Watching The Fall Of Ukraine On TikTok | Guest: Jorge Ventura & George Szamuely | Ep 230
Russia has invaded Ukraine, and the way we're receiving information about this war is like nothing we have ever seen before. From troops asking Russia to "chill" to a live view of soldiers parachuting into Ukraine, we're getting a front-row view of this war from none other than TikTok...
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Provoked by the United States and NATO forces pushing into the East, of course, we have been weakened by our strategically incompetent leaders as we focus in the West on diversity and inclusivity and making elves black.
We have lost sight of the fact that Russia has emerged once again as a world superpower, a military superpower, and they invaded Ukraine simply because they could.
On that note, welcome back to Slightly Offensive, the best worst show on Blaze TV, where we always have confetti of color.
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Here in the studio with me is the amazing journalist, friend, and of course, diversity guest, Jorge Ventura from the Daily Caller.
Yeah, it is crazy what's going on, though, because I think a lot of us didn't really believe the Biden administration that Russia was going to invade Ukraine.
It turns out, though, that NATO and the United States were sort of prepping Ukraine to invade the eastern part and sort of take back the Russian provinces.
And so it looks like we're the ones who actually caused this.
Yeah, I mean, we're basically trying to have more influence on Ukraine, which is like the next-door neighbor to Russia.
It's like if that same country came to Mexico and tried to have all that influence.
And let's not forget to several years ago, you know, Ukraine actually voted in their own Democratic president, their leader, and then the United States government came in and actually overturned them and supported a coup for Zelensky.
So, yeah, I mean, we're basically have been pointing, I mean, kind of poking the bear at Russia all these years.
Yeah, and I know that you and I, we're both a little bit retarded.
And so it's like we're not experts on this.
And so later in the show, I know that you and I both were able to listen to this amazing expert that we brought in to the show, Dr. Zamuelli, who is neither pro-American nor pro-Russia.
He's just an expert on the conflict.
And he just likes Ukraine pills all of us on where Russia and the United States media are lying about the situation and gives us the most like absolute red pill on what's actually going on.
And we'll get to that a little bit later.
But, you know, we have basically given the best response as the United States to Putin and his invasion.
I know he's really scared because while they have nukes and tanks, we have 17-year-old girls on Instagram asking him to stop.
And we actually have a video that just came in from the Kremlin that shows us Putin's response after he saw some of these Instagram videos of Americans just begging him, Can we play that?
It's actually quite shocking.
Yeah.
This is Putin after seeing all the girls on Instagram just asking him to stop invading.
He's like, oh my God, why didn't I think about that?
Why didn't I think about that?
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I'm saying, like, this is what's so crazy is the American media, on a serious note, is making this seem like the start of World War III, and that Putin is this aggressor, right?
And anyone who disagrees with the narrative, this is the same thing we saw with Iraq and Afghanistan, is a pro-Putin, pro, as if the USSR is still around.
We're like an anti-American hater rather than truth tellers who are fighting the Warhawks, who so badly are looking for a war to distract us from the insane failures on the home front and what they've been doing.
But unfortunately for them, we have the internet now, we have social media that we didn't have, and we're realizing that in some ways, and I hate to say this, in terms of just international diplomacy, Putin is not in the wrong for what he's doing because this could have been prevented if the United States had not, not only with the CIA, caused a revolution in Ukraine, destabilized the entire country.
But as we know, with Putin being so invested in the procurement and keeping Russian civilization alive, remember that the United States and Western Europe and NATO pushed the church, the Orthodox church in Ukraine to separate itself from the mother church in Russia.
They literally split the religion and tried to take the country away and push all of the Western degeneracy into Ukraine.
And of course, all of that on the border of Russia.
And no wonder why Russia is mad because, of course, with the Warsaw Pact and the agreement, the United States has violated every single one of its agreements.
We pushed every NATO base closer and closer and closer with Estonia and Latvia, et cetera, across the border.
That as we push this offensive in Ukraine, Russia was just like, look, you guys are weak.
You're not going to do anything.
We've emerged strong and we're going to invade because we can.
And we're going to push back and let you know that we're tired of this.
And it's like, I'm not pro-Russia.
Obviously, they're hostile to the United States.
He's not exactly a great leader, but we have no business and no place lecturing him on what he should or should not do when we do the exact same thing.
We literally invaded Iraq without the UN Security Council's approval.
Right now, if you speak out or even just tell the truth of what's happening, all of a sudden you are pro-Putin.
And, you know, Republicans and Democrats in the establishment, they can't even agree that the sky is blue.
But when it comes to sending American troops or pushing for war or pushing for intervention, it's the only time you ever find Republicans and Democrats actually agreeing on this issue.
And it'd be the same thing if Russia was having influence on Mexico.
We would respond the same way.
So Russia is just responding the same way any other country would.
