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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 corner 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. | ||
When you talk about the economy, of course, it is by far the most important issue for voters. | ||
It's also true right now, Mr. President, that voters by a wide margin trust Trump more on the economy. | ||
They say that in polls. | ||
And part of the reason for that may be the numbers. | ||
And you're aware of many of these, of course. | ||
The cost of buying a home in the United States is double what it was when you look at your monthly costs from before the pandemic. | ||
Real income, when you account for inflation, is actually down since you took office. | ||
Economic growth last week, far short of expectations. | ||
Consumer confidence, maybe no surprise, is near a two-year low. | ||
With less than six months to go to election day, are you worried that you're running out of time to turn that around? | ||
We've already turned around. | ||
Look at the Michigan survey. | ||
For 65% of the American people think they're in good shape economically. | ||
They think the nation's not in good shape, but they're personally in good shape. | ||
The polling data has been wrong all along. | ||
How many of you guys do a poll with CNN? | ||
How many folks do you have to call to get one response? | ||
The idea that we're in a situation where Things are so bad. | ||
We've created more jobs. | ||
We're in a situation where people have access to good-paying jobs. | ||
And the last I saw, the combination of the inflation, the cost of inflation, all those things, that's really worrisome to people, with good reason. | ||
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That's why I'm working very hard to bring the cost of rentals down, to increase the number of homes that are available. | |
But let me say it this way. | ||
When I started this administration, people were saying there's going to be a collapse of the economy. | ||
We have the strongest economy in the world. | ||
Let me say it again, in the world. | ||
Biden last night touting his economic record and the strength of the U.S. | ||
economy, despite polls that show that voters trust Donald Trump on the economy more than they trust Biden. | ||
Let's bring in the co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box, Andrew Ross Sorkin. | ||
He's also a columnist for the New York Times. | ||
Andrew, what do you make of the president's message and the persistent push that for some reason Donald Trump is better on the economy? | ||
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Can we think back to four years ago, please? | |
Look, he's 100% right that we all have the best economy in the world. | ||
There is no question about that. | ||
And 15 million jobs were created during his presidency. | ||
The context, of course, is we were coming off of COVID. | ||
So I'm sure that there will be critics that will suggest that those numbers are different. | ||
But I think the biggest issue and the reason why there's this feeling, but I think you're seeing the feeling change because the trend lines on inflation are going all in the right direction for the most part, for the most part, is this idea of cumulative inflation versus wages and just the cost of goods. | ||
And we've talked about this in the air so many times. | ||
People are looking at, you know, the price of gas. | ||
They go to the supermarket and they get sticker shock. | ||
I think that sticker shock is starting to roll off. | ||
And you're going to start to see some of that in the polls, but I think to the extent that the polls are reflecting that, what's reflecting still is the sticker shock inflation issue. | ||
I seek recognition to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the House. | ||
The form of the resolution is as follows. | ||
declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant. | ||
This is the Uniparty for the American people watching. | ||
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Ladies and gentlemen, the game is on. | |
you It's Thursday, 9 May, Euroville Alert 2024. | ||
Thank you so much for joining us here in the six o'clock hour, the second hour, late afternoon, early evening. | ||
There you're seeing the desperate spin. | ||
The Biden numbers on the economy, the people hate what he's done to the economy. | ||
They don't even use the term Bidenomics anymore. | ||
It irks people. | ||
So they've dropped that, that whole big selling point of Bidenomics. | ||
The polling is strongly with President Trump on all aspects of the economy. | ||
He can't get around that the lived experience of the American people is terrible. | ||
The elites have made out, you just saw the unit party right there booing Marjorie Taylor | ||
Greene as she tries to bring some order into the Republican side and get somebody stand | ||
up, anybody stand up and try to stop this massive fiscal mismanagement. | ||
This humongous, just out of control, massive Keynesian stimulus. | ||
Even the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett said this week and he said, hey, the, this model | ||
we have, this business model we have in the United States is unsustainable. | ||
It's not unsustainable about energy, it is unsustainable because of the way it's financed. | ||
And this is going to have to stop. | ||
And he said, hey, the Uniparty has no ability to stop the spending. | ||
So the only way to get around this is you're going to see massive, and this was his words, massive tax increases on the middle class. | ||
That is all coming. | ||
Richard Stern joins us from Heritage. | ||
