The Culture War - Tim Pool - Ukraine STRIKES Iran, WW3 May Have Just BEGUN

00:00:00.000 We may be facing World War Three, and of course, this conversation has come up quite a bit

00:00:06.640 over the past several years, but recent breaking news indicates this could be it.

00:00:13.240 Ukraine launched a strike on Iranian vessels in the Caspian Sea.

00:00:17.980 They've done this because Iran has been supplying Russia with supplies and weapons for a long

00:00:22.780 time now.

00:00:23.760 Russia, of course, at war with Ukraine, Ukraine launching strikes in Russia, Russia switching

00:00:28.900 to a wartime economy. And now the U.S. and Iran embroiled in a war which has cut off the Strait

00:00:35.900 of Hormuz and isolated China from their oil imports. Since the start of this war, China has

00:00:41.780 lost around 44 percent of its oil imports, and it is reeling. With Ukraine's strike on these Iranian

00:00:50.240 ships, it could merge the war into one massive conflict. And in fact, that's typically how these 0.89

00:00:58.280 world wars have begun. China has few options left. It appears they're going for the political

00:01:05.660 route. Influence American politics. Get Trump out by any means to try and stave off an escalation

00:01:14.060 of a conflict. Xi Jinping said recently that he hopes the U.S. and China can avoid Thucydides'

00:01:21.280 trap, which is a bold statement and is not a call for peace. She's saying this is telling the

00:01:29.740 American people. The city's trap means China is ascendant and the U.S. will fall. And he hopes 0.61

00:01:37.720 when that happens, there will not be a war. Now, I wouldn't call it a direct threat, but it's a bold

00:01:45.120 thing to say, because the implication is that China will win. Well, right now, China's cut off

00:01:51.780 from their oil imports because the Strait of Hormuz is closed. They are struggling with energy

00:01:56.560 coming from Russia because Russia switched to a wartime economy over Ukraine. And now we are

00:02:02.060 seeing prominent influencers, notably Laura Loomer, coming out in defense of Ukraine, in support of

00:02:08.580 Ukraine, saying she had been brainwashed by Russian propaganda. Now, somehow I find myself

00:02:14.260 wrapped up in that story. But don't worry, we'll break it all down. The media is lying to you about

00:02:19.640 everything. And that's probably why they don't like me, because I'm not. That's probably wrong

00:02:25.640 a lot. Don't get me wrong. But not lying to you. And the story is this. There is a reality to what

00:02:32.640 is going on with the Ukraine war. Well, as it pertains to a casus belli, the powers that be 0.71

00:02:39.380 fighting that war don't want you to know what is actually happening. And the sad reality is this.

00:02:45.660 If I were to surmise a reason as to why Laura Loomer is now backing Ukraine, it's because these

00:02:52.120 wars are converging and you have to get behind U.S. interests. And you know what? I agree.

00:03:00.400 I'm not gonna play stupid games and act like Ukraine is innocent or that our involvement 0.99

00:03:06.720 is justified, or whatever that may be. The fact of the matter is this, whether you like Trump or 0.99

00:03:11.060 not, whether you care for Zelensky or what Ukraine is doing or not, it's not material to the question

00:03:15.400 of what is about to happen. Now, it may be that China just backs off and slowly withers away

00:03:22.180 and loses, but I don't think that will be the case. In which case, I think it's fair to say

00:03:27.600 I have deep criticisms over how Ukraine handles itself and largely how the West handles Ukraine,

00:03:32.480 because I'm not here to blame the Ukrainians for being invaded. That's silly. 0.94

00:03:36.520 Russia is not the good guy here. The principal issue I've had for the longest time with Ukraine 1.00

00:03:40.840 is not whether they're justified or unjust, just that the U.S. involvement was never properly

00:03:46.200 justified to the American people. And though I generally do agree that Ukraine is in the right 0.96

00:03:50.680 because they were invaded, Russia lost the soft power battle and chose to use force. And for that,

00:03:57.460 they are the aggressors. And I do believe it's fair to say they're the bad guys in this scenario.

00:04:01.280 But that doesn't mean the U.S. should be involved or that the Ukrainian president should be soliciting hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S.

00:04:09.040 But I get why they would.

00:04:10.900 Now, I want to break down how the media lies, and I want to talk to you about what's really going on.

