Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Russia Has Begun To Reshape The Battlefield In Ukraine Amid 'Lava Advance'

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00:02:26.940 Folks, Russia is changing the game in Ukraine.

00:02:32.160 They're reshaping their offensive in the eastern provinces in what we and others have called a lava advance.

00:02:41.420 This is a slow but destructive advance, turning this conflict into a war of attrition.

00:02:48.820 And certainly it's already been a war of air attrition, one that's now led the government of Ukraine, President Zelensky,

00:02:56.480 to come to the U.S. saying that we need more air defense missiles, these Patriot missile batteries,

00:03:01.740 which, of course, have become a huge flashpoint in American politics this week.

00:03:07.000 But all of it comes beneath the shadow of this destructive Russian advance on the eastern corridor. 0.82

00:03:14.900 We're talking about Kharkov.

00:03:16.240 We're talking about the Donetsk region.

00:03:18.660 Of course, in the Kharkov region, massive, third largest city in Ukraine after Kiev and Odessa.

00:03:25.420 And right there on the border with Russia, this industrial powerhouse, almost the Detroit, if you will, of Ukraine,

00:03:32.460 where the Russian army is now pounding along that oblast down towards, of course, their target, the Dnepr River.

00:03:41.160 And then this also happening while the op tempo is starting to increase.

00:03:47.280 Russia, they're operating with more confidence now.

00:03:49.260 Now, this could be in part due to the lack of weapons that some are saying for Ukraine,

00:03:55.620 but also it's due to the lack of manpower because simply Ukraine doesn't have the ability to conscript and draft more men of fighting age than Russia does.

00:04:05.520 And, of course, that's why they're trying to reach out to the Europeans as well.

00:04:08.920 So even if the U.S. or European allies were to send more firepower their way, they still just don't have the bodies to backfill this.

00:04:17.420 This has been a perennial issue for Ukraine.

00:04:19.680 And speaking of bodies, by the way, we have to zoom all the way back to Kiev where an extremely high-profile assassination took place.

00:04:28.080 A colonel in the Ukrainian SBU, one of the heads of their intelligence services, was shot dead in the street in Kiev,

00:04:39.100 currently wanted this assassin, walked up to him in a parking lot, basically,

00:04:44.620 and shot him five times in the chest, his body lying there on the street, the assassin running away.

00:04:53.620 His name, Colonel Ivan Voronich, a senior operative in Ukraine's SBU, their intelligence services.

00:05:02.780 Russian sources claiming that he was responsible for attacks in the backfield of Russia during this conflict.

00:05:10.060 So certainly the Russians moving to increase their op-tempo and reshaping the battlefield, hitting Ukraine wherever it counts. 0.90

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00:05:21.100 Senator Rand Paul joins us next.

00:05:26.620 Understand what America first truly means.

00:05:29.660 Welcome to the second American revolution.

00:05:34.060 All right, Jack Wasobac, here we are.

00:05:38.460 Back live at Human Events Day.

00:05:40.620 A little bit rainy here in Washington, D.C.

00:05:43.400 Today, you're seeing that on our live cam of Capitol Hill.

00:05:48.420 But, of course, we need to go inside to find out what's really going on.

00:05:52.700 And, of course, when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to all of that,

00:05:56.760 we've got to go straight to the source, and that's why we're excited to have on Senator Rand Paul.

00:06:01.720 Once again, pardon me, Senator, of course, just talking about your father with a friend of mine just a few minutes ago.

00:06:08.360 And I certainly hope he's doing well, and I hope that you had a great Fourth of July as well.

00:06:13.020 We did.

00:06:13.700 We're very excited.

00:06:14.580 My dad will be celebrating his 90th birthday this August.

00:06:18.980 Oh, my goodness.

00:06:19.820 Well, congratulations to him.

00:06:21.380 And I certainly hope he and you and the family and everyone are doing well.

00:06:25.540 But, you know, Senator, we had to have you on.

00:06:28.040 I understand your time is limited.

00:06:29.640 We've been talking all this week regarding this new package of aid, military aid to Ukraine.

00:06:37.160 This has been the biggest hot-button issue.

00:06:38.760 The Pentagon, are they sending these air interceptors?

00:06:41.460 Are they not?

00:06:42.060 Are they going to send them?

00:06:43.200 Are they not sending them?

00:06:43.860 Are they frozen?

00:06:44.400 Are they unfrozen?

00:06:45.320 Meanwhile, of course, we've also talked about the fact that the U.S.

00:06:48.660 has been expending these very same type of precious missiles in the Middle East,

00:06:53.880 in the Red Sea, in other places.

00:06:56.580 So when it comes down to the U.S. from a foreign policy perspective, how should we be looking at this?

00:07:03.500 I guess the first question I would ask is, who's going to pay for them?

00:07:07.160 So if we're going to send more missiles to Ukraine, who's going to pay for them?

