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Glenn and Mark take you through what the inflation numbers are going to look like in 2020 based on what we know is already happening. Plus, we have an expert on inflation and what to do about it. Also, a woman who was a former U.S. citizen and served in the counter-espionage unit in the late '80s and early '90s joins the show to talk about inflation.
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hello america today's podcast is great today we start with well some dicey news about the economy
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i take you through what the inflation numbers are going to look like just based on what we know is
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already coming uh if it just continues the way it is right now uh it's not really good then we tell
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you that's just the number for inflation let's add some world events to it and see the numbers on what
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is coming and what to do about it also we have an expert on putin this woman really really gets it
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she was a soviet citizen came over here after the wall came down as a young kid um in in 2001 after
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the trade centers went down she decided to volunteer to be part of intelligence and she says no one will
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listen to her about putin and she's got it nailed what does putin really want all that and so much
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all right i want to talk to you about a couple of things uh first of all i want to i want to build
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this case uh with you uh i'm going to tell you exactly what i'm doing what i think you should do
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as uh as well um well i was gonna do it and then i decided not to because i have to i've had so many
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boating accidents lately still so many boating accidents you i just as a friend do not think
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you should boat anymore i don't think so because you can't seem to keep these things afloat i know
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what are you making them out of cement and i'm like latest is food storage gone gone it's down on the
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bottom of the lake did you think about maybe getting a submarine going down there and getting your
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guns to it it's too deep anyway uh so i'll give you some solutions here to this but i want you to
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listen carefully and um and check all these numbers yourself if you care to um first you have a problem
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with inflation we all know that we all can feel it we can see it it wasn't caused by russia it is
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caused by the federal reserve it is caused by spending too much money and printing even more
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i say it's caused by the federal reserve they didn't spend the money yes we have a debt now of
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30 trillion dollars that if interest rates go up to about five or six percent we will not be able to
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afford anything but the interest on that debt okay now uh we know that's happening the federal reserve
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also has printed and given the banks untold trillions of dollars we know that they gave 30 trillion dollars
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to the bank uh by uh to the banks by uh 2010 that news has just been released due to a foia request
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we have no idea what they've done in the last two years can i just add to your point on interest here
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glenn yeah uh this is according to brian riedel over at the manhattan institute for every point that
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interest rates go up just a point that adds 30 trillion dollars to the debt over the next i think
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it's 30 years which is the same amount that we would spend in that period on defense so every single
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point interest rates go up we owe another 30 trillion dollars like we're adding an entire
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new u.s military every single time one of these things goes up one point so we just or we just uh
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raised the interest rates the fed did by a quarter point and said five to seven more hikes are coming
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okay all right so let's just talk about real stuff here for a second um i wanted to show you what the
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price of things were what the price of things are and what the price of things will be um by by election
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day 2024 okay we must turn this around but our but our government and our fed and our
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administration are incapable of taking the right steps this is just inflation the numbers i'm going
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to give you just inflation this doesn't include extra regulation or shortages or anything else this is
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just because the value of your dollar is going down prices aren't going up the value of your dollar
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is going down now i used not 7.9 cpi to project into the future i used shadow stats the reason why
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i did this is because everybody is comparing this to the days of jimmy carter no it's worse than the
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days of jimmy carter i'm using the shadow stats because this is the way the government calculated
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inflation in 1980 they changed that calculation because it was looking bad for the united states
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government and the fed so they changed it um but if we look and measure the same things the same way
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we'll get the inflation rate that is 15.5 percent not 7.9 percent so this is from shadow stats that's how
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we calculated these um i've made some charts but i'll read them off in case you happen to be watching
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the blaze you'll see the charts uh if not let me just tell you where we're going to start and that
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is with hamburgers when biden was elected um when biden was elected a hamburger was four dollars
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and 40 cents today i think you guys are working on the wrong you're working on the wrong uh end of the
