WORLD WAR III IMMINENT? Great Satan BANS Russian Oil, Pray For Putin! | America First Ep. 954WORLD WAR III IMMINENT? Great Satan BANS Russian Oil, Pray For Putin! | America First Ep. 954
In this episode, I discuss the history of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and why this is not an act of aggression by Russia, but rather a deliberate act of self defense against a perceived threat from the West. I also discuss the reasons why Russia invaded Ukraine and why they should be seen as the aggressor in the conflict, not the aggressors. Finally, I talk about why Russia should be able to defend itself within its borders from other states and other political actors, and how they can do so in order to maintain sovereignty within their borders. This episode is a must listen for anyone who wants to understand the depth of the conflict between the West and Russia, and the role that Russia plays in it all, as well as why they are the only country that has the power to defend its borders and the ability to repel aggressors within them. If you don't want to listen to this podcast, you're not going to want to miss this episode. I hope you enjoy it, and share it with your friends, family, and loved ones. Tweet me if you liked it! to let me know what you thought of it. Timestamps: 1:00 - What do you think of this episode? 2:30 - What does it mean to you? 3:20 - What is your opinion on the situation? 4:40 - Why does Russia have control over Ukraine? 5: What is the difference between Ukraine and Russia? 6: What does Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict? 7:00 8:10 - Why is Russia responsible? 9:00 | What does a country have the right and what does Russia really have to do? 10: What are we fighting for? 11:30 | What is Russia really get to defend? 12:40 | What do we have control of its borders? 13:30 14:40 15:20 | How does Russia need to defend our borders? 15: How can we be a country? 16: How do we defend ourselves from other countries? 17:20 What is a nation have the best chance to defend ourselves within borders? 14:30 Is Russia a country that can defend itself from a country by its borders by itself? 15 :30 | How do you have the physical power within borders by a country and territory? 21:30 What does that mean?
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00:00:02.000American news media is just as much propaganda for the American regime's agenda as Russian state-owned media is propaganda for the aims and the objectives of the Russian government.
00:00:17.000So, what you're hearing, like I said, on television, on social media, it is controlled.
00:00:24.000The algorithm which is designed by American Big Tech curates stories and narratives that prop up the State Department and Pentagon agenda in Eastern Europe.
00:00:35.000What you see on your timeline was put there by Big Tech.
00:00:40.000What Big Tech puts on your timeline is dictated by the military-industrial complex that has been waging a Cold War against Russia for the past eight years or longer.
00:00:52.000And the same goes for all of the legacy media.
00:00:54.000The television, the radio, the print, what you read in the New York Times and the Washington Post, what you see on NBC and CBS, and what you hear on the radio, it is all controlled media.
00:01:07.000You can't even hear the opposing opinion.
00:01:11.000Nobody in national news media, nobody on social media is permitted to talk about the Russian side of this, or just simply the alternative explanation of what is going on.
00:01:23.000Russia Today, which is an English-speaking, Russian-backed news agency, they're banned from social media.
00:01:31.000You quite literally cannot hear the other side.
00:01:34.000You will struggle to find English transcriptions of Vladimir Putin's speeches on this issue.
00:01:42.000You'll struggle to find Russian news agency coverage of what is going on.
00:01:47.000But if you search Russia-Ukraine on a Google search engine or on Google-controlled YouTube or a Russia-Ukraine related hashtag on Twitter or Facebook, you will find curated results
00:02:47.000But we invaded first to preempt his aggression, or something like that.
00:02:52.000So in other words, nations can attack other nations, they can initiate, and it can still be considered defensive.
00:03:00.000It can still be considered reasonable.
00:03:02.000Russia's invasion of Ukraine is being called aggression, which means what they're saying in that, what's loaded up in that, is they're saying that Russia is the belligerent, Russia's initiating all of the hostility, Russia is
00:05:20.000The problem, which is defined, like I said, Russian statecraft and Russian domestic and foreign policy for hundreds of years, is the sheer size of Russia.
00:05:29.000And if you have such a large country with such large borders, how are you going to defend all those borders?
00:05:35.000How are you going to defend all that territory?
00:05:37.000Well, Russia has to expand in order to do that.
00:05:41.000Because where Russia is situated, not only does it have enormous borders, but it has enormous borders in a
00:05:49.000With a geography that is very difficult to defend.
00:05:53.000When you look at, for example, Russia in Western Europe, the western border of Russia is a Great Plain.
00:05:59.000It's called the Great European or the Northern European Plain.
00:06:04.000And the Northern European Plain is completely flat, it's completely open, and that makes it very easy for an opposing army to invade.
00:06:12.000So Russia's entire western border is just wide open space.
00:06:15.000Typically, when you see the borders of countries, they'll be situated along rivers, mountains, oceans, geographical features that make it easier to defend the border.
00:06:26.000Typically, it'll form around particular choke points.
00:06:29.000You know, so like you look at countries in Europe and they're bounded by mountains and rivers.
00:06:36.000They're bounded by the Eastern Mediterranean or the Arabian Sea or by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
00:06:44.000Because, you know, once again, that makes it easier to defend the border.
