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Very important podcast today as we go through what is happening on the ground in Ukraine, what Russia is doing, there is a tense moment between me and Bill O'Reilly and we disagree on Putin being crazy or crazy like a fox. You'll hear that on today's program and a list of things you can do about it.
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Very important podcast today. We go through what is happening on the ground in Ukraine,
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what Russia is doing. There's a couple of tense moments between me and Bill O'Reilly.
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We disagree on Putin being crazy or crazy like a fox. You'll hear that on today's program and
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a list of things that you can do, how this affects you, all on today's podcast.
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Today is one of those days where we're going to try to figure out what's
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going on together. Some things really bother me, don't seem right. Let me just start with what
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happen at 5.50 a.m. Thursday morning, Russia time. Putin was wearing the same suit and the same red
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tie that he wore on Monday as he took to the airwaves and warned President Biden and NATO not
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to intervene in Ukraine. He said his plans, interesting choice of words, were to denazify
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Ukraine. He continued to stick to his factually inaccurate version of Ukraine's history, saying
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essentially that Ukraine was always part of Russia. His attempts here in the last few days to rewrite
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history at his convenience seemed to me to be something that we talked about on yesterday's
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program, a very calculated plan in his own home country of working towards capital T traditionalism.
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If we have time, we'll get into that again today. If you don't know what it is, listen to yesterday's
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podcast. We went deep into it. He was misleading everybody, you know, saying that he's not going
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to do any of these things. Within hours of the speech, the interior ministry of Ukraine said that
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there had been hundreds of casualties. CNN reported, despite Russia insisting early that they were only
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attacking military installations and were voting populated areas. That's not true.
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President Biden responded to Putin's attack last night, saying the prayers of the entire world
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are with the people of Ukraine as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military
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forces. This is real trouble, and there's some things that just don't make sense. I'm going to give
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you just a couple of more pieces of the news, and then we're going to start talking to some experts
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today on what they think this means. Our Dow, let me look at our futures. Our Dow futures are down about
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800 points. I know when you're talking about the loss of life, that does seem like something you should
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worry about, but the world is about to change if this continues. The Dow is down 770 points right now.
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Oil is up to almost $100 a barrel. Your stock markets all around the world are going through
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the floor. There's no place worse than in Russia. Russia, their stock market was cut in half, and you
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have to ask yourself, how is he going to benefit from this? What is the real game? We'll get to that
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here in just a little while. Meanwhile, most Americans want nothing to do with it. Most Americans
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are saying we're not going in for Ukraine. I don't think we should either, but we should support Ukraine,
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and we should also call out the devil that Putin is. I'm tired of people making excuses for Putin.
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What he is saying is not true. Let's not be Neville Chamberlain. However, that doesn't mean we go and
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fight it. It means we just call a spade a spade. Ukraine is absolutely corrupt. We know,
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just if you paid attention to any of our specials on Ukraine with the Biden people and his son and
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everybody else that was in Ukraine, we have, under the guiding hand of Barack Obama, we have meddled in
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Ukraine and just, it's horrible, horrible corruption what we have been involved in in Ukraine.
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We shouldn't have been there in the first place. We should mind our own business on that. That's not an
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isolationist thing. That's a, let's get out of everybody else's business, please, especially when that
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business is corrupt. They are corrupt, but they are a democratic society, and they do not want to go back
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to Russia. Anybody who says that, I just would remind you, look up the word Holodomor. They know what
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happens when Russia comes in to their place, and they are not interested in going back.
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Gold is up, and the Chinese. The Chinese media has leaked censoring rules on Ukraine. The Chinese
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news organization, they say, accidentally leaked. I don't think so. It's censorship plans regarding
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Russia's invasion into Ukraine. The organization said it needed to be sensitive on the matter,
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because it would need Russia's support when we wrestle with America to solve the Taiwan issue
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once and for all. I do not believe that that was a mistake, and nobody's going to be disappeared
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on that little mistake. They're sending America a message. I want to bring in Jason Buttrell,
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You and I have been talking about this for a long time. We have spent a year on Ukraine,
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and this takes both of us by surprise. I have to hand it to the intelligence community, although I
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don't feel comfortable. Something's not right here, but the intelligence community and the Biden
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administration said this is what he was going to do, and he's done it. Yeah, I agree. It's really
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crazy, because when you study geopolitics, you learn to analyze and look at these things from that lens.
