02:11.000That they offer a substantive rebuttal, but it's like, listen to the show.
00:02:15.000I hear people saying, well, Nick, if he attacks every time there's a chemical attack, then every time they have an incentive to do chemical attacks and we'll have to strike.
00:03:02.000But I've never said Tucker Carlson is an idiot and I hate him and I'm disappointed and I'm unsubscribing because he said something I disagree with.
00:03:46.000You know, all last week it was Syria, it was Syria last night, and so finally we can say, I think we're done with it for now.
00:03:53.000We're still going to be talking about it as the situation is ongoing, as the Syrian civil war continues.
00:03:59.000And we will discuss some of the aftermath towards the end of the show tonight.
00:04:03.000There are some new things we've learned about the strike, about the reaction, about what's going to happen moving forward.
00:04:10.000And also, if you are interested, America First World Report, there's a new episode coming out tonight.
00:04:16.000And this is, I think, my most important episode of that show or any America First show to date, because we really do some digging, not From the American lens, but from the Israeli lens.
00:04:28.000And so we've been covering the Syrian civil war mostly from America's perspective, how it benefits America, the American strikes, and so on.
00:04:37.000And, excuse me, on the podcast tonight on World Report, which is our exclusive foreign affairs podcast for premium members, we are looking into it from the Israeli perspective.
00:04:48.000And you'll find if you look into a certain memo called the Clean Break Memo, which was published in 1996.
00:04:57.000Written by a man by the name of Robert Pearl for Benjamin Netanyahu, you start to really peel back the layers and see just why we're involved in Syria, why we're involved in Iraq for that matter, why we've been involved in countries like Somalia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and quite possibly in the near future, Iran.
00:05:17.000And so we're going to do a very important show.
00:05:18.000I'll be publishing that shortly after this show tonight on Maker Support for the Premium Members.
00:05:58.000With that out of the way, a lot of the housekeeping stuff out of the way, we are here to report on the current events, some new developments about North Korea.
00:06:07.000Seeing the North Korea summit coming together, President Trump met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan this afternoon at Mar a Lago.
00:06:58.000I really, I gotta be honest: I don't care.
00:07:01.000You know, Baked Alaska's a friend of mine.
00:07:04.000And that's, I think, about as far as it goes.
00:07:06.000Do I have a really hard hitting take about the fact that, you know, he spurged out on his live chat and now so and so saying this and they're saying he did this?
00:07:16.000I don't care, folks, and we're not going to cover it.
00:07:18.000There's no trailer trash bimbos on the show either.
00:07:23.000Let's get straight into it for some real content.
00:07:27.000And the first big thing we got to talk about, finally, is North Korea.
00:07:31.000And this is, I think, gives you a little bit of an insight into.
00:07:34.000Where I was coming from with the Syria strike, when we get into North Korea.
00:07:39.000This has been, and we hear a lot about Syria when the strikes come, when the strike came down in April of last year, and when the strike came down this weekend.
00:07:48.000But if you look at President Trump, you look at the anatomy of this presidency, really the focus of this administration, which is striking, has been on North Korea and specifically, or rather more generally, on the Pacific, which I think is very much different.
00:08:04.000Than the last two or three or four administrations, particularly starting with Bush.
00:08:09.000Because we look at President Bush, whose main concern was obviously the Middle East.
00:08:14.000That was a theater he was concerned with.
00:08:34.000So much concerned with what was happening in the Pacific.
00:08:37.000Although Barack Obama had this vaunted policy of the pivot to Asia, this was a big initiative in the Obama administration where they said we're going to engage with the Pacific, and for good reason.
00:08:50.000All the biggest emerging markets are in the Pacific.
00:08:52.000You look at Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, China.
00:08:58.000The future is going to be in the Pacific, the future is going to be in Southeast and East Asia.
00:09:04.000And so, President Obama, though he promised we're going to pivot to Asia, we're going to have great relations, really haven't seen it.
00:09:12.000Really, we were confined to North Africa and the Middle East.
00:09:16.000And this isn't totally, I don't think it's totally Barack Obama's fault, given that you had the Arab Spring, which happened in 2011.
00:09:27.000So, I don't think it was totally his fault.
00:09:29.000You could see where a lot of those events were partly or in full a result of the Obama administration's foreign policy.
00:09:37.000But nevertheless, Past two administrations were concerned with the Middle East.
00:09:41.000The Trump administration is different.
00:09:44.000And to really drive this point home before we get into current events, because I think it's really key here to understanding the Trump doctrine, his focus has been on the Pacific since he got into office.
00:09:55.000Trump is a businessman, he's done business since the 1980s.
00:09:59.000And because he's in the private sector, because he understands the world economy and how integrated the American economy is into the world economy, and who are the big movers and shakers, and which Sectors of the economy are really kicking off for the next 100 years.
00:10:18.000He understands and has understood in the 80s and 90s what an important emerging market Japan was, what an important emerging market South Korea is, and ultimately what an important emerging market China is.
