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Feb. 17, 2026 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 5147: An American Tet Offensive; Remembering Robert Duvall

Sam Fattis warns of an "American Tet Offensive"—a Marxist movement funded by Cuba, China, and dark money NGOs, with DSA figures like AOC pushing totalitarian goals, while schools fuel radicalized youth protests. Taj Gill calls Ukraine a "criminal organization," criticizing Zelensky’s corruption amid 2M+ casualties in the war. George Papadopoulos argues sanctions accelerated BRICS’ de-dollarization, urging Russia’s reintegration to stabilize the dollar and proposing Ukraine’s ethnic division as the only path to peace. Bannon ties Trump’s potential role to economic leverage, framing geopolitical shifts as existential threats to U.S. sovereignty and financial dominance. [Automatically generated summary]

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george papadopoulos
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sam faddis
07:29
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steve bannon
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mike lindell
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robert duvall
02:04
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tej gill
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marlon brando
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American Tet Offensive 00:13:01
steve bannon
As I read.
But let's not miss the fact that we have a coordinated, well-funded, and I think insurgencies of terrorist organizations, however you want to call it, literally trying to prevent legal laws from being endorsed in the United States, enforced in the United States.
That's customs and border head Rodney Scott testifying before Congress.
I continue on in this piece.
The man speaks the truth.
The mainstream media continues to push the narrative that all we are seeing are peaceful protests.
Most conservative commentators remain content to ridicule participants in the ongoing anti-ICE actions around the country and dismiss them with derogatory comments and sarcasm.
No one, it seems, wants to take the time to step back and appreciate the magnitude of what we are facing.
There is a growing Marxist revolutionary movement in this country.
Its goal is not to reform.
It is the destruction of the existing political, economic, and social order.
It operates coast to coast.
It is well-funded.
Many of the organizations have ties to hostile foreign governments like Cuba and Communist China, leftist billionaires, dark money NGOs pump vast quantities of cash into an infrastructure designed to collapse the Republic and replace it with an expressly Marxist totalitarian state.
This movement is emboldened.
It regards the withdrawal of ICE from Minneapolis as a victory.
It has now set its sights on May Day actions nationwide.
That, too, will be the end of nothing.
The battle will continue and intensify until the goal is achieved.
That article is from an American Tet Offensive.
It is by the great Sam Fattis.
Let me bring in Sam Fantas now.
Thank you for the music, guys.
We can bring that down.
Thank you very much.
Sam, thank you for the music also.
Sam Fattis, I am shocked.
Your amazing piece on And magazine about an American Tet Offensive.
What has shocked me is that so many people I know that are quite sophisticated, when they read it, they can't believe it.
They can't connect the dots.
They don't think it's this serious.
They think it's, we've got these Democrats and these are peaceful protesters.
And yes, there's some bad elements of Antifa.
And some of this got out of control, but we tried our best and we took out a couple thousand bad ombres and picked up some kids.
And so, and Tom Holman told us over the weekend, it's successful and we're going to try to do it in other cities.
You were the first person, I think, to lay it out and say you're not seeing what's happening here.
This is a Tet Offensive.
People remember in Vietnam, the Tet Offensive caught us totally by surprise.
It was not totally successful, but it was an inflection point to put the communists on the path to victory.
What did you mean by that?
What do you mean that this was what happened in Minneapolis, what's happening around the country is an American Tet Offensive.
And what do you mean by this is a Marxist revolutionary movement that we're up against?
sam faddis
Well, I think you just put your finger on Steve when you said, look, people trivialize this.
And by people, I mean the people on our side, right?
Yeah, there's some crazy people with green hair out in the street and they're screaming or they're assaulting individual officers.
Okay, this is all, it doesn't really threaten the Republic as such, and it's all sort of disjointed, and it's annoying, but generally inconsequential.
And that is by orders of magnitude missing the point.
I mean, that's why I use the analogy of the Tet Offensive.
We were sitting there in 1968 talking about declaring victory.