An article up on Politico, and you have to explain it to people, $1.6 trillion, they've got this bill they passed a couple of years ago, they can't even figure out how to spend the money, so instead of rescind it and cut it off, They're now in some sort of panic about how they're going to get it out. | ||
Richard, this is the central question of time. | ||
I think this is actually bigger than the invasion on the southern border. | ||
I think it's bigger than the other third crisis, the beginning of the kinetic part of the third world war. | ||
Because if we don't get this right, this is republic ending. | ||
And as you can tell yesterday in the house, nobody or very few people have the guts to stand up and say this too must end. | ||
Your thoughts, sir? | ||
Well, this is as the old adage goes, going out with a whimper and not a bane. | ||
You know, so I think you hit the nail on the head there, which is that what this is about is the slow bleeding dry of the American public over decades of the Uniparty quietly and slowly sapping your value, like pouring water into the wine of your life savings by simply printing money at the Fed, by using it to take all of the value out of your savings and transfer it to the government. | ||
You know, the monologues we just watched there, they were trying to find every word they possibly could to say, you know, Americans are shocked at how expensive stuff is. | ||
Yeah, that's the whole point. | ||
That's why the economy is so bad. | ||
Because the government steals all of that value of your paycheck, makes it impossible for you to afford a good home in a safe neighborhood, and to put food on the table, and then they're shocked that people hate the Uniparty and hate the government about it. | ||
I mean, what is there to be shocked about? | ||
But this is what they do. | ||
This is how they've been doing it, and you're absolutely right. | ||
There isn't yet the guts in D.C. | ||
enough to just leave with people the money that they worked hard to earn. | ||
Until we get there, we're gonna need to keep fighting. | ||
Richard, I'm going to get into the budget a minute and what we're into this budget year and I'm hearing already about top line numbers that are going to shock this audience of really no, no, no, no real change in direction. | ||
But I want to go back to Andrew Ross Sorkin and this kind of mantra you see on MSNBC, you see on CNBC, you're seeing it on CNN. | ||
Our economy is the strongest in the world. | ||
The economy, we just came off a quarter. | ||
of 1.6 percent. I mean, how can he say it's the strongest in the world? How can they allow Biden | ||
to say it's the strongest world without being challenged? | ||
We just had a quarter and correct me if I'm wrong, they had 1.6 percent growth in GDP, but we | ||
added, I think, 800 billion dollars in debt. So basically, 800 billion dollars in debt. We | ||
bought 300 billion dollars or so in growth. | ||
That's so anemic. | ||
I mean, we're in stagflation and it looks like we're going to go through the lost decades of what the Japanese did. | ||
Why does his statement that we have the strongest economy in the world go unchallenged? | ||
Because they've got control over the media, over Congress, they've got control over the universities. | ||
I mean, what's been happening recently, Hamas has taken over most of the universities in this country. | ||
That's the work of this left-wing uniparty we're talking about here. | ||
But you know, I think the important part, and I think you make the right point there, than what we've been seeing recently is anemic. | ||
But you know, when they say, oh, the US is the wealthiest, most advanced country, | ||
blah, blah, blah, what are they really talking about? | ||
They're talking about a 200 year plus foundation set by the founders of this country, | ||
produced, worked on, built on by good moral people in the United States, | ||
the people that cherish the founders' values, that represent the way that we do business in America. | ||
They built a country that is beyond impressive because they were devoted to those traditional values, | ||
to God's law, to a moral society. | ||
So what they have been doing is bleeding dry like a parasite off of the inertia | ||
of what the founders did and the first 200 or so years of our nation's history. | ||
So is it still a very strong country? | ||
Of course it is. | ||
But the last 40, 60 years have been the left slowly eating away at our institutions, our values, and the fabric of our economy to the point where I think you're right. | ||
We're on the precipice of lost decades, the way the Japanese went through, the way the Greeks have gone through, and it's all a result of this unit party slowly stealing us, strangling our ability to do things. | ||
You know, Warren Buffett is no friend of Trump and no fan of MAGA. | ||
And I think this was the first time they had the annual gathering in Omaha for Berkshire Hathaway without Charlie Munger. | ||
But he had some things to say about the economy. | ||
It's the first time I've heard him come out and actually talk about the unsustainability of the business model and the increases in debt. | ||
And he was pretty blunt. | ||
He charged the, and remember this guy's a Democrat, he charged the Uniparty on Capitol Hill with being, and he didn't single out Republicans or Democrats, the Uniparty, for being, not having the political will to basically cut spending the way you need to cut it to get on some sort of sustainable path. | ||
We didn't have these massive annual deficits. | ||
And he gave a warning shot, because the people who invest in Berkshire Hathaway obviously invest in other opportunities. | ||
