In this episode, Scott Ritter, a former Marine, talks about his experience as a weapons inspector in the Soviet Union, his views on Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his thoughts on the recent missile alert in Hawaii.
00:11:57.660And the CIA has been working with these people since 1948 to serve as a tool of American policy in Russia.
00:12:05.180In 2014, the CIA empowered these Ukrainian nationalists by launching a coup to oust the constitutionally elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, and replace him with nationalists handpicked by the United States to purge Ukraine of its Russian essence.
00:12:24.420Basically, they were brought into power to eliminate the Russian language, Russian culture, Russian religion, and any ability of Russia to use the significant Russian population of Ukraine against the interests of the United States and NATO.
00:12:39.580Vladimir Putin is the president of the Russian nation.
00:12:44.880He said, I'm not just the president of the Russian Federation, but the Russian nation.
00:12:49.600And the Russian nation is defined by people with common heritage, culture, language, religion.
00:12:55.780He said in that same speech, and it's been misconstrued by many, that the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the past century was the collapse of the Soviet Union.
00:13:04.840And people went, ah, that means all Putin wants to do is become the next Soviet Union.
00:13:08.100They didn't listen to the rest of the speech.
00:13:10.160Because overnight, he said, tens of millions of Russians became homeless.
00:13:14.760People who, while it was the Soviet Union, could live in a republic like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and others, and be part of a family of nations looking to Moscow for leadership.
00:13:28.300Overnight, these Russians didn't have a home.
00:13:32.400They had to look to the respective capitals, and they were treated, in many cases, poorly as subhumans, etc.
00:13:38.800He said, it's my responsibility to protect these people.
00:13:42.280Now, Ukraine is home to millions of Russians.
00:13:46.020And in 2014, when the United States empowered these nationalists to come in and declare war against the Russians, when I say declare war, I mean declare war.
00:13:53.280Ladies and gentlemen, look up Odessa in May of 2014, the trade union.
00:13:59.920Look at how the Banderas surrounded the building, set it on fire, and then wouldn't let people leave.
00:14:06.700Take a look at the Ukrainian nationalists kicking the bodies of the people that fell out of the building to make sure that they're dead.
00:14:12.780Look at the train of peace they sent to Crimea, full of these Nazi thugs that was turned around by the Russian people that said, no, you will not come here.
00:14:20.620That's why Crimea became Russia, because they didn't want to be ruled by these Banderas.
00:14:24.820Look at how the Banderas behaved in the Donbass, that region that currently is the center of the conflict today.
00:14:30.880When people talk about the rape of Mariupol, they're talking about how the Banderas came in in 2014 and seized control of this Russian city, murdering, raping, pillaging the Russian population, intimidating them.
00:14:42.900Look at the, on April, I think, in April of 2014, the Ukrainians declared war against the Russians of Ukraine, an anti-terrorist operation.
00:14:52.900The Russians became terrorists in June.
00:14:55.600They dropped bombs on Donetsk and Lugansk, bombs on civilians.
00:15:15.060These are Nazis, peoples whose direct lineage goes back to the fascist ideology that empowered Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and they were active participants on the side of Adolf Hitler during the Second World War, carrying out the atrocities.
00:15:29.380They were the concentration camp guards.
00:15:32.440These are the people that would put people, and if there's a movie, gosh, I can't remember the name, about a young Belarusian boy during the Second World War, and it shows how these Banderas, with their Nazi overlords, came to a village, put people in a church, and set the church on fire, killing hundreds, burning them to death.
00:15:51.840They did this over and over and over and over again.
00:15:54.180These are the people that are in control of Ukraine today.
00:15:56.840And Russia tried to make peace with these people.
00:16:01.120You know, in 2014, Russia tried to implement what was known as the Minsk Accords, a negotiated settlement with Ukraine brokered by France and Great Britain.
00:16:29.660Now, the Russians assisted the Russian people of Donbass.
00:16:32.800They surrounded the Ukrainian army in a village called Debaltovoi in 2014, 2015, and they were going to wipe the Ukrainian army off the face of the earth.
00:16:42.380The Ukrainians panicked, called in their French and German allies, and then negotiated the Minsk II Accords.
00:16:48.420Angela Merkel speaks in her book about how she called Vladimir Putin and begged him, pleaded, said, don't kill these people.
00:17:06.680And they let the Ukrainian army go, and they began a peace process, the Minsk II Accords.
00:17:10.940But now we know Angela Merkel, who was the German chancellor at the time, Francois Hollande, who was the French president at the time, and Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, have all acknowledged today that Minsk II was a sham.
00:17:28.760What they wanted was to free those Ukrainian troops and buy time so that NATO could retrain the Ukrainian army so it could go back and finish the job.
00:17:38.140In 2015, the United States built a major training facility in western Ukraine, where we brag openly about training one battalion of Ukrainian troops, 500, every 55 days to NATO standards so they can go from western Ukraine to the east for the sole purpose of killing Russians.
00:18:08.920It was back when Biden did one of the dumbest things, of the many dumb things he's done, where he said before the meeting, Vladimir Putin, I looked in his eyes, and he's a killer, a stone-cold killer.
00:18:18.920Well, how do you have diplomacy with a killer?
00:18:22.180But in that meeting, Putin said, you know, you guys are worried about us moving troops inside Russia because the United States is like, you're not allowed to move troops inside Russia.
00:18:29.880But what they were doing is responding to the amassing of 60,000 Ukrainian troops near the Donbass.
00:18:36.620And they said, if they invade the Donbass, we have to respond.
00:19:37.740They amassed another 60,000 to 80,000 troops ready to invade in late February, early March, and Russia launched a preemptive attack.
00:19:44.040It's legal under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, preemptive collective self-defense.
00:19:49.760Russia recognized the independence of Lugansk and Donetsk.
00:19:52.820They created a collective security agreement.
00:19:55.040And based upon that collective security agreement, Russia said we have to preempt the impending attack by Ukraine on the members of this collective security grid.
00:20:02.400Totally legal, you know, construct, one that, oh, by the way, NATO invented in going into Kosovo.
00:20:09.000For all you people out there that say Russia carried out an illegal war of aggression, they used the NATO playbook.
00:20:33.240They had three meetings, I believe, in Gomel before they went to Turkey.
00:20:36.120By the end of March, early April, they had a peace treaty, the Istanbul communique, a peace treaty that would have brought an end to this war.
