Jan. 23, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room. Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| One month after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky embarked on an historic trip to Washington, D.C. to plead for more military aid, it appears that Western allies are poised to grant his wish. | ||
| This week, several nations pledged an unprecedented amount of new aid packages to be sent to war-torn Ukraine. | ||
| Here's a snapshot of what certain countries are providing. | ||
| Denmark is pledging howitzer artillery systems and additional training for Ukraine's military. | ||
| Estonia plans to send howitzer artillery systems, other artillery ammunition, and M2 anti-tank grenade launchers. | ||
| Latvia is sending Stinger air defense systems, M17 helicopters, machine guns with ammo, and unmanned aerial vehicles. | ||
| Drones, basically. Lithuania has pledged L-70 anti-aircraft guns with ammo, M-1-8 helicopters, and $40 million in cash. | ||
| Poland says it will send S-60 anti-aircraft guns, more howitzers, and various types of ammunition. | ||
| Sweden has pledged an Archer artillery system, CV-90 armored vehicles, and portable anti-tank missiles. | ||
| The UK is sending Challenger 2 tanks, brimstone anti-tank munitions, AS-90 self-propelled guns, and armored and protected vehicles. | ||
| Last but certainly not least, the United States is committing 59 Bradley fighting vehicles, 90 striker combat vehicles, 53 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, 350 Humvee armored vehicles, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition. | ||
| I know it's a lot of information, but big picture, here's the point. | ||
| Ukraine is getting a lot of assistance that it badly needs. | ||
| However, these aid packages do fail to include the one specific item that Ukraine has been desperately seeking. | ||
| Sophisticated German-made Leopard 2 main battle tanks. | ||
| If leopards were sent to Ukraine, they would be a game-changer on the battlefield. | ||
| Representatives from 54 nations, part of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, gathered yesterday at the Rammstein Air Base in Germany to hammer out what other aid should be provided for Ukraine. | ||
| But at the end of five hours of talks, Germany said it still remains undecided on whether to provide its Leopard 2 main battle tanks. | ||
| Germany's main concern is the risk that Russia will view providing heavy tanks as an escalation in the conflict, putting Germany in the Kremlin's crosshairs. | ||
| Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting today that Ukraine has announced it will begin training its troops to use the Leopard tanks in Poland while it awaits a decision. | ||
| During Friday's meeting, Zelensky, who spoke via livestream, expressed a dire need for more sophisticated weaponry. | ||
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...hundreds of times, and it will be absolutely just in fear, given all that we have already done, but... | |
| But hundreds of thank you are not hundreds of tanks. | ||
| All of us can use thousands of wars in discussions, but I cannot put wars instead of guns that are needed against Russian artillery. | ||
| Okay, it's 23 January in the year of our Lord, 2023. | ||
| It's Monday. We're off to a very hot start this week already, but we've got to pivot and really drill down on Ukraine. | ||
| Before we do that, I got Rebecca Koffler. | ||
| We're trying to get Rebecca on Saturday, and that was her cold open for Saturday. | ||
| Some things have changed. | ||
| Actually, the Germans are telling the polls they can... | ||
| Give them the tanks, at least some of the tanks. | ||
| We're going to talk about all that here in a moment. | ||
| I want to start with John Mills, though, and I'll get Rebecca in for her opinion. | ||
| Major development today on, and John, explain this to us, an arrest of a FBI counterintelligence officer that was part of the Trump investigation into the fake news phony investigation into Russian collusion, and now a senior FBI agent is arrested, sir? | ||
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Yeah, Steve, I couldn't believe what I was reading. | |
| This is stunning. | ||
| This is Charles McGonigal. | ||
| He retired in 2018. | ||
| But Kim, and I think this is almost even more disturbing, one of the courtroom reporters, who probably was a DOJ or FBI contractor, and that's Sergei Shestakhan, was also arrested. | ||
| So there was two of them, and they were working together. | ||
| So Charles is retired, and he's under the pay of one of these Russian oligarchs. | ||
| So essentially, this That collapses everything, Russia, Russia, Russia. This is stunning. | ||
| I mean, I can't believe this. | ||
| Everybody was shouting Russia, Russia, Russia. | ||
| We have an FBI insider, a senior who was in on it, retires in 2018, and goes on the payroll of one of these Russian oligarchs that everybody was pointing to and shouting out about Donald J. Trump. | ||
| So this goes back. | ||
| Well, how long was he working for them? | ||
| This essentially taints everything the FBI has done on Russia, Russia, Russia. And I've looked up. | ||
