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Truth vs. NEW$, Inc Part 1 (8 July 2024) with Don Grahn and Scott Bennett
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And welcome, folks.
This is Truth vs. News.
On Monday, July the 8th, we've had a 4th of July celebration where we celebrated our independence.
And are you independent?
Are we free?
Is there anything that we celebrated?
Or is there something else?
What is the truth?
Or is it all propaganda that we're celebrating?
Anyway, we're here to discuss that, and I have for you the really best people in the world.
I have James Fetzer, the author of various books like The Nobody Died at Sandy Hook and J.F.K.
and other things.
These are the books you have to have in your library.
They're absolute historical books.
By the way, Don, the redacted version of Hook is available on my blog.
Okay.
It's called Fake News.
How about that?
The Truth vs. Alex Jones.
This is on, like, the third page now.
You can download the book, the redacted edition, and also the Sandy Hook Truth Memorandum with Robert David Steele to your desktop.
Free!
Free?
That's my price.
And we're happy to welcome back to the United States a guy who is an ambassador to Russia, Scott Bennett.
Still has jet lag, I think, and he wrote this fantastic book about skill game, and he and his dad have shared their books with me.
It's been an absolute blessing.
Wow, such clues that you and your dad had.
Scott, welcome back.
So, Jim, I guess we're talking about wrestling and other things today, aren't we?
You got it, Don.
How it brought me and Scott back, our warrior scholar.
Ukraine will not cede territory to Russia and the war Kiev responded to Trump.
What do they think wars are about?
They've lost all this territory, but they're not going to concede territory that Russia will have to conquer all of Ukraine.
Ukraine's not ready to compromise and seek territory to end the war, said Zelensky chief of staff.
Andrei Yurem, I told reporters, Kim would listen to advice, but we are not ready to compromise on the very serious issue of principles, independent freedom, democracy, territorial integrity, sovereignty, as though there were any freedom, democracy or territorial integrity in Ukraine.
This visit comes a few days before our NATO summit.
Well, the war in Ukraine will be subject to discussion.
Trump has said that if reelected, he'd quickly find a solution.
He did not elaborate on how he would do that, but key Trump advisors have presented him with a plan where he would threaten to end U.S.
support for Kiev if Ukraine refuses to enter into negotiations.
Trump pointed out, however, he doesn't accept conditions set by President Putin, who would end the war if Kiev agreed to cede the four provinces in the east and south that Moscow has seized, and, of course, Crimea.
When asked how Ukraine thinks Trump will handle the war, Irmak replied, honestly, I don't know.
But for a certainty, Russia will not give up.
Those provinces or Crimea.
Meanwhile, another report from handeyewar.com.
Ukrainian President Zelensky rejected the idea of a ceasefire.
According to Zelensky, we cannot simply trust Putin in principle.
We cannot trust him because he's a killer and the aggressor.
That's really stupid.
Because he's the conqueror.
He is the president of the nation that has defeated your nation.
For Zelensky to make stupid remarks like that.
When those claims are manifestly true of Zelensky, but not of Putin, it's just embarrassing.
Viktor Orban, who met with him, said the Ukrainian leader was not enthusiastic about his ideas.
Putin has said he can't agree to a ceasefire because he wouldn't be sure it would be followed.
We can't allow the enemy to use a ceasefire to improve its situation, arm itself, and reconstitute its army.
After all, Putin was played by the Minsk Agreement.
He's not going to be played again.
Putin also discussed Trump's comments, said he believed Trump was serious about ending the war.
The fact that Mr. Trump, as a presidential candidate, declares he's ready and wants to stop the war, we take this completely seriously.
I am not, of course, familiar with the proposals of how he plans to do it, but I have no doubt he means it sincerely, and we support it.
Meanwhile, Paul Greg Roberts, Russia finally acknowledges she's at war with Washington as was published on the 4th of July.
Today, when we get our annual dose of patriotic propaganda to wrap us in self-congratulation and enable Washington to conduct wars, Washington's got away with it for a long time, but has now created and brought us to conflict with a powerful adversary.
When a report Russia responded to Washington cluster bomb attack on civilians in Crimea by informing Washington the two countries are now at war.
What that means remains to be seen.
Doesn't seem to have caused any consternation in Washington, D.C.
The actual hot war between Russia and America began in 2008, when Washington surprised Putin by sending U.S.
trained and equipped Georgian Army into South Ossetia.
The American-sponsored invasion resulted in death of civilians and Russian peacekeepers.
It took the Russian Army only five days to defeat the American-trained Georgian Army, so D.C.
did not have time to get more involved.
Who was again surprised when Washington overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014.
Persecution and murder of Donbass Russian followed.
Donbass asked to be reincorporated with Russia like Crimea, but Putin initially refused.
Instead, he tried to keep Donbass in Ukraine with the Minsk Agreement.
Ukraine and Donbass agreed.
France and Germany would enforce the agreement.
But it was used to deceive Putin, while the West built and equipped a large Ukrainian army to retake the self-declared Donbass Republics.
