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00:04:36.000I spent 26 years serving our country, much of it overseas.
00:04:42.000I went to high school in four different places, or three, I'm sorry, three different places, Hawaii, Turkey, and Germany.
00:04:47.000I graduated I'm from Kaiserslautern American High School in 1979, enlisted in the U.S. Army so I could go off and kill communists.
00:04:56.000Went to college, majored in Russian history, got commissioned in the United States Marine Corps, became an intelligence officer.
00:05:02.000And in 1988, I was assigned to what's called the On-Site Inspection Agency, a Department of Defense activity created to implement the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, which was signed in December of 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
00:05:18.000This eliminated intermediate and short-range nuclear missiles.
00:05:21.000It's the first ever treaty to get rid of nuclear weapons.
00:05:24.000And I was the first inspector on the ground in the Soviet Union to do it.
00:05:38.000As a Marine Corps officer serving in the Department of Defense activity.
00:05:41.000I went back to the Marine Corps and right in time for Saddam Hussein to invade Iraq.
00:05:47.000And I ended up on General Norman Schwarzkopf's staff as an intelligence officer.
00:05:51.000Because of my experience with missiles, I got involved in the counter-SCUD campaign.
00:05:57.000I worked with Special Forces, American Delta Force, SEALs, British SAS, and others to try and interdict Iraqi SCUD missiles before they could be fired against Israel or the Or the Persian Gulf countries.
00:06:35.000So I left the Marine Corps only to get the phone call in August from the United Nations saying, you know, that line from the Godfather, every time I want to leave, they just reach in and they drag me back.
00:06:49.000They called up and they said, nah, not so fast.
00:06:52.000We need you to come to the United Nations, set up an intelligence unit there to find where Iraq is hiding weapons and to get inspection teams on target.
00:07:58.000I created an intelligence unit whose job was to find the hidden stuff.
00:08:03.000I worked with all the intelligence agencies in the world, the CIA, British MI6, Israeli Mossad, you name it, I worked with them.
00:08:11.000And then I helped gather that intelligence and turn it into What we call, you know, it's actionable intelligence, where on the ground we're going to go.
00:08:19.000And then I would lead the inspection teams into Iraq to find this stuff.
00:09:04.000I didn't realize that my government wanted something different.
00:09:07.000They wanted Saddam Hussein gone and that they were using the inspectors not to get rid of the weapons, but to put pressure on Saddam to collect intelligence on Saddam so that Saddam could be assassinated or driven out of power.
00:09:20.000And so while I was a weapons inspector, I was actually fighting a war on two fronts.
00:09:24.000I would lead inspection teams into Iraq and find evidence that they are being disarmed.
00:09:29.000Then I would come back to the United States and have to go to war against the CIA, who were saying, no, we don't want this.
00:10:16.000So $12.5 million later, we got ground penetrating radar made especially for us, mounted on helicopters that I took into Iraq to look for the buried missiles, which didn't exist.
00:10:25.000So now we come back and we report again to the CIA and say, they're all gone.
00:10:52.000We weren't just looking for the weapons, but we were also trying to find out what happened to the weapons, because the Iraqis destroyed a lot of weapons, blew them up, and we were trying to forensically reconstruct this.
00:11:18.000When I led teams into Iraq, I always had some Delta Force guys embedded in the team, and they had a Delta Force squadron standing by to rescue us, because we always assumed we were going to be taking hostage.
00:12:31.000And so he called me and he said, hey, before you resign, somebody in the National Security Council wants to talk to you because they want to talk you out of it.
00:12:45.000And I said, you're destroying the inspections.
00:12:47.000The inspections are about doing what the Security Council of the United Nations tells them to do, not what the United States says behind the scenes.
00:13:37.000And he said, don't say I didn't warn you.
00:13:39.000And the FBI's been trying to fuck me in the ass ever since.
00:13:43.000But I feel like I had a duty to go out and speak out because...
00:13:47.000We ended up going to war in Iraq over weapons of mass destruction.
00:13:51.000And the point is, I'm trying to tell you, as of 1998, I was trying to make the case that if you're going to say they have weapons of mass destruction, then you have to let me do my job.
00:14:00.000But you can't use my job to go to war.
00:15:58.000So why are we treating it as if it's a real weapon?
00:16:01.000Because the Security Council says 100%.
00:16:04.000Okay, I would accept that if you would accept that when we find 100%, like we did with the missiles...
00:16:11.000You would lift the sanctions on Iraq and bring them back in, as the deal is.
00:16:14.000Because that was the whole purpose of why they even allowed you guys to come in there was to lift the sanctions so they can be a part of the economy and make money and not be broke and poor.
00:16:23.000And yet we had repeated secretaries of state, starting with James Baker in 1992, going on to Madeleine Albright, saying that even if Iraq complies with its obligation to disarm, economic sanctions will never be lifted until Saddam Hussein is removed from power.
00:17:03.000Well, Donald Rumsfeld went there and shook his hand, and we gave Saddam Hussein billion-dollar loans so he could buy...
00:17:10.000Weapons of mass destruction and other things.
00:17:12.000You know, it's funny how we condemn him for using chemical weapons, but I used to debrief a defector named Wafeek Samurai.
00:17:19.000He was the head of Iraqi intelligence, and he would tell me stories about how American specialists from the defense intelligence agency and the CIA would come to Baghdad And show him the best ways to use chemical weapons in their offenses against the Iranians,
00:17:35.000especially the Al-Faul offensive at the end.
00:17:37.000Al-Faul's a peninsula at the end of the Shatel Arab waterway that the Iranians had crossed over and dug in on.
00:17:42.000And the Iraqis broke their back by using chemical weapons.
00:17:45.000We're the ones that gave them the satellite imagery that showed the Iranian force disposition.
00:17:50.000So we helped them use chemical weapons.
00:17:52.000Some people say that we gave them the money to help them buy the precursors that made the chemical weapons.
00:17:58.000And then we turn around and condemn them for having chemical weapons.
00:18:01.000Now, I'm not saying that Saddam should have them.
00:18:03.000I'm just saying how hypocritical can we be.
00:18:06.000But what happened is, at the end of the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq was sort of emboldened.
00:18:12.000They felt like they had stood up to Iran and indeed Israel and the rest of the world.
00:18:36.000And when Israel in the summer of 1990 said they were threatening to hit the Iranian nuclear program, Obama, the Iraqis said, if you do that, we'll burn half of Israel with our chemical weapons.
00:19:07.000You see, Kuwait, during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, was doing slant drilling.
00:19:11.000That means you set up a drill rig in Kuwaiti soil, and you drill across the border into the oil reservoir on Iraq's side, and they're stealing billions of dollars worth of Iraqi oil.
00:19:23.000Now, the Iraqis let them do it because they're at war.
00:19:26.000Then the Kuwaitis turned around and they loaned Iraq $20 billion.
00:19:38.000But then after war, what they told the Kuwaitis is, we got all the—it's called the London Group of Banks who were coming at us for these loans.
00:19:46.000But you're stealing our oil and dumping it on the economy— On the market, and you're depressing the price of oil down to $14 a barrel, and now we can't make enough money to pay off the loans.
00:20:49.000And George Herbert Walker Bush, W's father, gets out and when he gets out, he's trying to explain to the American people why we have to get ready to go to war.
00:21:08.000And he went, oops, we can't talk about oil anymore.
00:21:10.000Let's talk about something else, something else.
00:21:12.000So that's when they started bringing in the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, who testified before Congress claiming that she saw Iraqi soldiers ripping Kuwaiti children out of their incubators and killing them.
00:21:35.000Just remember, as bad as he was, he was shaking Donald Rumsfeld's hand, and he was considered the best friend of America in the mid-1980s.
00:21:42.000Suddenly, in 1990, we had to turn him into, and this is what happened.
00:21:46.000In a fundraiser, I believe, in Dallas, Texas, George Herbert Walker Bush called Saddam Hussein the Middle East equivalent of Adolf Hitler, who must have Nuremberg-like retribution, which means now that you called him Hitler, you have to get rid of him.
00:23:28.000When the war started, when I opened up, when I got the op order on day one, I opened it up, it said that the strategic objective, the center of gravity, was Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard.
00:23:37.000About six divisions that he had there, elite forces that propped him up, kept him in.
00:23:43.000We said, we must destroy the Republican Guard so that Saddam Hussein collapses.
00:23:48.000Because he's Adolf Hitler, he has to collapse.
00:23:50.000But because of the highway of death, The rest of the battle, bringing the pincers in, surrounding the Republican Guard, we were literally 36 hours away from killing them all.
