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Truth vs. NEW$, Inc Part 1 (14 May 2024) with Don Grahn, Scott Bennett, and Brian Davidson
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And welcome, folks, to Truth vs. News on Tuesday, May the 14th, 2024.
Wow.
And I will say, special caution on this show because the truth is so darn heavy and the news is so awful that you're going to have to fasten your seatbelts and brace for some heavy news.
And we have the right people here today.
We have James Petzer, the author of books like Nobody Died on Sandy Hook.
That's a real controversial book at this time.
And of course, he did American Nuked on 9-11, JFK, and other ones.
And he's just a fantastic leader of this group for about 15 years here at the show.
Then we have Scott Bennett, and he's written a book or two.
He's got Shell Game and a brand new book on Russia that I'm waiting to see.
So he's an outstanding author and ambassador for peace and goodwill.
And we have Brian Davidson out of Houston, who's surviving the weather down there and doing a great work as a private investigator.
A lot of keen insights that nobody else seems to have.
So Jim, I guess we have to get going with some heavy news, I guess.
Well, I guess let's start off protesting.
Well, not exactly, Don.
It's heavy indeed.
We got Mike Adams with an analysis suggesting that a deal has been made to install Trump to fund the GOTP and to transform America into a Zionist police state.
In today's Brighton, he offers his analysis why he thinks that deal's been made.
The primary movers are Zionist donors.
They've had it with Biden's refusal to ship more weapons to Israel, as well as resistance against the Israel portrayed by Democrats.
That's why suddenly a huge shift is taking place to back GOP candidates with Zionist money, which is why you're seeing nearly the entire GOP throw away the First Amendment, call to the craziest insane things imaginable, such as Senator Lindsey Graham saying Israel should nuke Gaza, or GOP House members calling for rounding up pro-Palestine protesters, deporting them to Gaza where they can be bombed by the IDF.
Trump is set to be president, but the cost of that will be the end of America's speech, freedom, First Amendment, freedom to think for yourself, especially on campus.
America is about to descend into a fascist, Zionist-controlled police state.
If you have doubt, remember what Trump said when he called him a candidate.
You look at the anti-Semitism, the hatred of Israel by so many people.
You go back 10 years, I mean Israel was protected by Congress and now Congress is just doing numbers that are unbelievable with, I think, A very, very small group of people within Congress, and it's got to stop.
But we have to go back to the roots.
We have to protect.
We have to stop the anti-Semitism that's just pervading our country right now, and Biden has to do something.
You have to get the job done.
It's a horrible job to do, but they have to respond when they do, when there's an attack.
A sneak attack, like on October 7th, that's so violent and such hatred.
You have to clean it out.
You have to clean out the cancer and you have to let them do their job.
And frankly, it has to be done fast because this is not sustainable for anybody.
The job has to be done.
It has to be done fast.
The United States has to get courage and the United States has to speak up.
Nobody knows where the U.S.
stands right now.
I think Biden is not on the side of Israel.
And he's making a tremendous mistake.
You have to clean up the terror that we witnessed on October 7th.
But the bottom line is they have to be able to finish the job.
You have to let them finish the job.
You have to support them.
But they have to do it quickly.
And you can't let scenes like this.
The head of Columbia should be ashamed of herself.
The job that she's done.
She should no longer be there.
She should be absolutely ashamed because she let this take place, Sean.
That sure does sound like it.
I mean, meanwhile, we have a blonde Kim Coogran claiming Trump's dad died from prostate cancer.
She's made the argument.
From what I've seen so far, I believe it's not true.
But remember what Jimmy Dore said further.
So now Trump has come down on the... Trump used to be an American first guy.
He's not.
He's an American first occasionally.
He's Israel first.
And so people who are peacefully protesting in the United States, and that's what they're doing, they're peacefully protesting, Donald Trump is siding with a foreign country over them.
And he says, do you think that the radical left lunatics that are causing all of the chaos... So you think people who are carpet bombing Gaza right now, the occupiers, the Zionists, they're not lunatics?
They're not the genociders?
This is amazing, right?
So, do you think... Hey, there are radical left lunatics in the country.
Right now, they don't have any power.
You know who have all the power?
The radical establishment lunatics.
Like Joe Biden, the Democrats, and the Republicans, who all agree on the worst of things.
Just like he agreed, he just got in bed with Mike Johnson, Joe Biden, to pass funding.
He supported that.
Remember when Donald Trump used to go around saying, I'm going to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours?
Now he's like, no, we're going to fund it.
I'm funding it.
I still don't understand why they went to him at all with that.
A guy who's not present that they have on trial.
Hey, we need you to get on board with this.
We need you, but they did!
I guess to try to get some of the right-wing base to go along with it.
So here's what he tweeted out on his Truth Social.
By the way, he just got two billion dollars more from Truth Social.
I don't know anybody who goes on there.
I had to go on there to get this though.
