The John-Henry Westen Show - Watch the Shocking Globalist Plans Ignored by the Mainstream Media

00:00:00.000 We are used to hearing about scaremongering in the media about military-grade weapons.

00:00:05.140 The javelin anti-tank system is a military-grade weapon.

00:00:08.940 It doesn't just lock onto tanks, it will lock onto a motorcycle or a bus, anything made out of metal.

00:00:16.340 It can be operated by anyone who can operate a PlayStation.

00:00:19.840 When we reflect upon, shall we say, medicine or the law or the police or even the army,

00:00:26.280 what I would suggest you do is try and remind yourself that this is not the 1990s anymore.

00:00:32.880 The World Economic Forum concluded their annual meeting at Davos last week.

00:00:37.580 And as promised, I brought back LifeSite's contributor Frank Wright,

00:00:41.500 who gave us such an amazing primer on the forum last week.

00:00:44.880 But let's have a little peek inside this gathering of world elites stomping for population control, 0.86

00:00:50.640 biometric surveillance, and basically a type of world domination that the tyrants of yesterday

00:00:57.360 couldn't even have dreamed of.

00:00:59.360 Did you know that the Vatican, under Pope Francis, has had a close,

00:01:04.080 although little-known, relationship with the World Economic Forum?

00:01:06.880 Pope Francis has signaled his intimacy with the World Economic Forum's globalist founder,

00:01:12.820 Klaus Schwab, by sending an address to the World Economic Forum four times.

00:01:17.540 And he's also allowed an annual Vatican roundtable at the Davos World Economic Forum conference site.

00:01:26.840 Good bishops, though, have been on the other side.

00:01:29.900 Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, called out the World Economic Forum for its

00:01:34.300 godless agenda and for its failure to respect man's God-given rights.

00:01:39.100 He said in a recent tweet, and I quote,

00:01:41.000 So the World Economic Forum has been pushing for a new world order,

00:02:03.100 and listening to the people that are influential with them gives us a fairly good idea of what their new world order would look like.

00:02:12.800 Yuval Noah Harari, for instance, the top advisor to the World Economic Forum,

00:02:16.540 declared that humans are now hackable, and we must get used to it.

00:02:21.340 Have a listen.

00:02:21.740 Now, in the past, many tyrants and governments wanted to do it, but nobody understood biology well enough,

00:02:33.520 and nobody had enough computing power and data to hack millions of people.

00:02:39.920 Neither the Gestapo nor the KGB could do it.

00:02:43.160 But soon, at least some corporations and governments will be able to systematically hack all the people.

00:02:53.160 We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls.

00:03:00.260 We are now hackable animals.

00:03:02.680 In the coming decades, AI and biotechnology will give us godlike abilities to re-engineer life and even to create completely new life forms.

00:03:16.200 Harari in the past has declared that the whole world does not need the vast majority of its current population,

00:03:23.780 especially in light of technological advancements.

00:03:27.080 But he isn't the only one pushing for a global depopulation.

00:03:30.780 Here, listen to Jane Goodall casually pushing this same agenda at the World Economic Forum. 1.00

00:03:39.580 We cannot hide away from human population growth because, you know, it underlies so many of the other problems.

00:03:47.480 All these things we talk about wouldn't be a problem if there was the size of population that there was 500 years ago.

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00:05:21.020 So last week, Frank Wright told us about the prostitutes flocking to Davos, Switzerland, and its surrounding areas driven by the sex demand that the World Economic Forum goes along with it.

00:05:36.720 So many of the world's most powerful men are there, and I guess that's what is wanted.

00:05:44.160 Well, it should be of no surprise that despite all of the woke feminist dialogue, the World Economic Forum and those that flocked to it cared little about women and their actual dignity.

00:05:59.900 The World Economic Forum was founded in 1971 in Geneva, and we at LifeSite have reported extensively about it.

00:06:06.420 As Frank wrote in his article on LifeSite, and I quote,

00:06:11.480 For a forum nominally devoted to the World Economic Forum, it has provided little insight this year into solutions to a mounting economic crisis in Europe.

00:06:22.460 It has furnished us with its own vision of a post-human future which is happily experiencing technical difficulties due to the hyper-polarized, hyper-partisan time in which we now live.

00:06:34.800 The forum appears to be largely a platform for politicians and other state-level performers to showcase themselves.

00:06:45.000 We heard India's Minister for Women and Child Development, Simitri Irani, proudly proclaim its promotion of abortion on Tuesday last week during a panel discussion titled Gender Parity for Economic Recovery. 0.83

00:07:00.320 Have a listen.

00:07:00.720 He is the first Prime Minister in India who passed in both Houses of Parliament medical termination of pregnancy at 24 weeks for women without a whimper or a noise from any other man in Indian politics.

00:07:17.880 Naturally, the panelists never talked about women being happy or fulfilled.

00:07:22.680 Rather, the focus was solely on women entering the workforce and increasing the number of women in management positions. 0.66

00:07:30.840 We have to use more women in the labor market, economist Ilan Goldfein said. 1.00

00:07:38.260 Of course, it is beneficial for big corporations to advocate for contraception and abortion so women stay in the workforce and keep paying taxes to the government instead of being able to have children and raise them at home. 0.99

00:07:53.460 Join me as I interview Frank Wright for a post-mortem on the World Economic Forum 2023.

00:08:00.560 And if you haven't watched my first show with Frank, be sure to check it out.

00:08:04.640 This is the John Henry Weston Show.

00:08:06.360 Stay tuned.

00:08:13.540 Frank Wright, thanks for coming back on the program.

00:08:16.020 Hello again, John.

00:08:16.880 It's a pleasure to speak to you again.

00:08:18.360 Thank you for having me on the show.

00:08:19.580 Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.

00:08:22.520 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

00:08:27.480 Amen.

00:08:28.500 Tell us your perspective now that World Economic Forum has come to a close.

00:08:32.340 What's your takeaway?

00:08:33.380 The first thing to say about the World Economic Forum is that it is happily diminishing in its influence.

00:08:38.400 This is indicated by the fact that very few of the world's foremost leaders actually attended it this year.

00:08:43.740 There may be a reason for that that is connected to the second reason, the second serious issue about the World Economic Forum.

00:08:52.280 For a forum that's devoted nominally to economics, to world economics, there's very little mention of any economic news whatsoever.

00:09:00.180 I mean, this is noteworthy in itself.

00:09:03.140 The fact that the World Economic Forum does not talk about the worst economic crisis facing Europe since World War II is a startling omission.

00:09:11.200 It can only be a deliberate act.

00:09:13.400 It's difficult to understand how otherwise an economic forum would ignore the global realignment in economic supply chains.

00:09:21.420 But it has been a consequence of the West's intervention in the war in Ukraine, which has seen countries like Saudi Arabia in a formerly unthinkable move, peel away from the influence of the West and forge new partnerships with the Russians and the Chinese.

00:09:37.440 This is also happening to Qatar, who has enormous gas resources, the strategic implications of this, having an economic dimension, you would imagine would be at the top of the agenda in a World Economic Forum.

00:09:50.700 There are further problems that have taken place in Europe as a result of the war, as a result of the policies of the kind of people who did not attend Davos, such as the destruction, the mysterious destruction of the Nord Stream 2 pipelines.

00:10:04.060 These pipelines were constructed by two consecutive German chancellors, which was Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel.

00:10:13.380 Schröder maintains a position on the board of the Nord Stream Company to this day.

00:10:19.280 He cooperated with the Russians to build these pipelines in order to service 40% of German gas needs to provide a predictable and sustainable and cheap source of energy to maintain the industrial base that pays effectively for the rest of Europe.

00:10:33.540 There is no longer going to be an industrial base in Germany, say major heads of German industry.

00:10:40.440 They announced as early as last year, September was the main announcement that they made when BASF said that it was relocating much of its manufacturing to China.

00:10:50.320 It was doing so because it could not guarantee energy security and stability.

00:10:54.380 It couldn't pay the price of the variable spot market LNG on which Europe is said to rely on the future.

00:11:01.180 And this has replaced pipeline gas from Russia, which was purchased upon 10 to 15 year contracts at a predictable rate.

00:11:09.340 Industry simply cannot function on a spot price supply of gas.

00:11:13.180 You would imagine that such an issue exists, again, would be economic news to a world economic forum.

00:11:19.360 But the de-industrialization of the major manufacturing base, the heartland of the European economy, simply isn't news.

00:11:27.660 What also isn't news is the fact that there is a second pipeline complex which takes gas from Russia through the Black Sea and into Turkey.

00:11:36.580 This is called TurkStream, and it's existed for several years now in an operational capacity, but is currently undergoing major redevelopment in order to supply Central Europe and the Balkans with a reliable gas supply.

00:11:50.920 There has been, according to Russian and Turkish sources, at least one attempt to sabotage this pipeline as well, which was thwarted.

00:11:58.600 However, it does remain a strategically important development, because now that Germany can no longer rely upon its own gas supplies, this places much geostrategic influence in the hands of the Turks.

00:12:11.940 This, too, should be economic news for a forum based in Europe, but it is not.

00:12:17.240 This issue touches upon the retreat of US power, the grand diminution of US influence in the Middle East writ large.

00:12:25.340 Not only have they lost the Saudis, which, again, would have been unthinkable even several years ago, to speak of that relationship being fractured to the point where they wouldn't pick up the phone to the President of the United States, would have been deemed absurd.

00:12:39.020 And yet that's just what happened.

00:12:40.980 The Saudis in the past have routinely observed American requests to time their changes in oil supply, which affect the world market in oil, and therefore the productivity and profitability of world industry.

00:12:53.980 They have always agreed to time these changes to the whims of the US election cycle, depending upon the incumbent, and this time they did not.

00:13:02.580 And they ignored US requests, and they went ahead with an independent policy, which is now guided by supplying a block that is backed by Russia and China, known as BRICS, which is composed – it's an acronym – composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, to which you can add Indonesia and Saudi Arabia itself now.

00:13:22.320 Now, one of the reasons why Turkey has become more strategically important is because, again, from an issue that does not touch upon an economic forum, it holds the key to Syrian migration movements.

00:13:38.680 Millions of Syrians could be flooded into Europe on the whim of Erdogan, the President of Turkey.

00:13:44.680 He knows this and uses it as leverage.

00:13:47.520 NATO needs his votes to allow for the accession of Sweden and for Finland, an issue which is not without tensions itself.

00:13:54.400 However, in a remarkable development over the last six weeks, the Turks have made moves towards a rapprochement with the Syrian government.

00:14:03.980 The Turks initially attacked Syria when the civil war began, believing, as Erdogan was given assurances, he claims, by Obama that the Americans would intervene and support his campaign, which he instigated by supporting the rebels in Syria.

00:14:20.920 Despite the fact that he's therefore the sworn enemy of Assad, they are mooted to be meeting very soon in order to discuss a peace deal that will effectively isolate the U.S., its tiny military presence there, and its only remaining ally in the region being the Kurds.

00:14:35.560 And the diplomatic chatter is that the Turks and the Syrians are willing to come together to see the Kurds as a common enemy.

00:14:44.740 That's to say that the United States' only remaining ally in the region is going to be seen as the common enemy between Syria and a nominal NATO member in Turkey.

00:14:54.940 This peace agreement is, of course, being backed by the Russians.

00:14:58.500 This is a major diplomatic change, one that does have impact on geo-strategic and geo-economic issues.

00:15:05.560 And again, it's one that gets no mention in a forum nominally devoted to how the world is best managed for prosperity.

00:15:14.080 The signs are of increasing instability, and the World Economic Forum itself cited these signs of global polarisation and instability as one reason why it cannot more rapidly move its own agenda forward.

00:15:27.280 This should be encouraging news to anyone who identifies as a member of the reality-based community.

00:15:32.960 So a tremendous relief for us all, I would say, that Klaus Schwab's project appears to have somewhat hit the buffers of late.

00:15:41.420 The fact that it is diminished is demonstrated by the absence of major world leaders, such as the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans, the British, many world leaders.

00:15:51.840 More world leaders stayed away than attended.

00:15:54.180 The ones that did, as Klaus likes to call them, is favoured stakeholders.

00:15:59.640 The favoured stakeholders that did appear were largely people who wished to garner attention for themselves or to showcase themselves in order, perhaps, to shore up their own credibility or to advance their own pet projects.

00:16:13.220 Tony Blair did appear to speak in favour of what would effectively be a global surveillance state that removes your right to refuse medical treatment and incarceration, which is to be taken under the forthcoming World Health Organisation conference in May.