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that's the last slide look for hamburger uh when biden was elected it was four dollars and 40 cents
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today it's six dollars and one cent jeez 2024 november the time the next election just with inflation
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that's it no food short it nothing just due to inflation are you better off than you were four years ago
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hamburger was four dollars and forty cents a hamburger will be seven dollars and 95 cents
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wow when biden was elected this is just due to inflation when biden was elected gas was two dollars
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and 18 cents today it's 441 november 24th with no no shortages no war nothing just from inflation
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583 when biden was elected milk was three dollars and 24 cents today it's 389 just through inflation in
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november 2024 the price of biden milk will be five dollars and 15 cents i got news for you i don't care
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what the price is i'm not drinking drinking biden milk that just sounds really icky it does it does uh
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you're not the one milking it either you can milk anything with a nipple when biden was elected
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the price of a light bulb was one dollar and 57 cents today it's 255 a price of a light bulb when
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the president election the presidential election in 2024 is happening will be 337
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when biden was elected eggs a dozen dollar 45 today 235 november 24 311 when biden was elected
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dollar 50 for for bread today it's a dollar 67 november 2024 projection 221 that number
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is going to be wildly is going to be wildly different and you'll understand why here in a minute
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when biden was elected just because of inflation houses were 358 700 today they're 414 123 november 24
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projection 547 547 547 885 that's the average home when biden was elected to uh 22 000 95
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22 951 was the price of a car today it's 30 603 if you can get one just just through um just through
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inflation that number will jump from 30 to 40 40 488 just some quick personal news here glenn i
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celebrated this weekend my seven month anniversary of ordering my car yes thank you it's still not here
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they haven't even taken the order yet yeah i haven't pulled the order yet but seven months in i'm doing
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well have you thought about a horse um okay now let me give you something else now these are these are
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just uh projections uh projections and you can find we're going to publish all of this you can find uh
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how we made these project projections but they are just projections these numbers can change dramatically
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but we wanted to add in the geopolitical instability factor so we know about wheat and i've got something
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i've got to share with you here in a minute uh we know about wheat uh we know about wheat but we are
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kind of we're being i think very conservative on some of these numbers a hamburger the price i just told
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you add 25 percent if things continue to go geopolitically as they are gas if things continue
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the instability factor you'll need to add 30 percent to that gallon of gas 15 percent added for milk 5
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percent for light bulbs 15 percent for chicken i don't think they are sorry for eggs i don't think
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that's high enough you'll understand why here in a minute bread up 30 percent housing down 25 percent and
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cars down by 25 percent uh i agree with the housing not necessarily so with uh the projection of the
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cars but i left this to the experts and our team to put together the numbers stew have you ever listened
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to the podcast all in yes okay really good really really bright guys generally speaking uh more independent
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now but they've all been democrats staunch democrats i think except maybe one of them um and they're all
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experts uh in different fields and all friends david friedberg is one of them and i was listening to the
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the podcast um and they asked david a question now david used to work for monsanto um and uh he doesn't work
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there anymore but he believes in you know monsanto and you know blah blah blah think gmos and etc etc
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if you're against gmos don't dismiss him because i got my facts from him on the stats but uh we're not
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talking gmos we're just talking about looking at the market and what is really happening so when you're
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looking at food understand that 15 of all global calories come from wheat and rice 25 i'm sorry 15
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one-third of all of our wheat comes from russia and ukraine we're supposed to be planting crops
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all around the world right now for wheat not happening in uh much of russia not happening
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anywhere in ukraine next stat you need to understand our food supply you know how uh the cars had just in
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time our production lines were all just in time and that's why we can't make cars because there are parts
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that are sitting somewhere you know crossing the ocean sitting on a dock someplace the whole supply
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chain has broken down because it's just in time it arrives just in time to put it into the car when
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you have a disruption it just bogs everything up and unclogging it we don't even know if we can really