00:04:14.980 And I can only imagine those waging this war on both sides are going to get really mad at me about it.

00:04:19.800 But let's start here with the Ukrainian strike.

00:04:23.020 Before we do, my friends, head over to TimCast.com and click Join Now to get in the Discord community.

00:04:27.660 It is not an exaggeration to say that there are powerful forces that do not want videos like this to exist.

00:04:35.440 They want the propaganda.

00:04:37.160 They want the lies.

00:04:38.660 They want me to come out and just say, you know what?

00:04:40.940 I was wrong about everything.

00:04:43.020 And Zelensky is a hero to the American people.

00:04:46.120 And he's the Abraham Lincoln of his generation. 1.00

00:04:48.520 I'm not playing any stupid games. 0.99

00:04:50.480 I'm going to be completely honest with you. 0.99

00:04:52.220 And the sad reality is that those that want to win this war know that control of information

00:04:56.760 will help them do it.

00:04:58.780 And while I think it's fair to say we find ourselves on the side of Ukraine in an escalating

00:05:04.680 conflict that none of us wanted, don't get me wrong, some people wanted, but I'm going

00:05:09.240 to stand with the United States and the U.S. needs to win.

00:05:12.220 But that will not come at the expense of knowledge, inquiry and truth.

00:05:16.960 And so I can only say this.

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00:05:34.740 Let's jump into this story from The Wall Street Journal. Two wars converge in the Caspian Sea

00:05:40.660 as Ukraine hits Iranian supply line to Russia. Tehran threatens retaliation for long range

00:05:47.680 drone strikes. This is pretty dang crazy. Ukrainian drones have hit military supply lines

00:05:54.800 connecting Russia and Iran through the Caspian, exploiting a new front in two increasingly

00:05:59.420 intertwined wars. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed responsibility for the strikes,

00:06:05.080 saying in a tweet Saturday, we also achieved very strong results with long range strikes in the

00:06:09.260 Caspian Sea, including vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran, as well as a

00:06:13.640 warship. The Security Service of Ukraine, an intelligence agency, said that it had launched

00:06:18.020 drone strikes in the Caspian against a Russian oil field, a Russian missile boat, and ships used

00:06:23.020 to transport Iranian drones to Russia. The strikes, part of a long-range drone campaign that has also

00:06:28.980 reached deep into Russia, have brought Iran and Ukraine one step closer to a direct confrontation.

00:06:34.140 I'm going to go ahead and pause and just say they're in it. This is always so silly how the

00:06:38.400 media operates. Ukraine launched a strike against Iran. Welcome to the war, baby. Now I have

00:06:45.480 questions. I think when we wrap this big picture up all together, it looks like the war is merging

00:06:52.160 into one great conflict. So my friends, without further ado, I would like to give you a brief

00:06:58.100 overview, probably filled with inaccuracies due to the fact I do not have classified information

00:07:02.940 at my disposal. But a general overview based on media reports of the past 30 years

00:07:08.200 as to what is currently happening and why it is happening. Before I do with this Google Earth

00:07:14.400 breakdown, I want to show you one story. From the BBC, just one month ago, Ukraine charged in

00:07:23.060 Germany over Nord Stream blasts. In 2022, gas pipelines from Russia to Germany were blown up.

00:07:31.260 Now, we didn't know who did it.

00:07:32.820 The U.S. media said Russia blew it up, which makes literally no sense because they were

00:07:36.800 Russian delivery systems.

00:07:38.940 Russia was supplying Germany with gas.

00:07:41.640 The U.S. was pissed off about it.

00:07:44.000 There were reports that CIA frogmen planted bombs and blew it up.

00:07:48.380 Germany is now accusing a Ukrainian man of doing it.

00:07:51.280 And why would they do this?

00:07:52.760 It all has to do with Russian control of gas in Europe.

00:07:55.860 So, my friends, let's roll.

00:07:58.460 If we go back to the 2000s, you get a story from The Guardian about what is called the Qatar-Turkey Pipeline.

00:08:06.020 The goal of the United States was to build a pipeline from Iraq through Syria, Turkey into Europe for the purpose of offsetting the Russian Gazprom gas monopoly.

00:08:17.520 Russia is called a cold gas station.

00:08:20.200 The principal export, of course, is energy.