And the thing is, if you even say anything like that remotely like that, all of a sudden you're pro-Putin.
And like I said, just pay attention to the politicians.
Anytime you can find a Democrat or Republican to agree on an issue, it's a huge red flag.
This is the only issue Republicans and Republicans and Democrats are agreeing, like a Lindsey Graham, like a Mitch McConnell, who have been praising Biden's response to this so far.
I didn't think that we would find a way to laugh about a war in Ukraine, but if there's a show that's going to laugh about it, it's going to be this one because it's so ridiculous.
Dude, do you think white supremacy is a white nation invading a white nation?
Another white nation.
Dude, there's going to be no black Ukrainian president.
I don't think they understand that on that note, Russia is super down to earth in their immigration policies.
Like, there is a thing before globalism where, like, the United States is a little bit different because obviously, like, we border Mexico.
So, like, there's always been Mexican people living around here.
And we, like, imported black slaves.
So, we have this, like, sort of built in, quote, diversity in the country per se, a little bit.
But it's like Russia, while there's many different nations and people, like, these people are so out of touch that they've, they care about the aesthetic, like the privilege of white people.
Yeah, I swear, what is really interesting, though, in the midst of all of this is like, I just want to give, I'm going to want to give a huge, uh, a huge shout out specifically to our greatest fighters in the West, right?
We have we have an elite form of fighters that have taken the stance, risked their lives.
It's embarrassing because it's like, look, dude, I don't think we should have intervened.
Like, this is the total psyop.
And you know this.
It's like the reason why we're not intervening is because we are in the wrong.
We know what we were doing.
And we know from 2004 on how we've completely upended Ukraine, completely destroyed the country from within, caused a long-lasting civil war, which is still going on that nobody knows about.
That we're pretending like Putin is this bad guy who just invaded.
The reason why we're standing with Ukraine, but not with our troops on the ground, is because literally we tried to launch an offensive against Russian-backed provinces.
And it's so insane as we look at all of this that like if we invade, we are sort of fighting against the sovereignty of the border of Russia.
And it literally could cause an all-out war.
And I see all these right-wing people like, if Russia attacks anymore, then we will raise their cities.
I don't think that's how nuclear wars work, buddy.
And the U.S. government just uses Ukraine to flush out money.
Obviously, we saw that with Joe Biden, his son, and Burisma.
So, you know, we have just used Ukraine for all of our corruption.
Like a little bit of what you alluded to earlier too, Elijah, was you know, we literally backed coupes in Ukraine to overthrow their democratic elected leaders to install a U.S.-backed leader.
So yeah, for some reason, the media just doesn't ever seem wanting to mention that.
They want to just kind of keep paying the United States as we're the great guys, we're the heroes of the world when we're the biggest imperialists.
All we do is intervene and overthrow countries and ruin their economies.
Like, I'm not anti-American, but I am the anti-American regime, right?
And I'm genuinely, our government is so corrupt.
Like, I love our country and what it theoretically stands for.
But as we're going to point out, like, we are so broken and so full of ourselves, you cannot trust the media.
Here's an example.
If you go to my screen, like Steve Brandt, which is the MSNBC's like senior analyst, right?
This is supposed to be an expert.
He's like, what does Putin want with Chernobyl when he invades?
And Malcolm Nance comes under it, like, it powers central North Ukraine.
Like, you don't even know why they want the city.
You're like, what could what could Russia be wanting?
It's like, dude, this is your job is to know for one of the major outlets of the United States or media to inform the public and you don't have that answer.
You are either functionally retarded or intentionally ignorant or trying to lie to people.
And that's what I think he's trying to lie.
Like, there's no reason why he would invade.
It's like, there is a reason.
And dude, and I'm telling you this, the only person getting close to kind of representing this accurately in the mainstream media has been Tucker Carlson.
Other than that, it's so crazy how even the Biden administration, that's why the Biden's like, they might invade.
They might invade.
Yeah, because they know that they're trying to launch this counter, this offensive.
So they know what they're doing.
So they're like, we know that Putin probably won't stand for what we're doing and he's probably going to counter us.
So we're going to then, if we end up failing and we botch another CIA-led like coup and return, we're going to blame it on Russia saying they were just aggressive and wanted land when that's not even the case.
And it's like, it's so retarded because it's the same thing with China.
It's like, we are weak in the imperialistic era.
We have receded ourselves.
We were imperialists.
Then we're interventionists.
We created 20 years of fake wars that we didn't win.
Biden pulled out of Afghanistan.
He failed miserably.
It was totally botched.
We haven't won a war in a very long time.
And our enemies, and that's why I'm not like pro-Putin, because I know they are our enemy, are like, dude, the United States hasn't, they're not going to do anything anymore.
Look, they have a bumbling fool.
And then also with the Ukraine thing, it's like, dude, look at what they try to do in Ukraine.
