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Truth vs. NEW$, Inc Part 1 (20 May 2024) with Don Grahn, Scott Bennett, and Brian Davidson
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Three, two, one, and welcome, folks!
This is May the 20th, 2024, and Monday, and what a day, and all kinds of things have happened over the weekend, and news that you won't hear anywhere else is here on Truth vs. News Incorporated, where there is a real difference, I'm afraid.
I'm sorry about that.
So, welcome to the show, and I'm Donald O'Brien, your host and producer for the last 15 years or more, and we have the best people in the world here.
To share things with you.
We have Jim Fecher, the author of Nobody Died on Sandy Hook.
This is probably the most infamous book around.
It's been banned and now been redacted.
He's also done JFK, Who, How, and Why.
And America Dukes on 9-11, really.
And of course, how about The Moon, The Moon Landing?
These kind of books, or at least you can't get anywhere else.
And they're full of something called facts that you won't get anywhere else.
We want those.
And then also we have Scott Bennett, a great renowned ambassador, representative, military expert who wrote the book Skill Game and knew about Russia.
And he's just outstanding.
And we have Ryan Davidson out of Houston, who's, well, he comes through the terrible storm they have there.
I guess he's going to get power back pretty soon and everything's going to be normal, but he's had a hell of a week.
And Jim, I tell you what was going on back there when I ran.
I understand that we had a little helicopter mishap.
Was it shot down by storm or shot by bullets?
The president of Iran and the foreign minister were in a helicopter crash.
They are all dead.
A chopper with Iranian President Ebrahim Rossi on board suffered a crash landing Sunday.
Weather conditions were complicating rescue efforts.
His condition was initially unclear.
The helicopter crashed in the Dismar Forest area between the villages of Mosey and Perdab Hood.
They were on their way back to Iran after an official visit to Azerbaijan.
At least 40 rescue teams were deployed, but the weather and the fog made it difficult to reach the site.
An emergency meeting of the Iranian Security Council was held after the crash.
Turned out all were dead.
Supreme Leader coming.
He declared a state of emergency.
Reports were coming in claiming Israel had been involved in a helicopter crash.
Here it is.
It had nothing to do with it.
According to Israel, a helicopter was shot down, Russia says.
According to Russian service as a president of Iran, Ibrahim Rassi is dead.
According to the same sources, his chopper was shot down either by a bomb or a MANPADS anti-aircraft missile.
There were three choppers in the convoy.
The only thing that didn't make it was a chopper of the Iranian president.
The other two landed safely in Tabriz, a large city of northwestern Iran.
The official RNA news agency said that Foreign Minister Hossein al-Abdollah was among those abhorred, as were the governor of the province and the region's chief, Iman, all of whom were dead.
Western intel agencies concluded similarly about his death, but they reported it was bad weather or lack of maintenance.
Iran's resident did not survive the crash, an Israeli media con reporting.
Channel 12 reporter Dr. Le emphasized, according to assessment by Israeli and Western agencies, Iran's president did not survive.
Israel is not related to the crash of the Iranian president's job, or we made it clear through unofficial channels, adding meaningfully Israeli officials who spoke.
Here's Clash Report.
Israel has nothing to do with the crash of the Iranian President Chabris at Israeli Channel 13.
Israeli Radar reported.
Officials in Israel and other unspecified countries estimate Iranian President Rossi died in helicopter crash.
Jerusalem made clear via unofficial channels that Israel had nothing to do with the accident.
Communication with President Rossi's satellite phone was lost.
Search continued for a crash helicopter carrying Iranian leaders.
Multiple rescue teams were closing in on the crash site in heavy fog.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, I've been looking at RT and Press TV, who I consider the top Russian sources, and I don't see any mentioning of sabotage or being shot down or any foul play.
Now, that may be happening.
It may be covered up.
It may be coming out at a later time, or it may not be any of the above.
It could be an accident.
The fog is tremendously suspicious, if not difficult.
The same thing happened, of course, in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash, which I think is a little bit more skeptical because it landed exactly on a pathway.
But this height of Azerbaijan, which sources have been telling me is notorious for receiving Israeli weapons, and there's a Israeli alliance apparently there.
I haven't exhaustively researched the relationship between Azerbaijan and Israel, but if it is solid, then there's always a possibility.
But in this case, my gut just tells me this was not a sabotage or shooting down I think it was an accident, perhaps.
I don't know.
I haven't looked too closely to it.
But those helicopters are old.
Anyone to be flying around in the fog like that, especially at altitude where you don't get a lot of lift because the air is so thin, it's questionable.
Now, I know you had said two other helicopters survived and landed without a problem.
Just this one did.
That's a suspect.
So, you know, if we shift to, well, let's just say it was a sabotage act, who benefits?
Well, you know, Israel may think it benefits, the United States may think it benefits, but in actuality, they lose because Raisi in Iran is ascending in the In the eyes of the world.