00:08:22.060 And they run major pipelines into Europe, notably with Gazprom running through Ukraine.

00:08:27.520 This controlled between a fifth to a quarter of natural gas in Europe, and Europe was desperate for the energy.

00:08:34.340 This resulted in high gas prices and Europe's economy being strained. 0.57

00:08:39.600 So the U.S. proposed to Syria, to the Assad family, we'll build this pipeline. 0.69

00:08:46.260 You will love it. 0.83

00:08:47.600 The Assad government said, no, we are allied with the Russians who operate a military base, a naval base in Tartus.

00:08:54.600 we cannot allow you to offset their gas monopoly in violation of their interests because we're

00:09:01.900 aligned with them seemingly around this time whatever your opinion may be civil war erupts

00:09:08.340 in Syria with rebel factions working to oust Bashar al-Assad and they have succeeded now it

00:09:15.260 wasn't just the Bashar al-Assad said sorry thank you for the opportunity but no thank you

00:09:20.560 In fact, when the U.S. went to Assad to his family, I don't know if it was actually Bashar at the time, but he was in the family and proposed this pipeline instead of cutting a deal with the U.S. and Europe, Syria decided to cut a deal with Iran.

00:09:36.300 They would tap the same natural gas field, put a pipeline through Iraq into Syria and Turkey, effectively strengthening Russia's gas monopoly and empowering Iran.

00:09:50.300 The U.S. said no.

00:09:53.660 So several strategies were developed.

00:09:55.700 Now, I must stress this is surface level based on news reports, lacking access to classified information.

00:10:01.500 So it's probably just.

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00:10:32.000 surface level in full of inaccuracies. But at least according to the reporting,

00:10:38.320 this is what we get next. Syria falls into chaos. Bashar al-Assad's government is in chaos.

00:10:44.620 Eventually, as of recently, he's fled to Russia and Syria has fallen and the U.S. has gained

00:10:49.360 interest control, as it were, in Syria. The U.S. tried something else. Biden flew to Ukraine

00:10:56.280 and they set up a gas company, Burisma. And now you can see what's actually going on.

00:11:02.240 There is an information war between the East and the West, between Russia, China, Iran,

00:11:08.520 the United States and Europe. You don't get me wrong. Trump at the time, early on in his first

00:11:14.140 term, pissed off at Germany because Germany taking energy from Russia is strengthening

00:11:18.400 their abilities to control the price of gas in Europe. Trump, of course, issues his threats.

00:11:25.940 There are a lot of issues that have occurred over the past several years that I can't account for

00:11:29.520 in the surface level overview of what is currently going on.

00:11:32.620 Suffice it to say, this is what we believe to be happening.

00:11:35.140 Joe Biden goes to Ukraine and says, if you don't fire the prosecutor, you're not getting the

00:11:39.100 billion dollars. Why? The prosecutor at the time, Shokin, had several, at least a dozen plus

00:11:44.140 investigations into Burisma. The argument was that they, this guy, Mykola Zlochevsky,

00:11:49.860 who founded this energy company, was crooked. However, on the board of Burisma was a former

00:11:55.240 director of counter terror for the CIA and Hunter Biden. I would put it like this.

00:12:01.920 The U.S. knowing that they do not have control and they're struggling with this,

00:12:07.600 decided to go into Ukraine and try and manipulate politically what was going on so that they could

00:12:13.480 control the Gazprom gas pipelines. Then you get 2014. Don't get me wrong. A lot of this is

00:12:19.980 overlapping with each other, and I want to make sure we're clear on what was going on.

00:12:24.420 The serious stuff is like 2000s.

00:12:27.600 We get the civil war.

00:12:28.780 The Ukraine stuff kicks off around 2013, 2014.

00:12:31.660 I was personally there in Kiev during the start of the protest that ultimately ousted

00:12:36.240 Viktor Yanukovych and caused the country to break into a separatist movement.

00:12:40.560 Now, I do believe it's fair to say most of the people in Ukraine wanted to join the European

00:12:46.320 Union.

00:12:47.220 This would benefit the EU because it would be damaging to Russia's energy interests.

00:12:52.440 The people of Ukraine did not like what the Russians had done to the people of Ukraine.

00:12:57.360 Holodomor, anybody, some hundred years earlier?

00:13:00.140 Knowing this, they said, we'd rather work with the EU.