We're winning the war, and the ground catches fire under our feet all over the country.
I mean, in the Tet Offensive, all of a sudden we turned around and the U.S. embassy in the heart of Saigon was under siege.
We missed it completely.
And that is exactly what's happening now.
You have massive organizations.
That song you just played by the Communist Party of USA, I didn't make that up.
You can pull that off their website.
Every time you see one of these big demonstrations or actions in the city, you will see these guys marching by the hundreds and thousands with banners and signs.
You've got guys like Neville Roy Singham, but there's a dozen, two dozen of them, billionaires working with hostile foreign powers, pumping hundreds of millions of dollars probably into this effort.
And it is not about ICE.
It's not about Palestine.
I mean, it's not about any one of those specific issues in and of itself.
It is about literally destroying the Republic.
Democratic Socialists of America, which would be Zorhan Mamdani's party, also AOC's, et cetera, they just had a seminar called Abolishing the Family.
Their express purpose is to do away with the building block of society.
So we've got a massive ongoing communist revolutionary movement in the country, very well funded.
Communist Chinese chip in, the Cubans chip in, all kinds of bad actors chip in.
And we're busy arresting individual persons in the street in Minneapolis for assaulting an ICE agent, which obviously we should, and doing nothing to tear this thing out by the roots, which ought to be our number one priority.
It's cutting off the funding, and the organizers and conspirators ought to all be in custody.
steve bannon
David Horowitz, who along with Trevor Louden, I think are two of the individuals.
David Horowitz has passed away, but the great David Horowitz, who used to be, I think, a Marxist as a young man, supported the Black Panthers that transitioned and became a hardcore conservative, somebody I was honored to know for a number of years.
In fact, he was in a movie that I made with Andrew Breitbart about this very topic.
He's the one that taught me this phrase, and I would like you to describe it, what it means to the audience.
He said, Steve, the issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the revolution.
What do they mean by that?
sam faddis
Yeah, so the goal is revolution, which means, as I said in the article, destroying completely the existing political, economic, and social order.
I add social because, as I said, these guys want to do away with the family union.
So anything you are screaming about and using as a cause is just a lever, is just a, you know, it's just a point at which you can divide society.
It's a means to the end.
The point here is not to stop ICE deportations or any other cause of the weak.
Those are just tools to use.
And the goal is absolutely, as breathtaking as it probably is for most Americans, to destroy everything, politically, economically, and socially.
And here's the scary part: these guys are way down the road.
The DSA, Democratic Socialist America, is an expressly communist organization dedicated to that proposition.
Well, their guy is the mayor of New York City now, and they have substantial representation in Congress, and they're getting ready to take over the entire Democratic Party.
That's not a joke or an exaggeration.
They stand on the verge of doing that.
These guys are way down the road, and we're still sitting here pretending like it's not happening.
Like back to Tet, you know, we'll turn around tomorrow.
Everything will be on fire around you, and you will be scratching your head saying, where did this come from?
Well, it's right in front of you, man.
Just wake up.
steve bannon
We started the morning show with over an hour just on Colorado, the voting systems, Georgia, the fights we have down there.
One of their purposes is to create chaos.
And from chaos comes anarchy.
And then they want the government to overreact.
And then they take it and they play with their media partners to ratchet it up.
Why do we seem that there are very few people at a senior level that actually understands that this is organized with the deep state to take down the United States of America?
They must take down the United States of America to destroy Judeo-Christian civilization in the Christian West, sir.
sam faddis
Well, I mean, there's the $60,000 question, but I think basically on some level, we just don't want to face the enormity of it.
I mean, back to my analogy about Minneapolis.
Okay, if somebody's assaulting a nice agent in the street in Minneapolis, should they be arrested?
Obviously.
Is that the solution to this problem?
No, that's not the solution to this problem.
The solution to the problem is to tear out by the roots the organizations, the revolutionary organizations on our soil that are doing this, that are setting the country on fire.
And absolutely, they want chaos.
They also lied.
Let's just keep that in mind.