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You're taught that geopolitics is a study of maps. It's demographics. It's numbers. It's interests,
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hard-line interests. And when someone starts acting emotionally, like Putin has been doing
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over the past year plus, you learn to kind of put that away and say, okay, well, he's obviously after
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something else, which I still think there's something else involved, just like you said.
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So when the Biden administration was kind of saying, you know, now this is happening,
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full-scale invasion, all that, I didn't believe it was happening. I didn't. I was
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looking for something behind what was going on, because it all seemed so irrational. But I think
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the intelligence community was spot on. I've seen reports that it actually, you know, the
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intelligence community coming out and saying that false flag attacks would happen. That would be the
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preempt to them doing a full-on invasion. I wasn't buying it. They were exactly right. And the reports
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say that it actually delayed Putin's invasion by possibly even a week. Like they wanted to do this
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last week and not this week. So the intelligence community and Biden administration were exactly
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right on this. Now there's ways to criticize other things, which we can get to later of what
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they've done. But just a quick recap, the media started reporting last night that the invasion
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was going to commence around 4 a.m. Kiev time. And pretty much that was spot on. It happened around
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4.10, 4.15 Kiev time. And it's very, very conventional from what I've been noticing. I've
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been following this all night. This is not like Crimea in 2014 with unconventional warfare. This is
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a very conventional invasion. What we saw commencing around 4 a.m. Kiev time was airstrikes to target
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command and control systems. That went as far as Kiev. And it's a three-pronged attack coming from
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Belarus, coming from Crimea in the south, and coming from mainland Russia in the east. Now we do not
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know how far they plan to push this, but it is a conventional invasion. It looks as if they will
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probably go further than just eastern Ukraine. Question now is how far they will go and how far
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tensions will rise, especially with NATO gathering troops all along the border of Ukraine.
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Okay. So it looks as though he was using conventional warfare to cut off the troops as they were kind of
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gathered at the borders of the two districts that President Putin said he was going to take. They
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went behind those lines and kind of cut them off so they can't fall back to defend Kiev, correct?
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Yes, that's correct, because they know that Ukraine's strategy here is they know they're
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going to get overwhelmed. So their strategy is their mainline forces in the east guarding those
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two territories, as you said. Their strategy is to do a tactical retreat back into the urban areas
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within Ukraine. Then it turns into both a hybrid guerrilla warfare and heavy urban warfare in the large
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Ukrainian cities. That is very, very bloody. That is very, very dangerous for the Russian
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military as well as civilians, which Russia does not want to kill too many Ukrainian civilians because
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that is going to be very, very unpopular in mainland Russia. But Ukraine's strategy here,
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as I said, is to get into the cities and turn this into an urban conflict and draw it out for as long
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as possible. Russia wants to stop that. Then that explains why they dropped in behind the troops there.
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Can they take the whole country just by air and cutting it all off?
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They absolutely can take the whole country in the short term. It depends on how effective their air
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assets are, and that's what we're seeing right now. We're seeing the bomb from the air. We're seeing
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cruise missile strikes. So cutting off command and control all over the country and crippling Ukraine so
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they can eventually roll into the capital. That will happen, is my guess, unless somebody else intervenes,
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which I kind of highly doubt. But a short-term victory is really all Russia can hope for here.
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And that's another puzzling thing, because I can't imagine they think they win in the long term.
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In the long term, it's going to be too damaging financially and politically for Russia.
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So it's catastrophic in the short term. In the long term, I don't see how they win this,
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unless there's some other grander strategy that we just don't know about,
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So we have some puzzling things. First of all, Putin said he wants to denazify Ukraine.
