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Dec. 25, 2023 - Jim Fetzer
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Truth vs. NEW$, Inc Part 1 (24 December 2023) with Don Grahn, Scott Bennett, and Brian Davidson
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...on December the 24th, Christmas Eve.
Oh, what a time to reflect on what's really happening in this world.
It looks like this year, 2023, we don't have much of something called peace in this world.
Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace and joy and understanding, but it seems like the White House and everybody else, when they rejoice and things, looks like they've taken The meaning of Christmas and peace out of it, and replaced it with Santa.
And if you take the N out of Santa and move it over two places, it spells Satan.
And I think they've sold out to Satan here, so it's really bad.
But this is Truth vs. News, and we're here, and we've got some heavy stories today.
And we have the most prominent people in the world to share it.
We've got, oh, come on.
Here we go.
Oh, wait, hang on, I'll get it.
And here we go.
And so, and we have the most popular people here in the world to celebrate our show, Truth Vs. News, and we have Dr. Jim Fester, who's written powerful books like American Luke's on 9-11, and J.F.K., Wu Watanabe, Sandy Hook.
Now, Jim, are these books for sale, though?
Are they still for sale?
They haven't been banned, have they?
Not the JFK and the 9-11 books are even available on Amazon.
The others that are available, you can obtain from moonrockbooks.com.
Yeah, so Jim Fetcher is the man of the year.
I mean, he's the greatest, except for Scott Bennett, who's also written a book, and he did it under real stress here, and so it's a chill game.
And so he's a fantastic diplomat and Oh, we're just a wonderful person.
And also we have Brian Davidson, who's a private investigator out of Houston, who knows what's really going on behind the scenes and lays it on the ground and tells it like it is.
So today, near Christmas Eve, Jim, I guess we're going to go back to Ukraine and see how is that war going here in this 2023.
Well, Don, we've known for over a year that Ukraine was going to lose because they didn't have the munitions to continue the fight.
Many commentators have made that observation.
If you don't have the artillery, you're done for.
A top Ukrainian commander warned Kiev's ammo depots running low, causing military leaders to reassess operations.
The statement came as the White House says it only has funding for one more weapon package for Ukraine.
There's a problem with ammunition, especially post-Soviet shells, said a Ukrainian Brigadier General.
That's 122mm, 152mm.
That's 122 millimeter, 152 millimeter.
Today these problems exist across the entire front line.
So we're redistributing that.
We're re-planning tasks we'd set for ourselves and making them smaller because we need to provide for that.
Ukraine's Western backers are producing fewer shells than Ukraine is using.
Washington depleted its 1.5-millimeter shell stockpile, resulting in Biden He has cluster munitions that are banned by international law.
Throughout the conflict, Western leaders have pushed Ukraine to use fewer artillery shells, but they continue to expand them at a high rate.
Combined, their Western backers don't understand the current battlefield.
Meanwhile, they want 500,000 more soldiers to join the fight against Russia, but no one wants to join.
Why would you, to be put on the front lines and ground up?
Ukraine's military wants 500,000 more Ukrainians to be mobilized into its armed forces.
President Zelensky told his end-of-the-year news conference a highly sensitive issue that the military and government were discussing before sending to Parliament.
Both sides' streak actually figures as a state secret, but U.S.
officials estimate hundreds of thousands have been killed and wounded.
Zelensky said Ukraine's military had proposed mobilizing 450,000 to 500,000 more.
I said I would need more arguments to support.
First of all, it's a question of people.
Second, it's a question of fairness.
It's a question of defense capability.
It's a question of finances.
Ukraine, which initially saw tens of thousands of volunteers queuing up to defend their country from Russia's invasion, what they're calling the Russian invasion, is trying to conscript more men to replace those currently at the front.
Well, Colonel McGregor has observed, actually, Ukraine has lost that 500,000.
I think that number wasn't just pulled out of the air.
That's 10 times worse than World War I. This war, McGregor observes, is done.
Meanwhile, the Senate has linked aid with Ukraine, with Israel and Taiwan to the southern border in what I regard as a brilliant move.
House Speaker Johnson decided to adjourn the chamber for the holidays, meaning even if the Senate reaches a deal, the bill can't be finalized until after the new year.
That means there are about two weeks here where they're not going to have any funding, and I would predict Efforts would grind to a halt.
Schumer vowed there'd still be a vote on the military aid package.
Republicans are looking for significant changes to immigration laws to make it harder for migrants to enter the country, easier to boot them out.
They're saying Biden's willing to give them what they want to get the over $60 million he wants to fund the proxy war in Ukraine for another year.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, let's remember this Ukraine war didn't start in 2022.
It started in 2014 when the United States overthrew the government of Yanukovych with a coup d'etat and then immediately started genociding the Russian people, language, and culture.
And that was continued under Poroshenko and weaponized under Poroshenko using the weapons that Donald Trump gave Poroshenko.
And Poroshenko notoriously said, Our children will be in schools.
Their children will be in basements, meaning the people of Donetsk and the Donbass and Mariupol and Crimea and elsewhere, the regions that said, no, we're not going to acquiesce and follow a Nazi government of Bandera types that you put in.
We're, you know, we're ethnically Russian.