In February 2022, Putin was forced to defend the Donbass from being slaughtered like Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
Putin, however, limited Russian intervention in a way that prevented Russia from obtaining a quick victory before Washington could get the West involved and widen the war.
Putin is now presented with a U.S.
missile targeting Russian civilians and with French troops in Ukraine.
Washington has been at war with Russia since 2007, when Putin said at a Munich security conference that Russia did not accept Washington's unipolar world.
The challenge to Washington's hegemony put crosshairs on Putin.
Now, 17 years later, he acknowledges that Washington and Russia are at war.
The question becomes, What will Putin do with his belated recognition of reality?
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, it's good to be with you.
It's good to be back.
And it was quite a month overseas in Russia, in Belgorod, in Sherebinka, in St.
Petersburg, in Moscow.
I'm wearing my favorite Russian military shirt given to me from a very dear friend.
So I don't mind wearing it because I don't mind being solidly on Russia's side in this conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Because I know the truth.
I don't have any loyalty politically or religiously or ethically, but I do know the truth.
And the truth is on the side of the peacemakers.
Blessed be the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
And Ukraine was not a peacemaker, it was an aggressor.
It was an aggressor that started torturing and killing and murdering and raping and carving swastikas into the civilian population of Donetsk, Mariupol, Odviedka, all the areas of the Donbass.
This occurred under Poroshenko, who had been established after the color revolution of the Maidan, a Victoria Nuland Democrat-inspired coup d'etat.
Poroshenko also was given weapons by Trump and a very stupid maneuver by Trump, among many stupid maneuvers, where he was manipulated by John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley and others.
But stupid nevertheless, because it began the war that we're currently seeing Embroiled within and of course Zelensky was brought in after that.
The Minsk agreements were part of that and Russia was lied to and Merkel and Sarkozy and all the rest of these globalists in the EU and Britain and the United States played the Russians and played Putin.
And lied.
And I don't think they're going to be fooled again.
I don't think they're going to tolerate lies anymore.
They have embarked on an existential defense against their country, their culture, their religion, their resources, their history, their statues.
And they understand this is a second patriotic war that they faced.
The first one they faced against Nazi Germany, and now we see the Nazis in Germany once again rising up under this silly bald-headed little closet homosexual Schultz.
And, you know, we've seen it also by the Chihuahuas in the Baltic states, and Macron, who has now been politically guillotined, and Roussi Chouinak, who's also been politically guillotined.
And Biden, which is soon to be politically guillotined.
We're seeing a massive revolution all over Europe and the United States because of this war in Ukraine.
This has been the civilizational pivot point on so many different levels.
Oriented the world into two camps, either on the BRICS side, the Shanghai Cooperation side, the multipolar side, which includes Russia, India, China, and now includes Vietnam, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, many countries in the South and Central American regions.
We're seeing a complete realignment occur, and the only ones left Or the United States and its slave vassal states.
So Paul Craig Roberts is right.
All of this started, I would say, actually before 2008, 2005, when they first had their color revolution and they stole the election from Yanukovych the first time and put in Yushchenko.
I had friends in the agency that were working the election at the time.
So they stole the election in 2005.
That was the Orange Revolution.
Funny how the Ukrainians that were brought over in January of 2020, or it was 2021, to overthrow Donald Trump, they were wearing orange hats and breaking windows on the Capitol grounds.
These Ukrainian mercenaries.
The same Ukrainian mercenaries that have been part of various Biden deep state operations.
So they're now at the end of their game.
They're now at the end of their lives.
They're now falling apart.
They consist of nothing but a ragtag gathering of individuals who've been dragged off the street by the Azov battalion, thrown in white trucks, and dropped off in the middle of nowhere with an AK-47 and told to fight the Russians.
And they don't want to fight the Russians.
They try and throw their hands up and retreat, but then Ukrainian drones fly them down and kill them.
So, we're seeing a rapid implosion of Ukraine.
Zelensky's a dead man walking, of course.
Orban has confirmed that.
Many others are doing the same.
So, it's only a matter of time, but Russia's not in a rush.
It's not in a speed for any settlement.
Ukraine is slowly sinking like the Titanic.
Russia doesn't need to help by throwing more water on it.
It's just letting nature take its course.
And I would say, when I was over there in Russia, besides being attacked by my own country's weapons, by having drones flying overhead every two hours and hearing air raid sirens, and there's a lot of material that we'll release pretty soon, but air raid sirens, missiles glowing off, attacking our hotel, I was digging out shrapnel from the hotel and from the cement around the hotel.
They're blowing up missiles and cluster bombs all over Belgarod, and even dropping chemical weapons in Belgarod.
So this is an act of war that the United States is doing against Russia.
And they're lucky that Russia isn't retaliating in a similar fashion.
But as I've said on Russian TV, that's what the Biden administration is trying to do.
They're trying to goad the Russians into a conflict, to escape in some sort of national emergency declaration.
Suspension of the elections, drafting people, drafting these new immigrants, trying to throw them into the military to inevitably put their weapons against the American people in some sort of police state.