00:20:47.840The United States and Great Britain couldn't allow this to happen.
00:20:50.200We ordered Boris Johnson into Ukraine, he confronted Zelensky, and they tore up the peace deal.
00:20:56.220So Russia had to continue this conflict.
00:20:58.480We then poured hundreds of billions of dollars of military equipment into Ukraine for the purpose, to quote Lloyd Austin, the former Secretary of Defense, of strategically defeating Russia, a nuclear power.
00:21:10.340We now want to strategically defeat them in Ukraine, turn Ukraine into the Russian Vietnam.
00:21:14.620And we poured all this money, the new Lend-Lease program, we said, invoking World War II, which was, by the way, a conflict against the Nazis.
00:21:22.180But at this time, our Lend-Lease is in support of the Nazis.
00:21:25.240And we enabled the Ukrainian army to rebuild and launch attacks against the Russians.
00:21:29.560The Russians hit pause, mobilized, began this war of attrition that's been going on ever since.
00:22:49.240But if you, in five months, if you have 25,000 casualties in a scenario where every month you're recruiting 30,000 to 40,000 people, you ain't losing that math game.
00:23:52.220They have no air defense today because all the billions of dollars of air defense we sent in there, they fired all the missiles or all the missiles were destroyed by the Russians.
00:24:00.180And today the Russians could do anything they want over the skies of Ukraine.
00:24:31.380Remember, ladies and gentlemen, 27 million Russians died.
00:24:34.280Soviet citizens died during the Second World War, defeating the Nazi horde that invaded and occupied Russia and committed horrific crimes against Russians.
00:24:42.500And if you think the Russians are ever going to forget that crime and never allow the same ideology that was responsible for the deaths of 27 million to reside inside a former Soviet republic next door to Russia, you're high.
00:24:58.420And so Russia will continue this conflict until Ukraine no longer has Nazi government and Ukraine no longer has a NATO-trained military and they will never allow Ukraine to be a member of NATO.
00:25:07.960And as long as the West says, no, we don't agree with that, then this war will continue.
00:26:03.240Normally, you'd want the fire trucks to come and put out the fire, save the building.
00:26:06.700But he said, when the building is built on the premise of Nazis, NATO military and NATO presence, the best firefighting strategy is let the building burn down.
00:26:20.280And that's what Russia is doing right now.
00:26:21.900They're going to let Ukraine burn down.
00:26:23.800And as long as the West continues to support Ukraine, the fire will just burn longer and hotter and bring about more destruction.
00:26:30.120But the bottom line is this building we call Ukraine, as it exists today, will not exist when this war is over.
00:27:14.040In the last round, and not this round that just finished, but the first round of negotiations that took place in Istanbul a couple weeks ago,
00:27:22.180Madensky was speaking to Umerov, I think the Ukrainian secretary or minister of defense.
00:27:28.580And the Ukrainian turned to Madensky, who was the lead Russian negotiator.
00:27:47.040And he said, well, he said, I don't know.
00:27:50.240But he said, my guess is that there's the Ukrainian president.
00:27:54.540But the way Ukraine works, and given the corruption of Ukraine, one of the most important people in Ukraine is the presidential advisor, who's Yermak, who operates independent of the president.
00:28:07.020And the fact is, without him, the president would fall.
00:28:09.560And so you have to deal with the president and Yermak, who has his own constituency.
00:28:14.040Then the third is the United States at the head of NATO.
00:33:49.720The other problem is because he doesn't know anything about Putin.
00:33:51.520He's a prisoner of the people who advise him.
00:33:53.420And so he has two schools of people surrounding him, people who are inclined to be realistic about the situation in Ukraine, people like J.D. Vance, people like Tulsi Gabbard, people like RFK Jr., Steve Witkoff, who turned out to be one of his special negotiators here.
00:34:13.320And they say, look, we have to deal with the present reality.
00:34:15.760But then he's countered by traditional neoconservatives, such as Marco Rubio, who is the secretary of state, who hates Russia and everything about Russia.
00:34:23.840Keith Kellogg, who is a neocon from way back, who hates Russia, everything about Scott Besson, his secretary of the treasury, who believes the only way out of this is to sanction Russia to death, as if people haven't tried that before.
00:34:40.600That's trying to, you know, so who does he trust?
00:34:43.600What happens with Trump, I believe, is the last person to whisper sweet nothings in his ear at night and the first person to whisper sweet nothings in his ear in the morning is the policy position he takes, because he's all over the map.
00:34:56.800So if Tulsi Gabbard can get to him and give him a common sense brief or if J.D. Vance can talk to him, Trump will take a common sense approach.
00:35:03.460But God, if Marco Rubio gets to him or Keith Kellogg, next thing you know, he's posting something on Truth Social that's completely different than what he said the next day.
00:35:11.300He's all over the map, and it's impossible to make sound policy when you're that chaotic.
00:35:19.700So I guess we can get into what's been going on in the past two weeks.
00:35:22.760You mentioned that these were terrorist attacks.
00:35:24.720You know, from what I read, they're saying I think it was the SBU that ran these operations, which is like their equivalent to maybe FBI, CIA combined.
00:35:32.840Obviously, this is the organization that was behind Gonzalo Lear being tragically killed, so I'm not a big fan of them.
00:35:39.420But that's what they were reporting, that they're the ones that ran this operation.
00:35:42.460Is that fake news or – because I know you mentioned that it was plainclothes terrorists.
00:35:47.200So is it because they're more of a law enforcement intelligence agency that they're doing these attacks that would be considered terrorism?
00:35:52.620What is the – how would that be deemed as – because Western media is not calling it that.
00:38:36.620What would you think is if the Mexicans sent cartel members in or used cartel members already in America?
00:38:44.060And then outside of Oklahoma City, they got a warehouse and they bought trucks and they modified the trucks to hold drones.
00:38:54.380And then they took these drones and they parked them outside of Whitman Air Force Base in Missouri, where our B-2 bombers are.
00:39:00.460They took the drones to Barksdale Air Force Base, where our B-52 bombers are.
00:39:04.260Or they took it up to Minot, North Dakota, where other B-52s are, our three bases where our strategic bombers are.
00:39:09.800And they launched these attacks against our strategic bombers, our strategic bombers.
00:39:15.640And then we found out that they were helped by the Chinese and the North Koreans.