| I mean, I just couldn't believe my eyes. | ||
| I looked up. I wanted to make sure The DOJ has actually formally made their press release. | ||
| I think I just sent it to you. | ||
| Four hours ago, DOJ did an official press release. | ||
| This is real. This is a stunning turn of events. | ||
| So they're in on it. | ||
| There is a deep state. | ||
| We have people inside the FBI who are bought off inside the Department of Justice who are bought off. | ||
| And he didn't believe me. | ||
| He didn't just retire and then think about working for this Russian oligarch. | ||
| This throws everything 20 years into the past in question. | ||
| I mean, this is Jesus. | ||
| James Angleton always thought there was an insider at CIA during the Cold War, and he was wrong. | ||
| There was actually three Larry Wu Tai Chin, who committed suicide just down the road in the Prince William County Jail after he was arrested. | ||
| He was giving everything to China. | ||
| We had Alder James at the CIA giving everything to Russia. | ||
| And then even after the two of them were found, We had Robert Hansen at the FBI continuing who wasn't arrested until 2001. | ||
| This shows that our deep state law enforcement and intelligence is just riddled, riddled with turncoats. | ||
| So everything Russia, Russia, Russia is now- Was he high enough? | ||
| Lovell, being, I guess, a counterintelligence officer, you've got these things in the New York office, you've got these field offices, and clearly New York is the center of counterintelligence, probably even more than Washington, D.C. Was he senior enough, you think, to impact this? | ||
| I know the MSNBC and the people that are the Praetorian media guard for the national security state are kind of in shock today. | ||
| They weren't expecting this. | ||
| But is this guy that senior? | ||
| They could have done some real damage? | ||
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He's senior, and then again, I really want to point to the arrest of that court recorder. | |
| That shows they have a senior person and a line worker who is actually doing the notes, Sergei Shestikov, who probably was a DOJ or FBI contractor, might even have been a govy himself. | ||
| This is stunning. | ||
| So not just one, but two. | ||
| This shows a RICO conspiracy inside of what's supposed to be our senior law enforcement. | ||
| And yes, to be the counterintelligence officer for these law enforcement. | ||
| And this will lead to other things. | ||
| Go back. Describe what he actually did on the Trump-Russia collusion investigation. | ||
| I know the headquarters for our campaign, of course, Trump's company is there, and he was a New York field officer, I think, or field agent. | ||
| Do we know the specifics of what he did on the Russia collusion part? | ||
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It doesn't say yet, and I'm looking through both the report and also the DOJ announcement, but he was head, head of the counterintelligence. | |
| So he probably has anywhere from 20 to 50 direct reports working for him in addition to running sources and being an FBI source as an official status. | ||
| So this guy probably has several dozen people working for him And yeah, in 2015, it was early 2016 where I realized something was up because all of a sudden inside at the top secret meetings, all of a sudden this teehee, teehee, the Russians. | ||
| It was always the Russians. | ||
| For some reason, the Chinese were far more capable. | ||
| It was always the Russians are now spying on the campaigns. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, they're very interested in Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Well, how much of this was created by this senior special agent for the FBI? The head of counterintelligence up there. | ||
| Real quickly, since you spent essentially a career in intelligence, give us your assessment of the Biden crime scene, the top-secret compartmented crime scene that you've been seeing going on. | ||
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Well, this is a train wreck on top of a train wreck on top of a train wreck. | |
| I mean, it doesn't get any better than this if they tried. | ||
| So now we're hearing that Merrick Garland, who originally I was giving a semi kudos to for actually launching Launching the special counsel, but maybe he was pulling a George Gascon and just wanted to smother the story because it turns out that the FBI was actually – they didn't want to disrupt anything. | ||
| They didn't want to unsettle the American public. | ||
| Americans were too busy trying to get their vaccine shot. | ||
| This would trigger them. | ||
| Even before the midterm election, we have the Attorney General essentially negotiating with the White House. | ||
| You don't negotiate on a crime like this. | ||
| This is called a spill. | ||
| Spill after spill after spill. | ||
| with Biden and it appears that Merrick Garland was actually aware of it and they were behind the scenes negotiating even before the election. | ||
| This is a full-blown conspiracy on the top-secret documents. | ||