00:10:30.000He also sees that in terms of defense, that's going to be a big consideration with China rising and rising and challenging our allies in the Pacific as Russia is on the decline in terms of population and economy, as the Middle East, this is another key thing.
00:10:46.000Were energy factors in a big concern for why we got into the Middle East in the first place?
00:10:51.000Although people say it's because of energy, and it has been because of energy.
00:10:55.000We originally got into cahoots with Saudi Arabia and others because of energy.
00:11:00.000Now we're in there more so to protect Israel.
00:11:03.000But in terms of the explicit, or rather the public interest for why we're in the Middle East, which is energy, even that is on the decline.
00:11:10.000You think, or rather, you see in the Trump administration that we've really taken advantage of America's energy resources.
00:11:19.000Sometime this week, that the United States is now the world's number one producer of oil and natural gas.
00:11:26.000And you'll see that as the United States increases our oil production, our energy production, as we switch over just as a result of the technology to more electric and other kinds of energy, you're going to see the prominence and the role of these Middle Eastern countries decrease.
00:11:41.000The only reason we care about Saudi Arabia, as opposed to other countries that are entangled with Israel, one of the main reasons we're concerned with Saudi Arabia is because of the Persian Gulf.
00:11:52.000One of the main reasons why we see Iran as such a big threat is because of the Persian Gulf, because of how much oil.
00:11:58.000And other energy resources come out of there.
00:12:01.000If we're energy self sufficient in 10 to 15 years, when Saudi Arabia stops being one of the preeminent suppliers of oil, and you see already they're putting into place economic plans, long term and short term plans to diversify their economy, to prepare for the inevitable end of their oil production and being able to shore up this massively wealthy kingdom, very precariously placed royal family based on a single commodity.
00:12:28.000I think you're going to see more and more of this pivot to Asia be seen in the future as a very intelligent, a very smart, a very prescient move.
00:12:35.000So, Trump, I think, from the beginning has been preoccupied with Asia, and you see this in the North Korea situation.
00:12:42.000And it's striking, not just in the general sense, where we see it's a profound and a smart thing to do to go from Middle East to Asia, but also in terms of security and defense to go from Iran and Iraq and Syria over to North Korea.
00:12:59.000And, like I said a moment ago, Although we get very preoccupied with Syria and we say Trump is a neocon in Syria, Trump is a neocon in the Middle East, you look at the news cycle, and I've been looking at the news cycle since inauguration.
00:13:13.000This show's been going on since February 5th, 2017.
00:13:17.000So, about two weeks after the inauguration, I started covering the news on a daily basis, every day and in excruciating detail sometimes.
00:13:25.000And I can tell you from my personal experience, and I'm sure the data would support this as well, the vast majority of time and energy and rhetoric.
00:13:40.000And we saw this throughout the campaign as well in 2016.
00:13:43.000We talked far more, or rather, Trump talked far more about China and North Korea than he did about Iran or Iraq or even Russia for that matter.
00:13:51.000Although Russia was played up, he really didn't talk about Russia that much.
00:13:56.000And that's where we see other foreign policy decisions are there maybe to shore up the policy in Asia because Trump understands the strategic importance.
00:14:06.000And as we look at the Syria strike last week, As an example to North Korea and China, we look at even tariffs.
00:14:12.000I was reading an article today in USA Today where they were saying that actually the tariffs on steel and aluminum, they had a 25 and a 10% tariff on steel and aluminum because of the nature of that industry.
00:14:26.000It's about $140 billion in global trade that that 25 and 10% tariff pertains to.
00:14:39.000But regardless, that would be about $140 billion in global tariffs.
00:14:43.000And all the economic experts say on that kind of tariff on steel and aluminum, which is such a big industry globally with all our trading partners, that it's unenforceable.
00:14:54.000And we'd only be able to tariff about $1.5 billion worth of either because of how much of these raw materials are circulating in the world.
00:15:02.000And so you can interpret economic measures such as the trade war.
00:15:06.000You look at how we renegotiated that trade deal with South Korea from 2002.
00:15:11.000And before we signed it, Trump said actually now it's contingent on peace with North Korea.
00:15:44.000Because if you look at it from the perspective that China is going to be here for a long time, China is going to be a major player, China is going to be.
00:15:53.000A rising star, if there is going to be this multipolar world order, China's going to be a big player in it, maybe secondary or tertiary to the United States and Russia, then you understand that North Korea is the short term, China's the long term.
00:16:09.000And what it serves to do in dealing with North Korea now is to set a precedent with China, is to build rapport with China.
00:16:18.000We can look at Syria, we can look at tariffs as focused on North Korea, but we look at North Korea as a focus on China.
00:16:25.000Where, what we're trying to do with North Korea is actually diplomacy with China.
00:16:29.000What we're really doing is saying, this is how we can negotiate, this is how we can cooperate in a multipolar world order.
00:16:37.000This is how we can engage with China and finesse China into a world order where both countries can coexist.
00:16:45.000And this makes a lot of sense because Mearsheimer has written about this.