00:16:38.320 Tony Blair, of course, is fully in favour of this.

00:16:41.920 But what Tony Blair overlooks in his messianic zeal to promote his own imaginings is that Tony Blair isn't a good advertisement.

00:16:49.680 He's not a good advertisement for the World Health Organisation.

00:16:52.960 He's not a good advertisement for the World Economic Forum.

00:16:55.140 And if you look at him, he's not even a good advertisement for himself.

00:16:59.260 So any organisation that results to putting him on screen is a desperate one.

00:17:03.540 Secondly, Tony Blair is not the only desperate managerialist.

00:17:08.180 He's looking for more credibility by showcasing themselves and the World Economic Forum.

00:17:12.980 The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is currently presiding over, as I said before, the worst economic crisis in Europe since the end of World War II,

00:17:22.080 was careful to appear in photo opportunities with President Zelensky of Ukraine's wife.

00:17:28.340 Mrs. Zelensky gave a very emotional address to the World Economic Forum in the first couple of days.

00:17:32.840 which centred on an appeal about children.

00:17:37.200 She was effectively trying to drum up support for the escalation of the war in Ukraine at a time at which European nations disagreed about exporting modern tanks in order to reinforce the Ukrainian war effort.

00:17:49.260 In an attempt to shame the Germans to abandon their policy of de-escalation, which they have subsequently done, 0.57

00:17:56.200 Mrs. Zelensky invoked the example of children being separated from the sacred bond that they have with their motherland.

00:18:02.840 In an act of what she described as effective genocide by the Russians.

00:18:07.160 It has been described elsewhere as an effective genocide of the Russians.

00:18:10.700 She's referring to a program in which several thousand war orphans have been adopted by Russian families.

00:18:15.960 These are overwhelmingly likely to be Russian-speaking children with Russian heritage.

00:18:21.160 They are very much likely to fit in well with their future homes.

00:18:26.940 This has been framed as a war crime, and it is doubly ironic that it should come from a person whose husband presides over the world's greatest supermarket for the sale of children.

00:18:37.220 Fortunately, for those children, future and present, this business has been suspended by the outbreak of war, before which Ukraine has been described by major Western publications as the number one destination for surrogacy,

00:18:52.400 which means anyone with the money can buy a newborn baby from a woman who will never see that baby again. 0.99

00:19:00.320 They can buy frozen embryos for their own reason, and some of the companies that are involved in this in Britain and in the United States furnish single homosexual men with babies. 0.88

00:19:11.300 The LGBTQ community are welcomed into this.

00:19:15.700 They will sell babies to people from every background and be proud of it.

00:19:19.340 In fact, one such agency is promoted by Britain's most famous gay dad, as he styles himself.

00:19:27.560 This is the kind of business in which Ukraine was happy to enrich itself before the war broke out. 0.63

00:19:33.980 It is simply one example of the kind of dubious activities for which it was notorious mere months before the outbreak of the war.

00:19:42.920 With the publishing of the Pandora Papers in 2021 by publications such as The Guardian in the United Kingdom,

00:19:49.860 Ukraine was noted to be the destination for the ill-gotten funds of up to 230 former world leaders and members and heads of state.

00:19:58.620 This placed it at the top of the list of the most corrupt countries in the world.

00:20:03.980 It was corruption that has continued, even to this week, when Zelensky himself fired his finance minister for community reconstruction,

00:20:15.880 was, I think, imprisoned on Sunday evening and will face charges with embezzlement, together with which Ukraine is not doing well.

00:20:24.740 The plan for Ukraine is not doing well.

00:20:26.980 The reason for this emotive appearance at the World Economic Forum is the fact that the Ukraine is not doing well in the war.

00:20:34.720 And this means that the Western plan has also been somewhat derailed.

00:20:38.800 This is the reason for the attention grabbing by Ursula von der Leyen. 0.99

00:20:42.160 This is the reason for a renewed attempt to sell the war effort, because so far it has not worked.

00:20:49.480 When the Ukraine is begging for tanks, its head, its chief of staff, the chief of defense staff of Ukraine, General Zeluzhny,

00:20:58.680 made an appeal that was in The Economist or Newsweek.

00:21:04.100 The chief of general staff, General Zeluzhny of Ukraine, made an appeal that was reported in either The Economist or Newsweek,

00:21:12.840 requesting 300 to 400 main battle tanks, without which he said his army would be incapable of mounting any meaningful offensive.

00:21:19.900 Whether or not he receives tanks in such number, it is arguable whether Ukraine can prevail at all.

00:21:25.820 In a remarkable development, the chief of communications for Zelensky, a man called Alexei Arostovich, has very recently departed the government.

00:21:36.520 He was requested to leave following a controversy over the bombing of an apartment block in Dnipro,

00:21:42.520 which he announced was due to Ukrainian and not Russian activity, as had been previously broadcast in the West.

00:21:49.080 Following this, he was forced out of his position, which was the effective head of propaganda for Ukraine.

00:21:53.880 Arostovich has gone on to give interviews in which he suggested that Ukrainian victory is increasingly unlikely,

00:22:01.740 and wherewith he also suggests that the survival of the Ukrainian state itself is in question.

00:22:07.860 These are remarks that echo the remarks of some members of the Polish government as well,

00:22:11.780 which have been renewed in recent days.

00:22:15.920 The Poles have a suspicious interest in what's now called Lvov,

00:22:20.240 and this region was formerly known as Western Galicia, when it was administered and ruled by the Poles.

00:22:26.800 The Poles appear to be manoeuvring for their own post-partition interest in a visiparous Ukraine. 0.74

00:22:34.940 It seems that the plan for them may very well be not to take these tanks that they're offering to Ukraine to the east,

00:22:42.880 but instead to keep them, to pacify and control a region that they consider historically their own.

00:22:49.040 This is speculative, but may be the case,

00:22:52.800 because if the chief of propaganda for the Ukraine is coming out and saying that the war isn't likely to be won,

00:22:59.440 and that Ukraine itself may dissolve,

00:23:01.440 then we can only imagine what people are saying in private in the nations which border this post-Soviet border dispute.

00:23:07.960 Meanwhile, President Zelensky himself did manage to address the World Economic Forum,

00:23:15.440 and again in a spectacular address, which was nominally to introduce a peace plan.

00:23:21.300 The peace plan that he had introduced was in fact an appeal for the escalation of the war.

00:23:27.500 According to President Zelensky, the way to secure peace is to flood Ukraine with the inventories of every Western nation,

00:23:34.900 which has yet to empty its own arsenal into Ukraine in order to secure a military victory.

00:23:41.600 It is unlikely that such a victory would take place even were these nations to do this,

00:23:46.780 for technical reasons, which may be obvious to anyone who's ever had to fix a car in the countryside.

00:23:53.480 Some of these tanks weigh dozens of tons.

00:23:56.620 They all have differing armaments.

00:23:58.760 They have differing electronic systems which power them.

00:24:02.200 They need different supply chains in order to maintain them in the battlefield.

00:24:06.780 They are difficult to keep operational.

00:24:09.800 People may remember the idea of the ratio of tooth to tail in an army.

00:24:14.380 Now, the ratio of tooth to tail with armor would be at least five to one.

00:24:19.480 So for every tank and every crew that you have,

00:24:21.800 you can multiply that by five for the supply chain that has to go back for parts

00:24:26.040 and for maintenance and for logistics.

00:24:28.520 To build a supply chain for a company of tanks is a difficult exercise.

00:24:35.060 To build a supply chain for 14 tanks, like Britain is sending 14 Challenger 2s,

00:24:40.560 would be almost impossible to achieve.

00:24:43.140 It's notable as well that in today's offer of Abrams tanks,

00:24:46.800 over which the Germans hesitated to give their approval to the sending of Leopard 2 tanks

00:24:52.120 from neighboring European states to which they've sold them,

00:24:55.320 that the United States is not promising tanks that exist now,

00:24:58.800 but it's promising to manufacture them.

00:25:01.420 This may take two years.

00:25:03.380 It may not ever happen.

00:25:04.980 It is a paper promise, which has no guarantee of ever materializing,

00:25:09.880 and it is a means of leveraging the Germans into giving their assent

00:25:13.280 to the export of modern tanks, which they had resisted until today

00:25:17.860 because they wished not to escalate hostilities with their Russian neighbors,

00:25:23.540 upon whom they've relied for many years to supply their economy

00:25:27.060 with cheap and reliable energy.

00:25:29.740 I think the Germans rightly feared that, 1.00

00:25:31.860 but I think they've been pressured into saying yes.

00:25:34.580 One of the issues that the World Economic Forum has failed to touch upon

00:25:39.860 is its own decline in influence.

00:25:42.400 Its own decline of influence is undermined.

00:25:45.760 The fact that the World Economic Forum has been undermined

00:25:48.560 by the actions of its own stakeholders

00:25:50.700 is perhaps an embarrassment to this organization.

00:25:53.960 In a remarkable document named The Outlook for BlackRock,

00:25:58.980 a recent publication noted BlackRock's own hand

00:26:02.380 in economic policies which are accelerating the instability

00:26:06.680 of Western economies and societies.

00:26:09.580 This is a remarkable admission from the world's most powerful investment firm

00:26:13.900 which owns trillions in assets

00:26:16.840 and who was helpfully exculpated by a recent fact-finding and debunking mission

00:26:22.760 by the British news agency Reuters.

00:26:26.940 Reuters was faced with the claim that BlackRock

00:26:29.680 owned many single-occupancy US family homes and refuted this claim.

00:26:34.800 They said that BlackRock does not in fact own these homes

00:26:37.400 and isn't the major landowner.

00:26:39.280 Further investigation reveals that BlackRock is in fact

00:26:42.680 a subsidiary of an earlier company called Blackstone.

00:26:46.600 The difference between a stone and a rock appears to be a technicality

00:26:49.700 upon which Reuters champions itself

00:26:52.060 as the brave and bold investigators of the fourth estate.

00:26:56.360 Blackstone is in fact America's landlord

00:26:59.120 as it's described in places like the Wall Street Journal,

00:27:02.160 owning more real estate globally, as they say,

00:27:04.340 than any other firm on earth.

00:27:06.660 The question of it being a subsidiary is surely a technicality.

00:27:11.220 BlackRock therefore have vast influence in the world.

00:27:14.760 How have they been using this influence?

00:27:17.040 They've been using this influence by their own admission

00:27:19.480 in a destabilizing manner

00:27:21.420 by forcing companies, massive companies,

00:27:24.820 to advance a net zero agenda

00:27:27.280 which they know will make them unstable

00:27:30.100 and incapable of maintaining their own industrial base.

00:27:33.760 This will also deprive them of the cheap and reliable energy sources

00:27:37.400 that they need to predict five to ten years of operations,

00:27:41.220 causing what might be called a further exodus to China.

00:27:46.040 BlackRock itself has decided to enter the Chinese market

00:27:49.460 and a person no less than George Soros has denounced this

00:27:53.220 as a danger to national security in the United States.

00:27:56.760 When George Soros is calling your organization

00:28:00.960 a danger to the nation,

00:28:03.020 it may be time to sit up and listen.

00:28:05.580 Nonetheless, BlackRock is apparently going ahead

00:28:07.780 with attempts to integrate its own business model

00:28:10.120 with that of the Chinese.

00:28:11.860 BlackRock has also promoted policies

00:28:13.940 which lead to social dissolution.

00:28:17.420 They are aggressive champions

00:28:19.120 of the idea of equity in corporations,

00:28:22.460 meaning that for those companies

00:28:23.860 in which they hold an influence

00:28:25.740 or over whom they hold an influence,

00:28:28.460 they routinely and inexorably promote a policy

00:28:31.820 wherewith people are given power,

00:28:34.520 influence, internships, and advancement

00:28:37.440 for reasons other than competence.

00:28:39.480 In fact, for almost any other reason than competence.

00:28:42.960 The issue with the equity-based selection system

00:28:45.780 that permeates most of our public administration

00:28:48.060 and large-scale institutions,

00:28:50.160 whether private or public,

00:28:51.420 is that it deliberately selects against talent

00:28:54.240 for superficial qualities

00:28:56.040 such as lifestyle and appearance.

00:28:58.360 This is a recipe for destabilization

00:29:00.620 which BlackRock admits in its own documentation.

00:29:04.060 The only answer for this,

00:29:05.900 why are they doing it,

00:29:07.540 which is to be found at the end of the article

00:29:09.620 which reveals this project to me.

00:29:12.700 Why would BlackRock pursue these policies?

00:29:15.040 I think the answer is to be found

00:29:17.180 in the nature of large-scale bureaucracies.