Biden and Biden, remember he's like, when he got elected, he was like, Putin doesn't want me as the president because I stand heel to heel with him and he's not going to want me.
It's like, literally, it's weird that the Russian-backed president, Trump, that they in, you know, that they hacked that election, the only election that could get hacked 2016, because 2020 couldn't get hacked.
But they hacked, they didn't invade during the pro-Russia president, but the anti-Russia strongman, they chose to invade.
I just don't trust almost anything that comes from U.S. military intelligence.
Anytime they say, oh, we received this report because of this, I never believe it.
They lied about, obviously, Iraq and kind of created these 20 years of war.
They even lied about Syria.
I know, you know, Assad is not a good guy, but they, you know, the U.S. military lied to the American people saying that Assad was chemically bombing his own people when actual reports show that there was no chemicals used at all.
And we just kind of make up these lies for intervention.
So right now, it's like, we don't even know who, like, who to believe at this point.
But right now, you can't trust, obviously, the media because media, whether it's left or right on this issue, are all pro-war, pro-intervention.
But so some people might be wondering, well, like, I just don't, I don't understand what the hell is happening.
Like, maybe you're hearing some of this for the first time.
Maybe you've heard all of this and you want more information.
And so we did this crazy thing.
I told you guys slightly offensive.
We're not just going to laugh at people and just make jokes anymore.
We're going to start actually speaking to experts because there's no reason why Rogan should have the monopoly on that, but there's no reason why we should copy him and do the same thing.
We should do our own thing and start bringing in these experts for shorter interviews so that you guys can then take these shorter interviews.
I don't watch two, three hour like conversations, but I want to give you 15 to 20 minute conversations with these experts that you can tell people to go to that mark, watch this and get updated.
And we found somebody who is in the middle, Dr. Samuel Elliot.
And we're going to talk about that.
But obviously, before we jump into that, a lot of you know, not only do you need your medical pack, but you also need a gun.
The Ukrainian government is actually giving out 10,000 automatic rifles to its citizens.
I thought unarmed citizenry was bad, but apparently it's good in this case.
And the West supports it.
And I support it.
And so do you.
But a lot of us don't understand that like when you're in war or when you're in a battle or when you're protecting yourself, you need to carry the gun somehow.
And no one ever thinks about the accessories, which is why I got to talk to you about Northwest retention.
Now, obviously, that is the scout chess holster.
That's pretty epic, actually, if you're in Kiev, but that gives you super mobility.
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I do not have the knowledge you have, and most of the people watching this are probably as confused as I am on what's happening in the world due to the bias of the media, both Russian state media.
And while our media in the United States is not supposed to be state-controlled, it appears to be that way in many cases, both on Fox News and on CNN.
The bias is just absolutely ridiculous.
So, first of all, could you kind of explain to us what is actually happening right now in the conflict with Russia and Ukraine?
unidentified
Well, you have to go back to December when Vladimir Putin presented two documents, two draft treaties, one for NATO, one for the United States, that would serve as a framework for a new security architecture in Europe.
And the key ingredient in both of these documents was an end to NATO expansion, an end to the deployment of weapons that could reach Russian soil in the lands that were once part of the Warsaw Pact and indeed were part of the USSR, which that includes the Baltic states.
During the sort of the various negotiations that have taken place since December, it became clear to the Russians that neither the United States nor NATO was taking seriously Russia's security concerns because NATO has expanded massively since the end of the Cold War, so much so that every single country that was a member of the Warsaw Pact is now a member of NATO.
And indeed, the Baltic Republics, which are actually part of the USSR, are also members of NATO.
So because they didn't take this seriously, and Putin had said that this is a red line for Russia, Putin felt that he had to act and show that he was serious and that he couldn't go on living with NATO, really just a few miles from St. Petersburg, which used to be the northern capital of Russia.
So I think it's a demonstration that he is very serious about the security concerns of Russia.
But there's the other aspect of it, which is that there has been an ongoing civil war in Ukraine ever since the illegal coup that took place in February 2014 under the sponsorship of the United States, particularly Victoria Newland.
We have the telephone conversations in which she was plotting with the US ambassador in Kiev, plotting to overthrow the legally elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yandukovich.
So, following that coup, the Russian-speaking provinces of Ukraine broke away because they just refused to accept this new illegal government.
And then the civil war between Kiev and these breakaway provinces has been going on for eight years.
There was a Minsk process that was put in place in 2015 under which, in a step-by-step process, these breakaway provinces, the Donetsk and Luhansk, would be reincorporated within Russia.
And the step-by-step process involved a constitutional amendment whereby these two provinces would get special status.
There would be local elections held within these two provinces, and there would be a universal amnesty passed.
Ukraine hasn't done any of those things.
And it's become increasingly clear that Ukraine had no intention of implementing Minsk.
And more seriously, France and Germany, which along with Russia, are the guarantors of Minsk.