He told him, he says, hey, the only way out of here, because you can't sustain this, the only way out is that you have to have, you're going to have to have massive tax increases. | ||
And he essentially said massive tax increases on the middle class. | ||
Your thoughts about Warren Buffett and his look at the future? | ||
Well, to be fair, he's spent decades pushing for tax increases on the middle class. | ||
You know, I think what we're seeing now, which is interesting, I agree with you that it's bizarre, it's a canary in the mine shaft, that even he is starting to pull back the curtain on this machine of the Fed printing dollars that are not representative of real productive capacity. | ||
that merely add inflation to the economy and try to boil the frog in the pot. | ||
But you know what's happening though is he and other people like him who have pushed for that spending, who have frankly made investments backed on where that government spending goes, where the Fed prints new money to send your purchasing power to, he's made investments and profits on that. | ||
He and the group of people like him have been doing that for decades, driving the spending the whole time through, saying, hey, why don't we tax? | ||
And it's never really a tax on him. | ||
It's a tax on small business owners. | ||
It's a tax on mid-sized businesses. | ||
They're taxes that would mean that poor Americans, that middle-income Americans can't get new job opportunities, can't see rising wages. | ||
So he's been pushing for that for decades. | ||
He has been part of this problem. | ||
And now, of course, what you're seeing is this breaking apart, this fractionalization of the Uniparty, where their own people like him are starting to recognize that the ship is about to sink, are trying to get rid of the first lifeboats and say, I didn't do that. | ||
I haven't been pushing that for decades. | ||
Listen to me. | ||
I'll tell you how to bail it out. | ||
And of course, The bailing out is always more taxes. | ||
So, you know what I mean? | ||
I think this is the racket that we've been seeing. | ||
So while I'm glad that he's starting to highlight what's going on, I would have appreciated him not having spent the last few decades creating this problem in the get-go. | ||
Talk about a problem that's come over decades. | ||
I'm hearing, I want to know, because you're inside baseball on this, they're working through now the top line numbers for the budget that we have to have done, the appropriations we have to have done by 30 September. | ||
MTG on the morning show said, hey, let me tell you, Because of the, and I thought she got tremendous support yesterday, but she said, by not outing Johnson, we are basically going to go into a situation, you're going to have to have another CR on September 30th. | ||
One, your thoughts on that, but two, I'm not hearing massive budget cuts that even the Republicans are putting forward. | ||
I'm hearing $60 billion to $100 billion, somewhere around that, where Biden put up $7.3 trillion Proposed budget. | ||
I'm hearing that this thing could come in at seven trillion dollars or north. | ||
Any thoughts on this? | ||
Well, I think it's definitely going to be, and I think she's probably right about that. | ||
But, you know, this is, again, this is the ruse they run here, where they try to do a shell game, but it's all the same members of Congress who push for the spending, who want the earmarks for their district. | ||
They go home and say, hey, I know inflation's bad, but I got you this grant. | ||
I got you this thing for you. | ||
My donor, you know, my specific special interest. | ||
So they're going to keep right on doing that. | ||
And, you know, I think that's exactly what's going on here, which is the pennies that Republicans in Congress talk about cutting pales in comparison to the trillions of dollars that Biden's asking for that the Democrats just sailed through, that $1.6 trillion you were talking about in the monologue. | ||
And, you know, as you were pointing out before, they can't even figure out how to spend this money as fast. | ||
So think of it this way. | ||
You've got conservatives, with air quotes, pretending to be, who say, well, I'm going to cut a dollar here or a dollar there, while Biden is out there trying to figure out how to divvy up a $1.6 trillion boondoggle to his donors and his friends. | ||
This is why we're bankrupt. | ||
Until we get real conservatives in Congress, we're going to keep at this kind of shell game. | ||
What we threw, President Trump, we win in November, he takes over and we get through Mark Elias and Jamie Raskin trying to thwart him from taking office. | ||
We get there on January 20th. | ||
Talk to me with the tax cuts. | ||
Going away, the Trump tax cuts, another $7 trillion Republicans will agree to in some sort of CR in the omnibus bill in the lame duck. | ||
How's President Trump, how are we going to make the case that we've got to also have these, the tax cuts got to go back in? | ||
Because the Democrats are immediately going to flip and go, oh my God, these deficits are so huge. | ||
Even the tax cuts, at least in the first couple of years, may add to that before they kick in like they did last time to be actually very net positive. | ||
But you've got to take a little bit of, there's a little bit of gap there. | ||
Walk me through how that's going to happen, because everybody's very focused on the Trump tax cuts. | ||
I've been telling people, you're embedding a situation that we're not going to be able to get to it because of where we're going to be financially, sir. | ||