00:06:48.000That means you're able to control what goes on.
00:06:50.000If you go outside of a geographical border, you've got to defend open land, which is difficult.
00:06:56.000So you retreat to where you can control one or two, you know, major points of entry.
00:07:01.000So Russia, in its western border as an example, is constantly expanding westward, and we'll get into particularly why that is, so that they're able to shore up their border.
00:08:11.000That's a completely different way to organize territory and people than a nation state system.
00:08:17.000The Chinese Empire, the Russian Empire, Mongolian Empire, and so on.
00:08:22.000It's a different way to organize people in places, and it's a different form of sovereignty than, say, like I said, a so-called nation-state.
00:08:30.000So, when people are saying these things about, you know, Ukraine has a right to exist, we must defend Ukraine, Ukraine is its own country, and so on, it's a dubious proposition, because historically there was no Ukraine, there was Russia.
00:08:47.000Crimea was a part of Russia for hundreds of years.
00:08:51.000So it's really the past 30 years which are the anomaly that Ukraine is not part of Russia.
00:08:58.000So we know that the Russian Empire exists up until 1917.
00:09:03.000And in 1917, there's a revolution in February which overthrows the Tsar, and they put in place a provisional government under Alexander Kerensky.
00:09:13.000Then in October, the Bolsheviks, which are the Communists, they take power.
00:09:20.000And a civil war ensues between the Bolsheviks and their Red Army and the White Army, which is the army of the Tsar and the Russian Empire.
00:09:31.000It comes to an end in 1922, and the Bolsheviks now control Russia, and they create an entity called the Soviet Union, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
00:09:42.000And so the USSR is sort of a federal entity.
00:09:45.000The reason I say that is because it's important.
00:10:28.000It's the Russian Soviet Federated Republic.
00:10:31.000And so Russia is its own republic within the USSR, but then there are other Soviet socialist republics, too, in Ukraine, in, I believe, Armenia, or Georgia, and in some of the other Eastern European countries and Central Asian countries, I think Azerbaijan.
00:11:53.000So he gives Crimea to Ukraine, but Ukraine is under the control of Moscow.
00:11:58.000Then, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapses, and all of these Soviet republics declare independence.
00:12:06.000And so now, the old Russian Empire, which included a lot of these countries in Eastern Europe, is ripped apart.
00:12:15.000And so all this territory, all these peoples that were part of the Russian Empire, and then became administrative units in the Soviet Union, they're now amputated from Russia.
00:12:29.000They're now completely cut off from Russia.
00:12:31.000And so now you've got a completely independent Ukraine.
00:13:17.000That was not the case for hundreds of years.
00:13:20.000For hundreds of years, Ukraine was part of Russia.
00:13:24.000For hundreds of years, Crimea was not part of Ukraine, but formerly part of Russia.
00:13:30.000Under the Soviet Union, Ukraine becomes its own administrative thing, and Crimea is gifted to it, but again, still under the control of Moscow.
00:13:37.000So it's not until 1991 that Ukraine becomes independent, and has its own, and has independence, and is its own country, is granted statehood.
00:13:47.000But this is the first time that you've got nation-states in this region.
00:13:53.000Because prior to all these nation-states, independent nation-states coming into being, you had these Soviet republics which were under the suzerainty of Moscow, meaning that they were vassal states.
00:14:07.000And prior to that, they were part of the Russian Empire.
00:14:10.000So it's 30 years old that you've got such a thing called Ukrainian independence, but it's not 100% correct to say that Ukraine is its own thing, because you've got lots of overlap.
00:14:22.000You have lots of ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking people living in Ukraine, living in Eastern Ukraine, moving between Russia and Ukraine, specifically also in Crimea.
00:14:33.000And so, getting back to the geography problem of Russia, which I mentioned earlier, and particularly talking about Eastern Europe, that all these Eastern European countries break away from Russia is a complete disaster.
00:14:48.000Because as I said, Russia is so large and its borders are so hard to defend, that Russia is trying to create a periphery, they're trying to create a border with the rest of the world that they can adequately defend.
00:15:02.000So in Eastern Europe, revisiting the idea of the Northern European Plain, the Northern European Plain is shaped like a funnel.
00:15:11.000In Eastern Europe, or rather in Eastern Germany,
00:15:15.000This plane, which is flat, passable land, is at its smallest part.
00:15:37.000Because when you look historically at Hitler's invasion into Russia, Napoleon's invasion into Russia, this is a corridor through which the West can sweep into Russia.
00:15:47.000And the bigger that that border is, where that line of demarcation is drawn along this plane,
00:15:56.000Of course, if it's very small, it's much easier to defend.
00:16:00.000If it's very large, it's a lot more difficult to defend.
00:16:03.000It's about how big is this corridor going to be where the West can walk right into Russia.
00:16:10.000And so, throughout the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union,
00:16:15.000Russia was settled very far west, and that was beneficial to Russia's security posture because then they didn't have as much of this open land to defend or to fortify the border with troops and things like that.
00:16:31.000When the Soviet Union collapses in 1991, all these countries break away from Russia, and so that line of demarcation between east and west
00:16:39.000During the Cold War, when the Soviet Union existed, it was all the way up in Germany, and so it was a very short, narrow border.