Do you think that the radical left lunatics that are causing all the chaos at our colleges and universities are doing so in order to take the focus away from our southern border?
No!
No.
I don't think that's why they're doing it.
Wow!
Talk about bending yourself into pretzel.
Where millions of people, many from prisons and mental institutions are pouring into our country, just asking.
Well, I'll let you know.
No, that's not why they're doing it.
They're not doing that to take... So like, he's trying to say they're running cover for Joe Biden.
No, that's not what they're doing.
They're actually telling Joe Biden they're not going to vote for him, and they're actually protesting Joe Biden's policies of supporting a genocide in Gaza, which would be your same po... So Donald Trump and Joe Biden now agree on all the most horrible things.
Why is Ukraine getting more fucking money, too?
I already knew he was all the way in Zionism, but Ukraine?
And here's a Trumper who we've had on the show.
This guy used to be MAGA, Jake Shields.
I don't know, maybe he still is, but he says Trump wants to make protesting Israel illegal.
They serve the same master, and he showed this.
Stop the protests now.
This is what Donald Trump tweeted out on his Truth Social or whatever.
Stop the protests now, and he says they serve the same master.
Now, there's nothing in there that says Donald Trump wants to make it illegal, except he does.
So now, what do we got?
Here now is Mike Adams talking about what he's found highly disconcerting.
Well, in it, decision-making positions who could have said stop, who could have made a difference, will they be held accountable?
It's really striking, because it makes you think back to the 1930s and early 1940s, when the Nazis were really mass-murdering Jews at the time.
And lots of German people just went right along with it.
Of course, German lawmakers, German judges, German media, German scientists, and so on.
They went along with it, and so did plenty of Italians at the time, as well.
Many citizens did.
They just went right along with it.
They said, well, Germany has a right to defend itself, which is exactly what Israel is claiming today as it's carrying out mass bombing and genocide.
And the people of Germany excused it all.
And as a child studying the history of the Holocaust and the horrifying imagery, the concentration camps and so on, I remember wondering, how on earth could the people have stood by and said nothing while this was going on?
Well, now we have our answer.
Those are people like Senator Ted Cruz, Governor Ron DeSantis, Governor Greg Abbott, Donald J. Trump, and all these other senators and GOP members who are complicit in Israel's genocide, and Senator Lindsey Graham.
These people are giving us the perfect demonstration of how Nazis operated during the Third Reich without even hiding.
They were operating right out in the open, saying that they needed to exterminate these animals, which is exactly what Israel says today about the Palestinians.
They justified it.
They made it socially acceptable.
And people of apparent high stature got behind the Third Reich, just like high-powered attorneys and people of wealth today are fully in support of this Holocaust, this genocide against Gaza and the people of Palestine today.
So wonder no more.
If you have any questions about how the Holocaust happened and how the people didn't stop it, all you have to do is go to Breitbart.com and read their stories because they are demonstrating extreme Nazi propaganda in 2024.
Just trade the word Nazi with Zionist and it's all the same lies.
It's all the same propaganda.
It's exactly the same.
This is history coming back to haunt us again.
And this time, it's the GOP on the side of the fascists.
The far-right fascists.
Whereas Adolf Hitler was, of course, National Socialism.
Far left, but sometimes it's not just a spectrum, it's a circle.
If you go far enough to the far left, it circles back around and it becomes the far right.
It orbits through tyranny.
Far right, far left, it's all based on tyranny.
And right now, the far right, GOP, is resembling the far left Nazis.
And just acting like modern day Nazis in America.
Very disturbing to see this happening.
To see how quickly the GOP has abandoned its core principles.
And those principles are supposed to include freedom of speech, obviously.
Constitutionally protected speech includes speech that is not necessarily popular.
It includes speech that some people don't want to hear.
And it also includes the right to criticize a government, our own government or a foreign government, to criticize government leaders, to criticize government policies.
And of course to criticize the war machine that's slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children.
Of course we have the right to speak out against that.
The GOP is willing to throw that right to the wind.
Almost everyone.
Not Thomas Massie, by the way.
Representative Thomas Massie is really showing that he's different.
Which is why AIPAC is running ads to try to dislodge him.
They're spending, I think, $300,000 to try to get him defeated in the primaries.
That's what AIPAC does.
That's what Zionist money does.
They buy off everybody, and if you don't bow down to them, then they run an opponent against you to dislodge you from office.
Now, Lindsey Graham knows that.
Ted Cruz knows that.
That's why they're loyal to the Zionists, because it's all about money.
They need the Zionist money in order to fund campaign ads, and so they abandon conservative principles, sell out to the Zionist zealots, and then they vote for more genocide and more bombs and more funding for Israel to kill more people.
I think they're complicit in genocide, and I'm wondering... Not really any doubt about whether they're complicit.
Scott, I want your reaction to all that.
I think that Mike Adams may be onto something here, suggesting that we're going to have a Zionist government if Trump's in office.
