America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - World War III Hangout | America First Ep. 142

00:00:05.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:06.000 We're watching America First.

00:00:08.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a show for you tonight.

00:00:13.000 Who knows what could happen?

00:00:15.000 Who knows?

00:00:16.000 Who knows what's going to happen tonight?

00:00:19.000 We're having a very chill end of the world pre debate live stream.

00:00:24.000 God only knows what's going to happen tonight.

00:00:27.000 As we've been following the situation in Syria, there's going to be an announcement about what's going to happen there imminent.

00:00:34.000 So we'll be watching that right now to see what the announcement will be.

00:00:38.000 From Fox News.

00:00:39.000 I don't know if the president will make a statement, but the plan for tonight we have the gun control debate against Devin Tracy, better known as Atheism is Unstoppable, which is such a regrettable name, right, that I have to say that because it's so not.

00:00:53.000 But we have a debate tonight after the show at 8 o'clock, so I'll probably cut this stream a little bit short, five or 10 minutes, so I can get myself ready to go.

00:01:04.000 So it'll be a pre debate, end of the world kind of hangout, chill stream. 0.61

00:01:08.000 We'll be watching what's going on with Syria.

00:01:10.000 We'll talk about Syria.

00:01:11.000 We'll talk about Facebook.

00:01:13.000 Should be a fun, casual time.

00:01:15.000 And then, of course, at 8 o'clock Central after the show, I'll be heading over to Andy Worski, and you should too, for a big debate about gun control.

00:01:23.000 And I'm looking forward to it.

00:01:25.000 I expect to win very easily.

00:01:28.000 I've been watching Devin Tracy's content on guns, and I've heard the arguments he's made.

00:01:35.000 He doesn't really make arguments against gun control. 1.00

00:01:39.000 He strikes me as kind of a fag, to be honest, on the issue of guns. 1.00

00:01:44.000 He doesn't really offer up any, and I don't even say that in totally an insulting way, but he doesn't really offer up any arguments against guns or against the Second Amendment. 1.00

00:01:53.000 It's just kind of this, oh, I don't like guns.

00:01:56.000 Guns scare me.

00:01:59.000 And if that's the case, if those are the arguments he's going to put forward, I hope he brings something stronger than what I've been seeing on Twitter and YouTube because it's really not great. 0.97

00:02:06.000 It's really not impressive.

00:02:08.000 I've debated guns before, and sometimes it's tough, sometimes it's very easy.

00:02:12.000 So we're looking forward to it, but we have an announcement.

00:02:16.000 Imminent on Syria from Fox News.

00:02:18.000 We're going to be keeping an eye on that.

00:02:20.000 We will see when it starts, and I'll put it up on the screen once it does.

00:02:26.000 And I'll be monitoring Twitter.

00:02:27.000 If somebody could help me out and like super chat me or do a donation when it goes on so I could see it real quick.

00:02:33.000 But the developments today that we've seen, we've seen a number of new things happen since last night and since the day before.

00:02:41.000 We know that on Syria, on Saturday, on Saturday in Syria, there was an alleged chemical weapons attack.

00:02:50.000 Launched against rebels by pro government forces, launched by Assad.

00:02:54.000 They say there was a chemical weapons attack.

00:02:57.000 Who really knows what happened?

00:02:59.000 The place that they attacked, Douma, which is a suburb of Damascus, is completely encircled by pro government forces.

00:03:06.000 So there's no way for anybody to assess what happened there.

00:03:10.000 Russian investigators have already confirmed that there was no chemical attack.

00:03:14.000 They checked with hospitals, they did soil tests, and they said there were no chemical weapons used.

00:03:20.000 There are no victims of chemical weapons.

00:03:22.000 That was on Saturday.

00:03:23.000 The investigation, I think, came out today from Russia.

00:03:27.000 On Sunday, there was a strike on Syria by Israel.

00:03:31.000 They sent their fighter jets over Lebanon to launch eight guided missiles at the T 4 air base in western Homs in Syria.

00:03:41.000 Three of the missiles struck, eight of them, or rather, they launched eight missiles.

00:03:46.000 Three struck, five were shot down.

00:03:48.000 They killed, I believe, 47 people.

00:03:50.000 Seven of them were Iranians.

00:03:51.000 So that is an issue.

00:03:53.000 Israel struck Syria.

00:03:54.000 We've been striking ISIS the last time we struck Syria, but this time we have Iranians killed in an Israeli strike on Syria.

00:04:02.000 People thought it was the United States.

00:04:03.000 It wasn't.

00:04:04.000 The United States on the same night vowed a strong response and a joint response with Macron.

00:04:09.000 Yesterday, we saw that President Trump committed to some kind of a strike with Theresa May of the UK and Macron of France.

00:04:17.000 Today, the developments we've seen, the new things, there was an emergency security council meeting this afternoon, and there were two resolutions put forward.

00:04:27.000 Both were shut down, both were vetoed.

00:04:29.000 There was a resolution put forward by Russia, which said that they would have an inquiry into the chemical attack, there would be an independent inquiry.

00:04:37.000 And free inquiry into the chemical attack in Syria that was vetoed by the United Kingdom, shut down.

00:04:43.000 Of course, the UK has veto power in the Security Council.

00:04:46.000 There was a resolution put forward by Western powers which demanded an investigation, a commission, into who is ultimately responsible for the attacks, which is a small difference, but it is, it turned out to be a big difference.

00:04:59.000 Russia said, let's have an independent inquiry into the chemical attack, no good.

00:05:05.000 The investigation into who is ultimately responsible that was supported by the West was vetoed.

00:05:11.000 By Russia.

00:05:12.000 And so we ended up not reaching any kind of an agreement, any kind of a solution in Syria.

00:05:18.000 Surprise, surprise, the United Nations didn't solve it for us.

00:05:22.000 When both sides of the conflict have veto power and the only decision making body that has the jurisdiction to enforce its rulings, you know, surprise, surprise, that was not able to resolve the conflict in Syria.

00:05:36.000 But now we wait and see what happens.

00:05:38.000 According to multiple sources, it looks like there's a lot of action.

00:05:43.000 Going on in Syria.

00:05:44.000 There's reports that there is coalition activity on the border between Iraq and Syria.

00:05:50.000 Coalition meaning Western powers flying planes around there.

00:05:54.000 Russia's North Fleet headquarters says they expect an attack tonight, some kind of a strike on Syria tonight.

00:06:01.000 There's all kinds of.

00:06:02.000 Israel says there's going to be a strike tonight.

00:06:04.000 There's a lot of hearsay.

00:06:05.000 There's a lot of, I don't know, unconfirmed reports going on.

00:06:10.000 A lot of planes have been diverted away from Syria.

00:06:12.000 So if you look on any map of where the commercial.

00:06:16.000 Flights are tonight. 1.00

00:06:17.000 Oh, Syria is completely black.

00:06:18.000 There's no planes flying over there.

00:06:21.000 So there are a lot of unconfirmed indicators that there will be some kind of a strike tonight.

00:06:27.000 We don't know if it'll be tonight.

00:06:28.000 It'll be in the next few days.

00:06:30.000 If it'll be, you know, could be in a week.

00:06:32.000 Who knows?

00:06:33.000 The question remains.

00:06:34.000 The questions that we're going to be looking at as we move forward in Syria is what is the scope of the strike?

