In this episode of Stand On Guard, I'm joined by Neil Oliver to discuss the latest news regarding the deal between the UK and Ukraine over rare earth minerals, and President Trump's reaction to it. We also talk about how the EU should be honest with the US about what they're really trying to get out of the deal.
00:01:41.380So I wasn't even going to discuss this today because yesterday I wasn't even aware of it.
00:01:45.760But this is a news release from the UK government, supposedly from February.
00:01:52.980For some reason, the U.S. State Department, Donald Trump, none of the U.S. media noticed this until yesterday.
00:02:03.040And this talks about, and I'm going to play this interview with a guy who actually found it, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer, who actually dug this up.
00:02:12.160We're not sure whether or not this was actually put up on the day it was announced or they neglected to put it up until recently.
00:02:19.220Because this, of course, completely nullifies all of President Donald Trump's aspirations to get these rare earth minerals from Ukraine.
00:02:29.340Because Ukrainian dictator Zelensky has given them all to the UK, an 100-year partnership declaration.
00:02:38.120So let's just watch this interview with Tony Schaefer here, where he talks about this happening.
00:02:45.900Well, first off, they've got to change the fact that on the 17th of January, the British signed an agreement with Ukraine to have exclusive rights to those deals.
00:02:55.980This is a battle of dueling narratives. You can go check it out.
00:03:00.760This is on the British UK website. It talks about this 100-year Ukraine and UK signed a 100-year deal over security guarantees and economic development.
00:03:15.560So what happened is that I believe President Trump and his team found out that they were being played.
00:03:20.640So this has become a set of dueling narratives.
00:03:25.420The BBC just said today there's massive protests here.
00:03:29.360Zach Andrews just said all the European leaders are behind Zelensky.
00:03:35.600We, the United States, are trying to be signed up to a deal that we provide security guarantees to a economic development deal that Keir Stalmer has already signed them up to do.
00:03:47.600So the first thing it has to do is people have to take a step back and be honest with what's really going on.
00:03:53.780And so I think what happened here, I don't know the details.
00:05:30.960And my first reaction is, I don't know what to make of it.
00:05:35.380I suppose my gut instinct was to wonder the extent to which it was some sort of performative, you know, you say this, I'll say that.
00:05:44.440It was so bizarre, the way they all interacted.
00:05:48.140I thought, is this actually what these people are instinctively and organically thinking and saying?
00:05:53.640But there are so many things to wonder about.
00:05:59.960I mean, this idea of a hundred-year deal, in what universe does it make sense to believe that that which prevails now will still prevail in a hundred years' time?
00:06:12.800That you can sign up to something that lasts for a century, you know, when administrations and regimes, you know, come and go in a matter of a few years.
00:06:24.260And it's also, it has that feel about it of the way that there are these, you know, the companies out there that sell you gold, but, you know, you don't take possession of the physical gold.
00:06:35.820And for that reason, the same ounce of gold can be sold a hundred times to a hundred different people, even though it's just the same one ounce of gold.
00:06:44.160It's got that feel about it as though Zelensky has, who knows who else thinks they own Ukraine's mineral resources.
00:06:54.380Maybe the most glaring point is that it would appear that these fabled mineral resources reside in that eastern part of Ukraine that's occupied by Russia.
00:07:10.380Keir Starmer or President Trump or whoever else would really more logically have to be making a deal with Vladimir Putin's Russia about who gets access to what.
00:07:22.440I've even heard geologists debating the extent to which these rare earth minerals and metals are actually in a geological condition that makes them usable in the way that I think non-geological people might be assuming.
00:07:45.460I'm only relaying that which I have read about people who seem to have a much deeper geological grasp than I do.
00:07:52.620It's a bit like, you know, given a few million years of geological time and the right kind of conditions and pressure, coal might turn into diamonds.
00:08:02.020But just because you've got stuff that's on the way to being uranium and lithium or whatever else it is, I don't know that it's necessarily as readily accessible as it might be.