That's when all of this started, was by an act of political salvation, not defiance, by the people of Donbass.
The same thing that the Americans did in 1776, choosing their own destiny.
Choosing to separate from Ukraine was the same thing when the Americans separated from Britain.
And then they were genocided from 2014 onward, and the Minsk Agreements was a lie by France, by Germany, by Britain, by the United States to, you know, give Ukraine time to weaponize further.
And then finally Russia stepped in because the cries of the people of Donbass had been crying out for help, for relief.
They'd been bombed into oblivion.
And I saw it when I was in Russia for three weeks.
I saw the city of Donetsk.
And it is shattered.
It is crumbling into rubble.
It is like Dresden in World War II.
And they haven't fired any weapons at civilian buildings or schools or hospitals, but the Ukrainians have, and the Americans have, by giving Ukraine HIMARS that are extraordinarily accurate and targeted hospitals and schools and other Civilian ministry building.
So it was for that reason that Russia's went in, and it's for that reason Russia will never leave, and it's for that reason Russia will be victorious and end up annihilating the entire Ukrainian government.
And that's what the Ukrainians, I think, recognize.
And it's fascinating that The United States Refugee Resettlement Program is geared to save people fleeing their country because of persecution, because of death.
And the Ukrainians that refuse to be thrown into the meat grinder and killed on the front line, they are refugees.
But yet we are, and the European Union, forcing and returning these Ukrainians who are seeking refugee status in the EU and other countries.
We're forcing them back to Ukraine to be drafted and thrown in the meat grinder.
And of course, we're accepting Hispanics and Haitians from all over the globe to come into our southern border.
So the entire refugee resettlement program is completely ironically distorted.
But I think this draft is going to go nowhere.
The two weeks that we're going to see is going to ultimately, I think, cause Ukraine to run out of everything.
And it's just a matter of time before the entire government disbands like we saw in Afghanistan.
That's the future of Ukraine.
Is Russia pushing all the way through Odessa, up everything east of the Dnieper River is Russian.
You will have a few hillbilly portions of Ukraine that will be left alone in their Bandera Nazi thuggish culture.
But for the most part, all of Ukraine is probably going to be returned to Russia.
And Russia's terms are every weapon has to be turned over to them.
There's no negotiation.
There's only unconditional surrender.
And Ukraine totally demilitarizes.
And if it doesn't do that, it's not going to be an independent state.
It's going to be absorbed into Russia again.
And the portions that don't want to be ruled by Russia, they can be independent.
But I could also see the British having a Ukrainian government in exile.
That's probably the next card they're going to play and hope that the world will recognize this Ukrainian government exile.
But I don't think they will.
I think the entire world is so sick and tired of this war and the hypocrisy of the West that they're ready for Russia to completely take Ukraine back.
And I think you would see a renaissance.
You would see a flourishing of Ukraine like you've never seen before.
We'll see what happens.
Jim?
Brian?
Well, I spent a good deal of time this week sort of re-researching what I know about the Ukraine war just to make sure that I was putting the pieces together.
And so I logged into Russian browsers using A Russian VPN that allowed me to appear as if I was in Russia so that I could read the headlines.
And I did.
TASS, RT, many of the others, just to kind of feel it out.
And it appears to me that the Russians know that they've won.
And they're cutting deals right now.
with their allies to sort of repopulate Ukraine.
One of the allies is China, and they've already set up a region where they've made a deal with China to repopulate the area.
But if I'm reading what's coming out of Russia's intelligence agencies properly, and who knows how much is propaganda.
They use it just like anybody else uses it, so who knows.
But this is from TASS, a rough translation.
Russian troops have destroyed over 10,000 drones since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 558 aircraft, 261 helicopters,
10,040 drones, 442 anti-aircraft 10,040 drones, 442 anti-aircraft missile systems, 14,299 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,189 multiple rocket launchers, 7,000
7,479 field branch artillery weapons and mortars as well as 16,660 units of special tactical vehicles have been destroyed.
And I took that and cross-referenced with what I could find to validate the numbers and Looking through, I was able to find a lot of video of the actual fighting.
And it appears that they're fighting American forces, or at least American mercenaries.
Really?
In lots of these, in lots of these conflicts.
So we're $150 billion into these guys at this point in time.
Who knows how much has been carved off the top for insiders and surplus vendors and partners and politicians, whatever.
Putin's coming up for re-election.
He's got 29 people running against him.
It's strange times.
He still seems to be vastly popular according to the state-run media, but Now I'm trying to take a longer, closer look at Putin's Jewish connections to see what's under the hood because it appears that he's connected to a number of Jewish billionaires around the region.
I mean, lots and lots and lots of them.
So, I mean, I'm just trying to rethink through the whole thing and try to figure out what's under the hood I'm getting a better feel for it, but it's still a little bit early in my research to say what I think is really going on after, you know, just trying to change my mind and look at it from a Russian's perspective.
But it sure looks like they're just smoking them.
And yeah, I agree with Scott about the Minsk agreements.
Obviously the Jewish system, the politicians, the Newlands, the Blinkens, all the others were just buying time.
with the Minsk agreements in order to stage up this conflict, which would cost billions and billions, $150 billion at this point in time.
