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May 2, 2022 - Jim Fetzer
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Truth vs. NEW$ Part 1 (1 May 2022) with Don Grahn, Scott Bennett, and Holly Seeliger
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And welcome folks, this is Truth vs. News, and I'm Donald Grotton, the producer of JD.ConsultantsLive.com.
And this is Mayday!
It's Mayday today!
Or is it a Mayday call today?
Because things are happening so crazy in this world.
Or is it April Fool's Day?
1st of April.
Things happening with this bureaucracy of Ministry of Truth and stuff.
That'll be the second half of the show.
But right now, let me introduce you to the best panel in the world to discuss what's really happening that needs to get out there.
We've got Jim Fetzer, the most dangerous mind in America, because America has gotten so dangerous.
He's leading us through it.
And he's a real guy that I like.
Then we have Scott Bennett, most articulate military intelligence officer I've ever met.
He's with it all on the foreign press, doing all kinds of good things.
A busy guy.
And Holly Osiligo, wow, she does a lot.
She's a very good researcher and hope for the future.
All you young people, Should aim to be a Holly Seager.
She's just wonderful.
So, Jim, I think, how about Russia?
How's Putin doing today?
Oh, Don, it's amazing all stuff that's going on.
Putin is even about to declare war on Ukraine or alternatively So this is supposed to be a May 9 Victory Day celebration marking the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945 to declare that their operation in Ukraine is over.
I think it could be wrapped up as early as May 9.
The British defense secretary is suggesting the Russian head of state will tell the Russian people about the reality of the conflict if he needs more conscripts.
And I think Russia's actually doing a pretty good job.
Now, he can't admit that by saying, I got it wrong.
He's going to have to admit by trying to blame somebody else.
I think this is just silly.
Vladimir Putin is the one guy out there who knows what the hell he's doing.
The UK government takes Putin incredibly seriously, he said, but will not be intimidated thereby.
Putin has made several miscalculations, they claim, thinking Ukrainians would welcome his army and that his soldiers were indestructible and that the world would not unite against him.
When asked what direction he believed the war will take, Wallace said, cruelty is the only card Putin has to play.
That's just absurd.
They came in with kid gloves.
They've been protecting the people.
The people have welcomed them.
The Ukrainian army has been shooting them.
The atrocities aren't being committed by Russia.
They're being committed especially by the Azov battalion.
He's got one calculation left, which is why both the left and right, the SNP, the Labour Party, are united with us that he might win through brutality.
That's just bullshit.
Just completely ridiculous.
Putin's battle-winning component could be the mass murder of civilians and destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure.
And if he were successful, what does that message say to the world?
Meanwhile, Putin has been observing that if the West continues to interfere, they may not like the outcome.
On Wednesday, speaking to lawmakers, he said, if someone intends to interfere in what is going on from the outside, they must know that constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia.
They must know that our response to counterstrikes will be lightning fast.
Fast.
We have all the weapons we need for this.
No one else can brag about these weapons, and we won't brag about them.
We will use them.
And here's a cartoon suggesting that Putin's been losing out, making Russia great again, sort of.
But actually, so far as I can tell, Putin is on the winning side.
It's the West that is cowering in shame and aggression and corruption.
It's just embarrassingly bad.
To be a part of the West, which is as corrupt as it gets.
Scott, your thoughts?
America is corrupt.
Well, you know, I think that's what is being shown here, Jim.
You cannot escape history.
You cannot escape the dominoes that have fallen before this moment in time and the body of evidence that is accumulated as an explanation for what we are engaged in and facing in the Ukrainian situation.
It just doesn't pop out of a box like a clown in a tin wind-up toy.
This has been a long time coming.
In fact, you could go back to 1990-1991 is the origin of this, as I discussed with Scott Ritter, and we've all discussed this as well.
And all of the most keyed in intelligent minds when it comes to the geopolitical analysis for the past 40 years are in agreement that in the 1990s, the West engaged in a policy of dismemberment and cannibalization and the exploitation of a defeated foe the West engaged in a policy of dismemberment and cannibalization and the exploitation of a defeated foe that inevitably created an opportunity for someone like Putin to step in And he has been developing strength ever since.
And the increased animosity and aggression and recklessness by NATO and the United States and the United Kingdom after 2001 has shown the world that the Western model is not about liberal democracy.
It's not about human rights.
It's not about freedom.
It's not about sovereignty.
It's about Capture and conquest and control of all nations of the world and the exploitation of their national resources in exchange for some sort of a citizenship, allegiance to a world empire.
And that's never worked under God's created design.
We've never had a world empire.
God hasn't allowed it.
He stopped the Tower of Babel.
He stopped the Greek Empire.
He stopped the Roman Empire.
He stopped the British Empire.
He stopped the German Empire.
And he's going to stop the United States Empire.
And that's what this whole episode is evolving into.
A confrontation of empirical visions and the reality is Ukraine is being raised up as a theater of the evidentiary performance of the West that has led to the pushing of the Ukrainian people into a grinding
buzz saw and has yielded nothing but the expenditure of money and treasure and talent, both in the United States and in Ukraine.