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Same rhetoric he's been using since 2014. And that's directed more at the people of Russia,
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not anybody else in the world or Ukraine. But he's been using that World War II sentiment to get
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public support to do what he's now doing. But that's going to continue. And no doubt,
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he's going to provide some air quote evidence that they're taking out some Nazis. But he's drawing on
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World War II nationalism. He said that there has been an ongoing genocide in Ukraine that he's
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trying to stop. I mean, this is crazy. And that's what makes it so hard for me when I was looking at
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this before to really think that he was going to go through with this, because usually Putin is not a
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crazy guy. I mean, he may be now, but in the past, he's not been. He's been very cold, calculating.
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Geopolitics and interest was always forefront in his mind.
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He's not a psychopath. I mean, well, he might be, but he's not somebody driven by rage.
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He is cold and calculating. And when he, I mean, he's out and out evil. He is a bloodthirsty killer
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who has spent a lifetime killing people, but he's logical in it. He's very calculated in it.
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And the rhetoric, I mean, I think the, the Nazi stuff, the religious stuff, that's all, that's,
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that's Dugan kind of language. Yeah. And, and that, and it's a very, very powerful weapon for
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Russians because they're, they're very much willing to suffer and to, you know, to, to basically take
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it, you know, on the chin if they have to, if that means that their country, you know, will eventually
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reign supreme. It's, it's interesting if you go and take a, if you take a tour of the Kremlin and Red
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Square in Russia, which I've done a couple of times, you'll be very surprised to see that the
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Soviet, you know, the former Soviet Union, the capital in the red square, probably like 80%
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churches. There's multiple churches. They weren't religious during the Soviet Union, but historically
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during the Russian empire, they were very religious. Orthodoxy is very, very pivotal to
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Russian nationalism. And even the Soviets would turn that up when they needed to. But that's exactly
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what Putin has done in the vein of Alexander Dugan, especially in that speech that he gave,
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you know, last week. That was very, very telling to a lot of us that have been looking at this,
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people like you and me, Glenn, that, okay, now we know exactly what he's doing. He's turning up that
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dial of nationalism to justify doing, you know, what he's doing and possibly even more, which is scary.
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Would you agree with me? And I'd like you to explore this a bit. There is no real obvious win
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for Putin. His stock market has crashed. This is going to be horrible. They are in the oil business.
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They just made a deal with China, but that's years down the road. They're going to shut down
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all of the oil exports into any Western country because of this. So his oil is going to crash,
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which funds his government and his country. The stock market is down. Business is going to be cut
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off. It's already a shambles in Russia. What does he have to gain here? Can you think of anything
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I've always thought from the beginning of this, especially when I didn't think that invasion
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was happening, I thought that what he was really doing was playing a game to divide and conquer
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NATO. That's what I thought, and I still think that's a major part of his plan. Taking Ukraine is
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also very, very important strategically for Russia to get strategic depth. It's always been their plan
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was to, you know, have some buffer so that they can protect the capital of Moscow.
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Exactly. Yeah. When he's talking about the heart of Russia, that's true, but I don't really think
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that really guides him. I think that's just the excuse he uses to get support from home.
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But I think that it's very irritating. I think that, you know, we're talking about Putin is not a
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psychopath. I think he is very spiteful. I think that the Russian election interference,
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which I don't think did anything. I don't want to say that it did, but their election interference,
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I think, was a direct response to Hillary Clinton and what they did to his election.