Others would like to argue he's only playing along until he gets into office, and then he'll reveal his true self in opposition.
Your take.
Well, when Mike Adams says, you know, people betray their conservative principles in favor of Zionist money... There will be legal ramifications for any of these people.
It's not abandoning conservative principles.
It's turning into treason.
It's turning into traitors against the Constitution of the United States.
We have one loyalty and that is to the Constitution of the United States.
That's what taking an oath to the Constitution as military or other Government workers do and represent and you do not betray that or abandon that for 30 shekels of silver or 3 million shekels or little boys in the case of Lindsey Graham or any other inducement.
There are things worth standing for and dying for and fighting for and roaring about And we don't have any of that on the Capitol Hill.
We are witnessing a multi-dimensional collapse of the United States intellectually, emotionally, morally, spiritually, economically, militarily.
Everything in this country is rotten and rusted, deformed and mentally deranged.
And I don't take any glee in saying that, but judging them by their fruits, you shall know them.
And I think this is tearing away from the fabric of America, these Zionists, and we're witnessing the birth of a new nation.
And I don't say that romantically.
I say that inevitably.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to dissolve the ties that bind us because we've got such lecherous traitors Occupying the positions of government, it is incumbent on the warrior class to stand up and, by all means necessary, overthrow these tyrannical operatives and reconstitute a new one.
That's my injection of a summary of the Declaration of Independence, but we're witnessing this amazing collapse.
I mean, I always thought the country was going to get better and better when I was growing up.
It's not!
It's getting worse and worse!
And it's worse because Donald Trump is embracing this in the theory that he is going to get better.
Look, we saw what he did in firing bombs at Bashar Assad, pulling us out of the JCPOA, assassinating Soleimani, transferring the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the first term.
I mean, how politically stupid do you have to be?
Trump is almost like an autistic child when it comes to modern political events, and I think the Zionists have tried to control his mental retardation to a degree.
I don't care how much money you make in real estate.
Anybody can bury cat shit in a sandbox or build up a building with Legos, especially if your father is the money and the blueprints and the infrastructure to do it.
That's all he walked into in the 1980s.
He was coasting like a kite On the economic errors which Reagan put in there.
He hasn't done anything but screw whores and, you know, make money.
And, you know, this nonsense of the military and those choosing him, you know, it's like choosing Mickey Mouse to go into a gladiatorial battle.
He doesn't have it.
He's never had it.
And this image, this mirage, this illusion of some patriotic salvation and restoring the republic, I think it's all nonsense, Jim.
I've come to that conclusion little by little, day by day, hour by hour, watching and listening to all the stuff that has been happening.
And this abandonment of This principle, this abandonment of the principle of freedom of speech, and yes, I recognize you may have some Soros-controlled freaks infecting these protests on college campuses, but it still does not excuse the violation of the principle of free speech on a college campus, the one place on planet Earth, the one place in the United States of America where freedom of speech should be completely unfettered.
Now, you don't let people spray paint.
You don't let people break windows.
You don't let people destroy property.
They deserve a bullet in the head, as far as I'm concerned.
But you don't go around being clumsy in your articulation of the differentials, because that's really, at the end of the day, all that matters.
And Thomas Massey, I've disagreed with him on some things, but on others, We'll find agreement.
And I agree with anyone who stands up against the Zionist overtaking of the United States, trying to transform us into a fascist, authoritarian, Zionist state.
And, you know, I think we're very close to a violent outbreak in civil war.
And Trump is not going to calm these waters, just like he's not going to calm Ukraine and Russia, and just like he's not going to calm the Zionist destruction of Palestine.
He's over his head, and I think we're witnessing this fraying of the whole republic as a result.
So I'm very doubtful there's any going to be real advice from Trump, and it's even looking worse the more totalitarian his rhetoric sounds.
Jim?
Brian?
I don't think there's a lot of surprises here.
We knew a long time ago that many of Trump's largest donors were powerful Jewish friends from New York.
We've got Bob Iger, Sheldon Adelson, Stuart Rahr.
I mean, you can take a look at his campaign group.
And the people that have given money to his operation, and you can see who is asking for favors.
Now, we had thought that back in 2016, of course, we were all elated to see Trump's election and he was able to overcome the rigged system.
Will that happen again?
Maybe.
Are they supporting him?
Mike Adams?
You know, Mike's taking a big step forward with his statements that we are going to become a Zionist police state.
I don't see that coming.
I see cultural collapse and rot coming first as a result of the excellent execution of the Protocols of Zion here in America.
Let me just remind you of some of the basics that they rolled out a long, long time ago.
Place their agents and helpers everywhere.
Take control of the media and use it in propaganda for their plans.
Start fights between races, classes, and religions.
Use bribery, threats, and blackmail to get our way.
Appeal to successful people's egos?
Now, did Trump just wake up one day and decide to sell his soul?
No, he's been doing business with those people for a long, long time.