And now they want more, I guess.
So let's take a look at the next stories and see.
Well, here we go with a pretty good summary of what's been happening here.
Western governments are waking up to the cold, hard truth that the war in Ukraine is lost and the entire future of geopolitics have been changed forever.
In recent weeks, we've seen a plethora of new Western articles that are saying the hard truth out loud.
Here is the Wall Street Journal stating, it's time to end magical thinking about Russia's defeat.
And here is a foreign affairs article written by Richard Haass, one of America's most important geopolitical think tank advisors, advocating for the U.S.
to redefine what success means in Ukraine.
It sounds like a confession, but it's simply how fast things can change.
Let's go back to May 2023, when U.S.
Senator Lindsey Graham personally met with Ukraine's Zelensky and delivered this message.
Free or die.
Free or die.
Now you are free.
Yes.
And we will be.
And the Russians are dying.
This is the best money we've ever spent.
Thank you so much.
Best money the U.S.
government has ever spent?
Wow, what a statement.
It sounds like Lindsey Graham is in it for the long haul and committed to fighting for Ukraine for however long it takes.
But look at how fast Lindsey completely reverses his position in a new interview given just this past week.
So I will not vote for any aid until we secure our own border.
Reform asylum, reform parole is possible to do.
I'm sorry, what was that?
I'm not helping Ukraine until we help ourselves?
What happened to the best money we ever spent?
Honestly, I feel bad for the Ukrainians who were told by Boris Johnson to walk away from a peace deal in March 2022 and instead fight for their freedom.
Now the Financial Times reports that funding to Ukraine will officially run out by the end of the year.
The reality of the situation is the West grossly miscalculated how to deal with Russia.
The West thought if we could band together, throw hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine, we could cripple Russia's economy.
Force an uprise amongst Russian citizens, and who knows, maybe even start a revolution and overthrow Putin as president.
It was a lofty goal, but to be honest, it was too emotional of a goal and not at all realistic.
We know for a fact the U.S.
government would love more than anything to overthrow the ruling governments in Russia and China.
Nothing would make U.S.
politicians happier than seeing these countries turn into liberal democracies.
But once again, we need to remove our emotions and simply look at the facts.
I found an incredible article this week in Der Spiegel, a German political magazine that is one of the most influential political resources in continental Europe.
The article is entitled, Why Putin has every reason to be happy with himself.
Before we break down this article, I want to stress just how significant this is for a German magazine like Der Spiegel to publish an article like this.
Germany is the largest and most important economy in all of Europe.
It has been the biggest European supporter to Ukraine and most Germans are very traditional in their mindset.
They most definitely don't support Putin and believe the battle between Russia and Ukraine is a battle between democracy and autocracy.
A battle between good versus evil.
And no matter what, even if your close ally on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean destroys your pipeline and access to the cheap natural gas which powers your economy, Ukraine must prevail.
But now, even the Germans are realizing what actually happened these past two years.
Let's break it down.
Russia's economy has grown since the invasion, largely due to the massive increases in arms production.
Putin has not become an international pariah.
Instead, he recently spoke at eye level with Olaf Scholz and other heads of the government at a virtual G20 meeting.
In fact, Putin has now been invited to the Middle East to meet with the UAE and Saudi Arabia to discuss the Israel-Hamas war.
Domestically, The autocrat is in no trouble and even on the battlefield things are going better again.
Ukrainians now fear that Putin's soldiers could go on the offensive and occupy new territory.
The Russian president enjoys his run and displays a self-confidence that is difficult to bear.
Putin proudly stated, we have become stronger, in a widely watched video message to the meeting of the World Council of the Russian People.
And Hal Turner seems to have a knack for uncovering important stories and reporting.
A special flight squadron from Russia has landed in D.C.
to lay out the terms of surrender to the end of the war.
It's very telling.
The terms given to Washington for Ukraine are complete Ukraine surrender, complete surrender of all military equipment, Russian territory will reign for Kirkov to Odessa and give Russia complete control of the Black Sea coast.
Western Ukraine cannot join NATO or have any military aid.
Russia does not care who controls Western Ukraine and has openly offered it to Poland.
Put bluntly, the Ukraine war is over and Ukraine lost.
Completely.
They can no longer defend themselves in any meaningful way.
If hostilities were not halted, Ukraine would simply be slaughtered.
Believe it or not, Russia does not want to do that.
Notice this information isn't anywhere in the mass media.
Notice the Washington Post stopped printing its Ukraine war update section.
No reporting that Ukraine is lost.
Not a word about Russia's victory.
This personifies what the so-called mainstream media has become a mouthpiece for the government.
The mass media acts as a stenographer for what government wants you to know.
They report the narrative as opposed to the news.
His personal opinion?
Russia wants to get billions of dollars of best equipment and NATO-trained troops.
It got exactly the farmland it wanted.
It lost about 30,000, killed 300,000 Ukrainian troops plus NATO.
That's the losses on the Russian side.
Russia's military industrial capacity has tripled.
NATO's reserve equipment and arms is non-existent.
The 20% of Ukraine they conquered are Russian and Russian-speaking.
Not only do these people not hate Russia, they support it.
Energy prices have tripled in Europe, as things now stand.