00:39:19.400And this was part of a grand strategy to eliminate America's nuclear deterrence capabilities.
00:39:25.540Would the average American go, oh, gee, I guess that's just too bad?
00:39:31.640Or we'd say blow the hell out of Mexico, take the cartel off the face of the earth, take China and North Korea out.
00:39:37.820This is an act of war because that's what happened.
00:39:41.200The United States and Great Britain worked with the Ukrainians to create these drone motherships and sent them off to hit Russia's strategic nuclear bomber force.
00:39:52.680Now, Russia has a nuclear doctrine that was just promulgated last year.
00:39:56.960And in that nuclear doctrine, they say that Russia can use nuclear weapons.
00:40:00.740These are the conditions under which Russia can use nuclear weapons if they are attacked by conventional weapons in a manner that threatens their strategic nuclear deterrent.
00:40:10.520Well, holy cow, that just happened, ladies and gentlemen.
00:40:13.480Now, everybody who says, well, I wish that attack was more successful.
00:40:16.340Had it been more successful, you would be dead.
00:40:19.660Because when Russia responds, it's everything.
00:40:23.780They push the button and all the missiles go out and everybody dies.
00:40:28.640So don't wish for things that you don't understand the consequences of.
00:40:33.120The other thing is if a non-nuclear state attacks Russia with conventional power in a way that threatens the existential survival of Russia and they are assisted by a nuclear power state, then Russia will treat this attack as if it came from the nuclear power state and respond accordingly.
00:40:51.620We helped the Ukrainians, we helped the Ukrainians, the British helped the Ukrainians execute this operation.
00:40:56.840The operation was carried out by a non-nuclear state, Ukraine, acting at the behest of nuclear powers, striking Russia's nuclear deterrence.
00:41:04.180Russia has every right under their doctrine to blow us off the face of the earth using nuclear weapons.
00:41:09.100So next time people criticize Vladimir Putin, I say shut up and give a prayer of thanks that Russia is governed by a man who is responsible, who is pragmatic, resilient, and resistant to pressure to carry out acts of revenge.
00:41:23.720Because if this was the United States, I don't think we'd be so, the world would be so lucky because we're very vengeful people.
00:41:32.320Just ask, look at how we responded after 9-11.
00:41:34.300So, you know, this is a terrorist attack that put the life of every American at risk.
00:41:45.000Did you wake up Sunday morning and go, today's the day I'm ready to die for Ukraine?
00:41:50.040I hope Vladimir Zelensky does something crazy, like launches a drone attack against Russia's strategic nuclear force so that Russia can nuke me.
00:42:11.260And the only reason why we're alive is because of the wisdom of Donald Trump or Marco Rubio is because of the patience and the understanding of Vladimir Putin.
00:42:20.200And I, no matter how much I respect the Russians, I don't want to live in a world where I depend upon Vladimir Putin to keep me safe.
00:42:43.160Before Trump became president, the Ukrainians, using an American-trained special operations unit, penetrated Russia, went to Engels Air Force Base in the middle of Russia, where they launched the attacks against Ukraine and launched an attack against strategic nuclear bombers there.
00:43:00.020That's why Russia changed their nuclear doctrine, because of things that the CIA has done in the past.
00:43:04.960We ordered the CIA to facilitate this.
00:43:08.040Did Trump ever give the order to stand down?
00:43:11.300Now, Trump may not have known about this, but you can't order the CIA to do something and then get surprised when they actually do it, because you didn't say, oh, hit the off switch.
00:43:21.100There's a lot of on switches on right now that date back to Trump's first term.
00:43:25.480Remember, Donald Trump's the guy that built 20 CIA bases in Ukraine designed to carry out covert operations against Russia.
00:43:41.340And until Trump starts going and not only hitting the off switches, but declaring that he hit the off switches, Russia has to perceive the United States is continuing to implement these policies, policies that directly threaten their national security and their existence as a nation.
00:43:55.400Yeah, because he seemed that because he was expressing some frustration when he said Putin's a crazy man when he got off the plane.
00:44:02.860I remember because he said, hey, we were in the middle of talks and then they launched this attack.
00:44:05.980And then a week later, then Ukraine responded and launched their attack.
00:44:09.220So, you know, maybe you're you know, he did know.
00:44:40.300But, you know, he put it out there that way.
00:44:42.420Well, Ukraine tried to assassinate the president of Russia.
00:44:45.000And again, I just want to tell the American people if they had succeeded, you would be dead.
00:44:49.040Because one of the first things that happens when the Russian president is killed is that the Russians shut down and implement their strategic retaliation plan.
00:44:57.000Because they're assuming that assassination is a precursor for an attack against Russia by the nuclear forces of its enemies.
00:45:04.880And America right now is classified as an enemy because we are supporting the Ukrainians in this war against Russia.
00:45:09.880So had they succeeded in killing Russia, we'd be dead.
00:45:14.220And the fact that our president was ignorant of it is either a sign of his absolute unfitness for leadership or a failure of our intelligence or both.
00:45:26.020So I know that they were supposed to have another round of talks in Turkey.
00:45:29.600Obviously, you know, the assassination attempt, Russia attacks them and, you know, hits a couple of areas, the biggest airstrike they said in the past three years.
00:45:36.640And then Ukraine retaliated with this last operation.
00:45:39.940What do you anticipate is going to happen from here?
00:45:42.020Has Russia responded to Ukraine yet based off this last drone attack with the trucks and them doing it secretly?
00:45:47.840And then what are we going to talk about when it comes to the diplomacy in Istanbul?
00:45:53.360Well, the Russians will continue to go through the motions of diplomacy.
00:45:57.900They're not going to give people like Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal an excuse to seek to put sanctions on Russia.
00:46:05.740So if diplomacy fails, it's going to be because Ukraine and NATO and the United States failed.
00:46:12.320Russia will continue to participate and participate in a meaningful fashion, as they did in this last round.
00:46:17.980You know, the reason why Ukraine launched this drone attack was to try and promote or provoke a Russian retaliation.
00:46:24.200And then Ukraine would have said, we can't go to this meeting because Russia is behaving irresponsibly or to get Russia to say, well, we can't deal with the Ukrainians because they're terrorists and all that.
00:46:34.060And the goal was to sabotage these deals.