00:24:12.000And those divisions went away and suppressed the Kurdish uprising in the North, the Shi uprising in the South, and they kept Saddam Hussein in power.
00:25:22.000We had to change the game six months later because Saddam wasn't going anywhere.
00:25:28.000And believe me, while I was a weapons inspector, I'll give you two instances.
00:25:34.000In the summer of 1996, I carried out an inspection of, we believe that they were hiding documents and material in special Republican Guard units around Baghdad International Airport, because that's sort of a fortified zone.
00:25:49.000And so what we want, we also believe that they would evacuate them up to Tikrit, which is Saddam Hussein's birthplace, where he had other palaces.
00:25:56.000So if we stress them, they would retreat to Tikrit.
00:25:59.000So we put in place systems to detect this movement.
00:26:03.000And we're going in to surround it and all this stuff.
00:26:06.000And I'm building this big inspection team to go in.
00:26:08.000And I told you I had a close relationship with the CIA. We had about a dozen CIA guys on our team, paramilitary guys, who are logistics and communications guys.
00:26:20.000What I didn't realize is that they had another job.
00:26:23.000There was a coup being plotted, built around my inspection.
00:26:58.000That was the unit that was going to go kill Saddam.
00:27:00.000But the problem is the Iraqis have good intelligence and they broke into the CIA plot and they knew everything.
00:27:06.000And when the time came, instead of a coup taking place, they pulled the guys out, they popped them all in the head, then they called up the CIA guy on their own satellite communication system and said, it's all over, guys.
00:27:49.000You won't meet a more patriotic person than me.
00:27:51.000But when I joined the weapons inspection team, I went down to Washington, D.C., and I demanded a meeting at the State Department with the State Department, the CIA, the Defense Department, all the players.
00:28:32.000They said, that's what we want you to do.
00:28:34.000So is that normal where, like, for example, you have a plan of action that they tell you to do, and then they bring in outside people to make this other alternate plan.
00:33:04.000Yeah, because it's easier, you know, first of all, most humans are rational players.
00:33:09.000So if you sit down with people and say, hey, look, the solution I'm offering is we're going to put cruise missiles in on the site, kill a whole bunch of people and pick up the pieces, they go, you're a madman.
00:33:19.000But now if I create chaos, if I create an incident, if I make it look like there is no other choice, then that's the option.
00:33:25.000And that's the American way of doing business.
00:36:07.000All the guys that they confessed, you know, they got their confessions and the FBI came in and the guys are going, yeah, but they tortured us.
00:36:56.000Getting rid of Saddam Hussein wasn't about how evil Saddam was.
00:37:00.000He was a political liability to American presidents.
00:37:03.000His continued survival was an embarrassment to George Herbert Walker Bush, then Bill Clinton, and then W. Remember, W. That man tried to kill my father.
00:37:14.000That's why we want the war, ladies and gentlemen.
00:37:17.000It wasn't about weapons of mass destruction.
00:37:19.000It's that George W. Bush had a hard-on for Saddam because he believes Saddam tried to kill his father, even though that was a made-up assassination attempt.
00:37:37.000After the war, when we captured the headquarters and all the Iraqi intelligence officers and interrogated them, you'd think that if we found proof of this assassination attempt, it'd be front page news.
00:38:41.000I've only had a handful of people die over time.
00:38:46.000But during the actual Gulf War, I say only, but about 150 Americans lost their lives at the time, and none of them were—I can't say none of them.
00:38:56.000There was a helicopter that went down that had some people on there.
00:39:58.000The United States has a lot of blood on its hands.
00:40:00.000And people need to, I mean, we need to just wake up and take responsibility for this at some point in time.
00:40:05.000Because if we don't, if we forgive that, then it sort of explains why everything we do today, and I think we're probably going to get into Ukraine eventually.
00:40:15.000Everything we do today is predicated on the same pattern of behavior.
00:40:20.000The same pattern that was exhibited by the United States and Iraq, the lies, the distortions, etc., is what happened in Ukraine.
00:40:27.000Nothing you're being told about Ukraine today is the truth, just like nothing you were told about Iraq was the truth back then.
00:40:36.000At least now, right, with people being able to have their own platforms, independent media, you can kind of combat the BS with the Russia-Ukraine stuff.
00:40:45.000You had Fox News, CNN. What they told you is what it was.
00:40:47.000And I think that's how they were able to so easily go to war back in the early 2000s because after 9-11 happened, it was a sensitive moment.
00:41:16.000He wanted to fight for the royal family, but they said, no, we have the Americans.
00:41:20.000And then Osama took that as an insult because he's like, why do we have infidels defending a Muslim land, blah, blah, blah.
00:41:25.000And then he talked poorly about the Saudi government, and then they basically ostracized him and sent his ass to Sudan and took his citizenship away.
00:41:32.000During the war, a little war story, I was attached to a special operations command that's part of a central command.
00:41:44.000He was involved in Desert One and all this stuff.
00:41:46.000But he called me and he had a problem.
00:41:49.000He said, the Saudis have approached us and they've got a whole bunch of these Mujahideen from Afghanistan in a camp.
00:41:56.000And they're asking us if we can do anything with them.
00:41:59.000You want to tell the people real quick?
00:42:00.000Because they might not know who Mujahideen is.
00:42:02.000The Mujahideen are the Saudi freedom fighters.
00:42:05.000Basically, in 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
00:42:09.000And then the CIA, working with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, put together a covert action to recruit jihadists or Muslims who went on jihad against the Soviet Union to fight against the Soviet Union.
00:42:23.000Osama bin Laden was one of the Saudis who funded it, built camps, etc.
00:42:27.000They don't talk about that in history class.
00:42:30.000So it was a whole bunch of Saudis that went to Pakistan, that went into Afghanistan.
00:42:36.000And then when the fighting ended, When Iraq invaded Kuwait, they came to Saudi Arabia and said, just like you said, they said, hey, let us defend this.
00:42:45.000And the Saudis were saying, no, no, no, no.
00:42:47.000So now the Saudis went, what do we do with this guy?
00:42:49.000So Jesse Johnson comes to me and he goes...
00:43:49.000I mean, here's the hard part, you know.
00:43:52.000American citizens have to understand that the way this country is built, and I know people are going to come back and say, you're so naive, Scott, and all that.
00:46:20.000We get the books and we read up and we study all our players and we go online.
00:46:24.000I said, so, you're willing to spend 20-25 hours a week studying fantasy fucking football, and yet you don't have time when an American's going to go to war and die.
00:46:47.000I don't watch sports as much as I used to.
00:46:49.000I mean, I love sports, but again, I'm just sitting there saying there's just so much going on in the world today that's so important that on Sunday, when I could be watching football, I used to love watching football.
00:46:59.000I'm a Miami Dolphin fan from way back.
00:48:14.000You guys are getting, like, crazy value right now.
00:48:18.000Like, you got someone who actually had boots on the ground in Iraq and can conclusively tell you how there were no weapons of mass destruction after 1998, pretty much.
00:48:51.000Look, there's a guy who I don't have too much use for, but he...
00:48:56.000You know, he had his moment, Wesley Clark.
00:48:58.000He was a four-star general, commander of NATO forces.
00:49:03.000And he went on and told a story about right after 9-11, he was called into a meeting, I think, with Paul Wolfowitz, who was a deputy secretary of defense at the time.
00:49:15.000And there was a briefing where they said that they're going to go to war in Iraq.
00:49:19.000And, of course, the question was, Iraq didn't attack us.
00:49:43.000And they said, well, because this is going to be the beginning of a strategy where we're going to invade seven countries.
00:49:49.000The idea was that we were going to use Iraq as the beginning of wiping everybody out in the Middle East and putting all these governments in place that would be sympathetic to Israel.
00:49:58.000We went to war against Iraq to get rid of Israel's number one threat, Saddam Hussein.
00:50:02.000That's why we went to war against Iraq.
00:50:48.000If we went forward and said, we accounted for everything, I know that the Israelis would take an envelope and they'd slide it under the door of every member of Congress.
00:50:56.000And they'd open it up and there'd be intelligence that shows that the Iraqis were holding on to something.
00:52:11.000So the Doubting Thomas' job was to challenge everything.
00:52:14.000And so I briefed the Doubting Thomas so that he could challenge every assessment.
00:52:17.000And the Israelis worked very closely with us.
00:52:20.000We literally drained their intelligence databases and turned them into inspections so that the Israelis were believing me when I said there's nothing.
00:52:28.000But they were getting very comfortable.
00:54:50.000Assassinated the Prime Minister of Israel.
