The war in Ukraine enters Day 21, we'll give you a full ground update, an incredible piece by Pedro Gonzalez on The Fog of Information War in Ukraine, we're going to break down his incredible reporting, Saudi Arabia considers accepting yuan for Chinese oil sales, and finally, the U.S. consulate in Mexico reportedly sustained gunfire amid explosions after an arrest of a cartel leader. All that and more on today's Human Events Daily.
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00:08:33.160Because the goal is not to completely subjugate Afghanistan.
00:08:38.920The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the United States, out of the tax bases of European countries, through Afghanistan, and back into the hands of a transnational security alliance.
00:09:17.660Now, they're trying to move everything to Ukraine.
00:09:21.340They want to turn Ukraine into their new money-washing operation.
00:09:26.660Who do you think gets paid every time a shipment of arms goes over to Ukraine?
00:09:31.960Who do you think gets paid when there's ammo, when there's weapons, these javelin systems that we're hearing about, anti-air systems, right?
00:09:41.360If you thought big pharma was powerful, wait till you meet the military-industrial complex.
00:10:56.680The Western intelligence apparatus has been busy in Ukraine, with financing and collaboration through various non-governmental organizations.
00:11:04.760It won the information war with the help of Ukrainian media before Russia ever fired a shot in February.
00:11:10.500Even the country's newest publications, like the Kiev Independent, have received support and funding from institutions associated with the Central Intelligence Agency.
00:11:18.080In most cases, these outlets seem to have propagandized to the beat of the West's war drums rather than inform the public.
00:11:25.340Since the Independent launched last November, it has amassed nearly 2 million followers on Twitter and became a main artery of information in the war.
00:11:34.060Far from being objective, its writers tend to snap at those who contradict their narratives.
00:11:40.420One of their writers, their defense reporter, even declared himself a brother-in-arms with the Azov Battalion, a unit that has been accused of committing war crimes against civilians in eastern Ukraine.
00:11:51.040According to journalist Michael Tracy, this same defense reporter amassed almost a million followers in just the last two weeks.
00:11:59.700That kind of growth is hard and impressive.
00:12:01.960But the Independent has some special connections.
00:12:04.240They're connected to organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy.
00:12:08.500Well, what did the National Endowment for Democracy say?
00:12:11.160He said, basically, we do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly.
00:12:16.360That's one of the statements they made.
00:12:19.580And what else has been going on over there?
00:12:22.380Well, there are also reports that came out not too long ago that the United States intelligence agencies, the CIA, and this is out of Yahoo News, right?
00:12:33.680CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades.
00:12:38.680The CIA is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel.
00:12:46.980The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the southern U.S., according to some of these officials.
00:12:55.000The CIA-trained forces could play a critical role on Ukraine's eastern border where Russian troops have masked.
00:13:00.820Now, keep in mind, this is written before the invasion.
00:13:03.260And the U.S. and Russia started security talks.
00:14:34.000Well, folks, if you like this show, if you want to continue watching us, help enable us to continue to produce this information for you, to synthesize everything that's going on out there, to chunk it down and analyze it, and then produce this show, this program.
00:15:18.180So look, for me, it's not just the fact that the pillows are amazing when you dial that firmness right in, right?
00:15:24.820And it's not just the fact that we do have the mattress topper, Tanya and I, every night we're on the mattress topper, we're on the sheets, but we got the towel set this Christmas.
00:16:12.900This is the kind of stuff that you talk about when we're getting into the territory where the world reserve currency is going to be in a period of transition.
00:17:38.160All foreign oil sales are conducted in a U.S. dollar basis.
00:17:42.840That means when Saudi Arabia goes to sell oil to China prior to this, they first convert their money, the Riyadh, into the Riyadh, into U.S. dollars.
00:17:55.760Then they do the sale, and then they make their oil shipment to China.
00:18:01.960So that means there's always a foreign inflated demand for U.S. dollars.
00:18:07.720There has been for 40, 50 years at this point.
00:18:11.320And so with bringing Venezuela online, with bringing Iran online, I guarantee you one of the things that the Biden administration is pushing them for right now is to say, continue to make these transactions in the U.S. dollar, even if you're not selling oil to us.
00:18:28.660Because we're probably not going to buy oil directly from Venezuela or buy oil directly from Iran, because that's just politically untenable for the Biden administration, even for the neurotic millennials and West Wing LARPers that populate this White House.
00:18:41.640But understand, that's only predicated on U.S. influence in the world.
00:18:45.400We lose that, all of a sudden, the value of the money in your bank account goes up and up.
00:18:52.100Or excuse me, the inflation goes up and up and up.
00:18:53.840The value goes down, down, down, down, down.
00:19:11.740And like it or not, that is the future, the financial future of this country that you're hurtling towards, your children are hurtling towards, and your children's children are hurtling towards.
00:19:23.180So all of the debt that we take on is going to be incurred by them.
00:20:05.040So there might be fights over a plaza because of what happened, capturing that high-ranking individual.
00:20:10.720The videos that you just saw, that wasn't Ukraine, that wasn't Russia, wasn't Yemen or Syria.
00:20:18.100That was Nuevo Laredo, just across the U.S. border with Mexico.
00:20:25.180Because here's something that you don't hear about because our media doesn't talk about it.
00:20:29.720Northern Mexico and many of the provinces there are engaged in an all-out war with the drug cartels.
00:20:37.600It's the Mexican government, the federales, versus the drug cartels, and they've been engaged in this war for almost 15 years at this point.
00:20:58.560Well, because this leader of the Cartel del Norte named El Juevo has been captured by Mexican officials.
00:21:07.920And it may have been, the details on this are still kind of murky, but it may have been a joint U.S. and Mexican government raid that took him down directly.
00:21:16.660But because his cartel forces are out there, they are responding.
00:21:20.380You might remember that way down in southern Mexico, I think it was about a year ago, something like this happened, and it was the son of a cartel leader, I believe.
00:21:28.520His forces came back, almost laid waste to the town, and then actually got the cartel leader freed from custody.
00:21:36.340All of this is happening just south of the United States.
00:21:42.580This isn't thousands and thousands of miles away.
00:21:49.460So while we're having these conversations about spheres of influence and territorial integrity and sovereignty and all of these questions, you've got to remember, you are being led down a primrose path by the mainstream media.
00:22:02.820They're telling you to care so much about something that happens thousands of miles away.
00:22:08.140And I do care about it, and you should care about it.
00:22:10.640But understand that there is a system of priorities, and there is a hierarchy to this stuff.
00:22:48.720Yet, for some reason, the U.S. government and the media don't want to talk about it, don't want to do anything about it, don't want to get involved.
00:22:58.340You don't hear these stories playing out every single night.
00:23:02.900You know, which provinces are under control of which cartels, which leaders are taking over, which members of the families are working together.
00:23:12.380Why is it that they want you so invested in something that has nothing to do with actual U.S. safety and security, but could have everything to do with their own elite interests?
00:23:26.280All right, that is all the time we have here today, Human Events Daily.