00:08:11.960But so there's a huge amount to unpack here.
00:08:14.740But yes, it looks like a bait and switch.
00:08:19.520Well, I'm just going to play a brief clip from that incredible news conference.
00:08:24.860And once again, it's almost like they forgot the entire Washington press corps sitting there in the same room with them because the masks came off.
00:08:35.700I know Trump is just, he probably despises Zelensky almost as much as he despises Justin Trudeau.
00:08:43.720And there's nobody in the world he despises more than Justin Trudeau.
00:08:47.560But he really had his fill of Zelensky, of him coming out always with his hands outstretched asking for another 10 billion, please.
00:09:39.420Mr. President, Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media.
00:09:46.640Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
00:09:52.960You should be thanking the President for trying to bring an end to this conflict.
00:09:56.140Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?
00:10:14.920And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
00:11:48.760Suddenly, he does this incredible, absolute overturn.
00:11:56.340And he's now, we can't trust Zelensky.
00:11:58.780Obviously, I think what happened was Lindsey Graham got word that day what Zelensky had been up to with his rare earth.
00:12:06.320Because it's, all you've heard from Lindsey Graham in the past month is all the trillions of dollars the Americans are going to get out of Ukraine from these rare earths.
00:12:16.320And as you point out, Neil, they always seem to forget that most of these rare earths are in the eastern, southeastern part of the country, which is occupied by Russia.
00:12:24.800And it's going to stay occupied by Russia.
00:12:27.160I think anybody with any sense of what's going to happen with that peace treaty can understand Russia is not going to evacuate all of the land that's occupied.
00:12:36.720There'll probably still be Ukraine at the end of this.
00:12:40.580But it's not going to go all of Ukraine's way.
00:13:35.720And it's, I find the whole thing absolutely fascinating.
00:13:39.540Apparently, one of the main things that people would be, would not have seen because the cameras weren't at Yalta was the massive amounts of alcohol that were consumed all round.
00:13:51.580Huge amounts of vodka and brandy and champagne and everything else.
00:13:54.520But I think they were all, you know, they were all very well oiled by the time, you know, any agreements came to pass.
00:14:01.880My, another of my, my gut reactions to watching that, that event in the White House was, it just seemed unseemly for all concerned.
00:14:12.420I've, like you say, I've certainly never seen anything.
00:14:15.160I don't remember seeing anything remotely like it.
00:14:17.800You know, we can all imagine that there are heated debates that happen behind closed doors as these, you know, characters discuss things.
00:14:24.800But it didn't, I don't think it showed anyone in a, in a gentlemanly light.
00:14:30.780It didn't, it didn't give an aura of, you know, of diplomacy or maturity.
00:14:37.400It had, it just had all the attributes of, of a fight around a family dinner table that was about to end up with people throwing punches.
00:14:46.300It just didn't seem appropriate for heads of, two heads of state and a, and a, and a vice president to be relating to one another in that way in front of the world's cameras.
00:14:57.600My thought was, what are you all thinking?
00:15:00.280I thought it was, it's really ill-advised, surely, of Vladimir Zelensky.
00:15:07.980I'm sure he's, you know, he's, he's obviously, you know, multilingual, but you could tell from listening to him that he didn't have English at the point where it was nuanced in, in that, for that kind of highly public, highly inflammatory situation.
00:15:25.020You know, and I, and I felt that in many ways, you know, you often, usually see Vladimir Putin works through a translator, which apart from anything else, gives them time to think.
00:15:35.040You know, they're, they're, they're getting time to listen to the question relayed to them by their translator in their own idiom so that they can, you know, and make sure and then reply in their own language.
00:15:46.360You know what I mean, it can, I think that, but I thought, why are you doing this in, in a, in a secondary language that you're clearly very, very competent in?
00:15:56.640I'm not saying he's not conversational, but he wasn't quite on that same language level as the other two men.