00:54:53.000And they had opened up this Aliyah and allowed all these Russian and Ukrainian Jews to come into Israel, which radically transformed the politics of Israel, shifting it from in the middle, where people were actually talking about the potential of peace with the Palestinians, and moved it to the right.
00:55:10.000And so the Israeli Security Service is looking to this saying, we're our own worst enemy.
00:56:03.000But the Israelis that they were worried about, the biggest threat, Are the really right-wing conservative people that are the ultra-Zionists who believe in kicking the Palestinians out, don't respect them as human beings.
00:56:14.000Pretty much what the Israeli government is today was considered to be the greatest threat to Israel back in 1998.
00:57:02.000As you guys know, he got picked up by, what was it, SBU? SBU. Which is, if I'm going to, it's probably, it's the Ukraine's version of the FBI, I would say.
00:58:34.000Because Trump is anti-war with Ukraine, too.
00:58:36.000Yeah, but even as much as people hate Donald Trump, do you remember what happened when there was an allegation of an assassination attempt against George W. Bush?
00:58:49.000No matter what you think about Donald Trump, he's a former American president, and if somebody puts him on an assassination list, Joe Biden has to take action.
00:58:59.000So, yeah, nobody will put him on a set.
01:01:10.000They built something called the Sarmat Treaty.
01:01:12.000Which is a very heavy intercontinental ballistic missile.
01:01:17.000And the thing about the Sarmat is most intercontinental ballistic missiles Or I should say all ground-based are launched and they go what they call the polar route.
01:01:26.000So they'll fly over the North Pole to get to the North American landmass because that's the shortest route.
01:01:36.000So we have all of our radars and early warning systems built up layered to come in.
01:01:41.000Our missile defense is designed to intercept and all that.
01:01:43.000The Sarmat takes off and goes over the South Pole.
01:01:51.000It's going to put 36 warheads on our cities, wipe out our country.
01:01:56.000And then they have something called the avant-garde, which is a hypersonic maneuvering warhead.
01:02:00.000So even when you release a normal warhead, it goes on somewhat of a ballistic trajectory, and you can try and get a solution to shoot it down with anti-ballistic missiles.
01:02:20.000The Russians have just trumped us on that.
01:02:24.000So anybody who thinks, and this is the thing about Russian nuclear doctrine, you have a lot of people right now saying, well, we can have a limited nuclear war.
01:02:31.000Let's just nuke one place and show the Russians we're serious.
01:02:34.000What they have to understand is that the Russian nuclear doctrine is if you use one nuclear weapon against us, we fire all of ours instantly.
01:03:31.000Yeah, so nuclear war is not to be played with it.
01:03:33.000This is the other thing I try to tell people is the last remaining nuclear arms reduction treaty.
01:03:37.000Again, I just want to remind people, I was the first United States inspector on the ground in the Soviet Union for the first treaty that got rid of nuclear weapons, that began the process of eliminating them.
01:03:50.000I always tell people, and I say it sort of tongue-in-cheek, but I really mean it, when you meet me, shake my hand and buy me a beer.
01:03:56.000And if you meet any inspector from the INF Treaty, shake their hand and buy them a beard.
01:04:42.000And the Russians are saying, yeah, but we have nuclear weapons that say you're not going to achieve that because, as Vladimir Putin has said, a world without Russia isn't a world worth living in.
01:04:53.000So if you want to destroy Russia, Russia is going to destroy the world.
01:04:57.000And so what he's also said is, since you want to destroy us and these weapons guarantee our survival, why would we continue a treaty with you where these weapons are being controlled and inspected and looked at?
01:05:08.000So the Russians said, screw you, we're done.
01:05:30.000People need to get scared about this stuff.
01:05:32.000We are going backwards in time, putting in place very dangerous weapon systems, and we're doing it in an environment where we and the Russians aren't getting along.
01:05:42.000The likelihood of a nuclear war, a world-ending nuclear war, is quite high.
01:05:48.000And this is coming from somebody that actually inspected these weapons and was intimately involved in the process of de-arming the countries that had the most weapons.
01:07:19.000And then, guys, from this point forward, we're going to go 15 up just so that we can make sure that we can, you know, get through because we got a lot to talk about.
01:07:25.000Rob Quimby, we the people need to overthrow the government.
01:08:36.000Russia had some birth issues because of the 1990s.
01:08:39.000I think a lot of Americans don't understand what we did in Russia.
01:08:42.000When the Soviet Union collapsed, we, instead of treating the Soviet Union as a friend that needed help, we treated them as a defeated enemy, and we put our foot on their throat.
01:08:53.000We made a decision that we were going to destroy them economically, exploit them politically, because we never wanted them to ever rise up again to challenge us the same way that the Soviet Union did.
01:09:32.000The guy showed me a photograph of him and his seven childhood friends, and he went down, each one.
01:09:37.000He said he committed suicide, he committed suicide, he committed suicide, he's in jail for murder, he is a drug addict who's, I think he's dead, I don't know where they went.
01:11:28.000Petersburg International Economic Forum.
01:11:30.000Hundreds of billions of dollars of international investment contracts were signed.
01:11:35.000Because the world doesn't care about American sanctions.
01:11:37.000The world is investing in Russia because Russia is a growth industry.
01:11:42.000I mean, it's under sanctions, so you can't do it.
01:11:44.000But if sanctions ever get lifted, I'd recommend people call up the economic developers in the city of Novosibirsk, the fastest growing economy in Russia today.
01:11:55.000You will make some money in Novosibirsk if sanctions are lifted.
01:12:29.000Imagine being on your yacht in Miami, partying with your 304s, and then, boom, out of nowhere, you're vaporizing Miami with your 304s popping that ass.
01:12:35.000No more silicone, no more Botox, LOL. Chris, what are you putting on me, bro?
01:14:34.000It's humiliating for Boris Yeltsin, how he's begging Bill Clinton not to do things, and Bill Clinton's just ignoring him, laughing him off.
01:14:41.000Near the end of it, When they list the names of people listening in, there's one name that appears now, Vladimir Putin.
01:14:49.000Putin's listening to this, watching his president be debased.
01:15:51.000And the head of the, what they call the, it used to be Sova, Soviet Area Analysis, but now it was Oreo, Office of Russia and East European Studies or something of this nature.
01:16:01.000We interviewed, we talked, and he said, well, you're clearly knowledgeable, but we don't want you.
01:20:34.000But we created NATO. The first Secretary General of NATO, Lord Hastings, a Brit, said about NATO, he said, To keep the Germans down, that is to keep them suppressed, to keep the Russians out of Europe,
01:24:46.000And then in 2014, we carry out a coup in Kiev to kick out the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, who was constitutionally elected, and we replace him with these Ukrainian nationalists who are from a party called Svoboda Party,
01:25:09.000Their roots, they worship a guy named Stepan Bandera.
01:25:13.000Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist from the 1930s, 1940s.
01:25:18.000He was openly, he collaborated with Adolf Hitler.
01:25:22.000Bandera's forces, when they went into, when Germany invaded Poland and then invaded Russia, went in and they murdered 30,000 to 40,000 Jews.
01:26:31.000So actually when Stepan Bandera began his Ukrainian nationalism, it was because the part of the Western Ukraine that we call Western Ukraine today, I think it's Volhonia or something like that, was part of Poland.
01:29:45.000It's alive and well living in America, in Canada, everywhere.
01:29:47.000They've been embedded in the United States since the 50s, 60s, 70s to this day.
01:29:53.000The CIA continued to fund this operation from 1954 until 1990.
01:30:00.000And at that point in time in 1990, they stopped funding it because the nationalists were back in power.
01:30:07.000We put them in power in the government in 2014.
01:30:11.000The first thing the nationalists did is they outlawed the Russian language.
01:30:15.000They passed a law banning Russian culture.
01:30:18.000And then when the Russians pushed back, they declared an anti-terrorism operation and they declared all the ethnic Russians to be terrorists.
01:30:28.000In May of 2014, there was a demonstration of pro-Russians in the city of Odessa.
01:30:35.000The Banderists shoved 150 of them into a building, the Trade Center, Trade Union building, set it on fire and cheered as people burned to death, jumped out of the building.
01:30:44.000Anybody who jumped out and survived, they shot on the ground.
01:32:20.000You hear about Wagner today, Pergosian and all that.
01:32:22.000Wagner was created in 2014 by the Russian government to provide assistance to the pro-Russian ethnic Russians that were defending themselves against the Nazis.
01:34:29.000And they're also sanctioned for helping the ethnic Russians defend themselves against the Nazis.