00:13:03.680 So Russia goes to Ukraine and says, let's cut a deal.

00:13:06.720 The EU goes to Ukraine and says, let's cut a deal.

00:13:09.060 Here's the problem.

00:13:10.680 Russia's trying to build a trade federation with many of these countries that are in and

00:13:14.900 around Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

00:13:17.300 and he says to Ukraine, if you do a trade agreement with Europe, cheap European goods

00:13:23.360 will come into Ukraine. And then if we have an open borders deal with you, those will flood

00:13:27.560 Russia as well. Bad for our economy. So Ukraine now has the leverage position. 0.95

00:13:33.740 Whose deal are they going to take? When Yanukovych was leaning towards Russia,

00:13:38.760 you get a massive, I guess you'd call it a revolution. This results in the ousting of

00:13:44.600 Yanukovych. And the Ukraine government veers towards Europe, largely where I believe it's

00:13:50.460 fair to say, having been there and talked to many people, the people generally were leaning towards

00:13:54.600 anyway. Russia's pissed. Trump comes in in his first term. Things seem to calm down.

00:14:01.580 Biden gets in. Things start to build up. War kicks off. And what did I say? In 22, 23, 24,

00:14:09.020 Biden was creating a circumstance by which the war would become so intense and ingrained,

00:14:14.740 Trump would be unable to stop it. And so here we are. The war, it's not stopping.

00:14:21.660 What we have right now, the Caspian Sea, understand how far away the Caspian is from Ukraine.

00:14:28.260 Ukraine launching these drone strikes is massive. So what does it look like?

00:14:33.580 The war with Iran is not over nuclear weapons. The war with Iran is probably multifaceted.

00:14:39.020 Related to Iran's distribution of weapons to Russia, as well as the Strait of Hormuz and large portions, large, large supplies, shipments of energy going to our adversary, China.

00:14:52.940 I believe largely what we're looking at, and the reason this is possible, there's a possibility of World War Three, is that for too long, Iran, Russia, China, the BRICS nations largely have been able to grow unabated.

00:15:05.340 But everything is not what it seems.

00:15:06.880 ISIS, terror attacks, Trump, Abraham Accords, all of it overlaps with this, this conflict.

00:15:17.320 So let's do this. Let me first show, I believe I've got oil prices pulled up somewhere.

00:15:24.740 Let me see if I can find, I believe it is here. July 15th from oilprice.com.

00:15:29.060 China cut crude imports by more than 44% during the war's first phase, spending down a billion

00:15:34.680 barrel stockpile. It built specifically for this kind of shock. They didn't cut crude imports.

00:15:40.640 They had their imports cut. The question is, will China just collapse with a lack of energy

00:15:47.300 or will they decide to fight and take that energy back? Russia, which supplies a lot of energy to

00:15:54.420 many of these countries, is utilizing much of this for their war in Ukraine. Now let's talk

00:15:59.480 about the war in Ukraine and why Russia is fighting it. If Ukraine goes to the west, Crimea

00:16:05.380 goes to the west. This is Russia's only warm water port. Now, many have argued they could 0.90

00:16:12.380 certainly just build over here in these other towns like Sochi, for instance. However, you're

00:16:18.180 going to go to Russia and say, you know, that multibillion dollar port you have in the Black

00:16:21.640 Sea, which which allots you great control. Give it up. It's been taken from you. And now go

00:16:26.160 reinvest somewhere else, it'll set you back 10 to 20 years. It's not going to happen.

00:16:30.900 This is why Russia, you know, I could say they seized Crimea, but the better way to describe it

00:16:35.880 is they simply walked out of their military base and just said it's ours now. Okay, there was a 0.83

00:16:42.420 referendum, but come on. I really don't believe any of this. If Russia gets cut off from the Black

00:16:47.680 Sea, which is their access to the Mediterranean, it's devastating for their economy. Thus,

00:16:52.400 they decided to go to war. They lost the soft power battle. They are being pushed back and

00:16:58.600 they didn't like it. But again, I'll say it. Russia are not the good guys in this. They

00:17:02.800 decided to go to war because they couldn't cut a deal that worked. The question is,

00:17:07.180 will China do the same thing? Now, I've heard arguments that China will not go to war.