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unclog it and get it started again but it's going to take years to do it that's that's the supply chain for
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stuff the supply chain for food is 90 days we have 90 days worth of food in the supply chain that's from
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the grocery store to the garden and everything in between if it stops we stop let's say we just for
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some reason stop all farming we would have 90 days left of food worldwide okay
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that means we're losing half of our food supply of wheat half of our wheat food supply
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this is going to hit places like africa first and it's going to hit places of poverty unlike anything
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we've ever seen 800 million people currently on earth live below 1200 calories per day
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so you know the germans would not allow jews to have more than 600 calories a day
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so they are only double the amount of calories that the jews got during the holocaust
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and we all remember what they looked like if they're at 1200 calories today and they're in
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um in places that are poor which they most likely are those calories will be either cut off or greatly reduced
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is fertilizer and energy the energy price to run the tractors to run the trucks to run everything else
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and the price of phosphorus and and uh potassium potash and nitrogen those are the three
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major things we use to make fertilizer natural gas 90 of ammonia is made from natural gas
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prices in natural gas have doubled and in some places gone up 4x
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it's gone from 200 a ton to a thousand dollars a ton phosphorus 10 of the phosphorus from
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russia and 20 to 25 of all of the potash comes from russia it's now been banned in russia they cannot
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sell it we cannot buy it they said oh you're going to cut us off of the bank great we'll cut you off
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on this potassium is up to seven hundred dollars phosphate went from 250 to seven hundred dollars
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this is causing so much stress on the farmers that farmers now all around the world
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are not planting their fields they are reducing the acreage because without fertilizer you're not growing much
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so why plant all those fields it's not going to be a good year they're thinking
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so as they as fertilizer goes up they pull more and more acres so far the price of corn has doubled soybeans
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wheat skyrocketing the strategic food reserves in some parts of the world are now opening we better have
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perfect weather all over the world just because if things continue the way they are
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and don't turn around quickly and we can't get fertilizer hundreds of millions of people
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we need to do everything we can to support our farmers we need to understand what's coming and
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you need to have a garden plant some seeds live by a farm and help them or start storing food now
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this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening
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all right i want to talk to you a little bit about what is happening over in ukraine first of all
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um the kremlin is warning against panic buying as food prices are rising over in russia they're saying
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no hoarding no panic buying uh this is going to start happening all over the world please be prepared
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for it i went over it in hour number one if you didn't hear that in the first hour make sure you grab
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the podcast so what is putin really after who is vladimir putin what is his game so i read a book
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called putin's playbook recently uh by rebecca koffler she is a u.s intelligence expert she she was
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from behind the over the iron curtain she came to america when she was young after 9 11 she decided that
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she wanted to help protect her new country so she went to uh work with the central intelligence agency
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uh and she was part of the red teams that we've heard so much about with the pentagon trying to war
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game i have to tell you i read her book and i think this is one of the people that i hope everybody is
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listening to in in washington because i think she really understands putin and if i'm if if i may say
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rebecca you had me at alexander dugan welcome thank you glenn it's such an honor to be here with you
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and your audience thank you so rebecca tell us a little bit about your background so people know
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exactly who you are and how you know these things of course uh so i was born and raised behind the iron
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curtain in the former soviet union and my parents were anti-communist they didn't agree with the
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soviet socialist system and they were raising me uh to go to america one day the land of freedom and
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opportunity and justice and so i immigrated in 1989 to uh america and then after september 11 as you said
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i went to serve in the intelligence community and because i wanted to protect you know help protect
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my country uh against foreign threats and i knew that sooner or later even though the savi
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union collapsed it will emerge you know as a foreign threat uh i didn't know how soon it was going to
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happen but there we are with the conflict in ukraine and it's not really about ukraine glenn it's a
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proxy war between uh russia and the united states for control in eurasia okay explain to people what