00:46:36.760Russia said nothing, sent their team and their team carried out their diplomatic tasks and they left with another meeting on the table.
00:46:44.180That's the last thing the haters of Russia wanted.
00:46:47.080They wanted these diplomats to be finished now.
00:46:49.780But now Russia's kept the ball going and Russia will continue to keep the ball going while they destroy the Ukrainian military on the belt.
00:46:56.920You know, you say you speak of the Russian actions and then Ukrainian actions as if they're equal.
00:47:04.120This is the equivalent of Mike Tyson in there knocking the crap out of people, knocking them out.
00:47:10.720And some, you know, third grader running around and, you know, pulling Susan Rottenkroch's pigtail.
00:49:20.240And then Ukrainians were put on notice that if they continue to be obstructive to this peace process, then they won't be talking about losing four territories, but losing eight territories.
00:49:29.860Which means Russia will then say, well, then we're going in to protect the Russian population of Odessa, Nikolaev, Nepotrovsk, and Kharkov.
00:49:37.980And probably Sumy as well, a fifth territory.
00:49:40.120Because there are large Russian populations there.
00:49:42.580And Russia has said that we're here to protect the Russian people.
00:49:45.340If the Ukrainian government continues to treat the Russian people as second-class citizens, they've outlawed the Russian language, they've outlawed the Russian Orthodox faith, Russia won't allow that, won't tolerate that.
00:49:56.580When they talk about new elections, getting rid of Zelensky, it's about putting in a government that will put in a new constitution to protect the rights of the Russian people.
00:50:03.960Zelensky refuses to do that because he's under the control of the Banderas Nazis of Western Ukraine.
00:50:37.060Only one side gets to dictate the outcome here.
00:50:38.820Gotcha. And the United States and I guess Ukraine still think they have some type of leverage when the reality is like, hey, these five things are happening and you need to basically just allow it to happen, which they don't want to.
00:51:48.500The Donbass, Russia didn't want to absorb it.
00:51:50.540Russia just wanted the rights of the Russian people there respected.
00:51:53.720But it wasn't until NATO injected 100 billion dollars of military aid empowering the Ukrainian army to launch an attack that Russia said, you have no interest in respecting the rights of the Russian people.
00:52:05.880So, therefore, we're going to take these.
00:52:25.980But Russia, you know, has not said that, you know, we're going to take Odessa, Nikolayevna, Petrovsk, and Kharkov, where predominantly Russian populations.
00:52:35.080But you have to protect the rights of the Russian people that live there.
00:52:37.820And if Ukraine refuses to do that, continue to bring harm to these people, then Russia will have no choice but to protect the rights of those people by assuming responsibility for those people.
00:52:49.080So, the five standards, no more NATO expansion, Zelensky out of power, no more than 50,000 troops, demilitarize, and basically official recognition of the territories that Russia has basically taken over.
00:53:04.580So, those are the five things that basically Ukraine and the United States are reluctant to fully accept, even though we have no leverage.
00:53:32.300You know, it's incredible, Scott, because, you know, Western media never actually talks about Russia's demands.
00:53:37.920They just say that Russia is unreasonable and they can't come to the table and make a deal.
00:53:41.540But they never actually talk about the five things we just discussed, which is what Russia is looking for, which, to be honest with you, me just looking from the outside in, I think it's fairly reasonable.
00:53:50.080Yes, does it put Ukraine in a position, a vulnerable position?
00:54:02.700So, why do we care about putting Ukraine in a vulnerable—did we care about—could you imagine Dwight D. Eisenhower saying, you know, the Russians going into Berlin, that's putting Adolf Hitler in a vulnerable position.
00:54:15.900I mean, you know, the Russians coming in and assaulting Berlin and surrounding the bunker.
00:54:20.740I mean, why would you do that to Hitler?
00:54:22.700Why would you compel Hitler to commit suicide?
00:54:24.800That's putting him in a vulnerable position.
00:54:35.300These were the most evil people on the planet.
00:54:37.820And today, we ignore the fact that Stepan Bandero, the national hero of Ukraine, fought side-by-side with Adolf Hitler.
00:54:48.120He's responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Jews.
00:54:51.880The Banderists formed the heart of the concentration guard—the camp guards.
00:54:57.100In 1943, they carried out a massacre in Wolin, Poland, 110,000 Polish civilians.
00:55:04.560And I mean, this isn't just killing people.
00:55:06.700These guys went into villages, surrounded the villages, house by house.
00:55:10.720They would go into the homes of the Poles, and they would literally butcher the husband, guide his eyes out.
00:55:17.200They would rip the babies out of the stomach of mothers or take the babies and hammer them to chairs, and they cut to the pieces while the mother watched, and then rape the mother to death.
00:55:25.720All the while, a female choir of Banderist women would be singing songs outside to drown out the cries of the people inside so that the rest of the village wouldn't be scared.
00:55:35.880These are the people that we support with our money.
00:55:39.260The hatred that exists in Ukraine is unbelievable.
00:55:53.620This is a hateful ideology, one that my uncles—I don't know if your relatives fought in the Second World War, but many Americans had relatives fight in the Second World War.
00:56:05.240And yet we're giving them our money and our support today to fight the people who are our allies in World War II, the people who sacrificed $27 million in the cause of defeating Nazi Germany.
00:56:17.800So before I let you go, what is—what are the casualties looking like right now?
00:56:21.980I know they're kind of hard to get because both countries are kind of keeping their cards close to their chest.
00:56:25.660But what are the casualties looking on the Russian side and on the Ukrainian side?
00:56:30.840Oh, man, you're talking about speculation here.
00:58:10.860If you go and take a look at some of the Terminator movies where the people are running underneath and you've got the drones flying overhead, that's the way it is.
00:58:20.400As you get close to the battlefield, the drones are there.
00:58:54.640Thank you for, you know, bringing this to light because I think a lot of guys in the chat got educated on, you know, what Russia wants versus what Ukraine is trying to demand.
00:59:01.640And that's very eye-opening because mainstream media is not saying this stuff, right, probably because they know that the Western stance is ridiculous.
01:00:33.940It's always good talking with Scott, bro.
01:00:35.720Wealth of knowledge when it comes to foreign policy, especially when it comes to Russia, Ukraine.
01:00:41.580You know, I was not familiar with all the terms that Russia wanted, but now it makes more sense why, you know, we've negotiations have stalled.