France and Germany had no intention of applying any kind of pressure on Kiev to implement Minsk.
And so what we had was now, particularly last week at the UN Security Council meeting, the ambassador of Ukraine openly saying that Ukraine had no intention of negotiating with the representatives of the Donetsk and Luhansk, because that would somehow legitimize them.
Whereas in that agreement, it's in black and white, it's part of UN Security Council Resolution 2202.
It says that this implementation of Minsk has to be done by negotiation between Kiev and the representatives of the Donetsk and Luhansk.
And Ukraine was openly saying, we're not going to do it.
We're not going to legitimize them.
And France, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, just sat there and said nothing.
It was clear that they had no intention of complying with it.
And I think Russia was really getting fed up with this.
And I think there was also a legitimate fear on the part of Russia that given the big force buildup from Kiev, that they were going to try and mount some kind of a military offensive to bring these breakaway provinces to heel and try to do this by force.
So I think it was a kind of an anticipation of something like that.
That's what's really happening.
And unfortunately, the US media covered none of this.
I mean, some of this stuff I'm hearing for the first time from you.
And so my question is: if the point was to recognize the independence of the eastern provinces that were Russian-speaking, why is Putin then pushing forward as we're seeing right now with the bombardment of Kiev?
unidentified
Well, I think that it was clear that Kiev wasn't going to accept the independence of these breakaway provinces and would continue to wage a war against them.
So I think it's part of a kind of a move to anticipate any kind of military activity against these republics.
I mean, the republics made an immediate appeal.
As soon as he recognized them, they made an immediate appeal saying, hey, we are in danger.
We are threatened by Kiev.
Please come and help us.
And I think this is clearly, Russia signed a security agreement with them and so went ahead and helped them.
But I think there's a deeper sense that, and Putin has said this over and over again in the past few weeks, that Russia isn't going to live with a kind of a hostile state on its border.
And what's happening is that Ukraine is increasingly kind of a de facto member of NATO, very hostile to Russia.
Really, it's kind of driven by a desire to go to war with Russia and being sponsored by NATO.
NATO just keeps pouring more and more weaponry and military advisors into Ukraine.
So I think there's another aspect of that.
I think Russia wants to bring to an end the influence of the so-called Galicians, the Banderistas, the people in the west of Ukraine who really do harbor great animus towards Russia.
And he wants to minimize the influence of those people.
So when he said in his speech, we are seeking the denazification of Ukraine, I think he wants to minimize the influence of those people.
He basically wants to bring Ukraine back into the Russian world, the Russian civilization.
I think Russia regards as a Russian civilization, and it comprises Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, because he sees them as essentially Russian people.
But unfortunately, what has happened in Ukraine, particularly since the Orange Revolution of 2004, was that these Banderistas, these people in the West, the Galitzians, which used to be part of Poland before they were incorporated within the Soviet Union by Stalin, these people are driving Ukraine to a kind of hostility toward Russia.
And I think Russia just felt we can't go on like this because within a generation or two, Ukraine will just be lost to Russian civilization.
Putin is someone who is very conscious of history, very conscious of Russian civilization, just felt that Russia could not allow that to happen.
So then if you say with Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, obviously there's a lot of talks, including like on Twitter, what you see trending World War III.
We hear this every year at some point, World War III.
Do you think that Putin does have any intention of invading or bombarding any other countries that are along the border or pushing further into Western Europe at all that could spark a greater global conflict?
Is that a reality?
unidentified
No, it's not a reality.
However, as I mentioned earlier, in those documents that he presented in December, one of the things he insisted on was that in Eastern Europe, we go to a status quo ante to 1997.
In other words, not that all these former Warsaw Pact countries that are members of NATO have to leave NATO.
He's not insisting on that.
But the NATO infrastructure that has been built up there, he doesn't want.
Now, is he going to destroy, try to destroy that NATO infrastructure?
I don't know.
But I think if the response of the NATO powers is to start pouring in more and more heavy weaponry into, for instance, the Baltic states, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, that might gall the Russians.
Now, I don't think the Russians will invade, but I think they might just simply say, we're going to take out these military air bases, airfields, radar stations that you've built up in the past few years, because they are a direct threat to our security.
I mean, Estonia is just a few miles from St. Petersburg.
So that, I think, is a real danger, because I think that's the way NATO is responding now is to beef up The easternmost parts of NATO, Russia feels that as a threat.
So if that happens, I think Russia will take that out.
I don't think they're going to kill anybody.
I think what will happen is, you know, they'll give maybe an hour or two's notice, say, everybody leave, an attack is coming.
And then they'll just hit some airfields or air bases and say, that's it.
We're not going to live with it on our borders.
Not too different, incidentally, with JFK's decision about missiles in Cuba.
Just basically, we're not going to have this 90 miles off our coast.
It doesn't matter whether Cuba is a sovereign nation or not.
