After a month long trip to Washington, D.C., to plead for more military aid, it appears that Western allies are poised to grant his wish. This week, several nations pledged an unprecedented amount of new aid packages to be sent to war-torn Ukraine. But at the end of five hours of talks, Germany said it still remains undecided on whether to provide its Leopard 2 main battle tanks.
00:00:13.880I mean, every day you're out there, what they're doing is blowing people off.
00:00:20.280If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power.
00:00:27.140Because this is just like in Arizona. This is just like in Georgia.
00:00:31.280It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations.
00:00:36.380This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. As we've told you, this is the fight.
00:00:40.560All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
00:00:44.480War Room. Battleground. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:49.560One month after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky embarked on an historic trip to Washington, D.C. to plead for more military aid,
00:00:56.520it appears that Western allies are poised to grant his wish.
00:01:00.320This week, several nations pledged an unprecedented amount of new aid packages to be sent to war-torn Ukraine.
00:01:06.220Here's a snapshot of what certain countries are providing.
00:01:09.000Denmark is pledging howitzer artillery systems and additional training for Ukraine's military.
00:01:13.940Estonia plans to send howitzer artillery systems, other artillery ammunition, and M2 anti-tank grenade launchers.
00:01:21.660Latvia is sending Stinger air defense systems, M-17 helicopters, machine guns with ammo, and unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, basically.
00:01:31.020Lithuania has pledged L-70 anti-aircraft guns with ammo, M-18 helicopters, and $40 million in cash.
00:01:38.680Poland says it will send S-60 anti-aircraft guns, more howitzers, and various types of ammunition.
00:01:44.520Sweden has pledged an Archer artillery system, CV-90 armored vehicles, and portable anti-tank missiles.
00:01:50.680The U.K. is sending Challenger 2 tanks, brimstone anti-tank munitions, AS-90 self-propelled guns, and armored and protected vehicles.
00:02:00.560Last but certainly not least, the United States is committing 59 Bradley fighting vehicles, 90 striker combat vehicles,
00:02:07.36053 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, 350 Humvee armored vehicles, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition.
00:02:15.900Now, I know it's a lot of information, but big picture, here's the point.
00:02:19.640Ukraine is getting a lot of assistance that it badly needs.
00:02:22.220However, these aid packages do fail to include the one specific item that Ukraine has been desperately seeking.
00:02:28.780Sophisticated German-made Leopard 2 main battle tanks.
00:02:32.660If leopards were sent to Ukraine, they would be a game-changer on the battlefield.
00:02:35.840Representatives from 54 nations, part of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, gathered yesterday at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany
00:02:43.840to hammer out what other aid should be provided for Ukraine.
00:02:47.200But at the end of five hours of talks, Germany said it still remains undecided on whether to provide its Leopard 2 main battle tanks.
00:02:54.980Germany's main concern is the risk that Russia will view providing heavy tanks as an escalation in the conflict,
00:03:00.400putting Germany in the Kremlin's crosshairs.
00:03:02.620Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting today that Ukraine has announced it will begin training its troops to use the Leopard tanks in Poland while it awaits a decision.
00:03:11.140During Friday's meeting, Zelensky, who spoke via livestream, expressed a dire need for more sophisticated weaponry.
00:03:17.600You hundreds of times, and it will be absolutely just and fair, given all that we have already done.
00:03:28.200But hundreds of thank you are not hundreds of tanks.
00:03:34.520All of us can use thousands of wars in discussions, but I cannot put wars instead of guns that are needed against Russian artillery.
00:03:42.900Okay, it's 23 January in the year of our Lord, 2023.
00:04:05.880Actually, the Germans say that they're telling the Poles they can give them the tanks, at least some of the tanks.
00:04:13.380We're going to talk about all that here in a moment.
00:04:16.140I want to start with John Mills, though, and I'll get Rebecca in for her opinion.
00:04:20.160Major development today on â and John explained this to us â an arrest of an FBI counterintelligence officer that was part of the Trump investigation into the phony â the fake news phony investigation into Russian collusion.
00:04:33.940And now a senior FBI agent is arrested, sir?
00:04:40.300Yeah, Steve, I couldn't believe what I was reading.
00:05:23.740I mean, I don't â I can't believe this.
00:05:26.080This is â everybody was shouting, Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:05:30.160We have an FBI insider, a senior who was in on it, retires in 2018, and goes on the payroll of one of these Russian oligarchs that everybody was pointing to and shouting out about Donald J. Trump.
00:05:44.440So this goes back â well, how long was he working for them?
