EPISODE 408: EXCLUSIVE - VINDMAN DOCUMENTS LEAKED PROFITEERING OFF UKRAINIAN WAR
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Alexander Vindman helped start the Ukraine war, and now he s trying to profit from it. What's more, we re also going to get into this question about what s going on in Wuhan, why is the story coming out today, and then finally, a terrorist attack on the border with Russia. What are the implications? All that and much more on today s episode of Human Events Daily!
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Hey ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard live from CPAC here. Today's edition of Human Events
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Daily powered by Turning Point USA. Today is March 2nd, 2023. Anno Domini. We have got huge
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exclusive story to share with you today, breaking receipts on none other than Alexander Vindman.
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We're also going to get into this question about what's going on in Wuhan. Why is the story coming
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out today? And then finally, a terrorist attack on the border with Russia. What are the implications?
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There are no leaders to charge. There's no one to hold to account just yet. And if nobody ever
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arrests Vladimir Putin and his group, what does justice look like? Well, at this stage,
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the investigation is the most important thing. Accountability is a long term process. World War
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Two, Germany was still holding war crimes trials as recently as last year. Same thing
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is happening in Yugoslavia for the crimes that were committed decades ago. So at this stage,
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it's about collecting the evidence, preparing cases for when the opportunity presents itself,
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either a regime change in Russia or somebody travels outside of into Europe on a vacation or a visit.
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They can never escape accountability, no matter how long it takes.
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Alexander Vindman. Of course, you remember him, Colonel Alexander Vindman. Don't remember it,
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folks. Colonel Alexander Vindman. What has he been up to lately? But before we get into this,
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I want to remind everyone exactly who Colonel Alexander Vindman is. Colonel, Colonel, Colonel,
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Colonel, Colonel, Colonel. Alexander Vindman. You remember him from a little thing called
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the first impeachment of President Donald Trump when he and his friend, Eric Chiaramella of the CIA.
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That's right. I said it. Eric Chiaramella of the CIA decided to file a whistleblower report
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on President Trump saying that he was trying to coerce who? The president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky,
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into digging up dirt on the Biden family because President Trump knew that Joe Biden's son,
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Hunter, was making tens of thousands of dollars every single month in a do-nothing job at Burisma
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Energy, which was itself a complete handout from the oligarchs of Ukraine to the Biden family.
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We later found out about the 10% for the big guy. This, keep in mind, was a full year before we
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leaked the Biden laptop to the U.S. public. The rest, of course, is history. But what do we have?
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So for this individual, Alexander Vindman, who played a massive, dare I say, outsized role in the
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fomentation of this war, he helped start the Ukraine war. And now he's trying to profit from
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it. Documents recently obtained by Human Events exclusively show that Alexander Vindman has been
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pitching the government of Ukraine to obtain lucrative defense contracts. In August of 2022,
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just a few months into the war, Vindman himself operating as CEO of Trident Support, pitched a deck
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on a Ukraine weapons system sustainment center to address problems with Ukraine's weapons management,
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namely readiness, repair and maintenance. Vindman's initial proposal was for $12 million,
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according to these documents, in initial funding for his company. This is war profiteering.
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The idea behind the proposal is that Trident Support would be a middleman between NATO weapons
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and Ukrainian forces, teaching the latter how to operate and repair the equipment while taking an
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exorbitant fee from Ukraine to do so. When you're talking about the tanks, when you're talking about
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the vehicles, when you're talking about the weapons, the systems, the night vision, everything,
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all the technology that's being sent over to Ukraine. Of course, Alexander Vindman is thinking,
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how can I get a slice of that pie? Here in DC, we call that being a beltway bandit. But what he's
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doing is even further than that. Because keep in mind, it's the same Alexander Vindman who was once
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offered the role of defense minister for all of Ukraine, ahead of the entire Ukrainian military.
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And what do we see here? He started the war. And now he is trying to profit from the very war itself.
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And keep in mind that with the billions of dollars that the United States is sending over,
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the US taxpayer would be the one ultimately footing the bill for all of this. There are the ones that
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are actually trying to be paid or funding this payment for Zelensky. He's the one, Vindman,
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he's the one who's trying to profit. You see, this is exactly what happens in every war, folks.
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You get people in the middle who say, how can I get a slice? How can I get a piece of it?