When the Bolsheviks took over in 1917, before they staged the coup, when they got themselves elected, they ran on a platform of peace, land, and bread.
They didn't say anything about show trials and firing squads and killing millions of people in famine.
They told you whatever you needed to hear in that moment.
The goal remains the same.
The goal is to destroy the republic.
steve bannon
And they were pretty obvious.
We're not going to give land to any of the serfs or any of the peasants.
They're very well organized in two things.
Number one, I'm going to talk about DSA and the organization, but also you see these young people, they've used the schools.
This was all the controlled opposition of the Republican Party never took serious education.
We'd play on the margins of it.
sam faddis
Yes.
steve bannon
Right.
But they've used these schools, the private schools, the top schools in the country.
They've used the public schools to be basically a madrasa for revolution.
And that's why the kids you see, and they see them coming out of taking these, going to the streets with the teachers with the pink hair saying it, it's like you're watching the movie The Village of the Damned, right?
Or the Children of the Damned.
You don't recognize these kids, but they are the Red Guard.
Just like the Red Guard drove the struggle sessions back in the Chinese Communist Party during the 60s, you're seeing it now, sir.
sam faddis
Yeah, well, I think the Red Guard analogy is dead on.
And also, let's keep in mind, I mean, I always say the injection point of all this ideology was the colleges and universities.
Okay, but not, it didn't start last week.
It didn't start last year.
This started decades ago.
So it's not just that if your kid goes to Harvard now, he's going to be fed communist ideology.
It's where are all the kids who went through Harvard 20 and 30 years ago and were indoctrinated?
Well, those are all your teachers.
Those are all your school administrators.
The entire structure, the whole educational structure of the United States is now infected with that ideology.
And look, the president of the NEA, the National Educational Association, the Teachers Union, biggest union in the country, I think, she went on with the Sunrise Movement, which is a Marxist movement focused on the schools, what on a webinar back a few weeks ago now.
And she said expressly on the webinar, she was pledging the use of every one of the members of her union to the Sunrise movement, which is dedicated to overthrowing capitalism.
It's an expressly Marxist organization.
She said straight up, we didn't shy about it.
It wasn't a secret message.
She was on a webinar with thousands of people on it saying, every one of the teachers and administrators that belongs to my union is at your disposal.
Within days thereafter, all these alleged spontaneous school actions began all across the country.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to connect those dots.
There were an entire teachers' union working for this movement.
steve bannon
When they get to Harvard, they've already had, they've gone to the best schools in the country, the best private schools, by and large.
They're already totally indoctrinated.
Their parents don't even recognize them, how radical they are.
DSA, by the way, this is why Senate District 9.
There are a lot of reasons it happened.
Cold weather, lack of turnout, some of Trump's strongest supporters just didn't know it was going to be on Saturday.
But DSA was very organized.
Sam, we got to bounce.
Where do people go to get this and where do they go on social media?
Because this is a conversation that is the conversation that we have to drive.
Smells Like Victory Someday 00:10:48
sam faddis
Easiest place to find me is at Ann Magazine on Substacks.
That's AND Magazine.substack.com.
But I'm on X, I'm on Getter, I'm on everything.
But Ann Magazine site at Substack will get you there.
steve bannon
Thank you, brother.
sam faddis
Thank you.
steve bannon
And you're seeing the culture right now.
This is Bruce Springsteen, the song that went to number one before it was replaced by our own Natasha Owens, who had a countersong to it.
This is a full-on.
They're coming at every aspect of this.
This is a full-on Marxist shihadist movement.
Look at New York City.
It's full on, and our attention's scattered.
It must be maniacally focused, and we must take action, or we're going to be overwhelmed.
That's what they hope.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
One of the greatest actors in the history of this country passed away today at 95 years old.
We'll talk about that next in The War Room.
unidentified
I like about the man, he's a philosopher.
Oh, yeah.
I hired him to give you somebody to talk to.
That'll free the rest of us up, maybe.
We'll get a little work done.
I like a shot of whiskey and so would my companion.