This is the great plan of the globalists is to destroy America and turn it into a police state using international war as an excuse.
And that's why Putin isn't taking the bait.
He isn't being overly aggressive.
He knows that the West is currently hijacked.
And I think, as my report discloses, which you read last week, which is now making its way through various sectors of the Russian government and the U.S.
government and the United Nations, and we'll see how it ripples, But this was my report on crimes against humanity and war crimes in which the United States military personnel and military systems were used to kill women and children and civilians in the cities of Belgorod and Cherebinka.
And that is a crime against the United States Constitution, against the laws of war.
It's a crime against humanity, and it cannot be accepted.
And anyone who continues that is guilty of war crimes.
I'm qualified to say it because I'm an American.
All of these things are now coming to fruition and Donald Trump isn't going to make any difference in this issue unless he is smart enough to be humble enough and declare to Putin that this is best solved quietly and by removing Zelensky and making Ukraine neutral.
If Donald Trump is pushed into the illusion that he can bully Russia and Putin and the rest of the Uh, he will go down as quickly as these other fools have been similarly guillotined, Macron and Sunak and others, but hopefully he's smart enough to realize that the handwriting's on the wall.
And America's future is either in ashes and smoking ruins if they continue this course of war, or it will be a phoenix of future capitalistic opportunities if they're humble enough to, you know, be the peacemaker.
But we'll see.
Jim?
Yes, very good, Scott.
And without any doubt, Zelensky has lost his luster.
Ukraine will be told it took her up to join NATO at this week's summit.
The report cited a State Department official who said Ukraine needed to take an additional step before its NATO membership could progress.
As they continue to make reforms, we want to commend them.
We want to talk about additional steps that need to be taken, particularly in the area of anti-corruption.
It's a priority for many of us around the NATO table.
Biden has frequently cited corruption as a reason for not admitting Ukrainian to NATO, but it has not stopped him from spending over $100 billion on military and economic aid for the Ukrainian government with virtually no oversight.
There are Ukrainian officials driving brand new BMWs, even Lamborghinis, luxury cars, The position is expected to be outlined in NATO communique issued during the summit this week.
During last year's summit, Zelensky was looking for a roadmap to membership, but the alliance communique at the time offered only a vague statement that would invite Ukraine to join when allies agree and conditions are met.
NATO is poised to make gestures to show support for Ukraine, including the stationing of a senior civilian official in Kiev.
The idea is to show support for future membership without actually offering an invitation.
The Journal, authored by the Alliance, will announce the establishment of a new command and police body in Germany to oversee military aid and training for the Ukrainian military.
The idea is to have the alliance take over duties currently overseen by the United States so it could continue in the event of a future, a future president wants to reduce U.S.
involvement in the war.
Reports said the stepped-up Trump group, the proxy war, have taken on new urgency after Biden's poor performance in the first presidential debate.
Former President Trump has expressed skepticism about the war, said he'd work out a deal to end it, but hasn't articulated the plan.
He did back House Speaker Johnson, moving forward with an additional $61 billion on the war.
Meanwhile, Zelensky's star-fading among NATO countries.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will mark its 75th anniversary at this week's summit in Washington.
It retains strong support among its constituent nations, according to a new poll of the 13 member states.
A median of 63 percent of respondents across the 13 nations reported a positive view of NATO.
A medium of 33%.
Negative.
Most positive views?
Poland, 91%.
Netherlands, 75%.
Sweden, 72%.
Or Sweden only joined the alliance in March.
The most negative—Greece, 37, for Spain, 45.
Only 42 of Turkey's respondents had a positive view of NATO.
Still, that was double the level of support since we last pulled Turkey in 2018.
The new poll of over 44,000 respondents in 35 NATO countries found a marked decline in confidence in Zelensky to do the right thing regarding world affairs.
Since Russia's invasion, NATO has provided tens of billions in economic and military aid to support Kyiv.
His leadership was given significant credit for rallying that support.
But as it became clear, Ukraine, much anticipated counteroffensive, failed to live up to expectation, and Russia has regained the upper hand.
Confidence in Kiev's leadership, particularly in Europe, has faltered.
The decline was most striking in neighboring Poland, where confidence in Zelensky fell from 70% to 48%.
Less dramatic, but still remarkable.
Fell by 7% in the Netherlands, 73% to 66% Germany, 61% to 54% Spain, 55% to 48% France, 50% to 43% and Sweden, 86% to 80%.
Polling in four countries showed splits in views about whether the country is providing too much, too little, or the right amount of support.
Perhaps reflecting the decline in enthusiasm for Zelensky, only 6% of Polish respondents said their government was providing enough support.
The rest evenly split between the right amount and too much.
Respondents from Hungary and Turkey, both of which have remained relatively friendly with Russia, were also split.
In Hungary, which applied very little aid, 61% thought the government provided about the right amount, another 21% too much.
In Turkey, which was providing critical drones early in the war, 46% said about right, 16% too much, 20% not enough.
As for the U.S., opinions roughly evenly split.