00:16:47.000Now it's pushed all the way back, and it's pushed all the way back to the border of the Russian Federation.
00:16:54.000And as I said, as you move east, the funnel opens up and the northern European plain grows bigger.
00:17:03.000And I think a lot of people understand this.
00:17:05.000I think people are reading about this and they're beginning to understand this concept.
00:17:09.000And so when Russia says, when Vladimir Putin says that this is a geopolitical disaster, this is what he's talking about.
00:17:15.000He means that Russia is now in this completely unacceptable, indefensible situation where they've got an entire stretch of wide open plains from the Black Sea all the way across to the Baltic Sea to defend as NATO is expanding.
00:18:08.000Initially, it's a defensive alliance of the Western European countries in America against the Soviet Union after World War II, and then the Warsaw Pact is formed in response to that, and that aligns all the Eastern European countries with Russia, and you create this hard border between East and West.
00:18:24.000A hard defensive alliance between both countries, or both sides, where both sides understand that if you go on one side or you go on the other side, it's World War III.
00:18:34.000So that's where you have the Berlin Wall,
00:18:37.000And then everybody knows, and it's actually a very stable situation because everybody knows, this is the red line.
00:18:44.000You don't interfere in Hungary if you're NATO, and you don't interfere in France if you're Russia.
00:18:50.000And there's a hard border between East and West, and it's a border that's defensible for both sides.
00:18:55.000And the border is fortified, and this ensures that the Soviet Union and the West are not going to come into a big collision and have a big fight.
00:19:06.000Everybody knows this is where NATO begins and ends, and this is where the Soviet Union begins and ends.
00:19:12.000And it's actually a very stable situation throughout the Cold War.
00:19:15.000But after the Soviet Union collapses, the Warsaw Pact dissolves, all these countries become independent, and then there's a conversation as early as 1992 in the Bush administration about expanding NATO membership, which really doesn't make sense.
00:19:30.000Because NATO was formed specifically to counter the threat of the Soviet Union.
00:19:35.000And what was the threat of the Soviet Union?
00:19:38.000It was not just that the Soviet Union was the only superpower other than the United States that emerged from World War II.
00:19:45.000It's not just that the Soviet Union was another superpower.
00:19:51.000It was that the regime in Moscow was a pariah regime.
00:19:57.000The regime in Moscow, with the Communist International,
00:20:43.000The Soviet Union was not a normal state.
00:20:45.000This was an ideologically driven state with universal global ambitions, which were diametrically at odds with those of the so-called free world, with the establishment in DC.
00:20:57.000So NATO specifically was formed to counter the threat of the Soviet Union, not Russia.
00:21:03.000Not Moscow, but the threat of the Soviet Union.
00:21:06.000And said, this is an empire which is not letting go of Eastern Europe after they invaded.
00:21:12.000It's not letting go of the Caucasus and Iran.
00:21:22.000I mean, Stalin was writing about World War II in the 1920s.
00:21:27.000So that is the threat that NATO was formed to counter.
00:21:47.000Now, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapses and it's no more.
00:21:51.000You just have a weakened Russian Federation.
00:21:55.000The economy is destroyed, they undergo a palace coup, essentially, and like I said, they lose so much territory and so much population and resources, it's a disaster.
00:22:06.000Yet, NATO, which was formed to counter the Soviet Union, expands, even though the Soviet Union no longer exists.
00:22:14.000So in 92, they say, we're going to expand membership.
00:22:16.000In 95, they get Boris Yeltsin to sign an agreement which includes a clause that says that Yeltsin, the President of Russia, agrees that NATO can expand.
00:22:26.000In 97, in Madrid, they say that NATO will expand.
00:22:28.000And then in 99, they have the first round of expansion,
00:22:52.000And so, whereas at one point, again throughout the 20th century, all of this area was under Russian control, in the 1990s it was a neutral zone or it was contested, by 2004 it's now in the hands of the West and they're being brought into the sphere of influence of Washington DC and London and Brussels and Berlin and Paris.
00:23:17.000And so these countries are being democratized, liberalized, often with these color revolutions, with these revolutions that are instigated by Western intelligence agencies where they install pro-Western leaders and they bring them into the military and defensive alliance and the economic union with Europe and with America.
00:23:37.000And so now the West's borders are moving at a breakneck speed towards Moscow.
00:23:57.000They're taking all these countries and bringing them under NATO, and in doing so, they're moving the border further, they're taking from Russia, and they're moving missiles, troops, military bases, and a hard defensive line right up to Russia's border.
00:24:15.000And so when they bring the Baltic states, for example, into NATO, now you've got Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, which are right on the border with Russia, now you're putting NATO troops there, and NATO military bases, and NATO military drills.
00:24:28.000And it gets back to the geography problem.
00:24:31.000Now Russia's being forced to defend a hard line, which is far larger than historically it ever has.
00:24:39.000In 2008, or 2007, NATO crosses a red line, and NATO says, now we want Georgia and Ukraine to join NATO in the future.