But the question is, at what point in time do our politicians separate themselves from the fundraising machine and the popularity machine and start doing good?
And if they do that, how long can they last?
I don't know the answer to those questions, but there's a reason that the Jews have been kicked out of 175 nations over the course of history.
It's because they've executed some of the most draconian tactics known to mankind and had some of the most diabolical plans known to mankind in terms of how they went about it.
Now, when you've got an unlimited checkbook, And you've got your people installed at the top of every major corporation and every major political branch, making sure that the will of the master is being executed, then it's very easy for them to have a tidal wave of power that rolls on through.
The good news is, even Mike Adams and college students all around the world are beginning to recognize What a threat and poison Zionism is to the American way of life.
And hopefully, the longer it goes on, the deeper it gets, the more it'll get exposed.
Very, very good.
Meanwhile, Putin hires his here-called bungling defense minister, parachutes in a gremlin, but with Putin hires his here-called bungling defense minister, parachutes in a gremlin, but with In a sign, Russia's hardline president wants to take personal charge of the Ukraine war.
Vladimir Putin has fired his bungling defense minister, that's according to the Daily Mail, replaced him with a puppet, In a wide-ranging reshuffle of his most senior cronies, he sacked his longtime friend Sergei Shogun, 68, shifted him into the role of Secretary of Russia's National Security Council.
Reports ape a most little-known civilian economist, Andrei Ilyasov, 65, to replace Shogun as Defense Minister in his new government.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained the timing, said it needed the Defense Ministry to stay innovative and better utilize different defense expenditures to win in Ukraine.
The move appears to be an astonishing snub to Shogru, the man Putin put in charge of his war-close ally and Russia's longest-serving minister.
Until now, Putin stood by Shogru despite a string of military setbacks the first year and his public feud with Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Rogozhkov, who launched a bloody insurrection last year calling for Shogru's removal.
The reshuffle is the most significant Putin's undertaken since his full-scale invasion.
Really, special military intervention to protect the people of the Donbass in February 2022.
Here we have a photograph of Putin after firing his longtime friend.
Here he is with Shogun Meanwhile, thousands have fled Russia's renewed ground offensive in the north, which appears to be proceeding very efficiently with reports that Ukraine's defenses have collapsed.
Swirling rumors that General Sergei Armageddon and Sir Volkin would be brought back as chief of staff were denied.
Putin's spokesman said General Valery Gerasimov, 68, seen as lacking in charisma, would remain at the helm.
Along with Shchergu, Gerasimov had been targeted by a hardcore group of influential, pro-offensive military bloggers from Moscow who perceived military failures.
Shchergu is to put in charge of the Russian Security Council.
Replacing longtime XFSB chief Nikolai Petrushev, 72, a virulently anti-West conspiracy theorist, is being moved to a new job.
Petrushchev, perhaps Putin's closest crony, is seen as a key architect of war, after seeing 450,000 Russians killed or maimed.
I suspect that's an exaggerated figure, certainly no vastly larger on the Ukraine side.
Petrushchev's son, Dmitry, becomes deputy premier, combined with his previous role as agriculture minister.
Now, according to Paul Craig Roberts, Putin needs to shake up himself, not just his staff.
Current Ramez Kadyrov, leader of Russian Chechen province, said on Russian TV.
I believe we need to attack more actively.
We need to hit hard while there is time.
This month we need to take the nearest territory.
We definitely need to take Odessa and Kharkov.
Then sit this Zelensky down, force him to sign all the papers Russia needs for the security of our state, citizens, and the Russian speakers who live on the territory of Ukraine.
This is the second Russian war leader.
After Yevgeny Prizinkin, the leader of the Wagner Group, took dissatisfaction with the glacially slow pace at which Putin is conducting the conflict, one wonders if Kadrov will have a similar fate to Prigozhin, who, of course, died in a mysterious plane crash.
Paul Greg Roberts, admitting he's not an expert on Russian military, has the impression Wagner and the Chechen soldiers are Russia's best.
Pity to waste such troops in a war conducted at a snail's pace.
Which has resulted in it being greatly wide and made more dangerous and difficult.
He's now in danger of NATO occupying Odessa before Russian troops can get there.
If the West can keep Odessa and Kharkov out of Russian hands, the war will be a defeat for Putin.
It's inexplicable that Putin takes this risk.
His dilemma is that a man who sees himself as an instrument of peace is a poor war leader.
Now that there's a shake-up at the top of the military, with a civilian without military experience taking over, I think Putin would be taken more seriously if he'd appointed Ramzan Khodrov as defense minister instead.
He's stuck in an economist who, like Putin's central bank director, is more concerned with the expense of the conflict, now one-third of the Russian budget.
And they are about winning the war, where it spins out of control.
Putin has done a good job of Russifying a population infatuated with the West.
The population, again, thinks of itself as distinct and proud national identity, not as a wannabe clog in a globalist machinery run by Washington.