And we are at a loss.
We are going to lose our country and our relevance and our trust and our importance in the eyes of the world because of this episode.
Not only because Russia is a superior military organization, not only because it has the moral momentum, but because we have nothing to stand upon but greed
And the more and more revelations coming out about bio labs and experimentation and Hunter Biden and all of this corruption again rusts the reputation of America so that the eyes of the world sees no more value of associating with us.
This is the inevitable end state that the American That's fascinating stuff.
Holly, your thoughts?
Well, I think we're seeing, unfortunately, the collapse of the United States, at least for now, under the Biden administration.
sign of god intervening on the historical machinations of man jim that's fascinating stuff holly your thoughts well i think we're we're seeing unfortunately the collapse of the united states at least for now under the abiding administration the longer that this this charade goes on it's it's um it's scary at this point i'm I mean, the Biden administration is Basically kicking the can down down the road.
People are laughing at him.
He's making fun of himself at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
There's no no accountability at all whatsoever versus Putin who has the gold-backed ruble.
Now, they're openly saying that they want gold to the ruble to be gold-backed and they want gold for their commodities.
They want to trade in rubles are basically Thumbing their nose at the central banks who are trying to get money out of them right now.
And they're saying, no, we don't want to pay in US dollars anymore.
And basically the central banks are holding up the US dollar right now.
And it's becoming more and more obvious that no one wants to trade in the US dollars as a global reserve currency because what are we producing?
What are we doing?
We're going and getting it and meddling in international Conflagrations all over around the world.
We pulled out of Afghanistan.
It was absolutely atrocious what happened over there.
We're in embarrassment.
We're just funneling a bunch of money and trying to turn Ukraine into a quagmire, trying to drag this out as long as possible.
So Putin has has basically told the central banks that he's not going to pay them.
And meanwhile, here in the United States, when people are asking the Biden administration, Jim Psaki, what are you guys doing about this runaway inflation?
They're saying, well, we're just going to wait for Jerome Powell and the Fed to raise interest rates.
And that's going to fix everything, or maybe it'll fix things, and they're just waiting for a central bank digital cryptocurrency.
They're not talking about sound money.
They're not talking about bringing jobs or manufacturing back here.
Meanwhile, Russia is manufacturing organic food.
They're growing wheat.
They're working on their own internet.
They're producing things.
They're pro-family.
Putin is standing up for his own people right now.
He's protecting their borders and stopping this quagmire in Ukraine while we're just throwing money at it, trying to drag it on as long as possible.
Holly, I think that was wonderful, and that Putin Has actually unmasked the decline and fall of the United States by going to the ruble.
He's done it in a single brilliant stroke.
Scott, this is wonderful.
Meaning it's revealed the dollar is worthless.
It cannot remain a currency, and nobody wants to support the dollar.
The ruble is coming on.
Inadvertently, the West has transformed geopolitics over Ukraine.
Don, I know you're eager.
Jim, the interesting thing is, this has been done entirely by the West to themselves.
Putin didn't do this to us.
Boris Johnson did this to us.
Joe Biden did this to us.
Macron did this to us.
Schroeder did this to us.
Merkel before us.
This has not been done to us by Putin.
This has been entirely self-inflicted in a political suicide that I could, again, I always come back to the analogy of Nebuchadnezzar was cursed by God and sent into the fields to eat grass for seven years, grow his fingernails and his hair,
In a semblance of madness, and I keep coming back to that because that is exactly the definition and an analogy and explanation that I can attach to Western civilization.
They have been turned over to madness and they have been self-inflicting political suicide on the West without any action from Putin whatsoever.
I mean, or the Russians.
It is truly amazing But at the same time, it's very understandable because, again, Putin and the Russians stand for family values, marriage between a man and a woman, healthy sexuality.
The community mixed with, you know, responsibility to one's parents.
People in America today think you can turn that over to the government.
People in America today think that means nothing.
But in God's sovereign economy, in political organization and social organization of mankind, Traditional values of family and natural law mean everything, and if you violate that and deny that and try and reinvent that with wokeism, transgenderism, homosexuality, lesbianism, all that stuff,
You are inevitably going to collapse your entire soul and your country, and that's what's happening to America.
It's almost ridiculously comical, if it wasn't so tragic.
Jim?
Yeah, great spots.
Did you want to add a comment, Don?
Well, just real quickly, I guess the world that we live in, most of those countries in the world are upsetting with Russia, I guess.
Yep, absolutely.
I think Russia is coming into a position of leadership on the world stage.
Yes.
Meanwhile, Putin warns the U.S.
to back off in Ukraine.
The Western narrative of the two-month-old war, imbued with a rhetoric of democracy versus autocracy, have changed because now our Secretary of Defense claims Washington wants to see Russia weakened by an extended and prolonged warfare in Ukraine.
No longer a battle over control of Ukraine to one that now pits Washington more directly against Moscow.
This is very disturbing development.