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I think that a lot of what we're doing now, I think, was a direct response to how the Obama
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administration and all his foreign policy elite handled 2014 Ukrainian revolution. I think he
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responds to these people, you know, directly in kind. That's also a reason why he was willing,
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I think, to back off of this when Trump was there, because he knew that that was not how they
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operated and they weren't the ones directly responsible for what happened. And I also
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think that it's ridiculous that NATO wouldn't respond, wouldn't say, hey, look, we're not going
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to admit Ukraine into NATO. Why couldn't they say that? NATO was irrelevant. And the irony of this
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is now that Putin responding to that is making NATO relevant again. So I think that eventually his goal
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is to play the long game. Eventually there's going to be NATO countries like Germany's not going to want
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to attack. They're not going to want to send troops. No, that's going to cause a divide in
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NATO. That's going to cause a divide between the UK and France. They're not going to want to attack
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either. And eventually this will play out to where NATO will do exactly what he said was what he
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wanted. He wanted NATO to do a withdrawal. That benefits China and everybody else that's on
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Russia's side. So his ultimate goal is the long game, divide NATO, possibly even the end of NATO,
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and to get strategic depth with Ukraine. Okay. Thank you very much, Jason. I appreciate it.
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I think there's two things that we as Americans need to make very clear. Vladimir Putin is an evil
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bloodthirsty killer. He is a totalitarian. That does not mean the second point I'd like to make clear
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that we should go to war. Those can be separate and equal. And we need to support all we can,
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the people of Ukraine. And I mean that as people. Mercury One is working with Slovakia right now.
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Slovakia is taking in refugees. There are going to be people that are going to be running and escaping
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Ukraine. And, uh, we are looking into ways to help them. We, as people can help the people of Ukraine,
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a guy who knows communism really inside and out, uh, is Michael Malice. Um, this, this lie that Putin
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is sharing that, you know, uh, it's just, uh, it's a Russian, a Russian territory and, uh, they love
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Russia. Let me use one word to remind the world. Holodomor. They don't love Russia. Uh, Michael Malice
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is here with us now, uh, the author of the anarchist handbook and also, uh, dear leader, uh, Michael,
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can you, you escaped from a communist country or your family did, right? Yeah, I was born in Ukraine.
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We're all from Ukraine. Yeah. We were from Western Ukraine, Lviv specifically. Wow. So I didn't know
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it was Ukraine. Um, so you give us perspective on what's happening. Well, I, I mean, I think the
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problem we have with, I'm going to take a little bit of a meta approach. The problem we have with
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kind of the way our media is set up is you and I are discussing a very dynamic situation. Uh, we have
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very limited information. The information we're given is often intentionally, um, obfuscatory,
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certainly from Russia's perspective. So we're kind of shooting off the hip and people want to
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understand how should I look at this and anything you and I say is going to be a little bit,
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it should be taken with a grain of salt, just like anything we see in the media,
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generally speaking, but especially when it comes to a war situation where it's enormously advantageous
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for both sides to kind of keep their cards close to their chest. Um, I would disagree with you a
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slight bit. Uh, I don't think Putin is a totalitarian, not every dictator is a totalitarian,
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but that is a silly semantic point that really is neither here nor there. What would you call it?
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How, wait, wait, how would you classify him? You could be a dictator that being a totalitarian. He's
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not, um, literally a Stalinist, um, or a Hitler figure. Um, I agree with you completely that when
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you're talking about missiles hitting cities, our, our concern should be with civilians, um, and,
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and, and, and, you know, making sure they're kept safe. I mean, I think it's fair to say, uh,
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Glenn, this is the kind of thing that you and I, and pretty much everyone listening to this
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couldn't really expect to see in our lifetimes. This is, uh, something, you know, war in Europe and
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this level is something that was regarded as relegate to history books. So I think we're all
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a bit like, what do we do now? But thankfully it's really, we have a strong firm hand of Joe
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Head of the foreign policy committee. That's why Obama tapped him. This is, this is how smart Obama
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was. He saw this coming. So he picked Joe Biden as his foreign policy expert VP. Now he's in the
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white house so we can rest assured the Ukrainian people can rest assured Joe Biden has your back.
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Tell me what it's like in Ukraine. Well, I left when I was one and a half, but my parents,
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well, as a one and a half. So it was very big. The rooms were very large.