We're just not going to have it 90 miles from our coast.
And do you think, obviously, recently with the crackdown from protesters in Canada, from Justin Trudeau, we see in the United States as well, we've seen a lot of authoritarian style lockdowns similar to Beijing.
And with the U.S.'s imperialistic recent history, right, with the invasion, we have Libya, we have Iraq, Afghanistan.
Those are the ones that were televised nationally.
I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of other things that have not been so well known or covered by our media.
Do you think that the U.S. has any authority to be lecturing Russia?
And on that note, do you think that Russia knows that the U.S. is hypocritical and that they don't really have an ability to counter what they're doing?
Since in many ways, we not only mirror the exact problems that we condemn in Russia, but on top of that, we also act in the same way globally.
I mean, is Russia aware of that?
Do they see our weakness in that regard?
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, they're very much aware of that.
It's a point that both Putin and Lavrov make over and over again.
And the truth is, of course, that the reason why the U.S. and NATO have been able to do what they do, I mean, how was the U.S. able to pull off an invasion of Iraq in 2003 without authorization from the UN Security Council?
How was it able to bomb Yugoslavia, a European country, in 1999, again, without authorization from the UN Security Council?
Well, they did it because they could.
They're so strong that nobody could mess with them.
And so, you know, Biden and Blinken and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg and Boris Johnson can pontificate about our values and we care about democracy.
You know, we believe in the rules-based order.
The truth is, they don't believe in any of that.
What they do believe in is their power to do whatever they want whenever they feel like it.
What has now happened, and I think it's come as a big shock to the U.S. and the Western powers, is that Russia has re-emerged on the world stage as a rival great power.
And now Russia is saying, yeah, we can do what we want because we are very strong.
And then if you mess with us here in our own backyard, you know, you're going to get into a lot of trouble.
So it's essentially Russia is just deploying the same arguments that the U.S. and NATO has done.
But, you know, fortunately, Russia isn't sanctimonious.
They don't talk about democracy and values and we have some kind of a unique responsibility for a rules-based order and whatnot.
They don't lecture the rest of the world.
So I think what's happened is the U.S. is getting a taste of its own medicine.
Yeah, and you may not be an expert on this, so I'm going to just pick your brain for a second.
Obviously, with the talks about Russia being emboldened, we obviously have just on the same theater, a little bit to the southeast, China, who has emerged as an extremely competitive foe to the United States, specifically in the South China Sea.
And so do you think this has either A, emboldened China to see that they can take Taiwan?
And then B, do you think that this is a real possibility within the next few months or years that China will follow through on their threat to take Taiwan simply because the United States has shown itself that not that we're on the decline, but that we understand the formidability of these countries and that in the end with Ukraine, we won't intervene because we realize the consequences.
unidentified
I think the answer is yes to both of your points.
I think it's very, very significant that Russia and China are now inseparable.
You know, just before the start of the Winter Olympics, Putin was in Beijing and he and Xi Jinping signed a very big document specifying really just how much Russia and China are in complete agreement on every major problem in the world.
And there it was within that document, the issue of that Taiwan is a part of China and there can be no ands, ifs, and buts about it.
Now, you know, on this issue of, you know, Ukraine, China has pretty much supported Russia.
I mean, it pretty much has refused all of the entreaties of the Biden administration.
Oh, please, please, please condemn Russia.
China has refused to do so.
So essentially, it's saying we've got your back to Russia.
Now, China will probably want that favor returned.
And the Chinese may well think this is as good a time as any to resolve this problem of Taiwan once and for all.
I mean, it's been going since 1949.
It's about time to resolve this problem once and for all.
So I think if you're a Taiwanese, you probably have to worry about the immediate future.
It's probably not a bad idea to start thinking about negotiating the terms of reincorporation with China, because I think China may, particularly Xi Jinping, who I think wants to be a kind of a historic leader of China along the lines of Mao and Deng Xiaoping, he may well think that this will be his legacy, bringing Taiwan back into the fold.
Thank you so much, Doctor, for sharing with us your vast knowledge and understanding.
We really appreciate that.
And obviously, whenever we have somebody else on to share, is there anywhere particular on social media that people can follow you and continue to keep up with your thoughts, ideas, and, of course, any future work that you might produce?
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Right.
I'm on Substack, so people can follow me on Substack.
I'm also on Twitter.
And I also do a daily podcast with my colleague, Peter Lavelle.
It's called thegaggle.locals.com.
So please go there and perhaps even subscribe, which would be very, very nice.
There are very few times when I'm reminded of just how stupid and uninformed I am when you talk to someone that smart.
Dr. Samuel, I mean, you were listening in on that.
I mean, obviously a reporter and stuff, but like, thank God for people like that who are just intelligent and can update us and give us the information that we need.
Things are not so black and white, especially when it comes to foreign policy and all the lies that both the left and the right-wing mainstream media is giving us when it comes to this issue.