00:16:03.080I, I don't really, I do wonder, after all this time, watching the events of the last several years unfold, the extent to which we're watching theatre, to some extent, I don't know, Vladimir Zelensky doesn't have any cards left, as Donald Trump gets on saying, you don't have the cards, you know, we would have to give you the cards to play this game.
00:16:28.040But it is, it's, it's demonstrably the case that Zelensky now finds himself extremely vulnerable between the meshing teeth of two of the three great superpowers on the planet.
00:16:43.520What, what is he going to do? Because he doesn't have, he doesn't have anything unless somebody else gives it to him.
00:16:49.560So he's incredibly vulnerable. And we know that even, even Donald Trump has his backers and his, and his people behind the scenes that have leverage of one kind or another, to move the ship of state in one direction or another.
00:17:08.240The likes of Keir Starmer in the UK, the French President Macron, you know, Olaf Scholz, I don't really see them credibly as people who are actually making the decisions anyway.
00:17:22.520And we know, we've seen them working already in that, in that way that we learned to spot during COVID, of them working from one script, as though there was a laminated card getting sent through the post every day, these are the talking points today, make sure you get these words into your speech in this fashion.
00:17:41.020We saw it with build back better and window of opportunity and, you know, three weeks to flatten the curve and save the NHS.
00:17:48.400And it was just, there was this thing that these lines that everybody involved was saying, and it's already kicked off again with, with Ukraine, you know, cheering for Ukraine is the, is the latest version of, you know, here in Britain, they wanted people to go out on the streets every Tuesday night and bang saucepans with wooden spoons in an act of support.
00:18:07.900You know, this was, you know, this was the obeisance, this was the kind of ritualized, you know, getting down on your knees and genuflecting to the NHS that was this performative stunt that everyone was supposed to take part in and, you know, waving the blue and yellow flag and saying Slavia Ukrania is now the new, you know, save the NHS.
00:18:28.780It doesn't look, it's not real, it's not real, it's choreographed.
00:18:31.900It is so much, this is so, so theatrical, but of course the Dems, Democrats in the States immediately jumped on this to say that this was some kind of ambush and poor Zelensky set up for this.
00:18:45.080And in fact, as you point out, we'll get to your slide in a second here, but interesting, the mainstream media in the U.S. dug up people like Susan Rice, who hasn't been on camera now in years.
00:19:08.620Joining our ongoing coverage, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, former National Security Advisor to President Obama, Ambassador Susan Rice is here.
00:19:58.360I think Trump was legitimately blindsided by this.
00:20:03.460I don't think there was any intention of this degenerating into this sort of surreal news conference.
00:20:10.500I do think the Dems had a lot to do with it, though.
00:20:12.280I think the Democrats were playing a very, very dangerous game because they are literally undermining U.S. foreign policy in a way that is very close to treason at times.
00:20:24.700And, of course, that potentially could be prosecuted.
00:20:29.420But I found your observation fascinating.
00:20:37.400Oh, well, it surely, if it can't be accidental, you know, that's only some of the people that were using that exact form of words at the same time.
00:20:54.620There's all sorts of fascinating montages on, you know, on the Internet, on social media and so on, you know, where you can see news broadcasters and anchors all around the world saying things like, you know, regardless of the propaganda, it cannot be denied that Ukraine is going to win this war.
00:21:12.280And that form of words exactly was trotted out by one journalistic mouth after another.
00:21:22.380So then you start playing five dimension, 5D chess with it because you think, well, surely they realize that it's nowadays with the way that the social media is operates, that this is this patterning is going to be picked up on in femtoseconds.
00:21:38.060And people are going to, you know, people are going to observe this, this synchronicity.
00:21:45.580You know, do they, do they want us to see that they're synchronizing behind closed doors?
00:21:50.960Because surely they couldn't imagine that it wouldn't be noticed if not in five minutes, you know, at least in 10.
00:21:58.680I just, I look on at it and it makes me panicky at a fundamental level that I've never been anxious about before.
00:22:06.160Because either a very clever game is being played that we, that we're not seeing, or it's this clumsy.