And the last thing the West needs is an accusation of a assassination, given all the other assassinations and problems and endless wars that we've started.
I'll add, I met Raisi when I was in Iran in 2018.
There's a photograph of me with him and others when we ascended the stage, shaking his hand.
I'll bring it up for Don to show when he does his photographs here.
But I met Raisi and he seemed a very happy, smiling man.
He at least smiled when I shook hands with him.
And I also met the foreign minister, Ibrahim Abdullah, whatever his last name is.
But I had met him with Phil Giraldi and Mike Maloof when we were in Mashhad, and then we went to Tehran.
But the foreign minister was a very pleasant man, and during that conference in 2018, we were communicating a hopeful redefinition of our friendship, our ties, our relationship between Iran and the United States.
And of course, Trump sort of stuck both feet in his mouth by pulling us out of the JCPOA, then initiating the attack upon General Soleimani and others.
So, you know, he kind of screwed that up.
But I would say my encounters with Raisi and the foreign minister did not give me grounds to label them anything short of gentlemen and any claims that they are Murderers with blood on their hands from people killed in the 70s or 80s.
You know, I think that's all taken out of context.
Remember, Iran went through a severe civil war against Iraq.
Not really a civil war, but in a sense it was.
And that was fomented and financed and weaponized by the United States.
And anyone like MEK, the Mujahideen Al-Khaliq, which is a terrorist group, Anyone with that group, of course, is going to be executed by Iran, but I think this is going to end up, you know, coming out really is nothing there, but we'll see what happens.
Jim?
From my understanding, it was an abrupt cessation of communication, which is suggestive of a bomb or a missile strike.
It's interesting you mentioned Kobe.
I did extensive on Kobe.
That was not even his chopper, Scott.
That was a completely faked event, the Kobe crash.
This one, of course, appears to be quite real.
Brian?
Well, all I can really do is cover the chatter out there, and a lot of people are taking a close look at the photographs, which of course are shot in a very blurry, like, 1994 cell phone camera, so there's not a whole lot that you can get from them.
It looks like a catastrophic crash of something.
A lot of people are zooming in on what there is of the photos and saying that it looks like the tail section of an airplane, but it's a pretty sophisticated helicopter, and I can see it looking like a Like an airplane after a crash.
Um, I'm.
There's just it's just too early to really tell what's going on.
Nobody's really reporting conspiracy at this point in time.
But, of course, the Internet is a skew because.
Because they are erasing the weather data, they're erasing the flight data.
They're erasing everything about the event.
And so, you know, who's responsible?
You're just gonna have to wait and see.
I think with Nord Stream, we all thought, hey, we have a suspicion about what's going on.
But I can tell you false flags do take place.
There might be a reason to do it.
The Iranian president did have a reputation of I will offer the tentative conjecture it was a bomb and it was Israel.
the Jewish papers as well as Al Jazeera.
I don't know how much is true about that when it comes from those newspapers.
So I just think it's too early to jump to conclusions about it.
I just don't know. - I will offer the tentative conjecture.
It was a bomb and it was Israel.
Those are my conjectures.
To be subsequently revised as appropriate.
Meanwhile, a great concern in the U.S.
and Russia.
Russian forces have surrounded 45,000 Ukrainian soldiers on the Volchak-Kupysank axis.
The Ukrainian army is facing a catastrophe that will create a domino effect along the entire front.
American British service informs Olinsky that after Volchak One axis of the main attack of the Russian approach will be toward Zublansk.
At the rate the Russian offensive is progressing, it's got to be well along since this report was provided.
Unless something changes dramatically on the part of the Ukrainian army, and we already know they have no more forces to deploy, About 40,000 to 45,000 Ukrainian soldiers will be trapped.
As we mentioned, this is just one axis of the Russian attack.
If they take Lipetsk, they'll be able to begin the siege at Kharkov.
They'll be within artillery range of many roads and defense lines.
Lipetsk-Kharkov is only 20 kilometers away.
Here you see a map of the approach taking place.
The Ukrainian forces being surrounded.
The Guardian published an article where it claimed that the British had warned Ukraine of an imminent Russian attack in the direction of Kharkov, but still they were not prepared.
A British television set.
We handed the data over to Ukraine.
The country's leadership accepted that.
We expected, after our warning, a Russian attack on two areas with force up to 5,000 to 10,000 soldiers would be quickly repulsed by Ukraine.
But the defense lines of Ukraine were very small in this direction or completely absent.
There were no defensive lines or minefields near Volchak.
After what happened in the northern part of the Kharkov region, British experts wonder if even Kiev is in a position to defend itself.
Earlier, the American government also said it had warned the Ukrainian side about an attack on Kharkov.
Shrewsburg situation for Ukrainian army.
Seven brigades rush to Kharkov.
This battle will decide everything.
It is a turning point in the war.