00:29:20.220 Technocratic large-scale bureaucracies,

00:29:22.440 that's to say,

00:29:23.420 when managerialism meets technology

00:29:25.520 and is combined for maximum efficiency and effect,

00:29:29.220 these organizations,

00:29:30.800 which may have been initially created

00:29:32.380 to be simply more efficient

00:29:33.980 and to better manage our lives,

00:29:36.640 eventually develop a form of self-defense

00:29:39.940 which they may describe as customer service

00:29:42.320 to preserve themselves from the feedback

00:29:44.680 of the ordinary person.

00:29:46.300 They would see you and I rather like a disease

00:29:49.260 requiring an antibody reaction

00:29:51.140 to be isolated and neutralized.

00:29:53.880 There is no public feedback at this level

00:29:56.100 because these organizations have evolved

00:29:58.260 to the point where

00:29:59.460 their only directive is self-preservation.

00:30:03.460 And that self-preservation includes,

00:30:05.420 as it does with BlackRock,

00:30:06.600 seemingly the destruction of everything else

00:30:08.700 in order to preserve its own hegemony.

00:30:10.500 This is the spirit, if you like,

00:30:13.220 of modern technocratic bureaucracies

00:30:15.340 the world over,

00:30:16.900 whether it's the people

00:30:17.720 that hand out your driving license,

00:30:19.540 the people that manage your army

00:30:20.760 or your health care,

00:30:22.180 the people that look after your pension funds,

00:30:24.600 or the people that take over

00:30:25.940 nations' agricultural land

00:30:27.940 and real estate development,

00:30:30.060 such as BlackRock,

00:30:31.320 the people that have heavily usurized

00:30:33.800 debt-leverage systems

00:30:35.180 to impoverish entire nations, 0.93

00:30:37.540 such as BlackRock,

00:30:38.500 are also advancing policies

00:30:40.460 that don't just destroy your economy

00:30:42.180 and remove your ability

00:30:43.800 to own your own property

00:30:45.140 or to pursue your own way of life,

00:30:47.820 but they also actively promote policies

00:30:49.880 that are designed to degrade

00:30:51.560 the quality of the very institutions

00:30:53.500 that should be there

00:30:54.580 to stop them doing this

00:30:55.780 in the first place.

00:30:57.340 This is the kind of insidious,

00:30:59.280 large-scale project

00:31:00.480 of which the World Economic Forum

00:31:02.860 has itself been accused in the past.

00:31:05.240 BlackRock has admitted to this,

00:31:06.720 and, of course, it is a major partner

00:31:08.500 or preferred stakeholder

00:31:09.760 in the World Economic Forum.

00:31:12.820 President Zelensky went on

00:31:14.080 to congratulate BlackRock,

00:31:15.900 along with J.P. Morgan,

00:31:17.400 in an address that he gave

00:31:18.320 following the World Economic Forum

00:31:19.860 by video to a business delegation

00:31:21.980 in Boca Raton.

00:31:23.680 He said that it was a wonderful opportunity

00:31:25.620 that was presented by Ukraine

00:31:27.120 to the defense industry

00:31:28.380 to make money in his own country,

00:31:31.380 to offer them the opportunity

00:31:33.280 of rebuilding Ukraine,

00:31:35.200 not only in defense spending,

00:31:37.240 he said,

00:31:37.740 but also in every other area of business,

00:31:39.780 from communications to health

00:31:41.500 to public administration.

00:31:43.600 This is very much an extension

00:31:45.080 of the ideas brought forward

00:31:47.100 by Arseniy Yatsenyuk,

00:31:50.360 who, in the first post-coup government,

00:31:52.600 was appointed by Victoria Newland

00:31:54.600 in a now notorious telephone call

00:31:56.540 to the then-ambassador Pyatt,

00:31:59.040 the American ambassador Pyatt.

00:32:01.180 Yatsenyuk was named

00:32:02.440 by Victoria Newland in that call

00:32:04.560 as the preferred prime minister

00:32:05.900 of the future government,

00:32:06.980 and lo and behold,

00:32:07.600 he became that the following month.

00:32:10.100 What did he do

00:32:11.100 that made him so noteworthy?

00:32:13.320 What he did then

00:32:14.180 was he implemented a series

00:32:15.520 of stringent, punishing,

00:32:17.640 neoliberal economic reforms,

00:32:19.620 which effectively asset strip

00:32:21.460 any nation

00:32:22.180 and hand the capital of that nation

00:32:24.500 and the livelihoods of that nation

00:32:26.220 through diminished living standards

00:32:27.600 and wage expectations

00:32:28.900 to large-scale corporations.

00:32:31.240 This is the reason,

00:32:32.320 partly the reason,

00:32:33.480 why the coup was instituted

00:32:34.540 in the first place,

00:32:35.900 because the then president

00:32:36.900 had arranged, initially,

00:32:39.800 a loan on neoliberal terms

00:32:41.480 with European investors,

00:32:43.380 backed by the European Union.

00:32:45.620 Consequent to this,

00:32:47.080 he was then offered

00:32:48.000 a better deal by the Russians.

00:32:50.400 The Russians offered 0.96

00:32:51.320 to overmatch the money,

00:32:53.040 but to charge him no interest for it,

00:32:55.000 and to not attach

00:32:56.720 any neoliberal reforms

00:32:58.140 to the conditions of this loan.

00:33:00.340 Several months after this deal,

00:33:02.180 he was ousted

00:33:02.880 in what was televised to the world

00:33:05.440 as an outpouring

00:33:06.740 of democratic fervor.

00:33:09.460 Victoria Nuland

00:33:10.340 was seen in the centre of Kiev

00:33:11.760 handing out cookies at the time,

00:33:13.920 as we may remember.

00:33:15.780 The United States, of course,

00:33:16.860 has formed in this area

00:33:18.520 as early as 2003,

00:33:20.120 when we still had

00:33:21.160 a functioning media.

00:33:22.220 Publications such as The Guardian

00:33:24.120 openly admitted

00:33:25.080 that the United States

00:33:26.180 was behind the colour revolution

00:33:27.940 in Ukraine at the time.

00:33:29.820 That was called

00:33:30.180 the Orange Revolution.

00:33:31.780 It also detailed

00:33:32.680 that the Rose Revolution

00:33:33.740 in Georgia

00:33:34.260 was similarly the product

00:33:35.400 of CIA action,

00:33:36.740 as well as that of NGOs

00:33:37.920 backed by the United States.

00:33:39.760 And, of course,

00:33:40.620 some of the favoured stakeholders

00:33:41.900 of the World Economic Forum

00:33:43.140 feature in that list.

00:33:44.600 The issue of the self-determination

00:33:47.480 of the people of Ukraine

00:33:48.660 has never really been the case

00:33:50.940 for war.

00:33:52.860 The case for war in Ukraine 0.99

00:33:54.440 is adumbrated by

00:33:55.820 the poison of hatred.

00:33:58.060 I am not a supporter

00:33:59.260 of the Russian government,

00:34:00.620 and if you wish to understand why,

00:34:02.760 there's a very good substact

00:34:03.820 written by a Russian

00:34:04.940 called Edward Slavsquat,

00:34:06.900 which is a curious name

00:34:08.020 which takes on the trope

00:34:09.280 of squatting Slavs, 0.76

00:34:11.020 or Russians who like to squat

00:34:12.400 in the street

00:34:12.880 and sit down in this,

00:34:13.600 particularly distinctive manner.

00:34:16.160 What Edward Slavsquat does

00:34:17.840 is he details the way

00:34:19.520 in which the Russians, too,

00:34:21.260 have implemented

00:34:21.940 the kind of technocratic

00:34:23.360 global health managerialism

00:34:25.240 which we associate

00:34:26.340 with the worst excesses

00:34:27.560 of the Covid regime.

00:34:29.100 Russia is not a paradise. 0.72

00:34:30.920 I am not a traitor.

00:34:32.520 I love my country,

00:34:34.040 and in order to preserve it

00:34:35.360 from the plunder

00:34:36.000 of a death cult

00:34:37.360 which has destroyed

00:34:38.640 many nations around the world

00:34:39.960 and replaced their order

00:34:40.900 with chaos,

00:34:42.280 which has mobilised

00:34:43.520 by the exploitation

00:34:45.260 of the noblest motives

00:34:46.860 towards the basest ends,

00:34:48.700 millions of people

00:34:49.520 around the world

00:34:50.080 in support of these

00:34:51.000 disastrous neoconservative

00:34:52.740 adventures,

00:34:53.720 I wish to preserve

00:34:54.460 my own nation

00:34:55.300 and yours

00:34:56.000 from further exploitation

00:34:57.680 by these cynical

00:34:58.780 top-level managerialists

00:35:00.860 who have unfortunately

00:35:01.820 directed what has become

00:35:03.040 a neoconservative war faction

00:35:05.040 in the West.

00:35:05.640 It is now impoverishing

00:35:07.380 much of Western Europe,

00:35:09.200 perhaps permanently,

00:35:10.600 in a stagflation cycle

00:35:12.020 that sees potentially

00:35:13.040 no end in sight

00:35:14.280 since it has lost access

00:35:16.080 to the freely available,

00:35:18.980 stable, and cheap resources

00:35:20.800 which provided

00:35:22.600 for its industrial basis.

00:35:25.700 BlackRock's document

00:35:26.700 gives the lie

00:35:28.880 to the idea

00:35:30.080 that they are innocent

00:35:31.600 of all the foregoing charges.

00:35:34.020 when they mention

00:35:35.320 what they call

00:35:35.960 the Great Moderation.

00:35:37.660 BlackRock details

00:35:38.540 something called

00:35:39.220 the Great Moderation,

00:35:40.500 which is the expectation

00:35:41.520 of rising economic prosperity

00:35:43.980 that was instituted

00:35:45.480 under Reagan and Thatcher.

00:35:46.900 So for roughly 40 years,

00:35:49.320 the West,

00:35:49.860 generally speaking,

00:35:50.760 has enjoyed

00:35:51.880 a period of prosperity,

00:35:53.620 of gently managed

00:35:54.880 upward prosperity,

00:35:56.820 which has fuelled

00:35:57.580 aspirations

00:35:58.260 and has underwritten

00:35:59.720 an idea

00:36:00.280 of the West

00:36:00.840 as somewhere

00:36:01.320 where we can expect

00:36:02.380 a better future

00:36:03.200 for our children

00:36:03.980 than the world

00:36:04.800 we currently enjoy.

00:36:07.060 The outlook

00:36:08.100 of BlackRock

00:36:09.220 begins with

00:36:10.480 a bewailing

00:36:11.320 of the fact

00:36:11.880 that this great moderation,

00:36:13.800 this period

00:36:14.320 of prosperity,

00:36:15.580 managed prosperity,

00:36:16.840 has now come to an end.

00:36:18.780 It then goes on

00:36:19.660 to expound

00:36:20.520 the many ways

00:36:21.200 in which it has

00:36:21.860 come to an end

00:36:22.660 whilst admitting

00:36:25.080 that it was

00:36:25.800 its own measures

00:36:26.680 which have done so.

00:36:28.380 Its own destabilizing

00:36:29.700 measures in aggressively

00:36:30.780 pushing towards

00:36:31.680 a net zero,

00:36:33.460 green future,

00:36:34.680 which is effectively

00:36:35.400 de-industrializing

00:36:36.480 the basis

00:36:36.940 that provides

00:36:37.560 for this prosperity,

00:36:38.960 whilst pushing policies

00:36:40.100 within the workplace

00:36:40.960 that promote

00:36:41.660 incompetent people

00:36:42.940 who simply cannot

00:36:44.280 manage the complex

00:36:45.340 bureaucracies

00:36:46.140 upon whom we used

00:36:47.420 to rely.

00:36:48.740 A further function

00:36:49.640 of our technocratic

00:36:50.600 society, therefore,

00:36:51.980 is that much of it

00:36:53.000 is now vestigial.

00:36:54.800 What a vestige is,

00:36:56.060 is it's a cherished,

00:36:57.200 durable memory

00:36:58.460 of how something

00:36:59.520 used to be.

00:37:01.040 When we look at things

00:37:02.400 in our minds,

00:37:03.180 when we reflect upon,

00:37:04.800 shall we say,

00:37:05.420 medicine,

00:37:06.260 or the law,

00:37:07.700 or the police,

00:37:08.720 or even the army,

00:37:10.260 what I would suggest

00:37:11.100 you do is try and

00:37:12.020 remind yourself

00:37:12.680 that this is not

00:37:13.480 the 1990s anymore.