00:22:15.240And if the people with their hands on the levers of power are this clumsy, then in many ways that's worse than if they're as Machiavellian and sophisticated as some of us like to think.
00:22:29.420If they really are this lame, we really do have a lot to worry about when it's World War III that's the sword of Damocles hanging over everyone's heads.
00:22:40.880And I was so encouraged to hear Donald Trump lay that on the line with Zelensky saying, you're gambling with the world, you're gambling with World War III.
00:22:51.420And of course, I think in November, we may have reached the fever pitch of that.
00:22:56.420We came so close to a nuclear war breaking out.
00:22:59.780And yet the most of the national media in Canada, UK, and the US was completely blase about it.
00:23:07.700After decades of always reminding ourselves that nuclear war is insanity.
00:23:51.100You know, we've got Keir Starmer, Prime Minister in the UK, talking glibly about putting boots on the ground.
00:23:59.580I love when these completely untrained, non-military people, you know, jump on the squaddy jargon and stuff.
00:24:09.160But, you know, there's boots on the ground thing.
00:24:11.060Now, 30 seconds on the internet lets you establish that the Kremlin, Putin, whatever, has made it plain that any foreign forces, however they're badged, whether they're called NATO or UN or British or French, whatever, they will not be welcome on the battlefield, in the theatre, because of the way the battlefield is.
00:24:37.760And America, the Trump regime, has backed that up and said, that cannot happen.
00:25:09.920Well, here's Keir Starmer at his warmongering best.
00:25:13.260And I think he uses that phrase, boots on the ground.
00:25:16.600And by the way, I had boots on the ground in 1996-97 when I served with NATO over in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
00:25:25.180That's when NATO's mission really started to go askew, when it just was looking for any excuse to stay as an organization, despite the end of the Cold War.
00:27:41.920Anyway, and yes, we've got something, I think, like something under 80,000 personnel in the army.
00:27:49.680And less than, you know, less than, much less than half of that is a fighting, are fighting soldiers.
00:27:57.820You know, the rest of it is everything else that keeps the army, the army.
00:28:01.200And at any given point, that 30-odd thousand fighting troops, only something like 25% of that entity is not available to fight at any given moment.
00:28:12.320Now, I shouldn't have a laugh in my voice when I do it, because every single one of those is a mother's son who is potentially going to be put into an unsurvivable, a potentially unsurvivable situation at the behest of somebody who seems so disconnected from the realities, or what we all understand as the brutal realities of the situation in Ukraine.
00:28:36.720I mean, he's less of a kind of a prime minister.
00:28:39.420He's more like the nutter on the night bus that gets on and starts shouting the odds, and everyone's praying that he won't come and sit beside them and engage them directly.
00:28:48.700He doesn't seem bolted to reality at this point with these proclamations that he's making.
00:29:00.460This is why I keep turning it back towards you to see if you have any, can you distill any logic, any thesis from what he's saying?
00:29:13.700Well, clearly the British military has gone the way of the Canadian, because similarly, we have less than, I think it's 60, less than 65,000 full-time regular force personnel.
00:29:29.100We've virtually given away all of our leopard tanks to Ukraine, and this is something most Canadians aren't even aware of.
00:29:35.240They're gone, blown up on the battlefield.
00:29:39.160We just gave 30 more light-armored vehicles to Ukraine, or they're on their way, just in time either to be blown up on the battlefield or sold to some criminal cartel, which we now know the Zelensky regime is doing.
00:29:52.900They're selling military hardware outside of the country and getting money from it after it's been given to them.
00:30:00.300The hypocrisy and the greed is just incredible coming from this country.
00:30:06.000But I wonder if Keir Starmer is even thinking in ordinary terms, or if he's even capable of doing that.
00:30:14.700The Royal Navy was once, of course, the largest navy in the world.
00:30:18.560It was the pride of the British Empire.
00:30:41.000They have both, just as in Canada, conservative governments can be just as bad as liberal governments and completely ignoring the needs of the military, but very good at pretending they're very, very concerned at the same time.