00:17:12.940 I don't believe it. Russia is backed into a corner. Instead of cutting a deal,

00:17:17.280 they say we're going to go to war. I imagine China would do much the same. 0.83

00:17:20.800 Now, the big question with all of this, of course, is let me see if we can pull this up.

00:17:27.240 Laura Loomer. Why she changed her position on Ukraine?

00:17:32.960 And the funny thing is, I just absolutely love this.

00:17:36.440 If you Google search it, there's a few stories that you'll get.

00:17:39.980 Tim Pool also flipped his position, which I never did.

00:17:43.400 And it's hilarious, by the way, or that I'm mocking Laura Loomer, which I'm not.

00:17:48.980 or that it was all in jest and I'm apologizing for the Kremlin. 0.63

00:17:56.480 Well, all I can tell you is I can show you how they lie,

00:18:00.240 the purpose of which is to manipulate the average person's world view on the matter.

00:18:06.800 Now, let's be real.

00:18:09.160 For U.S. interests, it is beneficial that Ukraine win.

00:18:14.160 That's always been the case.

00:18:15.520 It's always been what I've said.

00:18:17.000 And that is the purpose for U.S. involvement in Ukraine.

00:18:21.740 That is, U.S., strong interests tied to Europe, wants Europe to be able to expand its economy

00:18:28.460 in competition with the Eastern Bloc or the BRICS nations.

00:18:31.960 There's a lot of complicated factors here, don't get me wrong.

00:18:34.900 And I think largely what's on to the Democrats was unrelated to this, and they were very

00:18:38.480 deferential to China.

00:18:40.040 One could argue that they were shifting their resources to China, knowing that the conflict

00:18:44.520 was going to happen, and they were going to make China an economic center.

00:18:47.000 You could argue that they were prioritizing Russia over China and that Trump was disruptive

00:18:51.740 to their military plans, whatever the issue may be.

00:18:54.920 Here's a story from PBS.

00:18:57.100 From a Kiev bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains her shift on Russia's war in Ukraine. 0.65

00:19:02.980 They say Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online.

00:19:07.060 Now, as she travels across Ukraine to see the damage inflicted by Russia in its years

00:19:10.080 long war, she wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own.

00:19:14.260 A close ally of President Trump, Loomer has completely reversed her longtime criticism of Ukraine and is urging fellow conservatives to be wary of Moscow's propaganda, which she blames for duping large swaths of the American right.

00:19:27.240 You don't need to listen to a podcast or let them influence your opinion about a country.

00:19:31.060 You can look at those facts yourself, she told the Associated Press.

00:19:35.340 Loomer has remained influential with Trump despite not having an official role.

00:19:39.100 They're going to say Loomer says she was bamboozled to oppose Ukraine.

00:19:44.260 Loomer had spent years minimizing the war and amplifying Russian propaganda until she made 0.57

00:19:48.600 a dramatic reversal this week. I've come to realize I was bamboozled by Russian propaganda,

00:19:53.240 and I came to believe a lot of untrue things about Ukraine. I used to think this was a country full

00:19:57.500 of Nazis, Loomer told Zelensky as she interviewed him for her show on Rumble. So let's play this. 0.78

00:20:04.220 She mentions the Russians are very good at capitalizing on people's rage. 0.62

00:20:07.500 Those are the Iranians, those are the Chinese, and all of it is happening. 0.77

00:20:11.060 First, El Mundo America claims that I went with Laura Loomer to Ukraine, which I did not do, 1.00

00:20:17.260 though I have been to Ukraine twice. I have friends who live in Ukraine as well,

00:20:21.280 or they used to. They fled the country. MAGA influencers make surprise visit to Ukraine.

00:20:27.460 We were deceived by Russian propaganda. Actually, I'm wondering if this is even about me at all,

00:20:33.060 because who made that quote? We were. Yeah, apparently that quote doesn't even exist in

00:20:38.340 the article. I love it. Let's read what it says. So we know what it says about Laura Loomer,

00:20:43.320 but I'm mentioning myself in this. I'm not trying to make it up by myself,

00:20:46.080 but I think I've exemplified the war propaganda fairly well.

00:20:51.160 They say, last Friday, podcaster and MAGA activist Tim Poole jumped on the bad wagon.