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War is a racket. And President Eisenhower warned us as a country in his final address that these types
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of people, these types of forces, the financial pressures of the military industrial complex
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would rise again and again, as we go abroad seeking monsters, finding them, and then deciding
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to go and fight them. We just did this entire special last Sunday, Ukrainistan. And you look at
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some of this, you look at these documents, what he's talking about is bringing American defense
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contractors and veterans into Ukraine to set up sustainment centers and logistics centers.
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Well, if you're the Russian military and you find out that all of these tanks and all of these
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vehicles can only be sustained at a few places, where do you think you're going to send your cruise
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missiles next? And then what happens if it's American citizens that are killed in the strikes?
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This is textbook mission creep. This is exactly what we warned would happen. This is exactly why I made
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that video. And by the way, for the record, I am proud of making our predictive pre-creation,
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the AI video of President Biden calling for a draft, because that is where all of this is headed.
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People like Vindman, people at our State Department, people that are even currently in the United States
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military, they are pushing further and further and further. And I guarantee you, whether it's Vindman or
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not, these types of contracts are going to be signed and American citizens are going to be sent over
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veterans with actual military experience and actual military connections on the ground when they start
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being killed, because it will happen. It's war, folks. Guess what? That's what happens there.
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This isn't a picnic. They're going to come in and then suddenly, suddenly the headlines back home
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will be that Putin has killed Americans. And the question is, will that ever be a Vindman? No,
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of course not, because they're the ones back home making money off of it.
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I asked you also back then about the investigation to COVID origins. Is the FBI in charge of the
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investigation of the origins of the coronavirus? We certainly have a role in looking into the
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origins of the coronavirus. Now there's this Department of Energy study that says it's likely
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to have come from a lab leak, although the confidence is low. It cites the FBI. What is the
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determination by the FBI? So as you note, Brett, the FBI has for quite some time now assessed
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that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan. Let me step back
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for a second. You know, the FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists,
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et cetera, who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like
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novel viruses like COVID and the concerns that in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile nation
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state, a terrorist, a criminal, the threats that those could pose. So here you're talking about a
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potential leak from a Chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of Americans.
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So FBI director, Chris Ray is suddenly out there telling all of us that he's got some breaking
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news for all of us to learn from the annals of the FBI, the FBI, you know, the FBI, they're the
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ones you watch on Netflix every day. They're the stars of all your favorite TV shows going back to
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the X-Files. They're the ones who are there to make you safe. Don't ask questions about Waco.
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Don't ask questions about Ruby Ridge. No, no, no, no, no. The FBI are the ones there to protect you and
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your families. They're the rough men standing ready in the night prepared to do violence on those who
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would see you harmed. He's telling us that after three years of investigation, the FBI has decided
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to assess with moderate confidence. The COVID-19, in fact, came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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It leaked out of that lab and that it was not, in fact, some, uh, bat soup gone bad. It was not some
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pass through of, of a, you know, domesticated animal. No, no. Or a wild animal to some population.
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No. In fact, it was a gain of function experiment conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology
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under the aegis of Shi Zhengli, the bat lady who decided on her own, completely on her own,
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by the way, to set all of this up. Let me tell you something, folks. I don't buy it.
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I don't buy this for a second. Do you honestly expect us to believe Chris Ray after all the lies
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that he's told about January 6th, about all the lies that he's told about the traditional Catholic
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movement, putting Latin mass holding churches on a list, going after conservatives, going after pro
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life leaders and sending in FBI SWAT teams and pre-dawn raids. Now, suddenly you're some hero. No,
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we understand what's going on here. There's two things. Let me explain. Number one, the FBI knows
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that the majority in the house has now switched over. Now the Republicans are in the majority.
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What does that mean? That means the FBI is looking at that committee on weaponization
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of the federal government against conservatives and saying, all right, we've got to go
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build some relationships. We've got to go build some bridges. And by the way, I've had the meetings.
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I've had the phone calls. I've had liaisons from the FBI. Hey, come and have dinner,
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have a cup of coffee with me. So let's, let's let bygones be bygones with that whole Russia stuff.
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We certainly agree on so much more. Couldn't we just, couldn't we just sit back and say,
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you know what? That was a silly thing that happened, but let's be friends. How about no?
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How about we, we do a little thing around here called accountability. And so they're trying to
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build relationships with the right because they understand which side is getting power in
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Washington. It's the same game that J Edgar Hoover used to play, by the way. And number two,
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this perhaps is even more sinister. What you're looking at, ladies and gentlemen, is a limited
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hangout. What is a limited hangout? A limited hangout is when your cover is blown or when a clandestine
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or covert operation is blown and someone starts getting, getting questions, getting that funny
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feeling to say, what's going on? What's actually happening here? What's happening on the back end?