00:24:48.000So in 2007, Georgia, which is in the Caucasus, and Ukraine, which is of course on the Black Sea,
00:24:57.000The United States and NATO says these two countries will become part of NATO.
00:25:03.000And Russia immediately draws a red line and says, no, that is not acceptable.
00:25:07.000You cannot bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO.
00:25:09.000Because you bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO and now Russia, we have got Russia by the balls.
00:25:16.000Because so much of Russia's energy resources are in the Caucasus.
00:25:21.000That's a vital region where you've got the Baku oil fields.
00:25:25.000This is what Hitler tried to get in World War II.
00:25:28.000And, you know, we even talked about bombing that during World War II when we thought we were going to war against the Soviet Union.
00:25:34.000So Georgia's right there in the Caucasus, right there on Russia's southern border, and again on the Black Sea, and the Caspian Sea.
00:25:44.000And then you've got Ukraine, which is 100 kilometers from Moscow.
00:25:48.000It's got immense food and energy resources.
00:25:52.000And also Ukraine has Crimea, which has the Sevastopol military base, and that is where Russia deploys its Black Sea fleet, and that's where Russia projects power into the Black Sea.
00:26:03.000And so, think about in your head, if you take a look at a map of Europe, if NATO expands to Ukraine and Georgia, you've now got a NATO crescent, which goes from
00:26:13.000Estonia and the Baltic Sea in the north, all the way down through Latvia, Lithuania, through Poland, through Ukraine, through Crimea, the Black Sea, through to Georgia.
00:26:23.000And what is happening is we have encircled Russia.
00:26:29.000This is an unacceptable security posture for Russia to be in.
00:26:44.000We've created this dynamic where Russia cannot defend itself.
00:26:47.000If NATO were to ever declare war against Russia, we could come at them from the Baltic Sea, we could come at them from the Baltic States, we can come at them from Poland, we can come at them from Ukraine, we control the Black Sea, and we've got Georgia!
00:27:03.000This would be the equivalent of if Russia controlled Mexico, and Cuba, and Puerto Rico, and, like, Alaska.
00:27:12.000It's a completely... and this is what I want to drive home.
00:27:18.000There was no reason for NATO to even continue existing.
00:27:21.000Because Russia, after 1991, is neutralized.
00:27:24.000And, as I said, and this is important too, it's no longer the Soviet Union.
00:27:29.000It's no longer a universal, totalizing, ideological-driven agenda in Moscow.
00:27:35.000And it's no longer a superpower either.
00:27:37.000So it has neither the means nor the desire to achieve the kind of world domination which NATO was created to counter.
00:27:44.000So, Russia's no longer a threat in terms of their capability and in terms of their ambitions after 1991.
00:27:50.000Yet, NATO not only does not dissolve, it remains, and then it expands over the course of 15 years and races across the northern European plain and into these very strategically important locations.
00:28:06.000And in 2007, say, we're going to get Ukraine and we're going to get Georgia too.
00:31:00.000And you've got the Sochi Winter Olympics happening, and Russia's preoccupied with this, and there is still this lingering question of NATO and European Union membership for Ukraine.
00:31:11.000It's growing in popularity, people are talking about it, and the pro-Russian president in Ukraine, Yanukovych, squashes the idea.
00:31:20.000He says, we're not going to join NATO, we're not going to join the European Union.
00:31:24.000And he's a pro-Russian, people say he's a puppet.
00:31:27.000So, the United States goes in and they overthrow him.
00:31:29.000They overthrow him with a color revolution, they create all this propaganda about democracy and liberalism, and they create these fake protests, and they catalyze and provoke a revolution in Kiev.
00:31:43.000Yanukovych is overthrown, he flees the country, and they install Petro Poroshenko, pro-Western leader.
00:31:49.000Putin swoops in because he sees the writing on the wall.
00:31:53.000They've been trying to get Ukraine into NATO and the European Union and to become a liberal democracy at that point for seven years.
00:32:01.000Conversation starts in 2007 is when it's discussed and then in 2014 they go in and they overthrow Yanukovych and they say we're doing it.
00:32:08.000Yanukovych says no, NATO-EU membership, well we disagree.
00:32:16.000He invades Crimea, he invades Donbass, those two republics in the east.
00:32:23.000And specifically he invades Crimea because of the strategic importance of Crimea, because the Crimean Peninsula gives Russia a port, a year-round port.
00:32:32.000Also, it's got the military base, the naval base in Sevastopol, and that is where they have their Black Sea Fleet, which is a crucial part of their navy, and that is how they're able to defend the Caucasus, and that's how they're able to defend their southwestern border.
00:32:48.000So, but again, where is the provocation here?
00:32:51.000Because so far the story is 25 years of NATO taking advantage of the situation.
00:33:00.000Yeah, yeah, 25 years of NATO and America seeking to dominate and contain Russia at the expense of European security and at the expense of Russia's legitimate national interest.
00:33:13.000And it starts in 92, talking about expanding NATO.
00:35:03.000And Hillary Clinton, when she was the Secretary of State, she famously does the Russian reset with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
00:35:12.000So, it's, and George W. Bush says he looks in Putin's eyes and sees his soul and he's a good man and he's going to be a partner, right?