Europe is on the verge of economic collapse.
NATO and the U.S.
have been proven to be paper tigers.
So many in the West and the median government thought Ukraine was one counter-offensive way to victory.
It was all lies.
Deliberate.
One wonders how all those folks are going to deal with Ukraine's defeat.
If we go back a year or so, there was a discussion of efforts to partition Ukraine after the victory.
There's a more recent article about giving parts to Poland, parts to Hungary, and parts to Romania.
This is going to mean there will no longer be a nation of Ukraine, which of course was a fabrication after World War II.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, they failed to mention, again, the reason for the start of this conflict was the genocide of the people in Donbass.
That's what started this.
The Victoria Nuland overthrow of the government in Kiev precipitated this war.
And the United States was responsible for this.
McCain sat up on the stage and bellowed like the bitch he is of how America stands with you.
Americans didn't stand with Ukraine.
They had no support for any of this if they knew what was going on.
Ukraine has been a basket case, schizophrenic, MK ultra, brainwashed, Frankenstein since the late 1990s.
And the color revolution, orange revolution was another example.
CIA was all over that.
And of course, 2014 was the climax of it.
And they genocided.
I have seen the photos and met the reporters and the cameramen that have videotaped women having swastikas carved into their bellies and branded swastikas.
That's what's going on in the Donbass area.
That's what the United States is supporting.
And that's why Russia went in.
And they went in far too late.
They should have went in in 2014.
But they didn't.
They dicked around because they trusted the West.
They thought, well, we'll just have an agreement called the Minsk Agreement.
How did that work out?
They lied.
So Russia finally went in, and it's not pushed all the way to Ukraine, Kiev, and all that.
It simply enclosed and defended the portions that were being slaughtered, and those portions then voted to be independent republics.
So that's the real story behind this.
There's no conquest.
There's no farmland.
Russia did not want this.
And they don't want to kill Ukrainians.
I was on the ground with the soldiers.
They consider them traitors, but they consider them Slavs, and they also consider them brainwashed.
And they feel empathy and they're sad that this has gone on.
And the only thing is Russia and the Russian people seem to prefer to endure suffering than inflict suffering on others, is what it was told to me about the Russian personality.
And that's different than what we have in the West.
But that's the real status of things.
These terms that you just read, Jim, that's exactly right.
These are going to be Russia's terms, and they're going to be like MacArthur, go right up and say unconditional surrender, and they're going to take back the entire region of Ukraine and make it Russia.
They'll do it legally, they'll do it electorally, but they're going to take The entire country, except the portions of the schizophrenics that Boris Johnson may want to claim as a government in exile, but that's going to go nowhere either.
So all of this is about to wind down.
Here's what they're going to do, of course.
They're going to shift and pivot and just kind of do a magic, you know, poof!
Everything's gone.
You know, the lady in the box is gone.
Zelensky's gone.
He'll probably be in a grave.
And they're going to shift towards Iran, and that's going to be the next battle space.
They're going to pick a fight with Iran, sink a carrier in the Persian Gulf Red Sea, and they're going to pivot to this war with Iran, I think, in the next six months.
But that is going to be another strategic defeat, because Russia is not going to allow Iran to fall.
That was told to me by Russians when I was there.
So, that next fight is going to be triggered by Gaza and all this Israeli stuff, but they're going to shift to Iran very quickly.
Jim?
Brian?
Well, I was just reading a World Bank report on the actual costs of what they suspect this war is doing in terms of damage, because it's basically going to be BlackRock and Vanguard financed by the U.S.
dollar rebuilding this damage.
And so, you know, you can look at damage from a person perspective in terms of what it will do.
To a person to have their water or electric shut off or their house destroyed.
But fundamentally, let me just give you some numbers here because it looks like they're planning to the cost to rebuild the entire region.
And I'm guessing that it's somewhere in the 350 to 500 billion dollar range.
Remember, we spent 100 billion blowing him up.
Now we gotta rebuild it all.
So, this is just a massive, unbelievable money pit.
Housing, it looks like 69% of the housing in the Donetsk region has been damaged.
The Luhansk region has been damaged up to 20%, maybe more.
And this is a bit of an older report, but overall, We want to put, or the World Bank wants to put $69 billion into housing, $9 billion into education, $15 billion into the economy or into the health infrastructure, social protection and livelihoods.
They want $20 billion, culture and tourism.
They want $5 billion dedicated to that.
Agriculture, they need $18 billion.
Irrigation and water source management, $7.5 billion.
Commerce and industry, $20 billion.
Financing and banking, $8 billion.
Energy extractives, transport, telecommunications, water supply and sanitation, municipal services, cross-cutting sectors include Environment, natural resource management, emergency response and civil protection, justice and public administration, and most importantly, for land decontamination, they want $73 billion to rebuild this.
Now, of course, Ukraine is going to have to borrow the money, so it's all going to be debt-based paper.
And for anybody who's capable of thinking through this, and then of course in America we have the land, I think it's the Land Act, which says that all this money that we're spending over there needs to be repaid.
Guys, we're talking about a half a trillion dollars investment through different financing machines that are connected to the global banking cartels Using the U.S.
dollar as the platform, assuming its strength is consistent, it's almost insane when you think about the fact that, you know, here in America, our budget to protect the homeland for homeland security is $100 billion.
