Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - March 21, 2025


THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CIA'S INVOLVEMENT WITH THE DEPT OF EDUCATION AND ITS TIES TO UKRAINE


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Elon Musk's visit to the Pentagon raises concerns about his access to top-secret U.S. military secrets. President Trump responds to reports that Musk got a classified briefing on a potential war with China. Russia accuses the United States of launching a drone attack on a key airbase in Ukraine.

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00:00:49.920 Elon Musk, who is set to visit the Pentagon today.
00:00:53.260 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says it's, quote,
00:00:56.160 an informal meeting about innovation, efficiencies, and smarter production.
00:01:00.880 But last night, President Trump took to his social media platform to slam reports from the New York
00:01:06.000 Times that Musk's visit would actually include a briefing on a potential war with China.
00:01:11.220 This started with this New York Times headline, and they since changed it.
00:01:15.300 But Musk set to get access to top secret U.S. plant for potential war with China.
00:01:20.000 This is egregious.
00:01:21.100 This is fake.
00:01:22.000 The New York Times should retract this story.
00:01:24.280 The Houthis are pirates. 0.78
00:01:26.140 They are not a recognized regime.
00:01:28.140 They are not a recognized government.
00:01:30.060 They are effectively holding Yemen hostage. 0.82
00:01:32.820 And that's what they've been doing with the waterway there, is attacking shipping, attacking our ships over 100 times.
00:01:40.580 Russia is claiming Ukraine targeted a key airbase in a massive drone attack overnight.
00:01:44.540 Russia's defense ministry says it shot down 54 drones over the area, while Ukraine says one person is dead and dozens injured after Russia launched missile and drone strikes across Ukraine.
00:01:56.020 It comes after both Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a limited ceasefire following talks with President Trump.
00:02:03.940 Russia's military is still here in force, still fighting just miles away.
00:02:08.780 And we find U.S. military hardware incinerated.
00:02:12.280 For seven months, they held hundreds of miles of territory in that direction.
00:02:19.820 It was all for nothing.
00:02:22.420 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board.
00:02:23.820 Today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:02:26.020 Here we are live in Washington, D.C.
00:02:28.760 Today is March 21st, 2025.
00:02:31.220 Anno Domini.
00:02:32.280 It is also Tanya Tay's birthday.
00:02:34.560 So happy birthday, sweetheart.
00:02:36.200 Love you a lot.
00:02:37.440 And so when we're breaking down, though, all the things that are going on, look,
00:02:41.560 you got Elon Musk over at the Pentagon today and the New York Times last night dropped this piece and it was all over Drudge Report.
00:02:49.400 The entire media lost their minds.
00:02:50.660 He said Elon Musk is getting classified briefings on the war plans with China.
00:02:54.680 Elon Musk is getting classified briefings on the war plans with China.
00:02:59.080 Now, there's a couple issues with this, right?
00:03:01.100 So, first of all, one of the issues could be, for example, oh, I don't know who is leaking at the Pentagon to the Wall Street Journal, to the New York Times, to everybody else out there.
00:03:13.280 Leakers need to be found, caught, arrested, and prosecuted.
00:03:17.320 And there was already one FBI agent who was caught and arrested for classified information, but there needs to be more.
00:03:24.220 This is ridiculous.
00:03:25.340 It has to stop now.
00:03:26.160 And let me tell you something.
00:03:27.340 This is the type of thing that hamstrung the first Trump administration, the 45 administration, this type of leaking of classified information to the New York Times.
00:03:36.420 Why is anyone at the Pentagon going to the New York Times, picking up that phone or texting or whatever it is, and calling to them and saying that this is what's going to be going on?
00:03:45.780 And, oh, by the way, this is the classified briefing that Elon is receiving or any others.
00:03:50.520 First of all, Elon has security clearance already.
00:03:54.680 So, and by the way, if people are worried about Elon, oh, I don't know, doing something to harm the United States, well, he already could.
00:04:02.840 Why?
00:04:03.260 He has the largest rockets in the world, you idiots.
00:04:07.140 He could already be doing stuff like that, but he's not.
00:04:10.700 And, of course, he's not going to because he is an American patriot.
00:04:15.200 He's been given clearance.
00:04:16.240 He's been given all of the operational ability for years when it comes to this stuff.
00:04:20.980 And he's never threatened anyone with this.
00:04:23.720 He's never stepped outside the law.
00:04:25.240 He's never done any of these things.
00:04:27.140 What's going on is very clear, okay?
00:04:29.940 There is a coordinated effort of hate and violence and deranged lunacy targeted at Elon Musk.
00:04:37.240 And there are people within the Pentagon of the United States that are perpetuating it right now.
00:04:43.200 This is two minutes hate, just like we saw in 1984, George Orwell.
00:04:48.720 You must hate Elon Musk.
00:04:50.100 You must hate Elon Musk.
00:04:51.320 You must destroy Teslas.
00:04:52.760 You must blow up Teslas.
00:04:54.020 You must burn Teslas.