01:34:32.000Yeah, so I want y'all to know that too because that's important because I think that's a big reason why Putin, the sanctions aren't messing them up now.
01:34:41.000They prepared themselves for the sanctions that came in 2022.
01:38:08.000What the Russians guaranteed is that they would respect the borders.
01:38:13.000That they would withdraw, all the forces would withdraw behind the borders, that it would be demilitarized, but that the Ukrainians would have to withdraw their own troops from the Donbass and then pass laws that protected the linguistic, cultural, religious rights of the Russians living there so that they could speak Russian,
01:38:30.000they could celebrate Russian history, they could celebrate Russian culture.
01:38:35.000Ukrainians wouldn't change those laws.
01:38:38.000And the reason why is this, and we now know Petro Poroshenko was the president of Ukraine at the time.
01:38:45.000After Putin invaded Ukraine, people asked him about Minsk.
01:38:49.000He said, the Minsk agreements, they were a sham.
01:39:44.000She has said, yeah, the whole purpose of that was just to buy time so we could build up the Ukrainian army.
01:39:49.000Francois Hollen, the French president, the same thing.
01:39:51.000Most Americans don't realize in 2015, we opened up a U.S. training mission in Ukraine.
01:39:56.000The job of the U.S. training mission was to train one battalion of Ukrainian forces every 55 days for the sole purpose of going eastwards to kill Russians.
01:42:24.000I mean, I think the other thing, too, just using common sense, if Putin didn't want peace, he could have destroyed Ukraine in one day, guys.
01:43:09.000Challenge me on why I take the position I do.
01:43:11.000I don't take the position because I'm pro-Putin.
01:43:13.000I take the position because I'm pro-fucking-peace.
01:43:16.000If you don't understand what I have done in my life to stop war, to prevent war, You know, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I bent over backwards to stop a war.
01:43:28.000A lot of people don't know that I traveled to Iraq and spoke before the Iraqi parliament.
01:43:32.000I'm the only foreigner to ever do that.
01:43:35.000There's a petition to the Iraqi parliament to let UN weapons inspectors back in as a precondition to stopping the war.
01:43:41.000I came back and people said, you're a Saddam stooge and all blah blah.
01:43:45.000Saddam, let the inspectors back in because of what I did.
01:44:21.000You better understand the context of everything I'm saying.
01:44:24.000If you're going to challenge me, challenge me on the facts.
01:44:26.000Tell me that Zelensky, Volodymyr Zelensky, didn't hold a war council shortly after he was elected president where he said, our policy is war, war, war.
01:44:36.000I got a fucking video that has him saying that.
01:44:39.000And you're going to say that Putin's the warmonger?
01:46:22.000We know now because Putin actually brought the documents up, showed it to the African peace delegation that came in and said, why aren't you negotiating with the Ukrainians?
01:46:28.000He said, guys, we've been trying to negotiate from day one.
01:47:08.000The Ukrainians have for long said they haven't suffered many, but now they're coming out saying, we've suffered more dead than you can possibly imagine.
01:47:16.000But if you run the numbers, if you run the battles, if you talk to the mothers, people have gone in and the families are saying, where's my husband, where's my son, the missing, etc.
01:47:26.000The numbers come up to around $350,000.
01:47:33.000Yeah, because there's missing and things of that.
01:47:36.000You know, Prigozhin, who we talked about, Wagner, in the battle for Bakhmut earlier this year, they've killed 75,000, and that's counted bodies, 75,000 Ukrainians physically counted by them.
01:48:36.000Especially when you look at what happened today.
01:48:38.000But Ukraine's walked away, and since they've been in a war, I just want to remind people, because of the decisions made by the United States in pressuring Ukraine to not go along with this peace treaty, There are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians that are dead who otherwise would be alive.
01:48:53.000There are tens of millions of Ukrainians who have been displaced from their homes, who otherwise would have a home, be living a normal life.
01:48:59.000Think of all the children who aren't going to school now, who are refugees, whose lives are displaced, who have lost their fathers.
01:49:05.000Every one of those dead men is a potential father, brother, uncle, gone in their lives.
01:50:47.000If we did, we would never allow hundreds of thousands of them to die in a war that they can't win.
01:50:52.000All we're using them to do is inflict pain on Russia.
01:50:55.000And this is a design, a plan that's been in place since 1993.
01:51:02.000For all the people out there, right, that are saying, oh, he's a pulling puppet, pulling propaganda, blah, blah, blah, blah, I mean, do you guys have these facts?
01:51:11.000I don't think a lot of the detractors do, man.
01:51:13.000They're just going to sit there and say some bullshit or make ad hominem attacks versus...
01:55:24.000There's a lot of Americans who have uncles and brothers, you know, fathers, grandfathers who are looking down saying, uh-uh, we're ignoring them.
01:55:54.000It was handwritten, so we're having it transcribed.
01:55:57.000And she's reading it, and she just came to me, and she said, I just came to this section about my family in World War II. I lost five relatives.
01:56:07.000And she went through all the relatives there, 18 years old, 19 years old, all the relatives that were lost.
01:56:13.000Her family lost five people dead in the war.
01:57:49.000But, you know, yeah, I mean, I'm actually thinking that his wife has already bought property in Israel.
01:57:56.000Because I looked at it like, To me, just off of him not wanting to make peace, him not wanting to come to the table with Putin in my head, I'm like, why is he not?
01:58:38.000That we're sacrificing East European manpower to hurt Russia.
01:58:41.000What's George Soros' beef with Russia?
01:58:45.000Again, that's a question only George Soros can answer.
01:58:48.000I think his whole thing is, you know, world government, and he needs to, the Russians have always stood up against the kind of globalism that George Soros and others have been putting in play.
01:59:54.000I first went to Israel in 1994, and from 1994 to 1998, I traveled to Israel many, many, many times.
02:00:02.000Every time I went to Israel, without exception, there was a major terrorist attack or a major incident in Lebanon, something where a lot of Israelis died.
02:01:25.000We got here, Trevon Suki goes, so what do puppeteers U.S. and NATO get out of this instead of making peace and entering slash maintaining trade in Russia?
02:03:20.000There's so many benefits to the United States being in this war because it allows us to basically try everything out with not too much risk to ourselves.
02:03:28.000I mean, the Ukrainians are fine in the war.
02:03:43.000After this, I was going to ask you about how the Russians have beat us, like from a war strategy standpoint, how they've been able to beat us after this sort of continue.
02:03:52.000Well, no, because I'll answer it when we go.
02:03:54.000So we'll start with how the Russians have beat us.
02:03:57.000How they invaded in and how they've tactically taken land and space.
02:04:02.000Again, when the Russians first went into Ukraine, the special military operation.
02:04:09.000And real quick, so the people know this, because you mentioned a great tidbit earlier, which I think kind of might have got overlooked by the audience.
02:04:16.000You mentioned that Ukrainians had surrounded, if I'm not mistaken, Odessa, right?
02:04:29.000The Ukrainians had built this NATO. That's why they invaded in February.
02:04:32.000This NATO-trained army that Ukraine had built up, 260,000 strong, they had moved 60,000 to 90,000 of them into the Ukrainian-occupied Donbass.
02:06:49.000So they start this, and this is where Wagner becomes a big player now, because now Wagner's told to expand their force into a division-sized unit to...
02:07:00.000And for the audience, Wagner is a mercenary group created by one of Putin's right-hand men to kind of circumvent...
02:07:10.000Certain laws in place that does not allow Russian soldiers to go into Ukraine, but they had to protect their people, so that's how they were able to get around it, correct?
02:08:37.000Well, because his goal wasn't to occupy, invade.
02:08:40.000His goal was to intimidate into a peace treaty.
02:08:43.000But now that NATO said, no, we're going to give you tens of billions of dollars of equipment, you know, the Russians now had to fight a war.
02:08:49.000So they began fighting this war to secure...
02:08:55.000The Donbass, to take control of all the Donbass and secure this land bridge to Crimea.
02:09:38.000He had a plan to counter it, but the fear was that sanctions could cause up to a 20-25% contraction of the economy, which means you'd have unemployment, you'd have internal unrest, etc.
02:09:52.000Now if you mobilize, have a draft, That can also cause...
02:13:04.000Look, In the lead-up to the Gulf War, one of my jobs was to plan the Marine combat breaching operation of Iraqi defensive lines.
02:13:12.000And I did it using a supercomputer called the Janus computer.
02:13:15.000Long story short, I built the terrain map, I populated with the Iraqis, and then I populated with the Marines, and then I, with the computer, gave them different capabilities based upon their training, their weaponry, and things of that nature.