It ain't too much trouble.
I'm going to have to quit winning here.
Oh, I like it.
Howdy, boy, you got a good game going there?
Who the hell is that?
You got muddy ears or what?
steve bannon
Right, or what'll it be, old timer?
unidentified
Rye will do, provided it gets here quick.
I'm ain't proud of it.
tej gill
You darn cowboys ought to broom yourselves off before you walk in here.
steve bannon
You get all the sand we need without the customers bringing it in.
unidentified
That'll be a dollar.
Besides the whiskey, I think will require a little respect.
I'm Captain Augustus McRae.
This is Captain Woodrow F. Carl.
Now, if you care to turn around, you can see how we looked when we was younger, and the people around here wanted to make us senators.
Now, the thing we didn't put up with then was dawdling service.
And as you can see, we still don't put up with it.
steve bannon
Get out of here!
mike lindell
Get out of here!
unidentified
Oh, what are you doing?
Now then.
If I could have a fresh glass, please.
It just broke my nose, you old son of a...
Well, here's to the sunny slopes.
Long go.
Hey, listen to this.
The turkey, he wants to talk.
You got you imagine a nerve-on-the son of a bitch.
steve bannon
Hey, crap's out last night.
He wants a meeting today.
unidentified
What did he say?
What did he say?
But a beep, but a beep, but a boop, but a beep.
steve bannon
He wants us to send Michael to hear the proposition.
unidentified
And the promise is that the deal is so good that we can't refuse.
Hey, what about Bruno Tatari?
It's part of the deal.
tej gill
Bruno cancels out what they did to my father.
unidentified
Sonny, we ought to hear what they had to say.
No.
No more.
Not this time, Consolieri.
No more meetings, no more discussions, no more Salazzo tricks.
You give him one message.
george papadopoulos
I want Salazzo tonight.
unidentified
That's all our war.
We go to the back.
Some of the other families wants to steal that.
Hey, handy Salazzo.
Father wouldn't want to hear this.
This is business, not personal.
They shot my father's business.
robert duvall
Even the shooting of your father was business, not personal, Sonny.
unidentified
Well, then, business will have to suffer, all right?
And listen, do me a favor, Tom.
No more advice on how to patch things up.
steve bannon
Just help me win, please, all right?
unidentified
I found out about this Captain McCluskey who broke Mike's jaw.
What about him?
Now, he's definitely on Salazzo's payroll and for big money.
See?
McCluskey has agreed to be the Turk's bodyguard.
What you have to understand, Sonny, is that while Salazzo is being guarded like this, he is invulnerable.
Now, nobody has ever gunned down a New York police captain, never.
It would be disastrous.
All the five families would come after you, Sonny.
The Corleone family would be outcast.
Even the old man's political protection would run for cover.
So do me a favor.
robert duvall
Take this into consideration.
unidentified
Look at me, Maddie.
You're under arrest.
Elizabeth!
Buzzard, get out of here.
Go on!
Elizabeth!
Elizabeth!
What were you gonna do?
I don't know.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
robert duvall
Oh, guys like you always say you don't know what you're gonna do until you do it.
unidentified
I think you know exactly what you were gonna do.
You were gonna kill your wife and child.
Oh, yeah.
robert duvall
And then you know it'd be too late to turn back.
It would be real easy to turn the gun around on yourself.
unidentified
Now let's go meet some nice policemen.
They're good guys.
robert duvall
Come on, let's go.
unidentified
I'm the bad guy?
Yeah.
How did that happen?
I did everything they told me to.
Did you know I build missiles?
Yeah.
I helped to protect America?
You should be rewarded for that.
Did they give it to the plastic surgeon?
You know, they lied to me.
steve bannon
Is that what this is about?
unidentified
You're angry because you got lied to?
robert duvall
Is that why my chicken dinner's drying out in the oven?
unidentified
Hey, they lie to everybody.
They lie to the fish.
But that doesn't give you any special right to do what you did today.
The only thing that makes you special is that little girl.
Now let's go.