| There is no moral equivalency because they're saying, oh, this is far different than Trump. | ||
| Yeah, it is far different. | ||
| It's far worse. Yeah. | ||
| John, how do people get to the book? | ||
| And then how do they get to all your writings? | ||
| What are your coordinates on social media? | ||
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Yeah, thank you. | |
| It's Colonel Rhett John on Getter. | ||
| Colonel Rhett John on Getter, also on Truth. | ||
| And then the book, The Nation Will Follow, is on thenationwillfollow.com, thenationwillfollow.com. | ||
| A very disturbing book about an insider's perspective on what's happened to this country. | ||
| Colonel John Mills, thank you very much, sir. | ||
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Appreciate it. Thank you, Steve. | |
| Rebecca Koffler, first I want to ask you, you were, John was Army Intel and in DIA. You were DIA, Defense Intelligence. Give me your assessment today of the importance and magnitude of this arrest of the FBI counterintelligence officer today in New York. | ||
| Well, this is effectively a smoking gun, Steve, that the real collusion hoax was concocted by the US spy agencies, right? It's not just the FBI and Jim Comey and his minions, but it's also former DNI James Clapper and former CIA director, John Brennan. | ||
| So we called it back to the CIA, a self-licking ice cream cone. | ||
| What it seems like was happening was FBI was hiring Russian intelligence agents to write reports to them that they were putting in the intelligence stream. | ||
| So this whole Russia is a hoax and these people are treasonous because they wanted to remove a democratically elected president Donald Trump from power. | ||
| But the significance of this, Steve, is this, for the current conflict, and we are steadily sleepwalking into nuclear Armageddon with Russia. | ||
| And what happened was they misdirected tremendous resources on chasing the non-existent collusion instead of really following and providing indications and warnings about what the real Russian threat was. | ||
| So the real threat and Putin's perception that NATO was going into war with Russia, which right now is actually backed up by the force posture and all the weaponry that we're sending to Ukraine. | ||
| This is how Putin is interpreting it. | ||
| And he's preparing for an all-out war, and he's changing, you know, from the special military operations into a large-scale war, which the Russians predicted back 10 years ago. | ||
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And the Pentagon is- So hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, slow down. | |
| Let me go, first off, on the FBI side, I wanna go back to that for a second. | ||
| Explain to the audience who the oligarch, because oligarchs, because we're going to get into a second, all of a sudden Ukraine, Zelensky's got old-time religion. | ||
| And so let me connect some dots there. | ||
| The Minister of Interior, which is the guy that oversees the police and oversees all that, he mysteriously dies in an accidental helicopter accident. | ||
| crash into a school the other day. | ||
| Then Zelensky comes out. | ||
| He's got old-time religion that corruption is now his number one priority, right? | ||
| Zero tolerance. And he's got guys, his cabinet members tell the day, we're going to start doing arrests of oligarchs. | ||
| I mean, this is all of a sudden that this is his number one priority. | ||
| So the oligarchs on the Ukrainian side, and this is all because MAGA We've made such a big deal, no more money to Ukraine, and any money that would ever be going has got to have an audit. | ||
| And of course, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene and others are hammering every day about the audits, the audits. So all of a sudden they've got religion, like corruption's our number one priority. | ||
| But I want to talk about oligarchs on the other side. | ||
| Describe to our audience who this oligarch is that supposedly was paying this counterintelligence agent, and how does he fit into this narrative about Trump? | ||
| Well, basically what is happening, the FBI is hiring these oligarchs as sources so that they can debrief them and create Intelligence reports such as the fake Steele dossier, right? So this is what this person was. | ||
| And effectively, he was on the payroll, but also it seems like the FBI was completely penetrated, as your previous guest, the colonel, noted. | ||
| So it is riddled. | ||
| So it's basically conspiracy on top of a conspiracy on top of a conspiracy. | ||
| Are you saying the Russian oligarch was actually in a working arrangement with the FBI to give him information? | ||
| That's what my intelligence analysis is telling me. | ||
| It's a similar thing that we had with Igor Danchenko. | ||
| Remember, Danchenko was on the payroll of the FBI. And our own U.S. citizen, Carter Page, as you remember, who actually himself was risking his life collecting intelligence. | ||
| To help the CIA. So he was put under surveillance. | ||