And please, please send that to your friends and your family and have them get updated so that they don't believe the lies in the media.
And we're trying to bring that unbiased to you, just what's going on and making sense of it.
Because, like, obviously, most of us are more familiar with domestic policy.
And I'm not going to lie and pretend like I know everything about everything.
And I'm just so excited that people are willing to share with us, especially because most of the time we just have like, you know, black disabled Barbies on the desk and whatnot.
So, because there's a lot of talk about our morals and our values and why, why Putin's bad because we're good people.
He's bad.
When in reality, we're going to obviously look at some of the things in the West that we're not exactly somebody to be pointing out the flaws in another country, especially recently.
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Okay, so let's talk about this.
Like, do we have the, do we have the footage, Savannah, of the protesters getting arrested like in Moscow?
So you know this when we're when we're kids and we're raised on this or even just like a few years ago, we think, oh, Russia, bad.
Like, oh, Russia's authoritarian.
Like they arrest protesters that are protesting war.
That's that is, we're the West.
We don't do that.
We're not evil and bad.
We're freedom countries.
You know, our vice president was in a, was in a stroller at a Martin Luther King Jr. and said, freedom.
Like, we're the free country.
And so on Playta's video, check this out.
Okay, so, right, you see all the anti-war protesters getting arrested.
And like, I mean, just you, just three years ago, two years ago, before the pandemic, I would have sell this and like, damn, I'm so glad I live in the West.
Like, people are getting arrested for this.
But in 2022, I couldn't tell you if that's Moscow or Ottawa.
No, they don't care because it's so interesting that as we condemn and take this moral superiority, we're absolutely have no standing.
It's embarrassing.
That's embarrassing.
Trudeau literally said we stand against authoritarianism and we stand for freedom and for democracy while he's literally putting people in prison for 10 years and killing their pets, selling their cars and taking away their money because they wanted freedom.
We have no position to be condemning Putin.
It's not that Putin is good.
It's just that we're not in a position to condemn him.
And so they want you to say, well, if you don't condemn Putin, then you're pro-Putin.
The funny thing, too, Elijah, was the president of El Saudi, Naibu Kelly, was the only president of my knowledge to call out Canada.
And one point that he made, which I think he was right on the money, is if those type of behaviors were happening in the Middle East or Russia, then the U.S. government would be up in arms saying how much we need to intervene.
It's a human rights violation.
But when it's our neighbor, and let's not forget, these protests that were getting squashed by these security forces, it's a literally worker uprising.
We're talking about truckers.
You're talking about a true working class movement.
And so if they're willing to do this, then everyone in the West stays silent.
But if this was in the Middle East, if this was in Syria, oh man, we would already have American troops over there.
Yeah, we have this video of kind of of Trudeau where you realize that this really is a position where the West doesn't really exist anymore.
And the reason why I mean that is because our countries are controlled now by the World Economic Forum by Klaus Schwab.
And they are in this movement where you go, why are we operating in a way that reminds us of our enemies?
It's because our enemies have taken control of our countries.
And we no longer stand for democracy.
We no longer stand for freedom.
And it makes me genuinely fear for our future because our enemies will be emboldened against us.
And they do want to see us destroyed.
But we're not, because we have no moral high ground, our governments will have a very difficult time getting the people to support a war for moral reasons because our governments express no morality at home.
It's like, well, you express no morality here.
Why would I care about what's happening in Ukraine or Russia when we do the same crap right now?
Like, that's where I'm at.
I'm like, you can't convince me to go to war in Ukraine when you didn't speak out against Justin Trudeau.
If people spoke out against Justin Trudeau, condemned it, we intervened, he got arrested or he had to resign because of global pressure, then I'd be like, okay, maybe we do have a moral responsibility in other countries to help.
But it's like, if our neighbor up north, we don't care.
If our border down south, we don't care about protecting it.
Why am I supposed to believe Kamala Harris when she says we have the duty to protect Russia's borders and Russia has the duty to protect their own when we don't even protect our own borders?
Look, the U.S. government, all they've done is lie these past 20, 30 years, getting us into war.
So of course we cannot trust them.
And then, you know, we want to act like we are the world police.
We're on this moral high ground because the United States always does the right thing.
I mean, there's lots of books out there.
I highly encourage the viewers, go check out books and check out the, you know, there's great books out there where they interview a bunch of people in the Middle East, and then you get to get exposed to all the war crimes that the United States has committed with their imperialism motives.
And I mean, like I said, I can't trust them.
Maybe you guys can't, but anything from the U.S. military intelligence, I really don't trust.
We are no moral high ground with all the war crimes that the United States has committed.
And when Russia is fighting the Great Revolutionary, and we just actually committed a war crime just recent where we actually bombed a family in Syria after the Biden administration, the Biden administration told us that no one was killed.
We find out that at least like eight kids were killed in that.