00:06:41.000 Who will be involved and how intense will it be?

00:06:44.000 Last year we saw a cruise missile strike, which is we had a destroyer in the eastern Mediterranean.

00:06:50.000 Launched 59 Tomahawk missiles. 0.99

00:06:52.000 And I believe, if you remember, it was a lesbian who pulled the trigger on those missiles. 0.98

00:06:56.000 If you remember, that was one of the big elements of the story.

00:06:59.000 I'll never forget.

00:07:00.000 All the neocons were saying, you know, woohoo, we're bombing Syria, death to another country, death to another innocent country.

00:07:07.000 You know, thousands of millions of people will suffer because of what we did tonight.

00:07:11.000 Hooray. 1.00

00:07:12.000 And I remember they were celebrating because one of the people that was on board the ship that launched the missiles was a lesbian. 1.00

00:07:18.000 And I think that was just the perfect. 1.00

00:07:21.000 Encapsulation of where we are in America today.

00:07:23.000 You can really tell that we won the Cold War.

00:07:27.000 You really know we won World War II. 0.84

00:07:29.000 The right side won these big wars when all the press, all the media, and the government is celebrating that a lesbian pulled the trigger on 59 Tomahawk missiles attacking a secular, innocent country trying to defend its people and, more importantly, its Christians.

00:07:45.000 But so we had a 59 Tomahawk missile strike last year, which is pretty noncommittal. 0.59

00:07:51.000 Compared to all the other options on the table, right?

00:07:53.000 Barack Obama started doing airstrikes in Syria in 2014, in September of 2014, against ISIS.

00:08:00.000 And that was a larger commitment than what we're doing right now.

00:08:03.000 Airstrikes are a much bigger deal.

00:08:05.000 I believe Barack Obama, on average, was doing seven airstrikes a day, if I remember from my speech team days when I had to throw out that number.

00:08:13.000 Back when I was a neocon, and every speech I was just driving the point home Obama's weak. 0.67

00:08:18.000 We have to go to war against every Muslim country, you know? 0.96

00:08:22.000 So I believe it was seven a day under Obama.

00:08:24.000 President Trump, the first time he struck Assad was with missiles, which is totally, like I said, noncommittal.

00:08:30.000 You sail a little bit off the coast, you launch missiles.

00:08:33.000 If the missiles get struck down, it's not a big deal.

00:08:36.000 An airstrike is different.

00:08:37.000 So we don't know what kind of an attack it'll be.

00:08:39.000 Will it be missiles?

00:08:41.000 Israel did it the other night.

00:08:43.000 That was kind of an escalation in the sense that they did airplanes instead of ships.

00:08:50.000 That said, when the airplanes launched their guided missiles, they weren't even in Syrian airspace, so they couldn't have been shot down.

00:08:56.000 But will it be a missile strike?

00:08:57.000 Will it be cruise missiles?

00:08:58.000 Will it be an airstrike?

00:09:01.000 An airstrike is an escalation because.

00:09:04.000 If a plane is intercepted or shot down, then you have a casualty on your hands.

00:09:08.000 And a casualty is much different than just a regular old missile strike.

00:09:12.000 So, will it be an airstrike?

00:09:14.000 Will it be something greater?

00:09:15.000 Will it be multiple airstrikes?

00:09:17.000 Will it be multiple targets?

00:09:19.000 Last year, it was a missile strike on one target.

00:09:22.000 This year, will it be a missile strike on one target?

00:09:25.000 Will it be missile strikes on many targets?

00:09:27.000 Will it be airstrikes on one target or airstrikes on many targets?

00:09:31.000 Then the question is who will be involved?

00:09:33.000 Will it just be the United States or will it be France and the UK as well?

00:09:37.000 Will Israel be involved?

00:09:39.000 The complicating factor here, which is different than last year and the Israel strikes, is that we no longer have the element of surprise.

00:09:47.000 Whereas last year, I don't think anybody expected that kind of militarism from President Trump.

00:09:51.000 He was a new president, he had only been in office for three months.

00:09:54.000 He had campaigned on ending the war in Syria.

00:09:57.000 The weekend prior to the missile strike last year, they had said that they no longer sought to seek, or rather, they were no longer seeking regime change in Syria as a foreign policy priority.

00:10:09.000 And so they were able to strike with impunity.

00:10:11.000 Israel was able to strike with impunity because they were just so quick about it this time around. 0.78

00:10:16.000 And they didn't announce it. 0.80

00:10:17.000 There was no, you know, like with the United States, they didn't say, well, we'll make a decision in 24 to 48 hours and they're going to make it a big scene.

00:10:26.000 So right now, the issue here, a complicating factor is that Russia, there's unconfirmed reports that they're harassing our destroyer off the coast of Syria, that Russian jets have been put on alert for a U.S. strike.

00:10:40.000 attack U.S. military assets in Syria, meaning that they would directly confront the United States, which would be something that we've never seen, U.S. versus Russia, not even in the Cold War.

00:10:50.000 I mean, we saw United States hardware versus Russian hardware in the Cold War, but rarely, if ever, did we see a direct confrontation.

00:10:57.000 So that's the complicating factor.

00:11:00.000 Part of the slow rollout here for the strike this time around, I think, is with that in mind, in the sense that the United States knows that to some extent, Russia could retaliate.

00:11:13.000 It would not be in either country's interest, the United States or Russia, for Russia to retaliate.

00:11:18.000 But I think we see the slow rollout in this attack, giving them plenty of time, putting them on notice that there's going to be a strike, so that if there is an airstrike, if there is any kind of significant movement in Syria, Russia will have facilitated the withdrawal of their assets, their troops, their, you know, whatever it is that they have in Syria, only so that now the ball is in Putin's court.

00:11:40.000 So that, you know, whereas before it would be, The United States is risking war with Russia because they're striking a country where Russia operates. 0.60

00:11:48.000 If we say, we're giving you plenty of time, we're going to hit Syria, we don't want to fight you, but we're going to hit Syria whether you like it or not, then the ball is put in Putin's court. 0.70

00:11:57.000 And if Russian targets are hit, then we can say, well, we gave you plenty of time, you put your people in harm's way. 0.81

00:12:03.000 And that is a way to pass the buck.

00:12:05.000 But we're waiting right now for the imminent announcement, which was reported by Fox News.

00:12:10.000 They said that they would come out with some kind of a statement, the administration would come out with some kind of a statement on Syria.

00:12:18.000 And it looks like we have some breaking news from Breaking 911, which says Eurocontrol has warned airlines to exercise caution in the eastern Mediterranean due to a possible launch of airstrikes into Syria in the next 72 hours.

00:12:35.000 So, looks like no word just yet from Fox, from the administration, but there is an announcement that there probably will be, you know, if Eurocontrol is announcing this, unless it's some kind of an elaborate hoax, an elaborate gesture here.

00:12:50.000 It looks like in the next 72 hours, we will be seeing some kind of a strike.

00:12:54.000 If Eurocontrol is saying that, who knows?

00:12:56.000 Maybe France is involved.

00:12:57.000 Maybe the UK is involved.

00:12:58.000 Maybe there's some kind of a coordination.

00:13:00.000 But again, this only gets to the point.

00:13:02.000 If you have multiple agencies, you know, Israel leaking the prediction that the United States will strike.

