00:00:51.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:44.000Yeah, so when they passed, when they continue to pass all these bills for Ukraine funding, they claim that there's all kinds of oversight mechanisms and regulatory standards.
00:02:57.000But then we find out that there was some type of like $3 billion accounting error.
00:03:03.000And my suspicion, based on, you know, years of reporting on these wars, is that they just kind of like decide to fudge the numbers from time to time, depending on where the political winds are moving.
00:03:17.000And if Ukraine needs a few more billion dollars, what they can do is basically increase the value or devalue some of the ammunition or missile batteries that they sent.
00:03:28.000And it's basically just become a giant accounting gimmick.
00:03:30.000And there's really just zero accountability whatsoever.
00:03:33.000So if you were to guess where the money is, I mean, do you think it's being laundered?
00:03:38.000Do you think that it's going to, I mean, where is this money going?
00:03:42.000Is it all actually being spent on the war?
00:03:43.000Is there an inventory of missiles, bullets, rifles, logistical support?
00:03:48.000I mean, or is it just kind of we're not even allowed to ask questions?
00:03:52.000So, yeah, this is where you enter into difficult territory because the defense industry is getting very wealthy off of this war.
00:04:02.000And certainly, you know, these purchase orders are very real.
00:04:07.000When you're dismantling the U.S. military and sending our weapons to Ukraine, first of all, they write up these paper receipts.
00:04:16.000So there's nothing really logged into an electronic system that can be verified and transparent.
00:04:22.000But when you're dismantling our own military, that's great news for the defense industry in Washington, D.C., because that means new purchase orders.
00:04:32.000The problem, of course, is that it threatens our homeland security because, as you know, Charlie, there's a massive chip shortage that still hasn't been resolved worldwide.
00:04:42.000We have China that is continually threatening Taiwan, which is an essential chip maker for the world.
00:04:49.000So when we're sending Patriot missile batteries, while our government will write a check for the defense industry, so that's all well and good, but we're also leaving our own military in a vulnerable position while we may have to wait years to resupply our own army.
00:05:08.000Yeah, and they're slowly squeezing Taiwan.
00:05:46.000It's tragedy, but for today, Bakhmut is only in our hearts.
00:05:54.000So, Jordan, what does success look like exactly then for the American regime in this war?
00:06:00.000Very sadly, the strategy seems to be to kill as many Russian soldiers as possible and use the Ukrainian civilians who are being drafted into the military to do so.
00:06:14.000Like the strategy is literally fighting down to the last Ukrainian.
00:06:18.000And if you're a Ukrainian living your life in Kiev, you have to really think about who exactly is your friend here.
00:06:26.000We know that the Russians aren't exactly motivated to support the interests of Western Ukraine, especially.
00:06:34.000But the NATO-U.S. aligned Biden administration also has plans for Ukraine.
00:06:43.000And those plans involve basically using the Ukrainian military as the tip of the spear in their kind of like xenophobic operation against Russians in general because they view Russians as a threat instead of trying to make peace between these two countries.
00:07:02.000Unfortunately, the Biden administration is acting as a very bad actor, as you've seen through the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline.
00:07:09.000I mean, they're willing just to make life more difficult for Russians in general.
00:07:15.000They're willing to also harm basically the entirety of the European continent.
00:07:20.000And I think that when we're engaged in these overseas skirmishes between these incredibly powerful forces, I think President Trump was right when he said that peace is the prize.
00:07:32.000You can't forget about the human suffering here, and you can't just label people according to whatever your geopolitical philosophy is and kind of forget about the human element here.
00:07:43.000There's thousands of people dying every day.
00:07:45.000And it's for the betterment of humanity, for Society, the world economy.
00:07:52.000I mean, nothing good can come out of the continuation of this war other than the flourishing of Washington and Wall Street.
00:07:59.000Yeah, I mean, look, Russians are humans too, and no one's allowed to say that out loud, but I don't delight in the killing of Russians.