Let's go!
I trust you're not being too hasty yourself, Colonel.
This is a great opportunity for you to serve your country.
My country, Mr. Blair?
I never thought I lived to see the day that the President of the United States would raise an army to invade his own country.
No, Mr. Blair, I cannot lead it.
I will not lead it.
I'm putting the network news show under programming.
Mr. Ruddy has had a mild heart attack and is not taking calls.
In his absence, I'm making all network decisions, including one I've been wanting to make a long time.
robert duvall
You're fired.
unidentified
I want you out of this building by noon.
robert duvall
I'll call the security guards and have you thrown out if you're still here.
sam faddis
Well, let's say f you, Haggart.
unidentified
You want me out of here?
sam faddis
You're gonna have to drag me out kicking and screaming and the whole news division kicking and screaming with me.
robert duvall
You think they're gonna quit their jobs for you, not in this recession, buddy?
unidentified
When Ruddy gets back, he'll have your ass.
robert duvall
I gotta hit Schumacher, and Ruddy doesn't count anymore.
He was hoping I fought on my face with his Beale Show, but I didn't.
It's a big, fat, big pinned hit, and I don't have to waffle around with Ruddy anymore.
If he wants to take me up before the CCA board, let him.
Do you think Ruddy is stupid enough to go to the CCA board and say, I'm taking our one hit show off the air?
It comes November 14, I'm gonna be standing up there at the annual CCA management review meeting, and I'm gonna announce projected earnings for this network for the first time in five years.
And believe me, Mr. Jensen's gonna be sitting there rocking back and forth in his little chair, and he's gonna say, that's very good, Frank.
unidentified
Keep it up.
robert duvall
So don't have any illusions about who's running this network from now on.
You're fired.
I want you out of your office before noon, or I'll have you thrown out.
unidentified
Give me those shorts.
For me and the boys.
I'm gonna see you do your stuff for them.
Out there.
Hey!
Nothing else in the world smells like that.
I love the smell of pipe palm in the morning.
robert duvall
You know one time we had a hailbomb?
For 12 hours, when it was all over, I walked up.
We didn't find one of them, not one stinking big body.
unidentified
Smell!
robert duvall
You know that gasoline smell?
unidentified
The whole hell.
robert duvall
Smells like victory someday this war is gonna end Michael why are you cutting me out of the action?
steve bannon
We're gonna be legitimate all the way Tom you're the legal man.
What's more important than that?
unidentified
I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about Rocco Lampone building a secret regime And why does Neri report directly to you instead of through me or the couple regimes?
How'd you find that out?
Well, Rocco's men are a little too good for their jobs.
I mean, they're getting more money than the job is worth.
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marlon brando
I thought this wouldn't escape his eye.
unidentified
Mike, why am I out?
steve bannon
You're not a wartime consolier, Tom.
unidentified
Do you know, Dad, not one of us has ever beaten you in a single game?
Not checkers, not dominoes, not softball, nothing.
Watch it, Ben.
He's getting that look.
Come on, Olympia.
robert duvall
Come over here to Daddy Bull.
unidentified
It's all over, Colonel.
Get out of here before I'm not going to be flicking off your face!
You mean?
Wasn't that great?
You mean it?
george papadopoulos
Come on, Jocko.
robert duvall
You got to win by two baskets.
steve bannon
He said one.
robert duvall
I changed my mind.
unidentified
Let's go.
No, you're not going to cheat the boy out of his victory.
Come on, be a good sport.
Who the hell asked you anything?
Don't you talk to me like that?
I'll play him, Mark.
No, you won't.
Now, he beat you, and it was beautiful.
robert duvall
Lily, you better get in the house before I kick your butt.
unidentified
It was just beautiful.
robert duvall
No, I mean it.
unidentified
Come on, let's go.
Hurry, come on.
Touch that boy.
You've got to move, woman.
Hi!
Come on, let's go.
robert duvall
Come on.
unidentified
He's beating you.
Get out of here.
Kind of like winning, huh, Dad?
