RadixJournal - From Opera to the Apocalypse

00:00:00.000 Even worse, and this has been brewing for a little bit, but it was sort of brewing in a pot on the back burner for some time, but Donald Trump directly threatened to leave NATO, saying that, where was NATO when we needed NATO?

00:00:21.900 they he he sort of vaguely threatened them earlier saying that you know um obviously a

00:00:29.780 tremendous amount of natural gas gasoline fertilizer goes through the Strait of Hormuz to

00:00:36.000 China uh and Asia but a lot of it goes to Europe as well and it's like well you you can buy from

00:00:42.540 us so you should just go over there and take it let's go take it be like me just take stuff

00:00:47.920 and that was a i guess a challenge but also a sort of veiled threat to europe uh caroline levitt

00:00:57.940 was asked about this and she said yes uh donald trump is considering this we've been considering

00:01:03.980 it for a while nato is a thing of the past and he's talking with rutta about this right as we

00:01:09.800 speak rutta was typically he was a he's a good politician i guess you could say but he was cagey

00:01:15.960 and didn't give anything away but i do think that this type of thing is possible and real

00:01:28.340 um i mean what what kind of world are we moving into i i remember doing this interview

00:01:40.120 with Gunter, our friend who's a wild social media savvy, pro-NATO, pro-EU, pro-globalism

00:01:50.300 type guy. And I said that I think there are only a few pragmatic options in terms of a world order.

00:02:05.080 And, you know, we might want something like the unification of the West. We're all in this together. The first world, whites, you know, and we'll all be together.

00:02:21.160 But as nice as that sounds, that might not be practical, at least in the short and medium term. 0.94

00:02:32.560 And what we've had for some time has been the East-West division of the Cold War plus Israel.

00:02:41.180 Now, Israel has always been an ambivalent matter, I guess you could say, when it comes to Russia and the Soviet Union. 0.59

00:02:52.540 Soviet Union was, in fact, the first to injure, recognize Israel, and they supported Israel. They actually sent weapons from Czechoslovakia to Israel that were integral, perhaps indispensable, in 1948 and the Nakba, the ethnic displacement that occurred there.

00:03:16.400 And there's even a sort of sense that so much of early Zionism was outright socialism that Israel would be naturally aligned with the Soviet Union.

00:03:30.100 Now, that went away rather quickly, and the Soviet Union began aligning itself with anti-Zionism and with pan-Arab nationalism, you could say, and certainly by the 1967 war, the Soviet Union was not on board.

00:03:49.280 And I believe after 1967, they broke off relations with Israel that wouldn't be renewed until 1989, just before the fall of the Soviet Union.

00:04:01.060 In between, you had the refusenik controversy that we talked a little bit about with Jeremy and some of the suspicions he's had about Nathan Sharansky, who was sort of the icon of that movement.

00:04:15.200 But it was Jews in the Soviet Union who wanted to immigrate, that is get out of the USSR, wanted to go to Israel, and they had a right of return of sorts with Israel.

00:04:26.480 and just by the fact that they were refusing to take part they were already under suspicion so

00:04:33.200 it was a sort of you know do you want to burn your passport well if you don't do it right and

00:04:38.460 you don't make sure you get out you might very well end up in a labor camp or at the very least

00:04:45.240 be marginalized from society as a type of social parasite etc and this was a major controversy I

00:04:54.280 I mean, Kissinger notoriously said that, because Kissinger obviously wanted to get along with the Soviet Union, and he said they could, the Soviets could gas all of these Jewish refuseniks, and that wouldn't affect, in the slightest bit, our negotiations over nuclear weapons with Brezhnev or whomever he was dealing with at the time.