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And you realize, Oh, wait, okay, fine. I did lie about that, but everything else is true.
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That was definitely China. That was definitely the Wuhan Institute. Don't ask any questions about Dr.
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Fauci. Don't ask questions about the gain of function research. Don't ask questions about the
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National Institute of Health. And you better not be asking questions about Peter Daszak and EcoHealth
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Alliance, which was the cutout for fact. Look, folks, we've had these receipts for years at this
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point, absolute years, but they're going to sit there and play these games like, Hey, we're on your
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friends called pacing and leading, pacing and leading. The pacing section comes in when they say,
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you know what? I agree with you. I come to you and I match your pace. I walk your walk. I match your
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gate. I speak your language. I use the same phrases you use. I say all the things that you
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want to hear. And then subtly, subtly, subtly start moving in a different direction. You see Hollywood
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doing this right now, by the way, because they've realized for Hollywood, by the way, and we've,
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we talked about this recently, that get woke, go broke is real. So what are they doing with
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wokeness in Hollywood? Are they just moving away from it? No, no. They're slipping it in the back door
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because they've come up with a new policy, a new strategy called yellow stoning. What is
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yellow stoning? They take an actor like Kevin Costner, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, someone
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that you've known for years, someone that you trust, someone that middle America says, yeah,
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I'm going to go see one of their movies. I'm going to go watch one of their shows. And then what do
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they do? They put them up and put a cowboy hat on them, put a toothpick in their mouth. And then they
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start introducing other characters around them, woke characters, spouting woke nonsense,
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woke narratives. They start going around. They did this with Star Wars. They did this with Marvel.
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Of course, they've been doing this with the FBI. Do you understand you are being sold a bill of goods?
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Do not trust these people because we understand who Chris Ray is. We understand what the FBI has been
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doing to this movement. Go back to the text messages of Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
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These people smell like Walmart. Folks, I was in the Intel community. I've been very open about that.
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I get called a fed every day. What if I am? Right.
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You do not understand. Nothing that I've ever said or Sean Hannity or Dan Bongino, Sarah Carter,
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nothing that we've said or reported could ever possibly get you to actually understand how much
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condescension these people have for you, for your families, for your values, and for our way of life.
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They actually consider themselves better than you. They consider themselves more well-informed.
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And they consider you to be nothing. And that is why when the federal government crashes a train
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or allows a train to be crashed with hazardous materials in the middle of America, they don't care.
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There's no concerts. There's no fundraisers. There's no big celebrity telethons.
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Paul McCartney is not running around playing songs for East Palestine.
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They don't care about you. They want you to know your role and shut your mouth.
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Let's talk about the horrendous terrorist attack that happened just hours ago when a group of
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saboteurs infiltrated Russian territory and attacked civilians. They saw that this was a civilian car
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with a civilian family, with a child, but they still opened fire.
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All right. So we're seeing news now of a terrorist attack, which took place just across the border
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between Ukraine and Russia. Inside Russia, the town is called Bryansk. It's a small town,
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economically depressed town right there on the border. What you heard was Vladimir Putin saying
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that in this case, and by the way, there have been several Ukrainian units over the course of this war
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that have crossed into Russian territory. What they do is they'll take advantage of the fact that
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Russia, of course, has a massive border, over a thousand kilometer border with or with Ukraine.
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A lot of it is forested. It's very easy to take advantage of this porous border. They don't have a
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border wall, as a matter of fact. And so they're able to get over. Typically, what these units will do is
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they'll go over, fly the flag, take some pictures and then head back. But in this case, it seems to
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have been and the reports are quite, quite vague at this point. They're all over the place. But we
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are told and Putin is out there saying that civilians were killed, potentially even children were shot
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and killed. Now, on one angle, I would say that this is what you would expect, certainly what you would
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expect from two countries that are neighboring each other, that have connections to both sides, that
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have family on both sides. Obviously, there are people within Russia that don't support Putin. There
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are people within Ukraine that don't support Zelensky. So it wouldn't be surprising to any of us that this
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type of terrorist activity, this type of insurgent activity would be going on. The United States, of course,
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saw this as well from at a high level in Iraq and Afghanistan. The issue here for us to look at,
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and the issue for us to understand is that regardless of the unit that took that, that
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conducted this, and so people are arguing now, okay, they're saying, well, this was a volunteer
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unit. It was Russians that had joined the Ukraine and that they're not directed by the Ukrainian
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military. It wasn't officially sanctioned. They did this on their own, et cetera, et cetera. Look,
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okay, maybe, maybe. But the issue is, and the salient point is how does Russia respond to this?