Get smart with me, Jock.
I'll kick your butt.
robert duvall
Now, come on, guard me.
You got to win by two.
unidentified
Look at a guard today.
Hey, hey, why?
Hey, hey, Mama.
Why?
Mama's boy.
robert duvall
I bet you're going to cry.
unidentified
Come on, Mama's boy.
robert duvall
I see you cry.
unidentified
Come on.
Squirt a few.
Come on.
Cry.
Come on, cry.
Come on.
Come on.
robert duvall
Just a few.
Come on.
unidentified
Squirt a few.
Come on.
steve bannon
Squirt a few.
unidentified
Come on.
Cry.
Cry.
One, two, three.
robert duvall
One, two, three.
unidentified
Cry.
Come on.
Come on, baby.
Come on, little girl.
Cry.
Cry.
My favorite daughter, Ben.
robert duvall
I swear to God, you're my sweetest little girl.
unidentified
This little girl just whipped your ass good, Colonel.
steve bannon
Robert Duvall, dead at 95 years old.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
I'm going to return, but we will have Tej Gill and George Papadopoulos next in the war room.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon
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is weakening because of this highly leveraged bet on artificial intelligence.
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So how do you think this through?
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Taj Gill, given your years in the military and then as a contractor, the appetite of American combat, of course, the American soldier, Marine, Special Force, are going to go where the commander-in-chief, unlike the Democrats that try to get involved in this, they'll go where the commander-in-chief tells them to go.
But we hear Zelensky over the weekend talking, we got George Papadopoulos coming on from Rome in a moment.
You hear this talk of a 20-year security guarantee, European countries like France and the UK putting troops in at the line of contact and an implication they're going to want American troops.
I know President Trump will never agree to that, but just your, what do you think the appetite is of the average fighting man and woman about getting involved in Ukraine?
tej gill
Yeah, I think that the appetite is low to zero for doing this for 20 years, Steve, especially with Ukraine.
You know, they've killed American journalists.
They're embezzling our money.
We've already spent $300 billion, $350 billion in U.S. taxpayer money on Ukraine and got nothing out of it.
I don't think we should do it at all.
You know, like you said, the young soldiers, yeah, they're gung-ho because when you go in the military, you want to fight.
But I think the average American citizen, they want nothing to do with this.
People want America to flourish, not Ukraine.
We want the money here.
We want the money for our children, for our communities, for our cities, for our airports, not to get pushed over to Ukraine, especially Ukraine.
Ukraine is just a giant criminal organization.
Zelensky and his cabinet are funneling all of this money into their personal bank accounts and getting rich beyond anybody's imagination.
That's where all this money goes.
So I say no.
And I know all my friends who are operators, special operators, do not like this idea of Ukraine.
They think it's stupid.
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steve bannon
George Papadopoulos.
Thank you, sir.
George Papadopoulos has been kind enough to join us from.
So, first of all, the question people are going to ask is: what is an American doing in Moscow?
What were you doing there?
You spoke in an institute.
I thought, you know, the mainstream media, the Atlantic Council, says we're at war really with Russia, not Ukraine's at war with Russia, not the West, not the EU, but America's at war with Russia.
So tell us why you were there and what did you see when you were there?
george papadopoulos
Yes, Steve.
So I spoke at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, a very high-profile event, over 500 attendees, many members of the Russian government.
There were some foreign speakers there, but the mainstream media tells you that there's a war going on between the United States and Russia.
Do you know what the real war is?
It's the attempt to de-dollarize the global economy that you've been talking about here on your show.
And the acceleration towards the de-dollarization and the attack on the U.S. dollar has really been instigated by the sanctions that the Biden administration and before that, the Obama administration imposed on the Russian economy.
And what did that actually do, Steve?
It made, it ossified the relationship between China and Russia, and it created the so-called BRICS movement, which is an attempt to not only create a new global financial and economic architecture, but also potentially political and security, which would enmesh the Russian and the Chinese economies and enmesh them politically and militarily, which would not bode well for U.S. or European interests.