01:01:04.260And guys, I'm only going to be reading five and up, but I'll read the ones that came in before just because these came in before I read the chats.
01:03:20.660So, guys, for you that just joining, welcome.
01:03:23.320Obviously, we just wrapped up a great interview with Scott Ritter.
01:03:25.340We talked about the conflict, the history of the conflict, how we got to here, what and how, you know, what's probably going to happen next and why it's been very difficult to get a ceasefire going and bring peace.
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01:03:52.880Also, I might start implementing call-ins for the show soon, guys.
01:03:56.820I did get a device that allows people to call into the show with this mixture that I have.
01:04:02.340So, that might be something that I incorporate later on, maybe only with Cals Club members or membership guys, where I'll wrap up a show and then, you know, we'll chop it up with people that call into the show and give their takes on different things.
01:04:16.480But this is something I'm thinking about doing later.
01:05:23.960We have with us long crimes reporter Elizabeth Milner, who has been inside that courtroom for every day of testimony and things that are not even testimony related, including an outburst today and apparently someone getting banned.
01:06:30.840He speaks in a pretentious, pompous manner, thinking he's smarter than he really is.
01:06:35.580Obviously, they're equipping Israel with the technology that they're using to kill all these people.
01:06:41.780A product called Lavender and some other types of things where they're using it to assess Palestinian targets.
01:06:49.020And quite frankly, I don't think it's a good idea that Trump is handing over American citizens' information to a for-profit tech company that works for intelligence agencies and militaries.
01:07:24.320I just don't like Silicon Valley tech guys having sensitive information like that that work for foreign governments, which is not acceptable in my eyes.
01:07:35.260So, yeah, I'm not a fan of Palantir having that level of power.
01:07:43.080So, Jesse, this happened first thing this morning.
01:07:45.580It was outside of the presence of the jury.
01:07:47.340We were actually talking about, or not we, as far as the press is going, but the arguments were about Mia's testimony and possibly introducing some jail calls.
01:07:55.600So I was listening, taking notes, and then all of a sudden I'm hearing screams.
01:07:58.800And just so you guys know, Mia, if you're wondering, is one of the witnesses that is testifying against Diddy.
01:08:04.880I would argue she's more than likely the government's top witness.
01:08:07.920And the reason why is because they've taken great lengths to protect this woman's identity.
01:08:14.380Lil LaJean says, in 2011, Scott Ritter was convicted of several criminal offenses.
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01:10:53.460And what Brian Steele did was he did a deep dive on her resume.
01:10:57.220He did a deep dive on her social media posts.
01:10:59.640And, you know, one story she gave, for example, was, hey, Diddy took my passport and I couldn't leave.
01:11:05.160And then Brian Steele had her resume that showed that her duties were to maintain people's travel documents.
01:11:12.320So, he's like, how is it that Diddy had your passport when that's your job?
01:11:15.600You know, then she talked about how, you know, she was overworked and all this other stuff.
01:11:20.220And then, again, Brian Steele looked at her resume and said, well, hearing your resume says that you're willing to work, you know, long hours, 24 hours, where you're supervising and managing celebrities.
01:11:28.700You know, and then she's like, oh, well, Diddy assaults me.
01:11:31.160Then he's like, oh, well, is it not true that you and Diddy, you know, continue to be friendly after you left?
01:11:37.520And he pulls up like 40 Instagram posts of her saying how much she loves Diddy or whatever.
01:11:41.300So, you know, Brian Steele did a fantastic job of really embarrassing this woman and hurting her credibility.
01:11:48.080And, you know, this is the woman that Comey, the main AUSA on this case, the main prosecutor, she was the one giving her direct examination.
01:11:55.520Typically, when the lead AUSA is giving you a direct examination, that tells me as a former agent, that's probably the top witness for the government.
01:12:04.920So, you know, and then all the other things I mentioned of them trying to protect her name, not putting her real name out there, you know, making sure the artist doesn't draw her face.
01:12:13.480All this stuff leads me to believe that's the star witness.
01:12:15.800And the fact that Brian Steele absolutely demolished her, you know, is really good for the Diddy team.
01:12:44.720Bro, there's this batshit crazy woman, dude.
01:12:48.060I think I know exactly who she's talking about.
01:12:50.200Chat, so there's this fucking batshit crazy fucking woman, dude, that literally, like, talks all the time and, like, is, like, in the fucking overflow rooms spectating.
01:13:49.160And she would show up to court either in that uniform or doing other weird shit.
01:13:53.760And, like, she never gets in the main courtroom, but there was a few times where we had these overflow rooms.
01:13:57.400As I've explained to you guys before, the way the courthouse works is the main courtroom, you can only fit, like, maybe 10 or 20 people in there that are the public, that aren't the press.
01:14:04.160So if you don't get in the main courtroom, you end up going in these overflow rooms, and there's, like, a bunch of them all throughout the courtroom.
01:14:09.080And there's a monitor in there where you can watch the trial and hear everything going on.
01:14:11.960It really isn't that much of a difference from being in the main courtroom.
01:14:14.580But regardless, this woman, I've seen her a couple of times.
01:15:27.580Guys, when I tell you that this bitch is crazy, I am not kidding around, dude.
01:15:31.180And she's been showing up every day to the courthouse, man.
01:15:33.340She's not necessarily confirmed whether or not she actually works for MTA.
01:15:37.080But she always kind of comes in with an MTA jacket.
01:15:39.840And that's how we kind of have remembered her.
01:15:41.760So I'm just going to give you guys the low that we had kind of had bets amongst us in the press just about how long it would take before something like this were to happen again.
01:15:51.700Because we were thinking that she would cause trouble just right off the bat.
01:15:55.440And then lo and behold, it didn't take very long for her to kind of stir up some trouble and for the marshal to escort her out.
01:16:02.840So from what I heard, I was just cussing.
01:16:43.480Kind of the marshals escorted her outside of the courtroom.
01:16:47.480As far as what was going on inside for the judge, he went back to business as usual.
01:16:52.580But from my understanding, she was just kind of dismissed from the courthouse altogether
01:16:57.560and likely won't be able to come back in and likely won't be able to come back in the courtroom too.
01:17:02.760But even as far as just the incident of somebody revealing Mia's true identity
01:17:08.340and I guess saying this over a live stream or in a video, that type of thing,
01:17:12.980that was also brought up shortly after the incident of the woman having an outburst inside the courtroom today.