Well, and that's what they're trying to do, actually, right? | ||
They want to try to kill this as much as possible and give that money to their friends. | ||
So I think the simple way that I'd say this to people is, whether it's deficits or tax increases, that's the way the government steals from you. | ||
And so at some level, it doesn't really matter. | ||
If the government steals from you for there are more deficits or by raising taxes or keeping taxes high and in fact an enormous amount of both fall ultimately on those small and mid-sized businesses that employ most people that drive new innovative technology. | ||
So for the Democrats to say oh my god you know if we cut taxes again for most Americans or for small businesses The debt will be bigger, sure, but it means we're cutting taxes. | ||
The problem with the left is they raise the deficit or raise taxes or both to fund more government spending, i.e. | ||
more government control and intrusion into our lives, into the quiet socialism of the government just simply owning everything in the country. | ||
So that's why it's still important to do the tax cuts. | ||
Because you're right, even if there's a little bit of a delayed impact, it frees the economy, it counters the socialism, and gives people back the money they earned, the control over their businesses, the control over their futures. | ||
And so that's why it's good to cut the taxes actually independent of the deficit impact. | ||
Because ultimately, deficits and taxes are just two different sides of the same coin of the government stealing from you. | ||
It's unbelievable. | ||
Richard, where can everybody go to get your analysis over to Heritage and to follow? | ||
You guys are putting up updates. | ||
You're very active on social media. | ||
Where do folks go? | ||
I appreciate it. | ||
You can find me at Rich A. Stern on Twitter, and of course you can find the stuff I write on heritage.org as well, along with that of all my colleagues and everything we're doing to try to fight this good fight. | ||
As always, thanks for having me on to highlight these sites. | ||
Thanks Richard. | ||
Another long, tough fight. | ||
I keep telling people you've got to look at President Trump right now. | ||
It's one year. | ||
We've got to look at it in a one-year component, breaking it down to three pieces. | ||
One piece is between now and November, and we're going to have a ton of speed bumps, as you saw in the 5 o'clock hour with the Stormy Daniels situation. | ||
All of their lawfare falling apart, but trust me, they have not given up on that. | ||
You've got Mark Elias. | ||
After we win, With massive turnout in November, you got Mark Elias and those demons have set all these traps that somehow they're going to try to reverse this thing and try to not allow President Trump to close on the victory, just like they didn't close on the victory in 2020. | ||
You watch, it's all coming. | ||
Then, once we get it, then, you know, Jamie, we're asking still, particularly if they take the house, even with one vote, they're going to try to sit there and not see him because he's an insurrectionist. | ||
All of that is coming. | ||
You can see that very clearly what they're doing. | ||
After we blow through all that and actually get to the inauguration day, the first hundred days, which will basically end around this time, the first hundred days of President Trump's second term is going to be a firefight. | ||
And remember, his tax cuts go away right then. | ||
He's going to be in a massive fiscal crisis, an economic crisis, an invasion of the southern border crisis. | ||
We've got to seal the border and then start the mass deportations. | ||
And you've got the kinetic part of the Third World War, from Ukraine to Israel, to the Red Sea, to the South China Sea, all of those coming together. | ||
And at the time, he's got to then make the case To put these tax cuts back in and the tax you just do the math at least even in I think the first or second year there's a little bit increase to the deficit of my math if I remember my math correctly. | ||
This is we're all building up this fight that's why this budget right here should be one where you start you start down low of 400 a four to five hundred billion dollar cut right out of the box you can do it. | ||
We can go back to the pre-pandemic days. | ||
Which I think in President Trump's last budget, I think it was $5 trillion, just over $5 trillion, right? | ||
They didn't cut a trillion and a half dollars off by just going back to pre-pandemic. | ||
And we had plenty of government then. | ||
They're going to argue, oh, you don't have the military, you don't have the military increase as well. | ||
We have to be convinced these military increases are smart. | ||
We have to be convinced that we're not looking the other way on economic warfare, on using our capital markets and using cutoff to technology, which people are not. | ||
We're not playing smash mouth, we're not playing hardball. | ||
One thing about these taxes, and look, if you think the fight for the Trump tax cut originally was tough, It was very tough and took a long time. | ||
It took us the entire first year. | ||
It wasn't approved, I think, until right before Christmas. | ||
This is nothing like what the second to to reinstall those tax cuts after they go away is going to be an absolutely brutal fight. | ||
This is why one of the because we only take sponsors that really tie in to our content. | ||
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Don't do, just put the letter in the drawer. | ||
You can't do that. | ||
That's not going to work. | ||
And here's why. | ||