| And he was doing all this work for free while the Russian spy who was connected to Russian intelligence, Igor Danchenko, was paid by the FBI. You can't make this stuff up. | ||
| So we have an analogous situation in this case. | ||
| Okay, let's go back to how serious, by the way, given the level of seniority of the counterintelligence officer, how serious is this? | ||
| You believe this is the tip of something that shows that the FBI has been penetrated, particularly the Russian aspect of this, ma'am? I do. | ||
| It's because the Russians have never really stopped their intelligence penetration of our efforts of our spy agencies, right? Remember, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, everybody thought Oh, you know, we're all friends now. | ||
| Let's all sing Kumbaya. | ||
| And former U.S. President George Bush looked into Putin's eyes, by the way, when Condoleezza Rice just penned an op-ed in the Washington Post with her infinite wisdom, right? She was his advisor. | ||
| Bush saw some soul in Putin, but at the same time, Putin sent 10 sleeper agents back in 2000 into the United States, and the FBI uncovered and had to pull the trigger. | ||
| Right? In 2010. | ||
| And stupidly, those people were sent back to Moscow instead of flipping them, right? So the Russians never stopped their efforts to penetrate our spy agencies. | ||
| But it's not just the Russians. | ||
| Chinese as well, just like the colonel said. | ||
| And so very conveniently, These types of people are creating, meaning the Russian oligarchs whom we're using as stupidly as sources, right? They are creating all of these anti-Trump, anti-US president. | ||
| And it's not just Trump. The Russians are agnostic, okay? | ||
| They view every US president as as a threat to Russia, right? So they try to create, to foment discord. | ||
| They are targeting both sides, Republicans and Democrats. | ||
| But unfortunately, it's only Republicans and especially the MAGA people who understand the intricacies of what the Russians and the Ukrainians in this case are doing. | ||
| Both are corrupt, by the way. | ||
| But the Democrats, the liberals are drinking Kool-Aid and they are decreasing the security of our own country by keeping the steady flow of this super superior weaponry into Ukraine and depleting our own weapons stockpile right now. | ||
| Okay, let's go back. | ||
| You've been arguing this for a while, and what you have been telling our audience is coming true. | ||
| I want to define the difference between a special military operation and large-scale war. | ||
| Because if you don't watch The War Room or Tucker Carlson, which I don't think the only two that really nail it, if you watch particularly MSNBC and CNN or read The New York Times and Washington Post, Putin's been losing. | ||
| You know, every two weeks he's supposed to be losing. | ||
| It's over. It's a coup. | ||
| He's gone, etc. | ||
| And yet it looks like he's consolidated the tactical part of it in eastern Ukraine, right? And it hasn't been pleasant. | ||
| And I'm not saying it's justified or not, but it is what it is. | ||
| And he obviously has control over Crimea. | ||
| What is this pivot that you've been calling for? | ||
| You said that you don't understand Putin's mind. | ||
| He's going to pivot at one time to a large-scale warfare. | ||
| What was the special military operation, and why do you see this change? | ||
| What's the evidence that you see that this transition's happening to what they're concerned about, this winter offensive that everybody believes is going to start here in the next couple weeks, probably close to the first-year anniversary, that he's going to shift now to large-scale warfare? | ||
| Exactly. So the difference in the Russian doctrine between the special military operation and the large-scale war is this. | ||
| The operation that Putin launched on February 24th of last year had limited goal, okay? He originally planned to establish control over Ukraine, remove Zelensky from power, but not actually owned Ukraine as a country. | ||
| He didn't plan on occupying the entire Ukraine. | ||
| He simply wanted to install, you know, a pro-Russian puppet government whom he could control, okay? He failed in achieving that goal, and so he scaled down his objectives. | ||
| He then proceeded to chop off 20 % of Ukraine. | ||
| Next, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson, which are strategic areas, right? Plus Crimea. | ||
| And he would be pleased If the West recognized that part as Russian, that the Russians believe the majority of Russians belong to Russia, they view it on Russia as Russian, especially Crimea, that for centuries belonged to Russia. | ||
| Okay? So, then we, the United States and NATO, we have expanded the scope and scale Of the weaponry we are providing to Ukraine, what originated as, you know, blankets and night vision goggles right now is effectively strategic type of military hardware, right? We're talking Bradley's, which are tank killers. | ||
| We're talking Patriot missiles. | ||
| What Putin is seeing right now is what the Russian general staff predicted about a decade ago. | ||
| And we knew it in the intelligence community. | ||