00:05:18.100 uh so there but at the same time as the 70s went on more and more russian jews and many

00:05:27.220 in many cases russians who weren't jews immigrated to israel to the point that i believe the russian

00:05:35.560 speaking population in israel is a million so correct me if i'm wrong but one in six or one

00:05:42.480 seven it's massive yes one in six let's say uh Israelis are Lindsay do you want to correct me

00:05:52.760 on this you would know oh 12.5 to 12.7 so one in eight one in eight okay fair enough um that's a

00:06:02.120 lot uh that is the you know size of the african-american population that's a lot

00:06:09.900 uh in the united states it's a major voting block that's a major impact on culture and

00:06:16.420 similar cultural impact if you're familiar with the region that might be true they wear their

00:06:25.160 pants low that's what i'm hearing those rush yeah actually quite literally yes

00:06:31.280 i mean it's hot true um i will just add to that that also many of the russian jews used israel

00:06:44.980 as a stopgap to the united states because the main point with the soviet union was to get out

00:06:50.920 and then you had a bunch of options right so many people just went to the many of the russian jews

00:06:56.940 ended up in florida and new york just by getting out through israel yes uh vladimir putin said

00:07:07.540 you know when when his ask are you going to join in the war with iran your ally bricks right bricks

00:07:12.820 right a bricks member has been attacked isn't bricks the new nato or the new eu or something

00:07:18.600 and he said oh no you know there's so many um israel is a russian-speaking country we could

00:07:25.120 never attack israel now there are some indications that russia is helping iran with information

00:07:34.160 and targeting but that is all they are doing they from a military standpoint they are

00:07:41.520 mostly leaving iran high and dry i mean iran was giving russia all of these drones iran is a

00:07:48.740 partner in the the second world the turd world whatever they imagine bricks to be and they are

00:07:57.680 not being supported by russia russia isn't i mean it's sort of vaguely calling out the problem you

00:08:05.760 know much like vladimir putin blamed gaza on americans and things like they're sort of vaguely

00:08:11.760 talking about it but they are mostly leaving iran high and dry they are not united in an

00:08:20.180 anti-american alliance or an anti-semitic alliance or whatever these people dream about a socialist

00:08:26.680 alliance whatever the sort of horseshoe left and right dream about that is not happening

00:08:32.160 and there are deep relations between israel and russia israel has not still never condemned the

00:08:40.300 invasion of ukraine uh benjamin netanyahu to his russian in effect voting bloc they vote lakud

00:08:50.960 so they're not like african americans in this way they vote right wing uh he was picturing himself

00:08:58.740 with you know banners of of him and putin shaking hands and smiling and so on we're pro-russia

00:09:06.880 and the ties go deeper so i guess what i was saying to gunter just to go back to that point was that

00:09:17.800 it it not at the very beginning but certainly since the late 60s

00:09:25.280 we've had the west which has been defending itself against communism writ large and russia

00:09:35.320 in particular and plus Israel so Israel sort of like our Jewish buddy who lives in the Middle

00:09:42.940 East but now Israel's not in NATO of course but it it was by the fact that it was a client state

00:09:53.020 of the United States it was connected with the West writ large and that is one way of doing

00:10:01.160 things you have it's maybe not ideal but it is one way of doing things and it is western and

00:10:08.680 central europe the united states canada and israel and then you have some strategic assets that are

00:10:15.640 almost more geographically important than they are culturally important like turkey or something

00:10:25.220 like that, that are also a little bit of an oddball in the NATO alliance, but geographically

00:10:32.440 important. But there's sort of another way of doing these things. And I wonder the degree to

00:10:41.000 which this is what MAGA and Trump are ultimately pointing towards. And no, it's not getting rid

00:10:49.480 of israel as many of the wignats and far leftist imagine it would be the united states israel and

00:11:01.180 russia in a new alliance and in a sort of pincer action geographically against europe it would be

00:11:08.760 an anti-white alliance it would be an anti-western alliance an anti-civilization alliance in my mind

00:11:19.180 the Iran conflict no doubt supports Russia and the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is being told 0.92