00:35:20.000So, throughout the 90s, throughout the 2000s, even past the 2012 election, and you remember famously, too, in the 2012 election, when Medvedev was president, you know, Putin serves two terms until 2008, the Constitution requires him to step down,
00:35:56.000So you've got, verifiably, throughout this period, the United States is saying, we're not afraid of Russia, Russia's not a threat.
00:36:04.000Expanding NATO and the European Union is just about more power, more control, and it's about this democratic globalism strategy of trying to make the world safe for democracy and make it liberal and the triumph of liberalism after the Cold War.
00:36:40.000And in 2015 and 2016 they ratcheted up and they blamed Trump and they say that Russia's with Trump and Russia's creating all this instability, Russia's behind the alt-right, they're behind Brexit, they're behind Trump, they're trying to break apart NATO, they're trying to sponsor UKIP and ADF, and they're trying to sponsor Breitbart and the Republican Party.
00:37:03.000And you get all this hysteria even before the 2016 election about cyber attacks and election interference.
00:37:09.000And then we know how it went for the past four years under Trump, the special counsel and all the rest.
00:37:16.000Now fast forward to 2022, and NATO is deploying hypersonic missiles on Ukraine's western border.
00:37:23.000And the President Zelensky, who was recently elected, who is an actor, is talking about getting a nuclear arsenal.
00:37:32.000Zelensky is talking about getting a nuclear arsenal.
00:38:26.000They're not going to have nuclear weapons.
00:38:28.000We are going to go in there and demilitarize Ukraine.
00:38:31.000Either Biden and the EU is going to come to the negotiating table, and we are going to make sure that Ukraine is never part of NATO, or we are going to invade Ukraine and ensure for ourselves they'll never become part of NATO.
00:38:47.000They say, no no, that's unacceptable, we'll never give an inch, blah blah blah, and now you have a Russian invasion.
00:38:55.000So with the long view of history there, and I know that's a really, that's really a long roundabout way of getting there, but when you take the long road, you see who's the real aggressor here.
00:39:07.000It is the United States that is the aggressor.
00:39:10.000We would not allow Russia to have even a modest, reasonable sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
00:39:17.000Because Russia brought Ukraine and Belarus into the CFTC, which is sort of an economic-political alliance that's meant to begin to rebuild the Warsaw Pact.
00:39:32.000Belarus and Ukraine are part of the new periphery that Russia's trying to shore up, and they won't let Russia even have that.
00:39:43.000And so our border with Russia goes from Berlin all the way east to Donbass, all the way east to Kharkiv.
00:40:00.000And I keep saying this, it's an unacceptable security posture for Russia to be in.
00:40:03.000To have NATO have such a long border with Russia, it's not acceptable.
00:40:09.000For them to be deploying missiles, potentially nukes, for them to be doing drills that close to Russia, to strip them of the Black Sea, to strip them of Crimea, of Sevastopol, to challenge them in the Caucasus, to challenge them so close to their capital, it's just not acceptable for Russia.
00:40:37.000The Monroe Doctrine says that all of the Western Hemisphere is ours.
00:40:41.000But Russia can't even have Ukraine and Belarus?
00:40:45.000They were historically part of Russia 30 years ago, and formerly part of Russia 100 years ago.
00:40:53.000And now, it's all this propaganda about, they have a right to exist, they're their own nation, and understand that's why everyone's calling it Kiev now.
00:41:01.000Because Kiev, or what are they saying, Kiev, Kiev, they're saying that's the Ukrainian pronunciation, and that's supposed to brainwash you into thinking Ukraine has its own identity, Ukraine is its own country.
00:41:55.000What's more is Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and it has been a battlefield for Russia and American intelligence agencies.
00:42:04.000These American intelligence agencies now are waging a war on Russia, straight up, since 2014.
00:42:12.000And now they're in Ukraine, and they're using Ukraine as a, it's a battleground, it's a vassal state for the American intel agencies to do their dirty work.
00:42:20.000That's Hunter Biden, that's the Clintons, that's Obama.
00:42:24.000There is nothing good happening in Eastern Europe ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:42:28.000It has been billionaires, it has been the super mob and the intel agencies using that vacuum of power to loot these countries, integrate them into their grift, integrate them into our racket.
00:43:48.000What Russia is doing here, and so in the context of everything I've just said, to rewind, what the media is saying about this is that Russia is Hitler, Russia is evil, he wants world domination, Russia is aggressing Eastern Europe, and he wants to rebuild the Soviet Union.
00:44:06.000This is a limited military engagement.
00:44:55.000He is invading Ukraine because it is the West that is trying to make Ukraine a forward operating base for the globalist empire.
00:45:05.000And so for that reason, I support Russia.
00:45:09.000What's more is this, and this gets then to the bigger and the broader strategic picture, which is, well, I mean, there's, so that's really just one part of it.
00:45:19.000That's really just part one of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
00:45:22.000There's really so much more going on here.
00:45:25.000But let's just, let's hang out here for a second and let's just say, America's really trying to start World War III over this.
00:45:35.000Over really no vital national security interest.