24% not enough, 25% the right, 31% too much.
Of those who said too much, 51% identified themselves as conservatives.
Only 13% of self-identified liberals said Washington had provided too much.
That difference was also reflected in views toward NATO.
Only four out of five self-identified liberals said they held a positive view of the alliance, but only 41% of self-identified conservatives.
Conversely, in Greece and Spain, two countries with the least favorable views of NATO, people who identified politically with the right were much more likely than on the left to say their views of NATO were positive, similarly with Sweden.
Scott, your thoughts?
Well, in one sense, I don't think these polls are truly reflective of reality.
I think the numbers and the percentages of opposition to Zelensky is far greater than reflects here.
I just don't think people will take polls.
I have no doubt the overwhelming majority, I would say three-fourths of the population of every country in Europe, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, you know, all over the place view Zelensky and view this war and NATO and Ukraine as a complete waste.
They have to save face because they're proud and stupid at the same time in Europe, so they have to piddle out this little drivel of, well, you know, he's democracy and And Putin, you know, bad, and they're really ignorant.
They don't know what they're talking about.
But in their hearts, I think the majority of all thinking people, three-fourths of them, three-quarters of them, look at this and say, this is stupid, this is done, this isn't done anything except take money out of our own treasury that we could have used to fill potholes on our own freeways.
What the hell has been going on here?
And they're too cowardly and weak to identify the graft and the theft and the corruption and the bags of money that have went to Zelensky from these EU countries and from NATO, from Jen Stoltenberg and Ursula von Leyden, all the backroom deals that they've been doing.
Mark Root, who's another Zionist and anti-Russian person coming in to replace Jens Stoltenberg.
Nothing's going to change with him.
Klaus Kalas, the Estonian prime minister that's now becoming the EU foreign minister.
She's another Vitriolic witch who was born out of two lesbians, by the way.
Artificial insemination, you know, born in a tube.
This lesbian couple.
This is where the Prime Minister of Finland came out of and now she's the EU or she's going into... I don't know where the hell she came from.
But there's a whole assortment of these, you know, lunatics in the European political establishment that need to be expelled like the cancer they are.
But the people in Europe and the United States and Canada and Australia, for the most part, all of these reasonable people are not against Putin.
They're not against Russia.
They're not against the Russian people.
And they don't really want any part of this conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
It's not done anything except kill 500,000 Ukrainians.
And Putin's only strategy needs to be Don't look like a dictator, don't look like a warmonger, don't go in a carpet bomb or fire bomb like Dresden, Kiev, or anywhere else.
And he hasn't done it.
He has behaved very responsibly, very mildly, yet at the same time very firmly when Russia is attacked, like Crimea, where they killed two little toddler children Uh, and uh, wounded over a hundred people on the beach with a cluster bomb.
Uh, and of course they've been doing this in Belgarod.
They blew up apartment complexes.
Not military buildings, not military, uh, installations.
Apartment complexes.
Where they had little children, they had shrines for the dead children.
This is what NATO did.
All of this, I think, is becoming very, very fatiguing to the European people.
And that's going to drive and continue to drive their political decisions.
No one wants this to continue.
And I think that's going to be the largest factor in the overthrow of these governments.
It's overthrowing Macron.
It's overthrowing Reese Schoenack.
It's overthrowing Schultz.
It's going to overthrow the United States and Canada and Australia.
So, you know, in one sense, I think the pendulum has shifted back, and we'll see if it leads to a transformation of these societies, to sanity, or if it leads to major wars, civil wars, revolutions, and uprisings between the people and the globalist government elites.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Don, you wanted to add?
Yes, Scott, you mentioned about France and England and, I don't know, changes, and they just had Alexis back there.
And I understand those Alexis were rife with fraud, that part of it was Alexis, and it was not any better than ours, and they installed people who they wanted to install the powers that be, and it's so corrupt.
Is there any future there?
Where does it all come to?
Because it looks like The powers that be have got one direction, and it's not the direction of the people choosing in the election.
Yeah, I think there's a controlled opposition element to this over in Europe.
There's certainly a controlled manipulation of the election.
But I think we're almost at a moment of people transforming out of their government, out of the respect for government, out of respecting any of these leaders.
Look at us in the United States.
We don't respect Joe Biden or anybody appointed to Joe Biden or any of his agencies.
We don't recognize them as having any legitimate power whatsoever.
I think that is a mindset that is quickly growing on everybody in America.
And everybody in Europe.
That's why the media are panicking about replacing Joe Biden, because they know in their bones that people are going to go, wait a minute, this doddering old child molesting lunatic with a drug-addicted son and has been involved in more graft and corruption than anyone else, He can't even have a debate with Donald Trump, and you're asking us to believe and to follow and to recognize him?
No, he's becoming a laughingstock, and that's why they're trying to replace him, and I think they'll try and do it with Gavin Newsom, as I said, for the last two years.
Yeah.
Thank you.
More on that to come.
Meanwhile, Douglas MacGregor.
Comments on Zelensky's desperation after Russia's next move.
Bad time for Israel.