For the Kremlin, it comes as no surprise.
As recently as Monday, President Putin repeated at a meeting at the Kremlin that the U.S.
and its allies have sought to split Russian society and destroy Russia from within.
They believe Russia, an independent and large country, is very existent, poses a threat to them.
I think he's got it right.
They are so shallow.
In fact, perceptive Western observers estimate the Kremlin has fallen into a trap laid by the U.S.
intended to bring down Putin's regime.
Well, that gaffe on March 26 wasn't after all when Biden, speaking in Warsaw, blurted out, for God's sake, this man Putin cannot remain in power.
But I think it's more likely that Biden will go out of power than Putin.
Austin's remark signifies a significant change.
The conflict is slowly but steadily turning into a new phase.
Foreign fighters and soldiers from regular units of NATO are increasingly beefing up the depleted Ukrainian army's front lines, indicating Russia has been successful in defeating the Ukrainian army.
Nothing surprising about that.
Meanwhile, Austin's war cry comes after Mariupol fell and several thousand Ukrainian nationalists and a few hundred military personnel from NATO countries are trapped in an underground labyrinth at the Azov complex in the city, which Russian forces have sealed out, a severe blow to U.S.
prestige.
Meanwhile, a complete blithering idiot, Adam Kissinger, a Republican from Illinois, no doubt the biggest nitwit in the bunch, declares that U.S.
can enter and use military force should Russia deploy chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, setting it up for the Ukrainians to use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons and blame it on Russia, in response to which U.S.
must do something or its word means nothing.
The resolution he's introducing would give the president—believe this or not—give the president, this brainless boob who calls himself Joe Biden, sole authority to determine whether such an attack has actually taken place without requiring any international investigation.
We don't need any evidence.
Biden, the brainless, can just make it up on his own.
As an authorization for the use of military force, it would function like the post-911, renewed every year since 2001, which has given the president legal clearance to attack more than a dozen countries since 9-11.
How awful is that?
You're going to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen without a formal declaration of war.
Get rid of it!
Get rid of it.
The resolution would function.
As the President of the United States has said, Putin must be stopped, said Kissinger, who believes everything he hears from any propaganda source.
While he's a Republican who's aligned with the Democrats, he's a classic rhino that's called for U.S.
involvement already.
Within a day of Russian forces entering Ukraine, he was demanding NATO enforce a no-fly zone.
This guy has no idea what that would entail.
It's currently unclear if and when Kissinger's brainless resolution would be brought to a vote, while Biden himself, in fact, has suggested the U.S.
is not going to send troops into Ukraine.
Meanwhile, let me add another story.
The White House is embracing piracy and unveiling a plan to sell seized Russian assets and give the proceeds to Ukraine.
Ukraine needs up to $7 billion in support a month, Zelensky says.
How much is going into his pocket?
The U.S.
should be seizing Zelensky's hidden offshore wealth he got from corrupt Israeli-Ukrainian billionaire Igor Kolominsky, who's been bleeding Ukraine dry for decades.
That would be worth seizing.
Meanwhile, Biden wants $33 billion from Ukraine and the ability to liquidate Russian assets.
Mind you, these are private persons.
These are oligarchs.
Meanwhile, billions in weapons and zero negotiation reveal the true U.S.
agenda in Ukraine, coming from antiwar.com.
Very smart people.
The U.S.
is ready to move heaven and earth to help Ukraine win the war against Russia, declared Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
That's got nothing to do with saving Ukrainian lives, by the way, because saving Ukrainian lives is not a focus of U.S.
war aims in Ukraine.
Apparently heaven and earth includes billions in weaponry but not a single pair of U.S.
boots on the ground.
Nor does it include American warplanes.
No fly zone to counter Russian air superiority.
America doesn't consider the Ukraine war critical to our self-interest that we would risk a single American life.
U.S.
policy boils down.
Ukraine does the dying.
America does the supplying.
The U.S.
has never once offered negotiation as a path toward peace.
They would have to cease denying the provocative history of the U.S.-NATO and ultra-nationalist Ukrainian action toward Russia's border, including the killing by Ukraine of 14,000 Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Don Pass.
Reviews need to address that long tortured history makes a negotiated settlement essentially impossible.
That leaves endless weapon provoking even stronger Russian warfare guaranteeing the killing goes on through 2022 per Secretary Blinken or even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Milley.
Well, then this war on death is just one of several calamities that what we are doing is going to bring about.
A worldwide recession may now be more likely than not.
Some are saying it has begun with a collapse of the stock market on Friday, dropping 900 points.
Flowing from worldwide recession and sanctions crippling supply chains, millions of human beings in poor countries may be doomed to starvation and death from policies proclaimed as lifesavers.
But the worst consequence of the Brockie War may be all-out nuclear between two nations with over 13,000 nuclear weapons.
64 days into the war, every day brings more potential for miscalculation, blunder, misunderstanding to trigger World War III.
It is counterproductive for the U.S.
to substitute weapons and sanctions for diplomacy if it were truly interested in peace.