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eurasia is in case they don't know sure uh eurasia is the biggest uh land mass it's uh basically russia
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occupies the center of eurasia and uh china is up there obviously and uh more than russia it's what uh
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the russians believe is strategic buffer that they have relied on for centuries for their security
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including in that strategic uh buffer is ukraine moldova belarus uh georgia and a bunch of uh what
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we call sons and with the collapse of the soviet union the united states security establishment assumed
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i don't know really why but assumed that these countries are going to be democracies and uh
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nothing you know could be further from the truth because there's nothing in russia's history or in
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the history of those other countries that points to the fact that democracy is even a viable uh system
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of governance and so at this point we are basically um on a collision course geopolitically with russia
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because the united states wants to make sure that we call the shots in that area of the world not
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china not russia but we do and the russians of course uh want to make sure that they keep their
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security perimeter uh in their control and not us and that's what this conflict is all about so but if
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you look at um the west side of eurasia uh you would see poland and almost every time russia has become
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under attack it's come through poland don't they look at that as a gateway still and and want poland
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you are exactly correct so the russians every war except the mongol tata yoke back in 1238 came from the
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west and this is why exactly putin fears nato um he has been talking about uh the red lines right um so
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he wants to effectively ensure that um he has ukraine back into his orbit and then depending on what
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happens with this conflict obviously the baltics would be next on on the target list now poland and
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the baltics the threshold for invading those countries is like high because they're nato members
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correct right yes but ultimately you're right you you mentioned you know dugan and there's the
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whole school of thought the atlanticism versus eurasianism it's basically the uh perennial sort of
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struggle between the giants and make no mistake putin wants to make sure he makes russia great again and
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he views himself and the russians view themselves as a superpower on par with the united states and not
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a junior partner as they feel that they've been treated all right so this weekend uh putin used a
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hypersonic missile which as far as i can tell talking to military experts the reason to use or to have a
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hypersonic missile is for long range because it gets there so fast and you can't shoot it out um so
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he was using it though in ukraine which to me just seems like signaling we we've got a lot more and
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america we do have the hypersonic missile and we could put a nuke on it or whatever and we can hit you
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and you can't stop us am i reading that right 100 you're 100 correct glenn and i dispute the pentagon's
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assessment that it's not an escalation it's totally an escalation as you said this is a
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dual capable system you can put a conventional warhead on it or you can put a nuclear warhead on it
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so the way that this conflict uh started if you remember uh putin not only assembled 190 000 troops on the border
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all but encircling ukraine but also he conducted a nuclear exercise and so he has been steadily
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climbing the escalation ladder step by step and we are right now on the trajectory to nuclear warfare
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so he's signaling you're correct he's strategic messaging to us uh i have high tolerance for nuclear
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uh warfare and you don't i have this particular weapon that has never been in combat used in combat
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before and you don't and it's nearly impossible to intercept and so for the pentagon to say that this
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is not escalation they completely fail to understand who their strategic opponent is vladimir putin how
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conniving and how manipulative he is and they are totally not prepared glenn all right so what if russia
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uses this weapon uh we are now struggling to really grasping at straws to what to do with them and
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it's very evident to everybody so is this a possible way of because as i understand it uh putin believes in
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escalation to de-escalation in other words ramp it up fast uh to scare the living bejesus out of people
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maybe even using a tactical nuke so the rest of the world will come to the bargain bargaining table
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and say okay okay okay let's let's let's work things out is that possible that is that possible what's
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happening and especially with the hyper weapon instead of using a tactical nuke he uses this
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yes absolutely you just articulated uh russia's nuclear doctrine escalate to de-escalate
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that was developed specifically on putin's orders for an eventual conflict the russians believe that
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sooner or later a war between the united states and russia is inevitable mark these words inevitable i