00:07:10.240 Is Ukraine going to pay us?

00:07:11.560 Of course not.

00:07:12.440 This is a free, it's a gift.

00:07:14.740 But, you know, nothing in life is really free.

00:07:17.040 We're $2 trillion in the hole.

00:07:18.720 So we're going to have to borrow money from China to buy weapons to send them to Ukraine.

00:07:23.520 That doesn't sound like America first, and it doesn't sound like it makes America stronger.

00:07:28.180 There have been many people who have pointed out that our debt actually is the greatest threat to our national security.

00:07:33.900 So going further in debt to give weapons to Ukraine, I don't think is good for our national security.

00:07:39.080 It actually makes us less safe.

00:07:41.700 Well, when we look at the safety and security of the United States, this is something that we've heard from members of the defense establishment, just analysts.

00:07:53.980 I'm, you know, as a prior intelligence analyst myself, that when you look at the stockpiles of some of these air interceptors that we're sending to places like Israel,

00:08:01.860 to places like our bases in the Middle East that we've had to defend because of Iranian counterstrikes,

00:08:06.960 to places like the Red Sea with these also other types of air interceptor missiles, that our stockpiles are low.

00:08:14.720 And, of course, this is going to come at a cost to not only the American taxpayer, but, of course, to our commitments around the world

00:08:20.920 because of just how extended the U.S. military is in terms of war, but also our protection, our U.S. Navy coverage in the Pacific.

00:08:29.440 You know, one of the intriguing things is years ago, my father began saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world.

00:08:37.780 And now you'll hear people actually repeat that, and they'll begin, we shouldn't be a policeman of the world

00:08:42.220 except for the fact that we have to send these weapons to Ukraine, except for the fact that we have to send free weapons to Israel

00:08:48.000 and that they don't have to pay either for any of the weapons.

00:08:50.440 So essentially, we're the sugar daddy of the world.

00:08:53.420 Donald Trump got this.

00:08:54.620 He got this with the people freeloading in NATO and insisted that people pay more.

00:08:59.860 But the bottom line is people are still taking advantage of us, and we're going further and further into debt.

00:09:05.880 Our economy is further and further threatened by this, and it's a mistake.

00:09:10.020 I fear the consequences of running a $2 trillion deficit each year.

00:09:15.320 Our interest payment's over a trillion, and there are consequences.

00:09:19.460 One of the consequences is, you know, the inflation, the prices rising in the grocery store.

00:09:24.700 As the Fed buys our debt, you know, the value of our currency diminishes over time.

00:09:32.660 And that's certainly a huge issue for a lot of people and a very serious issue.

00:09:37.380 It's one that we've heard from the Secretary of Treasury and others.

00:09:40.780 But it really does seem that even when it came to Doge, you know, Doge really didn't take a huge look at the Department of Defense or military spending, did they?

00:09:50.440 No, and I think they're still looking, and I think there are savings to be found there.

00:09:55.420 But there are people, once it's found, don't want it to be found and don't want to do anything with it.

00:10:00.140 Not from Doge, but from the more traditional aspects of the neocon or the war hawk wing of the party.

00:10:08.020 And so it is a problem.

00:10:10.600 I mean, we saw this with the construction of the big, beautiful bill, was that there was $500 billion in new spending in it.

00:10:17.680 It made it very hard to be deficit neutral, and that's why it gains debt, actually, is because there was so much new spending in it.

00:10:25.400 But a lot of the new spending was basically military spending.

00:10:29.460 Military already goes up every year on a normal curve.

00:10:32.400 And then they were adding in the big, beautiful bill about $150 billion in new military spending.

00:10:39.220 And some of us think this was actually sort of the secret purpose of the bill, was to use this as a way to get more military spending.

00:10:46.080 Much of that goes to foreign countries.

00:10:47.900 And now, Senator, so break that down for us.

00:10:52.080 So the big, beautiful bill, that went out.

00:10:54.640 Obviously, there's a lot of attention on growth, on deportations.

00:10:57.660 There's military spending there.

00:10:58.860 But that's separate from the NDAA that's coming up now.

00:11:01.900 Is that correct?

00:11:03.520 Yeah, there's a defense authorization bill that comes forward each year.

00:11:06.980 They're working on that at the committee level and that it'll eventually come to the floor.

00:11:11.080 And while we don't do a very good job at voting at individual appropriation bills, the one that we usually do is the defense authorization and the defense appropriation.

00:11:20.900 There's about 12 other bills that we should do if we were doing our job.

00:11:24.860 But the powers that be never bring forward the other individual bills.

00:11:28.440 Ideally, we'd look at each individual bill and look at the spending on it.

00:11:32.260 And we also would never shut down government then.

00:11:34.940 You'd only be shutting down one department of government if you had a dispute with the Democrats.

00:11:39.580 And this is what I've argued for years.