This is almost half a trillion, just from what I've been able to identify so far.
This is the dumbest war I think I've ever seen.
Scott, sure.
You know, I've said to Russians when I was over there, kick out every Western embassy and every consulate and tear up every piece of paper claiming to have any kind of ownership over one acre of land.
Everything that the West claims to own or bought is torn up and burned down.
Russia owns that territory.
Just like the Americans went in and kicked off all the Indians and said, this is our territory.
The Indians don't own it.
We're not buying it from you.
Yeah, yeah, you can get into the beads and glass and all that stuff.
But for the most part, I predict and I hope and I think Russia is going to go in and say, No American dollars.
No American institutions.
No American banks.
No French banks.
No German banks.
Nothing is going to be in Ukraine.
We'll give it to Georgia.
We'll give it to Kyrgyzstan.
We'll give it to China.
We'll go through other instruments to rebuild Ukraine.
We're not going to have anything to do with the G7 or the G20 or France or Germany or Britain or any of you.
And we certainly don't want the US dollar.
We'll use gold, we'll use silver, we'll use BRICS currency, we'll use something else.
So I disagree with this theory that BlackRock or these other institutions are going to step in and inherit the reconstruction opportunities and stuff.
I just don't sense that.
I think this has been a paradigm shift away from the Western world, away from the dollar, And you don't go back into a house, you know, if you've married a gal and suddenly she turns into the exorcist, you don't go back into the house and act like you're married again.
You burn the house down, you turn away, you bolt the door, and I think that's what Russia, hopefully they're not hard-headed and stupid enough to miss the subtlety of what I'm saying, But Russia needs to recognize that the West has become the exorcist.
It is not a woman you can go back and marry or reconcile anything with.
So I don't agree with the reconstruction predictions or forecasts.
I just sense, and I'd like to be wrong and think that everything's going to work out and everything's going to be smoothed over, but I just sense that the world is shifting away and the U.S.
dollar is inevitably going to collapse, and the predictions of the Russians are that.
Why would they prop it up?
With any opportunities.
I just don't see that happening.
I think every reconstruction in the entire Ukrainian situation and land is going to go to other countries.
Jim?
I think if Ukraine prevailed, Brian's predictions would have been well-founded.
But with Russia prevailing, not.
Brian, go ahead.
Yeah, just let me clarify that.
Those were the World Bank's predictions as to what they would need to rebuild, assuming that they won.
They haven't won, obviously.
It's an absolute mess.
Secondarily, from what I'm reading from the Russian news sources, it looks like they're going to appoint Poland as sort of the rebuilding mediator to step in and re-engineer these structures and these systems.
So it looks like they are teaming up with Poland in terms of A partner, a puppet, or, you know, we know that they're teaming up with China.
We know that they've got great connections in India as well.
Poland as well.
So, you know, I was just talking about from a Western perspective.
Let me clarify something.
The Russians are giving Poland the basket case shit birds of Ukraine.
Okay.
That's what they're giving Poland.
They're basically saying, fuck you, Poland.
We know what you're about.
There's no one more angry against Russia than Poles.
I don't know why.
I mean, Ritter and McGregor and others have said the same thing.
The Poles are batshit crazy.
So, they're giving Poland the batshit crazy areas of Ukraine, the places that refu... you know, the Bandera, the Nazis, the Hitlerian types, the Swastika types, they're given to Poland.
And I think they're saying, Poles, you know, here's a gift for you, but we're not going to deal with them.
We're dealing with the parts that want to be ruled under Russia and Ukraine.
And they may build another great China wall to make sure the two don't mix anymore.
That's what they're giving Poland.
Scott, thank you.
Brian, excellent.
Meanwhile, here's Scott Ritter talking about... Well, if you won't say it, I will.
Hamas is winning this war.
They're winning it tactically, they're winning it operationally, they're winning it strategically.
The whole Hamas plan was to get Israel to do everything they've done To get Israel to bomb the infrastructure to collapse buildings into rubble to create this massive You know chaos above ground and to lure Israel into this where Hamas operates below ground Sorry, I've been looking at some of the same videos.
It's curious, you know I would have thought that Hamas, you know, when they build their tunnels to defend, that the tunnels would have gone right up to the surface and that there would have been some sort of boulder or bush disguising the tunnel entrance.
And then I'm thinking, well, wait a minute, Scott, you're smarter than this.
I took ground penetrating radar into Iraq to look for buried things.
And when you have that kind of a surface anomaly, you pick it up.
So I'm looking at the videos.
it appears that hamas tunnels end um around one two three eight to ten meters below ground and that in order to do their attack they are breaching their tunnel and then collapsing that soil in and then they're climbing up it's because there's this big lip this big soil lip uh that they have to come up they They put a ladder up and they work their way up.
What does that mean?
That means when, you know, Israel is coming through with their, you know, radar, their side scanning radar, their ground penetrating radar looking for these tunnel networks.
They ain't detecting that because that radar can't go down that deep.
Which means Israel has no clue where these tunnels are.
And this is why you can have Israel actually build a camp where the bulldozer comes out and bulldozes up this little berm area.