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quote and because they fear u.s conventional superiority they believe that they overmatch us in tactical
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nukes because the ratio right now is one to ten with russia having two thousand new tactical nukes and
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we have only two hundred and this is exactly why putin wants uh or plans rather or envisions crossing the
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nuclear threshold by popping a tactical nuke somewhere in europe or in ukraine uh in order for us to get
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confused stand down and really cause like a strategic pause and in the meantime he would want to move in
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and uh decapitate ukraine uh remove the landscape from power as he was planning to i mean you would think i
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mean the rest of the world has looked at nukes for 50 years now at least and went this is crazy i mean there's
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no way to win this we we won through mutually assured destruction uh why does he think that
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a tactical nuke wouldn't garner a massive response from the rest of the world just because he has more
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nukes he is why um uh glenn because he the russians have been watching and paying attention very closely
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to what our defense policy is and if you remember under president obama we had the initiative
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global zero we want to zero out our nuclear capability uh all these talk you know putin
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understands that we have very low pain threshold we can't even talk about nukes you know without
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really kind of like making it sound like we are absolutely not going to go there but this is exactly
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why he wants to use it okay because he knows that we will not use it or he thinks rather that we will
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not use it and that is why he is planning to do this because he believes that we have we don't have
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the cojones if you will to respond or even preempt him so are you predicting that he will use at least a
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tactical nuke okay so the the threshold for using that those is high okay it has to be a very specific
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battlefield scenario where putin feels so cornered you know like a rat like that rat from his childhood
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that he was uh talking about he is in the corner and believe me right now he does feel that way because
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things are not going well for vladimir putin he uh has completely miscalculated the ukrainian people's
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will to fight the uh leadership of president zelensky and so if he perceives that we are about to
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intervene we being nato and the united states on behalf of ukraine at that point he will feel like
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a loss is inevitable that would be the scenario where he would use that holy cow okay rebecca
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koffler is talking to her she is the author of putin's playbook i can't recommend it highly enough
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i mean i i um i read it uh finished i think last week it is it's really truly tremendous to give you a
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real insight into putin and what you're dealing with and especially she goes into alexander dugan which
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very few people do uh and she understands that madness as well rebecca i i want to spend just a
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couple of minutes on his first speech uh that he gave when he was going into ukraine and he talked
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i mean he sounded like alexander dugan for people who don't understand alexander dugan and his
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insane fourth political theory could you explain his influence and what it is he's trying to
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accomplish and how likely it is that he's really influencing things in russia
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alexander uh dugan used to be the brain trust of uh putin alexander dugan's writings the whole
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geopolitical uh for geopolitical theory as you explained was taught at russia's general staff
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they have a center that is called the uh center for strategic military research that does threat
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forecasting and they have predicted uh by assessing our defense posture and our war fighting style and
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the past 20 years of our military campaigns and what we've done in iraq afghanistan and uh libya and
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syria and they have decided that putin is going to be next that we want to conduct a regime change
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and therefore they are going to take a preemptive strike so to speak because putin stated once if a
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fight is unavoidable and he's a judo practitioner right in addition to being the former uh kgb officer
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if this if a strike if a fight is unavoidable you must strike first and this is why um he acted to take
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over ukraine now because he perceives that it's his best chance his window of opportunity while we have
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what they believe a weak u.s president now so and this is what you know dugan won it's the eurasianism
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that trump you know atlanticism and whether it will happen actually or not uh glenn it depends it depends
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on our reaction uh to what's happening in ukraine if he's allowed to follow ukraine what's next right
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moldova belarus belarus is already part of the union uh are the baltics next that's what everybody
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is worried about and if we don't demonstrate you know a viable strategy which so far we haven't
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right we don't have an answer to his asymmetric strategy because president biden somehow thinks
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that sanctions is going to be a magic bullet but sanctions is a completely different it's an economic
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concern putin security concern a completely different so that is not going to change their