00:13:09.000 If you have Europe warning their planes that there's going to be a strike. 0.73

00:13:13.000 The gesture here, and we're analyzing this in real time, so good.

00:13:17.000 The gesture here, the point of that, the strategic value in that is that we. 0.78

00:13:22.000 Send a message to Russia, evacuate your troops. 0.76

00:13:24.000 We don't want to fight with you. 0.78

00:13:26.000 And it remains to be seen will Russia confront the United States?

00:13:29.000 Will they retaliate?

00:13:30.000 I think if you look at what options are on the table right now, which options are available here, a coalition strike has value in the sense that Russia would be less likely to attack if there was a coalition.

00:13:44.000 They would be less likely to retaliate if it was the UK, France, and the US, as opposed to if it was only the US.

00:13:52.000 You know, you want to go to war with as, I guess, as few countries as possible, the fewest countries as possible.

00:13:58.000 So maybe that's the value of France and the UK being involved.

00:14:02.000 The tricky thing here, too, though, is you have many actors in Syria.

00:14:05.000 This is the trouble. 0.57

00:14:06.000 This is what makes it different. 0.97

00:14:07.000 People compare it to Iraq, people compare it to Afghanistan or Libya.

00:14:12.000 Libya would be the most comparable example in the sense that what we're talking about here probably is not a ground war.

00:14:18.000 I don't think there's any indication that there'll be a massive, you know, regime change effort with a ground war led by the United States.

00:14:25.000 The closest similarity, I think, or rather the most similar case to Syria would be Libya, in the sense that in 2011, I believe it was, 2011 or 2012, we had NATO depose Muammar Gaddafi after the Arab Spring protests only by airstrikes.

00:14:43.000 There was no ground presence.

00:14:45.000 There was no, you know, when we went into Iraq, it was a quarter of a million troops.

00:14:48.000 When we went into Afghanistan, by 2010, it was 100,000 troops.

00:14:53.000 In Libya, it was airstrikes by NATO.

00:14:55.000 We were able to depose Muammar Gaddafi.

00:14:57.000 We gave the rebels the support they needed.

00:14:59.000 They got rid of their leader.

00:15:01.000 We don't know if it'll look like regime change in Syria.

00:15:04.000 Like I said, it goes back to scope.

00:15:06.000 Will they be pursuing regime change?

00:15:08.000 Will it just be a tactical strike, a surgical strike, or some kind of a strafe?

00:15:12.000 You know, who knows?

00:15:14.000 But what makes Syria different than any of the other ones, bar none, there's no similarity at all between Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, any of them, is the fact that in Syria, you have a significant Russian, Chinese, Iranian, And Turkish presence.

00:15:30.000 So you have four major countries operating in Syria right now, which really complicates it.

00:15:36.000 Syria probably wouldn't be struck because Syria's involvement is very, very limited.

00:15:41.000 They're in one part in Kurdistan, which is in Syrian Kurdistan, which it would not be, you probably wouldn't target.

00:15:50.000 China, Russia, and Iran present the problem.

00:15:53.000 There's about a quarter of a million militiamen and contractors on the Iranian payroll, and that's also including IRGC, Iranian military, assets like that, that are on the ground in Syria.

00:16:04.000 So that's a very significant presence from Iran.

00:16:06.000 Russia has a lot of contractors there.

00:16:09.000 China has sent military men there.

00:16:11.000 And so that's going to be a big problem because now we're not just attacking.

00:16:15.000 Some Middle Eastern country.

00:16:16.000 Now it's not just some dictator in a region that is not strategic, that is not important.

00:16:22.000 Now we risk hitting targets that if Russia decides that they're not going to move, if China decides that they're not going to move, we could be directly confronting other great powers in Syria, which that has a much greater potentiality to escalate than anything else.

00:16:39.000 Typically with a proxy war, and this is also a difference, typically with a proxy war, for example, like Vietnam or a proxy war like Korea, It's our guys versus their guys.

00:16:49.000 Korea, we were directly involved.

00:16:51.000 But in Vietnam, maybe that's a better example, where initially, when it was the French in Vietnam, it was the Vietnamese, the South Vietnamese versus the North Vietnamese, right?

00:17:00.000 And it wasn't so much Americans in Vietnam versus Russians in Vietnam.

00:17:07.000 If there's some kind of an airstrike or some kind of a major strike in Syria for the first time, it'll be direct American involvement versus direct Russian involvement, direct Chinese involvement, which is much worse.

00:17:18.000 And it looks like we got some kind of a donation, so let's see.

00:17:21.000 It looks like that's just bits.

00:17:23.000 But we're still waiting on that imminent announcement.

00:17:26.000 We'll see.

00:17:27.000 But that's what we're looking at in Syria. 0.99

00:17:29.000 It's pretty spooky scary. 0.94

00:17:31.000 It's pretty spooky scary.

00:17:32.000 Like I said, the major thing here, like I said last night, what we're concerned about in Syria is not a ground war.

00:17:40.000 I mean, that's certainly probably on the table.

00:17:43.000 If John Bolton's the national security advisor, that's on the table somewhere.

00:17:47.000 That's on somebody's table.

00:17:48.000 What's likely is some kind of a coalition airstrike.

00:17:51.000 That's not the concern.

00:17:52.000 The concern is not dragged into a war in Syria.

00:17:55.000 The concern is escalation with Russia because we're fighting Russia right now on multiple fronts.

00:18:01.000 We're funding the Ukrainian government, which is fighting actual Russians in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine.

00:18:08.000 We're funding rebels in Syria, which are fighting Russians.

00:18:12.000 We're funding the Kurds, which are fighting ISIS.

00:18:15.000 They're not so much fighting pro government forces.

00:18:17.000 And then China as well.

00:18:19.000 I think the broader concern is we've basically got our allegiances laid out.

00:18:23.000 If there is A shot fired if there's a Russian killed, then we know what the sides are.

00:18:28.000 It's Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, possibly Turkey, Qatar, you know, who knows, up against the United States, NATO, and a few others.

00:18:40.000 Turkey could go either way.

00:18:41.000 So that's a scary thing. 0.64

00:18:43.000 And we'll see what happens.

00:18:44.000 We'll keep an eye on it.

00:18:46.000 Those were the developments today.

00:18:48.000 I have to say, and this is something I see a lot, which is why doesn't Trump just pull out?

00:18:52.000 Why doesn't Trump just take our troops home? 0.65

00:18:54.000 Why doesn't he just tell Zog and the Foreign Policy Administration?

00:18:57.000 We're done in Syria.

00:18:58.000 We're not going to fight.

00:19:00.000 Because, of course, the only reason that we're there, there's two reasons why we're there.

00:19:04.000 There is no strategic interest for why we're there.

00:19:07.000 The Eastern Mediterranean, which is where Syria is situated, is not a strategically important location.

00:19:12.000 They don't have any resources.

00:19:14.000 There's no oil.

00:19:14.000 There's no natural gas, really, to speak of.

00:19:16.000 There's no rare earth minerals, you know, no meme stuff like that.

00:19:20.000 Strategically, it's not important.

00:19:22.000 You don't need to project power in that region.

00:19:24.000 Even if you could, it wouldn't be important in the places you'd want to project power.

00:19:28.000 In the Middle East, when we talk about the Middle East and America's Interest there, our economic interest, it's in the Persian Gulf, which is not the entire Middle East.