They hired 10,000 new IRS agents for one reason. | ||
To come after the middle class and working class people. | ||
They're not going to go after the wealthy. | ||
The wealthy have battalions of tax lawyers, tax accountants, people that just specialize, not just lawyers, people that specialize in tax laws. | ||
Not just accountants and auditors, but people that specialize in the tax aspects of that. | ||
So they're coming after you. | ||
And they've got to get blood from the stone. | ||
It's just, it's obvious. | ||
It's obvious what they're going to try to do to pay for this apparatus. | ||
They want you to pay for it. | ||
We had Brody Mullins on today, earlier from the Wall Street Journal, talking about the wolves of K Street. | ||
They're not coming after the wolves of K Street because that's dialed into the system. | ||
They feel that you're just a support function for the system. | ||
And as a support function, what you're supposed to do is pay and pay up. | ||
And so they're going to be all over that. | ||
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Other, the other thing, I'm gonna try to get Rickards onto Mars. | ||
A bunch of stuff I gotta get him. | ||
If not, it'll be Monday or Tuesday. | ||
He's become a new contributor. | ||
But make sure, and people love him when he comes on. | ||
Go check out Strategic Intelligence. | ||
That's his newsletter. | ||
You do it by going to Rickard's War Room. | ||
That's all one word. | ||
Rickard's War Room. | ||
He's thrown in the free book. | ||
He's just redone a book they did a couple of years ago, but it's, it's a, it's an analysis of, uh, uh, Ron Paul's, uh, the new gold standard, uh, or the return to the gold standard, returning to gold called the case for gold. | ||
Ron Paul put it out, I think. | ||
Back even in the 80s, with President Reagan, to make an argument, they had a commission and decided not to go to the gold standard. | ||
He put the case out while they should. | ||
Make sure you go read it. | ||
Remember, here's the interesting thing. | ||
He's not a gold bug. | ||
He's never been a guy who said we should go to a gold standard, but he writes the new case for gold and you should get it. | ||
Also, see if you can't get him to give you currency wars, because currency wars are very important, particularly as you're seeing everything about the Chinese Communist Party now, not just hoarding gold, but hoarding other resources like oil and natural gas. | ||
People think that they may be on the verge of a massive devaluation to kind of reset their economy. | ||
So make sure also when you go to gym, see if you can't kick in Currency Wars also. | ||
It's an absolutely incredible book. | ||
Ben Harn was going to join me right after the break. | ||
Another incredible day, both. | ||
And this is what my biggest problem is with Johnson. | ||
And this is why we continue on this, okay? | ||
For the morning shows, the afternoon shows. | ||
We're not seeing the action. | ||
We clearly have his attention because now he's running around saying all this different stuff. | ||
He's talking about, you know, mass deportations. | ||
He's talking about, you know, the committees about they're violating with lawfare. | ||
They're violating the rule of law. | ||
We've heard all the talk. | ||
It's time now beyond talk because you're on the clock. | ||
That vote yesterday was a terrible vote for you. | ||
That was much tougher than the original vote for McCarthy. | ||
If the Democrats had sided with Hakeem Jeffries, today, Mike Johnson would be gone. | ||
He'd be absolutely gone. | ||
He'd be gone as of last night. | ||
Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats saved him. | ||
Why? | ||
He's been submissive to Hakeem Jeffries and passed everything Biden wanted, everything Hakeem Jeffries wanted, hasn't made any cuts anywhere. | ||
You've got this horrific spending. | ||
He didn't use any of the leverage to shut down the government and bring Biden to the negotiating table in Washington, D.C. | ||
The only thing they respond to is power. | ||
It's a spiritual war. | ||
At the end of the day, when you look at the parties and you look at the groups and you look at what's in back of them, it's a spiritual war, but it manifests itself In the physical sphere. | ||
And this is what the problem is, is that we're not using leverage. | ||
We're not being fighters. | ||
And I can tell you from Eli Crane saying Pace in Arizona, they gave him a standing ovation and we're booing Johnson when he says, which way should I vote? | ||
The same thing happened last night in Palm Beach, Florida, which is a totally different crowd. | ||
Totally different, but exactly the same. | ||
You know why? | ||
They're American patriots. | ||
And they're American patriots who not just love this country, they're American patriots who say, let's get it on. | ||
It's time for a fight. | ||
And a fight we have. | ||
And this is why, obviously, getting President Trump through this, but Johnson right now, first order of business, has got to be impaneled. | ||
Get Judiciary Committee off the dime. | ||
Get Judiciary Committee with a formal, formal, formal investigation. | ||
Let the subpoenas fly. | ||
The Democrats are not going to stop coming after you, not going to stop coming after President Trump, not trying to destroy, they will not stop in their path of destroying the America we know and love until they're braced up. | ||
The first step of bracing up, preserve your documents, send the subpoenas, let's get in front of Congress with those taped depositions like you saw Pomerantz. | ||
You saw Pomerantz take the fifth Across the board. | ||
Okay, we take a short commercial break. | ||