00:04:55.140 The Tesla terrorists.
00:04:56.620 This is all part of the same thing.
00:04:58.720 And if you read my book, Unhumans, last year, we explained what was going on.
00:05:03.380 The left does not exist to want equality and justice.
00:05:07.460 They exist to want to tear down anyone who is a white, Christian, male, affluent success 0.99
00:05:14.140 because they want to tear down the very core and fabric of American civilization.
00:05:19.400 We'll be right back.
00:05:20.080 Human Events continues.
00:05:24.900 America first truly means welcome to the second American revolution.
00:05:33.380 All right, folks, we're back live, Human Events Daily.
00:05:35.980 So, look, you know, we've got the shot up.
00:05:39.080 And, by the way, I want to welcome in, of course, third hour of the Charlie Kirk program
00:05:43.380 here on the Salem Radio Network.
00:05:46.660 And, you know, special thanks to Salem for the announcement earlier this week.
00:05:50.480 I really appreciate that.
00:05:51.920 And we're going to be very honored and privileged.
00:05:55.140 And we take it as a responsibility to be here every single day.
00:05:58.300 But that shot, can we get that live shot up back up, guys, of the Jefferson?
00:06:01.120 So, this shot, all right, this is the – I want to just talk about this real quickly
00:06:05.040 because this is a huge thing.
00:06:07.040 Washington, D.C., Japan donated those cherry blossoms over 100 years ago to the Jefferson Memorial.
00:06:14.500 And they haven't bloomed yet.
00:06:16.420 But if we can switch it to the shot at the White House, go switch it over there.
00:06:21.620 Boom.
00:06:22.340 I called this out the other day.
00:06:24.020 Apologies to anybody who's listening on the podcast or the radio.
00:06:26.240 You have to go back and watch the show on Rumble or YouTube to catch what I'm talking about
00:06:30.900 because there are these beautiful cherry blossoms.
00:06:33.620 They're starting to come in right in front of the White House.
00:06:35.620 You're going to see those.
00:06:36.700 You're going to see the Magnolias come in very soon.
00:06:39.000 There's only about a one-week window where you can see this in Washington, D.C.
00:06:42.920 So, if you have the ability, go down and check it out.
00:06:45.860 So, today's Tanya Tay's birthday.
00:06:47.340 We usually go around her birthday.
00:06:49.440 But I'm looking at the Jefferson Memorial.
00:06:51.160 I'm saying, you know, it's just not quite there yet.
00:06:53.440 So, we're probably going to end up going next week, and I believe next weekend is going to be peak bloom.
00:06:58.560 And that's it.
00:06:59.380 You only get one week of them.
00:07:00.940 That's the whole point of it.
00:07:01.880 There's only one week.
00:07:03.020 So, you go down, it's an absolute mob scene.
00:07:04.940 And believe it or not, when I was there last year, the SPLC sent one of their apparatchiks to go and stalk me when I was with my family.
00:07:14.400 And I was doing, like, a live stream video, and I was joking around.
00:07:18.900 It was about Trump winning.
00:07:20.660 And then a group of Chinese tourists came up, and I started saying Trump won the election in 2020 in Mandarin.
00:07:28.640 And they got so upset with me for saying this.
00:07:31.820 And then they also started claiming that I didn't really speak Mandarin.
00:07:34.400 I'm like, well, it's right there on video.
00:07:35.940 So, this is the level the left will go.
00:07:37.960 And they were also very, very upset about a book I wrote last year.
00:07:41.160 And that book was called Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them, which you can purchase at unhumansbook.com or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever you want to go.
00:07:51.140 Let me tell you why this is important.
00:07:53.360 You heard about the Tesla terrorists who have been going around attacking anyone who owns a Tesla.
00:07:59.500 Now, the reason they're so upset with Teslas is because, remember, Teslas being an electric car, this was the climate-friendly car.
00:08:07.440 It was left-wing coded.
00:08:09.920 So, who bought all the initial Teslas were the lefties.
00:08:13.660 But then Elon Musk went, AOC even had one.
00:08:16.540 Remember, AOC was all excited about her Tesla.
00:08:18.400 La, la, la, look at me, look at my Tesla.
00:08:20.560 But then Elon Musk went and joined the dark side.
00:08:25.200 Again, you have to understand leftism from their perspective.
00:08:28.160 And if you understand leftism from their perspective, this all makes sense.
00:08:30.640 So, him making the move, him making the switch to the dark side, choosing evil means they must lash out because they view themselves as the heroes.
00:08:42.360 They view themselves as the great leaders of society that's going to save society from the evildoers. 0.80
00:08:49.280 But here's what's going on deep down inside of leftism.
00:08:52.780 And this is what the book on humans teaches you.
00:08:55.060 Deep down inside, they are animated by resentment.
00:08:59.340 Resentment of people like Elon Musk.
00:09:02.260 Resentment of people like Donald Trump.
00:09:04.440 People who are successful.
00:09:05.980 People who are affluent.
00:09:07.720 People who have actually made their mark in building something for Western civilization.