00:08:07.000I had somebody once at an event, they said, Charlie, I watch videos of Russians being bombed, and I enjoy that.
00:08:45.000What is the actual, do we have any idea what the actual number is?
00:08:49.000Based on my reporting on the war, I would put the number at around 150 billion plus whatever they value the supplies that, you know, the Europeans, they say that Putin is akin to Hitler marching through Europe.
00:09:01.000The Europeans don't seem to think so because they're not really giving them any money.
00:09:06.000So, it's very interesting to hear all of these World War II analogies coming from the Europeans, especially.
00:09:13.000But yet, you know, the U.S. taxpayer is being hit hard here, especially in a very difficult economic environment.
00:09:20.000We just need to get out of this, you know, the overseas empire business.
00:09:25.000We need to start treating people as human beings, and we need to just start focusing on our own sovereignty, defending our own sovereignty, you know, building the freaking wall on the southern border.
00:09:36.000Like, why are we spending $150 billion on Ukraine?
00:09:39.0005,000 miles away, this conflict is taking place.
00:09:43.000I'd like to just see our country get back to using the military to defend our physical sovereignty and leave it at that.
00:09:51.000The GAE, the great American Empire, or you could call it the gay, that is trying to take over the world while our own domestic homeland collapses.
00:10:20.000On an ideological crusade against a border dispute to go make Raytheon's board of directors happy, to go make uniparty politicians that don't want to address real issues more popular.
00:10:43.000I don't know about you, but it takes a lot to shock me these days.
00:10:45.000To see our judicial system resemble a third world banana republic, to see trusted American companies embrace insane and destructive woke ideologies is sometimes depressing.
00:10:55.000We must fight back, and that starts with changing the way we spend our money.
00:10:59.000For years, big mobile companies have been dumping millions into leftist causes, and we had to take it because another option did not exist.
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00:11:58.000I just want to draw your attention to something.
00:12:00.000If any of you have friends that are accusing you of being an anti-Semite for going after George Soros, there is a fabulous op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Alan Dershowitz.
00:12:08.000Elon Musk is right about George Soros and not anti-Semitic.
00:12:11.000The Hungarian-born billionaire has done more than anyone to turn Americans against Israel.
00:12:15.000I don't have time to go into it, but it's a fabulous article.
00:12:17.000I encourage you guys to check it out in the Wall Street Journal today by Alan Dershowitz.
00:12:21.000Sharply written and good for Alan Dershowitz for standing up against the hate group that is the anti-defamation league.
00:12:32.000So, because you should be able to criticize anybody based on any religion or any, but the fact that George Soros is off limits is silly, and Dershowitz does a great public service here.
00:12:45.000Elon Musk is right about George Soros and not anti-Semitic by Alan Dershowitz.
00:13:34.000We're talking in the hundreds of thousands of times.
00:13:37.000This court document released just a few hours ago found that the FBI misused a popular digital surveillance tool on everyday Americans more than 278,000 times in 2020 going into 2021.
00:13:53.000We're specifically talking about section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, also known as FISA.
00:14:01.000It gives the FBI and other agencies the ability to digitally surveil without a court order or a warrant.
00:14:09.000Now, this is actually getting some traction.
00:14:12.000We know who to blame, largely the Republicans that built the Patriot Act and the FISA thing.
00:14:16.000This is actually, I see a glimmer of hope to fix this.
00:14:22.000I see a little bit of hope because it is coming out who they spied on.
00:15:11.000Now, we have not had a tension like this since the Kyrie Irving BLM v mandatory vaccine.
00:15:19.000And remember, the pharmaceutical companies and mandatory vaccines and transformation change agents of drugs mattered more than race politics.
00:16:25.000Here's what I will say is that there will be a fair amount of Republicans like Thomas Massey and Chip Roy and Ana Paulina that do not vote for reauthorization.