Yeah, so Russia and China are just like, they don't care about this.
The West has completely fallen to this, you know, crisis after crisis to take away our rights and create a police state.
And so it's like, as we are literally succumbing to this, as we're fighting in America, I'm fighting it.
That's why I don't hate America.
I don't hate the people.
I just know that the current government is in line with this.
And so it's like, I don't blame Russia for hating us.
I don't blame China for hating us.
And I don't blame them for being on the offensive.
And that's okay.
Like as an American, you're not anti-American by understanding that our enemies hate us for a reason.
And it's not anti-American to push that.
You don't have to be a leftist and be like, America sucks.
It's like, no, America doesn't suck.
But until we can take back our government from the central banks and these systems and from the powerful elites that control them, like Klaus Schwab and his goons, we are going to keep losing.
We're going to keep being distracted.
And they're going to get their way.
And I'm sorry about to say this, but it's like there is no West.
There is no free West.
We don't have the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis and wanting to protect our sovereignty and our understanding.
We can't, we don't have, this isn't 2001 that, you know, we need to invade Afghanistan because we need to stand for our people and get revenge for the great nation and bond together.
Like, we're really in a hole here.
I'm not trying to be a doomer.
It's just, it's very serious where we're at.
And until, you know, someone like Trudeau, you know, even if he's assassinated, imagine this.
But, and you know this because we saw this with the pandemic.
Like, like, oh yeah, you want us to fight morality.
People are like being, they're losing their livelihoods, their jobs.
They're being barred human rights in our own country for not getting jabbed with something that we've never been told what the long-term side effects are, the studies or anything.
And I mean, and you, you, people do still care in America about what doing right, even if our government's doing wrong.
And you're one of those people.
I know you, you worked on a documentary too about this.
I mean, can you tell, like, what was the point behind that?
And we wanted to tell all the stories of, you know, first responders like cops, the nurses, teachers who have been fired for not taking the vaccine due to a mandate for not complying.
And these are folks who had made a personal decision.
And let's, you know, they were on the front lines of the height of the pandemic.
So while everyone else was quarantined, they were still out there.
And most of them have already contracted COVID and now have been fired.
Not only that, but been demonized by the media.
I mean, you turn on mainstream media, they have demonized these people as QAnoners and anti-vaxxers.
I mean, they're just literally regular Americans, you know, that have families just like us who want to support.
It's just that they made their own personal decision.
They don't want to be forced by the government.
And look how these states also just dingo that paycheck over these people.
So we wanted to do something for them to tell their story just because the corporate media has been attacking them so hard and have demonized them.
We wanted to give them a voice.
So we finally put that out, representing something for the workers.
So that the documentary is called Hero to Zero.
And then everyone could find it.
We made our own website for it.
So it's hero20.com.
We also have a trailer there so you can share with a family friend, but please help us get these stories out.
One of the firefighters featured in that documentary, his name is Josh Satley from Beverly Hills.
He's been placed on unpaid leave since October.
So till today, Elijah, he hasn't got paid.
He doesn't know if he's going to get fired or not because the county just has him in limbo.
He has a family of four, a wife.
So these are true American stories.
This is happening in the United States.
This is happening in the West.
This should be crimes against humanity, what we're doing to our workers.
Of just like, we're entering, we're going to enter a season.
It's going to, I keep telling people, I'm not doomer-pilled, but just it's going to get very bad and things are going to progressively get worse over the next three years.
We might be able to turn it around after 2024.
I'm not sure.
We have a pretty good timeline because the Democrats are very unpopular in the United States and the support for wars and these things are very low in our countries.
And we've really lost a lot of our core structures, strength, and institutions.
But I just want to remind you of this video number six of Jordan Peterson sort of reiterating the truth that we've have weak people in our nation.
You know, we have a man named Robinette, you know, running the country.
They create hard times and they're getting weaker and weaker.
As we're seeing Pete Buttigieg and you know that that homosexual drag queen guy in charge of like energy.
I mean, it's really crazy.
They're weak.
Let's go ahead and let's watch video number six.
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Things get to terrible places one tiny step at a time.
And before you know it, you're going to be back three miles from where you started and you'll have done it one step at a time.
I'm almost like, I'm actually, that's why I told Sav.
I'm considering coming out of retirement and reporting and getting more serious.
And like, there's a lot of people who are going to be out there, dude.
I think it's, I think the time is coming when there's going to be a need to, and it's very, very, very soon to start getting out there because what it is, is like this footage, we did like what we're seeing here and the way that these police, this is around the world.
This is the West.
Like, that's, that's my whole point in all of this.
Is like, if in the West you still think that there's some holy alliance and we have some moral, you know, fortitude, I mean, like, literally, we have child drag queens being promoted as normal.
No wonder why people that are Christian nations hate us.
I mean, look at that.
Look at, look at these.