00:09:14.720 Building something for society.
00:09:15.900 And so, because they fall into designated enemy categories, and we discovered a playbook that's actually been used for hundreds of years, going back to the French Revolution, that if you fall into that playbook, if you fall into that designated enemy category, well, guess what?
00:09:32.680 You can be destroyed.
00:09:33.940 Your business can be destroyed.
00:09:35.260 Your family can be destroyed.
00:09:36.540 And guess what?
00:09:37.420 They killed the entire ruling family of France.
00:09:40.640 They killed the entire ruling family of Russia.
00:09:43.180 They killed people all over the place in China, just slaughtering people left and right. 0.74
00:09:48.440 Why?
00:09:49.080 Because they fell into the category of the enemy.
00:09:53.040 And then, of course, they did the exact same thing all throughout Spain until a man named General Franco stopped them.
00:09:59.560 That is why we have Franco Friday today.
00:10:02.340 So understand, animating all of this on the left is not equality, justice, equity.
00:10:09.140 No, it's hatred, it's resentment of you and people like you, and they will stop at nothing to stop you.
00:10:17.160 I want to bring on now our next guest, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online.
00:10:21.940 His name is Mike Benz.
00:10:23.900 He is not in a suit today.
00:10:25.340 He is wearing a collared shirt, a very nice golf shirt, but that's okay because I'm not in a suit either.
00:10:30.840 What's up, Benz?
00:10:32.200 Hey, how are you doing?
00:10:34.340 I'm doing well.
00:10:35.180 So, Benz, we've been going through our theory of the case for a couple of weeks here regarding the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, all the rest of it.
00:10:46.040 And I wanted to get you on today to do a deep dive on all of this.
00:10:49.120 We call it Trump's geopolitical grand strategy.
00:10:52.920 And the Trump's geopolitical grand strategy is something that I don't think a lot of people get because they want to look at this in terms of just Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine, Russia.
00:11:02.080 Russia started the war in 2022, so Russia has to be punished. 0.94
00:11:04.960 How dare you talk to him?
00:11:05.960 How dare you do this?
00:11:06.900 They can't actually see the bigger picture and look at the chess pieces on the board.
00:11:11.900 So, Benz, I was hoping today that we could sort of do a deep dive on all of this because people don't understand the factional warfare that's going on now at the elite level and what President Trump is doing.
00:11:24.060 And by the way, the Department of Education push, well, that is cutting off the supply lines to the liberal elites of the United States.
00:11:31.000 That's cutting off their resources and their access to an unlimited supply of capital and an unlimited supply of money towards the enemies of the republic.
00:11:40.160 So it's very it's very obvious to me what he's doing.
00:11:43.200 But I think we need to lay it out for people.
00:11:45.260 What do you say?
00:11:46.680 I say that sounds fantastic.
00:11:49.000 One quick thing on the Department of Education.
00:11:52.320 It's not just the elites in the U.S. educational sphere.
00:11:55.500 I was reading the JFK files last night and there's a passage where the CIA admits that they had been funding a group called the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession and that they had also been funding the National Education Association.
00:12:17.500 And those are respectively some of the largest teachers unions in the United States.
00:12:24.260 They're both alive and well today and they both have hundreds and hundreds of international branches in foreign countries who receive money through the Department of Education's International Affairs branch, just as the AFL-CIO's international unions get money through the Department of Labor's International Affairs branch.
00:12:47.500 And I was going on their contemporary website and I noticed that the international branches were all complaining.
00:12:56.820 They have a democracy section in their website, this historically CIA, these historically CIA funded teachers union groups.
00:13:04.080 And the international branches were all complaining about Trump trying to shut down the U.S. Department of Education.
00:13:13.220 And I think that, you know, this is what's happening also in Ukraine.
00:13:17.540 Why did Randy Weingarten, since we're going to be talking about Ukraine so much, why did Randy Weingarten spend, you know, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, spend so many trips abroad in Ukraine?
00:13:30.180 You put her bio as a Ukraine flag and then you look and lo and behold, the group that was CIA funded from during the 1960s, the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teacher's Profession changed its name after the CIA funding event happened.
00:13:49.380 It's now called Education International and it's now called Education International and it's very active in Ukraine.
00:13:54.720 In fact, they just gave their sort of man of the year award to one of the teachers in Ukraine.
00:14:01.620 And I think.
00:14:04.200 And just, yeah, just a minute before the break, but I want people to understand that what Benz is explaining here is this is network creation and elite formation.
00:14:14.320 So how do you form the elites of countries that you want to control or governments that you want to control?
00:14:20.980 Well, you do.
00:14:21.680 You'd use programs like this.
00:14:23.400 You would use soft power to then promote the people who are either pliable or on your side who agree with you.
00:14:30.120 You put them in positions of power.
00:14:31.760 You then keep building that out and building that out so that no actual dissent, no actual patriotism or any any other individual can become successful because you are funding literally the opposition in every single one of these countries that then becomes the government of those countries.
00:14:50.280 And guess what?