00:37:15.420 These institutions

00:37:16.300 no longer function

00:37:17.580 in the way to which

00:37:18.600 you have become

00:37:19.240 accustomed throughout

00:37:20.140 your life.

00:37:20.800 If you are fortunate

00:37:22.120 to have lived

00:37:22.840 through a time

00:37:23.480 of superior efficiency

00:37:24.760 when people were

00:37:25.700 selected for a

00:37:26.820 preferment on the

00:37:27.500 basis of competence

00:37:28.520 far more commonly

00:37:29.440 than for any other

00:37:30.560 reason,

00:37:31.220 you will know

00:37:31.620 what I'm talking

00:37:32.180 about.

00:37:32.960 These institutions

00:37:33.920 which are supposed

00:37:34.820 to manage our lives

00:37:35.700 are themselves in

00:37:36.800 decline as a result

00:37:37.840 of precisely the

00:37:38.700 kind of policies

00:37:39.400 that BlackRock

00:37:40.040 has aggressively

00:37:40.880 promoted by leveraging

00:37:42.700 its debt-fuelled

00:37:43.900 influence around the

00:37:44.840 world.

00:37:46.140 The decline of the

00:37:47.220 West is not 0.99

00:37:48.120 an overstatement.

00:37:50.540 The decline of the

00:37:51.140 West is a reality 0.97

00:37:52.080 diplomatically in the

00:37:53.860 Middle East, in the

00:37:55.600 border states around

00:37:56.580 Russia, and elsewhere.

00:37:58.620 Economically, it is

00:37:59.780 irreversible without a

00:38:00.960 return to what the

00:38:01.880 director of the

00:38:02.800 International Energy

00:38:03.800 Agency, Fatih Barol,

00:38:05.020 said, the irreplaceability

00:38:06.800 of six million barrels

00:38:08.200 of Russian sweet crude

00:38:09.520 oil.

00:38:10.460 Fatih Barol did actually

00:38:11.880 appear at the World

00:38:13.300 Economic Forum, and

00:38:14.840 one would imagine that

00:38:15.780 he would have something

00:38:16.460 to say about his

00:38:17.400 statements which he

00:38:18.340 made in the middle

00:38:19.660 of 2022, saying that

00:38:21.360 there would be no

00:38:21.980 replacement not only

00:38:23.000 for Russian oil, but

00:38:24.340 for Russian gas, in a

00:38:25.460 warning issued to the

00:38:26.560 European leaders who

00:38:27.500 were about to

00:38:28.020 sanction these

00:38:28.660 supplies.

00:38:29.580 They hadn't yet

00:38:30.400 sanctioned them.

00:38:31.260 They went on to do

00:38:32.120 so, eventually

00:38:33.480 completing nine rounds

00:38:34.720 of sanctions with the

00:38:35.660 aim of undermining

00:38:37.040 Russia's economy,

00:38:38.060 isolating it

00:38:38.680 internationally,

00:38:39.520 destabilizing the

00:38:40.480 country, causing

00:38:41.260 regime change, and

00:38:42.860 therefore producing

00:38:43.680 the dream outcome of

00:38:44.860 a Putin-free Russia

00:38:46.060 that can be used as a

00:38:47.780 client state, plentiful

00:38:49.360 resources can then be

00:38:50.380 exploited at will.

00:38:52.060 None of this has

00:38:52.680 materialized, but the

00:38:53.740 energy crisis predicted

00:38:54.900 by the head of the

00:38:56.220 International Energy

00:38:57.320 Agency has materialized.

00:38:59.620 It was predictable then,

00:39:01.200 and what is worse, his own

00:39:02.860 agency has predicted that

00:39:04.300 this year will see it

00:39:05.880 deteriorate even further

00:39:07.300 with next winter showing

00:39:08.540 even more shortages.

00:39:10.300 This is because of the

00:39:11.120 simple reason that the

00:39:12.120 infrastructure does not

00:39:13.300 exist in Europe to

00:39:15.120 replace cheap Russian

00:39:16.740 pipeline gas with a

00:39:18.200 parallel structure of

00:39:19.600 liquid natural gas, or

00:39:21.820 LNG.

00:39:22.860 It needs a different

00:39:23.760 storage facility.

00:39:25.060 It needs dockyard

00:39:26.440 facilities for it to be

00:39:28.020 offloaded from ships.

00:39:29.240 It arrives by sea.

00:39:30.520 It is not sold by

00:39:31.540 contract, so its price

00:39:33.080 is not stable and

00:39:34.080 predictable over 10

00:39:34.900 years.

00:39:35.580 It's sold on the spot

00:39:36.480 market.

00:39:37.060 Its price may change,

00:39:38.360 and does, while it is

00:39:39.840 in transit.

00:39:41.100 German industry itself,

00:39:42.640 including leaders of

00:39:43.780 companies such as

00:39:44.600 Bosch and Siemens and

00:39:46.300 Mercedes, have said that

00:39:47.420 they cannot operate their

00:39:48.760 industries in Germany

00:39:50.420 upon the basis of an

00:39:51.900 unpredictable energy

00:39:53.000 supply that may or may

00:39:54.500 not be available in

00:39:55.540 sufficient quantity, and

00:39:56.600 if it is, its price

00:39:58.000 simply cannot be

00:39:59.040 predicted with any

00:40:00.240 accuracy.

00:40:01.400 No one can do business

00:40:02.520 under these circumstances.

00:40:04.340 The knock-on effect of

00:40:05.440 simply the oil and gas

00:40:06.800 sanctions has been to

00:40:08.100 accelerate the

00:40:08.820 de-industrialization of

00:40:10.080 Europe beyond the ability

00:40:12.020 of Europe to maintain

00:40:13.080 stability, and indeed to

00:40:15.100 preserve its own way of

00:40:16.120 life.

00:40:17.240 What is at stake for the

00:40:18.520 West in Ukraine,

00:40:19.720 therefore, is not just

00:40:21.040 the public image of the

00:40:22.640 neoconservative faction for

00:40:24.280 which this is just another

00:40:25.560 failed foreign adventure.

00:40:27.400 It is the rising

00:40:28.420 credibility gap between

00:40:29.760 what we are told and what

00:40:32.520 is actually happening in the

00:40:33.740 real world.

00:40:34.840 When people find out, as

00:40:36.300 they will, that this has

00:40:37.440 been a debacle for which

00:40:38.960 they have paid with their

00:40:40.040 livelihoods, if the

00:40:41.960 escalation does take

00:40:43.100 place, may even pay with

00:40:44.740 their lives, people will

00:40:46.320 be outraged to learn

00:40:47.880 under the false

00:40:49.400 pretenses under which

00:40:50.420 this conflict was

00:40:51.640 undertaken, mainly

00:40:52.760 inspired by a RAND

00:40:54.180 Corporation assessment of

00:40:55.540 2019, which I would

00:40:57.740 say optimistically

00:40:59.680 described Russia as a

00:41:01.580 precarious state that was

00:41:03.300 peculiarly fragile and

00:41:05.080 amenable to sanctions in

00:41:07.060 order to create

00:41:07.860 instability, chaos and

00:41:09.700 collapse.

00:41:10.760 Regime change in Russia

00:41:12.020 was the idea.

00:41:13.580 It was inspired by this

00:41:14.960 paper.

00:41:15.380 It has been mentioned

00:41:16.260 several times and as

00:41:18.200 recently as last week,

00:41:20.300 Senator Lindsey Graham

00:41:21.760 mentioned that Putin must

00:41:23.520 face trial in The Hague.

00:41:25.560 This is a notable

00:41:26.460 addition as well.

00:41:28.340 It's not a new addition,

00:41:29.900 but it's a notable

00:41:30.560 addition to the plan for

00:41:31.780 Russia of the West and the 0.89

00:41:33.140 neoconservatives because it

00:41:35.000 involves an element of

00:41:36.100 humiliation.

00:41:37.600 The idea is not to find

00:41:39.300 justice for Putin.

00:41:40.620 It is to humiliate him.

00:41:42.100 It is to further humiliate

00:41:43.520 Russia and to threaten him 0.88

00:41:44.700 with the kind of

00:41:45.320 humiliation that was

00:41:46.400 suffered by Saddam Hussein

00:41:47.820 and by Colonel Gaddafi.

00:41:50.120 The inclusion of an

00:41:52.100 element of humiliation

00:41:53.420 added to the element of

00:41:54.740 dehumanization should make

00:41:56.880 anyone morally suspect of

00:41:58.340 any conflict.

00:41:59.260 It's my personal opinion

00:42:00.500 that the addition of

00:42:01.540 hatred into any conflict

00:42:03.000 does not indemnify the

00:42:06.040 conflict, rather for the

00:42:07.940 reverse, it should make you

00:42:09.640 suspicious of its

00:42:10.640 motivations. 0.98

00:42:11.820 Where killing is necessary 0.98

00:42:13.220 and sometimes killing is

00:42:14.600 necessary, then there should

00:42:16.840 be no element of hatred.

00:42:18.460 There is no need for any

00:42:19.820 element of hatred

00:42:20.560 whatsoever.

00:42:21.600 Furthermore, I believe it

00:42:23.080 would make you less

00:42:23.640 effective in combat.

00:42:25.100 In single combat, hatred

00:42:26.540 tends to distract you.

00:42:28.600 In general military

00:42:29.600 engagement, it poisons the

00:42:31.480 mind beyond strategic

00:42:32.640 thinking.

00:42:33.640 There is no real place

00:42:34.700 for this kind of emotion

00:42:35.720 in a genuine conflict.

00:42:37.880 If the conflict is

00:42:38.760 genuine and just, there's

00:42:40.160 no reason to promote it.

00:42:42.200 Dehumanizing the enemy

00:42:43.140 and wishing to humiliate

00:42:44.780 them are suspicious

00:42:46.100 base motives which

00:42:47.720 should make us question

00:42:48.580 what is going on in the

00:42:49.920 first place.

00:42:50.840 This is not to say that

00:42:52.360 the Russians are innocent.

00:42:53.860 The Russians are not 1.00

00:42:54.680 innocent.

00:42:55.500 No one is innocent.

00:42:57.260 However, to dehumanize

00:42:58.940 people is itself hardly a

00:43:01.080 sign of innocence and to

00:43:02.620 attempt to whip up hatred

00:43:03.760 upon the basis of this

00:43:04.920 dehumanization is wickedness.

00:43:07.740 What is at stake here is

00:43:09.440 the cheap resources of the

00:43:10.820 Russians without Putin.

00:43:12.500 This was the goal of the

00:43:13.800 neoconservative war planners.

00:43:15.580 That's what they wanted.

00:43:17.020 The economic sanctions have

00:43:18.320 demonstrably backfired in a

00:43:20.120 way that would mean

00:43:20.760 tremendous loss of face for

00:43:22.220 the West.

00:43:23.000 However, they are more

00:43:24.500 concerned with that loss of

00:43:25.660 face than they are with you

00:43:26.920 losing your life.

00:43:28.360 The loss of our livelihoods,

00:43:29.700 the loss of our industry,

00:43:31.560 the loss of a better world

00:43:32.580 for our children.

00:43:34.140 These feature not at all in

00:43:35.700 the calculations of the

00:43:36.720 neoconservative death cult, 0.68

00:43:38.260 which has never been

00:43:39.440 habituated to facing the

00:43:40.880 consequences of their own

00:43:42.000 actions.

00:43:42.820 It is to be remembered that

00:43:44.180 none of these wars have been

00:43:45.700 won.

00:43:46.760 And in every single case,

00:43:48.220 the enemy has been left in a

00:43:49.840 better strategic position.

00:43:51.680 Not only has the United States

00:43:53.000 lost all its recent wars,

00:43:54.880 it has left the enemy better

00:43:56.400 armed and with stronger

00:43:57.920 allies and with a far

00:43:59.520 broader regional influence.

00:44:01.040 To consider the example of

00:44:02.700 Iran, for example, whose

00:44:04.100 aegis now extends far beyond

00:44:05.700 its own formerly isolated

00:44:06.920 nation, well into places such

00:44:09.200 as Yemen and even is reputed

00:44:11.380 to have some actors in Libya.

00:44:13.940 Libya was formerly one of the

00:44:15.280 most successful nations in

00:44:17.340 Africa, if not the most 0.99

00:44:18.700 successful nation, whose leader

00:44:20.800 Gaddafi controversially wished to

00:44:22.960 move off the euro and dollar

00:44:24.380 system, issuing his own Libyan

00:44:26.340 oil-backed gold diner to, and

00:44:29.440 I quote, wean Africa from 1.00

00:44:31.840 ruinous debt slavery.