Let's listen.
Is the United States at war with Russia?
Effectively, yes.
Sadly, without any formal declaration, without consulting the American people, we are very definitely in a condition of war with Russia.
And I think that's what the Russians have concluded.
It's very dangerous.
And I wish it were not the case, but I'm afraid it is.
Is there a rational explanation from the American perspective of the terror that was visited on Russian civilians on a beach Sunday afternoon in Sevastopol?
Well, one analysis suggests that the reason for the deposit of cluster munitions from the MLRS weapon system that fell near the beach or into the water and unfortunately killed people and injured several people, including children, is because the Russian missile defense systems worked.
They were able to destroy all of the missiles except one, and they actually diverted the last missile from its course, damaged it so that the cluster munitions fell to the earth, much further away from the original target.
The key thing to keep in mind is that those cluster munitions did not explode.
They simply struck people and caused their death, but because they had interrupted the flight of the missile and the warhead, the cluster munitions were apparently not armed, and so at least they did not explode, which would have been a much worse outcome.
Isn't that six of one, half a dozen of the other, because dust clusters explode at some later date when they're discovered by a six-year-old who thinks they're a rock or a baseball?
Well, potentially, and I actually was surprised that they were in use at all, because I thought that based on the 91 experience where we saw this happen, saw children in Iraq, even some soldiers who were told to Not do it, but weren't very smart at the time and picked up these bomblets, lost their hands or were severely injured or even killed.
So I thought the whole thing was off the table, but I guess I was wrong.
And it may be, it's another case of running out of existing munitions and not being able to rapidly restore the arsenal with new ones.
I mean, frankly speaking, we don't have very many of these missiles left at this point.
And as far as I know, there are no plans to go to shifts on a 24-hour basis in order to make missiles.
Why is the U.S.
Why is the US delivering to Ukraine a weapon, well not a weapon, but ammunition, which is unlawful in 95% of the world?
That's a question I can't answer and neither can you because we don't know what the orders were that were given.
I suspect, again, they ran out of high-explosive warheads, and what they had left is what was used.
And the orders were, doesn't matter, send whatever we've got to Ukraine, we'll fire whatever is left.
That's the only way I can explain it.
Here's the Russian ambassador to the UN.
Seems to have a good handle on what happened.
Cut number 10.
Kyiv regime supported by the USA carried out a heinous attack against civilians in the Russian city of Sevastopol in Crimea.
Ukraine launched five US-supplied attack MS missiles armed with cluster munitions.
An American Global Hawk UAV was patrolling the airspace over the Crimean Peninsula.
There will be measures in response.
The Russian Federation will continue to protect its people and its national security until no threat is posed by the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev that was breeded, raised and financed by the West.
Well, I think your point is accurate in that this is not the first provocation.
financed by the West.
How do you think Russia will respond with President Putin's typical patience or with something that sends a dramatic message?
Well, I think your point is accurate in that this is not the first provocation.
If we stop and consider the strike that struck the early warning ballistic missile system radar, That in and of itself could have resulted in an immediate counter strike by the Russians.
It didn't happen.
Primarily because President Putin wants to avoid a direct confrontation with the United States and NATO.
He's never wanted it.
We're the ones that goaded him into attacking into Eastern Ukraine to begin with.
We're the ones that wanted to place forces right on his border with the goal of attacking him.
We're the ones that wanted to place missile systems there.
So I think it's very obvious that under the circumstances he could have attacked with any number of different weapon systems a long time ago and he hasn't done it.
I hope he can continue to exercise restraint because I think we're nearing the end of this tragedy, frankly.
Let me pick it up there.
I think that Colonel McGregor does a great job and lays it out beautifully, and he thinks we're getting near the end.
What is your assessment?
Well, I think McGregor is the most sound voice on the analysis of the conflict and the situation.
Ritter's pretty good on the tactical analysis of the movement of armaments and encirclement and stuff.
I don't think Wilkerson is worth a damn, because he said a very idiotic thing, which was, when he was asked the same question, is this Russia at war with the United States?
Did the United States declare war by this attack on Crimea, Belgrade, and stuff?
He said, no, no, we're not at war.
Technically, it's not an act of war.
And that is wrong.
That is bullshit.
Coming out from someone who I consider an idiot or a coward or both.
Because when you have United States troops sitting in a United States weapon system, I don't care if they sold it to Santa Claus or the Ukrainians, but that's a United States weapon system with United States military contractors or active duty personnel.
Typing in the numbers and the data systems for the longitudinal horizontal access points for the missile to strike and then simply saying to the Ukrainian drunkard, sipping a vodka bottle, press the fire button.
If that is the expectation of technically we're not at war because we didn't press the fire button, he's an idiot because we are at war when we do that.
We're providing the weapon coordination for that missile system to strike the Russian radar satellite listening post technologies, which you addressed several weeks ago, if not before I left for Russia, a month ago or so, when they took out the Russian satellite reconnaissance or NSA sort of structures.
This is an act of war.
You're striking Russian territory, Russian cities.
I was there.