| And I personally briefed scores and scores of four stars, the combatant commands. | ||
| Including European Command, Strategic Command, that's the one that's in charge of our nuclear weapons and systems, Northern Command, which is in charge of protecting the United States and Canada. | ||
| I briefed NATO in the run-up to Putin's invasion of Crimea in September 2013. | ||
| Nobody wanted to do anything about it. | ||
| They saw it as Putin's bravado. | ||
| But also, they just didn't, you know, it's very easy to just react to everything instead of practically develop a deterrence strategy. | ||
| And so what Putin is now, he is confirming, it's bias confirmation, right? | ||
| In the intelligence business, we have some things called confirmation bias, right? | ||
| So the general staff predicted that the war was inevitable between the United States and NATO on one side. | ||
| And Russia on the other side. | ||
| Why? It's because we are fighting over control over the same territory. | ||
| Ukraine is part of Russia's strategic security perimeter on which it relied for centuries for its security, right? So imagine if the Russians moved into Mexico. | ||
| So that's how Putin views it. | ||
| Not just Putin, the entire Moscow regime. | ||
| And so, this is why he is doing the following things. | ||
| First, he has announced that between 2023 and 2026, he is going to beef up Russian armed forces to 1.5 million. | ||
| So they have already mobilized 315,000 in addition to the armed forces that are fighting in Ukraine, right? And so he also authorized an additional half a million. | ||
| So these are numbers that we're talking about. | ||
| Number two, you asked about all the evidence. | ||
| He just appointed Valery Gerasimov, who is the chief of Russian general staff. | ||
| He's Mark Milley's counterpart, right? | ||
| And so imagine if we appointed Milley to conduct, to be in charge of the operations in the theater, right? Why is this significant? | ||
| It's significant because... | ||
| Rebecca, Rebecca, hang on one second. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return with Rebecca Koffler. | ||
| We're going through the expanded... | ||
| Ukraine is about to become... | ||
| Not just a front-page story, a leading story as large-scale warfare is about to break out. | ||
| Large-scale warfare, forget World War I, large-scale warfare has not been seen on the European continent since the Second World War. | ||
| And this is going to take place near Stalingrad, Kurs, places that know what war is. | ||
| All next in the War Room. | ||
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With Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| I just want to...Rebecca Koffler is our guest, almost like a contributor. | ||
| She's been so dead spot on and so on so often. | ||
| Rebecca, before you give the evidence, I want to hear some more evidence, but I just want to alert our audience or give them a heads up that... | ||
| And when you talk about the situation in NATO and for the people that founded NATO and for the generals that fought, and I'm talking about Patton, you know, Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, the other generals that fought for the British and for the Americans. | ||
| And as crazy as Winston Churchill was sometimes obsessed with the Balkans and the soft underbelly of Europe, Given the British experience in the Crimean War, right? | ||
| Sevastopol. Given that Yalta, the conference, quite frankly, we got double dealt by, you know, essentially forces in Roosevelt's White House not to take Berlin. | ||
| If you had told any of the generals, Rebecca, that fought on the continent of Europe in World War II, and I'm talking about the top generals, and the people that were there for the founding of NATO, if you had told them that we were going to be in, what, 60, 70 years, 80 years, pushing to have Ukraine Near Stalingrad and Kursk, | ||
| we were going to have Ukraine as a member of NATO, and we were about to go in and fight a proxy war that would lead to a large-scale war with the United States in Ukraine. | ||
| They would have said, are you nuts? | ||
| I mean, there was never any, this is why the Russian people and the Chinese people, but the Russian people, not their leaders, but the Russian people were the great ally of the West and the Americans because they took the brunt of the Wehrmacht in Operation Barbarossa, and so much of that slaughter happened in the Ukraine. | ||
| It is inconceivable. | ||
| That the men who fought in World War II on the battlefield in Western Europe, that the men who were there at the beginning of NATO, and I remember this as a naval officer back in the Pentagon in the early 80s when President Reagan was there and Cap Weinberger, he talked about the North German plane and the German ship. | ||
| Even the concept That we would be arming Ukraine in a proxy war against the Russian military and that we prepare, you know, they just had a quote-unquote AWOL Navy SEAL that you would have special forces operators already in there and to be risking an expanded large-scale war. | ||
| Between the West and Russia in Ukraine is inconceivable. | ||