Wouldn't get kudos for this, but his conduct of the war maximizes the likelihood of the conflict spinning out of control.
Rogozin understood this, and so does Katarov.
Will Putin understand before his limited military operation spins into World War III?
Now, surprisingly, So let's get started with this new decision of Biden and his administration to not send more weapons to Israel.
I think that was a huge change on their part.
And how did you find this decision?
He talks about overdue, but I'm not totally convinced that it isn't anything but cosmetics.
And the reason I say that is because there's plenty in the line, if you will, in the pipeline or on the ground in the war reserve stockages and in Israel in general to do all that Netanyahu claims he wants to do in Rafa.
That is kill a lot of people.
So the brouhaha over the U.S.
cutting off weapons and such that Lindsey Graham and others have, you know, called Hiroshima!
Nagasaki!
This is terrible!
This is terrible!
Lindsey Graham ought to go crawl in a hole somewhere with the rats that he calls his brethren.
Um, and there are several others like him too, but I think, and so she's on the Senate Armed Services Committee, this banning the Eastern Mediterranean in order to do this.
Switching to find where he talks about it, he thinks that's a good idea.
Xi Jinping will pick up the phone, he'll call Taipei and he'll say, got a choice for you.
And they'll say, we don't want that.
Okay.
We'll be, we'll be your 54th colony or whatever the hell, you know, we'll, we'll, we'll do what Hong Kong did, but please let's, let's negotiate a little bit.
Well, if I hadn't found the right segment, he actually thinks that this civilian thing, it's a good idea to put in a civilian, and that we have lost our way here in the U.S.
because we've been promoting generals into roles that ought to be filled by non-military individuals.
Thus he suggests the last two secretaries of defense have been generals, and of course they want to give the other generals anything they want.
So we've lost civilian supremacy.
It used to be you had two layers—the secretary of defense, civilian, and the president.
Now there is only one.
So he feels that Putin did the right thing by putting in a civilian.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, that was also shared with me by a friend of mine who's Russian, Dmitry Babich, a very smart guy.
He's on the par of Dugin, and he celebrated the bringing in of a civilian economist into the military.
And there, you know, there's pros and cons on both sides, Jim, and you and I know this better than anyone.
There is a certain military character, a disposition, a temperament, a command authority, a bearing that you have in the military, particularly as an officer, to command respect.
And that respect, real officers, real leaders, do it naturally.
And they do it, you know, as a tour de force.
And that's something military training, experience, camaraderie, whatever you want to call it, is naturally infused and hardened into the individual and it commands loyalty in the people under you.
It, you know, it gives you, it doesn't give you, you have to have inside you the ability to go into a room and command the room to stand at attention without saying a word.
And have that bearing that your stare feels like lasers cutting through metal to anyone that is disorderly or out of order and things.
Only a military person has that, and there's a tremendous amount of humility that goes with that too.
Now, economists and other civilians, they don't have that.
They don't know that instinct, and that is the detriment, because it's necessary to commanding warriors who are aggressive and putting their life on the line, and they want to ensure That you have the similar ferocity and intensity.
So it's kind of like McNamara in the Vietnam War.
He had his own professional corporate experience, but he wasn't a man's man and a commander.
But at the same time, I understand the civilian side, you're not dealing with military bureaucracy or military incestuousness.
And there is a lot of assestuousness about it.
Wilkerson?
I mean, he's a prime example.
He wasn't a psyop guy.
He wasn't an information operations guy.
He wasn't a thinker in the military.
Who knows what he did?
Artillery?
MP?
Some kinetic?
Okay, fine.
Tank driver?
But you weren't in influence operations, you weren't in diplomatic operations, and that requires a certain degree of charisma.
And that's where this entire conflict is boiling down to.
I have absolute trust in the confidence of the Vladimir Putin to navigate strategically the political juggling game of this whole thing.
Russians are different.
Russians are not British Westerners.
They think differently.
And that's a delicate matter.
And first of all, Kadyrov, the Chechen, You know, I've got a lot of mixed feelings about him, too.
He went to the West to try and get his name and his family names off the sanction list.
Well, you don't do that if you're in a Russian, you know, a Russian command authority.
You put up the middle finger and tell the West to go screw itself, but Kadyrov didn't do that.
And yeah, the Chechens are also a little different, you know.
That's like the Apaches out there smoking peyote, in a sense.
They're a totally different breed.
But Putin and this entire war in Ukraine has been like slowly putting a noose around Ukraine and Zelensky and with a sense of reluctance.
The Russians have never wanted to do this.
The Russian commanders that I met when I was in Ukraine had shared that with me again and again and again.
Scott, we don't want to kill Ukrainians.
They're our brothers.
And I'm looking like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Your brothers?
These bastards are doing all sorts of hairy shit.
But the Russians, the Slavics, the Ukrainians, they date back a thousand years.
So the Russians have reluctantly pursued a slow strangling, a slow bleeding out of the Ukrainian military capability and it's taken a long time.