00:14:50.840 They're already in your back pocket because they always were.
00:14:54.540 That's the reason for these things.
00:14:56.240 And he's pointing this out.
00:14:57.220 This goes all the way back to the JFK files.
00:14:59.160 The networks are all still in place.
00:15:00.840 That's why they kept this thing classified for so many years.
00:15:04.180 It's all the same thing.
00:15:05.940 And who better to break it down than Mike Benz, who's joining us here on Human Events Daily with Bill Marker's Voice and the Salem Radio Network.
00:15:11.600 Be right back.
00:15:18.900 Today, you know, they talk about influences.
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00:15:27.200 Where's Jack?
00:15:28.120 Jack.
00:15:29.260 He's done a great job.
00:15:30.840 All right, Jack Persovic.
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00:16:39.520 I want to bring Mike Benz back in here to kind of, we're going through, we're connecting a lot of dots here,
00:16:45.720 and that's what we do when we bring Benz on because he's a great dot connector because it's, and Benz, it's amazing, right?
00:16:52.600 People don't understand that cutting the DOE is actually about cutting the free flow of resources to not just the elite here in the United States,
00:17:03.440 the liberal elite, but also the global Atlanticist elite that exists throughout Europe and particularly in Western Europe
00:17:11.280 that is now trying to dominate Eastern Europe.
00:17:14.460 Benz, does President Trump, he clearly understands this strategy.
00:17:19.380 He clearly understands what he's doing here in terms of network disruption.
00:17:23.580 Do you think, do you think that's the reason that he doesn't quite sit there and walk people through it the way that it is?
00:17:29.080 Or, or is it just that he's operating so quickly that he doesn't want to waste time?
00:17:34.000 I think he's operating so quickly that he doesn't want to waste time.
00:17:36.940 But the, the fact is, is this sort of sneaky tentacles of the blob in so many of the different agencies
00:17:45.540 really has to have a full review because, you know, we were just talking about the role of the teachers' unions.
00:17:51.740 You know, the, the, the American Federation of Teachers, which is, you know, Randy Weingarten's outfit,
00:17:58.160 has been partnered with NewsGuard and has been censoring conservative news in the schools.
00:18:05.580 They participate in street protests to shut down cities.
00:18:10.500 They try to hamper the administration from every angle.
00:18:14.740 And the, you know, the Department of Education is on the teachers' front,
00:18:18.320 but, but there's also the Department of Labor on the union front. 0.97
00:18:22.200 And, you know, before I came on, I heard you talking about the Tesla takedown activity,
00:18:26.600 which is being organized at the union level in significant degree.
00:18:30.600 Unions play a huge role in the, in the rent-a-riot affairs of the Central Intelligence Agency.
00:18:38.320 For example, the JFK files are absolutely littered with AFL-CIO references.
00:18:44.160 That the AFL-CIO is the single largest confederation of unions in the entire United States.
00:18:50.200 And it has been CIA penetrated for 60 years.
00:18:54.380 And then it's got these international affairs branches,
00:18:57.280 which were behind the push to oust Bolsonaro in Brazil and to back Lula.
00:19:02.620 AFL-CIO effectively did a jailbreak of Lula and were one of the,
00:19:07.600 the closest partners of the CUT union in, in Brazil,
00:19:12.340 which is the main union backing Lula that Lula basically was, was birthed from.
00:19:18.060 And time and time again, you see these street protests.
00:19:22.120 The AFL-CIO, we now know because of the Molly Ball article after the 2020 election,
00:19:27.940 had a, a signed agreement with the Chamber of Commerce to unleash itself,
00:19:35.300 to shut down DC if Trump had won the electoral college in 2020.
00:19:39.620 And yet the, the AFL-CIO's spindle branches get tens of millions of dollars every year
00:19:46.220 from the Department of Labor's international affairs branch.
00:19:49.260 And what we see is beyond USAID, which unfortunately now the fight is still ongoing
00:19:54.940 because a federal court has reinstated USAID just this week.
00:19:59.980 And then beyond that, just yesterday, a federal judge has now prohibited the Trump administration's pick
00:20:07.880 to be the technical administrator at USAID because he previously worked at Doge.
00:20:15.640 They wanted to move a Doge person to, to effectively be the technical head of USAID.
00:20:20.800 And the federal judge said, I won't let you do that.
00:20:23.080 So, but beyond just USAID, virtually every, virtually every federal government agency branch
00:20:34.540 has an international affairs bureau, which works with the state department,
00:20:40.260 which works with USAID, which works with the intelligence services.
00:20:44.880 And it is the international affairs branches that will snake you every single time.
00:20:49.420 I mean, every government agency's international affairs branch needs an independent audit right now.
00:20:54.660 Absolutely. We're coming back. Quick break.
00:20:56.780 Mike Benz, we're here for the deep dive.
00:20:59.560 Trump's grand strategy. Be right back.
00:21:07.260 And Jack, where is Jack?
00:21:10.240 Where is Jack?
00:21:12.560 Where is he?