Now, we've already seen the Russians and other countries try to trade in their own currencies against the U.S. dollar.
And this is a direct threat to our economy.
Now, how do you improve the situation, Steve?
This is what the negotiations send the war all about.
You also have reports that the Russian government now would like to re-enter into the dollar trade economy to stop trading as much in the Chinese currencies and to get closer to the United States and have U.S. companies and capital invest in Russia and vice versa.
This is really what the big picture is here, Steve.
It's not simply about some territory or some people dying in Ukraine or parts of Crimea or Russia.
It's about the future of the global economy, finance and security for the next 75 years.
And that's something I really got a chance to learn firsthand in Moscow just a couple of days ago.
steve bannon
Okay, this is the whole thing about de-dollarization: is that when the Biden administration did something that we didn't do the Nazis in World War II, we didn't do it to Imperial Japan or the Bolsheviks.
We actually not just took their assets, we essentially stole the Russian people's assets because we started either using it to loans or they actually wanted to use the cash.
And that's when people, China, and the BRICS nation will go, well, hang on, the United States can weaponize this way.
We have no security.
That's where we have to.
This began kind of the run on the dollar.
This is one of the reasons the Biden administration overspending and the economic warfare with the dollar really caused this, correct?
And that's what this announcement last week that Russia, not just in the Geneva talks, the three-party talks, but in a broader dialogue they want to have with President Trump and Witkoff and Kushner is to say, hey, look, we really want to come back and figure out how we integrate into the American economy, the Western economy.
At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party is sitting there going, they're spending a trillion dollars to decouple, correct?
george papadopoulos
Russia into the Western global security potentially, but more importantly, financial network, it will support the dollar as a global reserve currency, which has been under massive attack by not only the Chinese, but of course, the rise of BRICS, which has some of the most populous and largest economies in the Middle East and Southeast Asia as members of.
So, if you are pro-U.S. dollar and you care about the United States economy and would like to see the decoupling of Russia and China, then that is why you should support these negotiations.
It's not simply about cutting China off for Middle Eastern oil or Persian natural gas to slow down their economy.
It's about stopping BRICS.
And in order to stop BRICS and to support our economy, we have to reintegrate Russia into the Western economy and have once again bilateral relations with the United States, because everything that the Biden administration and before that, the Obama administration pursued has led us to this unfortunate situation, which is not only costing lives abroad, but potentially the future of the U.S. economy itself.
steve bannon
George, I'm going to have you back on because I want to talk about this.
Is China going to roll over?
Because they kind of got Russia now as a subsidiary to a large extent.
But I got like two minutes, and I want to the bitterness.
There's reports that it may be 2 million or more Russian casualties, dead or wounded.
President Trump's talking about how Ukraine's been getting pounded.
There's a million and a half, maybe 2 million casualties there.
You've had a battlefield that has lost three or four million people and dead or wounded, the greatest onslaught since the Second World War.
How do you put that bitterness aside?
What's your recommendation?
I know people in Ukraine are very bitter of how they were used into this and where they are now.
I know Merchheimers were going to fight to the last, the West is going to fight until the last Ukrainian is dead.
I know people in Russia, although they're super, very patriotic, there's a lot of bitterness there.
How does President Trump deal with two countries and have an open scar?
What is President Trump as the great peacemaker?
What does he have to do to bring this to an end?
george papadopoulos
There has to be a de facto divide between West and East Ukraine, which takes the realities on the ground into account.
The eastern portion of Ukraine is predominantly ethnically Russian, speaks Russian, and is aligned with Russia, as is Crimea.
That is why the Russians moved into Crimea during the Obama administration and took it over without a single shot being fired.
Now, there are parts of Western Ukraine which do not align with the ethnic Russians.
They feel more, they feel closer to the European Union, to Poland.
Some are Catholic.
They don't subscribe to the Russian Orthodox Church the way that they do in the East.
And that is why I think that is the only solution.
And there have been examples all around the world, including on the island of Cyprus, which remains divided today between Turks and Greeks in the north and the south of the island.
