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March 17, 2025 - Jim Fetzer
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Truth vs. NEW$, Inc Part 1 (16 March 2025) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
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And welcome, folks, to Truth vs.
News Incorporated.
And it's March the 16th, and it's the eve of St. Patrick's Day, and we're praying for good luck and everything else.
We have a great show for you today, and last week's show was pretty heavy, and this week's show, I think, is not going to be any lighter whatsoever.
We've got the best people in the world here.
We've got Jim Fetcher, who's...
Just to dive him out.
And doing so good with his books.
You know, he's got his great book here on 9 /11 and on Nobody Died at Sandy Hook and other things.
These are outstanding historical documentaries that you really should have to set the record straight.
And Jim is just the leader here that's doing.
Of course, we have Bryan Davidson out of Houston.
He's a private eye investigator down there, and he really gets to the depths of the stories with fantastic insights, as does Joaquin Magopin way over there in Bali.
Oh, yeah.
Anyway, Joaquin has gotten some great articles that you've got to read, and I'm going to start posting those with all our friends here.
And I guess we'll let Brian get adjusted, and Jim, I guess we're going to start off looking at...
Russia and Putin is wearing an L.A. Army uniform.
We were talking about apocalypse last week.
Has that changed, or is everything okay, or is it getting heavier?
Well, Don, not only did my Badgers lose to Michigan in the Big Ten championship.
That's the critical thing.
Trump is massively mucking up U.S. foreign policy, whether it's in Eastern Europe or the Middle East, as we're about to discover.
And its performance at home isn't a whole lot better.
Putin appears in uniform for the first time.
The Russian president made a surprise appearance at Russian Army headquarters in Kursk.
Notice.
And made a harsh statement.
He appeared in military uniform for the first time.
Is this a signal to the United States?
Yes.
And to the West.
In recent day, pressure has increased on the Ukrainian troops, effectively encircled in Kursk, following the coup in which Russian special forces managed to sneak behind the Ukrainian lines through a gas pipeline shut down by Ukraine.
800 soldiers passed through this four and a half In diameter, pipeline, to surprise them, the encirclement began to show signs of disintegration.
On March 12, the Ukrainian high command signal did order relocation maneuver euphemism for a retreat.
But the Russians let them go without their weapons, but alive.
The same day, Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian command and cursed.
He wore a military uniform, a Russian camouflage uniform, for the first time ever.
It's hardly a coincidence, and it's seen as a message to the U.S., which had met with Ukraine the day before and Saudi Arabia, where a proposal for resolving the conflict was negotiating that the government of Russia did not like.
Confirmed by the fact that a single official Russian statement was made the following day.
This loud silence was a very clear sign of rejection.
During his visit to Kersk, Putin made a statement here with important content against the background of negotiations.
This is how it went.
Our task in the near future is to definitively crush the enemy who has entrenched himself in the Kersk region and is still fighting there.
As soon as possible.
To completely liberate the territory of the Kursk region and to restore the situation along the state border, and of course, we must consider creating a security zone along the border.
I, Putin says, would like to point out a following.
Committing crimes against civilians or opposing our armed forces, law enforcement, or special services are terrorists under the laws of the Russian Federation.
Their actions have been classified as such by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office in the Investigate Committee of the Russian Terrorism.
Now, Valery Gerasimov just mentioned the prisoners.
We must treat these people first and foremost as terrorists within the meaning of the laws of the Russian Federation.
We treat all people humanely and as we will everyone in our hands in the future at the same time.
Foreign mercenaries are not governed by the 1949 Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
The commentary about what he had to say?
His talk about creating a security zone along the border means Russia intends to advance from Kursk into Ukrainian territory.
Sentut has often spoken of security zones in the past, saying the goal is to push Ukrainian armies so far back it can no longer attack civilian targets in Russia.
We can always speculate how deeply the Russian army intends to advance.
The fact that it was reported the same day Russian units entered the Sumi region is likely a confirmation.