I heard the bombs and the bullets.
I ran into the bomb shelters with the pregnant women and the women and their babies.
Not a few men, but a lot of women pushing their strollers into bomb shelters, which are big reinforced concrete truck-sized boxes.
and uh you you hear the explosions overhead you feel the concussions you hear the Oh, the siren's going off every few hours.
That is coming from the United States against Russia.
That's an act of war.
Now, Russia has been enormously patient in not striking back.
Technically, it could take out Washington, which I've said would be one of the most pleasing things to the face of the earth, and probably every American would celebrate if Washington was wiped off the map, because there's nothing there except child molesters, bandits, and gangrene demons.
Yes.
So I think Russia has behaved very, very coolly.
It hasn't struck back at the United States.
I think largely because they recognize the American people are not in this war.
And I've said that on Russian TV and all my interviews on all the top channels.
I've said the American people have no idea what's going on.
Number two, they have no desire to be a part of this war, but they don't pay attention.
You know, they go to work, they come back, they play with their dog, they drink their beer, they're safe between two oceans.
Many of them are vaccinated in all sorts of ways.
You're talking about some of the stupidest people on planet Earth, and they just don't know what's going on over in Ukraine and Russia and the rest of this theater.
But their hearts are not in war against Russia.
So, you know, the Russians know that and they're not responding in this countermeasure way.
But I predict this, Jim, the Ukrainians and the United States, they are going to try and trigger a war before the elections.
They're probably going to load up Ukrainians on small dolphin class submarines or smaller submarines, put them in the Black Sea and strike at Russian naval vessels.
That seems to be the next page or the next card they're going to lay down is a naval engagements secretly, submarine-wise.
We've already predicted that in the Persian Gulf as well, but These people are so desperate to try and trigger a stalemate.
That's why they're appointing these women.
I predict they're going to try and replace Zelensky with a woman, so they think a woman is going to stand like the little Chinese guy in front of the Tiananmen tank.
I know Brian referenced me as that guy last week, but I do think they're going to put up a woman in charge of Ukraine to replace Zelensky to try and say, oh, let's stop the aggression, Mr. Putin.
We're all Slavs.
And I don't think the Russians will stop.
I don't think they can stand for that.
They have to push through.
Very good.
monosify Ukraine and remove all of the NATO infection.
There's more biochemical laboratory materials that are coming out too that the United States is involved with.
So this Ukraine is not going away soon, but it is going to go away, and it's going to go away when Russia settles it their way in their time.
Very good.
Well, he may not be your favorite.
From crumbling bridges to underfunded schools, the country is slowly falling apart.
But on the world stage too, the U.S.
the U.S. can't beat Russia or China in a war, initiated by some comments about Palestine. - It's no secret, America is in decline.
From crumbling bridges to underfunded schools, the country is slowly falling apart.
But on the world stage two, the U.S. is losing its once invincible aura.
From retreats in Afghanistan to embarrassing failures against Yemen, Washington does not seem to hold the same power it once did.
And this past week's presidential debate was an embarrassment for the world's superpower.
Yet even as it loses influence, it is attempting to crush the rise of China.
I have here today someone who saw imperial U.S.
risking nuclear war in the process.
Now, Washington is also supporting a very unpopular war in Gaza by backing apartheid Israel and its genocide.
I have here today someone who saw imperial US foreign policy firsthand from the inside.
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US archer.
Army colonel who served as Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
In recent years, however, Wilkerson has become a strident critic of U.S.
foreign policy.
Thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you for having me.
So let's start with a big question.
Is the United States in decline on the world stage?
And do you agree with my introduction?
Actually, I agree with just about every word of it.
I think it's clear to at least half the world now, some 4 billion people, if not more, that the United States is not the power that it once was.
Reputationally, because of things like state-sponsored torture, and now state-sponsored genocide, My reputation is in tatters in the world.
I had one legal scholar whom I worked with in Sicily many years ago on international criminal justice tell me, Larry, you no longer have a reputation.
You are not the stalwart supporter of international criminal justice, international criminal law, international law, period.
You are an agent for chaos in the world.
Those were his words.
When you talk about history, and the history of empire in particular, I've just finished reading for a second time Peter Farrakhan's book, The Silk Roads, which is a marvelous chronicling of all the empires, or many of the empires throughout history.
The Persian, the Eastern and Western Roman Empire, and so forth.
And what you find in that history, of course, are examples of precisely what's happening to us today.
The things that are occurring with us with modern accelerated rates, if you will, happened in the past to the Romans, to the Persians, to all manner of other people.
It's just the nature of empire that when you start declining, you reinforce failure again and again and again.
It's a weakness of military operations in particular, but of Diplomacy and foreign policy, security policy in general, that when you start losing, you reinforce the loss.
Look at Ukraine.
We are reinforcing what is clearly a defeat for NATO and for Washington and for London, Washington's poodle in particular.
And yet we're reinforcing.
We're sending billions of more dollars.
We're trying to steal Russia's money to send it to the Ukrainians.
And look at Gaza.