00:20:56.920 Ukraine has been fighting for its own existence against an evil dictator. Now I see the importance

00:21:01.820 of the Ukrainian victory against Russia. I hope that Trump and the people of the United States

00:21:05.840 lend their support. He wrote in his account, Zelensky is the Abraham Lincoln of this generation.

00:21:15.840 He is a hero of the people. He insisted in response to criticisms from his own followers,

00:21:21.300 would go accustomed to criticizing and insulting Ukrainians. Remarkable. I've never insulted

00:21:26.940 Ukrainians. I've taken issue with the governance of Zelensky. I've taken issue with the lack of 0.99

00:21:31.560 a casus belli for the U.S. to spend 200 billion dollars in a country without justification.

00:21:37.340 The point is, as I have long maintained, this is about Gazprom, Burisma, the Qatar-Turkey pipeline

00:21:45.180 and U.S. control of energy in the region. It has never been justified to the American people.

00:21:50.560 It is foreign interventionary manipulation. And they don't like me and they lie about me

00:21:56.040 because of this. So I'll put it real simple. Why did the AG under Biden falsify a story that

00:22:04.100 I was being paid by Russians? Because they need to poison the well. They don't want you to know

00:22:09.940 the truth. First, as I've always maintained, Russia's the bad guy. That's it. I've never 0.89

00:22:14.880 defended Russia. I've always called them the bad guy. But there's a problem when I point out a few 1.00

00:22:21.000 things. Notably, a video clip in which I said, Ukraine is an enemy of the United States and we 0.57

00:22:27.780 should apologize to Russia. What is that quote in reference to? It is in reference to Ukrainians 0.78

00:22:33.520 sabotaging Western interests and bombing a pipeline that was supplying energy to our allies.

00:22:40.860 Now explain to me why, if on the surface Germany is our ally, receiving energy it so deeply needs, 0.51

00:22:47.380 that Ukraine would blow up a NATO asset. And we should be supportive of that. 0.96

00:22:55.160 The truth is, Ukraine in its war with Russia wanted to force the West into deeper involvement, 0.69

00:23:02.240 creating a casus belli. Now, of course, they'll play that clip for you out of context, but right

00:23:07.740 context, but rightly so, I believe it is fair to say they are manipulating us to join the war. 0.91

00:23:12.720 And you know what? They're doing it rather poorly. I'm not a fan of the involvement in the war with Iran. And I am hoping that this resolution comes peacefully with all of it. But I think it's also fair to point out, guys, welcome to the rock and the hard place. Knowing everything I've said, giving you an honest assessment about what is actually going on and how they're lying. Would you rather Russia, China and Iran win or the United States and Europe?

00:23:39.320 And therein lies the big challenge.

00:23:40.820 Because I said it a million times, as it pertained to the war with Ukraine, I'd rather stand

00:23:44.860 with Joe Biden, despite his corruption, than Vladimir Putin.

00:23:48.880 Putin would have you strung out to dry.

00:23:51.100 He'd take your resources from you.

00:23:52.880 That man does not care about you.

00:23:54.980 Certainly cares about Russia, whatever that means.

00:23:57.760 The point is this. 0.97

00:23:58.880 His interests are not ours. 0.55

00:24:01.220 So you choose what your interests will be. 0.94

00:24:04.100 This is the truth.

00:24:05.500 The anti-war libertarian types will just tell you Israel is evil and Ukraine is bad.

00:24:09.320 And they ignore the bigger picture of the nebulous morality of international conflict.

00:24:16.420 We know this.

00:24:18.220 Those who use power to secure their nations and defend their people are the ones who are going to win versus those who would not.

00:24:26.780 Do I like that we're involved in these wars?

00:24:28.880 No.

00:24:29.720 And I don't think that they've been properly justified to the American people.

00:24:33.400 The U.S. government has done a very poor job of justifying it to the American people.

00:24:38.820 But I also think it's fair to point out Ukraine winning is good for us. 0.80

00:24:42.700 Iran losing is good for us. 0.89

00:24:44.980 And China staying out is very good for us. 1.00

00:24:48.520 The U.S. will dominate everything. 0.95

00:24:52.760 Why would that be a bad thing? 0.93

00:24:54.380 Do we believe that Chinese global hegemony will be just and good for people of the world? 0.94

00:25:00.620 Certainly it wouldn't be. 0.98

00:25:01.560 would Russian? No, it wouldn't be. Would American hegemony be good for the world? 1.00

00:25:07.380 Dare I say? Yes, it would. Now, I'm not a neocon. I don't like these interventions. I don't like

00:25:13.380 the wasted money. I don't like our crumbling infrastructure or open borders. I don't like

00:25:17.580 what Joe Biden did in those four years. I don't like what happened during COVID.