00:19:37.000 So, Egypt, Libya, you know, Algeria, yeah, that's kind of interesting, I guess.

00:19:43.000 Syria, Israel, Turkey, you know, maybe.

00:19:46.000 But the predominant interest for the United States in the Middle East, when we talk about Middle East, we really mean the Persian Gulf, which is that stretch of land or the stretch of water, rather, between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

00:19:58.000 That's where all the oil comes out of, that's where all the natural gas comes out of.

00:20:03.000 And so, our overriding interest in the region is to make sure that Iran, Does not close the Strait of Hormuz, which controls the flow from the Persian Gulf into the ocean, and also to make sure that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are not threatened or compromised so that we can, to some degree, control the oil.

00:20:21.000 Syria is all the way over in the Eastern Mediterranean.

00:20:24.000 They're not strategically important at all, not for any reason.

00:20:27.000 The only strategic reason why we're there is because Israel is threatened by Syria, because Syria is an ally of Iran, and if Iran has a government that favors them in the Assad government in Syria, Then Israel, in a de facto way, shares a border with Iran.

00:20:44.000 Iran can resupply Hezbollah, can give them missiles, weapons, all the rest.

00:20:48.000 And that's why Israel's petrified that Assad remains in power.

00:20:51.000 That's why Israel collaborates with ISIS, the Al Nusra Front, and the CIA to make sure that Assad is deposed.

00:20:57.000 That's a strategic reason, so that Israel can protect their northern flank, so that they can keep the Golan Heights, which supplies them with water and soon possibly oil. 0.68

00:21:07.000 The prevailing reason why we're there. 0.93

00:21:10.000 Outside of the strategic concerns, which are Israeli, and that's why that's our strategic interest now. 0.84

00:21:15.000 But the prevailing reason why it's not so simple that we can't just pull out is because Syria has become more than just Syria. 0.68

00:21:23.000 And I talked about this in World Report in more depth earlier in this afternoon for the exclusive podcast. 0.67

00:21:30.000 The prevailing reason why we're there, why it has nothing to do with Syria itself, is because now Syria has essentially become a referendum on American hegemony in the world.

00:21:41.000 In the sense that since the end of the Cold War, America has been the global hegemonic power.

00:21:46.000 We're a hyper power.

00:21:47.000 We're the unipolar power, whatever you want to call it.

00:21:50.000 We're the country calling the shots everywhere.

00:21:53.000 Our Defense Department has command posts everywhere.

00:21:56.000 I mean, you have a command post for Africa, for Europe, for the.

00:21:59.000 I mean, everywhere.

00:22:01.000 We are the biggest.

00:22:02.000 The Defense Department is the single biggest entity by personnel in the world.

00:22:07.000 And it's been that way for 25 years.

00:22:09.000 Syria was the first case. 0.77

00:22:11.000 Since we prevailed in the Cold War, where Russia, where China, where some other powers are able to dictate the resolution of a major conflict, where the United States intervened, and for the first time, we're getting forced out. 0.80

00:22:25.000 We're getting outmaneuvered.

00:22:26.000 Putin will dictate the outcome.

00:22:28.000 Putin will hold court in Sochi rather than the United States holding court in Geneva as to what the resolution will be in Syria.

00:22:36.000 And so that's why it's not so much about, you know, because people might say, who cares what happens to Syria?

00:22:41.000 I certainly don't.

00:22:42.000 It really doesn't matter for the United States. 0.81

00:22:44.000 It matters for Israel.

00:22:45.000 But the prevailing reason for why this matters to Trump, why this should matter to American interests as opposed to just Israeli interests, is that if we allow Russia, Iran, and China to dictate the outcome in Syria, that is a blow against American global hegemony.

00:23:01.000 That says that the United States doesn't really run the show everywhere anymore.

00:23:06.000 They can only project power in a limited capacity in certain theaters where Russia and China are closer.

00:23:13.000 And we already saw this with Crimea.

00:23:14.000 We already saw this with Ukraine.

00:23:16.000 It's bad enough that happened there. 1.00

00:23:17.000 And this is, I'm speaking of, in terms of not my values.

00:23:20.000 You know, you can say whether or not we can afford that loss, whether we can or not.

00:23:25.000 I'm not making a value judgment one way or the other.

00:23:27.000 I'm simply saying this is the international theory behind why it matters there.

00:23:33.000 And so, really, what it's about is about standing up to Russia, standing up to China, not because they're evil, not because they're bad.

00:23:39.000 That's what the Pentagon says.

00:23:40.000 At the end of the day, a lot of it's Israel, and a lot of it is also to say the United States has still got a global reach.

00:23:47.000 We still determine the outcome everywhere at all times.

00:23:50.000 And it's fascinating.

00:23:52.000 We don't really talk about this too much on the show because maybe we'll do it on World Report one day.

00:23:57.000 But the reason that China's deployed there, and this is part of a very consistent, coherent strategy by China, China deployed their troops in November.

00:24:06.000 Of 2017.

00:24:07.000 So basically, the Civil War is buttoned up when China intervened.

00:24:10.000 Why do they intervene?

00:24:11.000 It's on the part of their Belt and Road Initiative, which, if you've never heard of it, look it up because the Belt and Road Initiative is very big stuff in terms of international affairs.

00:24:22.000 This is an $8 trillion infrastructure plan that China has to essentially recreate the Silk Road of the ancient world.

00:24:30.000 It's a way to outclass the American system of trade routes and financial networks, where what they seek to do with this $8 trillion program is build up ports.

00:24:40.000 Highways, all the infrastructure that would be necessary to create an uninterrupted trade network from Eurasia, from Europe, from Central Asia, from the Middle East, from Africa to China.

00:24:53.000 Shipping routes, trade routes over land.

00:24:55.000 So, for example, they're building ports in places like Sri Lanka, they're building ports in Pakistan, they're building highways in northern Pakistan, they're building highways in Central Asia.

00:25:05.000 All of this so that they could get the goods and the markets from Europe, from Asia, and from Africa into China. 0.64

00:25:11.000 And this is a way to circumvent.

00:25:13.000 The American primacy in the oceans and in the trade networks and the financial networks.

00:25:18.000 And so China's deployed their troops as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative because they'll be overseeing infrastructure projects in Syria. 0.84

00:25:25.000 At least they hope so once Syria is buttoned up.

00:25:28.000 They'll help get some of that Golan Heights oil out into Chinese markets and, you know, whatever, in whatever capacity they can. 0.89

00:25:36.000 And so what that says that they're there as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative, as opposed to fighting ISIS or anything like that, is it only I think that only bolsters the case that Syria is not so much about Syria.

00:25:48.000 If China's there for this broader project of building up an anti American alternative financial system, a Eurasian financial system headed by China, assisted by Russia, Pakistan, and others, I mean, that just goes to show this is what it's really about.

00:26:04.000 It's not about ideology, it's not about nationalism, it's not about anything like that.

00:26:08.000 It's about pipelines, it's about ports, it's about the petrodollar, it's about these kinds of things.

00:26:13.000 And so, like it or not, that's why we're there.

00:26:16.000 And so Trump has to basically make a decision where he's got to shoot the gap between escalating war with Russia and China, not backing down from Russia and China, because I think that's important.

00:26:27.000 Whether you want war in Syria or not, whether you want non intervention or not, it's important that we say America is still a power.