| People go, are you not? | ||
| Am I wrong there? Or is it just the overall set to know that? | ||
| And I'm not talking about the sovereignty of Ukraine. | ||
| I'm not talking about as a nation state and, hey, the people are fighting and if Europeans want to back them up, that's one thing. | ||
| But they're not an ally. | ||
| They're not an ally for a reason. | ||
| Right? I mean, even when the Eastern Bloc fell, there was no even concept. | ||
| In fact, I think all the deals we cut specifically said we wouldn't be trying to get Ukraine. | ||
| That'd be like the Chinese Communist Party coming to Mexico and cutting a military alliance with Mexico that you could put Chinese Communist missiles, you could put its equipment, you could put even its troops. | ||
| Into Mexico. In fact, I'd say it even differently. | ||
| And I know people's heads are going to blow up. | ||
| It would be like claiming the Gadsden purchase really wasn't accurate and he put it in Arizona and parts of New Mexico. | ||
| That would even be worse. | ||
| Am I wrong in that? Rebecca, you do this for a living. | ||
| Would the people that fought in World War II Do you think that we'd ever be in Ukraine in a shooting war, the scale that Putin is anticipating? | ||
| He's certainly going to drop on the West? | ||
| You're 1000 % correct, Steve. | ||
| These generals who fought these brutal wars... | ||
| They would think it's nuts that we are right now weaponizing Ukraine and using them effectively as cannon fodder to protect Europeans who refuse to pay for their own security, right? It was very convenient to decrease the force posture during the Obama administration. | ||
| And that's why Putin developed His tactics and very special doctrine, because he always knew that there will come a time, because he was watching what we're doing in the United States. | ||
| We admitted the Baltics into NATO. Okay. | ||
| So what that did was it reduced the proximity between NATO forces and Moscow, the heart of Putin's government, right? | ||
| 1,000 miles to 100 miles, Moscow and St. | ||
| Petersburg, the two largest cities. | ||
| And so that is an unacceptable proximity. | ||
| And any general would understand that, right? | ||
| We would do the same thing. | ||
| And it's because the politicians, they don't live in the real world. | ||
| The generals understand real politics. | ||
| And the politicians, they keep thinking how they're going to protect Europe by continuing pumping up Ukraine with these strategic-level military hardware. | ||
| But nothing can be further from the truth. | ||
| It just escalates. | ||
| And besides, the argument that Putin somehow is going to invade a NATO country is completely nuts. | ||
| Because if Putin has trouble Prevailing conventionally, right? Even in this conflict, how in the world will he dare to invade Poland or any of these other countries because he knows it will trigger collective defense, Article 5, right? | ||
| And so this is the craziness that's going on. | ||
| But just to complete the thought, you asked me for evidence, right, of why Putin is changing strategy from the special operation. | ||
| He's calling it war right now. | ||
| And Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, just said just today that the Russian-U.S. relations have changed from hybrid warfare into a real war. | ||
| And so here's the evidence one more time. | ||
| He's increasing because the large scale war is demanding a lot more military forces, right? Because every single war that the Russians have won, they've won it through relentless attrition of manpower, right? They've thrown people, they've lost 20 million people, 25 million people in World War II. So, it's not an issue for them. | ||
| That's how they do it. | ||
| They just throw people into the meat grinder. | ||
| So, number one, increasing the armed forces to 1.5 million, augmenting naval airspace and nuclear forces, okay? Nuclear forces remain on special combat alert to this day. | ||
| He appointed Gerasimov, which is the equivalent of General Milley, our The chairman of the Joint Chiefs to command forces in Ukraine. | ||
| Who is Gerasimov? Gerasimov was the field commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army between 1998 and 2003. | ||
| He responded to Putin's order to clean Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. | ||
| So what happened was the Russian forces Just turned Grozny into rubble that prompted the United Nations to designate Grozny as the most destroyed city in the world. | ||
| So my assessment is that Putin is preparing to Groznify Ukraine, right? Because he just simply cannot, you know, given that this is an existential threat for him, he cannot allow Ukraine as being part of NATO. And as long as he maintains In Ukraine, Ukraine does not qualify for NATO because there's a requirement absence of ongoing hostilities. | ||
| And so an evidence number 3 or 4 is finally, | ||
| because Putin understands that we may react as he is demolishing Kyiv and demolishing various parts of Ukraine to prevent it from falling into our hands finally and securing final control and getting it into NATO. So they're deploying right now Panzer System 1 anti-aircraft system On rooftops across central Moscow to include near the Kremlin, | ||