00:16:49.000Many people have written about this that a conflict with China is almost inevitable in the next century, given the rise of China economically, demographically, militarily.
00:16:59.000Given the United States, our hegemony on the seas, our hegemony in the Pacific, it's almost bound to happen by the Thucydides trap, where it says that a pre existing regional or global hegemon naturally comes into conflict with a rising hegemon, regionally or globally.
00:17:16.000This is what happened in World War I when a rising Germany challenged Britain, and that carried into World War II.
00:17:22.000This is what tends to happen with great powers.
00:17:24.000And so I think you have to look at North Korea, and this is a very extended and long winded.
00:17:29.000Context for the current events that we're about to dive into with North Korea is we have to look at North Korea as the building block in a better relationship with China.
00:17:39.000North Korea is how we build rapport with China.
00:17:42.000It's almost like, and this is going to be a difficult analogy to follow maybe, but it's almost like how people say the Civil War was about slavery and actually it was about states' rights.
00:17:52.000In the same vein, our conflict with North Korea is really about China.
00:17:55.000It's like this is a particular issue that will be tackled in the larger premise of our relationship with China.
00:18:05.000But so the news today, of course, big news President Trump had Shinzo Abe over at Mar a Lago, the Mar a Lago resort in Florida today for a meeting.
00:18:17.000And this is partly because of North Korea.
00:18:36.000That's seen as disastrous for Shinzo Abe.
00:18:39.000That was a big part of Abenomics, which was this transformative economic policy ad in China.
00:18:44.000You have the summit with North Korea, which, by virtue of Trump agreeing to meet Kim Jong un one to one in a bilateral meeting, many in Japan see that as elbowing Japan out of the conversation.
00:18:57.000And one of the biggest and most important issues for Japan in the North Korea United States situation is Japanese hostages that were taken in 1980 by North Korea or throughout the 1980s by North Korea.
00:19:09.000They see that Shinzo Abe's maybe weak, not so strong.
00:19:12.000So, a part of the reason why you even have a summit today between Abe and Trump is so that Abe can be seen as he's still a preeminent world leader.
00:19:22.000Trump is seen with a lot of respect in Japan and Asia, or if not respect, it's at least seen as a distraction, and it shows that Abe is relevant in the world.
00:19:33.000And so, they sat down today to talk about terrorists.
00:19:35.000They sat down today to talk about North Korea.
00:19:37.000And during their meeting, there was some press, there were some conversations, and Trump confirmed that there are high level discussions happening directly.
00:19:46.000Between the U.S. government and North Korea.
00:19:49.000President Trump said that he takes credit for the success of the South Korean Olympics this year, and he also says that he gives South and North Korea his blessing for ending the war.
00:20:00.000And there was a report earlier this week from an unnamed South Korean official that both North and South Korea are preparing an official statement to bring an end to the Korean War, which has not ended since 1950.
00:20:13.000Started in 1950, there was an armistice.
00:20:19.000And so that's where we are with North Korea.
00:20:21.000And I think once you look at what's in development there, and the meeting is planned for June or a little bit earlier, which is what President Trump says, they have five locations that are in the conversation right now, five different locations that are considering to hold the summit.
00:20:39.000There will be a summit between North and South Korea later this month on April 28th, and they're allegedly putting together a statement where they're going to bring an end to the war and additionally.
00:20:49.000The South Korean president said that North Korea has tacitly committed to denuclearization by even being a part of those talks.
00:20:57.000Well, it looks like that's really on the table.
00:20:59.000And right now, what we're seeing, the major reports about what is planned for this meeting.
00:21:03.000So we have the summit between North and South Korea later this month.
00:21:07.000We have the U.S. North Korea summit in later May.
00:21:11.000And it's five different cities they're looking at.
00:21:13.000The major considerations here for how we can move forward is that either there's going to be denuclearization by 2020, by summer.
00:21:22.000Of 2020, which would be a few months before the 2020 elections, very smart in that way.
00:21:27.000It'll either be a year, a year after the summit, so that would be summer 2019, or it would be sometime before the 2018 midterm elections.
00:21:37.000Now, obviously, it'd be a little bit strained.
00:21:39.000That's a little dubious that they would get him out in a matter of three or four months, but who knows?
00:21:43.000And that's what's in discussion right now.
00:21:46.000I think it's important, however, because many people are talking about should he meet with Kim Jong un, should he not.
00:21:51.000And really, what it comes down to is this with the meeting that's coming up.
00:21:55.000Is Trump has not committed to anything yet, right?
00:21:59.000Trump still has sanctions on North Korea.
00:22:02.000Trump still has drills being carried out, joint military drills with South Korea in the Pacific.
00:22:08.000And so we're giving up nothing by agreeing to meet with Kim Jong un.
00:23:01.000Where we can say this is probably not a great idea.
00:23:04.000And that's if the president agrees to incremental adjustments in the sanctions regime.
00:23:10.000And this is kind of what happened with the Iran deal, a little bit, not totally.
00:23:14.000Which is to say that if President Trump sits down with Kim Jong un and they agree to synchronized incremental peace or treaty or negotiation or whatever, what that would mean is that, let's say, Kim Jong un disables a nuclear centrifuge.