00:25:21.360 But there's not a question of what I want or my morality. I can tell you why I think these wars

00:25:26.780 are bad, why civilian deaths are bad, why there's better ways to get things done. I can also admit

00:25:32.040 I'm ignorant to great geopolitical factors. I don't have access to classified information,

00:25:36.200 and I don't trust the Chinese or the Russians to treat us fairly should we ever lose a conflict

00:25:40.880 like this and become a secondary nation in this planet. So you decide. Decide what you want to

00:25:47.740 believe. China's benevolence? Russia's beneficence? I don't believe it for a second.

00:25:54.200 Russia's got its own interests, and so do we, and we must win.

00:25:58.180 So the question becomes, who will you support if this war escalates?

00:26:03.260 CNN writes, after being bamboozled by Russian propaganda,

00:26:06.620 Laura Loomer says she's all in for Ukraine.

00:26:09.520 But let's not forget CNN's own propaganda.

00:26:12.180 I think they put me in this article as well.

00:26:14.600 Hey, look at that.

00:26:15.080 I get a lot of press attention.

00:26:17.440 Tim Poole, another far-right commentator and outspoken Ukraine critic,

00:26:21.500 appeared to mock Loomer on X by posting his own change of heart in the war.

00:26:25.280 He later seemed to reveal was insincere.

00:26:27.780 And what is the link?

00:26:28.960 I wrote, Ukraine and Israel have done nothing wrong.

00:26:30.760 We must support them by any means possible.

00:26:32.500 Only then can the world heal.

00:26:34.440 In what way does that insult Laura Loomer?

00:26:37.940 In what way does this expose it as it being insincere? 0.90

00:26:42.660 I just love how they lie all the time.

00:26:46.900 Now, you may wonder, Tim, why do you post these things?

00:26:50.480 In 2024, I posted, I was wrong about Ukraine.

00:26:53.560 We must support them and deliver the $200 billion aid package they requested.

00:26:58.780 Nobody said anything.

00:27:00.480 None of these mainstream journalists or lefties or deep state people said Tim Poole's changed

00:27:04.680 his mind.

00:27:05.280 Why?

00:27:05.840 It was an election year.

00:27:07.400 They didn't need it.

00:27:08.800 Then over the weekend, when I say I've changed my mind, all of a sudden, every reporter,

00:27:13.260 every outlet is running the story.

00:27:14.680 Tim Poole changes his mind.

00:27:15.640 Why?

00:27:16.720 Because now they need it.

00:27:17.780 Now it's not a presidential election year, and they want people to hear that Trump supporters

00:27:24.860 or people on the right are in favor of backing Ukraine.

00:27:28.940 What I can say is this, the Iran war, I'm not a fan. 0.93

00:27:35.960 I am not at the point so outraged like with Iraq or Afghanistan, but I also understand

00:27:41.620 people with power will use it and they will abuse it.

00:27:45.880 so you can sit back and let bad guys win or you can decide to win yourself what does that mean

00:27:54.020 i voted for trump because he was the anti-war candidate he had proven it in his first term

00:27:59.480 in the second term he started a new war i'm not happy about it i would not vote for it but it's 0.73

00:28:05.300 here so i'm not going to play any stupid moral games of what i should have done what i regret

00:28:11.060 no, I stand by my decision to support Donald Trump in 2024. He has brought this war to our 0.97

00:28:16.820 doorstep, and I am not happy about it. Whatever the reason may be, be it nuclear weapons,

00:28:21.720 abuse of the civilians or otherwise, the war has begun. And now the question is,

00:28:25.440 what will we do as Americans in this conflict? I do not support boots on the ground.

00:28:31.840 I do not want this war to escalate. I hope it stays where it is and slowly just eases up.

00:28:37.700 But what's going on in Ukraine with Russia is not going to stop. And I fear that China is going to step in. So I can only say this at this point. Only one thing matters that we win. You explain to me how you think we can win because I'm all ears because winning does not mean boots on the ground. Winning does not mean nuclear weapons. Winning means we peacefully resolve the conflict to the benefit of the American people. 0.61

00:29:02.760 Now, we say peaceful, but of course, we're at war. I'm saying we stop, we talk, we resolve this.