01:17:18.320And so what we did learn about that, it was somebody who was actually sitting on our side of the press,
01:17:23.080not with a NYC verified press credential, nothing like that.
01:17:27.440But what it's been kind of alleged is that it was somebody sitting on our side who kind of works for a blog or a media outlet, that type of thing.
01:17:37.220And that after court yesterday was doing this video, doing this live stream and was essentially talking about Mia
01:17:43.580and wasn't referring to Mia as her pseudonym, was instead referring to Mia as her true identity.
01:17:49.060And so what AUSA Emily Johnson discussed with the judge today is that she didn't see this individual inside the courtroom today.
01:17:56.140So there was no further, I guess, talk about what was happening next.
01:18:00.420But if this person were to show up once again, then they'll definitely not be allowed back into the courtroom.
01:18:06.540And I doubt even into the overflow room at this point either.
01:18:10.420Well, Elizabeth, that is quite a way to start the day.
01:18:38.680Now, you and I talked about him yesterday because yesterday he was intending to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
01:19:09.400So this former security guard from the Intercontinental Hotel, what were the highlights?
01:19:14.880Oh, so he's the second security guard because there was the other one of Flores.
01:19:18.640Remember, you guys remember the first witness that they put on the stand was actually the Intercontinental security guard who's now LAPD cop.
01:36:00.840So, because it's so serious and because it was involved with so many people in terms of when we look at it on a mafia level, it made the list.
01:36:09.580It just has to be one of these things on the list, and that's why it's important.
01:36:46.760I don't know if they've offered her immunity to testify or, theoretically, if she hasn't been offered immunity, she might plead the fifth instead of testifying because she would be implicating herself.
01:36:58.760So, I don't actually know what's going to happen, but she's very clearly part of what the prosecutors are painting to be a criminal enterprise.
01:37:36.660While the prosecution didn't ask Cassie about the hotel tape, which she did call the security to turn over the tape to KK or Diddy, she wanted it trashed out.
01:37:45.700I mean, there was testimony, excuse me, earlier today where apparently Cassie was on the phone and basically said she wanted the tape, too.
01:37:54.020And so, I think this goes to the idea that it wasn't Combs, you know, trying to cover up evidence of his crimes, but maybe it was trying to protect him and Cassie together, right?
01:38:03.240So, I guess I don't recall what the level she was asked about this on the stand.
01:38:08.480But, again, the question is, did the prosecution not ask her enough about this hotel tape?
01:38:14.460Well, I think we can also, you know, the fact that this would be very damaging to her, it makes sense that she wouldn't want that tape out there.
01:38:22.440But also, I think if we can go back to the testimony of the psychologist, we know that Cassie was under his thumb and she was under his psychological control.
01:38:34.300So, taking accountability away from women, as usual, fantastic.
01:38:37.480She may have even been threatened or may have even been politely asked by Combs, hey, call this individual and say, you don't want this video out.
01:38:45.700So, and, you know, Combs may have thought that she, as a young woman, may appeal to him even more and beg that, hey, please don't put this video out.
01:38:56.720It's going to be damaging to me and not even worry, don't even worry about Sean, but it's going to be harmful to me, my future, my career, my reputation.
01:39:04.340You know, my family is going to see this.
01:39:05.820So, I don't know why they didn't ask her about it, but it makes sense to me that she would call her, that he would get her to call and say, hey, do this deal.
01:39:15.840Don't put this video out or destroy the video.
01:39:18.440So, Candice, we've got a question coming in about alleged victim number three, who I believe is referred to as Gina.
01:39:25.940There's been this whole conversation about whether or not she's going to testify or not.
01:39:55.300So, there might actually be a fourth chat.
01:39:57.220Fourth, a couple weeks ago where the defense said she's basically not a part of the case anymore.
01:40:00.840The prosecution kind of objected to that.
01:40:03.160But NLIN DK says, why not bring Gina or at least her testimony in, make her plead the fifth and give immunity to, wouldn't it prove she's scared or paid?
01:40:12.640If she doesn't, get the victim part, and then it kind of gets cut off.
01:40:16.720But I guess there's a lot of different points to that.
01:40:18.520I'll allow you to jump into how you want to discuss Gina of alleged victim number three.
03:07:58.180And these people tend to lean on the left.
03:08:00.220That's another reason, too, why Tesla kind of got beat up with this.
03:08:04.340Because the people that buy these types of vehicles tend to care about the environment.
03:08:09.720People that tend to care about the environment most of the time are progressives.
03:08:13.100Republicans and conservatives in general don't give a fuck about, you know, fossil fuels and all this other bullshit.
03:08:17.860You know, most conservatives will probably tell you that global warming is a scam.
03:08:22.140So him aligning with the Republican Party and getting Trump in when they don't believe in this shit did definitely hurt him from a financial sense.
03:08:33.640This is why so many people that are like in business do not talk about their political affiliation chat because you will lose money unless like your brand is inherently tied to a political realm, so to speak.
03:08:47.740But most of the time, when you're a businessman, you want to stay out of politics due to his divisive nature.
03:08:55.020And for Musk to join the Republican Party and support Donald Trump, that is absolutely going to fly in the face of a lot of the people that probably purchased or wanted to purchase Teslas.
03:09:09.520And liberals, as we know, aren't rational individuals.
03:09:12.340They get triggered and when you piss them off, they commit acts of violence.
03:09:17.840This is why the FBI arrested literally several people that firebombed Tesla dealerships all across America.
03:09:27.060These liberals got so fucking triggered that he was supporting Donald Trump that they started firebombing fucking dealerships, dude.
03:09:33.760Like I showed you guys the case of one Chinese guy, one Asian guy in Vegas, like just torched the place and had guns and everything and FBI arrested him.
03:11:59.440Putting America first, international environmental agreements.
03:12:02.180United States must grow its economy and maintain jobs for its citizens while playing a leadership role in global affairs to protect the environment over decades.
03:12:08.080With the help of sensible policies that do not encumber private sector activity, the United States has simultaneously grown its economy, raised workers, bla bla bla bla.
03:12:32.780The United States ambassador to the United Nations shall immediately submit formal rent notification to the United States, withdraw from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
03:13:35.900Detroit suburb city code for storing dozens of Tesla vehicles on its parking lot.