00:11:42.100 Past 11 of the 12, and let's say one of the bills has 80,000 new IRS agents.

00:11:47.940 People say we can't get 60 votes.

00:11:50.300 Shut it down.

00:11:51.900 But you're not shutting the entire government down.

00:11:53.600 You're shutting one-twelfth of the government down that includes the IRS.

00:11:57.440 There are ways in which we could push when we have a small minority but don't actually have a supermajority in order to overcome the filibuster.

00:12:05.380 But we've never done it because usually we put all of the stuff together.

00:12:08.360 And this is what I predict will happen in September.

00:12:11.580 This isn't the last of big, beautiful bills.

00:12:14.200 There's going to be a big, beautiful omnibus come the end of September, and they'll be asking us to take it or leave it.

00:12:20.000 And at that point in time, there still are these questions.

00:12:22.880 Are there enough conservatives remaining to try to make it a conservative spending bill instead of something that just cleans house and adds to the debt?

00:12:33.340 Well, Senator, for folks out there who were – and by the way, you know, I do think that there were people in good faith who have questions about the spending and have serious concerns about the spending because the debt-to-GDP ratio is a serious problem.

00:12:46.760 It sent Japan into a spiral for over a decade, and they're just now starting to climb out of it. 0.79

00:12:52.540 They're still at something like 250 percent debt-to-GDP ratio, which is double what we are.

00:12:57.860 But that's even, what, 15 years since their last decade was ended.

00:13:02.100 So for folks out there who are serious about this, that do want to get cuts going, what should they do?

00:13:08.200 How should they be talking to, and where should they be putting pressure?

00:13:12.080 I think the best way to cut spending is through something like the penny plan.

00:13:15.900 I've been promoting this for years.

00:13:17.760 What it does is it takes a small percentage across the board of everything.

00:13:21.420 So instead of goring the left's ox on one thing or the right on another thing, you just take a little bit all the way across.

00:13:28.280 And I've tried to discuss this with constituents to see how they would take it.

00:13:33.400 So one of the emotional constituencies are people who want Alzheimer's research.

00:13:37.720 They wear purple lapel pins.

00:13:39.560 They come up to Washington every year.

00:13:41.800 And they usually have a family member with Alzheimer's.

00:13:44.020 I've got family members with Alzheimer's.

00:13:45.940 A lot of people do.

00:13:47.360 And they say, we want research money.

00:13:48.900 It's very emotional.

00:13:49.720 And I look at them and I say, well, you got $100 million last year, but, you know, we're short of money.

00:13:55.460 What if we gave you $94 million this year instead of $100 million, a 6% cut?

00:14:01.560 And they go, well, okay.

00:14:03.440 Most people realize that if you're short of money, you have to spend less money, even when it's for something they want.

00:14:09.140 And so I really think that you could approach everything in government, every program, every program, whether it's an entitlement or not, cut 6%.

00:14:17.820 And then what you would find is there's ways to do it by holding the least among us harmless.

00:14:24.100 You know, if you don't want the poor to be hurt by Medicare cuts in the expense, means test it.

00:14:30.940 So the poor will get the same Medicare.

00:14:33.600 The wealthy will pay more for their Medicare.

00:14:35.520 You know, if you make $500,000 a year in retirement, you still pay only about half of the cost of your Medicare.

00:14:44.160 The government still subsidizes half of your Medicare if you make a half a million dollars.

00:14:48.960 Senator, we just had...

00:14:50.080 What we have is ridiculously inadequate.

00:14:54.140 We're just out of time.

00:14:55.500 We had actually just had Congressman Donalds on the other day.

00:14:57.680 We had talked about the same exact statement as you.

00:15:00.960 Senator, thank you so much for joining us.

00:15:02.340 Everyone go follow Senator Rand Paul.

00:15:05.240 See everything that he's putting out.

00:15:06.760 If you agree, disagree, hey, he's always willing to come here and be open about where he stands.

00:15:13.480 And that's what it's all about.

00:15:15.240 Be right back in Events Daily.

00:15:23.020 Today, you know, they talk about influencers.

00:15:25.700 These are influencers.

00:15:27.620 And they're friends of mine.

00:15:29.960 Jack, there's something.

00:15:31.460 Where's Jack?

00:15:32.340 Jack, he's got a great guy.

00:15:35.240 All right, Jack.

00:15:39.180 So, here we are back.

00:15:40.300 Live Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.

00:15:44.560 They said our Rand Paul was just on.

00:15:46.180 And, you know, he really brings up a point that I think a lot of us,

00:15:49.760 especially when it comes to talking about war, war and peace, and all the rest of it,

00:15:54.860 they don't really get into.

00:15:55.720 They don't get into very much.

00:15:56.760 And that's cost.

00:15:57.380 That's cost, development, manufacturing, all the rest of it.

00:16:01.820 And so, I want to throw this out as our question of the day, and I mentioned this on Next the other day,

00:16:06.960 but I didn't mention it on the show, so I'm going to do it here and now,

00:16:09.620 is 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com.