00:44:34.140 Following this, of course, it

00:44:35.360 was decided that he had to go.

00:44:37.640 A coincidence, I'm sure, which

00:44:40.320 will be entertained by people

00:44:42.640 outside the reality-based

00:44:43.940 community.

00:44:45.020 As a member of the reality-based

00:44:46.540 community, I identify as sane.

00:44:49.560 I would argue that Colonel

00:44:50.940 Gaddafi's fate is not only

00:44:53.000 indicative of the motives

00:44:54.740 behind neoconservative

00:44:56.020 adventurism, which are

00:44:57.320 technocratic managerial

00:44:58.780 profiteering, but also they

00:45:01.200 indicate the moral nihilism of

00:45:03.780 the people behind these

00:45:05.060 actions.

00:45:06.220 They don't care the degree to 0.97

00:45:07.820 which they cause destruction

00:45:09.160 and death.

00:45:10.100 They do not care about the

00:45:11.540 echoing earthquake actions, the

00:45:14.100 earth-shattering consequences of

00:45:16.320 their destabilization of entire

00:45:17.980 regions.

00:45:19.060 What matters to them is their

00:45:20.400 own factional power and the

00:45:22.420 perpetuation of their own

00:45:24.000 peculiar ideology, which

00:45:26.000 effectively reduces to the idea

00:45:28.120 that war is an instrument of

00:45:29.580 civilization and that countries

00:45:31.480 can be turned into Sweden by

00:45:33.560 being bombed.

00:45:34.580 The difficulty with taking such

00:45:36.600 people seriously should be judged

00:45:38.720 in the World Economic Forum on the

00:45:40.960 basis of their record, but it is

00:45:43.100 not.

00:45:43.680 These wars have been tremendously

00:45:45.200 expensive, not just in human life,

00:45:47.180 but have effectively turned into a

00:45:49.240 bottomless pit for trillions of

00:45:50.900 dollars that will never, ever be

00:45:52.300 seen again.

00:45:53.500 Where the money goes is not

00:45:55.160 explained anywhere in our glorious

00:45:57.720 fourth estate.

00:45:58.960 Once CBS News stepped out of line

00:46:01.980 and broadcast a documentary that

00:46:04.660 detailed the fact that 60% of the

00:46:07.980 armaments sent to Ukraine had

00:46:09.820 disappeared, but there was no way of

00:46:11.940 knowing into whose hands they'd been

00:46:13.400 delivered, and an interview with an

00:46:15.920 arms dealer who was tasked with

00:46:17.880 distributing these arms said that

00:46:19.360 this was routine.

00:46:20.720 It wasn't extraordinary, that it was

00:46:22.760 a usual figure of around 30% of

00:46:25.780 arms that ever reached the

00:46:27.120 destination.

00:46:28.600 What the take-home there is for the

00:46:30.440 general public is that where these

00:46:32.140 conflicts occur, and large-scale

00:46:34.320 arms sales occur as a result, the

00:46:37.080 overwhelming majority of these arms

00:46:38.960 will not be going to the legitimate

00:46:41.100 combatants. 0.91

00:46:42.380 They will be going to the black 1.00

00:46:43.520 market.

00:46:43.940 It is my belief, unfortunate as it

00:46:46.480 is, that we will see an escalation in

00:46:49.060 the scale and effectiveness of

00:46:51.160 terrorist activity in Europe, following

00:46:53.540 its flooding, with an enormous number

00:46:55.820 of high-grade military weapons.

00:46:58.280 We are used to hearing about

00:46:59.680 scaremongering in the media about

00:47:01.480 military-grade weapons.

00:47:03.360 A javelin anti-tank system is a

00:47:05.840 military-grade weapon.

00:47:07.160 It doesn't just lock onto tanks.

00:47:08.900 It will lock onto a motorcycle or a

00:47:11.920 bus, anything made out of metal.

00:47:14.560 It can be operated by anyone who can

00:47:16.860 operate a PlayStation.

00:47:19.000 The javelin anti-tank missile is just

00:47:20.700 one example of extremely heavy weapons

00:47:23.920 which have been videoed and recorded

00:47:26.820 as being sold to criminals under shady

00:47:29.520 circumstances.

00:47:30.380 This, too, is unreported.

00:47:33.140 This is not just a black market of

00:47:35.600 enormous value, which should feature at the

00:47:38.400 World Economic Forum, but obviously a force

00:47:41.220 for destabilization, danger, and chaos.

00:47:44.340 Not every crisis that we experience in our

00:47:47.000 society of crisis management is a

00:47:49.540 confection of the technocratic

00:47:51.220 managerialists.

00:47:52.240 One tragedy of our age is that our

00:47:56.700 experience is so saturated in manufactured

00:48:00.380 crisis and panic that it is confusing,

00:48:03.740 if not impossible, to tell the real crisis

00:48:06.080 from the manufactured crisis.

00:48:08.560 There are real crises abroad, ones which

00:48:10.860 deserve our immediate attention.

00:48:13.440 One such crisis is this, of the notoriously

00:48:17.820 inefficient and corrupt sale of arms in

00:48:21.680 Ukraine.

00:48:22.780 Where have these arms gone?

00:48:24.120 Into whose hands have they been delivered?

00:48:26.540 Frankly, if you have the money, you could

00:48:28.540 have bought them.

00:48:29.420 This includes missiles that can shoot down

00:48:31.360 aircrafts, such as Stinger missiles, known

00:48:33.400 as MANPATs, shoulder-launched ordnance

00:48:36.100 that can take down an airliner at low altitude.

00:48:39.720 You can certainly shoot down any helicopter.

00:48:42.060 The idea that this is going to result in a

00:48:45.060 more stable, free, democratic Europe is

00:48:47.900 insane.

00:48:49.340 The people who do these things know this

00:48:51.560 beforehand, this is not an unpredictable

00:48:54.140 outcome.

00:48:55.140 This is a predictable outcome, such as the

00:48:57.400 outcome on European industry.

00:48:59.980 It can only be argued, therefore, that the

00:49:02.220 managers in control of this war faction have

00:49:05.300 factored this in and consider it irrelevant.

00:49:08.400 This is the same kind of indifference to the

00:49:14.200 democratic process and to the wishes and

00:49:16.340 welfare of the general public, as is

00:49:18.040 demonstrated by large-scale corporations such as

00:49:20.660 BlackRock itself.

00:49:21.720 In its assessments, it never mentions the fact

00:49:24.560 that many people across the world will be

00:49:26.800 vehemently opposed to the acceleration of net

00:49:29.060 zero policies.

00:49:30.240 It doesn't mention them because they're powerless

00:49:32.500 and irrelevant.

00:49:33.800 In BlackRock's eyes, they are simply an inconvenience

00:49:36.820 not worth mentioning.

00:49:38.240 That is because the democratic process is careful to

00:49:40.960 exclude people who have genuine political conviction, and so

00:49:45.040 therefore routinely publishes manifestos that pop up like red

00:49:49.480 and blue balloons in an election cycle, only to disappear

00:49:52.360 from sight, like a helium balloon released from a child's hand, like

00:49:56.540 a firework in the night.

00:49:57.960 They burn bright for a moment, and then they are gone.

00:50:01.240 And when the dawn comes, business as usual takes place once again.

00:50:05.940 Our system of politics is very much like that of a large-scale

00:50:10.040 bureaucratic organization, inasmuch as it selects against principle, it

00:50:15.080 selects against persons of character and ability, and it strongly

00:50:18.920 selects for components rather than character.

00:50:23.020 It selects for parts of a machine.

00:50:25.640 Can you make the machine function well?

00:50:27.940 Will you interrupt the functioning of the machine?

00:50:30.380 When you consider the mediocrities that are put forward as our world

00:50:33.480 leaders today, when you consider the Ardens and the Trudeaus and the

00:50:37.220 Bidens and the Sunaks, and you see that these people are in fact world 0.99

00:50:41.440 leaders, it's difficult not to disbelieve in them, or to disbelieve in

00:50:46.300 the very reality that puts them before you.

00:50:48.600 That is, the reason they are there is because they are mediocrities.

00:50:52.740 This is not a bug, but a feature.

00:50:55.760 Managerialism selects for this character type, selects for people who will

00:50:59.360 not disorder the machine, who will not be sand in the gears of the

00:51:03.260 operation.

00:51:03.820 Anything to do with principle, or flair, or personality, or if you like

00:51:09.600 conviction, having any beliefs, having anything other than a morally

00:51:14.220 nihilistic self-advancement behind yourself, having any substance

00:51:19.100 whatsoever is inconvenient.

00:51:20.900 It simply complicates the issue.

00:51:23.220 It means you're unreliable.

00:51:25.080 So what we have is a model of faceless efficiency that is actually, as I've

00:51:29.720 written elsewhere, post-human.

00:51:31.060 The future that's presented by these global bureaucracies is one which

00:51:34.940 deletes every meaningful aspect of the human dimension, from God through to

00:51:39.040 settled traditional ways of living, such as the family, to every meaningful

00:51:42.860 social bond.

00:51:43.880 In fact, technocracy, in terms of its ambition, does in fact seek to replace

00:51:48.940 everything with itself.

00:51:50.940 It is progress as degradation.

00:51:54.180 It is not just the degradation of the human spirit, but it is the material

00:51:57.680 degradation of your quality of life.

00:51:59.340 One of the remarkable occurrences at the World Economic Forum was its assault on

00:52:05.320 aesthetics generally.

00:52:06.860 It has produced this year.

00:52:08.560 If you don't care for any of the news about it, have a look at this song.

00:52:12.000 The only consolation about this offense against eye and ear is that the people who attended the

00:52:41.100 World Economic Forum had to listen to it, they'd been compelled to witness this

00:52:47.140 grotesque spectacle.

00:52:49.100 But in terms of it being an insight into the kind of people that go there, it kind of speaks

00:52:53.060 to the spirit of Davos.

00:52:55.120 I think nothing more effectively articulates the spirit of Davos than this

00:53:00.480 catawalling noise.

00:53:03.400 Given that the World Economic Forum appears to be no more than a shop window for formerly

00:53:09.020 influential people to sell themselves as a somewhat shop-soiled product, it's no surprise

00:53:15.180 then that haunted tree John Kerry made an appearance to tellers of the kind of person who still attends

00:53:20.400 the World Economic Forum.

00:53:21.620 John Kerry remarked in an unforgettable video, for all the wrong reasons, that the kind of

00:53:27.480 people who come together, in his words, to save the world at the World Economic Forum are

00:53:31.740 motivated by the fact that they've all been touched by aliens.

00:53:34.800 If you don't believe me, then do have a look at the following clip.

00:53:37.280 And when you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human

00:53:46.640 beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room

00:53:53.920 and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.

00:53:59.000 I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet. 0.95

00:54:05.040 And if you said that to most people, most people, they think you're just a crazy, tree-hugging, 0.80

00:54:09.460 lefty, liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever. 0.94

00:54:12.820 And there's no relationship.

00:54:14.500 But really, that's where we are.

00:54:18.280 Just a quick note before we return.

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00:54:40.680 And now, back to the video.

00:54:44.320 Much is made of the neoconservative war faction in the fact that they were initially Trotskyites.

00:54:49.940 If you go back far enough, most people were Trotskyites who get into politics.

00:54:55.260 In fact, people who get into politics are typically, on some level, weirdos.

00:55:00.520 So I think we know that it's really not fair to criticise them for having an abnormal obsession

00:55:07.080 with political doctrines.

00:55:10.160 Communism is basically a huge circle of backstabbers.

00:55:15.380 It's an endless purity spiral divided by shades of interpretation.

00:55:21.060 So inasmuch as it's a training ground for, shall we say, the ongoing assassination of Caesar

00:55:27.900 that is modern political economy, it isn't a remarkable development to come from a group

00:55:34.200 of arguing commies in a cafe.

00:55:36.760 Besides which, several of the original neoconservatives did in fact oppose the Vietnam War and weren't

00:55:44.540 associated with it at all.

00:55:45.820 Of the four initial names, only one of them survives to this day as the kind of the author

00:55:51.080 of the neoconservative war faction, and that would be Irving Kristol, William Kristol's dad.

00:55:57.760 William Kristol continues to spread his doctrine of democracy and superior values today, along

00:56:03.940 with people like Robert Kagan, Victoria Newland, who's his wife, the ever-sane Donald Rumsfeld,

00:56:11.140 who is unlikely to be kept awake at night by nightmares featuring world peace.