00:29:09.020 How do we come to that point? Is it possible? And if it is not possible, what do we do?

00:29:15.460 Violently bring a war, an end to this war? Well, you tell me what I am supposed to do as an American

00:29:21.560 right now in the situation. I've already explained I spoke out against the war. I've been attacked,

00:29:27.020 maligned, slandered, defamed, falsely accused for saying this is not justified our involvement

00:29:34.020 in Ukraine with the war against Russia. Now that we stand on the doorstep of what may be

00:29:39.720 World War Three, if China decides to get involved, what should I as an American do

00:29:45.220 who have been outspoken the whole time do? Capitulate? Should I say now, no, we should lose?

00:29:53.240 Absolutely not.

00:29:54.500 I did not vote for this war.

00:29:56.380 I did not support this war. 0.99

00:29:57.960 I did not support Ukraine. 0.98

00:29:59.520 I did not support the efforts to fund them. 0.96

00:30:01.340 But I will be damned if I'm expected now to lay down and surrender to adversaries of the

00:30:07.600 United States. 0.99

00:30:08.640 This is not some stupid game where you're going to be like, I'm anti-war, therefore 0.99

00:30:13.700 the U.S. should lose. 1.00

00:30:14.960 I'm not playing those stupid games. 1.00

00:30:16.920 I did what I could. 1.00

00:30:18.540 I said what I must. And for it, they have attacked me in the United States. The AG himself

00:30:25.680 struck at my credibility with false accusations. And for all that I have done and said and all the

00:30:32.880 attacks I have endured, I will say it again. I will be damned if I will sit here and watch the

00:30:38.860 U.S. lose and stand against the interest of the United States at this point. Now, I understand

00:30:43.960 what this means. It means that the war machine will do what it wants. And people like me will

00:30:51.440 eventually just fall in line, I guess. Give me an answer, because I'm going to tell you this.

00:30:57.340 I will never accept the U.S. surrendering to our adversaries. I'm not going to accept

00:31:03.900 these foreign wars. But if we inherit them, I assure you, I will not stand by and let them be 1.00

00:31:10.320 lost. Donald Trump sought to pull our troops out of Afghanistan. It was the right thing to do.

00:31:16.040 And Biden screwed the whole thing up. I have stood consistently behind peace and strategy.

00:31:23.100 And right now we are in a desperate place. I don't like our involvement in the war against

00:31:30.840 Russia and Ukraine. I don't like the war in Iran. And I, as I already stated, would not support any

00:31:36.360 of it. What are we supposed to do now? We can blame those who initiated these conflicts.

00:31:41.800 We still have to finish it. And we are not going to let the United States lose.

00:31:45.820 This means we need reason. We need to be tempered, as it were. What we don't want is escalation.

00:31:53.380 But we also don't want surrender. And unfortunately, I fear we're between a rock

00:31:58.080 and a hard place. And China's involvement is, I hate to say it, but inevitable. Because I don't 0.99

00:32:05.120 see them backing down from this conflict. In which case, who do you stand with? You know?

00:32:11.820 And I can put it like this. I can tell a family member, right? They're picking fights at a bar

00:32:16.860 to stop. But when a fight breaks out, do you really expect me to stand against my family?

00:32:21.440 It's not going to happen. I don't have to like Zelensky. I'm not going to change my opinion on

00:32:26.080 this man or these people. But I can certainly say with absolute sincerity, the United States

00:32:32.400 at this point is standing behind Ukraine, whether you want them to or not. Now, I understand you can 0.64

00:32:38.280 be mad about that. You can feel anger. You can hate Zelensky, and all of that is allowed.

00:32:46.020 But again, as this war escalates in a way that we never wanted, I'll be damned if the answer

00:32:51.920 is surrender. No, don't get me wrong. The answer may still be negotiated peace settlements.

00:32:58.080 that's what we want for the time being in this conflict whether you like it or not Ukraine

00:33:04.340 and the United States are aligned I've said my piece tell me what you think smash the like

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - July 28, 2026

Ukraine STRIKES Iran, WW3 May Have Just BEGUN

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