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No, they weren't even when you're one and a half, I assure you, but my parents did not,
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you know, if they had any chance of me having a hopeful life there, I would have remained. But again,
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this was the seventies. This was the USSR. It was a very different time. My, uh, the Ukraine,
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Ukraine don't say that Ukraine, which is a region. Ukraine is a country. Um, Ukraine is,
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you know, obviously much more liberalized, but at the point you made earlier in the introduction,
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the level of animosity from Ukrainians to Russians, uh, and it's a Russia specifically,
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I don't want to say Russians, excuse me, is really, really high to the point where if you speak
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Russian or that is kind of a bit of a faux pas because there's such a memory of decades of
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oppression, but on the other hand, Eastern Ukraine does have more affinity toward Russia
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than Western Ukraine, which has historically more aligned with Europe.
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Uh, I mean, it's the reason why we say Kiev instead of Kiev, which we've always said,
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because Kiev is the way the Russians have pronounced it. Uh, if I'm not mistaken, right?
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Correct. That's correct. Yeah. Yeah. Um, when he says he's, uh, going to, uh, denazify, uh,
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the Ukraine or, or Ukraine itself, what, uh, what does that mean to people in Ukraine?
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Oh, it meant that all those truckers somehow crossed the ocean and now they're in Ukraine.
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They really kicked them out of Canada. Good. Um, I mean, it, it means not, it's nothing. It's
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nonsense. It's complete, you know, double talk. It was the same thing that East Germany said for
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years for their oppression, which is, Oh, you know, we're getting rid of all the Nazis, which were
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kind of, they claimed was historically a specifically West German phenomenon. How could that even be
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possible? So when you're talking, when you talk, let's, here's the thing with Putin and just with
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the Russian approach, it's kind of like saying things that are so audacious and, and ridiculous
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on its face. So it's daring you to call their bluff. So whatever he's saying, I mean, in any time of
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war, you, you only have to roll your eyes and be like, okay, this is nonsensical. So Michael, I know
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that you and I disagree on the size of government. You say zero, I say, uh, you know, some, um, and we
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both disagree with going into Ukraine. Um, I imagine, uh, and, and sending military and troops
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and getting involved in another war, et cetera, et cetera. Can you, can you explain how do you square
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the circle when it comes to, uh, things like, like Hitler, if we would have acted sooner, uh, and acted
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with force before he went into Poland, uh, things might have been different. You catch these guys
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early and don't give them any air to breathe. How do you, how would you deal with this in your utopian
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world? Well, I don't live in a utopian world. You live in a utopian world because in your utopian
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world, uh, you can go into someone who was duly elected like Hitler was, and you could overthrow the
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government and somehow that's not going to have negative consequences. So the non-utopian world I
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live in recognizes that there are going to be extremely evil people like Hitler. And in order
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to do this, you have to make sure they are not given incentives and mechanisms to increase their
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power. And the only way a Hitler can become a Hitler is with the government. Without
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a government, you're just going to have him be a homeless painter. So, and so that's one thing.
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Uh, I don't think anyone has or had a solution to Hitler. I mean, Hitler happened. So there was no
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good options on the table at the time, especially, and most importantly, and this goes back to the
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person you and I hate the most in terms of America, Woodrow Wilson. If the West hadn't been so
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exhausted as a result of the great war, if they hadn't seen an entire generation lost for no
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reason, there would be far more appetite to take on a Hitler. This is one of the reasons Neville
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Chamberlain, uh, you know, had his appeasement because he's like, we're not doing this again.
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I can't, whatever the cost is, we're not paying it because we just paid the cost yesterday,
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So in your non-utopian world, uh, looking at our utopian world, how does a Michael Malice
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solve that? Do you, if you don't want him to be a dictator, don't let him grow into things,
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don't give him access to things. Do you cut off the, his access to the West?
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No, no. Like Putin. I, what would you do if you were, go ahead.
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I don't, I am not, uh, this, you're, we're talking, there's a big difference between,
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you know, a political philosophy and theory, whether, you know, the founding father's vision
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of America, my vision of anarchism or some kind of Bernie Sanders, social democracy.