00:56:17.240 And this is a, this is a, the neoconservative doctrine has been inspired by an idea that

00:56:25.540 the liberal democratic tradition is the apex of history, that you cannot go beyond what

00:56:32.040 Fukuyama called in his book, The End of History, democracy plus VCRs.

00:56:36.640 Unfortunately for Fukuyama, he has been somewhat mischaracterized. 1.00

00:56:41.640 He isn't as stupid as that. 1.00

00:56:43.640 He isn't as stupid as his critics say he is. 1.00

00:56:46.200 He, I don't think he is a credible Hegelian. 1.00

00:56:50.020 I don't think his ideas stand up philosophically.

00:56:53.220 But then again, I don't have much time for that kind of talk either.

00:56:56.700 And it deserves to be mentioned that Irving Kristol himself disavowed his son,

00:57:01.840 William's simplified version of his own political thesis.

00:57:05.440 So he should be mentioned somewhat honorably for distancing himself from a rather crude

00:57:11.760 interpretation of what was a somewhat more refined system of ideas about how to go about

00:57:17.820 the business of promoting the values of the West.

00:57:20.820 What this has reduced to in the modern age is the idea, well, the idea of liberal intervention.

00:57:27.280 The neoconservatives themselves have presented this phrasing.

00:57:31.280 Robert Kagan has presented this phrasing himself as an alternative to the term neoconservative.

00:57:37.440 Neoconservative mouthpiece Max Boot, whose presence, omnipresence, if you like, in the media,

00:57:43.040 is inexplicable from the point of view of talent, has argued that the neoconservative label is now toxic,

00:57:50.100 and so he'd prefer to be called a liberal interventionist.

00:57:52.840 You know, what happens when disasters like this take place that you're held responsible

00:57:57.700 for the awful consequences of your misguided ideas?

00:58:01.820 Simply rebrand them, make them sound nice, and then everyone will go along happily.

00:58:07.260 Liberal intervention was a term favoured by Tony Blair to talk about his military adventures as well

00:58:12.580 in Sierra Leone and in Iraq, because the idea encapsulates very much some of the core principles

00:58:19.160 of the neoconservative movement. We are the people who will decide what is best in the world,

00:58:24.520 we are what is best in the world, and we will do what we want with the world.

00:58:28.700 If we designate you as a terrorist, if we demonise you sufficiently in the eyes of the world,

00:58:34.440 then we can destroy your country and plunder it, and ignore your sovereignty, and then call it justice. 0.84

00:58:40.180 It is a far worse crime than the initial Roman taunt of they make a desert and call it peace. 0.83

00:58:46.280 At least the desert is peaceful. What's left in the wake of neoconservative action is anarchy.

00:58:52.400 Libya, which is one of the most successful countries, I would say, in the world, never mind in Africa,

00:58:57.600 is another kind of place where you can have someone executed for $40, you can buy people for less than this,

00:59:03.320 and you can see people being killed extrajudicially in car parks.

00:59:07.420 It is an horrific place that has been torn apart by the kind of factualism that Gaddafi simply didn't tolerate.

00:59:13.160 Meanwhile, his society enjoyed 96% literacy.

00:59:18.400 Women went around without veils. It was a very, very prosperous place.

00:59:22.300 He was turning the desert green in places through hydration and irrigation projects.

00:59:28.580 I think that his society was advanced to the degree that it offended the West,

00:59:32.700 because he'd done this without the debt-based development loans,

00:59:35.620 which ensnare so many African countries into an inescapable spiral of usurious indenture. 0.95

00:59:43.760 It is curious that so much is made of the grievances over slavery,

00:59:49.380 when the economic model of the West is to do just that to the so-called free nations of Africa.

00:59:55.020 This is an outrage, of course, and it also helps to explain why so many countries, 0.99

01:00:01.020 so abundant in resources, so desperately poor to this day.

01:00:04.560 What's broadly known as neoliberalism is not neoconservatism.

01:00:07.820 Neoliberalism is a series of economic measures,

01:00:10.980 and neoliberalism, like neoconservatism, is simply a portmanteau term for a system of ideas

01:00:15.600 that would be seen as objectionable by anyone with an ounce of common sense.

01:00:19.780 Neoliberalism presents itself usually as a model of rationalized economic reform.

01:00:25.560 Again, the term rationalized is advised because it sounds like science,

01:00:29.980 and if you disagree with it, it implies that you are irrational.

01:00:32.920 What neoliberalism amounts to is the deregulation of markets,

01:00:37.300 the removal of any kind of protective measures within a society that might provide for you

01:00:41.460 to have a decent standard of living, a decent wage,

01:00:44.560 that might provide for investment funds that guarantee the provision of public services.

01:00:50.060 These deregulations that neoliberalism demands amount to asset stripping.

01:00:55.460 Neoliberalism is a nice way of plundering countries and calling it progress.

01:00:59.540 Neoconservatism, on the other hand, has very little to do directly with economics.

01:01:04.820 It is a foreign policy stance which says that the West is superior not only morally,

01:01:10.640 but has achieved the end of history, or is rather the pinnacle of human development.

01:01:16.160 That there is no other system that will ever be superior or can ever match

01:01:19.900 that of elections plus consumerism.

01:01:21.540 That is basically the liberal idea with a capital L that underpins the neoconservative self-justification.

01:01:29.580 Given that if you understand that these people genuinely do advance the idea

01:01:33.900 that their ideas and their system is the pinnacle of human moral and political achievement,

01:01:41.560 this is what gives them the justification to destroy countries that deviate from this model.

01:01:45.580 That is the project of neoconservatism.

01:01:47.720 The idea that the liberal idea is inviolable and that it is somehow the acme of human development

01:01:55.100 is itself comprehensively undermined by the kind of technocratic managers that run the West.

01:02:00.900 It is arguable, and it's an argument that I favour myself,

01:02:04.660 that liberalism has in fact come to an end.

01:02:07.280 If you would like a technical point of view to undermine the argument for neoconservatism,

01:02:11.660 aside from the smoking ruins made of former nations that they've left in piles of rubble 0.96

01:02:16.820 around the world, then look at the end of liberalism for an argument.

01:02:20.360 Patrick Deneen's book from the University of Chicago, Why Liberalism Failed,

01:02:24.820 is an excellent testament to the fact that the liberal era is at an end.

01:02:29.340 One of the reasons it's at an end, it was accelerated by COVID, of course,

01:02:33.220 is that no one speaks of the free world anymore.

01:02:36.780 Because the freedom of conscience, the freedom of expression,

01:02:40.120 the freedom of movement, the freedom from coercion,

01:02:44.140 many freedoms which we took to be indivisible from our experience of being alive in the West

01:02:50.000 have simply vanished.

01:02:51.360 They've not been suspended.

01:02:53.440 If they can be suspended as they were, they've gone.

01:02:56.820 They're no longer fundamental.

01:02:58.740 This has attracted very little attention in the mainstream media.

01:03:03.600 And this is an issue which strikes at the heart of who we think we are.

01:03:07.380 My contention, therefore, is that our democracies are no longer liberal with a big L. 1.00

01:03:14.680 Big L liberalism relies upon the rights of the individual.

01:03:18.660 The freedom from, as it were, intervention from the state and the sphere of the individual.

01:03:24.220 So conscience, opinion, association, movement, belief.

01:03:29.400 Furthermore, the individual rights to property ownership.

01:03:32.260 These individual rights are no longer enshrined in practice in the West.

01:03:38.940 It has lost its moral legitimacy.

01:03:41.720 There was a Jewish thinker in Britain called Sir Isaiah Berlin,

01:03:46.360 who was perhaps the most illustrious defender of the liberal tradition ever to have lived.

01:03:51.560 Almost, I would say, superior in his ability to communicate,

01:03:54.760 at least, than John Stuart Mill, who was the author of On Liberty.

01:03:57.260 What Isaiah Berlin said was that the reason for the moral supremacy of the West was pluralism.

01:04:06.180 Simply put, in the West, as against Soviet communism at the time,

01:04:11.600 you had societies which prided themselves on their ability to tolerate different ideas,

01:04:18.080 their capacity to entertain contradictory notions yet contained within the same society.

01:04:24.240 This is no longer true of the West.

01:04:25.860 What the West is now is a better marketed, technocratic version of the one-dimensional society

01:04:33.100 into which everything is collapsing.

01:04:35.240 If you look very closely at some phenomena such as cancel culture,

01:04:39.540 you can see that the real project isn't just the removal of a statue or the baudelarizing of a book

01:04:44.700 or the destruction of anything that connects people to a history beyond the last TikTok video they saw.

01:04:50.600 Cancel culture aims to cancel all of culture, not just some of it.

01:04:54.220 That's its aim. That's not an accident. It's not a side effect.

01:04:58.740 Everything that's meaningful about the human condition,

01:05:02.000 not just what's contained in culture, but in human-scale relations,

01:05:06.600 is inimical to the technocratic model of an efficient managerial society

01:05:11.720 informed by advancement in machinery and in computing.

01:05:15.400 That's what technocratic managerialism is.

01:05:18.700 It's simply the dreams of managers, as laid out in Joseph Burnham's 1941 book,

01:05:23.540 The Managerial Revolution, altered by rapid advances in computing power.

01:05:29.640 There was a French thinker, forgive me for mentioning this,

01:05:33.200 because it's always problematic to talk about intellectuals,

01:05:36.400 but Jacques Ellul deserves a mention, because he wrote a book called La Technique,

01:05:41.060 or The Technological Society, in which he mentions some of the dangers

01:05:45.000 of our increasing reliance upon this.

01:05:47.420 Now, again, you know, to speak of another Frenchman,

01:05:50.520 Jean-Paul Sartre once remarked in one of his books

01:05:53.360 that the result of the working class being exposed

01:05:57.820 to increasing levels of intrusive technology

01:06:01.040 was that their very dreams would be dominated by machines.

01:06:05.000 In fact, he wrote a passage in which he spoke about a housemaid,

01:06:08.340 and he said, even when she dreamed, she dreamed of the machine.

01:06:12.740 The point is, is that the accelerating integration of human identity

01:06:17.840 with technology is not augmenting our human experience.

01:06:22.320 It is altering it.

01:06:23.500 In fact, it's dissolving it into pixels, if you like.

01:06:26.500 People are becoming a function of the technology they use,

01:06:29.360 rather than having it serve their own needs.

01:06:32.500 This mirrors exactly what's happened with managerialism,

01:06:35.720 which was invented initially as an instrument of mankind,

01:06:39.420 but which has made mankind its own tool.

01:06:42.180 The technology that informs managerialism is a technology

01:06:45.400 that is altering the human dimension

01:06:47.300 and collapsing it into one dimension from many.

01:06:51.160 This is the nightmare vision of the technocratic future,

01:06:54.660 and it's one that's represented not just by large-scale bureaucracies,

01:06:58.360 such as the failing and happily failing World Economic Forum,

01:07:02.560 but by the people who genuinely do run the world,

01:07:05.500 people who have preferred to remain in the shadows until now,

01:07:08.660 people like BlackRock and people like Vanguard.

01:07:11.960 Now, hopefully, having moved into the light,

01:07:16.220 it is very unlikely, in my view,

01:07:18.280 that they will be able to survive this exposure,

01:07:20.620 because they have, like the neoconservatives,

01:07:22.360 neoconservatives, like many of the technocrats that rule us,

01:07:26.100 they have rather haughtily dismissed the matter of public opinion

01:07:30.800 as an irrelevance.

01:07:32.340 I don't think it will remain irrelevant for long.

01:07:34.800 People are beginning to understand what these ideas mean

01:07:37.100 when they come together,

01:07:38.120 which shows the enormously hearty example of the Dutch farmers.

01:07:43.200 Last year, they didn't exist as a political force,

01:07:46.020 but as a result of the World Economic Forum-inspired measure

01:07:49.640 to close down thousands of their farms,

01:07:52.420 destroying the world's second greatest exporter of food,

01:07:57.060 and therefore destabilising the world food market,

01:07:59.440 as well as removing the livelihoods and land by force

01:08:03.220 of much of the Dutch farming sector.

01:08:05.880 Because these people had human-scale relationships that still existed,

01:08:10.380 because they had strong communities that exist outside the digital world,

01:08:14.240 they managed to build very quickly a formidable political

01:08:18.560 and demonstration-fuelled opposition movement,

01:08:23.460 which has moved into second or even first place in Dutch politics.

01:08:27.720 In several months' time, there will be an election in Holland,

01:08:30.540 which they're expected to win.

01:08:32.080 They're at least expected to win in a sense

01:08:34.680 that they'll have a controlling interest in the new government.