| to include on top of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and near Putin's Valdai residence in Novgorod region. | ||
| Why is he doing it? | ||
| Because he's preparing for a large-scale war. | ||
| He is expecting, with this steady escalation that we are climbing with providing these weaponry, he's expecting NATO to deploy forces potentially in retaliation of him groznifying Ukraine. | ||
| So this is what's going on right now. | ||
| In your professional experience, outside of Vietnam, in Vietnam we did sign an alliance with, but I don't think it made the formal treaty through the Senate and through the House, but we worked at a military alliance and we had, you know, at one time I think 500,000 combat troops in Vietnam. | ||
| In Vietnam, you would have the head of the CIA, and you would have the head of the Joint Chiefs go over and brief their counterparts or the senior people in that country. | ||
| Outside of that, do you ever remember, have we ever sent, has the United States government ever had the head of the CIA and the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ever go to a non-ally and brief them? | ||
| Burns was in Kyiv last week, and Milley was there a couple days before him. | ||
| And General Austin obviously was there and the head of the Secretary of Defense before they went to this conference. | ||
| Has there ever been this type of involvement in a non-ally that you've seen that the United States is in this escalation process, is engaged with direct counterparts in Ukraine? | ||
| So I personally don't recall, right, especially in the escalation, and that's an excellent point, Steve, is because that's just one of the things that, one of the indications and warnings that Russians are marking, like, as a checkbox, right, the fact that these senior officials visited Kyiv, | ||
| in the middle of ongoing hostilities, it's yet another indicator to them that we are also preparing for a large-scale war. | ||
| Remember, the Russians don't think like Americans, and that's what the Pentagon doesn't understand, the US intelligence community doesn't understand, is that Putin is interpreting everything and his commanders within the prism of that assessment that I just told you about, | ||
| that they made about 10 years ago, that a war between Russia and the U.S. slash NATO is inevitable. | ||
| And so every single step we take, whether it's, you know, we're providing javelins and stingers and Patriot missiles, which is a very top of the line You know, a strategic system that the Russians perceive it as a strategic missile defense system. | ||
| And so every step they're interpreting as yet another step on what they call the escalation ladder. | ||
| And it may not mean anything to an average American or even to top brass in the Pentagon, but to the Russians it actually It's like a piece of the puzzle that they're building, and they're building this composite of what the threat looks like to them, and they are responding to that threat. | ||
| And counterintuitively to Western analysts, the Russians believe that they're acting in self-defense. | ||
| The fact that Putin is deploying air defense And missile defense, to cover the gaps that right now exist, that the U.S. satellites can see in Russian missile defense system, that demonstrates that he is worried about an attack on Moscow, | ||
| which, by the way, Ukrainian chief of intelligence, Padalyak, stated a couple of weeks ago that they are going to strike Deeper and deeper into Russia. | ||
| And they have already done it, right? | ||
| Remember, they have targeted the Crimean Bridge. | ||
| I mean, what could possibly go wrong? | ||
| They've targeted strategic air bases, angles, that where the Russians... | ||
| How's the strategic nuclear bombers, right? | ||
| So that is another indicator to them that we are also going to an all-out war. | ||
| And so Putin is reacting to all of this. | ||
| And so this is the nightmare that is about to unfold, you know, two nightmares. | ||
| It's unfolding as you speak. | ||
| How did people get to your book? | ||
| Because your book puts you inside the mind of Putin. | ||
| How did they get to that and how did people get to your writings? | ||
| Yeah, so the book is Putin's Playbook. | ||
| It's available anywhere on Amazon or in any bookstore. | ||
| I am on social media, Rebecca at 0132, on Twitter, Getter, and on Truth Social, and I have a website, RebeccaKoffler.com. | ||
| But the book basically predicts the Ukraine conflict because, as I told you, We knew everything about how Putin thinks, and yet we didn't do anything about it. | ||
| And instead of de-escalating, we are now escalating. | ||
| And Biden has no exit strategy at this point. | ||
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| I've got to jump. Rebecca Koffer, thank you so much. | ||
| I appreciate it. Thank you, Steve. | ||
| God bless. Let's play the cold open for Brandon. | ||
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Governor, on the AP African-American studies course that was rejected by the state, there's been a lot of criticism of that move. | |