Last week, a Blinken counselor, Derek Cholet, advised Blinken's negotiating team refused to even consider Russia's security concerns regarding NATO membership in Ukraine.
A red line for Russia they've warned us about for two decades.
Two decades.
That's 20 years.
Chile spilled the beans.
We made clear to the Russians we were willing to talk on issues we thought were genuine, but the future of Ukraine was a non-issue.
Consequently, Blinken hasn't spoken to Lavrov since February 15th.
Unbelievable!
America and its fervent media supporters should be supporting demanding the government use negotiation as the only means for bringing this horrific war to a prompt conclusion.
The question thus arises, is the U.S.
supplying endless weapons with no negotiations simply to wage a proxy war fought by Ukrainians to isolate, weaken, or even affect regime change in Russia rather than save Ukrainian lives?
There's no doubt about it.
That's exactly what's going on.
Scott, I think the events on the ground, the lack of negotiations, everything else spells out exactly what U.S.
policy is.
Your thoughts?
Well, I have been more disturbed by this one story than any other story in our diet of intellectual analysis because this story, again, repeats once more, takes us right back to 2001.
The authorization for military force Against Iraq, against Afghanistan, the thing that kicked it all off, the great 9-11 event, the false flag event, which you and Kevin Barrett, many others were preeminently at the front of, and these faggoty little rainbow flag waving Sean Hannity's and such had the gall to challenge you, Jim.
Your work in this area has been extraordinarily prescient, and we're facing another repeat of that right now.
With Adam Kinzinger just shamelessly throwing on the table that the United States is going to commit U.S.
troops to a war that is not a war against really the number one country that is also aligned with the number two country, China.
So Russia China are one in the same.
We are going to send troops against them, and it would be a them situation, as well as all the other countries that are precariously suspicious about our motives.
All of the United Nations are already bowing down to the ruble for oil purchasing.
NATO is gone.
NATO is defunct.
NATO was never engineered to respond militarily In a way that has been fraudulently sold to the American people as if, you know, some attack on Britain is instantly going to call upon the military from Germany, Italy, Spain to simultaneously rush troops there.
That was never the agreement.
Scott Ritter did a very good analysis.
He said all these countries of NATO would respond, they would consider their response But given Russia's character and their stoic determination, every country in Europe would go, uh, yeah, we're not going to get in that fight.
Nah, nah, we're just not going to go there.
Nah, we want to live.
We don't want to die.
I mean, Macron and these people, you're going to be killed by your own people if you wage war against Russia.
So for Kinzinger, again, to be modeling this idea of insanity, it depresses me because I look around and I think, my God, Are we populated by nothing but mongoloids, clowns, retards, idiots, delusional fanatics that are drunk on some kind of a U.S.
empire mode?
Because everything that you're saying and doing is so far from the potential of reality, it has no basis in materialization, because we don't have any of the capabilities to do what we're saying we're going to do.
And if we tried, it would only result in the annihilation of the United States.
So I'm so disgusted to hear people like this Kinzinger.
And the only thing that gives me a little bit of solace is this guy is such an idiot.
He's saying it to try and advance his political leverage to scare Russia into some sort of compromise.
If Russia hears, well, the U.S.
is going to send Domer Pyle troops into Ukraine, then Russia may go, okay, let's negotiate.
I think that's the motivation behind these morons like Kinziger And who's the other red-headed former priest whose daughter was sniffed and tickled by Biden?
Coons?
From Delaware or whatever?
All these people!
I think when they're saying all this nonsense, they know it's impossible But they're doing it to develop and cultivate some kind of political tit-for-tat leverage.
But again, that's a misunderstanding from Russia, because Russia knows that game, and they're not being influenced by anything coming out from the West.
The only people being influenced by Western talking points like that Are the moronic idiots who call themselves America, you know, American citizenry, that are behind this nonsense and their respective cousin idiots in Europe.
So I see a massive political mitosis separating the sheep and the goats with this particular issue alone.
And again, America is not going to win this.
Europe's not going to win this.
Russia has already won it.
And if we think we're going to do anything different, we are engaging in an activity of futility.
Jim?
Very nice.
Very nice, Scott.
Holly, your thoughts?
Well, I think it's really disturbing every single time that I hear even like the thought of actually bringing troops into this area formally into the Ukraine.
As Scott said, that would obviously be declaration of of war against both Russia and China, and probably any other country that wants to join on to them at this point, which there are many countries which are starting to question their loyalty to the United States.
It's basically just the United States and the UK and Canada, maybe New Zealand, who haven't completely turned away from this idea that we can stand up against Russia and China at this point.
So many countries are kind of seeing how weak the United States appears right now from A political perspective, presidential, economic perspective, and morale is also extremely low with our military.
Our military was attacked, you know, with the mandates and the lockdowns, everything like that over the past couple years with different agendas within the military.
And then on top of that, we're actually seeing record number of suicides right now in the military of people who are on Navy ships, people in the Navy, there's record numbers of suicides going on.
The morale is extremely low.