00:16:15.440 Where do you stand on the Ukraine war?

00:16:18.120 Should the United States continue providing arms to Ukraine?

00:16:21.860 Now, the arms that these air interceptor missiles that are being sent over now,

00:16:27.240 this is part of the package and part of the military equipment and hardware that Biden,

00:16:32.960 so the Biden administration, had allocated for Ukraine.

00:16:36.280 So, these are all Biden allocations that were done under the previous Congress and the previous presidency.

00:16:40.700 However, now, of course, we know they're really done by an auto pen,

00:16:43.280 but anything beyond that, and there's going to come a point very soon where that allocation runs out.

00:16:50.600 And when that runs out, whether it's a couple of weeks, a couple of months,

00:16:54.620 there's going to be this question that comes down, and there's going to be tremendous pressure,

00:16:59.380 tremendous pressure on the White House to fund more arms for Ukraine.

00:17:05.600 And when that comes down, I want to hear from all of you, and I want the president to hear from all of you,

00:17:09.900 1776 at humanevents.com, and if you're in the chat right now, just throw it up,

00:17:14.640 and I'll, you know, everybody, you know, sometimes I'm in the chat too, sometimes I'm not.

00:17:18.180 I want to hear where you stand on this, because this is a serious issue,

00:17:21.280 and Senator Rand Paul was here, and he was gracious to be with us.

00:17:23.840 You know, I don't necessarily agree with him on all of his takes on the big, beautiful bill.

00:17:30.180 He's not wrong about the spending.

00:17:31.480 But the question that I have is, when it comes to the spending,

00:17:35.040 is will we survive as a country if we don't have the mass deportations?

00:17:41.420 I don't think so.

00:17:42.040 But when it comes to military spending, when it comes to overseas, all of this financial aid,

00:17:46.020 or the foreign aid that we give, USAID, these types of things, 100% agree.

00:17:49.980 Cut it all.

00:17:50.740 Just cut it all.

00:17:51.640 What do you need it for?

00:17:52.440 It doesn't help the people in the United States.

00:17:54.160 It doesn't help the people in Western Pennsylvania.

00:17:56.160 It doesn't help the people in Macomb County.

00:17:58.200 That doesn't help in Michigan.

00:17:59.660 It doesn't help the people down in the Rio Grande Valley.

00:18:04.040 It certainly doesn't help the people in Kerrville, Texas.

00:18:06.300 No, it doesn't help any of them, right?

00:18:08.600 And where's the celebrities for Kerrville Tech?

00:18:10.360 We just had the update right there.

00:18:12.100 Where are the celebrities coming in with the big concerts and all the rest of it?

00:18:15.600 You don't hear it.

00:18:16.560 No, you don't hear it all.

00:18:17.540 The huge benefits, you don't hear a peep.

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00:18:27.300 Unfortunately, it's just like the floods last year, that if it wasn't for media,

00:18:32.220 that was alternate media, independent media, like Real America's Voice,

00:18:36.380 coming out there and actually telling you the truth about what was happening in those areas

00:18:40.280 and we brought you to those areas and we brought people on from those areas who were involved

00:18:44.560 in those efforts and we supported those efforts the same way that we certainly support the efforts

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00:18:49.920 But we're also going to hold people accountable and ask questions about what was and wasn't done.

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00:21:30.140 Hey, Jack, where is Jack?

00:21:33.080 Where is Jack?

00:21:35.400 Where is he?

00:21:36.600 Jack, I want to see you.

00:21:40.280 Great job, Jack.

00:21:41.720 Thank you.

00:21:42.500 What a job you do.

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00:21:52.860 All right, Jack Pesoba.

00:21:53.960 Here we are back.

00:21:54.860 Live human events daily, Washington, D.C.

00:21:58.800 Now, we're talking about how Russia has begun reshaping the battlefield on the war,

00:22:04.420 in the war in Ukraine on the ground.

00:22:06.600 They're on those eastern Russian-speaking provinces.

00:22:09.340 But at the same time, we also have to look at how Russia is changing the game and the U.S. 0.54

00:22:14.420 now responding on the economic battlefield.

00:22:17.880 And that is just as much a part of this as any other.

00:22:21.520 Of course, the frozen Russian assets that the U.S. still has some $200 billion, something that Putin has gone to his oligarchs and said that it potentially will not come back and that they need to get used to a world of U.S. sanctions.

00:22:36.740 But this, of course, is why the BRICS nations are building together all of their new payment systems, financial systems.

00:22:44.940 They've got BRICS Pay, BRICS Clear, BRICS Swift, in a sense, and even BRICS Re, which is going to be a version of BRICS Reinsurance for shipping.

00:22:55.120 And so they have the ability that they can put their even shipped goods, so between China and all of the other BRICS nations, they can have them on this.