00:21:13.860 Jack, I want to see you.
00:21:15.380 Great job, Jack. Thank you.
00:21:19.820 What a job you do.
00:21:21.220 You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:21:22.620 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys.
00:21:26.220 And these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:21:29.980 All right, Jack, what's up?
00:21:30.840 But here we are back live, Human Events Daily.
00:21:32.420 We're on with Mike Benz, the Foundation for Freedom Online.
00:21:35.220 When we last left you here, Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice,
00:21:38.820 want to bring in that Salem radio audience as well with our three, Charlie Kirk.
00:21:42.140 Benz was telling us about how the international arms of these various departments,
00:21:47.920 and certainly it starts with the Department of Education, but it's not just them.
00:21:51.560 These international arms, many of which are in cahoots with Soros operations and other globalist operations all around the world,
00:22:00.020 they're actually funding what they would call, what the left would refer to as affinity groups or like-minded organizations,
00:22:07.680 those either in power, whether it's Western Europe and in areas where they control,
00:22:12.360 or possibly dissident opposition groups.
00:22:15.840 If it's areas like Eastern Europe, where you typically see a lot more conservative control of governments,
00:22:21.960 that's when they'll go and work with these other affinity groups.
00:22:24.660 Benz, talk to me about some of the other departments that the Trump administration,
00:22:30.380 and particularly Joe's, should look out for when it comes to this type of operation.
00:22:36.180 I think every single one.
00:22:37.620 We just talked about the Department of Education.
00:22:39.660 The Department of Labor is absolutely massive in this.
00:22:42.240 I personally uncovered tens of millions of dollars of grants to the most anti-Trump,
00:22:49.360 most anti-White House agenda unions in the world, especially the situation in Brazil and abroad in Europe.
00:23:00.920 But on the Ukraine front, I've not done a mapping of how many of the teachers' organizations
00:23:06.560 or how many of the unions in Ukraine are getting federal funding through the Department of Labor
00:23:13.000 or through the Department of Education.
00:23:16.420 But I suspect the amount is massive.
00:23:19.540 If you want to pull up on screen, if it's helpful to look at,
00:23:22.460 because there's an Atlanta Council piece from December 2020 called
00:23:27.680 Ukraine's Education Reforms are at Risk of Politicization.
00:23:32.860 I remember this.
00:23:34.320 I actually remember when this came out.
00:23:35.480 Yeah, yeah.
00:23:37.580 Now, I was at the State Department at the time.
00:23:41.140 And, you know, I was a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Cyber Branch of the Economic Affairs Bureau.
00:23:47.980 And so this was not directly my beat.
00:23:50.820 But, you know, as a DAS, you get traffic that's not classified,
00:23:56.800 but just to give you peripheral awareness of what other bureaus are doing
00:24:01.440 and what issues are sensitive at the time.
00:24:04.080 And at the time, I can tell you, the State Department was concerned that Ukraine was going to try to
00:24:11.800 become sovereign again in its education system.
00:24:15.600 See, after we toppled the government in early 2014,
00:24:19.880 we, you know, and Senator Chris Murphy bragged about this, the main senator from, Democrat from Connecticut,
00:24:27.480 who has been leading the charge to kill Doge and to stop the shutdown of USAID
00:24:35.300 and to stop the reforms of the intelligence services, he's on tape on live television bragging that the 2014 coup of the Yanukovych government in Ukraine,
00:24:48.760 which was a democratically elected government, would not have happened without U.S. intervention.
00:24:52.960 He said it only happened because of our sanctions and our pressure on the organization and our support for the people on the ground.
00:25:00.760 I mean, that's a signed, sealed confession.
00:25:05.720 I'm yours, so to speak, that this was a U.S. coup.
00:25:10.060 And it's from the guy who's leading the effort seven years, 10 years later to save USAID.
00:25:19.420 So what does that tell you?
00:25:20.320 But the fact is, is after the 2014 coup, we imposed mandatory reforms to the education system, to the teaching system inside of Ukraine.
00:25:31.360 And this is stock standard.
00:25:33.200 You know, we effectively have a set of checklist items whenever we topple a government in order to reform it,
00:25:39.740 which includes privatization of its national assets.
00:25:42.780 We call this economic reform.
00:25:44.260 We put the entire judicial system through a series of reforms so that they have no autonomy over their own judges and courts.
00:25:52.960 We put them in the hands of independent bodies and independent associations.
00:25:56.640 Of course, they're never independent.
00:25:58.080 They're dependent on the U.S. government for funding and usually on the U.S. embassy for direction on what to do.
00:26:04.460 So we control the judges.
00:26:05.760 We control the prosecutors.
00:26:06.800 We typically control the unions through a combination of USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy Solidarity Center,
00:26:14.860 and the Department of Labor's international affairs branch.
00:26:17.660 But the Atlantic Council, I remember very vividly when this happened,
00:26:23.500 the Ukrainians were forced after 2014 to transfer effective control over their own ministry of education to an EU governing body
00:26:34.420 so that it would be free and clear of any sort of Russian influence.
