00:00:39.000I 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.
00:00:53.000But 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.
00:01:04.000So it'll be a pre debate, end of the world kind of hangout, chill stream.
00:01:08.000We'll be watching what's going on with Syria.
00:01:15.000And 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.
00:01:28.000I've been watching Devin Tracy's content on guns, and I've heard the arguments he's made.
00:01:35.000He doesn't really make arguments against gun control.
00:01:39.000He strikes me as kind of a fag, to be honest, on the issue of guns.
00:01:44.000He 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.
00:01:53.000It's just kind of this, oh, I don't like guns.
00:01:59.000And 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.
00:04:04.000The United States on the same night vowed a strong response and a joint response with Macron.
00:04:09.000Yesterday, we saw that President Trump committed to some kind of a strike with Theresa May of the UK and Macron of France.
00:04:17.000Today, the developments we've seen, the new things, there was an emergency security council meeting this afternoon, and there were two resolutions put forward.
00:04:27.000Both were shut down, both were vetoed.
00:04:29.000There 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.
00:04:37.000And free inquiry into the chemical attack in Syria that was vetoed by the United Kingdom, shut down.
00:04:43.000Of course, the UK has veto power in the Security Council.
00:04:46.000There 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.
00:04:59.000Russia said, let's have an independent inquiry into the chemical attack, no good.
00:05:05.000The investigation into who is ultimately responsible that was supported by the West was vetoed.
00:05:12.000And so we ended up not reaching any kind of an agreement, any kind of a solution in Syria.
00:05:18.000Surprise, surprise, the United Nations didn't solve it for us.
00:05:22.000When 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.
00:07:29.000The 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.
00:07:45.000But so we had a 59 Tomahawk missile strike last year, which is pretty noncommittal.
00:07:51.000Compared to all the other options on the table, right?
00:07:53.000Barack Obama started doing airstrikes in Syria in 2014, in September of 2014, against ISIS.
00:08:00.000And that was a larger commitment than what we're doing right now.
00:08:05.000I 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.
00:08:13.000Back when I was a neocon, and every speech I was just driving the point home Obama's weak.
00:08:18.000We have to go to war against every Muslim country, you know?
00:08:22.000So I believe it was seven a day under Obama.
00:08:24.000President Trump, the first time he struck Assad was with missiles, which is totally, like I said, noncommittal.
00:08:30.000You sail a little bit off the coast, you launch missiles.
00:08:33.000If the missiles get struck down, it's not a big deal.
00:09:39.000The complicating factor here, which is different than last year and the Israel strikes, is that we no longer have the element of surprise.
00:09:47.000Whereas last year, I don't think anybody expected that kind of militarism from President Trump.
00:09:51.000He was a new president, he had only been in office for three months.
00:09:54.000He had campaigned on ending the war in Syria.
00:09:57.000The 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.
00:10:09.000And so they were able to strike with impunity.
00:10:11.000Israel was able to strike with impunity because they were just so quick about it this time around.
00:10:17.000There 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.
00:10:26.000So 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.
00:10:40.000attack 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.
00:10:50.000I mean, we saw United States hardware versus Russian hardware in the Cold War, but rarely, if ever, did we see a direct confrontation.
00:11:00.000Part 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.
00:11:13.000It would not be in either country's interest, the United States or Russia, for Russia to retaliate.
00:11:18.000But 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.
00:11:40.000So 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.
00:11:48.000If 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.
00:11:57.000And if Russian targets are hit, then we can say, well, we gave you plenty of time, you put your people in harm's way.
00:12:05.000But we're waiting right now for the imminent announcement, which was reported by Fox News.
00:12:10.000They 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.
00:12:18.000And 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.
00:12:35.000So, 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.
00:12:50.000It looks like in the next 72 hours, we will be seeing some kind of a strike.
00:12:54.000If Eurocontrol is saying that, who knows?
00:13:30.000I 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.
00:13:44.000They would be less likely to retaliate if it was the UK, France, and the US, as opposed to if it was only the US.
00:13:52.000You know, you want to go to war with as, I guess, as few countries as possible, the fewest countries as possible.
00:13:58.000So maybe that's the value of France and the UK being involved.
00:14:02.000The tricky thing here, too, though, is you have many actors in Syria.
00:14:07.000People compare it to Iraq, people compare it to Afghanistan or Libya.
00:14:12.000Libya would be the most comparable example in the sense that what we're talking about here probably is not a ground war.
00:14:18.000I 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.
00:14:25.000The 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.
00:15:14.000But 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.
00:15:30.000So you have four major countries operating in Syria right now, which really complicates it.
00:15:36.000Syria probably wouldn't be struck because Syria's involvement is very, very limited.
00:15:41.000They're in one part in Kurdistan, which is in Syrian Kurdistan, which it would not be, you probably wouldn't target.
00:15:50.000China, Russia, and Iran present the problem.
00:15:53.000There'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.
00:16:04.000So that's a very significant presence from Iran.
00:16:06.000Russia has a lot of contractors there.
00:16:16.000Now it's not just some dictator in a region that is not strategic, that is not important.
00:16:22.000Now 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.