They didn't bomb the shit out of Ukraine like the U.S.
did in Yugoslavia or Afghanistan or Iraq.
Russia has slowly gone around the whole country, and you've had a disintegration, like sands in the hourglass, a disintegration of Zelensky.
Look at the people in Ukraine that are rejecting the military draft.
You know, they're going around trying to grab people, and the Ukrainian military are increasingly saying, hey, the entire country is turning against us.
We're not able to grab people off the streets anymore.
That's been Russia's strategy is to slowly, slowly dissolve Ukraine from within.
The reason they haven't rushed like the Charge of the Light Brigade or the guys in the movie Gallipoli over the trench and run to the machine guns is because it would have triggered The West, NATO, French, Germans to say, aha, the British, the Americans, Canadians, now we all have to initiate a draft and go fight Russia because they're pounding, running like blazing fanatics.
They can't say that because Russia hasn't reacted with that quickness, that overwhelming force.
They've never been vindictive either.
So, you know, the whole Western calculation of this being too slow is a miscalculation both of the temperament of Russia, the temperament of the Russian people, who love Putin.
Putin's now in office.
Zelensky's going to be out next week because his term is officially over.
Then they're going to kill him, probably.
But it also is a miscalculation of Russia's understanding of NATO in the West.
Russia has bent over backwards, inverted itself like a pretzel, trying to have negotiations and discussions and diplomatic engagements, and the West have denied this.
This hasn't been lost on Western populations either.
That's why no one in the West who is a brain is afraid of Russia, or afraid of having New England invaded.
Or New York or London.
They know that's not going to happen, but they also know Russia's slow patience is quickly ending and they will not hesitate, if they feel that they are existentially threatened, to annihilate The decision makers in London, Berlin, Paris, Poland, if they start sending nukes or F-16s or anything else over and increasing their attacks upon Russia.
So Russia's strategy has been disintegration and containment in proportion to boiling the frog slowly, shall we say.
And I think that frog is already just about cooked, Jim.
I think that was excellent, Scott, because most Americans, Westerners, don't understand it all.
That was very valuable.
Brian?
Well, I agree with Scott on his assessment.
The very fact that he would appoint an economist as a defense minister shows that he's in it for the long haul and he's in it to survive.
The simple statement that the entire West is In a freefall decline, an irreversible hodgepodge of wokeism and gender change and groupthink, our academic institutions can no longer compete with the rest of the world or even with Russia in terms of producing engineers and scientists, doctors and others.
We are in trouble.
We're $40 trillion in debt.
Military spending is continually stupid.
So, right from the beginning of this thing, I think Putin recognized, which is why he didn't go in with a sledgehammer and just destroy every bridge and every city and every radio station and every political group.
What he was trying to do was sort of pour acid on the place, trying to root out the evil and separate Ukraine from its Western puppeteers.
And so now at this point in time, he appoints an economist, and then this week he's headed off to China to continue to develop the BRICS project, which shows that they're really vamping up for a new breed of currency.
India is also getting on board with that, while the American dollar continues to slide downhill into disaster.
So remember, Putin's war from the beginning wasn't with Ukraine.
It was with the Western-led puppeteers that were controlling and installed.
And the way to win them is, and the way to win that war is to salvage as many lives as possible under the circumstances and freeze the West out and try to get the West to continue to spend, spend, spend deeper into oblivion.
And we've played exactly into his hands.
Spend, spend, spend into oblivion.
Now Ukraine is not only getting $40 trillion more from us, but they're getting $105 billion or $40 billion from us.
They're getting another $105 billion from the United Nations.
So with Putin's strategy, it's just become a terrible money pit.
On top of everything that's taking place in Israel, more money, more money, more money.
On top of everything else that's happening here in academia in America.
America has an appetite to get better and stronger.
But we don't know how.
Our fathers that taught us to be tough are dead.
They're not there anymore.
So we can just wait it out, help revamp the culture, continue to institute orthodoxy, continue to develop an arts and education system, and hope for a transition to something away from the dollar.
Excellent gentlemen, both really excellent.
what regret technical glitch here meanwhile now here's a report about Palestine
Prime Minister Netanyahu over the weekend told an Israeli news outlet, when he was asked how long the war could take, he said he thought it could take 10 years.
Is that realistic or is that how long he wants to stay in power?
Well, the power question I can't answer.
I'm sure he'd be happy to be appointed for life.
But I don't think it's a matter of can it last that long.
I think it's more along the lines of signaling to everyone that he's not going to stop until he's comfortable that he's achieved his goals and aims.
And I still don't think anyone has been straightforward about those aims.
This has nothing to do with what happened on 7 October.
7 October was horrific, although again, lots of people like me question just how it occurred and how it came about because of the extraordinarily good surveillance and security that is normally around Gaza.
One wonders why they put this music festival in such close proximity to a place that was clearly not reinforced with Israeli defense forces.