00:26:38.700 Now, mind you, this is eight years before there was actually a war in Ukraine, but it was immediately post-coup.
00:26:45.880 Folks remember, the New York Times reported immediately post-coup.
00:26:49.200 I think one day after the 2014 government was deposed, the Central Intelligence Agency took effective control over the Ukrainian intelligence services.
00:26:58.340 This was publicly reported by the New York Times, but the Atlantic Council's paper here from December 2020,
00:27:07.900 and I remember getting recommendations about what to do, and one of the things that was recommended,
00:27:13.160 and this was not recommended in-house at the State Department, I should say.
00:27:16.060 It was an outside think tank, which proposed that if Ukraine's parliament went through and voted to take back sovereign control of their education system,
00:27:26.880 that we could freeze their assets that were held in one of the Federal Reserve banks.
00:27:33.040 I forget if it was the New York Federal Reserve Bank or the one in Atlanta.
00:27:36.520 But the fact is, the State Department is getting outside recommendations that we might want to threaten to seize the assets that they keep in U.S. banks
00:27:47.800 if they simply get control over their own curriculum again.
00:27:52.100 At the time, the State Department was fearful that Ukrainians were only motivated to take back control of their education system
00:28:02.020 because they were unhappy with Western-style education because they were unhappy with the mandatory curriculum teachings on civic literacy that effectively purged their own history,
00:28:13.500 that put a ban on the use of the Russian language while half of the country spoke Russian,
00:28:21.800 that implemented all these reforms that the Ukrainians didn't like,
00:28:25.020 and we have effectively strong-armed them in order to keep control over what's inside the minds of their little baby boys and girls.
00:28:33.160 And, you know, I was actually having a conversation with Joshua Lysak earlier today,
00:28:38.000 the co-author of Unhumans, about all this.
00:28:40.380 And we were talking about fourth-generation warfare,
00:28:42.940 and these are all fourth-generation warfare tactics that were used against all the target populations that you're talking about.
00:28:48.900 And I said something about, I said, well, you know, fourth-generation warfare is so incredibly powerful,
00:28:55.420 that's why it's so useful even here in the United States, like for elections and various things.
00:28:59.940 And he said, yeah, fourth-generation works right up until the point where someone decides to use third-generation warfare back.
00:29:07.120 And that's basically the start of the Ukraine war,
00:29:11.940 where the Russians finally got to the point where they said, look, we believe we've been provoked enough,
00:29:17.160 we believe that you are preparing to bring NATO into the country.
00:29:21.480 Of course, they're talking about that right now with Keir Stahmer.
00:29:24.940 Apparently, King Charles sent some letter to President Trump about this,
00:29:28.600 asking for British troops, and Macron is talking about bringing French troops into Ukraine.
00:29:34.540 And this is exactly why the war started.
00:29:36.880 So it stayed fourth-generation warfare right up until the point where it went back to third.
00:29:43.300 Yeah, yeah.
00:29:44.500 And the fact is, I made a tweet about it a year ago, which said something like, you know,
00:29:54.880 this whole war could come to an end if the U.S. simply apologized for overthrowing the 2014 government,
00:30:02.420 because that is what set the stage for this whole Ukraine affair.
00:30:07.260 The fact is, the U.S. was very much treating Ukraine as a war state eight years before the war.
00:30:14.200 Trump was impeached in 2019 over even potentially vaguely threatening to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
00:30:22.800 Why do we need U.S. military aid to Ukraine if there was no war in Ukraine?
00:30:27.200 The fact is, is they were seizing back the territories in eastern Ukraine that had broken away from the Kiev government after the coup.
00:30:35.680 That virtually the entirety of western Ukraine spoke Russian and the U.S. State Department imposed through things like the Red Line's memo and direct pressure from the U.S. Embassy,
00:30:46.800 as well as we're seeing in the educational reforms that were implemented, that they weren't even allowed to speak their own mother tongue.
00:30:54.080 Half of the country was banned from speaking their native language.
00:30:58.580 I mean, imagine the outrage, for example, if the government of Mexico organized a coup against Donald Trump, half the country's Donald Trump supporters,
00:31:10.740 and then the new installed president of the United States banned the English language and mandated everyone, you know, everyone speak Spanish.
00:31:21.720 You're almost forced to take to the streets and protest.
00:31:25.500 You're almost forced if you're living in a state like Ohio or Pennsylvania to defect from the union because you're not even able to speak the new national language
00:31:37.540 while you're already massively enraged at the coup you just watched take place.
00:31:44.180 You know, it's amazing because the things that you're talking about, borders, but also language, culture, history.
00:31:53.180 See, the elites, by the way, that we've been talking about in the Department of Education, they don't understand any of that stuff, right?
00:32:01.060 They don't ever go to the level of saying, oh, well, this is important to this group of people and this is why, and these are the social mores,
00:32:07.180 these are the connections, the ties, the tissues, they just view the lines on the map and they have almost a, like a comic book, Marvel movie,
00:32:15.680 you know, kindergarten kind of view of the world where, well, this is one country and this is another country
00:32:20.720 and this is where this country stops and this is where this country starts.