The fact that it was reported on the same day Russian units had entered, this part of Putin's statement alone in the advance of Russian troops into Sumi can be interpreted as a signal to the U.S. that Russia completely disagrees with the ideas announced in Saudi Arabia.
There was talk there of a 30-day ceasefire.
Which Russia rejects because it would only give Ukraine the opportunity to regroup and dig in.
Putin made it clear he would only accept a comprehensive settlement of the conflict and a solution to its underlying causes.
In plain language, this means recognition of the new borders, Ukraine's permanent neutral status without NATO membership, and without stationing any foreign troops in Ukraine.
These are likely Russia's minimum goals, which Moscow considered to be non-negotiable, which is why the U.S. and Ukraine statement from Saudi Arabia may have been perceived by the Russians as a provocation.
Here we have Putin with a list of demands.
Russia, in a new remark Thursday, declares its forces are beating back the Ukrainians on all fronts, especially now in Kursk.
The Ukrainian military attempted to leave this zone in small groups, but this is no longer possible.
They're leaving their equipment behind.
There's no way to evacuate it.
It will remain there, that's for sure.
Trump envoy Witkoff is expected to meet with Putin again, though it appears from other reports they're not enthusiastic about him.
Well, the Russian letter says for achieving a 30-day ceasefire, it depends on what additional stipulations are to be added.
Namely, Ukraine will not conduct mobilization, will not train soldiers, will not receive weapons during any such siege fire.
He pointed out Russian troops are advancing along a 2,000-kilometer front line.
Multimilitary action could disrupt this ongoing operation.
Ukrainian forces could use a ceasefire to regroup, receive more weapons, train fresh recruits.
So how were they to be used?
To continue force mobilization in Ukraine, receive more arms supply, train newly mobilized units?
Or will none of this happen?
Enforcing a ceasefire over such a vast battlefield will be difficult.
Violation could be easily disputed, leading to a blame game on both sides.
Some of these demands no doubt will be communicated to the U.S. Reuters reporting the Kremlin's formal list has been delivered.
Russia has laid out a list of demands for U.S. authority to be met for the war in Ukraine to end Reuters reporting.
The requests were also aimed at Resetting the Kremlin's relations with Washington.
The list of demands came just before Russian Defense Minister announced it has taken over Tsuzsa, the largest town in the Kyrgyz region, overrun by Ukrainian forces.
The exact content of any further demands are not known, but these are some of which surely were included.
Russia has rejected the U.S. proposed 30-day ceasefire.
Coming out of the Jetta meeting with Ukraine, describing it would only allow Ukrainian forces to regroup.
Here we have a tweet about it.
Russian Brett Booth came to visit the headquarters of the Kurdish operation dressed in a military uniform.
This does not seem like a signal he's ready for a bad piece.
I'll call you in about 50 minutes.
Uh-oh.
Watch out!
Russia does not need a ceasefire.
Ukraine needs a ceasefire.
Thus, Joaquin, your thoughts?
Trump himself says Ukraine has no cards, i.e.
no leverage at all.
Russia has all the leverage, all the cards.
And obviously, they refused the offer of a 30-day ceasefire for good reason.
As stated, only the one that's losing gains from a ceasefire, for obvious reasons, regrouping.
Russia broadcasted that from the very outset.
Yet, the idiots in Washington went over to Saudi Arabia.
And went ahead with this anyway.
So the Russians are not impressed with the Americans playing the intermediary between Ukraine and Russia, obviously.
They failed on the first time out here.
And then later in the week, I think it was maybe the day after they came back from Saudi Arabia, idiot Zelensky was saying, I don't know.
I'm not going to give up any territory.
That territory that is now Russia and next part of Russia is Ukraine.
He still won't give it up.
So, I mean, obviously, he's a total puppet going back and forth with the inconsistencies.
And you have to question, who is telling him?
Who is giving him the orders to do what he does?
Because obviously...
Whoever that is wants war to continue.
There is no doubt about that.