They had a minimum of ready deployable forces in the region.
Why would you do that?
So I think there are lots of questions that have to be answered on that score.
I simply think that what happened on 7 October was used to justify something that the Israelis have wanted to do for years, which is to complete what they started in 48 and what continued to some extent in 56 and later on in the 60s, which is to completely rid itself or rid Israel of its Arabs.
That's what this is about.
I don't understand why nobody will simply step forward and admit that.
I guess if you do, then you have to admit that what is happening is mass murder and expulsion.
And people who are friends of Israel don't want to say that.
Well, I was always a friend of Israel too, but I'm willing to say it because that's the only way I can characterize it.
Evidently you have an international reputation for intellectual honesty.
You're not a politician.
You're a military, a retired senior military person who appears on these programs to analyze things.
Most people do not have that level of integrity.
But, I mean, is it realistic that the Israelis can achieve their goal, the elimination of Hamas, the elimination of Hezbollah, and from the river to the sea?
Well, that depends less on us and more on the people that live in the region.
Again, and I've said this before, you have this axis of resistance, as it's called, that includes very well-armed and disciplined militias in Iraq, Hezbollah, obviously, as well as the Houthis.
But these are absolutely, without question, not enough.
These are not going to be enough to destroy the threat that Israel now presents to Islam and the people of Islam that live in the Middle East, or for that matter, anybody that stands in their way.
So I think the question has to be submitted to General Sisi in Egypt, to King Abdullah in Jordan, to the Saudis, to the Emirates, to the Turks and Mr. Erdogan, as well as to Iran.
Those are the major powers.
Those are the principal actors.
What are they going to do?
Right now in Egypt, there are people that actually believe the International Court of Justice has real influence and power.
You and I both know they have no power.
And so there are many Egyptians that are saying, well, at last we see movement.
No, there's no movement.
And the Egyptians are the ones with a force that may not be the best force in the region, but it's numerous enough, large enough that it could do an enormous damage if it chose to do so.
And thus far, the Egyptians have sat on their haunches.
The same thing is true in Jordan and the Arabian states.
Question is, what will the Turks do?
They're historically the leaders of Sunni Islam.
They still see themselves in those terms.
What are they doing?
I don't know.
Is the axis, does the axis of resistance have a central control or command?
Is it coordinated?
I think there's a certain amount of harmonization that goes on.
I think it would be a stretch to suggest that there is any one person or one body anywhere in the region that controls everything.
I know that's something the Israelis like to impute.
Well, McGregor is good.
Napolitano's got an annoying squeaky Mickey Mouse voice sometimes.
He doesn't have the bearing.
They tried Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Well, there's more to be said, but that's certainly a good summary of the situation.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, McGregor is good.
Napolitano has got an annoying squeaky Mickey Mouse voice sometimes.
He doesn't have the bearing.
But McGregor gives the best assessment of all of them.
When he says, Sunni Islam's leaders of Turkey, you know, what are they doing?
What are any of them doing?
You know, I said from the very beginning, October 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, when all of this happened, I said every country in the Middle East that is an Arab country should be ejecting the Israeli embassies, consulates, and passports, and doing a complete economic blockade.
In order to quicken a diplomatic dialogue.
That's not happened.
There hasn't been a flotilla of ships delivering aid with overwhelming force and a public relations spectacle.
There hasn't been a landing on Gaza.
Instead, you've got Biden hijacking that idea to build a pier.
You now have, since October, what, 35,000-40,000 dead women and children, and these videos on Facebook and TikTok and Instagram, they don't leave you.
It doesn't leave you when you see a toddler child buried under cement, bloodied, and crying for their mother and father being pulled out.
It doesn't leave you, Jim, and these Israeli devils who go around shooting and blowing them up, I mean, they're going to burn in hell for all eternity in the most agonizing way that the human imagination can have, but that doesn't...
Solve the political crisis.
And it doesn't help when you have Trump and the rest of these political buffoons, and I say that advisedly, they're just sorely ignorant or treasonously and willfully blind, ignoring the entire historicity of the Palestinian-Israeli situation.
Besides the fact that the Israelis aren't Semitic, These Edomites that have occupied Israel are not the Semitic people.
They're certainly not related to Moses.
And that's where the conservative train's gone off the track with Charlie Kirk and all these other gutless, castrated numbskulls up there, you know, loving and bending over and prostrating themselves in Israel.
I mean, I'm astounded.
I'm sickened.
And like what Brian said, Our fathers that made us tough are dead.
Well, we, the sons of our fathers who made us tough, I look around at the younger generation, I think you're just a bunch of effeminate scum that just, you know, you're all going to be killed by your own weakness.
And part of the weakness is abandoning what the American spirit all along was always supposed to be.
Be the city on the hill, be the light of the world, And being light of the world means you're justice, you're neutral, you're open to all sides.
We've abandoned that.
And because we've abandoned it, we've been abandoned by the world.