00:23:06.540 And, of course, they announced a huge swath of countries.

00:23:10.220 Now, this global south, that's what BRICS really is, joining the BRICS nation.

00:23:13.880 So even though you have the five original, you still have a list more Vietnam, very interestingly, being on that list as well,

00:23:20.380 because Vietnam is a country that China has been using economically as a transshipment port to try to skirt around the tariffs with the United States.

00:23:29.620 So China sends their goods to Vietnam or they sell them to a Vietnamese shell company.

00:23:33.220 The Vietnamese shell company then sends them to the United States to say, oh, look, there's no tariffs because they're coming from Vietnam. 0.99

00:23:39.480 They come through that Vietnam trade deal with the U.S.

00:23:42.940 This, of course, is what Secretary Besant was working with Vietnam to try to close down this backdoor.

00:23:48.140 But China knows exactly what they're doing. 0.84

00:23:51.080 President Trump then comes out, and what does he do?

00:23:53.980 He's put pressure on two of the weakest links that he could find of BRICS already. 1.00

00:23:58.920 The weakest link, as everyone knows, is South Africa. 0.83

00:24:00.900 So we saw, and he had President Ramaphosa, South African president there a couple of weeks ago in the Oval Office,

00:24:07.940 and just absolutely put the pressure of the entire world on him,

00:24:12.120 called him to the mat, not just for the humanitarian abuses that he's done to the white population there,

00:24:16.460 those poor farmers that are being slaughtered, and his government certainly supporting all of it, 1.00

00:24:22.000 but also now President Trump putting pressure, ratcheting it up on Brazil,

00:24:26.100 and, of course, the socialist pro-CCP government of Lula there in Brazil with the 50% tariff.

00:24:33.420 I wanted to bring on our partner from Allegiance Gold to really walk us through all of this

00:24:40.320 because this is huge, this is heady, but it's also very important for you economically

00:24:46.320 because as all of this is going on, sure, it's interesting for us to talk about.

00:24:50.300 That's what we do every day.

00:24:51.640 You can tell I'm obviously interested in this stuff.

00:24:53.640 It goes without saying.

00:24:54.680 But you also have to think of your family's interest

00:24:57.500 and make sure that your family or your company are able to weather these storms that are now coming.

00:25:04.220 So I wanted to bring on Alex Ebkarian.

00:25:06.320 He is the co-founder and COO of Allegiance Gold.

00:25:09.560 Alex, how are you?

00:25:11.420 I'm well, thanks, Jack.

00:25:12.320 How are you?

00:25:12.680 I saw you got the dark suit with the white shirt memo that was put out by Human Events staff earlier today,

00:25:20.620 so I want to make sure that we're all in uniform.

00:25:22.340 That's very good.

00:25:23.080 Uniformity will prevail, as they used to tell us in the Navy.

00:25:26.120 But, you know, look, you and I, we've been having you on for, you know, over a year at this point

00:25:30.800 talking about the rise of BRICS, and here we are, the United States, slapping these tariffs down on Brazil.

00:25:36.680 That's really what this is all about.

00:25:38.280 People want to think of this as a one-on-one thing.

00:25:40.280 But I really do think that people need to start reading President Trump's moves in that light.

00:25:46.060 But, you know, let me pass it to you.

00:25:47.760 Do you read this as a response to BRICS, and what's your assessment of the current situation?

00:25:52.840 Oh, absolutely.

00:25:54.540 Look, under Biden, the coalition just got stronger.

00:25:58.740 They started with five members.

00:26:00.260 They ended up being 11.

00:26:01.500 They controlled roughly about 40% of the world's GDP.

00:26:06.120 Population-wise, they became more than 50%. 0.82

00:26:08.640 And not only that, they controlled key minerals.

00:26:11.880 If you look at how much precious metals, from oil to various amount of commodities that this coalition controls.

00:26:19.240 And the spirit of this coalition, like, as President Trump pointed out, is to weaken and attack the dollar.

00:26:25.200 Now, the unity not only benefits each individual country, but it also benefits the group as a whole.

00:26:32.920 So what is President Trump doing?

00:26:34.400 Number one is acknowledging that there is a threat specifically against the dollar.

00:26:38.960 And instead of us putting policies to strengthen that, we need to be able to divide.

00:26:44.360 So, for instance, you have Brazil, as you pointed out, is one of the weakest link, which just a couple days ago hosted the BRICS summit.

00:26:53.240 And we didn't really see either China or Russia attempt.

00:26:59.440 So on one side, we're seeing some of the early weaknesses that the coalition is experiencing.

00:27:05.000 But at the same time, we have these trade and tariffs.

00:27:08.180 And as I pointed out, India is going to be the wild card. 1.00

00:27:11.220 Yes, South Africa and Brazil are one of the weakest link, but India is trading with Russia. 0.69

00:27:16.680 They're trading with Iran.