00:30:54.840And we saw that nine years of Stephen Harper, marginally better than his predecessor.
00:31:01.860But when a push comes to shove, no, it's not there.
00:31:18.460But it's when these people talk this way, and they really think what they say doesn't matter, and they can somehow put their countries on a war footing when they haven't got the resources to even follow through with their threats.
00:31:35.660And they expect Putin somehow to nod and say, well, yes, I know you're not really serious, Kier, but just keep on talking.
00:31:45.220There does come a point where Putin and others are just throwing up their hands and saying, look, if you really want a war, go ahead, make my day.
00:31:54.800But I don't think you're going to get very far.
00:31:57.040And certainly that's the case throughout NATO countries.
00:32:01.600Now, I do think Donald Trump wants to get American troops out of Europe.
00:32:08.040He has mused about that over the years.
00:32:13.280But you have to look at Donald Trump as somebody who has said things for the last decade, and he might not repeat them as often today as he once did, but I think he still believes it.
00:32:23.100He wants to get Americans out of Europe.
00:32:25.480I think he would like to withdraw the United States from NATO because he sees it as an organization that is way past its due date.
00:32:36.360It really fulfills no other purpose today except to incite potential war on the European continent.
00:33:15.720Without them backstopping, without them writing the checks and all of the rest of it, anything that a Keir Starmer or an Emmanuel Macron says is, you know, they don't have the, you know, they can't, they don't have that in their account to honour the checks that they're metaphorically writing.
00:33:33.000They can't do it without the bank of mum and dad, which is, at the moment, it's Donald Trump and JD fans.
00:33:39.660So, it goes to something, I think, that might even be an unintended consequence of the globalist project, which, you know, we can all clearly see that the likes of Keir Starmer and Macron and Schultz and Ursula von der Leyen and all of the rest have bought into and preached and pushed and so on.
00:34:09.120And it was predicated upon, you know, the redundancy of nation states.
00:34:17.520And in the case of certainly the UK, I can't really speak to what the zeitgeist or what the atmosphere was elsewhere in Europe.
00:34:25.140But we've been being told that our history is shameful, you know, that our culture is anachronous at best, you know, or just shameful.
00:34:34.000You know, that our heritage is best forgotten, along with our great grandparents, you know, whose culture you might say it was.
00:34:41.800But that erosion, that deracination of peoples away from feeling that they belong to anything and that they're the descendants of and indeed the guardians and caretakers of something that might then be handed on to coming generations.
00:34:59.040Having achieved that, that part of the globalist project has worked, not to mention the uncontrolled, the deliberate mass immigration into Europe, into Britain, you know, which has turned upside down and diluted and irremediably altered the demographic of one nation state after another.
00:35:22.420However, for the incumbent heads of state in these places now to play to some kind of patriotism, to try and suggest that their people, their young men in the main might want to defend something, to defend a notion like democracy.
00:35:43.820When anyone with their heads screwed on, even remotely straight, can see that democracy, if it ever existed, is a meaningless concept now.
00:35:53.600Now, I do wonder if it's an unintended consequence of the success of the globalist project in undermining everyone's sense of self and belonging, that now inevitably, when someone like Keir Starmer talks about boots on the ground and there's even the, you know, the C word is out there, conscription and the necessity thereof.
00:36:12.280There ain't no way you're going to get that flag to fly in the climate of the third decade of the 21st century.
00:36:27.060Well, precisely, I know you pointed this out on numerous other occasions.
00:36:32.380How can you expect young men or women to defend the realm when you have been telling people that realm is horribly, obscenely corrupt and is racist and doesn't respect women, is misogynistic?
00:36:49.400And that's how they have sold British history.
00:36:52.800And yet you expect these same people to fight for this country.
00:36:59.120Germany, I mean, Germany has been prostrating itself to the world since 1945.
00:37:08.500You know, and the young there have been raised in this kind of, you know, if not self-loathing, this necessity for obeisance to make amends for the 20th century.