Then you have the Israelis in there smoking dope, smoking cigarettes, doing whatever they're doing, grab assing.
And all of a sudden in the middle of this, pop, there's a tunnel opens up and out pops Hamas.
And they kill a bunch of Israelis and they go back down and then they seal off that tunnel.
They blow it up, collapse it, and the Israelis can't follow it in.
This is a very, very quick.
Coordinated defense.
They fought the Israelis to a standstill in many areas.
Israel's had to withdraw from certain areas of northern Gaza.
Remember before the pause, the operational pause?
Israel, we've defeated Hamas in the north.
Not even close, pal.
Not even close.
The battle hasn't even begun.
Israel has to have to withdraw from certain areas, areas they deem to be secure, or suddenly their tanks are getting popped, their guys are getting killed.
And it's not a whole bunch of dead guys.
I mean, over a hundred soldiers have been killed.
It turns out, you know, around 20% of those are killed by Israelis.
A friendly fire instance, which again points to the chaos of the fighting and the lack of discipline on the part of the Israelis.
These aren't good soldiers.
They're not good soldiers.
You know they're not good because they're ill-disciplined.
These are idiots that broadcast a video to his daughter.
You know, hey baby, happy birthday.
I'm blowing up something.
Boom!
And they do that video.
And Hamas is watching and going, kill him.
And they did.
You got Golani Brigade guys burning schools.
Hey, we're burning schools.
We're burning stuff.
And Hamas said, kill them.
And they did.
Hamas is in control of this battlefield.
It doesn't mean that they're going to push Israel out.
That was never the objective.
The objective was to pull them in and then hold them, grab them, kill them, grind them down.
5,000 Israeli wounded.
That's the number you should focus on.
And of that, 2,000 are permanently disabled.
That means they'll never recover.
This is very, very good.
Meanwhile, even in Israeli papers, Israel is losing the war against Hamas, but Netanyahu and his government will never admit it.
The official narrative has been Hamas is weakened, but in reality, the IDF doctrine of massive forces is failing.
Until recently, the war narrative has been largely controlled by the IDF and the Ministry of Defense.
Israel's international reputation may have plummeted with the killing of more than 20,000 Palestinians, wounding of more than 50,000, destruction of much in Gaza, but the IDF can still plausibly claim to have severely weakened Hamas.
The narrative was helped by difficulty with a few journalists still operating in Gaza, including risk to their personal safety, while the international press was stuck in Jerusalem and dependent on IDF sources.
That changed as a different picture began to emerge.
First was lack of evidence to support the IDF claim Hamas headquarters under the al-Sharif hospital.
Then IDF couldn't identify the location of the Israeli hostages.
Recently, there have been further incidents.
On 12 December, a skillful triple ambush made by Hamas militaries An IDF unit ambushed into casualties.
Further troopers sent aid, and they were ambushed, as were reinforcements.
Then three Israeli hostages succeeded in getting away from their captors, only to be killed by IDF, even though they were shirtless and carrying a wide flag.
What has since made that worse is calls from the hostages were picked up by audio-equipped IDF search dogs five days before they were killed.
Other wider indication of idea problems.
Official casualties have shown more than 460 killed.
Israel and the Occupied Bank about 1,900 wounded, but other sources suggest a far greater number, as did Scott Ritter.
Ten days ago, Israel's leading daily published data obtained from the Ministry of Defense Rehabilitation.
More than 2,000 IDF have been registered as disabled, just as Scott Ritter said.
58% treating suffering from severe injuries to hands and feet, suggesting a far higher casualty toll than the official figure.
Meanwhile, the Times of Israel reported the number of injured soldiers in Israeli police and others secured at 6,125, not to mention friendly fire.
The effect is the idea of commanders who are coming under huge pressure to succeed and will go as far as the War Cabinet will allow.
They also know, while talks are stalling, pressure from the families may soon result in another humanitarian pause.
Thus, they want to damage Hamas as much as they can, as quickly as they can, while they can, whatever the cost of Palestinians.
What makes this possible is Netanyahu's dependence on an extremist minority of fundamentalist religious entrenched Zionists in his government.
They would not have anything like the wider support in Israel, not for the tragedy of 7 October, yet they're doing more and more harm to Israel's long-term security.
Not as Israel risks becoming a pariah state, even among its allies, but it will fuel a generation of radical opposition from a reconstituted amass or its inevitable successor.
Meanwhile, the General Assembly is just remute U.S.
hegemony.
The significance of the December 12th General Assembly vote goes well beyond the demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
It's a striking repudiation of U.S.
hegemony.
U.S.
planners long believed the U.S.
could lead the world most legitimately and effectively through international bodies like the U.N.
Though the result of the vote is significant for Israel, it's a context that is significant for the U.S.
On December 8, in response to Secretary General Guterres' invocation of Article 99 to demand the attention of the Security Council to protect international beliefs and security, the 15-member council voted an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, 13 in favor, UK abstaining, but the US veto.
In relation to the use, the General Assembly invoked seldom-used Resolution 377A, a response to what was perceived as the U.S.
irresponsible use of its veto.
It was a pushback against U.S.
hegemony, a reminder of the need for a Security Council reform.