01:08:37.380 They may even come first.

01:08:39.400 So there is hope for us all.

01:08:41.220 These projects that these people have for us

01:08:42.960 are not unstoppable,

01:08:44.900 and the fact that they do produce instability

01:08:47.500 does not work in their favour.

01:08:50.220 The policies of the World Economic Forum's chief stakeholders

01:08:53.260 probably explain their absence

01:08:55.440 from the World Economic Forum's meeting,

01:08:57.900 because it would be profoundly embarrassing for them to turn up

01:09:01.000 in a meeting that is ostensibly devoted to naming

01:09:04.220 and shaping the future masters of the world.

01:09:06.920 These so-called masters have made a terrible mess of the contemporary world,

01:09:11.740 and it is perhaps for this reason that they're absent from their showcase,

01:09:15.600 because what they have to sell at isn't particularly appealing anymore.

01:09:19.780 To be honest, the message of reality is breaking through the propaganda machine.

01:09:24.560 It is an unwelcome message,

01:09:26.280 but it is one whose unwelcome nature is necessary to the degree in which it's true

01:09:30.960 in order to awaken people to the reality of this crisis,

01:09:34.640 as against the unreality of every other one,

01:09:37.140 which has been used as an instrument to mould you to the will of your would-be masters.

01:09:41.420 It certainly seems like the agenda is to deindustrialise,

01:09:46.100 to basically, it's a false plan.

01:09:50.380 There will be no service economy when you have no funds to keep it going.

01:09:56.840 So that's a Fig Newton of someone's imagination.

01:10:00.720 What's the real plan?

01:10:02.400 The problem with Russia, if we ignore the dimension of dehumanisation, 0.89

01:10:06.520 if we ignore the simple characterisation of Putin as Hitler,

01:10:10.420 or Putler, as he's been cleverly known,

01:10:13.960 it is enough, by the way, to be anathemised these days,

01:10:17.260 to simply refuse to agree to who is the current Hitler.

01:10:21.520 I'm not saying that there might not be a current Hitler. 0.99

01:10:24.280 I'm just saying that I don't think Putin is Hitler,

01:10:27.320 and to say that is bad enough.

01:10:29.840 I mean, there may be a mysterious Hitler lurking somewhere around Hitler's him, 0.92

01:10:33.000 but I don't think Hitlerising current hate figures

01:10:36.540 really helps us to explain the diplomatic picture.

01:10:39.420 And the fact that we have to resort to these documentary-based,

01:10:43.480 cheesy documentary-based characterisations of world affairs

01:10:46.900 shows how disturbingly close our interpretation of world events is

01:10:51.240 to some third-rate Netflix series.

01:10:53.840 If we want to turn off the trash TV,

01:10:57.080 and it is an endless stream of Baudelaire's tropes,

01:11:01.020 what we could do is turn back to the remarks

01:11:03.560 of Secretary of State James Baker and George Herbert Walker Bush,

01:11:08.160 who did guarantee to the Russians that NATO would not move 1H eastwards.

01:11:12.540 This was formally dismissed as a Russian conspiracy theory,

01:11:15.660 but in recently declassified documents,

01:11:17.780 it's been shown that conversations between French leaders,

01:11:21.760 the French leader, German leaders, European leaders,

01:11:25.040 Gorbachev and the American government,

01:11:26.980 In fact, private communiques between members of NATO

01:11:30.320 and military and diplomatic communiques

01:11:32.820 all demonstrate that at the same time

01:11:35.220 that Baker did make these assurances to the Soviets,

01:11:38.220 he was planning for the future absorption

01:11:39.860 of 10 former Warsaw Pact states into NATO

01:11:43.020 in a march eastwards that would bring them up

01:11:45.420 close against Russia's borders.

01:11:47.840 This is a bizarre situation to find yourself in

01:11:51.320 if you are the Russians.

01:11:52.460 The Russians also received assurances about military bases

01:11:56.520 and military stations in East Germany,

01:11:59.420 which again was instrumental to the agreement of Gorbachev

01:12:03.000 to German reunification.

01:12:04.960 The Soviets wouldn't have agreed to German reunification,

01:12:07.760 to the fall of the Berlin Wall

01:12:09.180 and the peaceful transition of power to the West,

01:12:12.880 had they not received these assurances

01:12:14.560 that were then comprehensively overturned.

01:12:16.620 This is not the only instance

01:12:18.760 of this unfortunate circumstance.

01:12:20.580 It is also to be remembered

01:12:22.440 that the Soviets surrendered power peacefully.

01:12:25.540 There could have been an enormous bloodbath

01:12:27.820 on a massive scale.

01:12:29.540 There could have been a vicious attempt

01:12:31.560 to oppose the relinquishing of power.

01:12:35.020 But there wasn't.

01:12:36.280 This was an extremely controversial move

01:12:38.320 in the Soviet Union at the time.

01:12:40.340 But nonetheless, it was undertaken in good faith

01:12:42.880 and it was a gesture of goodwill.

01:12:44.780 It's my contention that the Russians at the time

01:12:46.980 did believe that a new order could be founded

01:12:50.820 that was a cooperative and collaborative one

01:12:53.400 with the West, in which the Russians found 0.68

01:12:56.300 a new position in the world.

01:12:58.340 Unfortunately, their assurances were never made

01:13:01.740 in good faith.

01:13:02.640 The assurances made under George Herbert Walker Bush

01:13:05.820 were simply not sincere.

01:13:08.020 The Russians found this out much sooner than we did.

01:13:10.940 These communicators have only come out

01:13:12.940 the last year or so, I think.

01:13:14.820 However, they have been debunked

01:13:16.800 in the Western media as mere conspiracy theories.

01:13:20.260 So the theme of the humiliation of the Russians 0.97

01:13:23.000 through negotiations that were undertaken

01:13:25.960 in bad faith,

01:13:27.500 the Russians were told lies in short.

01:13:30.320 Where else were they told lies?

01:13:31.840 They were told lies about the expansion of NATO.

01:13:34.420 NATO was making plans to expand eastward.

01:13:37.100 The Russians were told it would never expand

01:13:38.920 an inch eastward.

01:13:40.160 This was then called a conspiracy theory

01:13:42.300 and Russian propaganda,

01:13:44.000 yet the diplomatic communiques

01:13:45.680 and the press records tell a different story.

01:13:49.140 In addition to this,

01:13:50.240 over the current war,

01:13:52.540 which for the Russians began in 2014

01:13:54.760 following the cessation of parts of the Donbass region

01:13:57.720 by a rebel group establishing itself

01:14:00.280 as Novorossia, or New Russia.

01:14:03.880 The Russians entered this war in 2015 and ended it.

01:14:06.840 They encircled the large force of the Ukrainian army

01:14:11.120 in the infamous devouts of a kotler or kettle,

01:14:14.920 an encirclement manoeuvre,

01:14:16.500 which effectively ended the Ukraine's hopes

01:14:19.540 of any meaningful military operations.

01:14:22.240 Following this,

01:14:23.120 an agreement was found at a first meeting

01:14:26.420 in, I think, 2014, 2015.

01:14:29.220 Sorry.

01:14:29.840 The first Minsk agreement took place in 2015.

01:14:32.700 The second in 2017,

01:14:34.220 when the first had failed to be implemented.

01:14:37.560 After the failure to implement

01:14:38.860 the second Minsk agreement,

01:14:41.000 another round of negotiations was undertaken,

01:14:43.340 again between Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia.

01:14:48.420 In a video which is remarkable to see to this day

01:14:51.500 and has only emerged in the last month,

01:14:53.680 President Zelensky can be seen laughing in Putin's face

01:14:57.000 when he reads out a list

01:14:58.760 of non-implemented conditions for the Minsk agreement.

01:15:03.260 Putin's contention is that France and Germany,

01:15:05.820 who acted as guarantors to these agreements,

01:15:08.560 were compelled by having signed them

01:15:10.360 to ensuring Ukraine's compliance

01:15:12.640 with this 10-point peace plan,

01:15:14.720 none of which they observed.

01:15:16.540 That was Putin's grievance with the Minsk agreements,

01:15:19.600 saying that if we could return to them

01:15:21.340 and implement them,

01:15:22.360 we could end the war.

01:15:23.420 This is a repeated overture from the Russians 1.00

01:15:26.960 that they made in 2015,

01:15:28.980 2017,

01:15:29.900 and again in 2019.

01:15:31.600 The last time they did it,

01:15:32.820 Zelensky sat there and laughed in Putin's face.

01:15:35.920 He did this not just because he is

01:15:38.260 a professional entertainer

01:15:40.480 and, well, a comedian of some repute,

01:15:43.260 but also because he secretly knew

01:15:45.320 that the negotiations were meaningless.

01:15:47.620 In a remarkable admission,

01:15:50.740 former Ukrainian President Poroshenko

01:15:52.680 said last June

01:15:53.620 that the Minsk agreements were undertaken

01:15:56.160 simply to allow Ukraine to rearm.

01:15:59.260 No one takes much notice of Poroshenko these days,

01:16:02.320 so it was with tremendous shock

01:16:04.000 that people received the remarks

01:16:05.620 of Angela Merkel,

01:16:07.520 who said in November

01:16:08.880 that that was true,

01:16:10.700 that the Minsk agreements

01:16:11.700 were simply undertaken

01:16:12.740 for the West to buy time

01:16:13.960 to rearm Ukraine,

01:16:15.220 whose army was devastated.

01:16:16.440 By 2021,

01:16:18.380 they had done so

01:16:19.120 and created perhaps

01:16:19.940 the strongest land army in Europe,

01:16:22.500 with an immensely well-fortified

01:16:24.540 and well-armored

01:16:25.480 and well-trained organization

01:16:27.020 that bore no resemblance

01:16:28.520 to the one that the Russians 0.89

01:16:29.460 had defeated in 2015.

01:16:32.020 This was the reason

01:16:32.820 for the Minsk agreements.

01:16:34.440 The Russians' contention, therefore,

01:16:36.920 that they have been humiliated

01:16:38.200 and lied to

01:16:39.020 by the pretense

01:16:40.200 of diplomatic procedures

01:16:41.380 in the West is true. 0.68

01:16:43.660 The Russians have been left 1.00

01:16:45.040 with no recourse.

01:16:45.980 They aren't taken seriously

01:16:47.380 when they come with peace proposals.

01:16:49.760 They're characterized as aggressors

01:16:51.400 when they go in

01:16:52.480 to ostensibly defend

01:16:53.720 their own Russian-speaking population

01:16:55.460 as a result

01:16:56.400 of the profound diplomatic failures

01:16:59.160 of the West

01:16:59.720 that was never interested in peace

01:17:01.840 and that proposed negotiations

01:17:04.080 only as preparations

01:17:05.360 for a far bloodier war

01:17:07.300 on a much greater scale

01:17:08.960 than that already taking place.

01:17:10.520 What are we looking at

01:17:11.960 in terms of timeline here?

01:17:14.340 This is going to play out

01:17:15.500 over 2023.

01:17:17.260 The escalation policy

01:17:18.560 that we now see,

01:17:20.020 that we see this week

01:17:21.080 playing out

01:17:21.700 of the drama

01:17:22.720 of the supply

01:17:23.420 of yet more armor

01:17:24.480 and tanks to Ukraine,

01:17:26.120 the escalation policy

01:17:27.420 that is so loudly

01:17:29.520 resounding

01:17:30.960 around the Western media

01:17:32.580 did not begin

01:17:33.820 with this war,

01:17:35.120 but it began in 2015

01:17:37.160 when NATO,

01:17:38.880 the US and the West

01:17:39.820 decided to rearm Ukraine

01:17:41.500 on a massive scale

01:17:42.740 in order to escalate the war

01:17:44.940 beyond any meaningful dimension

01:17:47.960 that it had formerly undertaken.

01:17:50.520 The war was a small-scale

01:17:52.040 regional conflict

01:17:53.020 at that time.

01:17:54.380 Its dimensions now

01:17:55.480 include the possibility

01:17:56.560 of escalation

01:17:57.300 to a nuclear exchange,

01:17:58.660 which in my opinion

01:17:59.560 is the only meaningful way

01:18:02.440 in which NATO

01:18:03.320 can stop the Russian campaign.

01:18:05.160 Even if the Ukrainians 1.00

01:18:06.180 do receive

01:18:06.740 300 or 400 modern tanks,

01:18:08.500 I don't think

01:18:08.940 it will make

01:18:09.260 any meaningful difference.