00:05:47.720This essentially taints everything the FBI has done on Russia, Russia, Russia, and I've looked up.
00:05:54.960I mean, I just couldn't believe my eyes.
00:06:13.640We have people inside the FBI who are bought off, inside the Department of Justice who are bought off, and he didn't â believe me, he didn't just retire and then think about working for this Russian oligarch.
00:06:26.060This throws everything 20 years into the past in question.
00:06:29.460I mean, this is â Jesus James Angleton always thought there was an insider at CIA during the Cold War, and he was wrong.
00:06:35.760There was actually three, Larry Wu-Tai Chin, who committed suicide just down the road in the Prince William County Jail after he was arrested.
00:07:42.340And then again, I really want to point to the arrest of that court recorder.
00:07:47.720That shows they have a senior person and a line worker who is â who's actually doing the notes, Sergei Shestikov, who probably was a DOJ or FBI contractor, might even have been a governor himself.
00:08:21.960What â has it been â describe what he actually did on the Trump-Russia collusion investigation?
00:08:28.380I know the headquarters for our campaign, of course, Trump's company is there, and he was a New York field officer, I think, or field agent.
00:08:36.640Do we know the specifics of what he did on the Russia collusion part?
00:08:42.520It doesn't say yet, and I'm looking through both the report and also the DOJ announcement.
00:08:50.420But he was head, head of the counterintelligence.
00:08:53.760So he probably has anywhere from 20 to 50 direct reports working for him in addition to running sources and being an FBI source as an official status.
00:09:07.020So this guy probably has several dozen people working for him.
00:09:11.040And, yeah, in 2015 â it was early 2016 where I realized something was up because all of a sudden inside at the top secret meetings, all of a sudden this teehee, teehee, the Russians â it was always the Russians.
00:09:25.600For some reason, the Chinese were far more capable.
00:09:28.080It was always the Russians are now spying on the campaigns, and then all of a sudden they're very interested in Donald J. Trump.
00:09:35.340Well, how much of this was created by this senior special agent for the FBI?
00:09:42.700The head of counterintelligence up there.
00:09:44.860Real quickly, your â since you spent essentially a career in intelligence, give us your assessment of the Biden crime scene,
00:09:54.300the top secret compartment at a crime scene that you've been seeing going on.
00:10:00.900Well, this is a train wreck on top of a train wreck on top of a train wreck.
00:10:04.980I mean, it doesn't get any better than this if they tried.
00:10:08.540So now we're hearing that Merrick Garland, who originally I was giving a semi-kudos to for actually launching the special counsel,
00:10:20.100but maybe he was pulling a George Gascon and just wanted to smother the story because it turns out that the FBI was at â
00:10:27.400was actually â they want â they didn't want to disrupt anything.
00:10:31.480They didn't want to unsettle the American public.
00:10:33.460This was â you know, two â Americans were too busy trying to get their vaccine shot, so they couldn't â this would trigger them.
00:10:41.660So even before the midterm election, we have the attorney general essentially negotiating with the White House.
00:10:49.540You don't negotiate on a crime like this, and we're just having â this is called a spill, spill after spill after spill with Biden,
00:11:01.520and it appears that Merrick Garland was actually aware of it, and they were behind the scenes negotiating even before the election.
00:11:09.940This is a full-blown conspiracy on the top-secret documents.
00:11:16.380There is no moral equivalency because they're saying, oh, this is no different than â or this is far different than Trump.
00:12:14.580Give me your assessment today of the importance and magnitude of this arrest of the FBI counterintelligence officer today in New York.
00:12:22.740Well, this is effectively a smoking gun, Steve, that the real collusion hoax was concocted by the U.S. spy agencies, right?
00:12:35.440It's not just the FBI and Jim Comey and his minions, but it's also former DNI, James Clapper, and former CIA director, John Brennan.
00:12:50.220So, we called it back to the CIA, a self-licking ice cream cone.
00:12:56.840What it seems like was happening was FBI was hiring Russian intelligence agents to write reports to them that they were putting in the intelligence stream.
00:13:10.520So, this whole Russia conclusion is a hoax, and these people are treasonous because they wanted to remove a democratically elected president, Donald Trump, from power.
00:13:26.160But the significance of this, Steve, is this, for the current conflict, and we are steadily sleepwalking into nuclear Armageddon with Russia.
00:13:36.780And what happened was they misdirected tremendous resources on chasing the non-existent collusion instead of really following and providing indications and warnings about what the real Russian threat was.
00:13:56.300So, the real threat and Putin's perception that NATO was going into war with Russia, which right now is actually backed up by the force posture and all the weaponry that we're sending to Ukraine.
