June 16, 2022 - Epoch Times
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| Good evening, and before we dive into the main story, I wanted to quickly mention that over on Epic TV, just earlier today, we published a phenomenal episode detailing how George Soros spent quite literally billions of dollars in order to infiltrate America's media, in order to defund the police, while at the same time to fund local insurgencies across the entire nation. | |
| It's a phenomenal episode that you can find over on Epic TV. The link will be right there at the very top of the description box. | |
| And now let's dive into the main topic, which has to do with Ukraine. | |
| This right here is Ms. | |
| Avril Haines. | |
| She's the current director of national intelligence under the Biden administration. | |
| And several weeks ago, when she was testifying before a Senate hearing, Well, Ms. | |
| Haynes admitted that even though we are quite literally shipping billions of dollars worth of weaponry to Ukraine, the U.S. government actually lacks a clear picture of Ukraine's war strategy. | |
| Here's specifically what she said before Congress, again, just a few weeks ago. | |
| It was very hard to tell how much additional aid Ukraine could absorb. | |
| We have, in fact, more insight, probably, on the Russian side than we do on the Ukrainian side. | |
| Now, the second part of her comment is quite revealing, because she admitted that the national agencies of the U.S. actually know far more about Russia's military than we do about Ukraine's. | |
| And there are two major reasons for that reality. | |
| The first has to do with the focus of America's spy agencies. | |
| Because you see, on the one hand, it's a given that the U.S. intelligence community collects information about nearly every single country on the planet, which of course includes Ukraine. | |
| However, American spy agencies, despite the fact that they do have large budgets, Well, they don't have unlimited bandwidth, and they do not have unlimited resources, and so they have to prioritize. | |
| And so in general, the focus of their intel collection efforts are against governments which are seen as adversarial to the U.S., people like Russia, China, and Iran, rather than uncurrently friendly states like Ukraine. | |
| Furthermore, while Russia has been a top priority for American spies for the past 75 years, all the way going through the Cold War, when it comes to Ukraine, the U.S. has allegedly been working to help them build up their own intelligence services rather than spying on their government. | |
| Which is a friendly thing to do, but then at the same time it also leads to the Director of National Intelligence saying that we know more about Russia's military than we do about Ukraine's. | |
| Furthermore, the second point is that it appears that the Ukrainian government is not so, you can say, forthcoming with the details of their own military operations. | |
| Here's, for instance, how a recent New York Times report describes the current situation. | |
| The result, former officials said, has been some blind spots. | |
| However, despite not having a clear picture of their overall war strategy, the US government has been sending the Ukrainian government billions of dollars worth of military equipment. | |
| Now, of course, I'm not saying that it's necessarily wrong for them to be sending so much military aid to Ukraine. | |
| However, it does raise two big questions. | |
| For one, what is this money actually being spent on? | |
| And secondly, what will happen to all this military equipment once the Ukraine-Russia war is over? | |
| These two questions are exacerbated further by the fact that the amount of money in question is relatively very large. | |
| For instance... | |
| Take into consideration the fact that before the war, Ukraine's annual military budget was around $6 billion. | |
| But after the war started in February of this year, Ukraine has received over $30 billion worth of military aid from countries around the world, which is equivalent to about five times of their annual budget. | |
| And if you look at this breakdown chart, which was made by Statistica, you'll see that the overwhelming majority of this aid came from us, from the US. And it's also worth noting that those numbers only go up through May 10th of this year. | |
| And the reason that that particular date is so relevant is because later in the month of May, after May 10th, which is the cutoff for that chart, the US Congress actually passed an additional $40 billion worth of aid to Ukraine. | |
| Now, where is that money actually going to? | |
| Well, that's exactly the question that Senator Rand Paul had. | |
| Because you see, while Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell were pushing through the Ukraine aid package with lightning speed, well, Senator Rand Paul blocked their effort, and he demanded that an amendment be included in that bill so that a special investigator be assigned to oversee how this Ukrainian money was being spent. | |
| Here is specifically what Rand Paul said last month while he was blocking the swift passage of this bill. | |
| Quote, My oath of office is the U.S. Constitution, not to any foreign nation, and no matter how sympathetic the cause, my oath of office is to the national security of the United States of America. | |
| We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the U.S. economy, because I think we should have an inspector general. | |
| We have one out there and overseeing Afghan waste. | |
| He's been very good at it. | |
| You don't have to wait for an appointment. | |
| He's got a team up and running. | |
| And I think that's what we should do. | |
| However, back then when he was airing his objections, well, Senator Rand Paul was met with swift opposition from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said this in response to Rand Paul, quote,"...the package is ready to go. | |
| The vast majority of senators on both sides of the aisle want it. | |