And meanwhile, the Russian morale in their military is very high.
They see a purpose in going over there.
They believe that they're actually helping people over there.
So there is respect within the military.
There's training.
They've been training and making sure that their weapons are top-notch.
There's so much corruption right here in the United States that I don't think the military would even want to go over there at this point thinking that they could fight Russia and China.
I think that would be a suicide mission at this point for our military and I think that they know that as well and I think that's why they've had to send all these contractors over there and like Reddit warriors and all these strange people that think that they're going to go fight the Russians and think that they're going to go LARP over there because our actual military knows that that would be a complete destruction, even lead to something like a formal World War III.
It's bad enough that we're sending all these drones and military and Nancy Pelosi's going over there.
It's just absolutely embarrassing right now.
Jim, let me say this.
I've trained with Russians.
I've lived with Russians.
I know Russians.
I know Ukrainians.
Ukrainians are a little bit crazy, but Russians are the most serious, deadly people.
They're very low-key, mellow, but they are, if you get into a fight with them, they don't back down.
And to see this is extraordinarily alarming because I'm seeing you're pushing Russia against, you know, their own existential... This isn't just pissing off Russia by some sort of a political disagreement.
You are pressing into their borders.
You are launching bio-labs and chemical weapons and all sorts of experimentations right on their border.
You are planning to develop Biological weapons that identify Slavic DNA.
All of this stuff that we have done since 2005, the Russians know about.
I was part of the Death Factories program two years ago.
So they've known about the biolabs, and we're coming out with a part three, for two years ago.
Jim, the depth of their resolve is something that the U.S.
can never artificially overcome.
Oh, Scott, I think you make an impeccable point.
They are serious people.
Americans are not.
The Europeans, dilettantes, they don't know what the hell they're doing.
Russia will mop them up.
I mean, this is not even a fair fight.
Meanwhile, Pelosi, just as Holly observed, Pelosi's making a surprise visit to Kiev to kiss the ass of Zelensky.
This is embarrassing bad.
Look how she seemed to be bowing before him.
The highest ranking official come to Kiev since the start of the fighting.
Pelosi was accompanied by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks, Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, Rules Committee Chair Jim McGovern, and Representative Jason No doubt.
Give us more money!
Give us more guns!
is formally second in line to the president after the vice president.
They held talks during which Zelensky reiterated the need for continued US military support.
Give us more money, give us more guns, give us more tanks.
Pelosi told him, "US lawmakers were visiting him to say thank you for your fight for freedom.
For freedom?
When Russia's outlined the corruption of Ukraine, the shelling of the Donbass, the murder of 14,000 Russians by Ukraine?
Your fight is a fight for everyone.
Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done, she promised.
But how does Nancy Pelosi have the authority to say the U.S.
will be there with Ukraine until the fight is done?
This is ridiculous.
He used the opportunity to award Pelosi the order of Princess Olga, the third grade, a Ukrainian civil decoration bestowed on women for personal merit in politics, science, culture, and humanitarian areas, and for being a sucker in a sap and playing along with the Ukraine agenda. and for being a sucker in a sap and playing The House Speaker's office said getting together was an extraordinary honor.
DRIP was aimed to send an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world.
America stands firmly with Ukraine.
How dumb is that?
Standing firmly with lappers, standing firmly with rapists, standing firmly with killers.
That says just as bad.
This is absurd.
And literally, a lot of that is exactly what's going on here.
Secretary of State Lincoln and Defense Austin were in Kiev a week ago.
Following the trip, Austin and Oakland guys are out to weaken Russia to the degree it can't do the kinds of things it's done by invading Ukraine.
Washington's already committed $4.3 billion since 2021.
The U.S.
has begun training Ukrainian troops in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
That makes us co-belligerents.
Zelensky has received high-profile officials including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and leaders of other European states.
Russia sent troops, may we remind you, on February 24th following Kiev's failure to implement the Minsk agreement first signed in 2014 and Moscow's eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
The German-French brokered Minsk Protocol was designed to give the breakaway region special status.
The Kremlin has since demanded Ukraine declare itself a neutral country that will never join NATO.
Kiev, however, insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the republics by force.
Meanwhile, 10 EU countries are quietly buying gas with rubles.
While multiple European looters have claimed they won't buy Russian gas in rubles, 10 EU countries are actually going along with it.
A Hungarian official, Gergely Gulyas, told public radio on Sunday they aren't admitting it in order to be seen as being good Europeans.
He said Hungary has opened a euro account with Russia's Gazprom Bank, which then converts payments into rubles before transferring them to suppliers in Russia.
That allows European buyers to comply with Putin's demand that unfriendly countries switch to Russia's national currency to buy its natural gas.
How straightforward.
How straightforward.
How simple.
There should be no doubt in anyone's mind countries importing raw materials from Russia use exactly the same method to pay for Russian gas.
It's unclear exactly which EU countries he was talking about.
Gazprom is already shut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after they refused to pay in roubles.
Ten of the bloc's members, however, have already set up accounts with Gazprom for have actually paid for Russian gas using this mechanism.