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I don't remember Capitol Hill, I gotta check this out, I don't remember Capitol Hill having any commemoration yesterday for VE Day, the 79th anniversary and just commemoration. | ||
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But the Russians do it. | ||
The following day, this is Victory Day, normally where they roll out the tanks and the missiles and really commemorate, and they take it as their victory over the German army. | ||
Give me your assessment of that, particularly as you look European-wide where we are today and with this Ukraine war, on the 79th anniversary of the Russians claiming their stake in the victory over the Nazis. | ||
That's right, Steve. | ||
Well, let me simply put the reason that the Russians celebrate this Victory in Europe Day on the 9th. | ||
It's simply because they're a couple of hours ahead. | ||
Moscow's a couple of hours ahead. | ||
So when the official ceasefire kicked in, I think it was 11 p.m. | ||
or something on London time, on May the 8th, that had already started as one in the morning on May the 9th. | ||
So that's why they have a slightly different day. | ||
Of course, it fits in perfectly. | ||
dovetails perfectly for the Russians, for Vladimir Putin, who started his war in Ukraine. | ||
We do call it a war. | ||
We don't call it a special military operation. | ||
We call it a war. | ||
He invaded Ukraine because he said he wanted to de-Nazify the country. | ||
And of course the Biden regime, Ursula von der Leyen, the presidents of the European | ||
Commission, the world's mainstream media, basically everybody piled in saying, everyone | ||
apart from of course the war room, piled in saying this is absolutely ridiculous, there | ||
are no Nazis. | ||
In Ukraine, this is just a pretext. | ||
And, of course, what we've seen, what even now the mainstream media itself, the honest elements of it, are starting to demonstrate, is there are Nazis, neo-Nazis, pro-Nazi movements, very, very powerful positions in Ukraine. | ||
And, of course, that dovetails nicely for Putin right now. | ||
to remind his own people, the Russian people, as to why they went in. | ||
So what Denver's very kindly popped up here on the screen now is an article in The Times, | ||
Murdoch Press. | ||
And this basically says, now, Steve, look, I follow Ukraine probably more closely than | ||
I have over the last two and a half years, more closely than I've ever followed any political | ||
foreign affairs event in my life. | ||
I've pretty much read every single article. | ||
I've spoken to people, journalists who've been out there, to Ukrainians who are here. | ||
I like to think I'm informed on what's going on in the country. | ||
There was something emerged, a factoid in the Times, and I have to say, I didn't know this. | ||
Since 2017, there'd been a ban in the United States on US arms going to the the Azov Brigade, the Azov Battalion, because of its, since 2017, okay, because of its decade-old accusations of Nazi links. | ||
That's all the time, Steve, that the White House was coming out and saying, you know, this is absolutely ridiculous, there are no Nazi elements In Ukraine, while they were saying that they themselves knew that they had, and it didn't originate with the Biden White House, since 2017 there had been an export embargo of arms manufactured by the United States to go into Ukraine to this specific brigade, the Azov Brigade. | ||
So that was a buried fact in this article. | ||
Which I think sort of illustrates everything. | ||
And of course it goes on to the other, it sort of follows this story that we hit a couple of weeks ago on the War Room about this Russian nationalist who left Russia. | ||
This is a guy, he left Russia because of his open pro-Nazi, pro-nationalist sympathies. | ||
Spent a couple of years in Germany where the German security services said this guy is | ||
a guy to watch. | ||
He's a nationalist. | ||
This guy then went to Ukraine and was helping fight against his own ethnic Russians, helping | ||
Zelensky fight them. | ||
Why? | ||
Because Russia under Putin wasn't nationalist enough for him, and Ukraine was. | ||
So all these things are starting to emerge now, and I think it does feed in to Putin's narrative, and the parallels with the 79 years ago and the huge fights that then-allies, obviously, the Soviet Union had made, the huge, massive sacrifices that they'd made Fighting Nazism. | ||
These things will all go together for them, Steve. | ||
But one thing, it doesn't seem like the ultra-nationalist Russians that are Nazis and the Azov Brigade, which I think are Ukrainians that are Nazis, they're also ultra-nationalist. | ||
Correct me if I'm wrong, as I've kept up with those two and followed them, they don't seem like they have a recruiting problem. | ||
The recruiting problem he seems to have is with the general overall Ukrainian army. | ||
Remember, he had the two generals, two of the most revered guys in Ukraine, stood up to Zelensky and said, look, at an average age of 42 years old, And since these now tactics are very much like the the Western front of what we in World War one essentially trench warfare where you're Giving up lives for inches every day We need a massive infusion 500,000 this year of kids give me an update on that because it seems like it appears like two of the most robust fighting elements | ||
In the Ukrainian army happened to be Nazis. | ||
Now, we were told by MSNBC and CNN that that was all a lie, that was all misrepresentation, not to go back to the commemoration of the great victory and to bring up, you know, unpleasant times. | ||