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behavior and that's what putin is banking on that we don't have an answer to his playbook and that's
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what i described in my book okay so um when you're looking at the scenario i i gotta believe
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that when we pulled out of afghanistan that was a green light for putin
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it was uh the russians as i said watch very very closely how we fight where we fight whether we're
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able to achieve victory okay and we have withdrawn from afghanistan after 20 years and 2.2 trillion
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dollars spent of u.s taxpayers money six thousand american lives only sacrifice right given the fact that we
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have a superior war fighting force in military history our men and women in uniform are exceptional
00:34:49.220
we have outstanding weaponry the best in the world but technology and weaponry do not win wars the
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russians know that and given the shameful withdrawal by uh president biden they decided that we are just not
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able to handle these wars and close these wars and don't have the stamina to stand up to putin and
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that's when he moved in that was the green light to him as you said and on top of that uh joe biden
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green lighted if you remember um he told putin well if it's a small incursion you know maybe you will be
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punished so that was the final green light and the trigger that putin said okay i'm gonna move in this
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this is my opportunity before a stronger president someone like trump you know uh comes to power uh in
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the united states that's the best chance and he moved in the best of the blenbeck program
00:35:51.380
rebecca koffler the author of putin's playbook she is uh a former u.s intelligence uh officer she
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was with the cia after 9 11 um she decided that she wanted to help protect our country she knows
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russia inside and out she's a former soviet citizen that came over to the united states uh
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and now is an american citizen rebecca welcome thank you glenn pleasure to be here with you and the
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audience oh great so before the break i asked you how did we get putin so wrong i mean i've i've
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always said if you just look at the guy one arm doesn't swing when he walks and that's the arm
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that his uh his gun used to be at he is still a kgb guy he's still a guy he's a thug how did we miss this
00:36:44.980
absolutely uh glenn so uh we've missed 20 years worth of indications and warnings what we call an
00:36:52.420
the intelligence community i and w of who hudden was and what he was planning to do he never made it
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the secret every speech every strategic planning document every press conference he articulated to
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us that he was planning to reconstitute an alliance similar to ussr and he viewed the us and nato as a
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roadblock in his plan and he planned to destabilize it and yet we missed it why it's because somehow
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there's an assumption in the intelligence community and in the broader washington
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establishment security apparatus that putin thinks like an american that the russians i think and
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believe just like americans and nothing can be further from the truth putin is not an american
00:37:37.060
she thinks like a soviet kgb officer and the judo practitioner the russians elected putin four
00:37:43.620
times glenn right and guess who every single time was that a runner-up it was a communist
00:37:49.620
it was somebody who would have been even worse and so putin has already done several things that are
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perceived by the western analysts as crazy and he's not crazy he invaded georgia he invaded crimea
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he uh authorized the shooting down of mh-17 and and we keep thinking that oh he's not going to use
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tactical nuke because it's crazy but maybe what's crazy to us is not crazy to him his rationale is not
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american he's not western it's a soviet kgb killer style you know um type of guy a thug like you said
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an assassin he has uh authorized assassinations poisonings um all these things make sense to him
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and they actually make sense to a segment of the russian population which is pretty large who support
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a strong leader bordering on brutal just like stalin all right is rising now so we have we have a
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situation where putin says uh he's going to purify russia of the scum and traitors um but there's a lot
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of people at least it appears to be a lot of people that are against this war in uh ukraine will this
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silence them and put everybody back to kind of a soviet kind of footing that's what i'm afraid
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of uh glenn he's basically uh calling for people to start ratting out if you will the fifth column the
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traitors as he called them and putin once uh stated that treason is the most heinous of crimes and this is why
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he authorized assassinations and poisonings of former jiu officer uh skripal and former
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of the officer alexander lutvinenko so right now he's calling for a stalin-esque era red terror when
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neighbors and spy on neighbors and turn them into the soviet authorities and call them you know traitors
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so what he wants to do is he wants the russian people to actually um give out the russian other
00:40:06.180
russian people and with the idea that it will scare everyone and people will stop protesting most of
00:40:13.620
the russian people are afraid and i interviewed a russian force in moscow and she said that 90 percent