00:16:31.000Jerry Nadler has come out and he said, I don't support reauthorization because he doesn't want a primary challenge by the AOC type.
00:16:38.000AOC is going to probably be against this.
00:16:41.000I just want to use this piece of example for two things.
00:16:44.000It'll be a question to see if it actually gets renewed because the Democrat Party really has become the party of the Intel agencies.
00:16:51.000But for any Democrat out there listening and you find it objectionable that the FBI would use FISA warrants to spy on Floyd protesters, we've been trying to warn you.
00:17:03.000All of the overreaches of power that are being used against January 6th protesters, all the overreaches of power of pretrial detention, it's going to be used against you guys one day.
00:17:13.000They're going to come for the socialists next.
00:17:15.000If they are able to wipe out the American right, they will obliterate the socialists because that's the next big threat to the powerful people.
00:17:21.000So be careful how silent you are when people you hate are unconstitutionally threatened because you might be next.
00:18:39.000Joining us now is Colonel Douglas McGregor to help us make sense out of the fog of propaganda from the Western press of what's happening in Bakhmut.
00:18:48.000Colonel, thank you for making time for us.
00:18:50.000If you just read Western media this weekend, you would think that, well, Ukraine has just retreated and they're going to encircle Russian forces and they don't really control.
00:19:00.000What is actually happening in Bakhmut and what is the significance of it?
00:19:04.000Well, listen, you're asking the right questions and Americans need to know the answers.
00:19:09.000I think the first thing we need to keep in mind is that Bakhmut was probably the most successful trap ever created in military history.
00:19:19.000Ultimately, the Russians managed to turn Bakhmut into the graveyard of the Ukrainian army.
00:19:24.000At least 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and many more were wounded.
00:19:30.000It has been nothing but a complete disaster.
00:19:32.000Zelensky obsessed over Bakhmut the way Hitler obsessed over Stalingrad.
00:19:37.000And the Ukrainians have had to pay a terrible price.
00:19:40.000And if you want to know just how profound the impact of this loss is, you need to look at Politico's article over the weekend about the desire of people in the White House inside the Biden administration to press for a so-called frozen conflict in Ukraine.
00:19:58.000I mean, it's abundantly clear to them that the myth of Ukrainian victory is just that.
00:20:23.000We'll move U.S. forces into Western Ukraine, and then we'll just sit across from the Russians for another 50, 60, 70 years.
00:20:31.000Of course, this won't work, Charlie, because the Russians have no incentive to cooperate with that.
00:20:36.000The Russians are waiting for one more burst of energy out of the Ukrainians, which they will annihilate, another massive offensive that goes nowhere.
00:20:46.000And then I think they're going to move to take on Odessa and Kharkov.
00:20:50.000But the truth is that Bakhmut was a catastrophe, and everyone knows it.
00:20:58.000Now we're acting desperately at every turn.
00:21:01.000Send them F-16s, send them whatever we have.
00:21:04.000Truth is, none of that's going to make any difference.
00:21:06.000The real danger in the future is that once it becomes clear that Ukraine has collapsed and the Russians are overrunning the two areas that I just mentioned, which are historically Russian, I fear that fools in Washington will talk about direct intervention by U.S., Polish, Romanian, maybe some British forces to somehow or another rescue the situation.
00:21:30.000That would put us at war with Russia, and we're not prepared for it.
00:21:34.000I mean, that is definitely the disaster to be feared.
00:21:38.000And you read the Western media, I mean, you have it right here in the New York Times and all over the Wall Street Journal.
00:21:44.000You know, it says that Ukraine let this happen and then they're trying to go back into Bakhmut.
00:21:52.000So, but let's talk more about this from an American perspective.
00:21:56.000I had a dialogue recently with a lawmaker who is very pro this war.
00:22:00.000And he's like, well, we have to fight to the bitter end for the liberation of Ukraine.
00:22:04.000And I said, well, how do you define Ukraine?