Ukrainian analysts warn the Ukrainian army is gradually entering an irreversible situation known as Zhushuang, noting the battle in Kharkov may decide everything in 2024.
Ukrainian experts analyzing the situation believe that if the Ukrainian troop do not turn the tide of events, then the situation will become Zhugwang, a situation in a game of chess where a player is put at a disadvantage by having to make a move.
Any move he makes from that point onward leads to a worsening of his position.
Most Ukrainian analysts are convinced the attack by the Russian forces in the northern part of Kharkov is not the main one, that the Russian army could be preparing a really large-scale attack in another direction.
However, Whether this is the case or not, of being the main attack, the Ukraine admin cannot ignore it because the Russian army will enter Kharkov.
Today, the distance to Kharkov is about 18 to 19 kilometers from where the Russians are.
Zelensky's statement, the armed forces managed to stabilize the offensive, should be seen through the prism of losses of the Ukrainian army.
Zelensky's statement, Does not correspond to reality, reported Ukrainian sources.
The advance of Russian forces was not stopped.
It was suspended.
Second, it was achieved at very high cost and casualties and equipment.
The statement of Sersky and Zelensky about many battalions being transferred are lies.
Indeed, about seven brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were sent to Kharkov, though not at full strength.
Some were transferred directly from other sections and without reorganization.
Thus, they were able to stop the advance of the Russian forces only on a case-by-case basis.
In general, they've taken down a whole lot of people and equipment, according to Ukrainian experts.
All new American aid will run out very quickly.
Meanwhile, Lancet operators near Kharkov did not allow the Ukrainian grid to escape.
The Russian Armed Forces identified and caught up with a Ukrainian MLRS using a Lancet right while the MLRS was moving.
At the end of the video, You can see how a loaded rocket detonates.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, I don't think this is a turning point in the war.
I don't think this is going to be some major event.
I think Russia has won this war.
Russia has more armaments being produced than NATO and the United States combined.
Russia has a larger army.
Russia has a more motivated, congealed demographic society that is also psychographically completely in tune and in support of President Putin and his entire cabinet.
Russia views this as an existential threat and they will fight to the death.
Russians have been through this before.
No one seems to understand the Russian mindset.
They don't seem to remember history, and they certainly don't seem to remember the Russians that never, never gives up or surrenders, will, if unchecked, you know, unintelligently analyzed, will cause a blowback.
World War II, shutting down, you know, cutting in half Germany.
I think we're on that same trajectory.
You could easily see Russia pushing all Ukraine, Kiev, Odessa.
I've said before, I think the wiser move is for Russia to send troops into Odessa and kind of distract the Ukrainians up to Kharkov, like the Americans did in World War II when Eisenhower sent Patton up to the north of England to To show the Germans that they thought the invasion was going to come into Calais by having their best general, Patton, leading it.
Instead, there were rubber tanks, inflatable tanks, all of that was all a ruse.
So I think Russia would be wise to do the same thing.
I do think they're going to take Odessa, and I think it's just a matter of time.
But this is not going to change the war, and you're seeing Zelensky now Losing all of his presidential authority.
He's no longer the president.
His term has expired.
And he's not a dictator.
He's basically now a man without a job.
Now, if he tries to maintain his position because of the British and the United States that is supporting him, I think you will find him now that he's no longer head of state at the bottom of a crater where a missile is going to wipe him out, his wife out, his palace out, and his entire entourage.
And if they're Not so lucky, the entire parliament of Ukraine will be wiped out.
Russia is now going to go into serious mode in a way that the West has never witnessed Russia's seriousness before.
Jim?
Nice, Brian.
Well, Zelensky's power is certainly weighing.
See you later, Tom.
You know, Russia has knocked out 90% of the power banks that feed Ukraine.
So, people are being very short-tempered right now with Western influence, which is why Blinken made an emergency visit over to Kiev this last week.
Since mid-summer, about 2022, Russia's been targeting the power infrastructure.
And, you know, the sources say that 90% of the power is out.
So Ukraine is urging everybody to stock up on generators and power banks.
How long is that going to last?
It's getting pretty ugly for the people of Ukraine.
And of course, they don't like the Western puppet.
I think a lot of them are starting to lean towards it.
It's better to go back to Russia.
But of course, Ukraine has suspended elections.
So Zelensky gets to Theoretically, stay in a leadership role as another Western puppet.
Germany has announced another something like $90 billion to support Ukraine.
And of course, NATO is still talking like they're willing to accept them, although Russia is not going to allow that to happen, I'm sure.
So it looks like that Ukraine is just simply losing heart.
Not only have they lost a lot of young men and a lot of children, But they've lost their energy, so now they're going to have to get through a hot summer without any energy, and morale is going to be at an all-time low.
Zelensky is probably going to have to be removed and replaced with some other Western puppet, and we'll see how they do their elections.