00:26:34.000 We're still willing to defend our interests, even if we can't identify what it is, but also at the same time, not cucking the base.

00:26:42.000 So we want to avoid war.

00:26:44.000 We don't want to cuck the base. 0.98

00:26:46.000 We don't want to make the base look foolish by going. 0.83

00:26:49.000 To some kind of major engagement in Syria, if it's war, if it's not, if it's war with Russia or whoever, but at the same time, we want to stand up.

00:26:55.000 And that's essentially what's going on there.

00:26:58.000 And we'll do another check.

00:26:59.000 We'll see where we are.

00:27:00.000 Any updates, any new developments here?

00:27:03.000 Got to wait for my Twitter to load, and we'll see what's going on here.

00:27:09.000 Looks like nothing new, no imminent announcement.

00:27:11.000 It might have to happen during the debate, right?

00:27:14.000 Here we go.

00:27:14.000 So somebody, Jacob Wolf, says the Pentagon is preparing to make a statement about their decision in regards to military strikes.

00:27:22.000 Against Syria.

00:27:23.000 So I guess it's still imminent, right?

00:27:27.000 Julia Davis says, Russia State TV tells everyone not to panic, but provides handy guidance on what to take to the bomb shelter.

00:27:34.000 So I think you see on both sides some of this bluster, some of this intimidation.

00:27:39.000 I will say, you know, we joke that this is the end of the world stream.

00:27:44.000 A lot of it on both sides when they say, you know, find out what to take to your bomb shelter, it's about to get apocalyptic, all this kind of stuff.

00:27:50.000 This is just another way to bluff.

00:27:52.000 This is just another way to say, you know, Russia better watch out.

00:27:56.000 The United States better watch out. 0.55

00:27:57.000 We'll retaliate.

00:27:59.000 It could still happen.

00:28:00.000 We are playing a game of chicken, but take it with a grain of salt.

00:28:00.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:28:03.000 Understand what the intention is there.

00:28:05.000 And it looks like we should be hearing from the Pentagon any moment now.

00:28:09.000 I love when they say imminent and then a half hour passes, right?

00:28:13.000 And still no announcement.

00:28:14.000 But until then, we can talk about Facebook because we had a big development here with Facebook as well this afternoon.

00:28:21.000 To take us out of our fears about the end of the world, we had a big development here with Facebook this afternoon.

00:28:28.000 There was a joint congressional.

00:28:31.000 Committee, or rather a joint committee hearing, 44 senators from the U.S. Senate overhearing testimony today from Mark Zuckerberg on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which we haven't talked about it too much on the show.

00:28:44.000 But Cambridge Analytica was this, they were some kind of a company with elections, right?

00:28:50.000 I mean, they were supplying data to different campaigns, right?

00:28:55.000 I believe they were selling data, you know, I don't know.

00:28:58.000 It's technology stuff.

00:28:59.000 It's the same.

00:29:00.000 I'm just as handicapped talking about Cambridge Analytica as I was.

00:29:04.000 With net neutrality.

00:29:05.000 You know, people are like, Nick, you're making the right talk about net neutrality.

00:29:09.000 You're making the wrong case about net neutrality.

00:29:11.000 I don't know what an ISP is.

00:29:13.000 I don't know.

00:29:14.000 I got a hair in my mouth.

00:29:15.000 I got to defer to Weave.

00:29:17.000 I got to defer to some computer nerd.

00:29:19.000 You know, I don't know.

00:29:20.000 But Cambridge Analytica, they bought the data from Facebook.

00:29:23.000 They illegally obtained metadata from Facebook.

00:29:26.000 Facebook stores your information and they store a lot of it, by the way.

00:29:30.000 Be very disturbed by that.

00:29:32.000 They collect metadata on you.

00:29:33.000 So it's not just your.

00:29:35.000 Like, oh, here's my name, here's my birthday, and here's my favorite food to eat.

00:29:39.000 They also collect information on your phone.

00:29:41.000 Like, they collect information on who you text, what numbers, how frequently you text them.

00:29:46.000 I mean, they collect all kinds of information.

00:29:48.000 It should scare you.

00:29:49.000 And so, that kind of information, the metadata, was allowed to be accessed by Cambridge Analytica through a third party app.

00:29:57.000 So, you have these major apps that are allowed to gain access to Facebook's information for, you know, if it's like, here's a personality quiz.

00:30:06.000 Spin the wheel, win a shiny, win the blue ribbon, and you can post it to your friends.

00:30:11.000 One of these apps, which is allowed to use Facebook metadata, sold that information from Facebook to Cambridge.

00:30:18.000 So Cambridge didn't buy it from Facebook, they bought it from a third party.

00:30:22.000 And that's obviously scary because if Cambridge Analytica can buy that information from a third party, who else can buy that information from a third party?

00:30:30.000 And so that's the scandal.

00:30:32.000 And I guess the summary of it, of Mark Zuckerberg's testimony, he's the CEO of Facebook.

00:30:37.000 He came down to basically explain to the Senate what happened, why it happened, what they're doing to fix it.

00:30:44.000 And so the summary of it, I guess, Orrin Hatch summed it up pretty nicely.

00:30:47.000 He's the president pro tempore of the Senate.

00:30:50.000 He said basically, look, Facebook has to make money somehow.

00:30:54.000 Facebook is an enormous service, it's free.

00:30:58.000 Three billion people are able to use this incredible network for free.

00:31:02.000 And you imagine how big Facebook is, where billions of people use it.

00:31:06.000 That's not three billion, it's like one point some billion people use it.

00:31:11.000 It's bigger than any country except for China.

00:31:13.000 It's massive.

00:31:14.000 You can do just about anything with it.

00:31:15.000 Businesses use it, people use it, whatever.

00:31:18.000 It's huge.

00:31:19.000 And you get it for free.

00:31:20.000 You log on, you're able to access this kind of stuff.

00:31:22.000 It costs a lot of money to maintain that kind of infrastructure in terms of, I don't even know because I don't know anything about tech, but something called servers where they keep the internet afloat with, I think, servers and they have to design software and things like that.

00:31:37.000 Who knows?

00:31:38.000 But it costs a lot of money.

00:31:39.000 And the thing is, they have to, and this is what Orrin Hatch says you get this for free.

00:31:44.000 A billion people get this for free.

00:31:46.000 Zuckerberg has to monetize it somehow.

00:31:49.000 They have to derive value from this somehow.

00:31:52.000 They're a company, they're a for profit business.

00:31:55.000 They have to make their money.

00:31:56.000 And how do they do it?

00:31:57.000 They sell advertising space.

00:32:00.000 They also sell data.

00:32:01.000 And Orrin Hatch says, that's fine.

00:32:03.000 You can sell, you can be a merchant.

00:32:05.000 You can be, you know, look, I'm just an innocent data merchant.

00:32:09.000 You can do that so long as people know what they're getting into.

00:32:12.000 And I think that's the bottom line with Facebook Facebook sells the information.

00:32:17.000 They do advertisements.

00:32:18.000 They sell information to advertisers.

00:32:21.000 And that's fine.

00:32:22.000 They can monetize their company, but they just have to be clear about what people are getting into.

00:32:27.000 I think the problem is not that.

00:32:29.000 This is transpiring.

00:32:30.000 People sell data all the time.

00:32:31.000 The government spies on you more than Facebook.