01:18:10.500 The Ukrainians 0.94

01:18:11.020 have reportedly

01:18:11.540 put 18,000 troops

01:18:12.820 on the Belarusian border,

01:18:14.580 wherewith the Russians 0.99

01:18:15.260 are reputed to have

01:18:15.980 some in the region

01:18:16.580 of 100,000.

01:18:18.100 Russia is not 0.99

01:18:18.860 running out of men.

01:18:20.720 Russia has the industrial

01:18:21.700 supply chains

01:18:22.540 and resources

01:18:23.120 to continue the manufacture

01:18:24.880 and logistical chains

01:18:26.040 necessary

01:18:26.620 for large-scale warfare.

01:18:28.160 It is arguable

01:18:29.400 that we do not

01:18:30.060 in the West.

01:18:31.020 Tony Blair himself,

01:18:32.300 notable peacenik

01:18:33.620 and anti-war campaigner

01:18:35.760 Tony Blair,

01:18:36.800 last November

01:18:37.380 remarked that the West

01:18:38.360 for the first time

01:18:39.140 in modern history

01:18:39.780 no longer possesses

01:18:40.880 the resources

01:18:41.520 or the industrial base

01:18:43.240 to sustain itself.

01:18:45.160 It's my contention

01:18:46.020 that the West

01:18:46.500 does not have

01:18:47.260 the industrial base

01:18:48.240 to sustain

01:18:49.080 a large-scale

01:18:49.920 campaign of warfare.

01:18:51.500 And for this reason

01:18:52.260 you find the United States

01:18:53.440 going to Israel

01:18:54.300 and South Korea

01:18:55.440 to retrieve the missiles

01:18:57.020 that it sold them

01:18:57.720 in the past.

01:18:58.400 Sorry,

01:18:58.680 the artillery shells

01:18:59.560 that it sold them

01:19:00.200 in the past

01:19:00.640 because it doesn't have

01:19:02.560 the capacity

01:19:02.960 to replenish

01:19:03.560 its own inventory

01:19:04.380 rapidly enough

01:19:05.520 to keep supplying Ukraine.

01:19:06.900 Whilst I was researching

01:19:07.920 the Russian claim

01:19:09.220 to have been lied to

01:19:10.560 and humiliated

01:19:11.660 by a diplomatic strategy

01:19:14.220 of deception

01:19:15.060 whilst preparing

01:19:16.200 for war

01:19:16.820 by the West,

01:19:18.240 I discovered

01:19:18.760 an article

01:19:19.960 in a publication

01:19:21.620 called

01:19:21.920 War on the Rocks

01:19:22.960 which reframed

01:19:24.000 the Afghan debatler

01:19:25.200 as a sandbox

01:19:27.340 for the coming war

01:19:28.520 with China,

01:19:30.040 it would appear,

01:19:31.160 especially when we look back

01:19:32.780 at Mike Pompeo's

01:19:33.960 Three Lighthouses speech,

01:19:35.860 that Russia is simply 0.80

01:19:36.780 a staging post

01:19:37.660 towards the big one,

01:19:38.800 which is a war

01:19:39.460 against China.

01:19:40.400 As insane as that sounds,

01:19:42.820 there is mounting evidence

01:19:43.980 in articles and speeches

01:19:45.400 from the war faction

01:19:46.480 to suggest that

01:19:47.380 this is the case,

01:19:48.340 that the genuine project

01:19:49.540 at hand is not

01:19:50.360 the toppling of Russia, 0.77

01:19:52.080 but that of China.

01:19:53.560 This is the real prize

01:19:54.700 on the table, apparently.

01:19:56.400 Some people argue

01:19:57.160 that the Russian collapse

01:19:58.860 would be simply

01:19:59.680 a staging post

01:20:00.600 to better mount

01:20:01.500 a campaign against China.

01:20:03.600 Mike Pompeo

01:20:04.340 gave a speech last year

01:20:05.660 called

01:20:05.920 the Three Lighthouses speech.

01:20:08.020 It was a speech

01:20:08.760 that you can take

01:20:10.160 if you are unfortunately

01:20:11.720 interested in this kind of thing,

01:20:13.840 you can see that

01:20:14.580 it's a landmark

01:20:15.320 in foreign affairs.

01:20:17.460 It's the kind of thing

01:20:18.380 that sets out

01:20:19.220 strategic policy

01:20:20.820 for a government

01:20:21.880 in the coming years.

01:20:23.580 And the three lighthouses

01:20:24.620 to which he refers

01:20:25.760 are, of course,

01:20:26.860 Iran, Russia, and China.

01:20:29.620 Pompeo's speech

01:20:30.440 is a decidedly

01:20:31.700 neoconservative manifesto

01:20:33.380 for an escalation

01:20:34.460 of overseas interventions

01:20:36.260 rather than a retreat.

01:20:38.120 It is an unapologetic call

01:20:40.540 for an increase

01:20:42.320 in military spending

01:20:43.280 to dominate these countries

01:20:45.100 before they become

01:20:45.960 indomitable.

01:20:47.340 The fear for people

01:20:49.040 like Mike Pompeo

01:20:50.180 is that other nations

01:20:51.260 might simply exist

01:20:52.600 that aren't in his grip.

01:20:54.080 This is the neoconservative dream

01:20:56.160 to achieve global supremacy.

01:20:58.780 The former think tank,

01:21:00.080 which was the umbrella group

01:21:02.260 for the neoconservatives

01:21:03.140 in the United States,

01:21:04.060 used to be called

01:21:04.620 the Project for a New American Century,

01:21:06.900 and expressly avowed

01:21:09.220 an anti-Chinese policy

01:21:11.020 since its inception

01:21:12.260 in the 90s.

01:21:13.220 It's not a new idea

01:21:15.460 in these circles

01:21:16.760 that China must be challenged 0.98

01:21:18.480 and China must be defeated. 0.70

01:21:20.400 And I think it's for this reason

01:21:21.480 that we see a renewed round

01:21:23.060 of anti-Chinese articles

01:21:24.860 in the press.

01:21:25.740 Again, China isn't a paradise, 0.60

01:21:27.700 and I'm glad I don't live there,

01:21:29.640 but I've known people who have.

01:21:31.420 It isn't, by the same token,

01:21:34.600 a uniform hellhole either.

01:21:37.180 In fact, a lot of Chinese technology,

01:21:39.860 especially in the major cities,

01:21:41.160 would be simply embarrassing

01:21:42.520 to be seen by a resident

01:21:44.160 of London, for example,

01:21:45.860 because against the obvious

01:21:47.540 and seemingly unarrestable decline

01:21:49.680 of much of Europe,

01:21:51.600 many of the Chinese cities

01:21:52.660 appear to be something

01:21:53.400 out of some kind

01:21:54.040 of science fiction film.

01:21:55.220 I mean, I don't want to live

01:21:56.540 in a science fiction film.

01:21:57.740 I think it's nightmarish.

01:21:59.180 But nonetheless,

01:22:00.160 it is rather sobering

01:22:01.700 to see what they've been up to

01:22:02.920 in terms of their development.

01:22:04.120 Secondly, I'm not convinced

01:22:05.380 that the Chinese themselves

01:22:06.780 are interested in full-scale

01:22:09.040 global warfare,

01:22:11.480 because one of the problems

01:22:13.480 cited by this article

01:22:14.900 in War on the Rocks

01:22:15.860 was that the Chinese,

01:22:17.520 unfortunately for them,

01:22:19.100 are pursuing a frustrating

01:22:21.020 no-war policy.

01:22:23.400 This is very upsetting

01:22:24.960 to the neoconservatives,

01:22:26.180 and they must be provoked

01:22:27.220 out of this no-war policy,

01:22:29.140 because what the neoconservatives

01:22:30.740 find disturbing

01:22:31.520 is the absence

01:22:32.360 of a bellicose posture

01:22:34.140 from the Chinese,

01:22:35.300 who they say much prefer

01:22:36.460 to build trade networks

01:22:37.900 and influence through prosperity.

01:22:40.520 Now, I think that's a true

01:22:42.420 and accurate picture

01:22:43.520 of the Chinese engagement

01:22:45.160 with the wider world.

01:22:46.860 But from the neoconservative

01:22:48.360 point of view,

01:22:49.400 it's deeply unfortunate.

01:22:50.800 And so something must be done

01:22:51.980 to shift the Chinese 1.00

01:22:53.100 into a more warlike stance

01:22:55.460 in order to justify

01:22:56.880 the coming assault.

01:22:58.600 I think this helps us

01:23:00.160 to understand why moves

01:23:01.820 are made in the summer

01:23:02.640 to antagonize the Chinese 0.99

01:23:04.260 over Taiwan.

01:23:04.920 Now, it might not be

01:23:07.040 common knowledge

01:23:08.420 amongst the listeners

01:23:09.560 and viewers,

01:23:10.400 but Taiwan's government

01:23:12.180 actually claims dominance

01:23:13.720 over the entirety

01:23:14.700 of mainland China.

01:23:16.920 It is a zero-sum game.

01:23:19.140 Either the government

01:23:20.040 in Beijing

01:23:21.040 is the government

01:23:22.180 of China and Taiwan,

01:23:23.960 or the government

01:23:24.720 of the tiny island

01:23:25.660 of Taiwan

01:23:26.240 is the legitimate government

01:23:28.060 of the whole of China.

01:23:30.060 This is never mentioned

01:23:31.240 when Taiwan is mentioned

01:23:32.620 in the news

01:23:33.340 because Taiwan's

01:23:34.580 the source of 98%

01:23:36.280 of the world's semiconductors,

01:23:38.140 and no one can afford

01:23:39.100 to upset them.

01:23:40.560 But the actual fact

01:23:42.160 of the matter

01:23:42.680 is that both parties

01:23:44.420 claim ownership

01:23:45.380 of each other's territory.

01:23:47.400 One of them

01:23:47.820 is very, very big,

01:23:49.600 and the other one isn't.

01:23:51.360 Furthermore,

01:23:52.160 one of them

01:23:52.840 is very, very close

01:23:54.660 to China,

01:23:56.160 and the United States

01:23:57.680 isn't.

01:23:59.680 The Chinese have missiles, 1.00

01:24:01.040 by the way,

01:24:01.720 that most people

01:24:02.920 would agree

01:24:03.400 can sink the US Navy

01:24:04.860 if they get within

01:24:05.680 several hundred miles

01:24:06.760 of Taiwan,

01:24:08.020 and that includes

01:24:08.740 the carrier fleets as well.

01:24:11.660 It's to be remembered,

01:24:12.900 of course,

01:24:13.340 that the whole system

01:24:14.260 of globalisation,

01:24:16.020 that the transmission

01:24:16.800 of cheap goods

01:24:17.900 across the world,

01:24:18.520 including Chinese goods,

01:24:20.200 which we increasingly rely on

01:24:21.940 to console ourselves

01:24:23.260 in our dissolving

01:24:24.840 social nightmare existence,

01:24:27.420 we can't fuel

01:24:28.400 our consumer addictions

01:24:29.840 without cheap

01:24:30.880 Chinese manufacturing.

01:24:32.820 But this manufacturing

01:24:33.820 and everybody else's,

01:24:35.040 it's still guaranteed

01:24:36.080 by the dominance

01:24:37.340 of the US Navy.

01:24:39.660 Most people overlook

01:24:40.600 the fact

01:24:41.100 that the United States Navy

01:24:42.520 is effectively

01:24:43.340 the military wing

01:24:44.360 of globalisation,

01:24:45.540 without which

01:24:46.120 global trade

01:24:47.100 wouldn't simply function

01:24:48.860 in the way that it does.

01:24:50.160 It wouldn't be

01:24:50.680 as efficient,

01:24:51.660 cheap,

01:24:52.200 and predictable.

01:24:53.400 So the United States Navy

01:24:54.620 is in effect

01:24:55.540 a subsidised

01:24:57.120 by the United States

01:24:58.300 taxpayer

01:24:59.040 guarantor

01:25:00.320 for global trade.

01:25:02.100 Of course,

01:25:02.740 if it happened

01:25:03.480 to meet

01:25:03.880 with any

01:25:04.320 unfortunate circumstances,

01:25:06.480 that global trade

01:25:07.240 would probably

01:25:07.600 have already halted somewhat

01:25:09.060 because I do not think

01:25:11.260 the Chinese

01:25:11.780 would continue

01:25:12.380 to supply us

01:25:13.240 with many of the

01:25:14.160 precursor components

01:25:15.200 that we need

01:25:15.760 to build our weapon systems.

01:25:17.560 Frank Wright,

01:25:18.260 totally fascinating,

01:25:19.740 as usual.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - February 02, 2023

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