00:37:21.080And by now, Germany, which was once, you know, an intellectual superpower and, you know, the beating heart of the European economy and a once proud culture, it's now emasculated.
00:37:36.200It's on its knees, its sense of self, goodness only knows what remnant appendix of what was once the German sense of self still prevails.
00:37:48.180And that's been a consequence of the abiding philosophy of the last, you know, lifetime.
00:37:58.260We're in this situation where the peoples living in these countries, in large part, they could be living anywhere.
00:38:05.120And their sense of belonging has been so undermined, if not erased, that you can't motivate, short of coercion, you know, the kind of like, you know, the spirit of 1916 and the, you know, and the great conscription that put the, you know, the flower of a generation into the charnel house of Flanders.
00:38:25.700And, you know, God bless and, you know, the tragedy, the unforgivable tragedy of all of that.
00:38:31.800However, that was possible then because that, that, that those people believed in something and belonged to something.
00:38:38.700And again, and again, in 1940, people believed in something and they, they recognized a concept like democracy and freedom.
00:38:49.000And they believed that they had a share, a small percentage share in democracy and freedom and what it was to be British.
00:39:01.660So short of just like they do in Ukraine now, turning up at people's, you know, in car parks and on street corners and dragging unsuspecting lads into the backs of vans and driving them off to the front line.
00:39:15.580That's so, but it's the anachronistic nature of the saber rattling.
00:39:21.120I mean, you still have to fall back on these outmoded terms like saber rattling, you know, because the, we don't even have the vocabulary properly to express the situation in which we find ourselves.
00:39:32.540When you've got stuffed shirts like Keir Starmer standing behind podiums pretending to be wartime leaders, it's, they don't even fool themselves.
00:39:41.940Yeah, that's, that is, that's, that's so true.
00:39:46.320And when you think of the losses in this war in Ukraine to the Ukrainians have lost at least a million, perhaps as much as 1.8 million.
00:39:55.720Those are first world war fatality figures.
00:39:58.980Those are the kind of numbers you saw from countries like Serbia or Germany lost 4 million.
00:40:05.720But the British, Britain lost less than a million.
00:40:11.060If you, if you include Australia, Canada, New Zealand and all, it was probably about, about a million.
00:40:16.340But if these are horrendous numbers and they're also fighting in trenches.
00:40:21.600But of course, none of this ever gets on the evening news.
00:40:34.900World War II, Korea, Vietnam were more televised than this.
00:40:39.660Now there's got to be a very straightforward and probably very unpalatable explanation for why we're not being shown what's actually happening there.
00:40:46.120Because I would say it's because what we're being told is happening would be, it would be made, it would be laid bare that that is not what is happening.
00:41:02.960But even at that, Fabian Ware, who established what became the Commonwealth, you know, the War Graves Commission, because he was so upset about the mass graves and what was happening to the dead.
00:41:12.860He calculated that if Britain's dead were to march four abreast down Whitehall, it would take them three and a half days to pass the senator.
00:41:52.960And there was some serious conversations among these dreadful, ghoulish old men that had stayed safe behind the lines while the young men went off and got turned into pink mist in places like the Somme and Passchendaele and all of the rest of it.
00:42:05.880But there was conversations that had to be had about whether France could still exist.
00:42:10.240And yet here we are, apparently having learned those lessons.
00:42:14.680And we've got a man who's never got his hands dirty, far less bled in a trench, daring to acquire unto himself language like boots on the ground.
00:42:29.680But, you know, I'll leave us with this because we both alluded to the fact that these, you know, these rare earth minerals, which is a concept I don't think I even was aware of six months ago.
00:42:43.640And suddenly everybody's talking about rare earth.
00:42:46.460But Vladimir Putin had a little offer for the United States.
00:42:49.880We, by the way, are we ready to propose to our American partners, when partners, I'm talking about administrative and government structures and companies, if they could have an interest in a joint work.
00:43:07.180So there is an offer and I think Donald Trump might pick him up on it.