These are just ordinary people asking for the freedom to get on a plane.
I mean, I'm still shocked.
We're in this years into this.
I never would have predicted this.
Like, this is crazy.
I didn't know you would become illegal for me to travel.
Like, I didn't ever knew one day I couldn't go to Canada.
I mean, because I didn't, you know what I'm saying?
Like, why I couldn't go to Canada because of medical, like, I didn't get an experimental jab or whatever.
So I know this is personal, but no, but I mean, like, Savannah, just tell people, because people are watching, are listening to this, what is happening here?
Like, this is, this is, this is the current state of our country.
So basically, a black looter robs an Asian-owned store, and then this guy is recording what's going on.
And he's like saying, he says Black Lives Matter at the end of this video.
And he's encouraging this woman to run away and to commit this crime against this local business.
So this is what's going on here at home.
And I mean, that's what I was talking to you too about.
It's like the media and our politicians, of course, want us distracted by Russia, Ukraine, because they don't want us to focus in on the complete degradation of our own country from within.
We are being destroyed.
And the biggest threat to America is the person sitting in the White House right now.
Not what's not Putin.
Not Putin and not China.
The biggest threat to our country is the Biden regime, truly.
And I was going to say, and like, that's what's funny because we have three different ethnicities on the screen.
And I think one thing all of us can agree on is like, black people ruined our cities just straight up.
Like they're, oh, Democrat policies.
That's a super cop out.
It's kind of weird that there's a common denominator between every area and every city.
And Democrats might have created policies that allowed that.
But also their policies ruined the black communities genuinely.
And then we see where our cities, our great cities are unsafe.
They're like, I was watching TikTok.
Dude, this is crazy.
You're still in LA kind of.
But I was watching TikTok and this girl was like, the security measures I take when I go outside living in a dangerous city.
And I thought it was going to be Kabul, but it turned out in the end to be LA and she wears like a bulletproof vest underneath her stuff and like brings a gun and stuff.
And she's like, well, I'm a CEO.
I have to protect myself.
But I have friends that no longer carry purses in LA.
Like they've stopped carrying designer bags.
That's been a common thing.
There's warnings to not even carry designer bags.
Like our cities are so dangerous and so unsafe, so dirty.
And like, it's crazy.
And in LA, it's like, it's mostly Hispanics, but then there's like black, homeless people everywhere.
Like, do you know what I'm talking about?
In Hollywood and stuff.
And it's like, it's, it's so, it's so past the point of even being able to stand up and say, yeah, Putin's bad.
It's like, dude, we're kind of in many ways worse.
Then the kind of the downfall of cities actually started around 2008, 2009, when the Republicans and Democrats sold out, sold all the great middle-class kind of manufacturing jobs to China in the NAFTA deal.
And that really started up everything, right?
So all these jobs get shipped to overseas in China now in the NAFTA deal.
Then we started to see the opioids get flooded into these same cities.
And that's actually really what's destroyed cities.
But I think the more important thing, Elijah, is it started actually to destroy families.
And once we started to lose the family coach in the United States, we're kind of seeing the downgrade of our society, right?
After that NAFTA deal, we saw divorce rates in the United States go up because everyone's starting to lose, you know, lose their homes and not be able to pay their mortgages.
And then you saw not only families split up, but then you saw the opioid crisis here in America, as in those families started to use those drugs.
So ever since the NAFTA deal, we kind of started to see the downgrade of cities.
And after that, we started to see the voting in of progressive district attorneys.
I'm from California, so the district attorney in my county is George Cascone.
Very soft on crime policy.
I mean, he's probably the most progressive DA out of all the United States.
He actually just made some recent news for there was a man who was supposed to serve 50 years for a murder.
He only served six.
So that's, I mean, I mean, with all these things, I mean, now this is where we're at.
And dude, we have more division than ever.
The greatest income of inequality have we ever seen disparity in the United States.
We're living through that era right now.
And then opioid crisis and federal on top of that.
Well, and this is where we're headed as we kind of bring this to a close, as we watch the world unfold.
Like while they're getting emboldened and stronger, the United States is so distracted.
If you go to my screen, Savannah, the Department of Justice is shutting down a China-focused anti-espionage program largely because of perceptions that has unfairly painted Chinese Americans and U.S. residents of Chinese origin as disloyal, meaning we're just shutting down our Chinese spy program because they're not white.
We don't want the spies to feel discriminated against.
So it is interesting.
We're going to keep trying to figure this out.
That's why I know Savannah said she's going to start reporting more as well because it's just, it's necessary because every institution has completely collapsed and failed.
And we don't know what the future holds, but we do know who holds the future.
We also didn't announce that we are doing like the blue and yellow lights for Ukraine as well here in the slightly offensive studio, as you guys can see behind me with my side.
Yes.
So we are also doing the blue and yellow lights because we stand with Ukraine.