00:23:30.000He disables some element of the nuclear program.
00:23:33.000And in exchange, we disable one element of the sanctions regime.
00:23:37.000If it's anything like that, it's a bad deal.
00:23:43.000Different kinds of meetings and summits take place before where Kim Jong Un, North Korea, or rather, Kim Jong Un took power, I think in 2011, but other North Korean leaders, other rogue regimes like Iran.
00:23:55.000And when I say rogue, people say, oh, you say rogue regime, what is that?
00:24:01.000I'm only using the language of the establishment.
00:24:04.000What I mean by that is a nation with a nuclear arsenal that is not a part of the NPT or some kind of weapon of mass destruction.
00:24:11.000So you look at other actors like Iran, Syria, Libya, all kinds of actors where They agree to talks, they agree to incremental synchronized reform, and then they renege on their responsibility.
00:24:23.000So that could very easily happen, where Trump goes in and says, let's agree to you take the first step, we'll take the first step, you take the next step, and so on and so forth.
00:24:32.000And before you know it, sanctions regime has unraveled.
00:24:35.000Maybe we get our troops out of South Korea, and North Korea is rebuilding their nuclear arsenal.
00:24:42.000So whatever happens in North Korea, whatever happens with North Korea in the summit, it has to be they agree to denuclearization, and it has to be a package deal.
00:24:51.000That the assurances we give them is we don't seek regime change.
00:24:55.000The assurances, you know, we come up with some kind of way to guarantee we won't invade.
00:25:00.000Maybe we end in some kind of a peace with South Korea, something like that.
00:25:04.000But can't let up the sanctions regime, can't let up anything else incrementally.
00:25:07.000Maybe you put a consulate in North Korea, but you can't disable the sanctions regime.
00:25:11.000That's where all the leverage comes from.
00:25:13.000And we saw that's what's happening with Iran right now.
00:25:16.000The problem with the Iran nuclear deal, and I favor a deal with Iran.
00:25:20.000Iran is a country that should be contained.
00:25:22.000I mean, that's one of the only ways that we'll be able to.
00:25:26.000In some way, control them within our interest in the sense that we can guide their behavior in a way that's not going to harm us without having to enforce anything that will also harm us.
00:25:37.000In the sense that if you abandon the idea of containment with Iran, if you abandon the idea that you can make a deal, that you can have bilateral talks and negotiations with them, well, then it's either invasion or it's something else.
00:25:50.000I don't even know what the alternative would be.
00:26:09.000European nations are doing business with them.
00:26:11.000This international sanctions regime that took 20 years to construct, and even with other P5 nations in the security counts like Russia and China, we built that up over a long time using leverage that has long since vanished over those other great powers to build up this pressure, this leverage on Iran.
00:26:49.000And the only way to go about it with these countries is to say, look, they're not evil, they're not these apocalyptic regimes, they're probably not going to nuke us.
00:26:58.000We have to understand it's probably in our best interest.
00:27:01.000If weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating in the world, if they're not spreading, if they're not going all over the place, and they're not falling into the hands of the wrong people, that doesn't mean it's in our interest to invade.
00:27:13.000That doesn't mean it's in our interest to go in and destroy them or take them.
00:27:17.000But it is to say it's probably in our interest that they don't spread.
00:27:21.000Let's find a way to do that peacefully through deals.
00:27:29.000He's made deals in the private sector.
00:27:31.000And we'll see what happens, but he's got to follow those guidelines.
00:27:34.000Either way, I think it's very reassuring.
00:27:36.000I think it's a very reassuring thing that we're seeing some kind of a deal being made.
00:27:40.000Because if you recall, the same kind of rhetoric that we heard about Syria, and I'll never forget, because I remember, I'm Italian, I remember every slight, I remember every nasty thing that's been said or done.
00:27:52.000We heard the same rhetoric about Syria that we heard about North Korea throughout the Trump administration.
00:27:58.000Whenever Trump said, you know, little Kim, rocket man, whatever, when he tweeted something provocative, when he made a provocative statement, When he sent three carriers over into the Japanese sea to do joint military exercises with South Korea, all the black pillars said the deep state has got Trump.
00:28:53.000You threaten, you do the drills, you do the sanctions, you beat up China, you blow people up in other corners of the world, and you make it out there that you're serious, and then you bring them to the negotiating table.
00:29:25.000It's very difficult for me because it's like, if I want to remember something, where do you even put a reminder for that thing that you're supposed to remember, right?
00:29:34.000If it's like, I want to remember this in a year, it's like, do I put it in a bookmark?
00:29:50.000But nevertheless, for the elephants, for the good memoried people watching the show, my ballsy prediction is this you will see the same approach with Iran that you saw with North Korea.
00:30:02.000I think that if we have significant momentum on North Korea, if we start to do a good job with North Korea and we see that there is some promise in this diplomacy, mark my words, I think you'll see a very similar process.