| There's now only one thing holding us back, the junior senator from Kentucky, meaning Rand Paul, is preventing swift passage of Ukraine aid because he wants to add, at the last minute, his own changes directly into the bill." His change is strongly opposed by many members of both parties. | |
| And indeed, Senator Rand Paul's objection did not affect any change as the bill was signed into law shortly afterward without the amendment he suggested. | |
| Now, this $40 billion aid package, it includes approximately $20 billion in new military supplies, as well as another approximately $20 billion in humanitarian, economic, and other types of aid to Ukraine. | |
| With the bulk of this money, it's worth mentioning being divvied out at the discretion of the U.S. President, meaning that at the end of the day, it's Joe Biden himself who decides what military aid is sent to Ukraine. | |
| Then, besides this American aid package, about three days ago, on June the 15th, one of President Zelensky's advisors, he sent a message to the group of European defense ministers that are currently meeting in Brussels with a further list of military equipment that he would like to see delivered over to Ukraine. | |
| Here's specifically what this military advisor in Ukraine wrote to the General Council of Military Advisors across Europe. | |
| Quote, Now, of course, this latest request came at a moment when Ukrainian forces are on the brink of total defeat in the Luhansk province, which is in the east part of the country. | |
| In fact, Russia currently claims almost 100% of that particular region, given the fact that its army has taken the final key city in that region, Severodonetsk, they have it completely surrounded, and Russian troops have reached the town center. | |
| This latest development actually makes it such that Russia has now captured about one-fifth of Ukraine's total territory. | |
| And it was amidst this new development that the White House announced that they are rolling out another weapons transfer over to Kyiv. | |
| Here's what a report from Reuters said. | |
| The White House is expected, as soon as Wednesday, to announce around $1 billion worth of new weapons aid for Ukraine, including anti-ship rocket systems, artillery rockets, and rounds for howitzers, people familiar with the package said. | |
| And then furthermore, besides this $1 billion transfer, the Biden administration is also set to send off an additional $650 million in weapons as well as additional equipment for Ukraine, including the following. | |
| Vehicle-mounted harpoon anti-ship missiles, secure radio-related equipment, thermal night vision optics, as well as $160 million earmarked for training. | |
| Which is, again, all well and good to help the Ukrainians fight for their survival, but a question remains. | |
| What will happen to all this equipment after the war ends? | |
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| But a question remains. | |
| What will happen to all this equipment after the war ends? | |
| And unfortunately, about two weeks ago, the head of the European police agency, Europol, well, she issued a rather dire warning about the huge amount of weapons that are being pumped from the West over into Ukraine. | |
| Here's specifically what the Europol director, Ms. | |
| Catherine DeBoll, told a German news outlet regarding the flood of weapons on the Ukraine-Russian battlefield, which could end up in the hands of criminal groups for years to come. | |
| Quote, And partly due to the fact that Senator Rand Paul's amendment was shot down, this Europol director said that they are now organizing their own team to track where all these weapons are actually going to. | |
| Quote... | |
| In response, my agency is seeking to find a way in which we will deal with the situation after a possible end to the war. | |
| This will involve Europol assembling an international task force that will address this issue. | |
| And so, until then, if you'd like to read more about this Ukraine-Russia war, as well as more about all the military aid that we have sent to them, at least thus far, I'll throw several links down into the description box below this video so you can go through it for yourself. | |
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| And now lastly, as I mentioned in the beginning of today's episode, earlier today we published a phenomenal episode of Facts Matter over on Epic TV, wherein I interviewed the author of a great book called The Man Behind the Curtain inside the secret network of George Soros. | |
| Here's a trailer for that episode. | |
| And I don't really think he does believe in this open society. | |
| I think it's either he's misinterpreting it wrong or it's just a shield so he can say that's what I believe. | |
| And the Open Society Foundation was ranked the number one least transparent organization. | |
| He donated 18 or 19 billion to himself, and that gave him a write-off for five years, so he didn't have to pay any tax. | |
| Expectations set reality, and Soros realized, well, that's true of media as well. | |
| If you tell people what to expect, they're going to reinterpret reality in that effect. | |
| When you're in a DA race and there's a couple hundred grand spent in each person normally, and then you drop one or two million, it actually does, you actually can buy an election that way. | |
| A very common theme of these acts is they view criminals as the real victims. | |
| You'll see this on a social media post. | |
| Someone's robbing a Chanel store, and some liberal's going, well, they might be feeding their family, and I'm going, wait, what's that? | |
| Well, a lot of what he was pushing, and obviously COVID helped a lot, was the whole vote-by-mail initiatives. | |
| Obviously he made it way more susceptible to fraud, but even if he weren't planning fraud, it is just intuitive that it would give the liberals a boost. | |
| I'm Matt Palumbo, and the researcher and author of the new book, The Man Behind the Curtain. | |
| If you'd like to watch that episode in its glorious entirety, you can do so over on Epic TV. The link will be right there at the very top of the description box. | |
| And then, until next time, I'm your host, Roman, from the Epic Times. |
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