00:16:39.000Typically 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.
00:16:51.000But 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?
00:17:00.000And it wasn't so much Americans in Vietnam versus Russians in Vietnam.
00:17:07.000If 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.
00:17:18.000And it looks like we got some kind of a donation, so let's see.
00:18:19.000I think the broader concern is we've basically got our allegiances laid out.
00:18:23.000If there is A shot fired if there's a Russian killed, then we know what the sides are.
00:18:28.000It's Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, possibly Turkey, Qatar, you know, who knows, up against the United States, NATO, and a few others.
00:19:22.000You don't need to project power in that region.
00:19:24.000Even if you could, it wouldn't be important in the places you'd want to project power.
00:19:28.000In 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.
00:19:37.000So, Egypt, Libya, you know, Algeria, yeah, that's kind of interesting, I guess.
00:19:43.000Syria, Israel, Turkey, you know, maybe.
00:19:46.000But 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.
00:19:58.000That's where all the oil comes out of, that's where all the natural gas comes out of.
00:20:03.000And 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.
00:20:21.000Syria is all the way over in the Eastern Mediterranean.
00:20:24.000They're not strategically important at all, not for any reason.
00:20:27.000The 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.
00:20:44.000Iran can resupply Hezbollah, can give them missiles, weapons, all the rest.
00:20:48.000And that's why Israel's petrified that Assad remains in power.
00:20:51.000That's why Israel collaborates with ISIS, the Al Nusra Front, and the CIA to make sure that Assad is deposed.
00:20:57.000That'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.
00:21:10.000Outside of the strategic concerns, which are Israeli, and that's why that's our strategic interest now.
00:21:15.000But 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.
00:21:23.000And I talked about this in World Report in more depth earlier in this afternoon for the exclusive podcast.
00:21:30.000The 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.
00:21:41.000In the sense that since the end of the Cold War, America has been the global hegemonic power.
00:22:11.000Since 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.
00:22:45.000But 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.
00:23:01.000That says that the United States doesn't really run the show everywhere anymore.
00:23:06.000They can only project power in a limited capacity in certain theaters where Russia and China are closer.
00:23:52.000We don't really talk about this too much on the show because maybe we'll do it on World Report one day.
00:23:57.000But 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.
00:24:11.000It'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.
00:24:22.000This is an $8 trillion infrastructure plan that China has to essentially recreate the Silk Road of the ancient world.
00:24:30.000It'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.
00:24:40.000Highways, 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.
00:24:53.000Shipping routes, trade routes over land.
00:24:55.000So, 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.
00:25:05.000All of this so that they could get the goods and the markets from Europe, from Asia, and from Africa into China.
00:25:13.000The American primacy in the oceans and in the trade networks and the financial networks.
00:25:18.000And so China's deployed their troops as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative because they'll be overseeing infrastructure projects in Syria.
00:25:25.000At least they hope so once Syria is buttoned up.
00:25:28.000They'll help get some of that Golan Heights oil out into Chinese markets and, you know, whatever, in whatever capacity they can.
00:25:36.000And 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.
00:25:48.000If 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.
00:26:04.000It's not about ideology, it's not about nationalism, it's not about anything like that.
00:26:08.000It's about pipelines, it's about ports, it's about the petrodollar, it's about these kinds of things.
00:26:13.000And so, like it or not, that's why we're there.
00:26:16.000And 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.
00:26:27.000Whether 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.
00:26:34.000We'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.
00:26:46.000We don't want to make the base look foolish by going.
00:26:49.000To 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.
00:26:55.000And that's essentially what's going on there.
00:27:23.000So I guess it's still imminent, right?
00:27:27.000Julia Davis says, Russia State TV tells everyone not to panic, but provides handy guidance on what to take to the bomb shelter.
00:27:34.000So I think you see on both sides some of this bluster, some of this intimidation.
00:27:39.000I will say, you know, we joke that this is the end of the world stream.
00:27:44.000A 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.
00:28:31.000Committee, 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.
00:28:44.000But Cambridge Analytica was this, they were some kind of a company with elections, right?
00:28:50.000I mean, they were supplying data to different campaigns, right?
00:28:55.000I believe they were selling data, you know, I don't know.
00:29:49.000And so, that kind of information, the metadata, was allowed to be accessed by Cambridge Analytica through a third party app.
00:29:57.000So, 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.
00:30:06.000Spin the wheel, win a shiny, win the blue ribbon, and you can post it to your friends.
00:30:11.000One of these apps, which is allowed to use Facebook metadata, sold that information from Facebook to Cambridge.
00:30:18.000So Cambridge didn't buy it from Facebook, they bought it from a third party.
00:30:22.000And 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?
00:31:20.000You log on, you're able to access this kind of stuff.
00:31:22.000It 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.
00:32:31.000The government spies on you more than Facebook.
00:32:34.000The problem is do you know what you're getting into?
00:32:35.000You volunteer for this voluntary service, you offer up your information, and people don't really know what they're getting.
00:32:43.000They don't know where their information is going.
00:32:45.000They're not clear on what's available to advertisers, what isn't, how they can prevent it from being that way.