02:15:33.000I mean, look, let's look what happened to Evgeny Prigozhin, all right, Wagner Group.
02:15:39.000Wagner Group was created, we talked about, in 2014.
02:15:42.000In 2022, May 2022, they were given a $940 million contract from the Ministry of Defense to create a division-sized unit to help recapture the Donbass.
02:15:53.000At that time, Lugansk and Donetsk were independent territories, so legally, Wagner could exist.
02:15:59.000In September, they held a referendum in those territories, Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhia, and they Annex those territories.
02:16:34.000So Prigozhin began a PR campaign elevating the status of Wagner in the minds of the Russian people, how he made a movie called Best in Hell, a full-screen movie, propaganda winning the Russians over, telling them that we're the strongest warriors, we're the best warriors.
02:23:50.000And I was wondering, is this why there are an amount of extra countries in Eastern Europe and Asian countries being fluent in Russian language?
02:23:59.000Is that a result of the growth or is it maybe the language learning from all these other countries being so fluent in Russian?
02:26:05.000I was going to say, what is your response to people that say that Russia is nothing more than a gas station, has the economy of Italy?
02:26:15.000That's a common criticism about Russia's world power capabilities, saying that they have dated military, they're not as advanced as people say.
02:26:50.000Because they cut themselves off of Russian energy and they have no alternative.
02:26:54.000Cheap Russian gas, the Americans come in, they're friends by the way, and we're charging them five to seven times the amount of price for gas that the Russians were giving them.
02:29:40.000Is that why we're so excited to be engaged with them now through the proxy war of Ukraine?
02:29:45.000Well, I mean, I think we might have been excited early on thinking we could win.
02:29:50.000But General Cavoli, the commander of U.S. forces in Europe today, Supreme Allied Commander, he spoke to a Swedish forum in January, defense forum, and he said, the scope and scale of the violence that's taking place in Ukraine today is beyond the imagination of NATO. Now,
02:30:06.000that's an important thing to say because When you do a training thing, you're training to that which you can imagine.
02:30:12.000You're preparing for that which you are conceptualizing.
02:30:15.000So if the violence, the scale of violence is beyond your imagination, it means you haven't trained for this, you're not equipped for this, you're not ready for this.
02:33:56.000Now, there's no guarantee on that outcome because, again, I just point out that, you know, even though the Ukrainians lost 13,000 dead, the Russians lost 1,300.
02:34:45.000I thought Russia had time because they have the resources and the manpower and Well, I mean, Russia is a big country with resources right now, but if the West ever gets its act together and starts mobilizing its defense industry so that it can perpetually supply Ukraine,
02:35:03.000and Ukraine shows a tolerance for casualties.
02:35:06.000Remember, Ukraine is a nation of, you know, 40 million people.
02:36:04.000So when you see those videos on TV that everybody searches that show the Ukrainians breaking into a Russian trench line and killing Russians, yeah, that's war, guys.
02:37:08.000There's a huge Ukrainian diaspora in Russia.
02:37:12.000Every city has thousands of Ukrainians.
02:37:15.000Every Russian has a Ukrainian relative.
02:37:18.000The Russian military, if you're a rank colonel and higher, you went to school with Ukrainian officers who were Soviet officers at the time.
02:38:38.000Florida fighting Georgia, where across the border you have families traveling together, or Alabama, where people vacation in Florida, you vacation in Mobile, and your cousin was from...
02:38:50.000That's the functional equivalent for guys out here that might not understand, you know, Eastern European politics and geopolitical situations.
02:39:41.000Well, they don't want to inflict harm, because at some point in time, this war is going to end, and then their brothers have to learn to live in what's left.
02:39:47.000But the longer this war goes on, the more the Russians are starting to make the pain come down.
02:39:52.000Because they have to pay for it at the end.
02:39:57.000If you burn down your brother's house, eventually you have to rebuild it.
02:40:02.000But what the Russians now are doing is they are bringing in the air power.
02:40:06.000This is why Ukrainian casualties are going through the roof now, because the Russians are saying, okay, it's time that we end this.
02:40:15.000I was telling people this from the beginning when they said that Russia is losing the war, whatever.
02:40:18.000I remember like a year ago saying like, you guys do realize that if Putin wanted to, you could have airstriked Ukraine to hell and they'd be gone in 24 hours.
02:41:51.000The former Soviet republics had nuclear weapons programs, biological weapons programs, chemical weapons programs that we needed to bring under control.
02:42:00.000One of the biggest fears is that when the Soviet collapsed, their economies collapsed, and you have all these scientists.
02:42:05.000Well, not just the weapons, but the scientists that know how to build the weapons.
02:42:09.000And if they don't have a job, They're going to go someplace else and do it.
02:42:28.000We signed agreements with the Ukrainian government where we came in and we took over the former biological weapons labs.
02:45:36.000And then, guys, we're going to switch on over to Rumble because I want to talk about some more sensitive topics that we definitely can't talk about here on YouTube.
02:45:54.000So we're going to move over to Rumble here very shortly, guys, because I got some questions I want to ask and some discussions that include why the Western media hates Putin so much, which I have a theory on that, which I can't talk about on YouTube.
02:46:05.000Why we're going to talk about the Trump situation with...
02:46:09.000With, obviously, the classified documents and his foreign policy, because I definitely want to talk about why we went to war with Russia with Biden in office versus not Trump in office, and I think there's some things we want to talk about that as well.
02:46:23.000So, DJ Cogdill goes court-martial Mark Milley, Ryan Dawson.
02:47:19.000Can you talk real quick about some of the steps that Russia took preemptively back in 2014 when they first faced the sanctions to prepare themselves for 2022?
02:47:28.000I know buying gold was a big thing they did.
02:47:30.000Again, when I say I'm not a gold guy, it means I'm not smart enough to understand gold.
02:47:43.000And the Russians have spent a lot of time trying to reduce their debt load, buy gold, get sufficient gold reserves, etc.
02:47:51.000Turn their economy into an economy that could survive a shock from the United States if the United States tried to separate it from the global economy.
02:48:00.000The Russians were well positioned to survive the sanctions.
02:48:51.000I mean, I'm still yet to see anyone come up with a convincing argument for a lot of the things you've said here.
02:48:55.000All the people that say that you're a pulling puppet.
02:48:58.000All right, so guys, come on over to Rumble.
02:49:00.000Let's throw it in the chat, Mo, real quick.
02:49:03.000Can you tell the people, just for the YouTube, guys, we're going to go to Rumble right now, so come on over to Rumble, rumble.com slash freshfit, because I got some stuff here that's more sensitive than I want to talk about that definitely ain't going to be safe for YouTube.
02:49:12.000Where can people find you real quick before we go over to the Rumble audience?
02:49:16.000The best way to get me is on scottriderextra.com.
02:51:14.000So, Butchamasker, can you break that down for the people real quick, what it was?
02:51:20.000I mean, you said Ukraine was behind it, but...
02:51:22.000Well, let's just start with the fact that, as I told you, when the Russians first went in, their goal was to shock the Ukrainians into negotiating a peaceful...
02:51:52.000And then people in civilian clothes were taking the Russian positions and then transmitting them to Ukrainians via telegram so that artillery would strike.
02:52:03.000And so the Russians captured a number of these people, found that they were violating war crimes, and they executed them, which they're allowed to do.
02:52:11.000I'm not justifying, I'm just saying they did that.
02:52:15.000So that's the civilians that the Russians killed.
02:52:18.000I told you that the Russians, in a good faith move, withdrew voluntarily.
02:52:22.000So in the end of March, they withdrew from the Bucha area.
02:52:29.000There were elements of people there, spoke Russian, ethnic Russians, who were nervous when the Russians left, so they were trying to follow the Russians.
02:52:38.000Behind the Russians came Ukrainian police units.
02:54:45.000They make him out to be a terrible person, etc.
02:54:48.000Which, of course, every person that is in power has blood on their hands to some degree.
02:54:53.000You're always going to have to do something to get to power in the first place, right?
02:54:58.000But what I've realized, and I think Ryan's probably in the chat here, and of course you're going to agree to disagree here.
02:55:05.000What I've been told with these discussions is that when Putin took power in the 90s, or after the Soviet Union collapse, he got rid of certain oligarchs, right?
02:55:16.000And he got rid of the oligarchs that had other countries' interests in mind, if you know what I mean.
02:55:22.000I'm talking Zionists, etc., These guys left, maybe they went to Ukraine, went back to Israel, whatever it may be, and the United States.
02:55:31.000And then we know that the media in the United States is run by certain people, right?
02:55:36.000And those people have a vested interest in demonizing Putin because he kicked out a lot of these Zionist oligarchs.