00:30:17.000Similar, but not the same, a similar process with Iran in trying to renegotiate the nuclear deal because we're already hearing about renegotiating the Iran nuclear deal.
00:30:29.000There's a deadline coming up where Trump has to certify the deal.
00:30:33.000He refused to certify it, I think, the last time that he was supposed to.
00:30:37.000It's something like every 90 days or every six months, the president has to certify the deal to say that Iran is in compliance and that we're moving forward with it.
00:30:49.000Mark my words, the Iran nuclear deal will be renegotiated in a manner very similar to North Korea and also even to some of the other situations like NAFTA or trade with China.
00:31:01.000I think it's going to happen in the same way.
00:31:03.000So if people say, oh, Trump's got neocon rhetoric in Syria and Iran and North Korea, I believe it's all part of a broader strategy.
00:31:11.000Once you start to see that this is the way that Trump operates, once you start to see that this is just the way the man's mind works, not in terms of ideology, not in terms of grand strategy.
00:31:22.000But in terms of deals, in terms of tactics, in terms of leverage, negotiations, this is the way the man thinks.
00:31:29.000I don't think, like the Bush administration or the neocons in the Bush administration, I don't think he has grand designs for democracy in North Korea.
00:31:38.000I don't think he has any illusions about what a peace would look like.
00:31:44.000And so we'll see if that happens in North Korea.
00:31:46.000We'll see if that even happens in Iran.
00:31:48.000But there are some new developments we heard about the Syria strike, which we'll go over very briefly and then get into Neil Gorsuch, which I think are important.
00:31:57.000I read the other day on Vox that actually there are some very good reports from some sources in the White House which say that actually the plan that John Bolton proposed for Syria, who's the new national security chief, who everybody said, John Bolton's the national security chief, it's all over.
00:32:16.000They said, Trump has gone full neocon.
00:32:25.000We're going to war with Iran, North Korea, and everyone else.
00:32:28.000And I said, no, no, no, it's all part of the plan.
00:32:30.000That serves to demonstrate that there are some hawkish elements in the cabinet.
00:32:34.000It's to make these other countries scared that maybe Trump is serious and he's credible when he says we're going to go to war.
00:32:41.000And so we actually found out the other day that after Trump struck three empty facilities in Syria, killing no one, we found out that John Bolton was actually pushing for something far worse.
00:32:51.000John Bolton's proposal for the response to the Syrian chemical weapons attack was that we do significant, extensive air raids to destroy Assad's entire war making capability.
00:33:04.000So, whereas Trump said, let's do five days of warning, we'll warn Syria we're coming for five days, and then we'll do a precise surgical strike on three empty facilities and kill no one.
00:33:17.000And he shot down John Bolton's proposal, which was let's do extensive air raids and destroy the Assad regime's capability to fight a war.
00:34:11.000If he said, oh no, we sent chemical weapons inspectors and determined that wasn't going to happen, that's completely unrealistic.
00:34:18.000But even if that did happen, I still think this is not even a bad option at all.
00:34:22.000The second thing we learned is that there are some high level sources that reported to the Wall Street Journal that actually Trump wants some kind of an Arab force to come in and replace the United States occupation of Syria.
00:34:34.000There was a press conference on Air Force One where Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, we still want to get out of Syria as soon as possible.
00:34:43.000And then there was a report that came in that said actually, Trump has been looking into replacing our residual force in Syria with some kind of Arab coalition of Egypt, the Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia to consolidate northeastern Syria and stabilize the country.
00:35:00.000And I just really think it's staggering because I've gotten tons of backlash for my take on the Syria strike.
00:35:06.000And the amount that the goalposts have shifted on this issue is insane.
00:35:20.000They should be ridiculed because they were telling us on Friday.
00:35:25.000And I remember there was somebody, I have a really good friend of mine who watches the show.
00:35:29.000She was telling me that one of these prominent alt right personalities who does like a talk show, somebody that you all know, was telling people in group DMs and group chats start stocking up on water and buying non perishables and head to your basement.
00:35:45.000Somebody, a very prominent, By all means, an otherwise credible person was telling people that they should shelter in place on Friday because World War III was coming and we were going to get nuked.
00:35:58.000Go out, and by the way, saying this to people with families, with wives, people who maybe they don't know what's going on, telling them, shelter in place.
00:36:10.000So they went from on Friday saying, Trump has cucked.
00:36:13.000He's not only going to war with Syria, but he's also going to war with Russia.
00:36:18.000And therefore, we can never support him again.
00:36:20.000To fast forward just four days later, they're saying that the point of no return, the line which we cannot cross, is blowing up a few empty buildings.
00:36:30.000And then, and here's the best part of all: then, when you show them, and actually, not only did we do the least bad option, not only did we shut down John Bolton, and we did something that had no consequence whatsoever for the Assad regime, for Putin, for anything, not only that, but we're actually going to replace our American presence with.
00:36:50.000An Arab presence, and we're going to get our troops out of there.
00:37:03.000So these people go from we're off the Trump train because he went to war with Russia, which if he went to war with Russia, yeah, I'm with you.