00:27:17.780 They're trading with China.

00:27:19.660 So as we progress with the finalization of this trade deals, we'll see how much India is going to cave. 0.88

00:27:27.180 Are they going to pick their sovereignty and what's better economically to them?

00:27:31.720 Or are they going to sacrifice themselves for the unity of BRICS?

00:27:36.420 That's it.

00:27:37.140 It's so clear.

00:27:37.760 I want to hear what President Trump had to say about this, specifically about the U.S. dollar and as it relates to Brazil.

00:27:43.140 We've got a clip of him.

00:27:43.940 Let's play it right now.

00:27:45.120 Because BRICS was set up to hurt us. 1.00

00:27:47.320 BRICS was set up to degenerate our dollar and take our dollar as the standard, take it off as the standard.

00:27:55.540 And that's OK if they want to play that game.

00:27:57.320 But I can play that game, too.

00:27:58.480 So anybody that's in BRICS is getting a 10 percent charge.

00:28:01.440 Is that immediate, Stuart?

00:28:02.980 Yeah, pretty sure.

00:28:03.800 Or is that if they engage in some figure?

00:28:05.320 Well, if they're a member of BRICS, they're going to have to pay 10 percent tariff just for that one thing.

00:28:10.820 And they won't be a member alone.

00:28:12.300 I thought BRICS was, you know, I said this about a year ago and it largely broke up.

00:28:18.880 But, you know, there are a couple that hang around.

00:28:21.160 But I thought it largely broke up.

00:28:22.780 BRICS is not, in my opinion, not a serious threat. 0.99

00:28:25.640 But what they're trying to do is destroy the dollar so that another country can take over and be the standard. 0.55

00:28:32.180 And we're not going to lose the standard at any time.

00:28:35.380 If you have a smart president, you will never lose the standard. 1.00

00:28:38.360 If you have a stupid president like the last one, you would lose the standard. 1.00

00:28:42.060 You wouldn't have the dollar as you. 1.00

00:28:43.780 And if we lost the world standard dollar, that would be like losing a war, a major world war.

00:28:53.180 We would not be the same country any longer.

00:28:55.820 We're not going to let that happen.

00:28:57.400 The dollar, you ever hear the expression dollar is king?

00:29:00.480 The dollar is king.

00:29:01.820 We're going to keep it that way, OK?

00:29:04.880 Well, Alex, I mean, this is key.

00:29:07.040 It's all about the U.S. dollar as world reserve currency.

00:29:11.060 And I want to throw up a chart now.

00:29:12.600 So chart break, we've got, and this is what it's all about.

00:29:16.400 This is the U.S. dollar as compared to the price of gold.

00:29:21.340 And I believe this is a year-to-date chart.

00:29:23.800 I want everyone to see that.

00:29:24.600 Alex, can you walk us through this chart that we're looking at?

00:29:28.840 Yeah, I mean, this year, we've experienced the weakest performance of the dollar in the last 53 years.

00:29:38.760 So specifically, what we saw is that the dollar has dropped about 53%, where gold has increased about 25%.

00:29:46.740 This is not a surprise because it is reflective upon what the prior administration's policies were.

00:29:53.040 When the national debt went from $30 trillion to about $36 trillion, when the trade deficit went to over $2 trillion per year,

00:30:02.780 it's not a surprise that the dollar is losing its value.

00:30:05.480 The problem is this, internationally, we're seeing a lack of demand on U.S. Treasury bonds.

00:30:12.680 So a lot of central banks and other governments started replacing more of the U.S. Treasury bonds into more of gold.

00:30:20.020 Why?

00:30:20.840 Simply because they want to, number one, have control and eliminate the counterparty risk.

00:30:26.740 At the beginning, you pointed out how the U.S. has about $200 billion of Russian assets,

00:30:32.160 and other Western countries have another $100 billion.

00:30:34.340 So because that occurred, it represents as a national threat.

00:30:38.540 So a lot of these central banks are strategically positioning themselves.

00:30:42.500 Look, it's a good idea to diversify against the dollar.

00:30:45.940 We still know that the dollar is the king of currencies.

00:30:48.380 It is the world reserve currency.

00:30:50.180 But let me give you an example, specifically within BRICS in China.

00:30:53.340 In 2010, 80% of the trade of China was dollar denominated.

00:31:00.240 Today, only 40%.

00:31:02.040 The renminbi has increased.

00:31:04.260 What this BRICS nation started doing is similar to what we have.

00:31:08.100 We have the IMF.

00:31:09.340 Now they started having their own group where they can lend out to their countries.

00:31:13.080 We have the SWIFT banking system.

00:31:15.100 They want to have their own bridge of trading and having these lateral trade and bypassing the dollar.

00:31:22.500 We have the COMEX exchange.

00:31:26.480 They have the Shanghai exchange.

00:31:28.500 So we're seeing money, and specifically gold, migrate from the west to east.