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I don't know that any of those really matter when it comes to a situation of war that we're
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fighting today. I'm not a military strategist. I don't think I have any particular insight
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into geopolitics or we should sanction this region or let, let some route in through the
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Caspian Sea or something like that. I, I don't have any good answers for you, Glenn. I'm sorry.
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Oh, that's, that's, I mean, I think that's one of the best answers I have heard from anybody.
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Uh, everybody's willing to spout off. And of course, you know, those of us who are clearly
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right do, uh, anyway, um, uh, Michael, thank anyone. Go ahead.
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Just quickly. Anyone who thinks that there is some kind of magic wand that's going to resolve
00:28:19.600
a situation against, you know, one of the largest countries in the world who's actually already
00:28:24.340
shooting missiles in the cities. I think they're just being inaccurate.
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Hmm. Do you, do you think that Vladimir Putin is Bill O'Reilly and I just had this argument?
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He thinks he's crazy. He thinks he's always been, always been rational, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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blah. But now he's crazy. I don't think he's crazy. I just don't think we understand what
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The whole point I reason I wrote dear reader, my North Korean book is to demonstrate how evil,
00:28:52.240
rational, and logical their system is in order to further the Kim's family and their control
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and power. There's nothing Putin's doing that is remotely crazy just because it's something evil
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Correct. Correct. We just don't understand what his real motives are, what his end game is.
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We can look at it from our perspective and say that that's ridiculous. But until we understand him,
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uh, we, we won't, we, we don't stand a chance. We don't stand a chance. Um, thank you, Michael. I
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Always a pleasure. Go ahead and take care guys.
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the stock market is, the price of Bitcoin, uh, gold, silver, oil? Sure, sure. Um, so Dow is down
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about, about 600 points right now. Um, which, uh, is off of its lows, uh, from the last 24 hours,
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but still down quite a bit. It's still what? About 2%. Not bad. Bitcoin is at about
00:31:02.580
36,000, uh, which is about near its lows since the 2021 price increase. Uh, it's bounced between,
00:31:13.820
um, you know, 30, 30,000 and, you know, close to 70,000. Um, as the stock market, if the stock
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market falls, uh, dramatically, you will see Bitcoin fall as well. Uh, only because people who have
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Bitcoin may have taken out, uh, margins, uh, and bet on stocks and they'll get, they're going to have
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to pay that back. So you might see an initial fall, um, of Bitcoin could be for other reasons,
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but you should expect that as well. Uh, oil is over a hundred dollars a barrel for the first time
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since I think 2014. It's at one Oh four, basically right now. Um, gold is approaching $2,000 an ounce.
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It's at 1929 right now. Uh, so what an appropriate, what an appropriate, uh, number 1929.
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Great, great, great. Okay. Um, so people, my own family has written to me, what do we do? What do we
00:32:18.860
do? What do we do? Um, I want you to, um, think about things this way. Look, there, there are so many
00:32:27.300
ways this, this whole world can come apart. We are looking at a very, very fragile, uh, situation
00:32:36.380
all over the world. It's not just America. This is happening all over the world. Um, especially in
00:32:43.660
the West, there is a feeling in me, a friend said to me, don't run away from something, always run
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towards something. And you'll know when it's time to, uh, to find that thing or that thing will appear.
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Um, when the seasons change, he said, watch the leaves on the trees and you will know when the seasons
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change. I will tell you that I think we have hit a season change. Um, I've been feeling it this last
00:33:15.840
week, week and a half that something is different and, uh, it's a season change, something we're
00:33:22.820
entering a new phase. Um, so some of the things that I would suggest you do, some may dismiss,
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but I will tell you you're, we are fighting evil now we are. And, uh, evil is, it's just rearing up
00:33:40.260
its head and it thinks it's going to win. It doesn't know, uh, what's coming for it, but it
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thinks it's going to win. I know how it ends. We all know if you're a Christian, we all know how this
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ends. Um, it's just, which side are you going to be on? And it's going to be very easy to get lost
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and to, and get swept up into things. So let me give you a couple of things that we should be doing.