We've been abandoned by Africa that's kicking our asses out.
We've been abandoned by Asia.
We've been abandoned by Saudi Arabia, by Turkey.
We've been abandoned by Anyone that matters except, you know, the jester clowns in Australia and Canada and New Zealand and Britain and Germany and France.
These buffoons are all going to fall!
And that's why they're desperate to create a war, is to try and preserve their lives.
And Netanyahu's in the same camp.
He wants to continue this war so he can continue his political career.
But I think it's going to end with a spectacular failure.
But it's tragic that we've had no real manly leaders rise up in the Middle East, rise up in these Arab countries, rise up in the West to say with honesty and integrity what the truth is over there.
And the Republicans?
I think this is going to destroy the Republican Party, potentially, in the election, because I think they're so out of tune.
They do not realize just how, between now and election day, it's only going to get worse.
The Israelis are like vampires.
They're not going to stop until they've sucked the blood out of every Palestinian.
And you're going to see more and more graphic illustrations of what we have aided and abetted by sending over these weapons and giving them political cover.
I think this is going to harm the Republican Party.
And just because the Democrats are stupid, idiot, you know, demoniacs, doesn't mean they're not going to take political advantage.
Never let a crisis go to waste, as the Jew, Zionist, Emanuel, Chief of Staff of Obama said.
Jim?
I love that.
Israelis are like vampires sucking the blood out of thousands.
That was perfect!
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, Hamas will be eliminated.
Blinken says never, but they'll be eliminated when their creator decides to stop funding them.
Remember where Hamas came from.
It was an Israeli invention as a boogeyman to come back after them.
In reality, they've just been simply gentrifying Palestine and Gaza getting all the people out and the good news is that the young people are beginning to realize and I'm starting to smell napalm in the air in terms of these college students are beginning to wake up and realize that this is another Vietnam.
This is it and it's happening right underneath our own noses.
The college students are beginning to recognize it and the protests are beginning to awaken And I think the government's realizing that too many people are waking up right now and realizing that the governments are psychopathic and the news media and the other indoctrination systems that are controlled by the Jews have been lying to us all of our lives.
October 7th was a vast overplaying of their hand to anybody that actually analyzes the events.
And I can guarantee you that in dorm rooms all across America, there were kids that were scratching their heads going, This was an excuse to tear these people up?
So right now, protests and public opinion seem to be Effective in a sense that they're getting that the Empire is being pressured to retreat simply by people waking up to what this poisonous cloud of murder and death really is over America.
I'm glad to see things changing and I'm glad to see people waking up and I think that I think that our audience is a good place to start.
Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Don, should we break it here, my friend?
No, no, no?
All right, let's go for one more story.
We'll start at Responsible Stagecraft Reports.
According to the United States, only our enemies commit war crimes.
Our hat make report highlights the double standard U.S.
officials use for Israel.
On NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken struck back at claims that U.S.
officials at Israel dodge American laws regarding weapon transfers.
We don't have double standards, Blinken said.
We treat Israel, one of our closest allies and partners, just as we would treat any other country, including in assessing something like international humanitarian law and its compliance with that law.
I'm ready to laugh out loud!
Luckily for observers, Lincoln has left a substantial public record against which one can test this claim.
His own department's statements and actions undercut the supposed impartiality.
Indeed, all available evidence indicates U.S.
officials owed Israel to a lower standard than just about any other country.
Take the State of Armenia's long-awaited report on Israel's compliance with international law in Gaza, which came out late last week.
The administration found that Israel had likely used U.S.
weapons to commit war crimes, but said there wasn't enough evidence to draw clear conclusions about specific incidents.
The upshot is that, from the Biden-admitted perspective, there's no legal reason to cut off U.S.
armed transfer to Israel at this time.
In Blinken's telling, any more forceful conclusions would have been impossible, given the incredibly complex military environment in Gaza.
It's very, very difficult in the heat of war to make a definitive assessment about any individual incident.
But that very, very difficult operating environment didn't stop State from drawing strong conclusions about Hamas actions in the very same report.
In a three-page defense of Israel's campaign, a feature not present in similar reports on other states, U.S.
officials found with great clarity Hamas uses human shields, intentionally targets civilians, consistently violates the laws of war.
Observers are left to conclude the U.S.
has somehow attained more definitive inside information about Hamas than Israel, one of Israel's closest military partners.
This is part Y of an independent panel of legal experts and former officials set up the report, at best incomplete, at worst intentionally misleading, In defense of acts and behaviors that likely, I say to a certainty, violate international humanitarian law.
Once again, the Biden admin has stared the facts in the face and then pulled the curtain shut, said the panel, including two former senior officials at the Department of State.
Scott, I guess we'll take our break now and your comments when we return.
Don, take us out.
Yes, time for a break.
Well, I need a break on this because it's too heavy to handle all at once, so come on back here on May the 14th, 2014, 2024.
And we'll have a heck of a second half for you.
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