00:31:35.060 And they're strategically positioning these policies.

00:31:37.240 So if you don't do anything about it now, little by little, they're going to have a lot more influence, and they're going to have a lot more control.

00:31:43.640 And we cannot afford losing the dollar as a world reserve currency.

00:31:49.780 Now, this is absolutely clear.

00:31:52.300 Absolutely clear.

00:31:53.160 So that this is happening, it's real.

00:31:57.760 And, you know, we had administrations in the past who talked about it until they were blue in the face.

00:32:01.720 But they didn't do anything.

00:32:02.940 Now you've got President Trump in there, and he's admitting that what's going on.

00:32:06.740 He's seeing the challenge for what it is.

00:32:09.240 He's sizing it up, and he realizes that this is clear.

00:32:13.400 Now, I want to just throw out to people, we've got a break coming up in a couple of minutes.

00:32:17.500 But for anyone who's hearing all of this and says, wait a minute, you know, this does sound like something I want to get involved in,

00:32:24.680 we do have a website set up where you could just go and get more information about everything that we're talking about,

00:32:29.920 how gold works, how you can get involved in gold,

00:32:33.420 or even, by the way, in silver in the precious metals market.

00:32:37.220 And, you know, you can look at all the charts and see the rest of it.

00:32:39.420 Totally free.

00:32:40.640 It's up to you.

00:32:41.520 You can diversify.

00:32:42.720 We've done that with our family, actually with Allegiance Gold.

00:32:46.000 We went to protectwithposo.com,

00:32:48.080 because, of course, I wanted to make sure that, you know, they got my name right, got my picture right, which they did.

00:32:53.360 And, you know, you go right there, protectwithposo.com,

00:32:56.640 so you can verify that the picture is right,

00:32:58.460 or give them a call at 844-577-POSO, 844-577-POSO.

00:33:04.260 Again, that's protectwithposo.com.

00:33:06.260 It's simple, it's secure, and it's safe.

00:33:09.540 And, by the way, there's a special deal where you could qualify for up to $5,000 in free silver.

00:33:16.100 And, look, you know, this is just something for everyone out there.

00:33:18.840 Well, President Trump's going to be fighting this fight, and we understand that,

00:33:22.260 and I think he's going to win it because I have a lot of trust in him.

00:33:25.220 But at the same time, while all of that's going on,

00:33:28.540 and all of this is happening with the U.S. dollar on the line,

00:33:32.720 I just look out for the financial health of my family, and I say, you know what?

00:33:36.620 And, you know, I'm sure, you know, if you ask President Trump,

00:33:39.420 he doesn't have 100% of his, you know, his holdings in cash either because nobody does, right?

00:33:44.660 Nobody does.

00:33:45.580 We want transactions to be done in this, but, you know,

00:33:47.860 he's got to think about his corporations.

00:33:49.920 He's got a massive family, children and grandchildren, and the rest.

00:33:53.960 So I guarantee you that he's looking to diversify as well,

00:33:58.160 and we just put up the chart of gold right there.

00:34:00.720 I want to get in, Alex, can we hold you over?

00:34:03.520 Because I want to talk about interest rates and the Jerome Too Late Powell and all the rest of it.

00:34:09.420 Can we hold you?

00:34:11.120 Absolutely.

00:34:12.480 All right, that's perfect.

00:34:13.140 So we're going to hold Alex Ebkarian from Allegiance Gold.

00:34:17.040 We're walking through BRICS, U.S. dollars, the World Reserve currency.

00:34:20.620 We're going around the world today here on Human Events Daily.

00:34:23.980 We'll be right back.

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00:36:17.400 I'm going to be flying to Tampa right after the show here.

00:36:21.620 We're going to be there all weekend.

00:36:23.080 It is incumbent upon you.

00:36:24.660 Come to this meeting of the minds.

00:36:26.640 We're going to have debates.

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00:36:32.800 And, of course, myself included.

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00:36:35.900 I want to make sure that you're all there as well.

00:36:38.340 I want to bring Alex of KVM back here from Allegiance Gold.

00:36:42.060 Alex, you know, we've been telling people to go to protectwithposo.com, and I told them

00:36:48.900 about the offer that's up already regarding gold.

00:36:52.260 Walk us through why, when we're in an environment like this one, where we know President Trump

00:36:57.900 has been putting a lot of pressure on the Fed chair to lower those interest rates, why

00:37:04.080 this is a time with those fluctuations that people really want to get in to start looking

00:37:09.280 at their portfolio, diversifying what they do have, and if there's any interesting offers

00:37:14.400 for our listeners.

00:37:16.040 Great.

00:37:16.980 Well, the Federal Reserve is fighting yesterday's inflation problem.

00:37:21.400 We're at a point where we're having some challenges with the job market.

00:37:24.880 About a week and a half ago, we saw Microsoft and Intel slash about 19,000 jobs.