We reinforced there when we're losing there also.
We reinforced in Afghanistan for 20 years.
And in Iraq, we lost there.
So one of the great signs of declining empire is consistent and constant reinforcement of strategic failure.
And that's our major move in the world today.
is reinforcing our failures.
You run out of means to do this, too, as we're doing right now in the Red Sea.
I just read an article about Eisenhower, the major U.S.
aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.
The troops have been there so long.
They've not been home.
They've not seen their families.
There's no sign of Eisenhower being relieved.
The deployment is excessive, to say the least, and every day they get to see the Houthis Shooting deadly missiles and flying deadly drones over their aircraft carrier.
So it's not a great place to be.
At the same time, you've been there way too long.
I want to get your take on what Wilkerson had to say there, with which I, by and large, agree your thoughts.
Well, I agree with a lot of the materials there, but I always come back to how do these people stand on 9-11?
I know where Jim Fetzer stands.
I know where I stand.
I know where Don stands.
I know where a lot of people stand, but these people who pop up on the Napolitano Show and Wilkerson's one and Ritter's another and McGregor's another, I always come back to besides the good shit that you say that I agree with, where do you stand on 9-11?
Do you understand that 9-11 was an inside job, a CIA operation, a Mossad operation?
Jim Fetzer's better at explaining it than I ever will be, but do you understand the basic physical science of the impossibility of the Twin Towers falling at free-fall speed?
Do you understand the impossibility of an airplane crashing through reinforced steel concrete with a super column in the middle?
Do you understand the impossibility of Building 7 falling at its own free-fall speed after a fire?
Do you understand the impossibility of cars in a parking lot across the street from the World Trade Center tower having its engine blocks turned to aluminum dust and the paint looking like it's been scorched by a magnifying glass, which Judy Wood's book and its imagery documented?
Do you understand the impossibility of a plane crashing into the Pentagon and not having any wreckage anywhere on the grass?
And by the way, the grass looking like a A golf course, pristine and grassy and green.
The only thing missing are the beer tents.
You understand that, Wilkerson?
Because you sure as hell aren't coming across and telling the truth about it.
And that's how this entire Roman train wreck of the United States has grown since 2001.
I was alive.
We all were alive back then.
Wilkerson was alive.
Ritter was alive.
Napolitano was alive.
McGregor was alive.
I didn't discover this until after I'd been thrown in jail and I started finding all this out.
But these son of a bitches knew before!
They knew when they were majors and captains and lieutenant colonels.
Then they retired.
They retired.
They didn't want to raise the torch.
They didn't want to raise questions.
They didn't want to make inquiries.
They didn't want to honor their oath that they took as officers to the Constitution.
That tells me that Wilkerson is a weakling and a coward when it comes to the big picture of this.
And I'd say the same for McGregor and Ritter and anyone else, because if you're not prepared to come back and look at 9-11 and dissect it and come to the conclusion that it was completely false, then you're out of whack, your shoulder's out of joint, you're playing analytics on war without understanding how all of this started.
And it was the greatest betrayal of the American people and betrayal by the military who were in the Pentagon.
So part of me always comes back to these people saying, how do you stand on the 9-11 issue, Mr. Wilkerson?
Because I don't give you the honor of being called a colonel.
A colonel is a man that says all of this was fraud and fabricated and these people who did it should be executed.
I don't hear them coming out with that.
I don't hear McGregor.
I don't hear Ritter.
I don't hear Wilkerson.
I don't hear anybody, even Larry Johnson and these other guys who I know.
Don't dare touch that subject.
Well, I do, and I do it with fearlessness, because there's no other subject that matters to understand where we are right now than where we were in 2001.
On this level, it's common sense.
Yeah, Wilkerson's not saying anything intelligent other than what we've said before, Jim.
I wouldn't be surprised if he got it from our broadcasts.
Yes, the United States has lost its reputation.
Yes, the United States is the laughingstock in the world.
Why?
Because the United States has tried to dominate and bully and enslave the world using this worthless petrodollar that the Africans are wiping their ass with and then the Middle Easterners are tearing up and the Chinese are, you know, throwing out the window.
And the Indians are saying, yeah, this is all worthless too.
The great financial migration Is going to completely drain the life force out of the militarism of the United States all over the world.
So, reinforcing our failure?
Yeah, that's truth.
That's exactly what's happening.
We're reinforcing our failure in Ukraine, and what are we going to do?
Reinforce our insanity with Israel by committing genocide against Palestinians?
Is that what America's become?
And I'll tell you the most dramatic thing that happened to me was being in the bomb shelters with these women, and they're looking at me as I speak in English into the phone and record these episodes, and they're looking at me like, your fucking country is the one doing this to us!
Your country is the one bombing us into bomb shelters!
Your country!
The United States of America!
And I was never more sickened than I was before than being there and just shaking my head.
And I'm enduring the concussions and the explosions as well.
The United States is waging war against Russia.
The military personnel who are doing it are doing it in violation of their oath.
Every American citizen is in danger of being a war criminal because you're bombing civilians.