00:11:32.240 or is out of commission is great for Russia because you know what Russia can do they can

00:11:40.020 still sell you natural resources, oil, gas, etc. They benefit from Iran's destruction and the 0.92

00:11:51.520 logistical dislocations that have followed with this. As I said on Tuesday, yes, most of the 0.99

00:12:03.460 vatniks or pro-russian people of the right or left are most all of them are anti-israel to boot

00:12:12.040 but there are these types that are both pro-israel and pro-russia and there's that you know

00:12:22.160 wonderful little former stripper congresswoman i believe her real name is meyerson or meyerhoff 0.92

00:12:30.720 or something. Anna Paulina Luna. But there's also just J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance is vice president. 0.90

00:12:38.740 J.D. Vance is explicitly wanted over and over again to cast Ukraine, cast Europe

00:12:48.680 to the wolves. Who cares? But he doesn't want to do that to Israel. He wants Israel in the fold. 0.94

00:13:00.720 I think there is a deep sort of hillbilly resentment with J.D. Vance that's really in his blood and in his bone marrow of hating Europe, hating civilization. 0.60

00:13:15.600 and he looks to israel russia and america as sort of the the type of thing that he wants

00:13:24.540 that he values and he looks at europe as sort of evil at the very 1.00

00:13:31.860 least something that we shouldn't defend or pay any mind those decadent faggots can take care of 1.00

00:13:40.340 themselves and so there is a sort of like trad alliance of the based forming of Likud right-wing 1.00

00:13:51.180 Israel Putinist Russia and Trumpian America that all in their own way benefit from logistical

00:14:02.480 dislocations in iran and you know israel wants greater israel america wants to sell uh gas and

00:14:11.140 oil to the world russia wants to do the same we all benefit from this even if it's bad even

00:14:16.920 prices of higher we become more valuable in the chaos and pain and maybe this is the type of trad

00:14:29.220 world order that is emerging and europe is going to be left high and dry now maybe on some moral

00:14:37.200 level the europeans do sort of deserve it they have i mean it's not wrong of course that

00:14:44.820 they have benefited from the american umbrella they haven't really been forced to fight in the

00:14:55.180 way that americans have now germany is rearming transitioning from a you know industrial engineering

00:15:04.300 automobile medical devices economy to an armaments economy and they're doing it fast and furious and

00:15:12.460 profitably um but nevertheless the whole decadent europe insult it it has a large kernel of truth

00:15:23.040 i think we should admit are they really willing to fight russians are they really willing to use

00:15:32.980 nato to defend ukraine which is a non-nato country but just to understand that if ukraine

00:15:40.200 isn't defended we're next poland's next that is a nato country somebody's next the baltic states

00:15:48.540 or next isn't germany part of the not and not just the eastern half sort of part of the

00:15:56.620 old soviet bloc that putin wants to revive

00:15:59.520 is europe really willing to fight or do they sort of like the idea of hosting zelinski at parties

00:16:10.140 and patting him on the back and telling him how brave he is sending him some money of course

00:16:16.680 sending him billions of dollars to be fair, but sending him some money and some, we'll buy some 0.99

00:16:20.600 arms here, get them from Germany, the United States, send them over, go fight, go die. We love 0.99

00:16:26.540 you. U2 has released a new song about you. Go for it. But are they really willing to fight if

00:16:37.840 ukraine is abandoned if the united states abandons nato ukraine feels the pressure

00:16:47.280 they give in to the sort of physics of the problem which is that

00:16:53.220 ultimately russia has more men to throw into the meat grinder than ukraine does

00:16:58.360 are they willing to fight i don't know

00:17:05.000 but i do wonder if this sort of horrible new order is emerging of orthodox putinist russia

00:17:18.440 lakutist hard zionist blood and soil israel and populist trumpian america

00:17:31.400 that's exactly what it sounds

RadixJournal - April 10, 2026

From Opera to the Apocalypse

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