03:13:42.460That's because there is so much inventory to these Cybertrucks, they can't get rid of it.
03:13:46.180I don't think it's a good news for your car manufacturer when your flagship luxury trucks are just sitting unsold in a random parking lot somewhere outside of Detroit, possibly drawing municipal citations.
03:13:56.500In fact, Tesla shareholders now saying the company's in crisis, sending a letter to the company demanding this is pretty funny.
03:30:50.720X started taking a far more pro-Trump stance.
03:30:53.060He hosted a couple of spaces with Trump.
03:30:54.920So he was instrumental in getting him elected.
03:30:59.780Besides the $270 million, he also talked with Peter Thiel and these tech guys, you know, the PayPal mafia.
03:31:07.660So J.D. Vance, alongside Musk, brought in the Silicon Valley bros to support Trump.
03:31:13.920Also, leveraging his Platform X to also be pro-Trump.
03:31:19.540And then obviously putting his own money into the game.
03:31:21.740So I will not take anything away from him in the regards that Donald Trump owes Elon Musk his life because Elon Musk pretty much sealed the deal when it comes to X endorsement, financial endorsement, Silicon Valley, and the tech world endorsement.
03:31:41.080Now, once Trump got in, that's when people got to see the side of Musk that people don't like, right?
03:31:49.400Because now he's in here in executive and cabinet meetings.
03:32:26.100Cash Patel, when he was, and for those that aren't familiar, so when Trump appoints someone to become a member of his cabinet, they have to go through what's called Senate confirmation hearings.
03:32:34.400And they go there, they're under oath, and they answer questions about are they fit for the job, you know, their candor, whatever it is.
03:32:41.480Basically, the Senate is able to grill them on a bunch of stuff to see if they're qualified or not.
03:32:45.800Now, typically, it's just a formality.
03:32:47.780Most people that get appointed to go through these confirmation hearings get confirmed.
03:33:08.320Though I will give him credit, he hasn't been too much of a neocon as Secretary of Defense.
03:33:12.700But, you know, we're talking about infidelity, sexual assault, alcohol problems.
03:33:17.700He was an anchor on Fox News, had never really been, he served in the military, but he was never at like a super high level.
03:33:25.000So people felt like he was inexperienced and he had all these problems, right?
03:33:28.540Let me tell you this, at the confirmation hearing, they were whooping his ass, asking him all kinds of questions, making him look crazy, etc.
03:33:36.560Then you move on to fucking Kash Patel.
03:33:40.280They're over here grilling him on, hey, we saw you on a podcast saying that you're going to turn the FBI headquarters into a museum.
03:33:46.220You're going to go after these government gangsters because, yes, Kash Patel released a book called Government of the Gangsters.
03:33:51.700We named all the deep state operatives and how they need to go to jail.
03:33:54.560You know, and they're asking him, like, how do we know you're not going to weaponize the FBI to go ahead and get revenge on your political rivals, blah, blah.
03:34:01.420They're whooping his ass on that shit, too.
04:44:57.120And hugely influential advocates for either side. Dave Smith is a libertarian commentator,
04:45:02.600a comedian, and the host of the Part of the Problem podcast. Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister,
04:45:08.240international lawyer, and a passionate supporter of Israel.
04:45:11.260Well, let's welcome you both. She's a ginger with freckles. Dave Smith, I finally lost it really with any attempt to try and defend what Israel was doing, having been a pretty steadfast defender of his right to defend itself from what happened on October the 7th.
04:46:00.820With the crucial caveat they always put in that they are targeting Hamas solely and that everything around Hamas is collateral damage. But to me, this reached a point where it became clearly disproportionate. And that's a view that clearly the UK has reached, the French have reached, many people in America have reached. You certainly haven't come to that thought process in the last few months. You've been saying that for a long time.
04:46:27.620The question I have for you, what happens now?
04:46:57.620I was in the Middle East last week, by chance. A lot of people come up to me and go, thank you for switching sides. And I said, I haven't switched sides. I've always tried to be a fair-minded, impartial journalist doing the job a journalist should do, which is challenging everybody.
04:47:12.460I think I've had more guests on from both sides, actually, and held more debates than any other show in the world of this kind. So, you know, I do think it's important. I don't want to be seen as taking a side.
04:47:21.720I give him credit for that. He has hosted more debates than anybody else on this topic, which I give him credit for that.
04:47:28.060This has gone too far. And I can see that very clearly.
04:47:32.800Yes. OK, so I didn't mean to box you into a side, just making the point that you have come to the conclusion that what Israel is doing is indefensible.
04:47:40.960And I thought it was fascinating and shocking watching you grill the Israeli ambassador, who simply cannot tell you or even ballpark how many kids they have killed in this whole thing.
04:47:53.900Yeah. Look, I mean, I think what Israel, you know, to your broader question of where does this all end up going?
04:48:00.340Yeah, they'll tell you that they killed, you know, 10 or 20,000 Hamas, but they won't tell you how many innocent people they killed.
04:48:06.940It's crazy because, like, they know that roughly we know for a fact 50,000 are dead.
04:48:12.260We know that for a fact. And they'll sit there and say, oh, yeah, we killed. We know we killed 20,000 Hamas.
04:48:17.580All right. So how many innocent people did you kill?
04:48:20.680We killed 20,000 Hamas. And they refuse to answer the question, bro.
04:48:23.880They refuse to answer because they know it's a it's a L.
04:48:26.480It's two kind of simultaneous wars, in a sense, that are going on.
04:48:32.860There's the actual, you know, control of power, in which case Israel's done phenomenally well over the last couple of years.
04:48:40.040I mean, Israel still has the support of the most powerful governments in the world, damn near unconditionally, if not purely unconditionally.
04:48:48.220They've been very successful in terms of taking out Hezbollah leaders.
04:48:52.860They've been very successful in terms of destroying the Gaza Strip.
04:48:56.480They've been successful in getting the regime change that they've wanted for many years in Syria.
04:49:00.900However, simultaneously, while that's going on, global opinion has drastically changed of Israel to a degree that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
04:49:11.100And despite whatever arguments might be made for whether this meets a genocide or doesn't meet a genocide or whether, you know, as as two former Israeli prime ministers who have come out recently and said that war crimes are being committed, wherever you fall on that.