00:32:50.000And 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.
00:33:00.000He said the only way you're able to do that.
00:33:03.000He would not commit to an automatic way to prevent your information from being sold to advertisers, which people said, oh, that's an issue.
00:33:10.000The 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.
00:33:21.000And 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.
00:33:29.000And so companies like Facebook and others are prevented from lawsuits.
00:33:35.000Against Facebook from things their users post because Facebook says we're a platform.
00:33:41.000So 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.
00:33:49.000But if they're a publisher, then they can be.
00:33:51.000If 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.
00:34:06.000They can publish things or they can choose not to publish things that are illegal, copyright, threats, that kind of thing.
00:34:12.000And so that could open them up to all kinds of lawsuits then, if that's the case.
00:34:17.000But those were really the major developments here.
00:34:19.000It wasn't the fireworks people expected.
00:34:21.000I don't think Mark Zuckerberg's a human being.
00:34:24.000I mean, the guy is like a robot or a lizard the way he smiles, the way he talks, the way he sips his water.
00:35:43.000And here's a development here from Al Sura, which says Italian aerial refueling aircraft.
00:35:50.000Now 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.
00:36:04.000So 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.
00:36:13.000And this coincides with other announcements about movements.
00:36:17.000So you have coalition aircraft activity on the Iran.
00:36:23.000You've got French aircraft, which left a base in France earlier today.
00:36:28.000And now, via Al Surah, which we don't know, this is unconfirmed, I believe.
00:36:34.000Al 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.
00:36:48.000So, hopefully, when they say transnational, they mean.
00:36:53.000That 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?
00:37:04.000We want it to be transnational, but a limited strike, not transnational and a big strike.
00:37:12.000Zero Hedge says that Saudi Arabian crown prince says that as circumstances demand it, Saudi Arabia could be a part of international Syria response.
00:37:21.000And that's actually from earlier today, but just retweeted.
00:38:22.000I think it's at this point with the strike that Israel did on Sunday.
00:38:27.000You would not, I don't think you'd be anything but a liar.
00:38:30.000I 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.
00:38:39.000Mary Bova said, I actually had a Model UN conference on Syria today.
00:39:40.000My sophomore year of high school, I was at the Northwestern Model UN Conference.
00:39:44.000I was in the Russian cabinet as Sergei Lavrov, who's the foreign minister.
00:39:49.000And I remember in 2014, I laid out my white paper, which is like what I plan to do in committee.
00:39:56.000And my entire plan for Russia in 2014 was to fund far right parties in Western Europe and the United States.
00:40:05.000I 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.
00:42:34.000I think it's if you're too young, if you were too young to remember the 9 11 attacks.
00:42:39.000I think that makes you Gen Z, which I fall under that category.
00:42:42.000Also, 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.
00:42:51.000AIU loves to call people out for virtue signaling.
00:44:03.000We'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?
00:44:50.000Far 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.
00:45:01.000But otherwise, I would have to say you're kind of a fag for voting for a woman.
00:45:06.000I, you know, to be honest, I don't even know should women vote?
00:45:38.000I mean, the reason it's happening is Western imperialism.
00:45:44.000Russia has to prolong the conflict in Ukraine because if there is still a civil war going on, Ukraine cannot join NATO.
00:45:53.000This is why Russia invaded Georgia, this is why Russia invaded in Abkhazia.
00:45:58.000In 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.
00:46:08.000And so that's why he has to do it, has to do it.
00:46:13.000But this is a result of Western imperialism.
00:46:16.000NATO should have disbanded, not expanded.
00:46:19.000And you look at the geography, I went over this on World Report last week.
00:46:23.000You look at the geography of Russia and of Eastern Europe.
00:46:27.000The reason that Russia is in Ukraine in a more.
00:46:32.000Strategic reason, a bigger reason than even NATO, is the fact that Russia does not have a Western natural land barrier.
00:46:42.000The reason Russia is the shape it is today is so that they could have natural land barriers which protected from invasion.
00:46:48.000In 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.
00:47:06.000To the south, You have the Tian Shen Mountains, I believe they're called.
00:47:11.000You have the Caspian and the Black Sea.
00:47:13.000In the north, you have the Arctic Sea.
00:47:15.000In the west, however, they, outside of the, well, I forget what the mountains are called in Eastern Europe.
00:47:21.000There's a small mountain range in Eastern Europe.
00:47:23.000Outside 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.
00:47:42.000And 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.
00:47:55.000In the times of the Soviet Union, Stalin created buffer states, which would be East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, all of these.
00:48:04.000In the modern times, Russia has created a bulwark against these northern European plains with Kaliningrad, the exclave.
00:48:14.000These 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.
00:48:36.000So that's why Russia needs to shore up Ukraine.
00:48:39.000The Western nations tried to break Ukraine out of Russia's orbit.
00:48:44.000They replaced Yanukovych with Poroshenko in the Civil War in 2014, the revolution, which was backed by the United States and the CIA.
00:48:52.000And 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.
00:49:00.000On the other hand, it's also about that northern European plane.
00:49:38.000And 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?
00:49:46.000No, because he's been anti war for 25 years.
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