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Are they going to respond by looking at it as a one-off flashpoint? Or are they going to blame
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the Zelensky regime, the Kiev regime, for conducting this attack? Are they going to say
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that it was conducted on their behalf? Of course, you saw this in 9-11 here in the United States,
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when, what was it, 19 or 18 of the 19 were Saudi Arabian. And so for the question very early on
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was, would the United States blame the government of Saudi Arabia? And of course, we later found out
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that the government of Saudi Arabia certainly was involved. Elements of the government of Saudi
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Arabia were involved in the 9-11 attack, certainly in planning and facilitating some of these moves.
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Now, was it directed from the crown? That's never been consistently proven. But what we have seen
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is that in those 28 pages that were redacted from the original 9-11 commission report,
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they knew, the Bush administration knew, the government knew that Saudi Arabia was involved.
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Yet they didn't ever attack Saudi Arabia. They didn't have any response whatsoever.
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What was the response? Go after Afghanistan, then try to nation build there, go after Iraq and try to
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nation build there. But after that falsely trying to tie Iraq to the attack, but it had nothing to
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do. It's obviously had nothing to do with 9-11, never did. So here's the bigger issue for us.
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Is this attack something that Putin is going to be able to use in his favor to be able to go back
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to Russia? Keep in mind that everyone has been predicting a massive winter offensive. That
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massive winter offensive hasn't seemed to happen, but the mobilization is there.
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The fighting around Bakhmut that's been going on over the past several months
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has constituted the fact that we might be seeing in Bakhmut and these images that if you've got to
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go on Telegram. By the way, I see a lot of people on Twitter will say, I haven't seen footage of the
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war. Where's the footage of the war? And that's true. It's not nightly war footage anymore. You don't
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have the embedded reporters the way you did in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc. You do have the
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mission creep. But instead, you've got to go and seek it out. You've got to go to places like
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Telegram. And that's where I go every single day. I do it once in the morning, once in the evening.
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And I scroll through several channels, Ukrainian side, Russian side, independent. And I look around
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to see who is involved. While I do that, you can see footage from all over. And Bakhmut has been
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a turkey shoot, an absolute turkey shoot. Russians have poured into there. This private group,
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Wagner group has gone in, Wagner group. And then Ukraine has poured reserve after reserve after
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reserve. The entire city is a shell of its former self. If any civilians are still there, they're
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obviously in harm's way. The fighting has been extremely intense. And this very well may be,
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analysts are now looking at this saying that it may be the largest battle of the 21st century,
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even dwarfing anything that was seen recently in Syria. And so the question for all of us is,
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if that's what's going on in Bakhmut. And Zero Hedge had the article today that Zelensky,
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even after saying that he would not pull out, that he would not quit that city,
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that he has floated the possibility of a tactical withdrawal from Bakhmut at this point. And again,
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if you look at the images, it's 10 times worse than anything that we saw in Mariupol during that,
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during that fighting. We have to ask ourselves, what is the goal for the United States? What is the
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goal for ourselves? What is the goal for our sons and daughters? Yesterday, we had the clip from
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Zelensky. He said, if Russia is not defeated, then American sons and daughters will have to fight them.
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That's what he said, because he said Russia will continue on into Poland and the Baltic states.
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I haven't seen evidence of that. But he's saying if Russia is not defeated now,
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that World War Three will kick off. But there is another path forward. There's a path forward
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called diplomacy. And something that I would add that Vladimir Zelensky himself ran on when he first
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ran for president 2019. He ran as a candidate of peace. He ran on stabilizing relations with the
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Russian state. He ran on stabilizing the economy. This was exactly what he wanted.
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Somewhere along the line, that got changed. Mr. Zelensky, I would say this to you. Go back and
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listen to those speeches and see if you can find the way forward so that more sons and daughters of
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Ukraine are not killed in this, that this needless fighting will not continue. There is a path forward
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to peace. There is a path forward to economic prosperity for you, for your nation and for
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Americans, by the way. And I would say that to Putin as well and the entire Kremlin. But for Americans,
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we have to ask ourselves, are we willing to embark on something like this?
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A hot proxy war in a country with nuclear weapons, one that we are directly funding,
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not covert like Afghanistan, directly funding. And what does that mean if Russia starts to look
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at us as an adversary? Ladies and gentlemen, you have my permission to lay a short.