Hungary depends on Russia for all its gas imports and is therefore opposed to EU sanctions.
We must mustn't adopt sanctions with which we primarily penalize ourselves instead of those we want to sanction, he said, referring to soaring energy costs throughout Europe.
Well, the government in Budapest has condemned Russia's operation in Ukraine.
They will continue to buy our energy at the cheapest possible price, at any cost to the Hungarian people, which is, of course, the responsible policy to adopt.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, you know, Jim, I was born in Scotland and I was raised with Scottish and British family.
And I recall in the 1980s, The Cold War, of course, was very strong, but the reason for the European Union coming into existence that was attractive was the simplification of transport, so you didn't have to show a passport to every country you entered into the Schengen Agreement.
That was the only reason That the EU came into existence and it metastasized into all these other economic perversions and corruptions and, you know, ideas and assumptions of power.
But that was never behind the European heart and mind.
And I always come back to the European heart and mind.
I know it.
I've still got relatives in Scotland and Britain and Germany and elsewhere.
Uh, and they all are about, uh, you know, sort of a peaceful tranquility.
They don't share the aggression that the U.S.
animates itself with.
And so this whole European Union inevitably, I think, is going to fail.
I think it's going to crumble.
I think it's going to degenerate.
I think it's already showing this.
No one wants to go to war with Russia.
No one in Scotland.
No one in Iceland.
No one in Norway.
No one in Finland.
No one in Sweden.
You don't want to go to war with the Russians.
Again, the Russians are different people.
They are fighting people that have been abused and harmed We're not going to go into the whole historical analysis of the Mongols and the Germans and the French and elsewhere, but they do not look at being attacked the same way others do.
When they're attacked, they will destroy their attacker.
So you don't want to be labeled an attacker of Russia.
And this whole metamorphosis The European relationship is remarkable.
Again, let me just say this and I'll end it here.
Everything I said that was going to happen has happened.
Every single thing I said was going to happen with regards to European countries bowing down and paying in the ruble has happened.
And it's going to continue to happen.
Every European country is going to pay the ruble, because every European country wants to stay alive.
And no European country will stay alive unless it purchases oil from the Russians so that they can have extra money to buy bread.
If they buy oil from the Americans out of Ohio, like half of these pricks who are trying to sell Europe on, At four times the price, then they don't eat.
So the Europeans are going to have a mea culpa moment, and European leaders are already doing what we said would happen.
They're speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
Out of one side, they say, yeah, we want to do what Biden wants to do.
On the other side, they're saying to the Russians, please keep selling us oil, and we'll give you whatever you want.
That is the reality of the dichotomy of the political awareness between European addiction to U.S.
abuse and the European hope that Russia is going to continue to assuage their anguish through material support.
Jim?
Great comment, Tali.
Your thoughts?
I think Scott's right about the fact no one wants to be, you know, the instigator or the person who The world stage believes is attacking Russia.
It's just not going to go over well for the United States.
It was extremely dangerous with, you know, Biden and his recent gaffe saying that Putin cannot stay in power.
Everyone had to go on the offensive and a defensive rather and try to protect him and protect the United States.
It's just so dangerous what is going on for us and for everyone in the entire world at this point, because something between a madman like Biden right now, if he had control of the military, let's say, or certain aspects of it going over there and provoking war, there's a lot of fear about, you know, chemical or biological attacks.
As has been expressed, as Scott said, there's been open research to try to make a Genetic bioweapon haplotargeting from labs in several countries bordering Russia, trying to attack the Russian people.
So they've got every reason to be upset with the United States, never mind the G7 and the EU expansion and everything that has gone on continually.
Since the collapse of the Cold War and Russia went through a horrible time at the collapse of the Cold War and the USSR.
And that's in their recent memory.
You know, they've had to build themselves up in the past couple of generations.
Here in the United States, Americans are not aware of what a real societal collapse could be.
We haven't really seen that in a long time.
You know, at least since the Great Depression, we haven't seen something completely collapse like an economy here.
We've had some rough times.
We're having some rough times right now, but I don't think people are aware of how bad things could get.
Just the way things are going right now with inflation right now, I mean, this is precarious and there's always an opportunity for war when we see the economy go nuts like this too.
You know, Jim, let me ask one thing.
I'd like to hear you talk about Or 1988 until now.
I'd like to hear, because you're of an age from Vietnam, and you possess an understanding of what, like Scott Ritter, what happened with regards to the United States and Russia between 1988, 1990, and 1995, and 1998 beyond, and 2000.
Jim, give us your assessment of that in a quick five-minute analysis, and I'll hold my response.
in 1998, beyond in 2000.
Jim, give us your assessment of that in a quick five minute analysis and I'll hold my response, go ahead. - Well, in a nutshell, Israel has taken control of the American media, the Rothschilds' own, the AP and Reuters, They essentially control everything Americans hear through the mainstream media.
And Israel wanted to use the United States as it has sought to use other nations in the past, just as the Bush family had the policy of other people's money, only invest other people's money to make themselves money.