00:37:30.380 So the Fed has been late on cutting the interest rate.

00:37:34.080 And this is very important.

00:37:35.680 Why?

00:37:36.320 Because the big, beautiful bill passed.

00:37:38.640 We know that we're going to have to borrow, and we know that there will be an addition to

00:37:42.740 the debt, but we want to be able to compensate that for growth.

00:37:46.500 You're not going to be able to build economy with 7%, 8% mortgage rates.

00:37:50.200 So because of that, why it's important, when the interest rates drop, the opportunity cost

00:37:57.560 and investing in gold becomes less.

00:37:59.800 What I mean by that is this.

00:38:01.120 Let's say the bank was paying you 5%.

00:38:03.120 Now, all of a sudden, if they're only paying you 2% and inflation is at 3%, in real return,

00:38:10.520 you're making negative 1%.

00:38:11.960 So you're not really incentivized to keep the money in the bank.

00:38:15.980 Versus gold, the year-to-date is at 25%.

00:38:18.400 And JPMorgan Chase reaffirmed its guidance for gold at above 4,000.

00:38:22.820 So the reason why it's important for you to proactively protect, don't wait for the problems

00:38:28.480 to occur.

00:38:29.420 Always be proactive.

00:38:31.080 Don't be reactive.

00:38:32.240 Because what will happen then is you're going to end up paying a much, much higher prices.

00:38:35.840 Look, I mean, you're a client.

00:38:37.260 You've invested back when gold was at about 1,800 to 2,000.

00:38:41.220 Of course, everyone wants to buy low and sell high.

00:38:44.040 But this is not about buying and selling.

00:38:46.220 This is about protecting.

00:38:47.700 The whole idea of gold is to preserve your buying power.

00:38:51.380 And we know with more printing, we're going to see loss of purchasing power down the line.

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00:39:27.360 Last time when we had the 10 Silver American Eagle 1-ounce, the phone was ringing like it

00:39:32.820 was Christmas.

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00:39:34.940 A lot of people took advantage of that free silver.

00:39:36.960 And once they had the product in their hand, they had the confidence and that allowed them

00:39:42.020 to make the right investments.

00:39:43.980 So start slow.

00:39:45.320 Start with the education and find a dealer that values relationship as opposed to just

00:39:49.960 the transaction.

00:39:52.240 You got to tell me if you guys are bringing the Eagle back because that thing, that thing

00:39:56.980 was so good.

00:39:58.820 You know, I think we got a couple of those actually.

00:40:01.720 And what we, you know, is we got them for the kids.

00:40:04.660 We got one for each kid.

00:40:05.860 But of course, they don't have access to them.

00:40:08.620 They're in a very safe location because, you know, they were lost.

00:40:11.600 But it just makes a great gift.

00:40:13.640 It's something that, you know, and to your point, right, it's not even something that

00:40:18.300 most gifts you get, especially for kids.

00:40:20.460 You know, we've got two little kids.

00:40:21.920 They break.

00:40:22.700 They fall apart.

00:40:23.300 This is something not only that they can have, but it appreciates.

00:40:26.880 And hey, if you ever need it, it's right there.

00:40:28.740 Absolutely.

00:40:30.740 I mean, years ago, I asked my in-laws and my parents to stop buying any toys.

00:40:35.660 I said, give me the money.

00:40:36.480 That's exactly where I'm at.

00:40:38.000 And I will get the kids gold and silver.

00:40:40.460 That's exactly where I'm at.

00:40:41.620 And the kids love it.

00:40:42.620 They absolutely love it.

00:40:44.040 The different designs.

00:40:45.220 Because they're fascinated with just even regular coins.

00:40:48.840 And so it's something that's gold, something that's silver.

00:40:51.180 Think about this.

00:40:52.060 It's so simple.

00:40:53.260 Even a child can get it.

00:40:54.640 Ah, there we go.

00:40:56.540 So check it out, folks.

00:40:59.660 ProtectWithProso.com.

00:41:01.100 Make sure you're checking out.

00:41:02.060 Alex, thank you so much for joining us today, man.

00:41:04.800 Pleasure being here.

00:41:05.600 Thank you.

00:41:06.900 All right.

00:41:07.160 Take care, folks.

00:41:07.740 Again, it's ProtectWithProso.com.

00:41:10.400 We're here, folks.

00:41:11.360 But right now, I'm going to hop over to the airport.

00:41:14.340 I'm going to hop the plane down to Tampa, where we're going to be down there with the

00:41:18.380 entire War Room Posse, the Real America's Voice crew.

00:41:22.100 Because we're going to the Action Summit Turning Point USA.

00:41:26.080 Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, all the rest.

00:41:29.600 Make sure you are there.

00:41:31.180 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, if you have my permission, lay it short.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - July 10, 2025

Russia Has Begun To Reshape The Battlefield In Ukraine Amid 'Lava Advance'

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