00:32:34.000 The problem is do you know what you're getting into?

00:32:35.000 You volunteer for this voluntary service, you offer up your information, and people don't really know what they're getting.

00:32:43.000 They don't know where their information is going.

00:32:45.000 They're not clear on what's available to advertisers, what isn't, how they can prevent it from being that way.

00:32:50.000 And one of the big things Zuckerberg would not commit to an automatic option where you can take all your data and keep it from being sold to advertisers.

00:33:00.000 He said the only way you're able to do that.

00:33:02.000 Is manually.

00:33:03.000 He would not commit to an automatic way to prevent your information from being sold to advertisers, which people said, oh, that's an issue.

00:33:10.000 The other big development from the hearing today was that Zuckerberg said that he essentially admitted, and this wasn't under oath or anything, but he did say it, that technically Facebook counts as a publisher.

00:33:21.000 And a couple of senators grilled him on this that Facebook discriminates in terms of they censor different political voices, they censor all kinds of things.

00:33:29.000 And so companies like Facebook and others are prevented from lawsuits.

00:33:35.000 Against Facebook from things their users post because Facebook says we're a platform.

00:33:39.000 We're a free and open platform.

00:33:41.000 So if people are going to post copyrighted material, if people are going to post terror threats, if people are going to post illegal content, they can't be held responsible.

00:33:49.000 But if they're a publisher, then they can be.

00:33:51.000 If Facebook picks and chooses what's allowed on the website in a de facto way, they become a publisher because if they suddenly say, well, actually, we can to a degree exercise some kind of a preference over what's published, well, then they can.

00:34:06.000 They can publish things or they can choose not to publish things that are illegal, copyright, threats, that kind of thing.

00:34:12.000 And so that could open them up to all kinds of lawsuits then, if that's the case.

00:34:17.000 But those were really the major developments here.

00:34:19.000 It wasn't the fireworks people expected.

00:34:21.000 I don't think Mark Zuckerberg's a human being.

00:34:24.000 I mean, the guy is like a robot or a lizard the way he smiles, the way he talks, the way he sips his water.

00:34:31.000 I mean, even look at the guy's face.

00:34:33.000 The features just don't look right, the coloring is off.

00:34:35.000 He's got these big bug eyes.

00:34:38.000 It's just very goofy.

00:34:39.000 He was sitting on a booster seat, too.

00:34:41.000 He was sitting on a four inch booster seat during the hearing.

00:34:45.000 A very strange fellow, very strange episode here with Facebook. 1.00

00:34:50.000 I hope they all go to jail or to hell, whatever it is, because Facebook is gross. 0.99

00:34:55.000 I'm very much considering getting rid of it. 0.99

00:34:57.000 The only thing is, Ricky Vaughn told me to put the show on Facebook because he said Facebook's great.

00:35:02.000 Facebook allows you to reach all kinds of people, it's a big market.

00:35:05.000 There's all kinds of people on Facebook.

00:35:08.000 And Ricky Vaughn knows what he's talking about.

00:35:10.000 But.

00:35:10.000 Smart guy.

00:35:11.000 By the same token, I don't know.

00:35:12.000 Should I continue to endorse Facebook?

00:35:14.000 Who knows? 0.64

00:35:15.000 But that was Facebook, and let's see if we have any development on Syria yet.

00:35:20.000 I'm really out of my depth when talking about technology.

00:35:22.000 Can you tell?

00:35:23.000 You know, people all the time are like, Nick, you know, you're whatever.

00:35:28.000 Your microphone is this way.

00:35:29.000 You've got to do this with your software.

00:35:31.000 You've got to do this with that.

00:35:32.000 You know, they're telling me all kinds of goofy stuff about technology.

00:35:35.000 I don't know.

00:35:36.000 I don't know what all these things are.

00:35:37.000 I don't know what a server is.

00:35:40.000 I don't even know Facebook.com.

00:35:42.000 What does that mean?

00:35:43.000 And here's a development here from Al Sura, which says Italian aerial refueling aircraft.

00:35:50.000 Now entering Jordan from Saudi Arabian airspace provides logistics for jet fighters, which are expected to launch cruise missiles towards Syria very soon as part of a U.S. led transnational attack on Syria.

00:36:04.000 So it looks like that's not the announcement from the Pentagon, which has been imminent for about 40 minutes now, but this is a separate announcement.

00:36:13.000 And this coincides with other announcements about movements.

00:36:17.000 So you have coalition aircraft activity on the Iran.

00:36:21.000 Excuse me, on the Iraq Syria border.

00:36:23.000 You've got French aircraft, which left a base in France earlier today.

00:36:28.000 And now, via Al Surah, which we don't know, this is unconfirmed, I believe.

00:36:34.000 Al Surah is not, you know, it's not NBC or anything, which says that Italian aerial refueling aircraft are entering Jordan from Saudi airspace to provide support for jet fighters, which they say are expected to launch cruise missiles towards Syria soon.

00:36:48.000 So, hopefully, when they say transnational, they mean.

00:36:53.000 That it's the reason they're being transnational, the reason it's multiple countries involved is to deter a Russian response and not because it's going to be a big attack, right?

00:37:04.000 We want it to be transnational, but a limited strike, not transnational and a big strike.

00:37:10.000 And let's see.

00:37:12.000 Zero Hedge says that Saudi Arabian crown prince says that as circumstances demand it, Saudi Arabia could be a part of international Syria response.

00:37:21.000 And that's actually from earlier today, but just retweeted.

00:37:25.000 So.

00:37:26.000 Who knows?

00:37:27.000 I guess now Saudi Arabia is getting involved in the war. 0.61

00:37:30.000 They just allowed Italy to fly in.

00:37:32.000 I'm going to refresh my page on Fox News.

00:37:32.000 And we'll see.

00:37:34.000 We'll see if they started their live coverage yet.

00:37:37.000 Doesn't look like it.

00:37:38.000 So I guess we're going to have to wait and see until after the debate what happens in Syria.

00:37:43.000 In the meantime, I'll take your super chats and your donations here because we're going to be going off, I think, probably 7 50.

00:37:51.000 I think we'll go offline so I can prepare for the gun control debate.

00:37:56.000 So, we'll do your Super Chats.

00:37:57.000 We'll do your Streamlabs donations.

00:38:00.000 Broseth says, Nick, did you see PJW had Syrian girl on Infowars today?

00:38:05.000 She brought up Israel and Saudi's alliance and their role. 0.84

00:38:09.000 PJW sounded half sensible for once. 0.66

00:38:11.000 Well, because I think in this case it's almost undeniable. 0.56

00:38:14.000 Israel and Saudi Arabia have an alliance.

00:38:16.000 It's very quiet, it's been coming very subtly, but it's there.

00:38:22.000 And we know. 0.78

00:38:22.000 I think it's at this point with the strike that Israel did on Sunday. 0.78

00:38:27.000 You would not, I don't think you'd be anything but a liar.

00:38:30.000 I don't think you'd be doing anything but outright explicitly lying to people if you denied Israel's involvement in Syria and in our internal affairs.

00:38:39.000 Mary Bova said, I actually had a Model UN conference on Syria today.

00:38:43.000 Surprise, we didn't pass anything. 0.91

00:38:45.000 Everyone just wanted to destroy the sovereignty of Syria. 0.98

00:38:48.000 Wow! 0.72

00:38:49.000 Model UN.