U.S.
vetoed the call of most of the rest of the Security Council, the General Assembly, and most of the world.
But the General Assembly representing the world, not just the anarchically ensconced permanent members of the Security Council, had recourse.
Article 377 reminds the five permanent Security Council members that their primary responsibility is to maintain international peace and security, to seek unanimity and exercise restraint in the use of the veto.
In the eyes of the General Assembly, the U.S.
abused its willing power by doing neither.
Placing its own foreign policy ambition ahead of the foreign policy desires of the world, it is meant to responsibly lead.
So the world rebuked the U.S.
and exercised its Article 377A right.
Moreover, Ehud Ulmert, a former PM, and by my analysis, together with Bibi Netanyahu, the brain trust behind the 9-11 attack on America, has declared elimination of Hamas will not be achieved.
Netanyahu is waging a personal war.
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert commented the goal of war on Gaza was to destroy the Hamas movement, but will not be achieved, asserting that Netanyahu's pledges are boastful, that he's fighting the war for his own personal gain.
Olmert wrote, Gaza is crashing, thousands of its citizens are sadly paying with their lives, thousands of Hamas fighters happily are being killed, but the destruction of Hamas will not be achieved.
Whether Yassin, as founder, enjoys a short life in hiding until he, Mohamed Def, and their partners in Hamas leadership are eliminated, Hamas will continue as a very weak, battered, bleeding force, but it will continue to exist on the edge of Gaza.
Given this true assessment, we must prefer a change of direction.
I know this may be unpopular.
In the atmosphere of incitement, bravado, and arrogance, one must not shy away from saying things that are not obvious but are necessary out of a sense of national responsibility.
The State of Israel now faces a choice between a ceasefire as part of a deal to bring home hostages and hope most of them are alive, and a ceasefire with no deal, no hostages, no apparent achievement, total loss of the remnants of international public support for the State of Israel's right to exist without terror threats from murder organizations.
Omer adds, a cessation of hostility will be forced upon us by our closest allies, led by the U.S., England, France, and Germany.
They will no longer be able to pay the price in public opinion and lie the gap between the lack of military resolution and continuation of fighting, bearing humanitarian costs, a consequence they will not be willing to bear.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post—and remember, this is the CIA's mouthpiece—mapped Israel's destruction of Gaza Saturday.
They mapped out the complete and utter devastation of Gaza by Israel through the relentless indiscriminate bombing campaign from the Washington Post.
Israel's waged one of the century's most destructive wars in Gaza.
Which really should say Israel and Gaza has waged one of this country's most destructive wars.
It's been unlike any other in the 21st century.
Israeli airstrikes and a ground invasion that began 20 days later have destroyed large swathes of the besieged territory, killed at least 20,057 people, displaced the large majority of the population, The post-analyzed satellite imagery, airstrike data, U.N.
damage assessment interviewed more than 28 workers, health care providers.
The evidence shows Israel has carried out its war in Gaza at a pace and level of devastation that likely exceeds any recent conflict.
Destroying more buildings in less time than were destroyed during the Syrian battle for Aleppo from 2013 to 2016, and the U.S.-led campaign to defeat ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria, in 2017.
The Post also found the Israeli military had conducted repeated and widespread airstrikes in proximity to hospitals, which are supposed to receive special protection under the laws of war.
Satellite imagery reviewed by most reporters revealed dozens of apparent craters near 17 of the 28 hospitals in northern Gaza, including 10 craters, suggesting the use of bombs weighing 2,000 pounds, the largest in regular use.
Meanwhile, the U.S.
may be flouting its own law by sending unrestricted aid to Israel.
Biden beneficial to CNN.
They're not currently considering placing conditions on aid beyond those already existing in federal law.
The U.S.
expects Israel to abide by international humanitarian law.
What a joke!
And that IDF conducts internal legal reviews before their strikes.
That's a ridiculous claim.
We're not going to do a damn thing other than protect Israel in the process.
Not a single thing, Biden told Democrat donors.
Some foreign policy experts, however, say the existing legal conditions aren't being adequately enforced, given the high civilian death toll, which has exceeded 20,000 since October 7, and good policy designed to prevent arms transfer and enable violations of international humanitarian law, or to foreign forces suspected of using American weapons to harm civilians.
One law in particular has gotten more attention from progressive Democrats, the Leahy Law.
They argue the U.S.
may be shirking its legal duty to ensure assistance to Israel is not being used to violate human rights.
First approved by Congress in 1997, the Leahy Law's purpose is to prevent the U.S.
from being implicated in serious crimes committed by foreign forces.
It supports by cutting off aid to a specific unit, If the U.S.
has credible information, the unit committed a gross violation of human rights.
No security forces, not even American, are entirely immune to committing such violations.
I think it would be very significant if the administration finally made clear that our aid is not unconditional.
Adam, you commit those types of crimes, there's a consequence.
Why shouldn't we say that?
We say that to other countries.
Harrison, the source said it wouldn't necessarily cause Israel to change its strategy, since it can just ensure that any unit prohibited from receiving U.S.
assistance is being funded through its coffers instead.
But it still sends a message politically, we're not willing to tolerate this kind of egregious behavior.