00:46:15.000I don't think Russia wants to control Ukraine and make Ukraine formally part of Russia.
00:46:21.000I don't think that's the objective here.
00:46:23.000I believe Russia wants, at the minimum, an independent and neutral Ukraine.
00:46:31.000And maybe at the most, they want a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine.
00:46:36.000But that's what we're talking about here.
00:46:37.000I mean, let's really think about it for a moment.
00:46:40.000This big thing when people are tying the fucking ribbons around the tree and carrying on and we're going to exclude Russia from the financial system and starve its population and gas prices are going to go to $6 a gallon.
00:47:32.000We are in an anomalous time in world history, which is now passing, called the unipolar moment.
00:47:38.000Unipolar, meaning you talk about poles, meaning not like Polish people, but poles like a locus of power, where a superpower state resides, or a great power state is, and we call the world order multipolar, bipolar, unipolar.
00:47:58.000During the Concert of Europe in the 19th century, the world was multipolar.
00:48:11.000After the fall of the Soviet Union, the world became a unipolar world order for about 20 years.
00:48:18.000Where America became a hyperpower, meaning that the distance between America and the next most powerful country was so great that America was just in another class.
00:48:28.000America could dominate all the other countries combined.
00:48:31.000That was the situation after the Cold War.
00:48:34.000America transcends, becomes a hyperpower with the fall of the Soviet Union because of its relative position to the rest of the world and the rest of the world combined.
00:49:10.000Because this is an anomaly of history.
00:49:13.000No country can maintain that kind of advantage.
00:49:16.000No single sole country can maintain that kind of advantage over all the rest of the world combined relatively forever, or even for a long period of time.
00:49:25.000So this, they call it the unipolar moment, was an anomaly.
00:49:35.000But it was fleeting from the start, and we knew that.
00:49:38.000We should have known China's got a billion people.
00:49:41.000If anything, it was an anomaly that China was not a world power for the past one or two hundred years.
00:49:47.000And we knew that Europe was eventually going to gain strategic autonomy without the threat of the Soviet Union and recovering from World War II.
00:49:54.000We knew that Russia would reconstitute.
00:49:56.000Well, I guess that wasn't a given, but they still had massive conventional and nuclear abilities.
00:50:02.000So the writing was on the wall that the unipolar moment would not last forever.
00:50:05.000The global situation is always dynamic.
00:50:20.000They're becoming just about equal to us in terms of economy, military, in development.
00:50:27.000And Russia is a second rate power compared to the US and China, but still important.
00:50:34.000And so this idea that America can contain and dominate Russia, and China, and Iran, and every country we don't like, and we can control every inch of land in the world, it is just not true.
00:51:21.000We cannot defend all of Eastern Europe indefinitely.
00:51:25.000So this is about greed, it's about hubris and pride, and we've lied so much to the world about our capability, we've believed our own lies.
00:51:34.000This stuff about America can fight two wars at once, we kick ass, we're bigger and better than everybody.
00:51:41.000Russia's evil, all our enemies are evil.
00:51:47.000Russia, China, India, Brazil, Western Europe, we are going to have to live with these other jurisdictions.
00:51:55.000We're going to have to live with these other countries pursuing their own interests.
00:51:59.000And we have got to negotiate a world order where we can have a balance of power that is beneficial and advantageous to us and reasonable to our adversaries.
00:52:10.000And we need to do that in a way that is peaceful, and we need to do that with the cooperation and the trust of other world leaders.
00:52:19.000That's how we have to navigate this, because whenever a global hegemon falls or is displaced, it is a very destabilizing and often catastrophic event.
00:52:29.000This is what caused World War I and World War II.
00:52:33.000It was the rise of German power on the continent against the United Kingdom.
00:52:39.000Was the displacement of the UK's uncontested power on the continent by Germany.
00:52:45.000And that is what caused World War I, and then, as a consequence, World War II.
00:52:51.000So, as America declines relatively to other world powers, it will be similarly catastrophic and destabilizing.
00:53:00.000The onus is on us to navigate these waters ahead.
00:53:03.000Not give away everything, but create a world order where other countries can have a reasonable stake in things and it will be advantageous to us.
00:56:59.000Fuck Ukraine, and NATO, and the State Department, and the Pentagon, and Zelensky, and the European Union, and Boris Johnson, and every last one of these people.
00:58:27.000I mean, they effectively banned Russia from Twitter, and banned Russia from YouTube, and they banned Russia from PayPal, and from credit card processing, and they censored them online.
00:58:36.000You know, when people said, they banned a sitting U.S.
00:58:54.000So what they're going to do is force Russia into an alliance with China and with these other countries, and they will create an alternative system.
00:59:01.000And this will be the worst thing that America ever did, because Russia will de-dollar, right?
00:59:06.000They will disengage with the dollar and the dollar system with China, and the preeminence of the dollar will come to an end, and there will be another option.
00:59:15.000There will be another offering in the world.
00:59:21.000So contrary, on the contrary, this is not going to destroy Russia, this is going to destroy American hegemony over the world.
00:59:31.000And so, ultimately I welcome the development because if this weakens the American empire, that is good for us here at home.