00:14:15.280This is how Putin is interpreting it, and he's preparing for an all-out war, and he's changing, you know, from the special military operations into a large-scale war, which the Russians predicted back 10 years ago.
00:14:34.520So, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, slow down.
00:14:41.120Let me go, first off, on the FBI side, I want to go back to that for a second.
00:14:46.300Explain to the audience who the oligarch, because oligarchs, because we're going to get into a second, all of a sudden Ukraine, Zelensky's got old-time religion.
00:14:54.080And so, let me connect some dots there.
00:14:56.640The minister of interior, which is the guy that oversees the police and oversees all that, he mysteriously dies in an accidental helicopter crash into a, what, a school the other day.
00:15:08.460Then Zelensky comes out, he's got old-time religion that corruption is now his number one priority, right?
00:15:14.860And he's got guys, his cabinet members tell the day we're going to start doing arrests of oligarchs.
00:15:19.300I mean, this is all of a sudden, all of a sudden, that this is his number one priority.
00:15:24.260So, the oligarchs on the Ukrainian side, and this is all because MAGA, we've made such a big deal of no more money to Ukraine, and any money that will ever be going has got to have an audit.
00:15:34.560And, of course, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene and others are hammering every day about the audits, the audits.
00:15:40.380So, all of a sudden, they've got religion, like, corruption's our number one priority.
00:15:43.940But I want to talk about oligarchs on the other side.
00:15:45.820Describe to our audience who this oligarch is that supposedly was paying this counterintelligence agent, and how does he fit into this narrative about Trump?
00:15:56.600Well, basically, what is happening, the FBI is hiring these oligarchs, right, as sources, so that they can debrief them and create reports, intelligence reports, such as the Faith Steele dossier, right?
00:16:20.040So, this is what this person was, and effectively, he was on the payroll, but also, it seems like the FBI was completely penetrated, as your previous guest, the colonel, noted.
00:16:47.560Are you saying, Derspinka, you're saying the Russian oligarch was actually in a working arrangement with the FBI to give him information?
00:16:56.160That's what my intelligence analysis is telling me.
00:17:01.160It's a similar thing that we had with Igor Derspinka.
00:17:05.120Remember, Derspinka was on the payroll of the FBI, and our own U.S. citizen, Carter Page, as you remember, who actually himself was risking his life collecting intelligence to help the CIA.
00:17:21.500So, he was put under surveillance, and he was doing all this work for free, while the Russian spy, who was connected to Russian intelligence, Igor Derspinka, was paid by the FBI.
00:18:21.600And former U.S. President George Bush looked into Putin's eyes, by the way, when Condoleezza Rice wasâhe just penned an op-ed in the Washington Post, you know, with her infinite wisdom, right?
00:18:41.100But at the same time, Putin sent 10 sleeper agents back in 2000 into the United States, and the FBI uncovered and had to pull the trigger, right, in 2010.
00:18:57.540And stupidly, those people were sent back to Moscow instead of flipping them, right?
00:19:03.900So the Russians never stopped their efforts to penetrate our spy agencies.
00:19:12.120Chinese as well, just like the colonel said.
00:19:15.660And so very conveniently, these types of people are creatingâmeaning the Russian oligarchs, whom we're using as stupidly, as sources, right?
00:19:29.920They are creating all of these anti-Trump, anti-U.S. president.
00:19:35.280And it's not justâthe Russians are agnostic, okay?
00:19:38.420They view every U.S. president as a threat to Russia, right?
00:19:44.360So they try to createâto foment discord.
00:19:49.320They are targeting both sides, Republicans and Democrats.
00:19:52.500But unfortunately, it's only Republicans, and especially the MAGA people, who understand the intricacies of what the Russians and the Ukrainians, in this case, are doing.
00:20:06.000And they both are corrupt, by the way.
00:20:08.000And soâbut the Democrats, the liberals are drinking Kool-Aid, and they are, you know, decreasing the security of our own country by keeping, you know, the steady flow of this super superior weaponry into Ukraine and depleting our own weapons stockpile right now.
00:20:35.040You've been arguing this for a while, and what you have been telling our audience is coming true.
00:20:41.500I want to define the difference between a special military operation and large-scale war.
00:20:47.160Because if you don't watch The War Room or Tucker Carlson, which I don't think the only two that really nail it, if you watch particularly MSNBC and CNN or read The New York Times and Washington Post, Putin's been losing.
00:21:01.380You know, every two weeks he's supposed to be losing.
00:21:06.620And yet it looks like he's consolidated hisâthe tactical part of it in eastern Ukraine, right, and has him in Pleasant.