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First of all, pray. You should be praying and reading your Bible every day and be on your knees
00:34:12.300
asking for guidance and listen and obey that still small voice that you hear that there's nothing
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more important than that. Um, get into groups, uh, and neighborhoods that think alike, um, find a,
00:34:29.940
a group of friends that maybe we'll join you on this, this path. Um, and you can help each other.
00:34:37.160
We are going to need each other. If we're going to survive, if you are all alone, uh, move, don't be
00:34:46.040
the only person that is in your area and you're feeling alone, get out, find like-minded people. Um,
00:34:54.880
because the seasons have changed when you're preparing, think about the community as a whole.
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I have a small town in Idaho that I just love and I moved there because it's a small town and,
00:35:07.960
and they're all farmers and farmers know that they're going to have to take care of each other.
00:35:13.780
And right now we are doing things as a town, like we're building a smoker, um, because we're,
00:35:20.380
we know if there's a shortage of meat, uh, and let's say there's a shortage of power, uh, and power
00:35:28.760
keeps going in and out where there's going to be a shortage, um, that we, we won't be able to deal
00:35:33.980
with. So let's go learn how to smoke meat so we can smoke some beef and store some beef. If it gets
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to that point, um, you know, we didn't have a warning in 1929, really it wasn't, it was the roaring
00:35:48.960
1920s. And then maybe a couple of years into it, a couple of years before 1929, some signs started
00:35:54.600
to appear, but it was a pretty fast crash. We've had almost two decades to prepare. So there's no
00:36:03.780
excuse here. We have the warnings. You're either listening to them or you're not. And if you're not,
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man, there are less stressful shows to listen to, honestly, honestly, um, uh, prepare now. Uh,
00:36:20.640
and here's a couple of things you can do at this point. I would make sure that I had a week's worth
00:36:25.400
of cash on hand. Why? Because if I, if I were Vladimir Putin and we started getting hit financially,
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I would unleash my team of hackers and I would shut down oil pipelines. I would shut down,
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um, uh, the, the access to our banks. I would, I would disrupt through hacking as much as I can.
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He remember, he said, world war three will be fought with ones and zeros. I don't know how prepared
00:36:57.680
we are for that, but he's very prepared for that. So we should be, this isn't attack against
00:37:03.880
just the government. This is an attack on us, uh, make the people as miserable as possible.
00:37:11.420
So we could see in very short order banking, uh, holidays. It would be rational. If somebody is
00:37:18.580
attacking our, our financial systems, then, uh, they got to shut them down for a while and it would
00:37:25.180
cause great instability. Do you have enough money just to be able to buy the things that you would
00:37:30.440
need to buy? So life is okay. During a banking holiday, um, you might want to have more, uh,
00:37:37.180
than that, uh, fill your gas tanks and keep them, keep extra gas in gas tanks. There will be shortages,
00:37:46.080
keep them tapped up. So if you needed to go someplace, you can go to call your oil heating company,
00:37:53.280
uh, and tap your tank off. If you can gas, uh, for heat and cooking, get those tanks filled. Now it'll
00:38:02.800
be cheaper now, uh, than, uh, later, but also you want to make sure if there is any disruption,
00:38:09.180
you're not going into it with half a tank. Um, if you fill your pantry, you will thank me in a year.
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If you go out and buy food today, you will thank me in a year because inflation alone is going to go
00:38:27.440
through the roof. It will, um, if you can get, uh, vegetables and even canned them out of season,
00:38:36.220
but you can get them now, I would get them and canned them. Um, they're going to be harder to get
00:38:42.160
the price of fertilizer and, and just having a farm is going through the roof. Um, these things
00:38:48.980
are going to be more scarce next year. Um, if you, if you, if you can, I would have a year's worth of
00:38:57.240
food supply for my family. Uh, and if I really had money, I would plan for others as well.