That's not only important for the protection of human rights, but also U.S.
credibility globally.
As the international community grows louder in its condemnation of Israel's war, the Biden admin has tried to salvage some credibility by ramping up its critiques of Israel's tactics.
That includes urging Israel to exercise more care for civilian life, pushing it into hostilities as quickly as possible, if not before the end of the year.
But that has so far appeared to have little operational impact on Israel or the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which is only deteriorating further in the absence of sufficient food, water, sanitation, electricity, communication, and medical services.
Scott, Your thoughts?
Well, if you listen to McGregor and Ritter and others and Larry Johnson and they're all saying the same thing I think we've been saying too, that is, this is going to end Israel.
This is going to end the Zionist government.
This is going to completely collapse the Zionist regime of Netanyahu and really Israel as a political entity.
They are not going to survive this, according to their predictions, and the reason is, you know, they're incapable of a peace settlement.
They're obsessed with a complete genocide of every Palestinian period, and that's going to, it's already turned the Houthis against Israel.
You've seen the Houthis charge into the fight with swords, you know, wielding.
And they're shutting down the Red Sea.
They're shutting down the ships.
You're gonna see other similar attacks, I think.
You're gonna see a larger mobilization.
But I predict the same thing.
This is gonna end Israel.
Where are they going to go?
Ukraine?
Not anymore.
So, it's not that the Muslims are bloodthirsty to kill every black-haired, hook-nosed Jew.
They'll live in peace with them, but the government of Israel, I think, is destined to be completely annihilated.
And what Israel is doing, if Russia did this in Ukraine, the world would be up in arms.
But the world's not up in arms about Israel doing it.
It's a terrible war crime, crime against humanity.
The United States has blood on its hands, the Biden administration does.
Trump's romance with Zionism is another failure in his presidency.
He was the one who did the shift over recognizing Jerusalem as belonging to the Israelis and giving away the Syrian Golan Heights and pulling the United States out of the deal with Iran.
That was Trump.
And that was a stupid thing to do.
We have completely alienated ourselves from the entire world.
We are now the Dr. Jekyll.
We are a madman bent on lust and destruction, and I think it's going to materialize.
With an increasing isolation against the United States.
And I just saw today, there's a story about an attempted color revolution in Serbia by pro-Western, meaning CIA operatives.
This is becoming now the hallmark of American democracy is overthrowing countries and trying to install puppet regimes to siphon off the resources.
I don't see this lasting very long.
Again, I think Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.
This is the real thing with the Yemenis entering in, basically saying, we are fighting Israel because they're slaughtering women and children.
If the Saudi Arabians choose the United States, we'll bomb and destroy every Saudi oil platform.
And that'll collapse Saudi Arabia's political regime.
So Saudi Arabia is not going to side with the United States.
The only nation that has joined this Sanford and Son naval coalition is Bahrain.
Bahrain doesn't have anything.
So the entire Muslim, African, Islamic world is going to turn away from the United States passively and aggressively in different stages.
So I'll leave it there.
Brian, go for it.
Okay, so the big thing I kind of wanted to focus on, and there was a lot in all of that, was Ritter.
Okay, Ritter says Hamas is winning.
How?
We're getting reports that up to 70% of the civilian population of that particular area is dead, massacred in these bombings and these things.
We're getting reports that they've been starved out and that they've been, their water supplies have been cut back.
We're seeing all sorts of pictures of desperate people doing desperate things while at the same, so Israel's inflicting this damage on this area While at the same time talking about how they're the victims of the Holocaust and they're doing ethnic cleansing, which is, isn't that what the Holocaust was all about?
So, Israel is killing, wounding, and starving, and destroying the homes of all these people who are largely dead.
And Ritter's saying that they're coming out of tunnels and winning?
I feel something isn't quite right about the statement.
Maybe it's propaganda to continue to prop up Western funding of this particular endeavor.
They're also publicly humiliating the Palestinians, which is pissing off every Muslim in the area.
The whole world is 25% Muslim, and they're doing it all with The United States puppet regime's support.
And at the same time, don't forget what's going on in the West Bank, because it looks like the same sort of thing is beginning to spread out there.
So how is Hamas winning?
I guess I just would say something's not adding up in my mind when it comes to just simply evaluating what's going on.
And I guess I'll just close with that.
How can Elmas be winning under these circumstances?
I just don't get it.
I think the point is that Hamas is succeeding in defeating the Israeli military man-to-man.
They're taking out 150 of their tanks, their armored personnel carriers.
They are defeating the IDF.
They're having to resort to mass bombing, flooding the tunnels, even nuclear weapons, neutron bombs, which is just ghastly.
The international community has turned against Israel.
Absolutely.
They're going to be cut off commercially.
Their ships are being set on fire.
The horrific consequences for Israel are only just beginning, Brian.
I appreciate your raising the question.
Scott, quickly, before we go to Brian.
No, you said it, Jim.
Continue.
Okay.
Don, take us out.
Oh boy, it's Christmas Eve and we have not brought much peace to the screen this hour on Truth vs. News because the news is all literally about war at peacetime.
This is bad.
But come on back for the second hour.
Hopefully we'll be able to turn the tables here and do better.
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