They're going to have to do something with a paper ballot sooner or later.
I don't know if they're going to continue with martial law until the West decides that's no longer necessary or not, but it's a very strange situation for Ukraine right now.
They're just simply beaten, battered, and broken, and they've got no faith in Western puppets anymore.
Yes, yes, indeed.
No faith in Western pilots agreed.
Meanwhile, fascinating, Washington Post reports Starlink communication failed the day of the Russian attack.
On the morning of May 10th, when the Russian offensive began, the Ukrainian military lost its ability to track the movement of Russian troops from drones to the interference in the system because of Russian electronic interference.
This was reported by the Washington Post with reference to the Ukrainian military.
They used SCARLINK, Elon Musk's network, for basic communication and noted the connection failed for the first time since February of 2022.
We're talking about 125th Territorial Defense Brigade stationed on the border of the Kharkov region with Russia.
At some point, we were left completely blind, said the commander of a drone unit in the brigade with the callsign Ortiz.
It was a big problem.
We didn't see how they moved.
We only worked on the radio phones where they were still working, said Sergeant Artis.
On the morning of May 10, Assistant to the head of the Pentagon, John Plonk, During an interview with Bloomberg, said American and Ukrainian specialists were able to stop the use of the Starlink terminals by the Russian military on the battlefield in Ukraine, seemingly taking credit for cutting it off when it was the eyes of the Ukrainian military, the head of the electronic warfare
Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Yuri Vostojkin, said the scientific and technical potential of the Russian defense industry allowed Starnik terminals to be included in the list of targets for influence.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the seizure of settlements in the Kharkov region on May 11.
Three days later, May 14, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Air Force announced the movement of Ukrainian troops to more advantageous positions in the area of Volchansk and Luhansk.
In other words, a withdrawal.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Russia is beginning to compound its advantages.
Unrelenting bombardment?
A Russian tank fires at Ukrainian troops from a position near the border in the Belgorod region.
By stretching Ukrainian forces along a wide front, Russia is overcoming the limitations of its under-trained army.
Russia has now started the early phase of its anticipated summer offensive with the renewed attack on Kharkov.
Over the past few days, Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border, occupying a number of villages.
Ukraine has spent months fortifying Kharkov, but storming the city is not how Russia intends to fight.
The target this summer is the Ukrainian army, and against it, Russia has begun to compound its advantages.
The Russian-enforced attack in Ukraine has now expanded to 510,000.
This means Russia has a significant numerical superiority over the AFU.
Heavy losses among Russia's officer corps and more capable units earlier in the war have reduced its capacity to conduct large-scale offensive ground maneuvers.
They've been limited to conducting platoon and company attacks rather than brigade or divisional operations.
Thus, they rarely decisively overmatch Ukrainian defenders at any one location.
With such overall numerical superiority, however, Russia has begun to turn this limitation to its advantage.
The front in Ukraine spans almost 1,200 kilometers.
Along Ukraine's northern border, Russian sabotage groups continually probe Ukrainian positions.
A large group near Belgorod, meanwhile, has long threatened to push towards Sumy or Kharkov and made it present-felt with fire.
The main focus has been in Donbass, but in the south, Russian troops have also skirmished along the Samurzaia Front and even conducted amphibious raids across the Dnipro.
They have met with little success, but the breadth of their attack has fixed Ukrainian troops on the line of contact and forced the AFU to spread out its artillery, expending munition to break up successive Russian attacks.
This dynamic has prevailed for the last four months.
Having stretched Ukrainians out, the contours of the Russian summer offensive are easy to discern.
First, there will be the push against Kharkov, which we have been reporting.
Ukraine must commit troops to defend its second-largest city.
Given the size of the Russian group of forces, this has drawn reserves of critical material from air defense to artillery.
Second, Russia will apply pressure on the other end.
Initially threatening to reverse Ukraine's gains from its 2023 offensive and putting risk to the city of Zambosia, Ukraine should be able to blunt its attack, but will require the commitment of reserve units.
A persistent of Russia's long-range strike campaign means not only is the front being stretched laterally, it's also being extended in its depth.
Once Ukraine commits its reserves, the main effort will be the expansion of the Russian push in Donbass.
This axis is already making slow but steady progress.
The objective?
To cut Ukraine's supplies lines, connecting Kostoyanivsk and Kramatorsk.
The Russians hope once Ukraine loses the roads that give the AFU localized interior lines, they'll be able to push north and south, stranding Ukrainian artillery on one axis or the other.
The aim?
Not to achieve a grand breakthrough, but rather to convince Ukraine it can keep up an inexorable advance meter by meter along the front.
And it cannot.
Yep, from above.
Mounting the challenge of the Ukrainian military is a deterioration of its air defenses.
An obletion of Ukrainian tactical service air missiles has already allowed the Russian Aerospace Forces to make their presence felt, delivering hundreds of U.N.