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We are going to need one another. Um, and that's why I say be in these communities because somebody's
00:39:10.280
going to have something that you need and they're going to have something, uh, that you need, and
00:39:15.100
you're going to have something that they need. Um, begin to think this way. Really, really important.
00:39:24.000
Watch the other hand. Um, this is a very danger, dangerous and fragile time for freedom. Look how fast
00:39:37.040
Canada, uh, called people terrorists and shut them down. Um, this is going to happen while we're not
00:39:47.500
paying attention or for some other reasons. It is vital that you get involved in your local and state
00:39:57.080
politics. You call your state reps and tell them to stop ESG standards from being used in your
00:40:06.780
state. It is so important. Um, that's the, these standards are pretty much what the, the Canadian
00:40:16.060
government is doing to the truckers, get your state to pass a law also against a single fed coin. I'm
00:40:23.940
going to give you a story here that I can't believe we missed, um, uh, in June, 2021, the bank of England,
00:40:33.560
that's their federal reserve. The bank of England has called on ministers to decide whether a central
00:40:39.760
bank digital currency should be programmable, ultimately giving the issuer control over how
00:40:47.820
it is spent by the recipient. Tom Mutton, the director of bank of England said during a conference
00:40:53.960
on Monday that programming would become a key feature of any future bank digital currency in which
00:41:01.200
the money could be programmed to release only when something happened. You can introduce
00:41:07.060
programmability. It happens to be one of the participants in a transaction. It puts a restriction
00:41:13.500
on the use of that money. There could be some socially beneficial outcomes from that preventing
00:41:19.560
activities, which are seen to be socially harmful in some way. This is what they were talking about
00:41:28.200
two years ago. If you don't think that digital currency is coming, you're mistaken. It is right around
00:41:36.300
the corner and it could be something like what could be coming in response to, uh, Putin and our, um,
00:41:47.840
cutting him off on the banks. Uh, he will respond, I believe in ones and zeros,
00:41:55.500
and then the government will have its new virus. It'll be a computer virus and they'll have to
00:42:01.320
protect us and shut things down. Um, get your kids out of school if you can, but local schools,
00:42:08.040
if you're, if you have to have the local school, make sure you know all about it. Again, if you're the
00:42:13.300
lone voice move now, if you are joining the truckers here in America, make sure you are not following a
00:42:23.620
leader, make sure you're following God and the peace and actions of Christ. Get the Martin Luther King
00:42:31.180
pledge of nonviolence and get everyone in that group to sign it. If they will not sign it, you may
00:42:38.400
be in the wrong group. Um, between real crazies who want to burn the entire thing down through war or
00:42:45.500
chaos, plants from the left who are Antifa, and the fact that media, the Capitol Police, and the FBI
00:42:53.440
actively in one way or another want to define us as terrorists, uh, be very, very, very careful.
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Look how fast it happened in Canada. Remember chaos is from the adversary. It is what I believe Putin
00:43:11.840
is creating now. I think he's doing it intentionally, but I could be wrong. That's only a guess.
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We are not asking for chaos. We are asking for a return to order the constitutional order. That is
00:43:27.440
really an important difference. If we can just keep our heads about us, uh, and, uh, and not freak out,
00:43:38.360
if we can have faith that we have God guiding us. And if we live righteous lives,
00:43:45.940
if we are people of merit, as George Washington said, uh, he will see us through. I expect miracles
00:43:53.720
to be seen in your time, in your life, you will see clear hand of God miracles. If you haven't
00:44:02.020
already, uh, Billy Graham was right when he said, God's doing stuff with people all over the world.
00:44:08.880
And, uh, one of these days he's going to turn on the lights and it'll be a surprise party for Satan.
00:44:16.560
And you will see that the solution could only have come from God because it's all of these individual
00:44:23.000
people standing up. I was talking to Stu yesterday, um, about people actually having dreams or hearing
00:44:31.860
from God. I think that is a growing thing. Um, don't dismiss those promptings. Don't dismiss them.