But when the Wehrmacht came across Ukraine in, you know, in 1941, Uh, they had at least half the country of the Ukrainians, at least half the country was on the site. | ||
Now, Stalin and the Bolsheviks had starved 5 million Ukrainians and many Jewish people. | ||
I would actually argue that this is just one level down or two levels down from the Holocaust itself. | ||
They had starved, being, and they were, it's Kansas. | ||
It is one of the most fertile places in the world. | ||
That grain was all shipped back to Russia because Russia was turning their peasants and serfs into a mass industrialization movement. | ||
They wanted all the agriculture to come from Ukraine. | ||
So I could see why Ukrainians had a, were not big fans of the Red Army, not big fans of Stalin. | ||
But this history of World War II, which is also predicated on vendettas that go back centuries and centuries, is the lived experience of that area today. | ||
And that's why Americans who, by the way, don't really think much about World War II today, unless they're seeing a movie, you know, of Steven Spielberg or, you know, like I said last night in the speech, the World War II for Americans is Pearl Harbor, Normandy, the Holocaust, and Hiroshima. | ||
And that's it. | ||
Over there, it's a lived experience even today, and it seems like we've been financing, and maybe we had an embargo on Azov, but we've been financing something that, at least Putin said, denazification. | ||
He may not be that wrong, but it looks like two of the most robust fighting units they've got are the ultra-nationalist Russians, who thinks Putin's a wimp, and the Azov were just flat-out Nazis, including the insignias on their uniforms, sir. | ||
That's right, Steve. | ||
And you mentioned, you touched on an important point to understand the internal political dynamics. | ||
Obviously, this is the time when, yesterday, when Putin was just inaugurated for his fifth term as president. | ||
Within the dynamic of Russia, he's obviously cast by the Western mainstream media as being some kind of ultra-nationalist exponent within the Russian political system. | ||
He's actually got different factions himself that he has to balance, and to his own Right flank, if one can use that term. | ||
There are people who are a lot more nationalist than he is, and bombarding him on social media for his moderation in Ukraine. | ||
So he does have that right flank. | ||
And it's not an insignificant one. | ||
I'd say, I'd put it personally, that about between 10 and 15 percent of the Russian population actually think that That Putin is too moderate. | ||
That's a non-insignificant proportion. | ||
So he does have his own factions. | ||
Even dictators have factions. | ||
Even dictators without elections have factions that they have to balance. | ||
And that's definitely the case in Russia as well. | ||
Now, with regards to the manpower issue, there's something that emerged today, which I think you'll find interesting. | ||
This is from an MP, a parliamentarian from Zelensky's servants of the People Party, Elena Shulyak, who put out on social media a new measure that hasn't yet been confirmed by President Zelensky, but it's something that they're working on. | ||
This is basically an illustration, Steve, of how Professor Mearsheimer's prophecy, sad, tragic prophecy, that the West was going to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian, how fighting Ukraine down to the last Ukraine actually looks in practice. | ||
You remember that we touched a couple of weeks ago on the show how, and this is unheard of in modern combat, when someone loses a limb and they have a prosthetic put on, those people, you know, they're never sent back to the front line in any theatre of war. | ||
They are being, in Ukraine, people who've lost like two limbs are being strapped together and sent back. | ||
That's fighting That's fighting Russia down to the last Ukrainian. | ||
There's this story today, and what they're doing now is they're trying to mobilize prisoners to try to boost their ranks. | ||
And you can see that the problem that they have here is that not everyone is going to be eligible for this call-up. | ||
The mobilization, for example, Steve, will not apply to prisoners. | ||
convicted of the willful killing of more than two people. | ||
So if you've killed one person, that's fine. | ||
And you can go to the front lines. | ||
If you killed more, if you killed more than two people, obviously they have their standards. | ||
They're not going. | ||
I'm saying- Hold on, hang on, hang on. | ||
It's not, it's not, hang on. | ||
It's not if you killed one person, you're fine. | ||
If you killed two people, you're fine. | ||
You killed a couple, not a problem. | ||
You kill a couple plus one, you got a problem, right? | ||
You can't serve. | ||
Yeah, yeah, basically. | ||
Steve, this is fine. | ||
This is what it looks like in practice when you are, when one country is being used | ||
to fight another country down to its last citizen. | ||
It sounds ridiculous. | ||
It sounds like it's just a joke on The Onion. | ||
No, it's absolutely true. | ||
This is what is happening in a country that is finding its available fighting force depleted every day. | ||
Because the Russians are accelerating. | ||
They're not pausing. | ||
They're increasing their drone bombardments. | ||
Don't don't don't don't bury the lead. | ||
The lead is there is a rational actor in this. | ||
That's the parents of the young men. | ||
Remember the whole reason for the call for volunteers that failed and then going and taking a year. | ||
It took them a year to get passage on this draft because they knew that could bring down | ||