| People saying, you know, this is exactly what we were fearing with the individual freedom bill. | ||
| I don't know if you or the commissioner could maybe expand a little bit more about what was in that course. | ||
| So, as you know, in the state of Florida, our education standards not only don't prevent, but they require teaching black history, all the important things that's part of our core. | ||
| curriculum. This was a separate course on top of that for advanced placement credit. | ||
| And the issue is we have guidelines and standards in Florida. | ||
| We want education, not indoctrination. | ||
| If you fall on the side of indoctrination, we're going to decline. | ||
| If it's education, then we will do this course. | ||
| So when I heard it, we didn't meet the standards. | ||
| I figured, yeah, they may be doing it. | ||
| It's way more than that. | ||
| This course on black history, what's one of the lessons about? | ||
| Queer theory. | ||
| Now, who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory? | ||
| That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids. | ||
| And so when you look to see they have stuff about intersectionality, abolishing prisons, that's a political agenda. | ||
| And so we're on, that's the wrong side of the line for Florida standards. | ||
| We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think, but we don't believe they should have an agenda imposed on them. | ||
| When you try to use black history to shoehorn in queer theory, you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes. | ||
| Brandon Sherwater, you've warned us about this. | ||
| Brandon Sherwater from the Christian Post that this is what's going to incorporate and inform everything. | ||
| You also have an update on the movie Dead Name. | ||
| We've got a couple minutes. Walk us through. | ||
| Is Ron DeSantis right? | ||
| Is he on to something there, sir? | ||
| I think he's correct, and I think it's because of the larger theory. | ||
| That is, queer theory goes hand-in-hand with transgender activism because it is... | ||
| It's a deconstruction of the sexual binary. | ||
| That's the lie at the root of all of this. | ||
| But it doesn't surprise me to hear that even with such important things as black history that the shapers of today, the powers that be within our education system who are shaping the minds of the next generation are using this queer theory to subvert other things because that is the be-all end-all for them. | ||
| That is at the root of all of these other changes that we're seeing And it was showcased very poignantly in the dead-name film that you mentioned. | ||
| Queer theory is the be-all end-all. | ||
| It percolates just about everywhere. | ||
| They insert this into children's programming, into books, into school curriculum, as Governor DeSantis was just saying. | ||
| It's truly toxic stuff. | ||
| A friend of mine calls it gender pseudoscience. | ||
| This stuff is everywhere and we must keep a watchful eye on it because it's really destroying lives. | ||
| We have to keep a watchful eye and the audience was raving about Dead Name. | ||
| We got about 90 seconds. | ||
| What happened to the movie? | ||
| Where is it? Well, deadnameddocumentary.com is its new home. | ||
| Vimeo just this morning took it down. | ||
| Poof! Just we don't I mean, we're still trying to get answers. | ||
| The filmmaker with brokenhearted films, which you played the trailer and you're playing it now, were three families ripped apart by this queer theory, transgender ideology. | ||
| And that's really that's those two things are intricately related. | ||
| But we don't know. It's the censorship of, you know, not only will queer theorists and transgender activists try to shoehorn, you know, black history and use that as a cover to further queer theory. | ||
| They clearly have allies at Vimeo and other media streaming platforms that will censor any opposing view or anything else that tries to show dissent or objection or a critical, in this case, intimate portrait glimpse of what it's really like for families. | ||
| So they are censorious, but they don't get their way, and they'll use other things to further their other ideological goals. | ||
| We got about 20 seconds. | ||
| How do people go get the film today? | ||
| Dead film, Dead Name still back up. | ||
| Where do people go? It's getting back up. | ||
| They can go watch the trailer and see. | ||
| Keep checking this website, deadnameddocumentary.com. | ||
| That's its new home. Brandon, fantastic reportage. | ||
| We're going to have you back on in a couple days, make sure everybody gets to see this film. | ||
| We're not going to allow these streaming services just to rip it down so people are going to get it. | ||
| Brandon from the Christian Post, Brandon Shorewater, thank you so much, and thank you for staying on top of this story. | ||
| Back here tomorrow morning, 10 a.m. | ||
| Eastern Standard Time. We're going to be on fire. | ||
| That I can commit to you. |
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