00:32:23.740 And yet, obviously, things like language are a great indicator of this, right?
00:32:27.480 So you see this with French Canadians, by the way.
00:32:30.480 That's one of the reasons, one of the big reasons that Quebec or Quebec has talked about breaking away from Canada over the years
00:32:37.500 is because they have a cultural and historical affinity to France.
00:32:42.260 When you go there, you will hear them speaking French, even to this day in Canadian politics.
00:32:47.260 If you want to hold office, you have to speak both, even though it's really only one province that speaks to this.
00:32:52.340 But again, these are the things that, these are the ties that bind.
00:32:55.900 These are the ties that bind.
00:32:57.140 That's how the world works.
00:32:58.120 That's how the world has always been since, you know, Tower of Babel. 0.98
00:33:02.120 And it is not going to be changed because some professor says it ought to be.
00:33:08.180 Yeah.
00:33:08.680 One minute till the break.
00:33:10.580 The elites don't care, as you mentioned, and they haven't been forced to care because they've always presupposed they can just run them over.
00:33:17.180 It doesn't matter what they think.
00:33:18.620 It doesn't matter, you know, how much of a burden it's going to be on them.
00:33:22.700 They have no institutional power, so we can pull them over.
00:33:25.340 And they know that they've got the backing in the highest of places.
00:33:29.260 For example, I mentioned the Atlantic Council and its role here in the education space in Ukraine.
00:33:33.360 Well, the Atlantic Council has seven CIA directors on its board.
00:33:36.760 It gets annual funding from the Pentagon, the State Department, USAID, and the National Bank for Democracy.
00:33:41.060 They think, what are these little old Ukrainians going to do?
00:33:43.680 And then they found to their surprise in late 2014 that they decided to break away from the entire government and get backstopped by the Russian military.
00:33:53.320 And their response was the new Cold War that we live in now.
00:33:57.940 Yeah.
00:33:59.220 Language, culture, borders.
00:34:02.260 God forbid I mention ethnicity.
00:34:03.980 Oh, no.
00:34:05.380 Oh, no.
00:34:06.020 But, yes, we're going to discuss it all here in the event standpoint.
00:34:19.220 Jack is a great guy.
00:34:20.760 He's written a fantastic book.
00:34:22.460 Everybody's talking about it.
00:34:23.640 Go get it.
00:34:24.740 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
00:34:28.720 And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.
00:34:31.880 Amen.
00:34:32.280 I'm going to shoot them.
00:34:35.820 WTF
00:35:05.820 It's the police!
00:35:07.820 It's the police!
00:35:09.820 It's the police!
00:35:11.820 James, Scott, Rhys, Anderson.
00:35:15.820 There was British Army before.
00:35:17.820 So when I left, got fired from my job.
00:35:20.820 I applied on the International Legion webpage.
00:35:25.820 My dad was away in prison.
00:35:29.820 I see it on the TV.
00:35:31.820 It's a stupid idea.
00:35:33.820 All right, Jack, we're back.
00:35:35.820 Human Events Daily, getting into our final segment here
00:35:37.820 with Mike Benz on the show today.
00:35:39.820 Benz, here's what I've tried to explain.
00:35:41.820 And by the way, that clip that played for the Real
00:35:43.820 America's Voice audience, that was a
00:35:45.820 British
00:35:47.820 volunteer being asked to put
00:35:49.820 down his weapons, then taken
00:35:51.820 into captivity in Kursk, which is
00:35:53.820 Kurskoblast in the territory of Russia.
00:35:55.820 The Russians are on the move 1.00
00:35:57.820 in Kursk, taking back 0.81
00:35:59.820 the territory of
00:36:01.820 the city and the forest
00:36:03.820 up to their border.
00:36:05.820 Benz, what President Trump is trying
00:36:07.820 to accomplish with Russia vis-a-vis 0.51
00:36:09.820 this treaty with Ukraine,
00:36:11.820 the peace deal, I keep
00:36:13.820 saying what he's trying to do
00:36:15.820 is actually pivot Russia
00:36:17.820 so that rather than put Russia
00:36:19.820 and China together and have them as
00:36:21.820 co-belligerents against the United States,
00:36:23.820 and by the way, with Iran,
00:36:25.820 their ally in the Middle East,
00:36:27.820 what he's actually trying to do is
00:36:29.820 break up that relationship,
00:36:31.820 affect the new Sino-Soviet split,
00:36:33.820 achieve rapprochement
00:36:35.820 the same way Kissinger did
00:36:37.820 in the 1960s and 70s,
00:36:39.820 although in the reverse direction,
00:36:41.820 and then actually balance,
00:36:43.820 not ally,
00:36:45.820 but balance Russia
00:36:47.820 against China, and then of course 0.96
00:36:49.820 use their influence in the Middle East.
00:36:51.820 Do you think that's what's going on?
00:36:53.820 And why is it that the blob
00:36:55.820 is so opposed to this?