Israelis wanted to fight wars using American troops.
And at the expense of America, and thereby came about conceiving of a plan which originated in the fertile imagination of Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Olmert, both of whom prime ministers of Israel, of creating a situation where America would feel compelled to enter the Middle East.
Where they pose a program as though we're going to benefit America by creating, in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a project for a new American century, claiming if America were to take this measure, And become involved in the geopolitically sensitive region of the Middle East.
They could create an American empire that would endure for the next 100 years.
It was nonsense.
The sole purpose was to get American forces to take out the modern Arab states, as Wesley Clark would eventually reveal in 2007 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
Use American forces to take out the modern Arab states that were serving as a counterbalance to Israel's domination of the entire region and eventually to confront the Persian nation of Iran.
It didn't play out, but only because of the intervention of Iranian and Russian troops at the request of the democratically elected president of Russia.
9-11 was orchestrated by the CIA, the neocons, the Department of Defense, and the Mossad.
Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney were major players in 9-11.
All four of the plane crashes were fabricated and fake.
No plane actually hit the Pentagon, but it was essential to create the impression because as America's command and control center, it could be declared to be an act of war.
There were no 19 Islamic hijackers and Osama Bin Laden was actually our man in Afghanistan.
So the fraud was on a humongous scale, one of the really monstrous deceptions of the American people, and all for the foul purpose of introducing the Patriot Act, which had been sitting on the shelf, to reorganize the American government in accordance with a Stasi way they'd to reorganize the American government in accordance with a Stasi way they'd organize East Germany into a gargantuan Department of Homeland Security to ensure there weren't independent intelligence units that might actually uncover the truth about any of
What's well known, having independent units in competition with one another is the best possible way to ferret out the truth.
But in this case, they wanted to suppress it.
And sad to say, we've been living with the consequences where Michael Rupert, in his book Crossing the Rubicon, demonstrated based on publicly accessible sources that the key player, the executive director on the ground on 9-11, was none other than the vice president the executive director on the ground on 9-11, was none other than the vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney, operating from an underground Americans have been played massively and we're still paying the consequences that lead right up to the events of today.
And Jim, let me add one thing.
McCarrick, I think it was Rudy Giuliani's police commissioner in New York.
Bernie Carrick.
Thank you.
The revelations of truth about him indicate that he was back in Israel as Bush's appointment, and he received bribes from the Israeli government.
He then came back, and he spent some time in jail, but he also had some very dirty things and dirty people around him.
And then we see this guy, Carrick, assuming a position of authority over Trump's election analysis under Rudy Giuliani.
So there's something very problematic about this individual, Rudy Giuliani, connected to Trump, Running this, you know, election fraud investigation that just causes me pause to say we're being deceived on multiple levels, Jim.
Oh, Scott, you're 100% correct.
100% correct.
And thanks for asking the question.
Here we have more.
The insanity of stupid people in power pushing for war and rejecting peace.
What could be more apt?
U.K.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has backlit his trust view that Russian forces must be pushed out of Ukraine, suggesting that should even include Crimea.
Even The Guardian has accused her position as recklessly inflaming the war to serve her own ambition.
Meanwhile, in Russia, it's playing out on TV endorsing World War III.
The Russian is of Britain's foreign secretary view of the Britain's foreign territories.
A war in Ukraine is a war in which the West is openly seeking the destruction of Russia.
Moscow has come to the realization we're already in World War III.
A comment emerging from London is that Britain will not back down until they achieve complete victory over Moscow.
Boris apparently told Zelensky not to accept any deal with Putin.
There are no peacemakers, only warmongers.
Socrates has never been wrong on such geopolitical forecasts.
These people at the helm of the West are totally insane.
They seem to think they can actually destroy Russia, overthrow Putin, and somehow the Russian people will welcome their liberation.
For years I've warned that post-2032 we are staring into the eyes of the collapse of the West.
The financial capital of the world is shifting to China.
There's a cycle to everything.
The rise and fall of nations follow a cyclical beat.
I have put up forecasts long before these events.
How empires die illustrates there's a cycle.
Nations, cities, states, and empires.
If that statement were not true, we would still be speaking Babylonian.
No one wishes the forecast would be wrong more than I, not something in which I take pleasure.
I have grandchildren who will never know freedom or peace.
All I can do is try to scream loud enough.
Maybe we can not prevent the outcome, but reduce the volatility during the transition.
Meanwhile, Democrats have even lost Noam Chomsky.
The old radical is praising President Trump for seeking a diplomatic resolution in Ukraine.
Remarkable!
President Trump is the first U.S.
president since Ronald Reagan to not start a new war during his watch.
Trump is famous for his historic Abraham Accords between Israel and numerous Arab Muslim nations.
And today Trump is the lone voice calling for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine.
Biden, the Democrats, Republicans, neocons are all calling for war.
This new left is even too radical today for Noam Chomsky.
The old goat may be a communist, but he does have a few principles unlike modern-day Democrats.