VK glide bombs against Ukrainian positions each month.
As the VKS pushes closer against a diminished air threat, the accuracy and lethality of the strikes will increase.
Able to strike behind Ukrainian lines, The Russians are using them to bombard and thereby depopulate Ukrainian towns.
This exists the AFU forward, defending positions as long as possible, even as their tactical situation deteriorates.
The diminishing Ukrainian SAM coverage has had another pernicious consequence.
Prior to the full-scale invasion, Russian forces long envisioned a reconnaissance strike complex, allowing their troops to accurately detect and destroy targets behind the front lines.
For much of the war, this aspiration was curtailed by robust Ukrainian air defenses.
Now, having to save at Sam's to deter Russian jets, the result is that Orlan-10 UAVs are now roaming far and wide over the front lines Flying over Berkharkov and Samurzaia.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, you know, in one of the comments they're talking about Russia depopulating towns.
That's an exaggeration and a distortion.
Russia's military strategy is not to antagonize the civilian population.
It is to warm and re-embrace the civilian population.
That is in the DNA of Russia.
That is in the DNA of Putin and his commanders and the soldiers that are fighting.
They've never wanted to kill Ukrainians.
They were forced into that position.
I know I met the commanders and the men when I was in Donbass, and this was a recurring, constant theme.
The Russians, in a sense, are conducting this war not with glee, not with delight, not with a laughing, you know, dismissive attitude.
They're going about this with heavy hearts and a sense of sadness and a sense of head-shaking, you know,
Astonishment that the Ukrainians are so knuckle-draggedly stupid, insensitive, drugged, idiotic, brainwashed, whatever you want to call them, to their masters in the United States, in NATO, in the EU, France, Macron, Johnson, Britain, Germany, you know, Ukraine is really a bastardized Frankenstein that's been cobbled together by the West
Since the end of World War Two, but especially since 1990 and the disintegration, disunion of the Soviet Union.
But Ukraine has been erected on propaganda.
Nazi ideology, Bandera ideology, blood, Viking, you know, SS, you know, ideas of, I mean, right out of World War II.
That's why they're called Nazis, right out of their, you know, superior bloodline, superior race, as if they're The blonde, blue-eyed, German goose-stepping soldiers of the SS.
They're not, and they know they're not, but that's why there's an insecurity in their emotional fabric, and that's expressed with this blind, hostile, self-inflicting rage that Russia has just had to annihilate.
Russia is not going to change its tactics or its strategy or its tempo.
They are going to proceed methodically so that they maximize the impact on the Ukrainians while minimizing their own impact.
The priority of Russia is to save their own Russian soldiers' lives.
And if they have to go slow to do that, they're not in a hurry.
And that's what, you know, Ritter and McGregor and others have talked about.
Russia is not playing along the timeline of France or the United States or Germany.
Lavrov has said, we are done with all diplomatic, you know, political, even economic engagements with the West for a generation.
We're done with the West for a generation, Lavrov has said.
And he hasn't said it out of meanness.
He said it out of, you know, the West has basically alienated itself by becoming so hostile that, you know, the entire Russian generation between, you know, 12 and 50 looks at the West with disgust because the West has unleashed nothing but murder and destruction.
And now their proxy army is completely desolate.
And it's going to be a laughingstock.
It's not going to be a slaughter.
Russia doesn't do that.
But they are going to make it a laughingstock.
They'll take Ukraine piece by piece by piece, isolate the Bandera Nazi types in the Romania, Poland, Germany kind of sector.
And you'll see most Ukrainians return to the new Ukraine, while anyone with the Bandera Nazi tattoos and stuff will be excommunicated and their citizenship revoked.
So we're looking at a leper colony in the making, and they bear the resemblance of the United States government at present.
Jim?
Brian?
Well, this whole thing is just a big money laundering operation.
It's been four weeks since Joe Biden has approved $60 billion more for Ukraine, but somehow Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines are saying that they're not seeing any of the weapons.
So how's the money getting caught up?
The Pentagon claimed today, Lloyd Austin spoke and said that they sent $1.6 billion worth of old stockpiles over to Ukraine in the last four weeks since the $60 billion of aid has been approved.
But we're not producing a tremendous amount of new weapons.
It's the military-industrial complex that's producing anything at all.
But I think the money's just being laundered.
We don't produce the engineer.
Look, Russia can produce weapons at one-tenth of the cost at home.
To what we can produce or what Ukraine is incapable of producing.
So all Lloyd Austin is saying is we're just going to continue to send money.
This is so typical of a failed presidential leadership state.
Nobody is talking peace.
Everybody is just falling in line with the war machine and the money machine, and the whole thing appears to be an oligarchical money laundering campaign of the highest magnitude, combined with propaganda and gaslighting, keeping all these Democrat donors rich in the middle.
It's a joke!
It's an absolute failed administration that just continues to keep the narrative going, despite the fact that Nothing is working.