Of course, you have the North Korea and South Korea situation with its various backers.
And I think for peace and capital and relations to pour into Ukraine, that is the solution that I think is in the immediate interests of both parties involved.
It will allow both Ukraine and Russia to live side by side as sovereign nations, and it will allow them to be sovereign in their internal and foreign affairs.
Because if this war continues, Steve, Ukraine will no longer be a sovereign country.
And if Zelensky and the West would like to see a sovereign Ukraine, the war has to end now.
steve bannon
George, where do people go to get your content?
We'll have you back on.
Talk about Russia and China.
george papadopoulos
Really appreciate it, Steve.
You could follow me on the X at GeorgePapa19.
steve bannon
Thank you, brother.
Appreciate you.
President Trump to end the war in Ukraine, to end the war in Gaza, to end the war between the Persians and the rest of the region.
You don't think that deserves a Nobel Prize?
Give me a break.
What is the Nobel Prize really worth on a man that is trying to bring peace against all odds to the world?
Short commercial break.
Be back in the warm in just a moment.
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steve bannon
You tie together what Sam Faddis told us in the first segment and you add it to, you know, we're spreading ourselves too thin.
There's got to be a concentration here of prioritization of what happens.
Zelensky's over there all weekend talking about a 20-year security guarantee.
And European, they got UK and France putting troops in in the line of contact.
They're all going to fade.
It's going to get dumped in the United States of America.
And right now, we're not winning this war for these mass deportations.
We're just not.
Maybe that's fine for now.
I happen to think that the base, because the economy is turning around, I know they're very concerned about the economy and some of the pulling on the economy.
But if you see the reality on the economy of what's been done, now one of the big fears is about the dollar.
And I keep saying there's no other way you can look at it.
This is a highly leveraged bet on artificial intelligence.
And if artificial intelligence even generates the cash flow, if it's not an 8% or 10% return on, because they're expecting all these to be four or five backgers, Peter Navarro's piece that we haven't played yet on Maria Bartiroma is the thing that should be done because about affordability,
but also he talks about the huge, that's going to be a huge additional capital expenditure, as it should be to the AI companies, these data centers, the water, and to make sure it doesn't roll into affordability for American citizens that come on the grid.
So this is highly complex.
So right now we're hurtling down a path of a highly leveraged bet because not only we have massive debt and we're running huge deficits, you've got all these companies look like they're going to crowd out and borrow a lot of this money, this $800 billion in capital expenditures.
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Our War Room Texas is going to be tomorrow early voting starts in Texas.
So we're going to talk about the stakes that are involved for this vote.
We're going to play it a little bit also last night on War Room.
And I think on RAV2, we streamed the debate on the Agriculture Commission.
So we'll get to that as kind of a race that had some very interesting aspects to it, but we're really going to talk about the stakes.
Mike Lindell, like I said, you have my pillow burned into your soul because you founded this company from a trunk of a car and then later found God and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
You're now, your mission is you're running for governor of the state.
What's the first thing you're going to do as governor of the state, sir?
mike lindell
Well, that's an easy one.
Ban Sharia law and put and enforce our protester laws that have to be enforced in Minnesota.
And then also we have, they even put the satanic statue in our capital.
And Walt said, well, we've got to be fair, fair to who the devil.
It just didn't make sense.
But these are some easy things that there's so much nonsense that's being done that that's an easy cleanup of common sense issues.
And Minnesota is the tip of the spear for everything that's going on.
And I'm so glad, Steve, that things are dying down somewhat there.
It's not, I've said it to you.
You and I had a conversation.
You can't say it as weakness, everybody, by pulling out down to a thousand agents.
By doing this, it allows everything to calm down so we can get back to what?
The focus on the fraud, the biggest crime this country has ever seen other than the 2020 election.
We have to focus on the fraud.
We've got to put these people in prison that are involved in this.
And that includes politicians, maybe Elon Omar, maybe.
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steve bannon
Thank you, brother.
Stick around.
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