00:37:11.000If he went to war with Syria, I'm with you.
00:37:13.000But they went from that to Trump is not doing a good enough job because he's having an Arab coalition take over for the United States, and that's still really bad.
00:37:24.000There was no consequence for what he did to appease the neocons, but it violated international law.
00:37:43.000Trump still wants to meet with Putin, still wants to meet with him.
00:37:47.000After he made an overture in his tweets, after he made an overture in a statement to say we can cooperate with Russia, we can reintegrate Russia.
00:37:55.000He says he still wants to meet with Russia.
00:37:57.000He says that when the United States, when he found out that the United States had expelled more diplomats in response to the assassination of that former Russian spy in the UK, he was furious that we had such an over the top response to Russia.
00:38:13.000So you see, every announcement, every development, whether it's with North Korea or Russia or with Syria, I mean, just everything that's come out shows that the narrative that Trump is a good guy trying to do the right thing.
00:38:27.000And it fits into a deal making mindset as opposed to Trump is a doofus.
00:38:37.000They'll in the same breath tell me it's a convoluted conspiracy theory to say that Trump is a deal maker and he's making a deal.
00:38:45.000They'll say that, and then in the same breath say it's actually more credible to believe that they're blackmailing him and they have a gun to his head and they're controlling him because they have something on him based on no evidence.
00:38:57.000So, anyhow, I don't mean to fly off the rails or rather go off the rails, fly off the handle on that.
00:39:04.000But really, I mean, the Syria strike, it's a seminal.
00:39:08.000Event in the presidency, it really makes or breaks different and competing paradigms on how we analyze Trump.
00:39:28.000It's not about look at me, look at me, I'm right.
00:39:31.000The point is to say this what you think of the serious strike is indicative of your opinion, not just about Trump, but about electoral politics as well.
00:39:41.000The serious strike is one of these rare flashpoints where we see what people really think about the world.
00:39:47.000If people immediately have an emotive response as to how we made this decision, there's an emotional response about the decision that right away we're going to say, you know what?
00:40:01.000The ballot box doesn't work because they control Trump and he's either dumb or he's controlled and therefore electoral politics doesn't matter.
00:40:09.000I mean, that's a whole different worldview as opposed to somebody saying, Let's wait and see what happens.
00:40:30.000And so when I say I was right, I was vindicated, black pillars are dumb, BTFO, what I'm saying is simply this it's important to understand where Trump is coming from.
00:40:42.000Because if you don't, you have people saying, We're not going to vote for a Republican president in 2020.
00:40:48.000We won't vote for Republican candidates in 2018 because of something that we thought before we got the whole story.
00:40:56.000If people are telling you we should, it would be better for us or would be no different for us to have a Democratic president in 2020 because of a strike on three buildings, that to me is real damage done.
00:41:10.000That to me is real, that's real bad if people think that.
00:41:14.000If people are, Being told, if people are saying you should go out and vote for a Democrat or not vote for President Trump in 2020 because he blew up three buildings.
00:41:25.000And that means he's a neocon shill and therefore elections don't matter.
00:41:29.000We have to really hit back hard on those kinds of conclusions.
00:41:35.000Not because I'm right, I'm right, look at me, although it's fun to say that, but because these have real and lasting effects on the morale of the movement.
00:41:53.000I'm not saying that's what happened, but even if you believe that, it's a setback.
00:41:56.000And it's still better than the alternative.
00:41:58.000That's what politics is the art of the possible.
00:42:01.000And so I just really want to drive that point home because I don't feel I made it convincingly enough yesterday that whatever your thoughts are, the electoral politics, Trump, all of that, it still matters.
00:42:12.000It's still better than the alternative.
00:42:14.000So those were the developments from Syria.
00:43:10.000And so it went all the way up to the Supreme Court, and Neil Gorsuch went on the side of the liberals in saying the language is too ambiguous, and therefore this statute has to be struck down.
00:43:22.000If they're saying it's a mandatory deportation because you commit a crime of violence, and we don't even know what a crime of violence is, we have to strike it down.
00:43:30.000And so right away, people are saying all over the place Neil Gorsuch cucked.
00:43:37.000A ruling they disagreed with, and therefore Trump is at fault.
00:43:40.000When in actuality, and this is important again that we set the facts straight on this from a white pill and a pro Trump, I guess I'm the last vestige outside of MPC and some of the others, Ricky Vaughn's gone as well, of white pill content.
00:43:55.000This had nothing to do with immigration at the end of the day.
00:43:58.000This was about the language of the law.
00:44:01.000You understand that this was not about are you for immigrants who commit crimes being deported or not.
00:47:30.000A ridiculous thing to say, and as evidenced by somebody who probably knows nothing about the Old Testament or the New Testament, it was made clear by Jesus Christ in the gospel, and it's just true by the practices of Christians that all of the Old Testament rituals and rules and regulations, for the most part, were abrogated by the New Testament, the new covenant that was the coming of Christ.
00:47:53.000And I'm not even, you know, people ask me all the time about Catholicism.