Meanwhile, we've got homeless lined up on every street in America.
We've got a border that's untouched in terms of what we're doing to protect the people.
We've got an educational system that's breaking down day after day after day, and the homeless problem is absolutely out of control.
This is nothing but a completely failed domestic project that's being run by the war apparatus and the money apparatus.
Yeah, I think you got it right there, Brian.
Meanwhile, Blinken justifies Zelensky's decision to cancel the Ukrainian elections.
Secretary of State Blinken made an unannounced visit to Ukraine last Tuesday, delivering a speech where he justifies Zelensky's decision to postpone elections, no doubt permanently.
Presidential elections were due to be held in March, but they weren't.
He'll remain in office until after his term ends on May 20th, which is today.
Ukrainian parliamentary elections were scheduled to be held last year in October, but they too were canceled.
Zelensky and other officials have justified the decision, pointing to Ukraine's constitution prohibiting election during martial law first declared when Russia invaded and extended since.
However, Zelensky has intermittently made it clear he could hold a vote any time he wanted to.
Last year, he said he could hold elections if the U.S.
and other Western countries paid for them and if Ukrainian legislators agreed to amend the Constitution.
He later ruled out the idea, and there's been no pressure from Ukraine's Western backers to hold a vote, despite the claim that proxy wars are a fight for democracy.
In a speech at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Blinken said the U.S.
and Europe had been helping Ukraine build democratic pillars, including free and fair elections, but a vote can only happen when conditions are right.
That's why we're working with the government and civil society groups to shore up Ukraine's election infrastructure.
That way, as soon as Ukrainians agree conditions allow, all Ukrainians, including those displaced by Russia's aggression, can exercise their right to vote.
People in Ukraine and around the world have confidence the voting process is free, fair, and secure.
What a joke!
General Valin Zuzny, Ukraine's former commander-in-chief, recently aborted ambassador to the UK, has been rumored to be a presidential candidate in a future election, even though he hasn't announced his intention.
Earlier, a poll in Ukraine found Zelensky would lose to Zelensky in an election with 41% favoring Zelensky, while only 23% favoring Zelensky.
Meanwhile, Blinken announced $2 billion in military aid for Ukraine as Russian forces advance.
Wednesday last, Secretary of State Blinken announced $2 billion in new aid as Russia continues to advance toward Kharkov.
Blinken, who made the announcement in Kiev, said that $2 billion is in the form of foreign military financing, a state program that gives foreign governments money to purchase U.S.
weapons.
The majority of the funds are being pulled from the $61 billion in New Ukraine aid recently authorized, though $400 million is coming from previously allocated funds.
He would not detail what weapons would be purchased, but said it would be spent in several different ways.
We put this together in a first-of-its-kind defense enterprise fund with three components.
One is to provide weapons today.
He said it would also help to build Ukraine's defense industrial base.
It helped Ukraine purchase military equipment from other countries, not just the United States, for Ukraine's use.
Asked if the U.S.
would allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons in Russian territory.
Where Russia recently warned the UK it could hit British military sites if Ukraine were to use British-provided weapons, Biden claimed the U.S.
does not encourage or enable Ukraine, but that it's up to the Ukrainians.
We have not encouraged or enabled strikes outside of Ukraine.
Ultimately, Ukraine has to make the decision for itself.
And knowing Russia has warned that it could hit British military sites with British-made equipment, it follows they could hit American military sites if American military equipment were used, but they're going to let Zelensky decide.
The new military aid package is not expected to help achieve victory, but rather prolong the war.
Russian push in Kharkov is stretching Ukraine's defensive line thin, and it was already at risk of collapse.
During Blinken's visit, the Ukraine military announced it was pulling back from areas in Kharkov Some areas around Lichtenstein in response to enemy fire and assault from ground troops to save the lives of our servicemen and avoid losses, our units maneuvered and moved to a more advantageous position, meaning retreated.
Meanwhile, back in 2011, Julian Assange predicted U.S.
taxpayers are creating a new generation of Ukrainian multimillionaires.
That's just what we want to do.
You've heard the latest line about Ukraine, right?
Turns out a good chunk of the billions upon billions we funneled to them are actually going into get-rich-quick scams.
Who would have thunk it, right?
Well, Revolver did.
According to reports, officials in Kharkov have been using our hard-earned tax dollars in a get-rich-quick scheme with fictitious companies.
But your government is keeping quiet about it.
The Biden regime would rather have you believe Ukraine still stands a chance to win this conflict.
Spoiler alert, they don't.
Blinken is definitely hoping you don't find out where your money's actually going, which is probably why he looks like a deer caught in the headlights.
Head of the Meza Anti-Corruption Center, Martina Rusavets, has written a report in Pravda asking, where are the fortifications?
Millions of dollars that were intended for the construction of fortifications in Ukraine were instead transferred to Kharkov OVA, the front companies of Avatars.