04:49:27.320But the fact is that the debate is now over whether Israel is committing a genocide or not.
04:49:33.740And that is something that all of us should take a step back and appreciate how profound it is.
04:49:38.060The fact that we're even debating if this is a genocide or not should tell you guys how fucking far we've come.
04:51:04.080Natasha, if I was an Israeli, a regular Israeli, I would be pretty concerned that people like me have come to the place we've come to in this debate.
04:51:14.900You know, I've been harangued by pro-Palestinians for a long time for being too supportive of Israel's right to defend itself.
04:51:24.260Harangued, abused, mocked, threatened, all of the things that come with that in a war.
04:51:29.480But I just felt I couldn't do anything else to speak out.
04:51:33.000When you launch a three-month blockade against a people already suffering in the way that these Palestinians have been suffering, and I'm not talking about...
04:51:41.860Shout-out to DPG once again with the 50 gift of subs.
05:44:32.600Do you think that those two doctors, the parents, they just made it up that nine of their ten children had been blown to pieces by an Israeli airstrike?
05:44:58.100Somebody, you talk about blood libel, like Dave said, you talk about blood libel, you talk about lies, you talk about promoting propaganda, and here you sit here as a lawyer and you say that you do not believe those nine children were killed.
05:48:04.840My Calcet Club, guys, I'm looking at you guys especially.
05:48:06.620They rang me at midnight to ask if they should leave or stay in a hotel, the Baghdad Hilton, I think it was called, before shock and awe arrived.
05:48:18.840So, huge responsibility on my shoulders then about the lives of my journalists.
05:48:23.280But they were prepared to risk them to report the truth to the wider...
05:48:27.700When you have an Anton on, he'll be here in July.
05:48:29.740...the world, Israel has decided no journalists from outside can go in...
05:56:56.040Every time you hear, it's either, oh, this is propaganda, this is Hamas propaganda, those kids weren't intentionally killed, all this stuff.
05:57:03.000But look, like we said at the beginning, this is just, it doesn't meet the basic smell test, the basic human test.
05:57:09.460If you're telling me, as you said, Natasha, that Hamas has locked up all of the aid that's gotten in there.
05:57:16.080So who are you targeting when you don't let further aid in?
05:57:19.220It's the civilian population who's not getting it.
05:57:21.380Now, you could sit here and say, Israel isn't targeting them, meaning I blow up a building that I know has little children in it, but I'm claiming I'm targeting the bad guy.
05:57:31.620But you know that, in effect, your action is going to, in effect, destroy the civilian population.
05:57:38.240I'm sorry, this is a distinction without a difference, and I don't care about your appeal to international law.
05:57:43.760Look, I'm Lysander Spooner on this issue of international law.
05:57:47.980I think either international law allows what Israel is doing to Gaza, or it's been powerless to stop it.
05:57:55.500So either way, it has not been effective enough.
05:57:57.640By the way, it does seem like it's the latter, not the former, seeing as how there is, you know, criminal warrants out for Netanyahu for committing war crimes.
05:58:06.020But regardless of that, the bottom line here is that Israel is doing this to the civilian population of Gaza, and nobody.
05:58:14.680I think at this point, like, the Israel position is damn near indefensible, bro.
05:58:19.560The whole international community is condemning Israel.
05:58:22.360Like, it's like the anti-Semitism shit is not working anymore, man.
05:58:26.980Nobody who's being honest doesn't believe that the only reason Israel won't let journalists in there is because they don't want the world to see what they're doing to these people.
05:59:56.880UK Lawyers for Israel began as a voluntary association of lawyers looking for the proper application of law to Israel, Israelis, and combating anti-Semitism.
06:00:06.640We are having a different conversation.
06:00:08.380This is a circus, and I am actually seeking to address practical questions, including the disgusting situation that we are now left with,
06:00:16.620where the international community has said that Palestinian civilians must uniquely be kept in a war zone, may not be permitted to leave.
06:00:24.480That is what I am hearing being advocated for consistently, so that they can be continued to be used not just as human shields by Hamas, but as human sacrifices, dragging this conflict out.
06:00:35.400The tragedy of this misinformation and this propaganda is not just that Jews are being gunned down and burned in the streets.
06:00:43.240I am telling you guys, they are always going to use this stuff to push for legislation and try to link everything back to Gaza.
06:00:51.160It is also that Palestinian civilians are continuing to suffer as a result of this war, but also of Hamas suppression, repression, torture, and the stealing of aid, which has been well documented.
06:01:04.400The fact that people like the two of you will continue to put out this false information to perpetuate this conflict, to perpetuate Palestinian suffering, is truly disgusting.
06:01:43.660I had Jonathan Kovrigas on, who was a former IDF guy.
06:01:47.540And even he was able to admit a lot of what Israel is now doing is wrong.
06:01:52.000And it just shouldn't be happening the way that it's happening.
06:01:55.580When you blindly don't, I mean, I think that Hamas are blindly ideologically to one side of this.
06:02:02.240There are a bunch of genocidal maniacs.
06:02:04.040I think people like Smodrich are genocidal maniacs.
06:02:07.140And I think anyone on the pro-Israeli side, particularly a lawyer, who can listen to what Smodrich said last week and not understand that he is actually promoting war crimes out of his very mouth.
06:04:09.040I think there's been some misbriefing in this.
06:04:11.220Well, you seem to be speaking on behalf of the government.
06:04:12.920No, I'm speaking on behalf of the facts and the proper application of law, which I appreciate neither of you seem to be particularly interested in.
06:04:19.800But I will maintain my interest, in particular, the fact that these casualty figures by Hamas do not take account of how these people are said to have died.
06:04:27.920We know Hamas are shooting their own civilians.
06:04:29.960That false report of Palestinian civilians at aid centres being targeted by Israel, that was, in fact, Hamas shooting them.
06:04:59.760The investigation is still going on, but, of course, it's an Israeli investigation, which will doubtless exonerate the Israeli forces.
06:05:07.120We also know that Palestinian civilians are killed by indiscriminate missiles, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas rockets, when they fall short in the guard strip.
06:05:15.860They don't fall with a proportionality analysis.
06:05:18.240They don't fall precisely in the way that Israeli strikes are conducted, with warnings before...
06:05:23.100If you're doing everything so magnificently by the book, why is it that so many allies of Israel are now queuing up, and former prime ministers of Israel?
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