02:55:49.000Well, what I'll say is this, that the United States had a system of controlling Russia in the 1990s built around Boris Yeltsin and his ability to be manipulated.
02:57:46.000But you can't sit there and say that you're a patriot at the same time because a lot of the times...
02:57:52.000A lot of times our interests don't necessarily always coincide.
02:57:55.000And I'll argue that we've done things here in the United States for the benefit of Israel, where we didn't necessarily derive the same level of benefit, but we put in way more resources, way more effort.
02:58:05.000And saying shit like this on YouTube will get you canceled, which is crazy.
02:58:08.000But you cannot be a Zionist while simultaneously saying you're an American patriot.
03:00:53.000What he gave away, in the intelligence business...
03:01:00.000Frequencies are some of the most sensitive things, you know, because if you find a frequency that people are talking on and you break the code, you can't let anybody know that you did that or else they'll change frequencies, change the code.
03:01:15.000And so what Pollard has was the book of all the things that we did accomplished in that area against the Soviets, against everybody.
03:01:50.000In order to make that definitive statement, I'd have to know everything that was out there.
03:01:55.000I would say that based upon what he was accused of doing and based upon what I think I understand of what he gave, that's not an unreasonable assertion.
03:04:20.000The biggest threat AIPAC can do is say that we're going to not just withdraw funding from you, but we're going to primary you.
03:04:28.000And if you're a congressman who is running for election every two years, primary is the worst thing because it exhausts you and it bankrupts you and it's just disruptive.
03:04:39.000So what you want, when you get AIPAC on your side, that means you get more money, no primary, And you sort of slide in.
03:04:47.000That's how you stay to become an incumbent.
03:04:49.000So be rest assured that almost every long-term incumbent that you see in the U.S. Congress has AIPAC backing.
03:05:29.000You can show me all the lists of names, and I've seen them all, and I'm like, yep, there's a lot of Jewish people in there and all that, but...
03:05:58.000I was the love child of AIPAC. But what I found, too, is that every place I went, In the media world, because I was doing the rounds, CBS, ABC, CNN, Fox.
03:06:24.000APAC controls the media, or at least has their pulse on the media.
03:06:30.000And then when my position flipped, all those people are now working against me.
03:06:41.000I'm just, again, I don't want to be too conspiracy theory here.
03:06:46.000I'm speaking purely circumstantial evidence, but I cannot deny that in a limited period of time, when I was heavily exposed to American media, that AIPAC had an overwhelming presence in the media industry,
03:07:04.000and that that could work to your favor.
03:07:36.000Russia, we talked about Russia's failures and Ukraine's failures.
03:07:39.000But for some odd reason, if you criticize...
03:07:43.000Anyone from Israel, they'll immediately label you anti-Semitic, which I think is kind of crazy.
03:07:48.000It's like, bro, you can't criticize them, and if you do, kind of like what you saw, well, you were on our side when you were inspecting Iraq, and we had our interests aligned, but once interests aren't aligned anymore, oh, fuck you, man.
03:08:46.000But in the question and answer period, The guy basically got up mad because I was advocating that Iran didn't have a nuclear weapons program and that Iran wasn't a threat to Israel and all that kind of stuff.
03:08:58.000And this guy got up and basically called me an anti-Semite.
03:11:49.000What I'm more concerned with, and you know this from coming from the intel world, and both of us working for the government before...
03:11:55.000They're going after him now for having those classified documents and also national defense information, NDI, which I'm worried about more than the classified shit because, you know, obviously he could declassify the declassified documents, which he didn't.
03:12:07.000But regardless, let's say he did declassify all those.
03:12:10.000It doesn't matter because he has the NDI, which is what I'm worried about.
03:12:13.000They fucking indicted him about a month ago now at this point, a couple weeks ago.
03:12:18.000For violation of the Espionage Act, which if you don't know, guys, are the same exact charges that Pollard got hit with, Robert Hansen got hit with, 18 U.S.C. 793E, and then him and his aide, Waltine Natua, he got also hit with obstruction of justice,
03:13:15.000I told you, when the CIA guy said that the FBI was going to fuck me in the ass, the first thing they did is file espionage charges against me because of my intelligence relationship with Israel.
03:13:27.000What the FBI didn't understand is that every aspect of my intelligence relationship with Israel was coordinated with the CIA. And even when I went to the CIA and said, could you please tell the FBI that this is horseshit because the U.S. government was in the business of fucking me in the ass at the time,
03:14:38.000I mean, it's documented that the CIA documented, guys, declassified documents, it is documented they knew who the fuck these terrorists were.
03:21:04.000There's a reason why I was entrusted with this knowledge, I used it in my work, and then when I'm done with that, I'm done with that.
03:21:16.000If I talk about it, people's lives could be put at risk, systems could be exploited, compromised, billion-dollar systems could be compromised, bad things could happen to the country.
03:21:26.000And I'm talking about even, you know, I last held a clearance long, long, long, long time ago.
03:21:33.000You know, logic says that whatever I knew isn't relevant today, but it doesn't matter because you can reverse-engineer things.
03:21:40.000I can say things that could lead people to speculate.
03:22:11.000Things have been published in newspapers that have been leaked by government sources that have resulted in people dying, resulted in billion-dollar systems being compromised.
03:22:48.000I'm just saying that that's how Washington, D.C. works.
03:22:51.000And the reason why I bring that up is that people are saying what Donald Trump did is the most horrible thing in the world, put us at risk.
03:22:58.000And I'm like, I don't support what he did.
03:23:00.000But it's not the most horrible thing in the world because it happens every day.
03:23:03.000In Washington, D.C., people leak information and you don't have FBI investigations going on, etc.
03:23:10.000You know, we don't know what documents Joe Biden has in his office.
03:23:15.000Nobody's talking about the contents of that.
03:23:17.000We don't know what Mike Pence had in his office.
03:23:19.000And I will tell you right now, it's a guaranteed fact that if I launched a raid against...
03:23:27.000I could build a list of 50 government officials right now and launch a raid against their homes.
03:24:05.000Anybody who sees that document has to sign the receipt, and then it has to be returned with that chain so they know who accessed the document.
03:24:13.000So if it's ever compromised, they know exactly who to go back to.
03:26:36.000I think that the concept of the damage to the national security that they claim was done is exaggerated just because we live in a society that leaks everything.
03:26:47.000There's compromises done every day of the week.
03:26:50.000There's 13 documents they don't want to charge him with because they're saying they're so classified that...
03:26:57.000Because for them to admit it into evidence, it has to be declassified so that they can put it into the discovery process.
03:27:03.000So they're saying they're only hitting them with 37 of the documents.
03:27:06.000They're saying there's another 13 that were so classified.
03:27:08.000We don't know if that's media sensationalization or if it was really that classified that they don't want to use it.
03:27:14.000But the point I'm trying to make is...
03:27:16.000I've read Edward Snowden's documents that he's released.
03:27:50.000For those of you that are wondering what the fuck is Five Eyes, that's the five English-speaking countries where we're having an alliance with the United States, New Zealand, Australia, England, and...
03:28:21.000And I'll give you a funny little story for y'all, right?
03:28:26.000Listen, because I agree with you 100% that they over-classify everything.
03:28:30.000When I was an agent with HSI, I used to work with the FBI in certain cases, blah, blah, blah.
03:28:35.000Dude, there was times where we gave them information, and then we'd be like, oh yeah, the information we gave you, can you tell us about it?
03:29:43.000It was a foreign source, and there becomes automatically no foreign dissemination, which means the United Nations can't get it.
03:29:49.000So we ended up doing direct relationship with the Dutch, but it's the same thing.
03:29:54.000Then I would take this information from the Dutch, and then I would go to my CIA liaison, and we'd start working on it, and I'd hand things over to him.
03:30:06.000They'd receive it, and then when I'd sit down the next meeting, I'd say, hey, that stuff I gave you, can we bring it?
03:33:28.000We could have a very long conversation about American justice.
03:33:32.000I've gone through some pretty silly stuff myself.
03:33:37.000I've lost faith in the American court system because I believe that if they want to take you down, they will manipulate the system to take you down.
03:33:47.000Show me the man, I'll find you the crime.
03:33:50.000And so Donald Trump is, well, there's a guy who wrote a book, Five Felonies a Day or something like that.
03:33:55.000But basically it was, we have so many laws out there that every law-abiding citizen just by living life is committing five felonies a day that if the government wants to get you, they're going to get you.
03:34:08.000Because just living in America today, the way everything is regulated, etc., and the power of the prosecution, the power of the courts, if you get on the wrong side of them, they're going to take you down.