00:36:57.820 I do. I think that's exactly
00:36:59.820 what's going on.
00:37:01.820 The blob is opposed to this
00:37:03.820 on several grounds.
00:37:05.820 They want to seize all of Eurasia. 0.99
00:37:07.820 The blob's North Star
00:37:09.820 is 1993
00:37:11.820 through 1997.
00:37:13.820 The end of history,
00:37:15.820 the Francis Fukuyama end of history.
00:37:17.820 Francis Fukuyama, who was the
00:37:19.820 policy planning staff guru
00:37:21.820 for both German reunification
00:37:23.820 and for
00:37:27.820 what is called today
00:37:29.820 the economic rape of Russia.
00:37:31.820 This was at a time when shock therapy
00:37:33.820 was going on.
00:37:35.820 The Soviet Union had 0.89
00:37:37.820 surrendered effectively to the United States
00:37:39.820 and asked for help
00:37:41.820 to transition from communism
00:37:43.820 to capitalism.
00:37:45.820 The U.S. government stepped in
00:37:47.820 and effectively took control
00:37:49.820 over the Russian economy
00:37:51.820 and said, we'll help you become
00:37:53.820 a first world economy just like us.
00:37:55.820 So USAID took the lead on that.
00:37:57.820 This is in the 1990s
00:37:59.820 and USAID
00:38:01.820 deputized the University
00:38:03.820 of Harvard's USAID
00:38:05.820 version. It was called the Harvard Institute
00:38:07.820 of International Development,
00:38:09.820 which got half a billion dollars from
00:38:11.820 the U.S. agency for international
00:38:13.820 development to lead this. The head of
00:38:15.820 the Harvard Institute for International Development
00:38:17.820 was a man you may know.
00:38:19.820 His name is Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
00:38:21.820 At the time, he was a
00:38:23.820 Harvard professor. Now he's
00:38:25.820 at Columbia with Victoria Newland
00:38:27.820 and Mike Pompeo
00:38:29.820 and Hillary Clinton. 0.98
00:38:31.820 All of his best buddies.
00:38:33.820 Jeffrey Sachs became a whistleblower
00:38:37.820 in the Ukraine affair
00:38:39.820 and recently testified
00:38:41.820 to the European Union
00:38:43.820 that when he was called
00:38:45.820 to do the economic reforms of Ukraine
00:38:47.820 after the 2014 coup
00:38:49.820 that he was told while he was walked
00:38:51.820 around the square
00:38:53.820 that the U.S. had orchestrated it
00:38:55.820 and had funded
00:38:57.820 the buses,
00:38:59.820 the rent-to-riots that came in.
00:39:01.820 He just testified about that, to my knowledge,
00:39:03.820 for the first time
00:39:05.820 just last month. But Jeffrey Sachs has been
00:39:07.820 leading the charge against this.
00:39:09.820 I have
00:39:11.820 to assume that's in good faith
00:39:13.820 because he's just seen enough at this point.
00:39:15.820 Just like Henry Kissinger himself,
00:39:17.820 who advocated so much expansionism
00:39:19.820 and then in his later years
00:39:21.820 said it was a mistake to continue the expansion.
00:39:23.820 But the fact is,
00:39:25.820 the Harvard Institute for International Development
00:39:27.820 teamed up with George Soros'
00:39:29.820 Quantum Fund. They received
00:39:31.820 hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S.
00:39:33.820 government to do it. They got billions
00:39:35.820 of dollars of
00:39:37.820 first pass investments on
00:39:39.820 cheap Russian fire
00:39:41.820 sale properties.
00:39:43.820 Essentially, these were formerly
00:39:45.820 held in a horrible
00:39:47.820 communist state, but
00:39:49.820 nominally for the people of the
00:39:51.820 Soviet Union, but all the assets were turned
00:39:53.820 over to Wall Street
00:39:55.820 and London on the cheap.
00:39:57.820 They effectively bribed
00:39:59.820 the Russian officials who were
00:40:01.820 administrating it.
00:40:03.820 So they were essentially
00:40:05.820 stealing
00:40:07.820 these resources
00:40:09.820 from Russia and then using it
00:40:11.820 to line their own
00:40:13.820 pockets. That's what was going on
00:40:15.820 throughout the 90s. That's what
00:40:17.820 you're seeing this response to. And the Clintons
00:40:19.820 were in on it,
00:40:21.820 raping them with
00:40:23.820 both hands. Mike Benz, where can
00:40:25.820 people go to follow you, brother?
00:40:27.820 Follow me on x at Mike Benz
00:40:29.820 cyber. I'm actually going to post clips from
00:40:31.820 a recent lecture that I did on this exact topic
00:40:33.820 later today.
00:40:35.820 Incredible. It's like I wish
00:40:37.820 the show were two hours longer so we
00:40:39.820 could get more of Benz. Go follow
00:40:41.820 him because you get the deepest dives
00:40:43.820 around right there with
00:40:45.820 him. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission
00:40:47.820 to lay short.