Pushev said the Ukrainian Kharkov Regional Military Administration, OVA, paid out funds to fictitious companies during the construction and fortification of the Kiev region.
The report comes as British-Russian forces have broken into the northern region of Ukraine, yet the U.S.
continues to fund the war.
According to Ukrainian propaganda reports, the Russian military had begun to advance, where the funding that was set for fortification was transferred to fake companies.
The offensive from the military, Russian, on Monday, with attacks on towns and villages, were a total of $7 billion.
Hyphenous, I take that Ukrainian currency was spent there by Ukraine, according to the report.
Here we have the head of the U.S.
subordinate state arriving in Kiev for a two-day visit at a joint press conference with Ukraine and foreign minister.
He said Washington would send $2 billion more for military assistance to Ukraine.
Scott!
Well, you know, again, the Ukraine situation from a military strategic tactical point of view is over.
Russia has won it.
Russia is not going to lose.
It has far more pieces of equipment being deployed on the battlefield.
It has all of the electronic signal jamming capabilities.
That's what the Elon Musk Starlink program is known for.
The Russians have had that since I was back there in November.
And they were showing me Starlink and all of that that was being used.
The Russians know how to jam that, and they have.
And they're going to destroy all of the Ukrainian weapons.
That's the thing.
Russia and its military have developed into the top-notch military on planet Earth.
They are far better man-to-man than any American soldier.
SEALs, Special Forces, Rangers, even the best of the American soldiers cannot hold a competition to the best of the Russian soldiers.
Why?
Because the Russian soldiers come from Russian families that are deeply rooted in Christianity.
Love of God, love of nature, love of family, love of women, love of children.
They don't have the divorce rate.
They don't have the abortions.
They don't have the homosexuality.
They don't have any of that.
So their atmosphere, in which they've grown their people, their citizens, is very pure, very healthy.
It's like going into an oxygen-rich, hyperbolic chamber.
Versus the West, which has a culture and an atmosphere flooded with pollutants and toxic substances on so many different levels, sociologically, emotionally, spiritually, economically, legally.
We're witnessing the decay and the death of the West.
And not to mention the COVID-19 thing.
I'll end it by saying the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergei Ryabkov, gave a very interesting interview and a statement.
He said they were comparing Western elites, meaning Blinken and Sullivan and then Schumer and the Republicans.
These Western elites are delinquent youths and provocateurs intent on escalating tensions to the brink of a catastrophic collapse.
And with no regard for the consequences.
He said Russia was in crisis management mode, aimed at preventing an escalation into a really massive conflict.
And he ended it saying, NATO is a group in which we feel not an ounce of trust.
Which triggers political and even emotional rejection in Moscow.
So, you really take those words to heart, Jim, because they are shared by all Russian politicians, all Russian media, all Russian military.
The only ones that wouldn't agree with that would be You know, the woke leftist rainbow flag hippie lunatics that Russia has to eject like heartburn.
But the majority of the Russians reject the West, reject NATO, reject the United States, because we've been doing nothing but violence and destruction that is fueled on arrogance, pride, and self-delusion.
And we're about to come up to a major crash, not because it's being inflicted upon us, but because we're banging our head against the cement wall and it's going to result in the complete deconstruction of the West, of our economy.
China just dropped 50 billion U.S.
dollars.
That's going to increase.
This is going to be the summer of economic, political, uh social and and uh uh military uh catastrophic deflation uh of america in every and in every aspect and this is going to make i think in the next six months uh 1929 1930
Look like a ball game and that may be the intention to generate a multi-dimensional implosion so that they can do what Zelensky just tried to do.
Extend political control over the nation without authority, without constitutional justification, but in a tyrannical emotional I wish I thought you were wrong.
you know blind grab for power and uh that's where we're we're entering into and mcgregor and everybody agrees with that we're not going to have elections we're going to have an environment of blind grab for power and these external foreign wars are meant to be instruments to like i should say sledgehammers to knock out the legs that are holding up the american state jim i wish i thought you were wrong brian oh wow
there's so much to unpack with all those subjects right We dealt with a little bit of China.
We dealt with a little bit of Assange.
We dealt with a little bit of continued stuff on Zelensky.
Okay, so Zelensky Decided to pass a law this week where he would allow prisoners to come out of prison to fight in the army.
At the same time, he quintupled the fines for dodging the draft.
China has been banging on the war drums, warning the West over our continued support of Ukraine, and China also today offloaded a record amount of US dollar assets.
At the same time, China's in big trouble in terms of their local protests are developing because they tried to drive another draconian COVID platform that's resulting in Tiananmen Square-style protests at universities, which are supposed to be the academic elite that appeal to it, but they're Anti-communism.
The other thing that Scott mentioned was the decline of morals in the West.
Well, let's just consider that this summer is going to be a big summer related to Ukraine.