00:43:32.260And it's interesting because these are the conversations really, you know, it's the saying the quiet but out loud, as we've learned to say ad nauseum now.
00:43:42.760But when someone like Vladimir Putin is saying that, it's the, what you take from that is the corporatisation of and the tokenisation of the world and everything that's in it.
00:43:58.400I mean, let's get down to, you know, sort of brass tacks and acknowledge that it's BlackRock and Vanguard that are in control of this situation.
00:44:08.660They are the best, you know, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, all the rest of it.
00:44:14.580It's BlackRock and or Vanguard that control.
00:44:21.840All sorts of people are standing ready to, you know, to launder through the trillions that will be passed off as the reconstruction of Ukraine.
00:44:29.940And the cash registers will be tinging, you know, you know, for decades to come as the usual suspects.
00:44:37.440More of these, you know, barely spotted ghouls, you know, will profit from the aftermath of war in the way that these dreadful old ghouls always do out of sight and largely out of mind.
00:44:50.560You know, every blade of grass, every tree in the rainforests, you know, has already got a price on it.
00:44:56.460The running water, the air that we breathe, the planet that we live upon is being tokenised, ready to be asset stripped and broken up and sold off by BlackRock and Vanguard and the banks and the vast transnational corporate entities.
00:45:12.980You know, and you catch, you catch glimpses of it from a Putin or a Trump or a Starmer.
00:45:25.960But that's the kind of conversation we ought to be paying attention to because there they are, you know, after their proxy war and, you know, two million dead.
00:46:17.460It's the same nonsense every day about how the war was going, advancing just as it was, as the generals had planned it to advance.
00:46:26.260And the banks, the banks, the banks, the banks, the banks, the banks of the same banks that are still, that are still in operation now, the same entities funded all sides in World War I, and they funded all sides in World War II.
00:46:40.900Now, that, and that trick is as old as, you know, that's been on the go since Adam was a boy.
00:46:46.260So that they can't, they can't not profit.
00:46:52.140You know, the First World War likely happened because the time had come to repatriate and get control of the gold.
00:46:59.140You know, because you've got 1913 and the foundation of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is neither federal nor a reserve of anything.
00:47:07.540You know, these massive cataclysmic global conflicts, they happen because they happen at the behest of the same transnational corporate entities that make money.
00:47:21.880You know, where there's, you know, where the blood flows, so does the money.
00:47:30.980And anyone who has served in the military has that dawning realization sooner than later that there's somebody pulling the levers here behind the scenes that sometimes there's no need for that war.
00:47:45.960Certainly, we should never have sleptwalk into the First World War, and we've sleptwalked into so many others.
00:47:51.420But people leading us, guiding us, those military-industrial complex and the transnationals, as you point out.
00:48:00.500But no one's going to get me to start cheering for a war with Russia under any circumstances.
00:48:07.700That would be insanity and would ultimately lead to another, to a nuclear war, which would lead to the catastrophe on this planet, which would not survive.
00:48:19.500And I think that's, if anything, Donald Trump said last week, I say that again.
00:48:25.320Thank God there is a president who finally acknowledges that nuclear war is a bad thing.
00:48:29.580It's been far too long since we've had U.S. presidents acknowledge that nuclear war was possible.
00:48:47.000I, you know, I'm just, you know, I'm just offering my opinion.
00:48:50.300But I always doubted, really, or very quickly began to doubt that there was anything real circulating in the form of a pathogen that they called COVID.
00:49:09.560But I didn't really think that they, the entities, would have released something that was, you know, as dangerous as they were pretending it was.
00:49:18.560Because ultimately, they or their children breathe that air.
00:49:21.480And for that reason, I've always suspected that really what has kept us safe from mutually assured destruction is the fact that while they like us to live in fear of it, to be absolutely discombobulated by anxiety about the possibility,
00:49:40.600I don't think they'll do anything that would smash their windows and scratch their limousines, far less put mushroom clouds above the cities that they live in.