And wants every Ukrainian soldier to die, obviously, because that is going to be the end outcome if they don't concede something like the annexed territory made up of ethnic Russians.
You know, I mean, it belongs to Russia.
They've got to get over that and accept that reality.
I believe that it's City of London that's been calling the shots on both pretty much on U.S. as well as Ukraine and NATO, Europe.
And they've made a mess.
But I think that's what they want.
They're part of the whole depopulation plan on the Earth, and they want to get rid of the white people on the Earth.
And what populations have the most white people?
Europe, North America.
So I think it's a big lead-up to world war.
All of our stories today confirm that this is being directed by ultra-Zionist forces.
I've even thought he's turned foreign policy over to Bibi Nanyahu.
But the city of London is about the equivalent.
Brian, your thoughts.
Well, the waters are getting incredibly murky in terms of how this is going to play out.
You've got basically European powers teaming up with Ukraine, suggesting, you know, the European powers are suggesting to Ukraine how to drag this thing out long enough to secure more U.S. aid.
And that U.S. would renew their military aid package with a vague sort of sloppy ceasefire proposal that the U.S. is going to lead.
And Trump's supposed to put together this vague ceasefire proposal.
And you've got Putin over there saying...
Okay, go ahead and hammer out all the details.
In the meantime, I'm just going to continue to do what I've been doing.
All looks good, Donald Trump.
Yeah, you're a great leader, great power.
Everything's wonderful.
Meanwhile, Putin and Lavrov are sitting over there saying, we suspect there's another rat involved in this.
So we're going to just wait and see.
So Putin thought that there would be a trap, and he didn't accept or reject the ceasefire proposal, and said he basically just set his own conditions and said, okay, well, as soon as the U.S. halts its military aid to end mobilization in Ukraine,
then we'll see what you guys have to say.
So it's not a very well-structured ceasefire at all.
And it could benefit Russia by allowing negotiations to include guarantees that the other side won't exploit.
But it's getting very ugly and it's getting very dark.
And you would expect Putin to be skeptical of whether or not the intentions are pure.
Are they really coming from Trump?
Is Trump really making his own decisions?
Or are these just Western powers teaming up with Ukraine?
Look, the problem with trying to negotiate a program like this is that nobody can be trusted, except that the Western powers can be trusted to do what Western powers do, which is act in their own best interests,
which will be to continually work toward destabilizing Russia and weakening the Trump administration.
Trump is trying to play, you know, big man on campus position.
I'm going to put an end to this, but frankly, it appears he may be way over his head on all of it.
Ukraine doesn't care.
They'll listen to anybody and pretend to be anybody's best friend.
In the meantime, they've got to put on a front to get more money, and Putin knows all this.
So given that that's the general broad brush of the situation, how does a real negotiation begin to take place that doesn't leave...
Putin and Russia embarrassed, even dethroned in time.
And that might be the whole purpose of trying to play it out the way that they're doing it right now.
It's just that it's going to destabilize anything, everything.
At the end, you've got to have a clear winner and a clear loser and clear-cut lines as to what exactly we're going to do moving forward.
Just saying, well, give us another 30 days only benefits Ukraine in that.
They can say, well, yeah, in 30 days we're going to do this, but we need more money in the meantime.
Well, my interpretation is Russia has completely rejected those proposals.
We get further reinforcement of the absurdity of Zelensky's position.
I believe donning the uniform indicated Russia regards itself as on its own and no longer has any interest in dealing with the West.
Here's Zelensky.
Kim won't see territory.
What strong U.S. response if Russia rejects a ceasefire?
Well, Russia is rejecting a ceasefire, but what could the U.S. do?
There's really no options available.
He explained his understanding of the proposal, saying the country wouldn't make any territorial concessions, but Putin has made it clear Russia will not surrender any of the territories it has already taken.
Discussing the ceasefire Wednesday, he claimed, We're fighting for our independence.
Therefore, we will not recognize any occupied territories as Russians.
Well, I'm sorry to say, you've lost the war.
It's not your choice.