00:22:07.000I mean, can you just walk our audience through, Colonel, how irresponsible, how reckless that is.
00:22:13.000I don't think most Americans comprehend how cataclysmic some of their lawmakers are thinking on these topics.
00:22:22.000Well, Washington is characterized by a unique combination of arrogance and ignorance.
00:22:29.000The people talking in Washington, the vast majority of them, know absolutely nothing about Eastern Europe, let alone Russia and Ukraine.
00:22:36.000The problem is that in 2014, people that are now inside the administration were involved in staging essentially a coup and removing the government that had been elected and replacing it with a government of their choice.
00:22:52.000This government is the government that you see now running Ukraine.
00:22:55.000It was a very anti-Russian clique, very hostile to all things Russian.
00:23:00.000And that government cooperated closely with us with the goal of ultimately building up enormous military power.
00:23:07.000And that's what has happened between 2014 and 2022.
00:23:12.000At the same time, Putin, watching all of this and knowing what was going on, moved to seize Crimea, which historically has been Russian, certainly since 1776.
00:23:23.000And the problem is that he knew if he didn't seize it, that we would send the United States Navy and the Royal Navy and other navies from NATO to dock in Sebastopol.
00:23:32.000In other words, to use the Crimean naval facilities for NATO purposes.
00:23:37.000And again, he and his colleagues have been warning us for decades now not to advance to the borders of Russia, not to push NATO right up against Russia.
00:23:48.000And eastern Ukraine is a position from which we could launch missiles and essentially neutralize the Russian nuclear deterrent, the ICBMs that they've got.
00:23:59.000Russians know that, so they weren't going to tolerate it.
00:24:02.000So to listen to somebody on the hill talk about returning Crimea, he knows he has nothing.
00:24:08.000He doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:24:09.000And again, the population there was always Russian and Tartar.
00:24:42.000So I want to play this piece of tape and Jake Sullivan's response, and then I'd love your reaction, play cut four.
00:24:49.000There was this very bizarre admission from the Pentagon this week of an accounting error that suggested that the U.S. has at least $3 billion that it didn't know it had that it can use for Ukraine aid.
00:25:49.000No, I think your point on laundering is very important.
00:25:52.000People don't understand that most of the cash never leaves the United States.
00:25:56.000It just moves from Congress to DOD, from DOD into the various defense contractors' hands, and then finds its way back in the form of lucrative donations to members of the Senate and the House from the industries that are grateful for the squandering of our resources.
00:26:30.000And that's another reason that I think the government wants desperately to find some way to retrieve something from the ash heap of history, which is what Ukraine is becoming.
00:26:40.000So, you know, at the end of the day, you're dealing with more than incompetence.
00:26:46.000They really believe that we are over there fighting to extend LGBTQRS or whatever it's called to everyone else in the world.
00:26:56.000We're forcing everything down everyone's throats everywhere, which is why right now the BRICS plus 80 other countries are developing an alternative to our financial system.
00:27:07.000We're going to see a meeting in St. Petersburg later in June, and the Russians and the Chinese and the Indians and the others are putting together gold-backed currency.
00:27:16.000They are actually going to conduct transactions in gold, and this is going to put us out of business.
00:27:20.000This further de-dollarizes the financial system.
00:27:26.000Colonel, back in the 1500s or 1600s, there used to be conquests to try to spread Christianity.
00:27:34.000Now there's conquests to spread the gay agenda.
00:27:36.000And because they really believe, if you ask some of these people, they think it's their moral crusade to put forth, quote, their idea of Western values are not uranias of Western values.
00:27:48.000It's LGBT, wokeism, gay pride flags, BLM.
00:27:54.000How much of this conflict is actually an ideological proxy war of wokeism versus whatever they think Russia is?
00:28:02.000Well, it's very much that way on one level.
00:28:05.000And then on the second level, of course, you have BlackRock and all the other major financial institutions in the West who are trying to get control of the resources in Ukraine and would like to see Russia destroyed so that they can get a colonizing project.