You're doing acts of terrorism.
So this whole thing is going to end spectacularly in a spectacularly ugly and defeating way to the United States, which I think is what the Democrats want.
They want to turn us into a third world so that they think they can rule on high in Washington and their ivory towers and then their Hamptons.
But they got a big shot coming because I think you're going to see this country transform in a very violent way very soon.
What they're doing to Russia and Belgorod and Donbass is going to be done against the cities and the towns of the Southwest and Arizona and New Mexico and California and Texas.
Have no doubt about it.
All those weapons are coming right back here and the Mexican cartels are going to start doing the same thing.
Shooting at civilian sheriff departments, running their trucks up and down the street, tossing grenades out at schools.
Then what are the American people going to do?
They're going to suck their thumb, fold under their desks and go into a fetus position and say, save me Joe Biden.
And I don't think that's going to work out well, Jim.
Very well said, Scott.
I do agree.
Meanwhile, as ceasefire moves closer, Netanyahu is seeking to sabotage the deal as the death toll passes 38,000.
Netanyahu thwarts ceasefire.
Middle East reports Israel's Yedoth Aranot explains Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's office is teaming up with extremist elements in the Israeli government to try to thwart any possibility of reaching a deal with Hamas.
Well, the Israeli government's official statement is it would examine the most latest response.
The report said Netanyahu's office has actually been working to stop any deal.
The Israeli outlet said security and intel officials see it as an attempt by Netanyahu and far-right elements to thwart even the possibility of resuming contacts for a deal.
It is impossible to exaggerate the severity of the situation that a security official acknowledged.
There's a situation where the abductees will be sacrificed because he, Netanyahu, wants to delay until after the end of the season and the speech to the U.S.
Congress from arrests.
Sources familiar with Hamas's response to the hot seat release proposal expressed optimism following the group's remarks.
According to one source, Hamas's response is a positive development that could form the basis for advancing negotiations.
According to one, Hamas could Also from the Middle East Eye, President Biden is expected to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu in July when he travels to Washington to address a joint session of Congress, according to a report by CNN.
Netanyahu was invited by Republican and Democrat House leadership, but ties with the Biden admin are under strain.
Meanwhile, a senior Israeli lawmaker suggests nuking Iran.
A longtime Israeli lawmaker and former defense minister took to the airwaves and social media to suggest his country should do whatever it takes to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
It's not possible anymore to stop the Iranian nuclear program with conventional means, said Abigdor Lieberman of the right wing.
Yisrael, we need to party during the Channel 12 interview.
And we will have to use all the means available to us.
We will have to stop the deliberate policy of ambiguity.
It needs to be clear what's at stake here—the future of the nation, the future of Israel.
We must not take any risk.
When pressed what he meant by stopping Iran with non-conventional means, Lieberman said, I said it very clearly, right now is the time to stop the Iranian nuclear program.
He made similar comments on social media, where his remarks sparked alarm and condemnation.
His hardline call comes amid powder-keg tensions between Tel Aviv and Tehran, which warned last week any Israeli invasion of Lebanon, from which Iranian ally Hezbollah is resisting Israel's annihilation of Gaza, would trigger an obliterating war.
Here's Aesop Ronnell tweeting, The Zionists are getting even more unhinged by the minute.
Here you can find a senior political figure suggesting to nuke Iran.
According to the Arms Control Association, a U.S.-based advocacy group, Iran is a threshold state, meaning it has developed the necessary capacities to build nuclear weapons.
However, Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapon development activities necessary to produce a testable nuclear device.
Since 2020, however, Tehran has stated it is no longer constrained by any JCPOA limits Reference this so-called Iranian nuclear deal, from which the U.S.
unilateral withdrew in 2018 under Trump.
Iran has greatly expanded its nuclear program, reduced International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring, and undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, were it to choose to do so.
Iran maintains its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, Though Kamal Karazi, a foreign policy advisor to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told Financial Times his country would have to change our doctrine if faced with an existential threat.
The ACA and others estimate Israel has around 90 nukes and visible material for about 200 more.
Lieberman is not the first Israeli lawmaker to suggest a nuclear war against Iran.
Far-right deputy Knesset speaker Nisam Batouri, who sparked outrage by saying Israeli forces are too humane in Gaza and should burn the Palestinian territory, said in April that In the event of a conflict with Iran, if we do not receive American ammunition, we'll have to use everything we have.
Don, take us out.
Scott will pick it up here when we return for our second hour.
What a place to have to take us out.
We are really in the midst of it and it's really getting, we're talking it to the world and letting them know what is really happening that is not good for America or the world or Europe or wherever.
And Scott, you've been just spot on.
Oh, my golly.
You've got the means, you've got the power and the information, and you have the way to get it out like nobody else.
So we're so proud of you.
And this is the first hour of Truth vs. News on Monday, July the 8th, second half of the year, which is getting hotter here in Seattle and everywhere in the world.
Come on back for the second hour because it's going to be really exciting.
And so, if this isn't exciting enough, hang on to your hats and come on back, folks.
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