03:34:42.000It's 1220 at night, but you guys are here with me and Scott Ritter having this high IQ conversation.
03:34:46.000I think the only way that they can, that Trump can get out of this is A, he draws out this prosecution.
03:34:57.000Stalls, hearing after hearing, suppression hearing after suppression hearing, fighting, making as many frivolous contentions as he can, right?
03:35:29.000Like, he can probably do something to pardon himself.
03:35:32.000Or, the other one, which I talked about this with Dave Rubin, shout out to him, he said that if Ron DeSantis wins, he pretty much said, I will pardon Trump, which I think is great.
03:36:08.000When I tell you guys, it was extremely difficult to protect a president from a foreign nation that doesn't have nearly the same security requirements as a president of the United States, there's no way that he'd be able to effectively serve any type of prison time.
03:37:06.000I think, honestly, the Justice Department did this for, like, a clout move.
03:37:09.000Like, this is a power, like, look at what we've done.
03:37:11.000But I don't know how the hell they're gonna actually enforce Him being in prison because I'll keep it a million with you guys.
03:37:19.000Someone that I've done espionage cases myself, yeah, they pretty much got him dead to rights.
03:37:23.000I read through the entire indictment in its entirety and I'm like, God damn, every single one of his defenses, they call it a speaking indictment because it goes through all the facts and it covers all of his defenses that he could potentially bring up.
03:37:33.000And this is the other thing that scares me too with that case.
03:37:38.000Trump had lawyers that worked for him during this whole situation.
03:37:43.000Those lawyers were tasked with getting the documents that were classified and giving them over to the FBI. Trump's assistant moved some of the documents when Trump's lawyers were going to get the documents and give them to the FBI, which is why that guy is being indicted,
03:37:59.000by the way, for the obstruction of justice.
03:38:02.000When I read the document, right, the indictment, reading between the lines, I saw in there that they wrote, Trump Lawyer 1 memorialized notes states as follows.
03:38:14.000Well, we know lawyer information with a defendant is privileged.
03:38:19.000Law enforcement should never have that.
03:38:23.000Is the AUSA putting lawyer notes in an indictment that's supposed to be privileged and not used?
03:38:30.000That tells me one thing, only one conclusion.
03:38:33.000The lawyers flipped and they're cooperating with the government, which means they are going to testify against Trump should he go to trial.
03:38:41.000That is the only conclusion I can come to.
03:38:43.000And the fact that they were able to do that tells me this is more than likely what happened.
03:38:47.000It's someone that used to do these investigations.
03:38:50.000Lawyers go with the documents that they have in hand.
03:38:52.000Hey, FBI, here's the documents that Trump gave us.
03:38:55.000Okay, sign this under penalty and perjury document that these are all the documents.
03:39:56.000Now that I know that Trump committed an act, I didn't know about this, a criminal act, privilege is gone.
03:40:01.000Here's my notes that I took every time I was with Trump.
03:40:03.000And the indictment also talks about situations where the lawyer...
03:40:08.000When he was talking with Trump about getting these documents out, Trump made a plucking thing.
03:40:14.000Like, as in, like, when he was going to the hotel, just pluck those documents out.
03:40:16.000Do we really have to cooperate with the FBI, blah, blah, blah?
03:40:19.000All these things, and he wrote it down.
03:40:22.000Even though this is bullshit, what I see is that they're going to have all these witnesses, including Trump's own former lawyers, that are going to testify against him.
03:40:31.000They're going to have Mar-a-Lago employees.
03:40:33.000They're probably going to have even Secret Service agents testify.
03:40:38.000So I think the only way he's going to beat this, draw it out, become president, pardon yourself, or hopefully Ron DeSantis, or whoever takes office, pardon him.
03:45:03.000People were bringing that up in the chat.
03:45:05.000If you guys want more knowledge on this, definitely go check out the documentary, NUMEC, from Ryan Dawson, where he talks about how Israel stole the nuclear bomb, etc.
03:45:15.000He touches on the USS Liberty, but do you want to give the people a quick overview on that?
03:45:19.000Well, the USS Liberty was a U.S. Navy...
03:45:23.000Electronic surveillance ship is a spy ship working for the National Security Agency.
03:46:26.000The silver stars were issued by the handful, bronze stars, purple hearts, the men that fought on the liberty, and they were issued the highest awards for heroism in America, combat awards.
03:46:38.000Oh, so they were able to fire back at the planes that dropped bombs on them?
03:46:41.000Well, they tried, but it's also not just about firing back.
03:47:51.000Well, the Israelis know, but they say it was a mistake, mistaken identity.
03:47:56.000I think they attacked it because the Liberty was intercepting signals that showed that the Israelis were killing Egyptian prisoners of war.
03:48:25.000And, you know, with the benefit of hindsight, we now can speak, you know, definitively about this happening, this happening.
03:48:32.000But remember, this is during war with the fog of war taking place.
03:48:35.000You know, there were no guarantees that the United States was going to be the ally of Israel, especially if Israel turned around and slaughtered Egyptian prisoners of war.
03:48:44.000So the feeling of the Israelis was you have to sink the ship.
03:51:50.000How can you be friends with a nation that attacked your fellow Americans, that attacked the USS Liberty, and won't apologize for it, won't acknowledge the wrongdoing?
03:52:04.000It would be one thing if they said, yes, we did it, we're sorry, forgive us.
03:52:08.000But they pretend as if this was an accident.
03:52:42.000Almost like some faction knew he was so compromised that they could even attack an American ship and murder U.S. servicemen without consequence.
03:53:29.000The Kennedys had put pressure on the American Zionist Council for Public Affairs, now known as APAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
03:53:38.000In 1963, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearings revealed that the American Zionist Council had laundered over $5 million of Jewish agency funds into lobbying activities.
03:53:51.000The American Zionist Council simply dodged the Foreign Agent Registration Act order by moving all of its major functions to AIPAC, and umbrella organizations like the ZOA and Hadash became permanent members of AIPAC's executive committee.
03:54:06.000Once Johnson was in office, Israel had an unchecked foreign lobby with no resistance, free to bribe their way into further power.
03:54:13.000AIPAC is currently the most powerful lobby in D.C. Now, to pick up on Grant's comments, he indicated that...
03:54:24.000Yeah, I mean, guys, shit is real, man.
03:54:27.000Like, it's wild, you know, with the whole U.S.'s liberty situation.
03:54:32.000And a lot of people don't know about that, that both the Kennedys were trying to get Israel to...
03:54:56.000You know, I wish RFK, when he went on Rogan, he talked about every other thing that Kennedy was doing that got him killed, except for his situation with Ben Gurion in Israel, the nuclear bombs, Farah.
03:55:09.000He didn't mention any of that on Rogan.
03:57:02.000He did talk about them putting that shit in the water, making the frogs gay, and then they found later on that it does, in fact, feminize the frogs.
03:57:28.000Doing quite well for myself, but I can't help feel that there is something I'm missing regarding correlation between markets and geopolitical events.
03:57:40.000Take a look at everything they wanted to happen to the Russian economy that didn't happen to the Russian economy and ask yourself why it didn't happen to the Russian economy.
03:57:49.000It's because we don't know and understand the Russian economy.
03:57:53.000And so what I mean by that is if you're relying on data inputs from the West, from the United States, from Europe, to draw conclusions about what's happening in a non-European For instance,
04:00:13.000Then the dollar could go by, especially if we don't change the way we use the dollar.
04:00:18.000If we continue to punish people for using the dollar through sanctions, they're going to run away from the dollar.
04:00:24.000If we continue to steal nation's sovereign wealth that was accrued because they bought into the dollar as the International currency reserve, then people are going to say, well, then we don't want to use the dollar.
04:00:40.000We can extend the lifespan of the dollar if we just change our approach to how we interface with the rest of the world economically, but we don't because we're arrogant and we've bought into a system that may have worked 30 years ago, but it's not working today, this rules-based international order.
04:00:58.000If you're not looking at China, if you're not looking at Russia, if you're not looking at Eurasia, if you're not looking at Africa, you're looking at the wrong things.
04:01:48.000And the original head of the Taliban, Mullah Omar...
04:01:52.000It was a former Mujahideen who operated in Kandahar, and he had a school where he was teaching people, basically old-school Wahhabist Islam.
04:02:07.000A family came, had been stopped at a roadblock that was put together by these warlords, and they stole the daughter, the warlords.
04:02:20.000And you know what they were going to do to the daughter.