00:59:41.000If Russia and China can create an alternative, that means that there is some place we could go to where we're not going to be killed by the CIA or the FBI or the State Department.
00:59:49.000Because that, I mean, this is the same people.
00:59:52.000The same people that want to throw you in jail over the 6th, the same people that want to ban you from Twitter, the same people that took away your credit card processing and banned you from Bank of America, and so on.
01:00:02.000They're the same people waging a war against Russia.
01:00:05.000And that alternative, that this alternative system that is being created by these rogue states,
01:00:11.000It's going to come in handy for us rogue dissidents here in America, truly.
01:00:17.000I see a scenario where American dissidents are fleeing to Russia and China to flee from the oppression of the American system.
01:00:24.000Look at the truck drivers in Canada, look at the 1-6 political prisoners.
01:00:29.000A time will come when we'll need to appeal to Russia or China for political asylum because we are being oppressed and persecuted by our own free, liberal government.
01:00:40.000So, all that they're doing is accelerating the demise of this system.
01:01:26.000I've been put on a federal no-fly list.
01:01:29.000I've been put on a terrorist watch list, banned from everything, debanked, financially sanctioned, spied on, investigated, subpoenaed, blacklisted, censored.
01:02:55.000But I do not think that Russia seeks a long-term occupation of Ukraine.
01:02:59.000I do not think that they want to incorporate Ukraine in full into Russia.
01:03:05.000I think they want to secure Crimea, they want to secure Donbass, I think they may carve out that corridor between Crimea and Donbass and maybe more territory, I think they're going to install a new government, and I think they want NATO membership off the table.
01:03:20.000I think those are their limited strategic objectives.
01:03:23.000But I do not think they're going to invade Poland and the Baltics, I do not think they're going to try to conquer Ukraine and anything like that.
01:03:31.000They want to defeat the military, get a pro-Russian government, and then carve out some territory, take NATO membership off the table.
01:03:39.000The ultimate consequence of the conflict will be that Russia and China will be in a permanent alliance against America, and we drove them to do that.
01:03:47.000It was a big mistake, but that's what's happening, and they will further their effort to create an alternative system to the dollar.
01:06:27.000That gave us the Cold War, that gave us Stalin's domination over Eastern Europe, and it destroyed all the able-bodied men of Europe and Western Europe.
01:06:40.000So, you know, they compare it to Hitler and it's like, you know, if anything it does the opposite of what you think it's doing rhetorically.
01:06:49.000So, that kind of stuff just has no place in a practical foreign policy.
01:06:57.000You know, the same thing that they did with Kim Jong Un.
01:07:00.000You know, when Trump tried to do detente with Kim Jong Un, they said, He's playing footsie with dictators!
01:09:04.000Honestly, this experience has shown what a joke democracy and liberalism really is.
01:09:11.000What an absolute farce appealing to the commoners has been, to the peasants.
01:09:16.000We've let the lowest common denominator dictate the direction of society.
01:09:19.000So in order to launder our jingoistic foreign policy through public opinion, through the masses, we have to dumb it down to levels of Harry Potter and fucking Star Wars to get a war with Russia.
01:12:32.000But yeah, but that really just goes to show the weakness of our system, because that is what it is.
01:12:37.000The media's gotta dumb it down, and we gotta, Assad is Hitler, Putin is Hitler, Kim Jong-un is like Hitler, Mao is like Hitler, Hitler had concentration camps, just like Mao and the Uyghurs.
01:12:49.000And you know, then you start to think, hmm, maybe there's something about all this Hitler propaganda, maybe there's something going on there, you know, maybe let's rewind the clock, and maybe we're wrong about that too.
01:14:12.000The girl against the black stormtrooper, against black Harry Potter, against the black elf in Lord of the Rings, against the woman this, the black that.
01:14:42.000Yeah, and the same vilification of Putin is going to lead to a similar world war over a similar, you know, Thucydides Trap is what they call it.
01:14:51.000I think that's a stupid term, but that is what we're describing here, the Thucydides Trap, which is when a hegemon is displaced by another, there's a great power conflict, which is catastrophic.
01:15:03.000That's what happened in World War I and World War II.
01:15:05.000That's what's happening now, and it's the same story.
01:15:09.000Can we just have a statesman just meet with Putin and negotiate something reasonable and maybe there's not good and bad people there's just people and people have various motivations and people have the potential for both good and evil?
01:15:43.000Everybody sins and everybody makes mistakes and some people do evil things and sometimes they do evil things for the right reasons and good things for the wrong reasons, but it's a little bit more complicated than Putin is, uh, you know, he's Darth Vader, right?
01:18:04.000Instead of all this nuts on the table, let's just pray for our leaders to have wisdom and prudence and patience and pray for them to back off and to choose peace.
01:22:31.000When I fill up my gas tank and it costs me $80 to fill up, I know that we're doing this so that one day Ukraine might have NATO membership.
01:33:46.000But the problem is I'm going to read the show, read these Super Chats, then I'm going to order the pizza, then I've got to wait another hour for it to arrive.
01:33:53.000So I would order it right now, but that would be rude.