00:38:50.000 I love Model UN.

00:38:52.000 On a Tuesday, though, really?

00:38:53.000 Usually for us, it was on Thursday, it was on Saturday, you know, it was on the weekend.

00:38:57.000 But yeah, no.

00:38:58.000 I wish I was in Model UN for this.

00:39:00.000 This would have been fun.

00:39:01.000 This would have been a great time, right?

00:39:03.000 For Model UN, it would have been a glorious, the golden age of Model UN is the Trump administration.

00:39:09.000 I remember the big issues of our day when I was in security councils and things.

00:39:15.000 It was the South and East China Sea and disputes over that.

00:39:19.000 It was Ukraine and Crimea.

00:39:21.000 And it was Iraq, actually, because of ISIS. 0.64

00:39:26.000 Yeah, I remember that.

00:39:27.000 I remember being in the Security Council as Iraq during the rise of ISIS.

00:39:33.000 I believe it was in 2014.

00:39:35.000 I remember.

00:39:36.000 I'll never forget.

00:39:37.000 Very interesting stuff.

00:39:38.000 I know.

00:39:39.000 I'm sure.

00:39:40.000 My sophomore year of high school, I was at the Northwestern Model UN Conference.

00:39:44.000 I was in the Russian cabinet as Sergei Lavrov, who's the foreign minister.

00:39:49.000 And I remember in 2014, I laid out my white paper, which is like what I plan to do in committee.

00:39:56.000 And my entire plan for Russia in 2014 was to fund far right parties in Western Europe and the United States.

00:40:05.000 I was like, as Russia, as the foreign minister, I'm going to direct funds to UKIP in the United Kingdom, to Alternative for Deutschland in Germany, to the National Front in France, and we'll break apart NATO, we'll destroy NATO, we'll sow discord and rip it apart.

00:40:20.000 And this was four years ago.

00:40:21.000 But anyway, off topic.

00:40:23.000 People want to hear about Model UN.

00:40:25.000 But congratulations. 0.97

00:40:26.000 Yeah, it's no surprise that all the friggin' high school kids want to rip apart national sovereignty. 0.98

00:40:32.000 They have no conception, especially in MUN. 0.98

00:40:34.000 It's all about right to protect and all this other nonsense.

00:40:38.000 The UN has to be crushed.

00:40:41.000 Ian Weber says if this escalates in any way that could have been prevented, Trump may be a one term president.

00:40:48.000 Fellas, fellas.

00:40:50.000 We have to think a little bit bigger than that.

00:40:53.000 I understand that if Trump were to go to war in Syria, it would be a tough sell for the midterms and for re election.

00:40:59.000 But we have to think about the matter at hand, which is the fact that we may all die in World War III.

00:41:05.000 I think that's a little bit secondary at this point.

00:41:08.000 Derek says, What are the chances a draft happens?

00:41:11.000 If it escalates into war with Russia, it could happen.

00:41:13.000 Who knows?

00:41:14.000 Then again, if it escalates into war with Russia, it could be over very quickly. 0.73

00:41:20.000 If we go nuclear, and you know what nuclear is, my favorite.

00:41:24.000 Liberals hate when Trump explains nuclear.

00:41:26.000 I like when Trump explains nuclear, when he talks about uranium.

00:41:31.000 Great stuff. 0.94

00:41:32.000 Joe the Serb.

00:41:32.000 Nick, it's me, Joe.

00:41:34.000 Today is my birthday, April 10th, the day World War III started.

00:41:38.000 Much love to all the well wishers in the Discord.

00:41:40.000 Can you maybe shout me out on Andy Worski's debate stream tonight as a gift?

00:41:44.000 It would mean a lot, Nick.

00:41:45.000 Thanks, brother.

00:41:46.000 Gee, well, you're really asking for a lot there.

00:41:49.000 I'll see what I can do, Mr. Joe.

00:41:51.000 But happy birthday.

00:41:53.000 Happy birthday to Boomer Joe, Joe the Serb.

00:41:56.000 We love him.

00:41:56.000 Fan of the show.

00:41:57.000 Happy birthday, big guy.

00:41:59.000 Hope you have a good day.

00:42:00.000 It's unfortunate.

00:42:01.000 It may be the last one for all of us, right?

00:42:04.000 But hey, you made it.

00:42:05.000 You made it right over the hurdle.

00:42:08.000 So good for you.

00:42:09.000 But maybe I'll wish you a happy birthday on Worski, if I can fit it in. 0.61

00:42:14.000 Assad's Nibba says When do you think Generation Z starts?

00:42:17.000 It starts in 96, I believe.

00:42:21.000 Generation Z, they say it starts at some time between 95 and 2000.

00:42:26.000 Anytime between 95 and 2000.

00:42:29.000 I think it's like 96 or 98.

00:42:31.000 I was born in 98.

00:42:32.000 I think I'm Gen Z.

00:42:34.000 I think it's if you're too young, if you were too young to remember the 9 11 attacks.

00:42:39.000 I think that makes you Gen Z, which I fall under that category.

00:42:42.000 Also, I think if SpongeBob was a big part of your life, an original SpongeBob, I think that also makes you Gen Z. Problematic White Knight says Good luck in the debate, Nick.

00:42:51.000 AIU loves to call people out for virtue signaling.

00:42:54.000 Watch out for this pitfall.

00:42:56.000 If he tries to neg me, he's going to get negged viciously.

00:42:59.000 I hope he doesn't try that for his sake.

00:43:01.000 If you can get him to virtue signal about anti guns, it would be hilarious.

00:43:05.000 Don't read this if it is part of your tactics.

00:43:10.000 Don't worry, my tactics are very good.

00:43:12.000 And even if he knew what they were, he wouldn't be able to challenge them.

00:43:15.000 We have the truth on our side.

00:43:17.000 Pro Gun has the truth on our side.

00:43:20.000 We don't need ad hominem.

00:43:21.000 We don't need attacks.

00:43:22.000 These are fun, don't get me wrong.

00:43:23.000 But we have all the facts on our side.

00:43:26.000 I have a secret weapon called a man by the name of John Lott Jr.

00:43:32.000 What else?

00:43:33.000 We got some new super chats, it looks like.

00:43:33.000 What else?

00:43:37.000 Never Alone Forever says Yes, Saudi Arabia and Israel are allied.

00:43:40.000 I thought this was already well known.

00:43:42.000 Of course, they are both allies of the USA.

00:43:45.000 Ian Weber, we may all die in World War III.

00:43:48.000 LOL, Nick, you're the new big black pillar.

00:43:50.000 I know you're kidding.

00:43:51.000 Coach Nick Stock, how does that sound?

00:43:53.000 Yeah, that's great.

00:43:54.000 That's really charming.

00:43:56.000 I'm not saying it's a black pill.

00:43:57.000 It's not a black pill to say that there's a chance, there's a possibility, right?

00:44:02.000 There's always a possibility.

00:44:03.000 We're always really a thread away from nuclear war, nuclear catastrophe, if not in the Middle East, in Eastern Europe, in the East Pacific, who knows?

00:44:13.000 Or in East Asia, rather.

00:44:15.000 The East Pacific would be California.

00:44:18.000 But it's a possibility.

00:44:20.000 I'm not saying it's likely or even the most likely, but it's definitely a possibility tonight.