00:21:15.920And I'm not saying it's justified or not, but it is what it is, and he obviously has control over Crimea.
00:21:22.040What is this pivot that you've been calling for when you said that you don't understand Putin's mind?
00:21:26.720He's going to pivot at one time to large-scaleâa large-scale warfare.
00:21:32.080What was the special military operation, and why do you see this change?
00:21:37.300What's the evidence that you see that this transition is happening to what they're concerned about, this winter offensive that everybody believes is going to start here in the next couple of weeks, probably close to the first-year anniversary, that is going to shift now to large-scale warfare?
00:21:53.120So the difference in the Russian doctrine between the special military operation and the large-scale war is this.
00:21:59.660The operation that Putin launched on February 24th of last year had limited goal, okay?
00:22:08.080He originally planned to establish control over Ukraine, remove Zelensky from power, but not actually own Ukraine as a country.
00:22:22.720He didn't plan on occupying the entire Ukraine.
00:22:27.140He simply wanted to install, you know, a pro-Russian puppet government whom he could control, okay?
00:22:36.820He failed in achieving that goal, and so he scaled down his objectives.
00:22:43.360He then proceeded to chop off 20% of Ukraine, annexed Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson, which are strategic areas, right, plus Crimea.
00:22:59.000And he would be pleased if the West recognized that part as Russian, that the Russians believe the majority of Russians belong to Russia, that view it in Russia as Russian, especially Crimea, that for centuries belonged to Russia, okay?
00:23:19.920So then we, the United States and NATO, we have expanded the scope and scale of the weaponry we are providing to Ukraine, what originated as, you know, blankets and night and vision goggles right now is effectively strategic type of military hardware, right?
00:23:41.900We're talking Bradleys, which are tank killers, we're talking Patriot missiles.
00:23:50.200So what Putin is seeing right now is what the Russian general staff predicted about a decade ago, and we knew it in the intelligence community.
00:24:00.580And I personally briefed scores and scores of four stars, the combatant commands, including European command, strategic command, that's the one that's in charge of our nuclear weapons and systems, northern command, which is in charge of protecting the United States and Canada.
00:24:19.060So I briefed NATO in the run-up to Putin's invasion of Crimea in September 2013.
00:24:25.860Nobody wanted to do anything about it.
00:24:28.260They saw it as Putin's bravado, but also they just didn't, you know, it's very easy to just react to everything instead of practically develop a deterrence strategy.
00:24:41.280And so what Putin is now, he is confirming, it's bias confirmation, right?
00:24:49.300In the intelligence business, we have something that's called confirmation bias, right?
00:24:53.660So the general staff predicted that the war was inevitable between the United States and NATO on one side and Russia on the other side.
00:26:30.260We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:26:32.020We're going to return with Rebecca Koffler.
00:26:33.700We're going through the expandedâUkraine is about to become not just a front-page story, a leading story, as large-scale warfare is about to break out.
00:26:44.920Large-scale warfareâforget World War I.
00:26:47.580Large-scale warfare has not been seen on the European continent since the Second World War.
00:26:52.120And this is going to take place near Stalingrad curse, places that know what war is.
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00:31:04.620War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon.
00:31:07.520I just want to, Rebecca Koffler is our guest, almost like a contributor.
00:31:16.480She's been so dead spot on and so on so often.
00:31:19.400Rebecca, before you can, you're giving the evidence.
00:31:21.200I want to hear some more evidence, but I just want to alert our audience or give them a heads up that when you talk about the situation in NATO,
00:31:30.540for the people that founded NATO and for the generals that fought, and I'm talking about Patton, Sir Bernard, Law Montgomery,
00:31:44.540the other generals that fought for the British and for the Americans.
00:31:50.140And as crazy as Winston Churchill was sometimes obsessed with the Balkans and the soft underbelly of Europe,
00:32:05.100given the British experience in the Crimean War, right, Sevastopol, given that Yalta, the conference that, quite frankly,
00:32:14.720we got double dealt by, you know, essentially forces in Roosevelt's White House not to take Berlin.
00:32:22.480If you had told any of the generals, Rebecca, that fought on the continent of Europe in World War II,
00:32:28.760and I'm talking about the top generals and the people that were there for the founding of NATO,
00:32:33.280and if you had told them that we were going to be in, what, 60, 70 years, 80 years,
00:32:41.340pushing to have Ukraine near Stalingrad and Kursk, we were going to have Ukraine as a member of NATO,
00:32:49.320and we were about to go in and fight a proxy war that would lead to a large-scale war with the United States in Ukraine,