04:03:05.000They were responding to the lawlessness that had taken over Afghanistan in the aftermath of the war against the Soviet Union, that period of time after the Soviets left the collapse of the Afghan government.
04:03:17.000There was this civil war taking place between the We're good to go.
04:03:43.000And then he says, you claim them to be the enemy, but a lot of others claim that Jews have taken over American government.
04:03:49.000No, it's not that they have taken over.
04:03:51.000It's that they have strong influence within American politics to make sure that American politics...
04:04:00.000Are involved in the preservation, protection, and benefit of Israel, even if it sometimes doesn't always benefit the United States full well.
04:05:32.000And basically, they had come together and the decision was that they were going to fund my run for Congress, that they were going to pick a district, a safe district, that I'd be guaranteed shoo-in.
04:05:48.000They never approached me about my position on Israel because it was assumed that I was a friend of Israel, that I would never do anything to question.
04:05:59.000I wish they had asked me questions because I could have disabused them of that.
04:06:02.000Instead, we had a discussion about two topics because they were all sitting there going, we love you, we love you.
04:09:16.000You know, the CIA is involved with that group, and I think the CIA was involved in providing assistance, providing guidance, etc.
04:09:28.000These are the people that broke into police stations and barracks in western Ukraine and took weapons and brought those weapons to Kiev and turned what had been a peaceful protest into a violent demonstration.
04:09:42.000We got here, Taufik goes, what does Scott think about the Egyptian soldier who went across the Egyptian-Israeli border and shine, killed three Israeli soldiers, WFNF and free top G's?
04:09:57.000What I do know is that it's not as black and white as people think that there might have been something about smuggling and that the Israelis were actually involved in illegal smuggling operations and that the Egyptian soldier was investigating the smuggling thing and he got caught up in breaking up the wrong thing.
04:10:15.000Some people think that it was about him going across and just murdering Israelis, but apparently when people look at the videotape, there's some strange smuggling stuff going on.
04:10:54.000So it's just an unfortunate situation.
04:10:56.000But hey, we're just reporting facts here.
04:10:58.000Professor Ritter, honor your integrity to the U.S. secrets.
04:11:01.000You've probably seen some crazy shit out there.
04:11:04.000What is the proper balance of releasing information, and when did them boys get some power?
04:11:07.000Them boys is how we refer to the Jews.
04:11:10.000When we're on YouTube, we do that and hit the sound effect.
04:11:15.000Well, I mean, I would say that to answer the part about when did the Israeli influence, Jewish influence, and government...
04:11:28.000Started organized crime, I would say, in the early 1900s.
04:11:30.000Yeah, yeah, but, you know, Italians had organized crime.
04:11:34.000Yeah, lucky Luciano working hand-in-hand with Mayor Lansky and controlling the ports and, you know, and then the surplus weapons of the United States from World War II being shipped back to Israel.
04:11:44.000I mean, those all had a critical component in them being able to beat the Palestinians and take over and create an Israeli state.
04:11:50.000It wasn't until after the Six-Day War, though, that Israel became a vehicle of empowerment for American Jews.
04:11:58.000Prior to that, American Jews were actually sort of standoffish on Israel.
04:12:02.000They didn't know quite what to make of it, etc.
04:12:12.000It's when the Israelis defeated the combined armies of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt, and they got this status of being this superpower and all this stuff.
04:12:29.000Jerusalem now was under Israeli control, and so religious Jews began.
04:12:35.000And I think at that point, the dynamic changed on how Israel and Jewishness was treated in America.
04:12:46.000And it's sad because if you look at Islam and Judaism, they're very closely linked together.
04:14:09.000The more that Jews and Muslims don't view each other as incompatible, but rather view each other the way they should be under history, which are people of the book, people who...
04:14:21.000And this goes back to what you were saying, how Orthodox Jews were the number one enemy of Israel because they were anti-Zionist, if I'm not mistaken.
04:15:37.000Because that then implies that because they were there first, maybe we can consider a situation where these Jewish people aren't there anymore.
04:16:15.000What I'm saying is getting rid of the mindset that says only Jews can live here.
04:16:20.000And the people that have caused the most problems for the Israelis are these Russian and Ukrainian immigrants that came in in the 1990s and afterwards.
04:16:29.000Because they don't respect the Palestinians.
04:16:32.000They don't respect the history of the region.
04:16:35.000They came in and they don't identify with the Palestinians.
04:17:09.000I don't agree with everything he says, but he is right about a lot of things, and I do agree that if you can't be a contract here, I don't think you could be America, first of all, simultaneously calling yourself a Zionist.
04:17:21.000But the thing about listening to people, I don't know Nick Fuentes from Adam.
04:17:25.000I mean, I know who he is, but I don't know him.
04:17:27.000But the beauty of it is, if you claim to be an American, a citizen of the United States of America, that means that you're somebody who adheres to the Constitution.
04:17:42.000And the First Amendment is free speech.
04:17:45.000And the key thing about free speech isn't just our ability to speak freely.
04:17:50.000But it's our ability to speak freely in the context of constructive civil dialogues, debate, dialogue and discussion.
04:17:57.000That means that people who have differences of opinion, rather than shouting it out, Talk it out as humans, as men, as women, as equals, and be respectful of differences of opinion.
04:18:11.000Focus on fact, not on ideologies, feelings.
04:18:17.000Because facts will generally lead you in the right direction.
04:18:19.000The other thing about facts do is they will better identify the differences that you have so that you can, in a civil fashion, seek to find a common solution.
04:18:31.000We could solve half the problems that America faces today if we would just sit down and treat each other with respect and have dialogues, have discussions.
04:19:50.000As long as they don't turn it into a movement that says...
04:19:55.000You know, traditional family values are supplanted, that this becomes the thing, all that.
04:20:00.000And that's all that the Russians are doing.
04:20:02.000And the other thing that the Russians say is, you know, the more the West seeks to try and push diverse politics, the more harm they do to homosexual and transgender communities in Russia.
04:20:15.000That if you just let the Russians do their business, there will be harmony.
04:21:26.000Pilo Kezink goes, Hey guys, USAAF hopeful here, appreciating the lineup of absolute goats.
04:21:32.000Just wanted to get Scott's thoughts on the possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan and how the U.S. could fare Okay, we'll come back to that question.
04:21:39.000I'm going to read the rest of these chats and we'll close out with that one.
04:21:42.000Trevon Suki goes, Professor, last question.
04:21:44.000There's a rumor Russians are pretty racist towards black people.
04:21:48.000And then what was the last one here, Amo?
04:21:51.000Dex Lexus, thoughts on JFK implementing the United States notes backed by gold right before his death and LBJ bringing back the Federal Reserve notes when he became president.
04:24:05.000The Russians are just ignorant about certain things.
04:24:08.000And the moment they become informed, educated, they're actually some of the most tolerant people.
04:24:14.000Like I said, this is a culture that respects differences of religion, differences of everything.
04:24:21.000So because your skin color is a certain color, once they are able to contextualize it and put it into a realistic perspective, they're extraordinarily tolerant people.
04:24:45.000And then this one is, LBJ bringing back the Federal Reserve notes when he became President JFK implementing the United States notes backed by gold right before his death.
04:25:42.000Then the guy talks, and he has such a casual approach, but you're just sitting there, and he's talking, and I'm trying to find the chinks in his argument.
04:25:51.000I'm like, there's no chinks in his argument.
04:25:54.000That son of a bitch has done his homework.
04:25:56.000He's got all the answers, but he does it in such a polite way.
04:26:01.000I'm sure he's looked at me a couple times going, Ritter, you're an idiot.
04:26:31.000So any guys like you, guys like Dawson that have been suppressed by cancel culture or whatever, hey, man, y'all can come on Fresh and Fit, man.
04:26:39.000I will platform the people that other people are too fucking scared to platform.
04:27:08.000They look at Taiwan as an economic multiplier for them.
04:27:13.000They want that economy working with them.
04:27:17.000And they have said straight up that Our policy is the peaceful unification.
04:27:25.000However, if they are required to respond to provocations such as Taiwan wanting to become independent or nations treating Taiwan like they were an independent nation,
04:27:40.000then China would have to use military force to rectify.
04:27:44.000That means invade Taiwan and bring this to an end.
04:27:47.000It appeared that the United States was pushing China in that direction.
04:29:47.000Would you say we're also at a disadvantage because we have to put ourselves in a fighting position and that means that we're going to have to get closer to China and closer to Taiwan in general?
04:29:53.000We have to get closer to their strengths.
04:33:18.000I think also the United States, not only do we realize that we're going to be politically isolated, but I think there's a growing recognition in the Pentagon that we can't win a war against China.