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of people support putin 10 and nobody actually supports the war right because it's a slavon slav
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it's atrocious but only 10 percent do not support uh putin and everyone is scared because the consequences
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can be really really harsh you can be expelled from a university you can lose your job and you can get
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in jail up to 15 people 15 years rather and so that is what is scaring these people and we've seen that
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before in russian history regretfully all right you in your book uh putin's playbook you talk about the
00:41:02.660
infiltration uh of russia of the united states by russia it's already here i know that i know that dugan has
00:41:11.620
uh operatives um operatives that are you know reaching out to organizations all over the west
00:41:19.060
and in europe uh trying to get them on board by appealing to their traditional uh values how is this
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happening with putin and russia and where do you see this infiltration here in america
00:41:34.740
here's how it happens there are two types of infiltration there's an infiltration with actual
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spy like sleeper agent types of uh operatives similar to the 10 who were expelled by president
00:41:49.060
obama which was by the way was foolish we should have kept these people here um debriefed him and
00:41:55.700
flip them over to work for us right back in 2010 putin actually authorized infiltration of these um 10
00:42:05.300
probably the minute that he uh came to power because uh they were working here for 10 years
00:42:13.620
trying to get close to uh u.s top echelons of u.s government and they were getting very close to uh
00:42:20.340
hillary clinton right so the second type of infiltration is really the infiltration of the american
00:42:27.060
the russians the russians for decades wanted to transform the united states from a free capitalist
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society into a socialist type society similar to what the soviet union was like and we were warned
00:42:41.380
about it by a defector yuri bisminov who said that there was a four-step program of such transformation
00:42:49.300
and we see the results of it today right today you know bernie sanders aoc and folks like that the
00:42:57.140
leftists they talk about socialism as though it's a viable system and it's been normalized this narrative
00:43:04.500
which is completely not only absurd but scary glenn i lived under socialism it's a it's a really really
00:43:13.300
vile and atrocious system it's not all about the free stuff it's about government control and we
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cannot allow this in this country but this is the type of infiltration so the russians not only target
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with their information warfare they don't only target our networks but they're targeting americans minds
00:43:32.500
with this and now yes so what what is your response when you hear people like hillary clinton and others say
00:43:39.860
that uh uh that tucker carlson is a uh is an operative or um kelsey uh um uh what is it
00:43:51.940
tulsi gabbard yeah i can never remember her first name tulsi gabbard that they're that they're russian
00:43:56.580
operatives so hillary clinton is a soviet style kgb operative type okay remember during her you know when
00:44:07.220
she was a state department um uh chief instead of actually paying attention to the russian threat
00:44:15.300
and developing a counter strategy hillary clinton was busy trying to cozy up to putin and to the russians
00:44:23.540
they wanted to reset obama and uh and hillary even though she had every possible indication and warning
00:44:31.220
what putin was up to and she trotted out that mistranslated button that was a huge diplomatic
00:44:38.020
you know diplomatic faux pas that lavrov the uh russian foreign minister laughed at and so she was
00:44:44.980
digging dirt she authorized you know a whole slew of intelligence officials and also you know uh the uh
00:44:52.980
private industry to dig dirt on trump to unseat a democratically elected president of the united states
00:45:00.420
so hillary clinton is dangerous actually and the types like her the corrupt officials like john
00:45:07.380
brennan uh former cia director under obama like james uh clapper um dni former director of national
00:45:14.660
intelligence and uh james comey the former fbi director because they failed to do their job uh to
00:45:22.100
assess putin properly and protect us from this threat to us and our allies i want to i want digging dirt
00:45:29.700
i want to make it really clear she did not just say that hillary clinton is a russian spy she said
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she is the type uh of politician that the kgb would love and uh that that you know doesn't watch our back
00:45:46.020
do i have that right you have that exactly right i don't mean to say that she's on the payroll of the
00:45:52.660
russians but she learned all the long wrong lessons from the soviet playbook and she and her operatives
00:46:00.820
have applied them you know hitting the us really with the double whammy what happened in 2016 was uh
00:46:08.660
the russians did not want to elect trump they wanted to foment discord and disorder and possibly social
00:46:14.820
unrest they feared trump and they put out they being the obama uh spy chief put out a fraudulent
00:46:23.940
intelligence community assessment uh of january 6 2017 where they lied to the american people about
00:46:31.060
the reason for russia's interference in the election uh rebecca i'm out of time but i would like to have
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you back because i'd like to talk to you about ukraine because hillary clinton and george soros and all
00:46:41.780
those people were huge in ukraine doing all kinds of dirty stuff and then we had a tv star uh to be
00:46:52.020
elected uh president uh much to our state department chagrin uh and i know you're writing a new book uh
00:46:58.820
now on zelensky and i'd like to have you back on again and and talk a little bit about the other
00:47:03.140
side would you come back of course i would love to thank you so much rebecca kaufler the name of the
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book is putin's playbook you want to understand uh his plan uh his plan to destroy america and
00:47:17.060
why he wants to destroy america read putin's playbook by the way one note i'm getting uh believe
00:47:23.460
it or not i hate addressing these things they're so stupid i'm getting heat because i have the ukrainian
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flag on my twitter uh feed uh-huh i do i support the people of ukraine that doesn't mean i want war
00:47:41.700
where we're involved i believe that we can help people in ukraine as individuals uh and we'll give
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you some examples of that coming up in in just a second but just because i'm telling you read putin's
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playbook he really is trying to destroy america that doesn't mean i want war planes with a u.s flag