00:47:57.000I'm not an expert, I'm not a theologian.
00:47:59.000I have to say that because people ask me about my faith.
00:48:12.000So, I have to say, I'm not an expert, but I will say, as somebody who's read the gospel, that Jesus Christ's coming in the New Testament, by and large, abrogated many of the practices and rituals and influences of the Old Testament.
00:48:28.000It's still part of the Bible, it's still part of the Word of God.
00:48:31.000We still recognize it's divine, but by the same token, we look at a lot of the things that happened in the Old Testament.
00:48:37.000And they are anachronistic after the coming of Jesus Christ.
00:48:41.000There's a reason that there's two separate books, right?
00:48:44.000There's a reason that one side believes in the five books of Moses and one side believes in the New Testament.
00:49:16.000And number two, I'll be the first to say God is more important than race.
00:49:21.000I know people are going to have a big problem with that.
00:49:23.000I know people are going to say that's cucking, that's Christ cucking, whatever.
00:49:28.000And this is the low IQ, like retarded segment of the right wing, which doesn't really even deserve, I don't think, a platform in the country.
00:49:38.000I would rather be on the good side of God.
00:49:41.000And I think, by the way, that if you believe in God, you have your race and you have God.
00:49:47.000If you don't believe in God, I think you have neither.
00:49:49.000You look at the birth rate for atheists and people, for the consequentialists who say Christianity is bad for the race, look at the birth rate for atheists and then tell me, and then look at the birth rate for Christians and tell me that religion, specifically Christianity, is an impediment to the revival of our civilization.
00:50:07.000I don't think you're going to find the numbers are very appealing.
00:50:09.000So, a ridiculous and an absurd contention.
00:51:06.000The problem is this when people say we have no faith in the ballot box, we can't vote our way out of it, Trump is just as bad as Hillary, Alex Witteslaski's never there.
00:51:29.000Nobody's ever there criticizing people who are encouraging their hundreds or thousands of followers to not vote, to not get involved, to not actively change it.
00:51:39.000And notice all the people who are saying we can't vote our way out of it anymore.
00:53:07.000And I don't betray my friends, you know, unless I see otherwise, unless I see there's like something really problematic there.
00:53:16.000I'm not going to jump all over him just because it's trendy.
00:53:20.000And I, for some reason, I've earned this reputation that I'm hard to work with, that I'm not a great ally.
00:53:25.000And I think anybody who knows me, anybody who's never attacked me or betrayed me themselves, will tell you that it takes a lot for me to go against somebody that's a friend.
00:53:35.000And, uh, I'm not going to pile on Mr. Tim, Mr. Baked, just because everybody else is.
00:53:44.000And, you know, look, not for nothing, but I went to L.A. and he let me stay at his house and he showed me around town and he took me out to lunch and we hung out and we had a great time.
00:53:54.000And that's somebody who I met personally and in my personal experience was a great guy.
00:54:00.000And if people are saying on the internet, oh, well, he's this, he's that, he's doing that, I'm going to err on the side of me knowing him personally than the drama.
00:58:38.000Israel does terrible things to the United States, and Iran would like to do terrible things to us, and they say terrible things about us.
00:58:44.000If Israel said half the things that Iran says about us, you would have an uproar on the alt right.
00:58:50.000You know, Iran, who, whether you like it or not, sure, they didn't do any terrorist attacks on U.S. soils, but they still say death to America.
01:00:06.000But that does not mean that they are an ally.
01:00:09.000That does not mean that they are a friend or anything like that.
01:00:12.000And you look, and Alex Jones, Richard Spencer, a lot of these people, not to say that they're bad people or anything, but Richard Spencer is good friends with Alexander Dugan.
01:00:54.000Russia, they, and it's funny too, because when we do a missile strike like that, it's, oh my gosh, How could we do that to Russia?
01:01:02.000But when Russia sails their intelligence gathering ships off of the eastern seaboard, when they buzz our bombers in Alaska, they violate our airspace, when they buzz our ships in the Black Sea, when they exploit every opportunity to send us a message, oh, well, we had it coming, we deserved it, it's our fault, or we just ignore it.
01:01:23.000But when we do something, then, oh, America's the great Satan, America's evil, we shouldn't support our military.
01:04:09.000They want to be contrarian, they want to be edgy.
01:04:12.000Any American patriot would celebrate American troops coming home, getting out of harm's way, not being in a foreign country where they don't belong, seeing the region take responsibility for itself.
01:04:23.000But these people say, no, no, no, that's not good enough.
01:04:26.000And that just tells you everything you need to know about them.
01:04:29.000It tells you everything you need to know about them.
01:04:31.000They are eternal losers, eternally in misery, and they want us all down there with us.
01:04:36.000And the reason being is this if we have a viable nationalist political movement in the country, the alt right goes away.
01:04:44.000All these circle jerk people who want to say, let's have a militia, let's do these cool meetups, let's do these cool rallies, all of that goes away.
01:04:54.000The clout, all of that stuff is gone the next day.