Our people have fought for this.
Our heroes died.
How many injured?
How many passed?
Best estimate, over a million on the Ukrainian side.
This is the most important red line, not conceding territory.
We'll not let anyone forget about this crime against Ukraine.
Pure propaganda.
His refusal to give up territory makes it unlikely Kremlin would agree.
Russian officials insist that five Ukrainian provinces annexed by Moscow will never be returned to Kiev.
Plus, Russia is seeking a permanent end, not a short-term truce.
Even at the ceasefire at multiple points that crossed Russia's red line, Lenzi said he expects Trump to sanction Russia and send more arms to Ukraine.
This is quite a fantasy.
Trump, however, has previously threatened more severe sanctions and tariffs and now he's acting like a bully and a thug.
Here we had a perfect opportunity for cordial improved relations with Russia.
And Trump has thrown it away.
Zelensky repeated Wednesday he expected Trump to take those steps if his proposal were rejected.
The White House led Western officials in saying it's now on Putin to accept the peace plan.
It's up to Russia now, Trump said.
But these conditions are so obviously unacceptable to Putin it was an insult to even advance them.
Yesterday.
Well, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Balls said they'd provide detailed information about the essence of conversation that took place in Jeddah through various channels.
But it's not going to make any difference.
Here we have, moreover, a Ukrainian declaration, Hal Turner reporting, that Ukraine refuses to drop its bid for NATO membership as a ceasefire condition.
Which, of course, is completely absurd.
It's been clear to Russia from the beginning.
They would not allow Ukraine to join NATO.
So how is Russia responding?
They're beefing up for war.
Satellite images reveal significant deployment of Russian military at the Olenya Air Base, located on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
The images show 10 TU-95MS bombers, known by NATO as Bear H, 35 TU-22M3 bombers, called Backfire C, 5 AN-12 transport plane,
called Cubs, 3 TU-134UBL training aircraft, called Krusty, and 4 MI-8 choppers, known as HIP, the concentration of 45 aircraft.
At a single base has raised question about Russia's intentions.
The airbase has a storied history as a hub for Russia's long-range aviation.
With a 3,500-meter runway among the longest on the peninsula, it's ideal for operating heavy aircraft capable of crossing vast distances.
Historically.
It served as a naval reconnaissance base during the Cold War, even acted as a refueling stop of lights from Moscow in a van in the 60s and 70s.
More recently, since Russia's full-scale special military operation began in February of 2022, Lenya has played a prominent role in launching missile strikes against Ukrainian targets.
To understand the significance of this toy bus is worth looking At past patterns, in May of 2023, satellite imagery showed a notable concentration of aircraft there, including 14 Tu-95MS bombers,
two Tu-60 bombers, two T-22M3 bombers, along with transport planes and choppers.
That buildup preceded a series of intensified airstrikes on Ukrainian cities, suggesting large deployments there.
Can be a precursor to offensive operations.
I would simply add, of course.
Other developments occurred when they had other planes there.
About a third of Russia's combat-ready fleet at the time.
Following that buildup, Russia launched multiple missile barrages targeting Ukrainian energy facilities, indicating a pattern where such concentrations signal imminent action.
Geographically.
Alenia sits approximately 1,800 kilometers north of Ukraine's border, placing it well beyond the reach of most Ukrainian drones and conventional weapons.
Its remote location has made it a safe haven for Russian bombers, especially after Ukraine attacks with drones struck closer bases like Ingalls in the Saratov region in late 2022 and early 2023.
Joaquin, your thoughts?
Well, obviously, Trump and company, Zelensky, the West, NATO, have left no choice for Putin and Russia.
They are preparing for World War III against Europe, against perhaps even America, and definitely to finish the job in Ukraine.
It doesn't look good.
I mean, the optics of him showing up in Kursk in uniform tells you a lot right there.
Yeah, we're headed for World War III in Europe.
I always thought, well, with Trump being a total owned by Israel, that the war would be in, obviously, the Middle East.