Chomsky praised President Trump for seeking a diplomatic resolution for the war on Ukraine.
Glenn Greenwald tweeted, Noam Chomsky in an interview this week says, fortunately, there is one Western statesman of stature who is pushing for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine rather than looking for ways to fuel and prolong it.
His name is Donald J. Trump.
Chomsky said, Donald J. Trump.
Scott, surprising support from an unlikely source, but most welcome.
Yeah, well, you know, we have to keep our minds open to those who are speakers of truth and champions of truth.
I do not agree with Glenn Greenwald's political sexual choices.
I don't believe a man living, you know, sexually married to another man and having sodomy translates into natural family values.
But at the same time, I find extraordinarily agreement with Glenn Greenwald's political analysis of these things.
So we're entering a very weird fray.
It's not our job to convert and to change people.
We're just to speak the truth as God reveals it in our own souls.
And we speak it with gentleness and love.
And I found myself doing this in a variety of speaking engagements I was at.
But we're really at a very interesting point of divergence on so many different levels.
And, you know, I think Donald Trump represents a hope.
We'll see if he can carry it.
But there's some remarkable, strange things that are happening in, you know, these American political ranks that are changing, evolving, and going through all sorts of structural reorganizations.
And I know we're going to get into that later.
Jim?
Good stuff, Hawley.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, I was laughing a couple years ago when it became obvious that Glenn Greenwald is now considered a conservative.
The left has completely rejected him.
Thinking about that, how really the Overton window has shifted.
People like me, and I know Jim as well, During Iraq War II and stuff, the Democrats were supposedly the anti-war party and there was like Democracy Now and Glenn Greenwald used to be a guest on there and they would talk about, you know, corruption and, you know, the corporatization of the military-industrial complex and all this stuff, all the stuff that Chomsky's been talking about for decades.
And now Chomsky is, you know, a right wing MAGA hat wearing Trump supporter now and it's it's really the left that has just gone completely insane.
I mean, they devour their own.
So eventually even they're going to go after someone they love and adore for decades like Chomsky.
And he needs to speak the truth.
I mean, that's what was so hypocritical about all of this was that it was true.
Trump never got us into a war.
He never got us into a conflagration.
He met with North Korea.
He met with China.
He met with Russia.
He met with anyone.
So it was a strength through power.
It was something that I did support as far as he threw out the TPP.
He put in tariffs.
He stood strong and that sort of stuff.
And that's what matters is trade.
So whether you're talking about Xi Jinping or you're talking about other people, it has to do with like oil, has to do with fundamentally with economics and power and trade.
Are you going to benefit me as a country?
Am I going to benefit you as a country?
And not all this backstabbing and conniving and, you know, with these wars with these Democrats, they use emotion, they use rhetoric, you know, think of the women and the children.
At the end of the day, it's mostly about weapons deals and lining their own pockets.
And that's where the Democrats really have just sickened me to this point, where the fact That even Chomsky has to step away from it if he wants any sort of legacy or career at this point.
I know he's pretty old, but he needs to think about his legacy if he's going to stand beside these Democrats who are just salivating at World War Three right now.
Jim, let's remember the greatest moment of Trump's presidency was when he crossed into the North Korean border.
When he said, here I am, and slapped his arms and gave a hug to Kim Jong-un, and Kim Jong-un, you know, had a happy smile.
I mean, that was America at its best!
This is the American president, Donald Trump, stepping into North Korea, and he is confidently and affectionately saying, hey, good to see you, let's be friends.
It's a beautiful moment, and Putin said the same thing.
Putin said, I liked him because he was going to renew relations with Russia, and he said that, and Trump was betrayed by Gingrich, he was betrayed by Pompeo, Nikki Haley, John Bolton, all of these people betrayed Trump.
His instincts were right, and we'll hope that his instinct will prevail when he returns to the presidency.
Jim?
You know, I think that's a wonderful illustration, Scott, Trump's moment of throwing his arms around Kim Jong-un.
I agree with that.
It was a heroic moment.
Now, just as the United States plays a doubles game, and we got a fake president here.
Kim has been replaced in North Korea, sad to say, because he was young, energetic, intelligent, imaginative.
He could bring about a new world in relation to what goes on in the Korean peninsula.
And just as Trump, you know, is displaying that same kind of open-mindedness and receptivity to a realignment of relations, especially with Russia.
The deep state could not tolerate it, and they had to bring about this massive theft of the election in 2020, now being so completely exposed by 2,000 mules that the Democrats have so much egg on their face.
You'd think they were, you know, squirreling, Scrambled!
I mean, it's just embarrassingly bad and it's going to get worse.
Don, we're right there at the perfect moment for our transition at the end of the hour.
I'm afraid so.
One hour this has been on May Day.
It is a May Day call, all right?
And it's something that you want to share and share seriously.
Listen to Scott and Jim.
These men know it and you should learn it from them.
So thanks so much for watching.
See you soon on May Day.
Come back for the second hour.
It's going to be even hotter, I hope.
Well, maybe I don't hope, but I bet you it will be.
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