01:38:18.000So don't even try and undermine my credibility with this.
01:38:23.000I'm just saying this is a path to redemption for everybody else.
01:38:26.000You know, still no simping, no simping, and I'm still the king incel, but I'm just saying, you know, this is one of these ways where we're gonna be able to have families again and all that, but these women just gotta, hey, just get it straight.
01:39:02.000Uh, stealing your car, punching you for no reason, being late, sagging, like, that's not gonna work.
01:39:10.000But, when they're Christian, when they're like Bryson Gray, when they're Christian and they're nice and they're like totally cool, you know, that's gonna work.
01:39:19.000That's how we're gonna make America great again.
01:39:21.000So, that's like with a lot of these groups.
01:39:45.000I go into the store, I come out, I'm like in my car, and this little black kid comes up to me and he's like, hey, y'all got any spare change?
01:39:55.000I'm like, don't, just don't ask me for money.
01:40:01.000I went to this hotel in Atlanta and I walk in I'm trying to check in at like 10 o'clock or whatever and nobody's at the front desk there's a sign with the phone number on it it says call this number to get you know for for assistance okay
01:41:08.000But if they're making good soul music, if they're making music like Marvin Gaye, and they're Christian, and they're having families, and they're like Kanye, or they're like Bryson, I'm like, you know what?
01:41:51.000I will never be distracted by that because I am just simply on another level.
01:41:57.000You know, these other pussy boys, they need to get patted on the head and they need to get patted on the bottom and told what a good boy they are.
01:42:25.000And I'll never be tainted by, I'll never, you know, hey, John Doyle, I'll never be watching a Disney movie with my girlfriend and then make a video about it.
01:42:35.000We love you, John, we love you, but I'm gonna bust your balls a little bit over that.
01:42:38.000He's like, it's called Gaston Nationalism.
01:42:41.000I thought of this when I was watching a Disney movie with my girlfriend.
01:42:44.000Like, you'll never catch me doing that, because I'm an incel, hardcore incel king loner.
01:48:26.000Jordan B says, yeah, I don't know, Mr. Kent.
01:48:29.000I literally went to a BLM rally in Dallas during Floyd's summer and posed as a BLM activist, shouted their slogans, ingratiated myself, and I didn't hear a whole lot from these people about socioeconomic misfortune.
01:48:42.000It was mainly, fuck whites, take their stuff.
01:49:24.000It's the underclass with the elite teaming up for their own benefit, for both of their respective benefit against the middle.
01:49:32.000And it happens to be a lot of whites in the middle, is what it is.
01:49:39.000Spinefish says in your November 29th Twitter space you said that you had a new Twitter rebrand idea that you had teased with a profile picture you had briefly used the day before.
01:55:09.000Foy says there are estimated 200,000 Russian soldiers buried in Crimea from the Crimean War in the 1850s, where Britain and France made an alliance with the Ottomans against Russia.
01:56:53.000A pretty fly white guy says, hey Nick, in what way would NATO exert their power over Russia were they to control countries like Ukraine and Georgia?
01:57:01.000It's not necessarily about exerting power over Ukraine, it's more about putting NATO in a position where they could destroy Russia if they wanted to, which is, from a security standpoint, it's just unacceptable.
01:57:15.000And also because Ukraine, that's where a lot of the fossil fuels, that's where a lot of the petroleum products go from Russia into Europe because when the Soviet Union was, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, they built all their pipelines through Ukraine to bring fossil fuels into Europe and then of course Ukraine becomes independent and then Ukraine starts charging Russia to send the fossil fuels through their pipelines.
01:58:05.000And then the other thing too is that Ukraine could become a petrostate.
01:58:09.000Russia is the only European petrostate and Ukraine could become that because they discovered oil and natural gas within Ukraine's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea and they have the shale oil.
01:58:25.000They've got shale oil fields in the west and in the east close to Transnistria.
01:59:18.000Joseph says Natalia Poklanskaya is the ortho girl, anime waifu, pro czar, Nicholas II fangirl that Mother Russia needed to save Crimea from unconstitutional coup d'etat and civil war.
02:02:06.000Well, I hope we never have to find out.
02:02:09.000KansasZoomer says, maybe I'm off base here, but it really feels like we're seeing the way World War II and its mistruths started, and nobody sees it but our side.
02:02:16.000Very bizarre to see what people buy into.
02:02:32.000Sorry, I'm schizo, but this seems bigger than just Donbass.
02:02:37.000I mean if this is the line you can really you can find a explanation for everything is controlled you know you can find a way to explain everything from that lens I just don't think that's reasonable you know this is how you get into the moon is made of cheese and the earth is flat and you know and and on and on and on you could get into a lot of crazy stuff once you go down that path
02:03:05.000Modern Monarchist says NATO is nothing more than a cantankerous ulcer that has spread its festering buboes close to Russia.
02:07:47.000Joshua says hey Nick just wanted to thank you for your time and dedication to the truth Who else built their own streaming platform from scratch created their own conference while being persecuted by everyone.
02:07:56.000Hope you enjoy that pizza Thanks, I will I will enjoy that pizza.