the Zelensky government in an overthrow. | ||
It took them a year to get it through and it's not even really being implemented, is | ||
that the parents were paying up to $10,000. | ||
I think these are people who make $950 a month. | ||
They're paying up to $5,000 and $10,000 to get their kids out of there and get them into | ||
the rest of Europe. | ||
Why? | ||
Understand that this is not really fighting for Ukraine anymore | ||
The whole situation with the eastern provinces, Russian-speaking provinces of the Donetsk and Crimea, we have said on the show, has been settled for a while, right? | ||
Unless you go, unless the West goes tactical nuke and then he'll hit you back, you're not | ||
going to get those territories back because the entire momentum has been on the, been | ||
on the other side. | ||
And Zelensky's thrown so much, so much, not just money and firepower into this, or at | ||
least half of what we sent over there, but he's turned this into a Toronto house for | ||
young people. | ||
The parents understand what's going on. | ||
They don't want their kids involved in this. | ||
And they don't care what general steps up. | ||
They don't care what Zelensky has to say. | ||
They don't care all the speeches or all Victoria Nuland going over there. | ||
They're adamant. | ||
Their kids, their most precious asset, are not going to get thrown into the fire pit of war over there, sir. | ||
Steve, that's right. | ||
But it's not only kids that are being removed from the firing line because of their concerned parents. | ||
To come back to this bill, if I may, just to finish this, this bill has just had its second reading in the Ukrainian parliament. | ||
Also exempted Are people convicted? | ||
This is exempted from mobilization, Steve. | ||
People convicted while holding important political positions won't be sent to the front. | ||
Oh my God. | ||
That's disgusting. | ||
That's revolting. | ||
That's revolting. | ||
No, that's revolting. | ||
That's why this whole thing's sick, and us funding it is sick. | ||
These people, these people are the worst. | ||
Zelensky and that crowd, they're driving this every day. | ||
They're taking it from America taxpayers, and they exempt themselves, their buddies, and their friends' children because they're in important political positions. | ||
That's exempt. | ||
I don't know why the parents in Ukraine do not overthrow this crowd. | ||
It's sick. | ||
It's twisted and it's sick. | ||
And it's led to everything we said it was going to lead to. | ||
We've been dead spot on in this in over the two years that we've covered this fiasco. | ||
And for the people that funded it, the Victorian New Orleans of the world, they'll burn in a deep pit of hell for what they did to the Ukrainian people on this. | ||
Ben Harnwell, we've got to bounce. | ||
Any closing observations? | ||
The war is going badly for Ukraine. | ||
I've got a couple of articles. | ||
We don't have time to hit them now, but this is, for example, I just mentioned these things. | ||
I'll post them perhaps on our Rumble channel where there's more space to do these things. | ||
An article in the Washington Post that refers to the meat grinder of the war, talking about how Russian | ||
and Ukrainian casualties are rising. | ||
That's on the headlines, Steve, that the war, the meat grinder. | ||
You know, it's almost now to see sort of terminology that we've been using on the war room is now | ||
filtering through to the mainstream media. | ||
And that's, of course, the Langley Bugle itself. | ||
And I think that's of a certain interest. | ||
An article in the similar story in The Economist, Ukraine's draft judges are living in fear. | ||
Hold those back. | ||
I want to go into those tomorrow. | ||
Because the Ukraine thing, they're about to drop on the American people, which they lied about. | ||
They're about to drop on the American people. | ||
They are working on a 10 year financing plan for the war, 10 years, which is gonna lead | ||
into this budget. | ||
More importantly, they are handcuffing President Trump every day as they try to de-Trumpify | ||
the budget going forward. | ||
So when President Trump would come back and take office, there's certain limitations on | ||
the sanctions against the Russians, certain limitations on NATO, what he can do there, | ||
and big limitations on what he can do for this 10 year funding plan they wanna get in | ||
place before election day. | ||
So this is all, we've been on this from the beginning. | ||
This is a complete and total scam, and the people that are on our side are the parents of the kids in Ukraine. | ||
And you're seeing they're doing everything possible to get their kids out of there, make sure they try to have some semblance of a life. | ||
Ben Harnwell, your engagement is amazing at Getter, because your content's incredible. | ||
Where do people go? | ||
Thanks, Steve. | ||
Simply tap in my surname, Harnwell, at Harnwell on Getter. | ||
And to flag up for the show tomorrow, we've got some developments on corruption apps coming out of the political system in Ukraine. | ||
Big stories there. | ||
I'll highlight it now. | ||
We'll hit it tomorrow. | ||
Folks at home, you're not going to want to miss what we have for you tomorrow. | ||
Thanks very much, Steve. | ||
God bless. | ||
Ben Harnwell, head of our International Bureau. | ||
We've also got so much other international news, I may have to carve out an hour for Ben so we can go through everything. | ||
Ben Harnwell, thank you so much. | ||
Honored to have you on here. | ||
Thanks, Steve. | ||
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