00:44:25.000 Michael Jones, don't forget that AIU endorsed Hillary. 1.00

00:44:29.000 Oh, God, what a fag. 1.00

00:44:29.000 Did he really? 1.00

00:44:32.000 Imagine voting for a woman in the presidential election in only the worst circumstances. 0.65

00:44:38.000 If she was running against a Jewish billionaire, she was running against, no, I would never say that. 0.62

00:44:44.000 Any kind of left wing billionaire.

00:44:47.000 I didn't mean Jewish, I meant Democrat.

00:44:49.000 Left wing. 1.00

00:44:50.000 Far left liberal, if she was running against a Muslim or against, you know, I don't know, anybody like that, anybody who couldn't eat pork, then I guess I would probably vote for a woman. 1.00

00:45:01.000 But otherwise, I would have to say you're kind of a fag for voting for a woman. 1.00

00:45:06.000 I, you know, to be honest, I don't even know should women vote? 1.00

00:45:09.000 Should they? 1.00

00:45:11.000 I don't know. 0.59

00:45:12.000 If you look at the maps, if all women voted, Hillary Clinton would have won by a landslide. 1.00

00:45:16.000 It would have been over 500 electoral votes for Hillary. 0.99

00:45:18.000 Does anybody want that? 0.98

00:45:20.000 Does anybody see any intrinsic differences in the way men and women vote?

00:45:24.000 Who knows?

00:45:24.000 I'm only kidding, folks.

00:45:25.000 It's all a joke.

00:45:28.000 Anytime you oppose modernism, it's a joke.

00:45:30.000 We're kidding.

00:45:31.000 Richard Nixon says opinion on the Russia Ukraine conflict.

00:45:36.000 I don't know.

00:45:37.000 What's to opine about it?

00:45:38.000 I mean, the reason it's happening is Western imperialism.

00:45:44.000 Russia has to prolong the conflict in Ukraine because if there is still a civil war going on, Ukraine cannot join NATO.

00:45:53.000 This is why Russia invaded Georgia, this is why Russia invaded in Abkhazia.

00:45:58.000 In South Ossetia, because if Georgia and Ukraine are in a civil war, they would not be able to join the EU, they would not be able to join NATO.

00:46:08.000 And so that's why he has to do it, has to do it.

00:46:13.000 But this is a result of Western imperialism.

00:46:16.000 NATO should have disbanded, not expanded.

00:46:19.000 It makes sense.

00:46:19.000 And you look at the geography, I went over this on World Report last week.

00:46:23.000 You look at the geography of Russia and of Eastern Europe.

00:46:27.000 The reason that Russia is in Ukraine in a more.

00:46:32.000 Strategic reason, a bigger reason than even NATO, is the fact that Russia does not have a Western natural land barrier.

00:46:42.000 The reason Russia is the shape it is today is so that they could have natural land barriers which protected from invasion.

00:46:48.000 In the east, they have the Pacific Ocean, and even to the east of the core of Russia, which is Moscow, it's west of the Urals, you have Siberia, which would make it impossible for anybody to invade all of Syria and have supply lines going over the Urals into Moscow and St. Petersburg.

00:47:06.000 To the south, You have the Tian Shen Mountains, I believe they're called.

00:47:09.000 You have the Caucasus Mountains.

00:47:11.000 You have the Caspian and the Black Sea.

00:47:13.000 In the north, you have the Arctic Sea.

00:47:15.000 In the west, however, they, outside of the, well, I forget what the mountains are called in Eastern Europe.

00:47:21.000 There's a small mountain range in Eastern Europe.

00:47:23.000 Outside of that, you have the Northern European Plain, which makes it so that an invasion from France or from Germany could go without encountering mountains or desert or sea or river straight into Russia, straight into the core of Russia, which is that European part, Moscow, St. Petersburg, by the Volga River.

00:47:42.000 And so, what Russia has sought to do to remedy that in the times of the Russian Empire is that they had a massive buffer territory which expended well over by into Germany or around Germany, which is present day Poland.

00:47:55.000 In the times of the Soviet Union, Stalin created buffer states, which would be East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, all of these.

00:48:04.000 In the modern times, Russia has created a bulwark against these northern European plains with Kaliningrad, the exclave.

00:48:12.000 Belarus and Ukraine. 0.61

00:48:14.000 These three, which is Kaliningrad, which is Russian territory, and the two puppet states, formerly puppet states in Ukraine, still is in Belarus, they were able to create some kind of a satellite, satellite buffer states, that would prevent Moscow from being invaded so quickly, as has happened historically three times in the last 200 years by Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Hitler. 0.55

00:48:36.000 So that's why Russia needs to shore up Ukraine.

00:48:39.000 The Western nations tried to break Ukraine out of Russia's orbit. 0.50

00:48:44.000 They replaced Yanukovych with Poroshenko in the Civil War in 2014, the revolution, which was backed by the United States and the CIA.

00:48:52.000 And so, Russia, well, on the one hand, they want to get Ukraine away from NATO because they don't want another country bordering them that's NATO.

00:49:00.000 On the other hand, it's also about that northern European plane.

00:49:03.000 But that was covered in World Report.

00:49:06.000 It looks like we're coming up on the last five minutes here.

00:49:09.000 I'll answer these super chats real quick, and then we got to go.

00:49:12.000 Then we got to go so we can take care of the debate.

00:49:15.000 And let's see.

00:49:15.000 We've got.

00:49:16.000 Alex DeVore says, Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the fermentation of their soy.

00:49:22.000 Yes, very good. 1.00

00:49:23.000 Marissa Blythe, I can't imagine Trump would be stupid enough to get us into a hot war. 1.00

00:49:27.000 Hopefully, there will be minor missile strikes at the most, then de escalation. 1.00

00:49:30.000 Hopefully.

00:49:32.000 Spoiler alert says, Mountain ranges are social constructs.

00:49:35.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:49:37.000 Excuse me. 0.89

00:49:38.000 And lastly, we've got Michael Jones who says, Do you think Trump is being influenced by the old school neocon attitude that anti war rhetoric is libertarian nonsense for cucks?

00:49:46.000 No, because he's been anti war for 25 years.

00:49:50.000 He was against the Iraq war.

00:49:51.000 He was against the Libyan intervention.

00:49:53.000 He was against war in Syria in 2013 when the chemical weapons attack happened.

00:49:57.000 But he said, if you make a promise, you have to follow up on it.

00:50:00.000 He said, I wouldn't have promised a red line in Syria like Obama did in 2013. 0.65

00:50:06.000 And when you promise, you have to go in.

00:50:07.000 But he said, we shouldn't go in.

00:50:10.000 And Ian Weber says, the death of Constantine the 11th would make a man cry.

00:50:14.000 True.

00:50:15.000 But those are all our super chats and stream labs.

00:50:17.000 We got to go.

00:50:18.000 We got to get excited for.

00:50:20.000 We got to get excited for our debate with AIU.

00:50:23.000 So, with that, I leave you.

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00:50:31.000 So, if you want to know the history of Syria, a month by month analysis of the Syrian Civil War, where we're at now, I did it all in depth on World Report this afternoon.

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00:51:01.000 I'm Nicholas J. Fuentes.

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00:51:20.000 Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.

00:51:27.000 It's going to be only America first.

00:51:32.000 America first. 0.99

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - April 10, 2018

World War III Hangout | America First Ep. 142

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