There's going to be all sorts of UN summits and NATO summits and Ukraine summits that are going to be taking place.
And the question is, is anything going to change whatsoever?
And all these, of course, Western-run organizations are completely corrupt with, if you look at the people that are selected to lead the organizations.
I want to take this moment to sort of take a look at the big picture.
I watched a big documentary this week on Hitler, the rise of Hitler.
One of the things that gained him so much popularity, other than the economic triumphs that took place, was the fact that he wanted to clean the nation out of what he considered to be all the Jewish filth, all the pornography.
And the book burnings were largely related to the pornography.
Now remember, Hitler was against communism.
He saw communism as a Zionist platform, and he brought about the rise of the National Socialist Party, which basically meant, you know, hard work, we're all in this together, let's put this together and let's clean this up.
So he cleaned the place out of Jews.
Nobody's denying that he did, but he blamed them for all the catastrophes that happened as a result of the Treaty of Versailles.
And his response, overwhelming response, was get these people out of here.
We're sick of this filth.
We're sick of this decline.
And so you talk about that in the context of where Russia has made adjustments.
And where the West has not.
And why are we still puppets today of these Zionist regimes?
Take a look at it.
They are against everything that we are doing right now.
They don't do the transgender in their communities.
They consider everybody to be a part of the clan and a part of the family that we all ought to be educated together as a part of the group.
Whereas in the West, it's all individualistic.
Everybody's splitting out.
Oh, it's parents against children, break up the family.
There's so many contrasts taking place when it comes to culture right now.
It feels like if I, after watching this big, huge documentary on Hitler, going back and looking at what he was trying to accomplish, and by the way, He largely spoke a lot like Trump.
He got up on the stage and he spoke from the heart.
He didn't use a teleprompter.
He didn't use a script.
He just told people what he thought ought to happen.
And that brought about the rise of, of course, there's a lot of reasons why the Socialist Party rose under those circumstances.
But of course, the big thing was that they wanted the filth cleaned out.
That's why they had the book burnings.
Now, unfortunately, in order to do it, he had to appoint himself a dictator.
Now, good or bad, whatever, that's what he did.
And of course, when you got a dictator, all sorts of freedoms go out the window.
So there's a balancing act.
And right now, communism, I see communism is taking a Taking a big hit in China right now is the young people are really beginning to step out, take off their masks, hold up their blank white paper.
China can't control the social media anymore.
It's absolutely out of control what's breaking loose in China right now.
And China's going, falls to the wall in terms of burning up or cashing in U.S.
Treasuries.
We're $40 trillion in debt.
Our GDP is out of control.
We have to turn this thing around or we're looking at a serious end of this machine.
Remember one thing about China, too.
China, and I agree with Brian, it's flowering, it's evolving out of its communist restraints that were imposed from 1945 until, you know, recently, present day.
But China still has a very rigorous, conservative, traditional, sexually pure culture.
They do not allow boy bands because they, quote, effeminize men.
They don't allow gay parades, homosexuality, transgenderism, and things like that.
Forgetting the abortion thing.
But they really are reorienting.
And the young people of China are not as polluted, schizophrenic, or toxically stupid as the young people in America who, you know, worship climate change and all of these delusions that they've been raped with over 20-30 years in college.
China doesn't have that.
So what you're witnessing in China is the rise of a national state, a rise of a national Chinese pride in their own genetic history and disposition.
The same thing Hitler did.
Germany went through that nationalistic mythical pride and the German, you know, Aryan and all that other stuff.
The Chinese are going to go down the same path.
And when they start smelling, and they already have a whiff of it, but when they smell and look upon close examination of all of the sexual perversion and corruption that has infected American culture, it will only add to the alienation, divorce, and contempt that the Chinese will have towards America.
America has always been under this delusion that our economy is going to make everyone our slave, right?
You know, our economy is our gift.
That is going to control other nations wrong.
We have we have lost that because we've gone so.
Over on the social, you know, the social sickness scale.
So, I, I would just send it by people need to understand.
Sexuality, the morals, the family, the close sexual definition of a society, that determines the long-term orientation of the society.
Either it's going to be growing and getting stronger or it's going to be going down and crashing and burning and being deconstructed.
America is being deconstructed and that's why sexual purity, and I study this ad hoc, Is the core, the cornerstone from which a society grows and is healthy or decays and dies?
And you see right now huge parts of America decaying and dying and turning into schizophrenic madness because they want to believe their lies and their lies are leading to nothing but death.
Jim?
Well said.
Don, take us out.
Oh, really?
What a time to take us out here.
This has been one hour of hellacious news and situations that need to be dealt with.
So you out there should try to share this with everybody you know and help them get prepared for a summer like probably no other.
It's been something else here on May 20th, 2024.
And come on back for more if you can handle it.
Wow, what a deal.
So I'll see you in a little bit.
This is one heck of a show.
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