01:04:57.000And so they have a vested interest in telling you.
01:05:00.000That Trump is no good, Trump isn't cool, because then they have clout with, oh, but these are the real leaders.
01:05:05.000Trump created this movement, Trump put the work in, he took the initiative.
01:05:22.000But every reform, every change in the dialectic that's occurred in the past two or three years, it's because of one man, and that's Donald Trump.
01:05:33.000Not the losers, not the black pillars, not these wacky Russophiles and Muslim sympathizers and all these other guys.
01:05:41.000I'm with you right there, criticizing Israel, talking about media ownership, all that kind of stuff, but I'm not on this wacky loser train.
01:05:49.000And we have Totally Not a Troll who says, Your audio is very low.
01:07:02.000Well, you look at certain elements of fascism, and fascism, at least if we look at National Socialism, if we look at some of the other strains, it's a revolutionary ideology.
01:07:13.000Traditionalism is not, I think that's almost a misnomer.
01:07:17.000These people say, oh, well, what about traditions?
01:07:42.000Well, we believe that Catholicism is more perennially true than Protestantism.
01:07:47.000And so even though Protestantism is The religion is the tradition of the country.
01:07:51.000We can preserve the trappings of Protestantism, the traditions of a good work ethic, and all these other things, while also embracing a perennially true religion in Catholicism.
01:08:02.000And so fascism is revolutionary as opposed to reformist.
01:08:09.000I don't believe in these wild swings one way or the other, these grand utopian designs, which I think fascism to an extent may have that in mind.
01:08:25.000I certainly believe in a stronger national government, but I also think fascism is outside the experience of this country and of our ancestral countries.
01:08:35.000You know, look at where fascism prevailed.
01:08:37.000It prevailed in Germany, in Italy, in Spain, very different countries.
01:08:42.000Fascism failed in the United Kingdom and the United States, and I think for good reason.
01:09:19.000Well, you know, I think it's tough because I think you'd have to seek revenge.
01:09:24.000If somebody raped your wife, I think you'd have to do it.
01:09:26.000I think you'd have to ask for a waiver.
01:09:28.000You'd have to go to the priest, and well, maybe you do it and then you ask for forgiveness, right?
01:09:32.000Better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
01:09:35.000But I think people have taken Christianity outside of its context.
01:09:40.000You know, people take something like turn the other cheek outside of the context of the Bible, of which there's an historical context and also a textual context in the sense that Jesus Christ speaks in hyperboles all the time in the Bible, right?
01:09:53.000I mean, he says, if somebody hits you, you know, turn the other cheek.
01:09:58.000He also says, That if you sin with your right hand, you should cut your right hand off because it's better to get into heaven without your right hand than to be dragged to hell with your whole body.
01:10:07.000I mean, so I don't think he meant literally you should cut your hands off if you sin.
01:10:12.000I don't think he literally meant if somebody's killing you, you should just let them.
01:10:25.000But the biblical, the historical context is I believe that back in the day, if you were to get slapped and turn the other cheek, this was more a message of defiance, and it was more about being strategic as opposed to fighting back directly.
01:10:39.000Now, again, I read that on poll, so I don't know.
01:10:41.000Maybe that's not entirely accurate, but I don't know.
01:11:38.000Why am I. Do you see why I get so cocky?
01:11:41.000It's like I'm the only person that is sensible in this movement.
01:11:45.000People would say, yeah, you know Ralph Retort?
01:11:48.000That guy where you were on a stream, you probably agree with him on 90% of things.
01:11:53.000He exposes your message to a lot of people.
01:11:55.000He can be a good friend on a lot of things.
01:11:58.000You probably shouldn't associate with him because he's got a Pakistani wife.
01:12:01.000You disagree with race mixing because it's not great for the longevity of the marriage and the health of the children, but because he's doing it, you probably shouldn't.
01:12:11.000Are we supposed to have a movement with no allies?
01:12:14.000You know, these are the same people who would say, You know, Nick, you should associate with Trad Thoughts because they're a net good and overall they're serving a great function.
01:12:23.000And then the same people say this kind of stuff.
01:12:25.000We have to be, folks, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, I'm really not an ideological person.
01:12:33.000I want what's best for my people, I want what's best for my nation, and I will do what it takes to win for them.
01:12:39.000And if that means that you get called names on the internet, I'm fine with that.
01:12:43.000If that means you have to associate with people that are not totally in line with our values, we have to do it.
01:12:49.000But these are the same people who make fun of National Review Online for taking the Constitution to the grave that'll tell you we can't compromise on anything.
01:12:57.000And they'll go right to the grave with Bill Crystal and all the others.
01:15:02.000For Israel in the 1980s, we talk about the Clean Break Memo, which was written by Richard Pearl and Douglas Feeth and others in the Bush administration.
01:15:11.000They went on to become the architects of the neoconservative Bush administration and how they put together this policy paper for Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996.
01:15:21.000And very clearly, we lay out the genesis of just why we're in Syria, why we're enemies with Syria, why we can't be friends with Bashar Assad.