00:28:19.000Okay, so an actual raw material colonization project.
00:28:41.000And remember, the annoying part for them is that all of the critical resources are now under Russian occupation.
00:28:48.000So when they say they want to liberate the eastern part of Ukraine, maybe it's more about having rare earth, minerals and agricultural advantage than it is actually having people believe in a certain are you, are we?
00:29:00.000Should we just think of everything through an ultimately cynical lens?
00:29:02.000I'm i'm, i'm already there, but it sure seems that way.
00:29:05.000Well, I think, in this case absolutely, given the fact that in eastern Ukraine, the overwhelming majority of the population there is Russian.
00:29:49.000We have no ties to the region, and that's one of the things that's very disturbing about this administration seems that there are a lot of people in this administration pushing the war agenda for reasons that have nothing to do with our interests, have everything to do with their own, both financial and apparently historical connections to the region.
00:30:08.000I encourage everybody, if you're up early enough, for just 10 minutes a day, watch Morning Mika and Morning Joe, because if the CIA and the Department OF Defense were to program a cable news channel to harmonize with what they want, it is pure deep state propaganda on this.
00:30:24.000I was watching it this morning and it was it was.
00:30:26.000It was we need more weapons, we need f-16s.
00:30:29.000And then Morning Joe does the thing where he leans in, come on, why don't you get in?
00:30:33.000Get your act together, send them the fighter jets and it's.
00:30:36.000It's totally against the odds of the American people, but it's a reflection of what the war machine wants.
00:30:44.000They have their own cable news channel For four hours every morning.
00:30:47.000So, Colonel, I was talking about Morning Joe and how they're basically a propaganda arm of the war machine.
00:30:54.000Do you have any comments on that, on how many of these media networks are basically just taking press releases straight from DOD, from Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and then parroting them and laundering that information as news on TV?
00:31:09.000They also bring in all these retired officers, particularly senior officers, who just repeat what they've been given from the Department of Defense.
00:31:17.000So it's a universal lie that is designed to maintain the fiction that we're doing something positive, that the Ukrainians can win, and that Russia is evil incarnate.
00:31:29.000And unfortunately, because of the Cold War, the long experience of conflict for the Soviet Union, people are ready to believe it.
00:31:36.000But in truth, the picture is very, very different.
00:31:39.000We're involved in the most corrupt country in the world, possibly called Ukraine.
00:31:44.000Ukrainian population is now down to less than 20 million, which means that 14.5 million have left the country or, in many cases, been killed.
00:32:16.000We're in very bad shape right now, and people don't seem to understand that.
00:32:20.000I mean, Colonel, I don't want to use the word without any basis, but I mean, how is that not high treason to deplete the military stockpile for a foreign adversary?
00:32:31.000I mean, you could want to help Ukraine.
00:32:34.000But then to make us so unprepared, that's a direct threat to our national security.
00:32:41.000Well, one would think the simple act of ensuring that our borders are open and undefended, of dismantling the rule of law in our major cities, of appointing people who are turning against the core American population in favor of criminals and foreigners.
00:33:18.000And now a Raytheon CEO says Ukraine has depleted the weapon stocks.
00:33:22.000Now, just to play devil's advocate, Colonel, there is truth that only because I could see them lying about it to get more money from Congress because these people are a bunch of cockroaches.
00:33:30.000But you're saying this is actually legit, that it's not just.
00:34:31.000I mean, you think about it, the biggest Warhawks are getting rich off of this.
00:34:35.000The worst Ukrainian oligarchs are getting rich off of this.
00:34:38.000The people who pay the price are ordinary Americans who have to watch the constant stream of flow in capital, money, and attention to a border that you can't recognize while we're being overrun for 5,000 people a day.
00:34:53.000Colonel, I want to thank you for your courage.
00:34:55.000You're one of the few people that are willing to speak out about this, and it is really noteworthy and helpful to all of us.