And it probably will.
But it's also, it looks like it's going to be in Europe as well.
So there's going to be two World War III fronts.
It appears at this point.
Because the West has no cards, no leverage whatsoever.
And Russia holds all the cards.
And it looks like they have been given no other option but to go full speed ahead and get the thing done with the big guns.
Yeah, putting the uniform as equivalent to coming out as commander-in-chief as opposed to the chief executive officer of the state, I have no doubt.
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, what makes the water so murky is the question of, well, let me frame it like this.
When we had Joe Biden as president, we were definitely a part of the Western...
And European forces that are going to make up the new world order.
And we were the leaders who would help Ukraine go out there and threaten Russia properly or break them up or weaken them or whatever.
But now that Donald Trump's in the office, we have to ask ourselves, are we still part of the West?
And which part of the West is it?
Is it the neocon West?
Or is it the European Cultural New World Order West?
Or is it the Secret Societies West?
Or what is the West?
Because, let's face it, Ukraine is a puppet proxy machine that the West has used to weaken and destabilize Russia the best they possibly can.
Russia has basically sat back and played defense, only protecting certain regions very carefully and always drawing these red lines in the sand, which the West always wanted to break through to provoke another version of war and more instability.
Remember, everybody makes money when it's more war because it's nothing more than a massive money laundering operation.
What Trump needs to do right now is to break loose from the global definition of the West and call that the European West.
Britain and France.
Let Macron deal with his own problems.
Let Britain deal with their own problems.
We need to separate ourselves and break loose from this.
But he's promised to bring together some sort of peace agreement when he's being stabbed.
By Ukraine, as well as by Britain and France, and then who knows what strings Israel is pulling.
Are they keeping Trump on the line with the West, or is he breaking loose?
We need to start drawing some lines in the sands as to who our allies really are.
I don't think Donald Trump is necessarily after peace.
I think he's worried that U.S. hegemony might be what's really at risk here.
And if he doesn't join up with the Western forces that recognize U.S. hegemony worldwide, then that could be theoretically at risk in the future.
And he thinks he needs to protect and preserve that particular aspect of...
Well, at the same time, Russia doesn't really know or can't really define...
I mean, on the public side, they're fighting with Ukraine.
But Ukraine is just a proxy machine.
So Russia's really fighting with the West.
And so I guess the question is, is Donald Trump with them or against them?
Is he for us or for them?
Or is he just trying to negotiate some sort of...
Shady, buy-time deal so that this whole thing doesn't come crashing down on his head as the guy who talked big and said he could solve the problem, but when it came down to it, he just didn't have the moxie to pull it off.
It's a very tough situation.
Well, I agree with Joaquin, and with you too, at least in part, Brian, you can simplify the situation by pulling out a NATO.
He claimed to be a non-interventionist, but he's acting now precisely the opposite.
I saw no signs in the past that he was caring about U.S. hegemony, but now it looks as though he does, which is bad.
I think if you just consider Bibi Netanyahu to be running our important policy, all the pieces fall into place.
How bad is Ukraine?
Very.
Here it turns out to be guilty of a 2014 Odessa massacre.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled the Ukrainian authorities responsible for the death of 42 anti-coup activists in Odessa in 2014.
They lost their lives when Ukrainian nationalists, supporting the armed takeover in Kiev, torched the city trade union house where the protesters had gathered.
The court concluded the relevant authorities had not done everything they could have To prevent the violence, to stop, and after its outbreak, to ensure a timely rescue for those trapped in the fire in the trade union building.
More than a decade later, Kiev has not named or prosecuted any of the perpetrators.
Instead, of course, it's been to blame on Moscow.
Claiming events in Odessa were a pre-planned well-finessed operation by Russian security services.
Sound familiar?
Moscow had repeatedly called for an investigation and even a special tribunal.
Relatives of 25 victims, as well as three who survived the fire, filed complaints against Kiev with the ECHR.
The court found the Ukrainian police had ignored available intel and relevant warning signs and failed to make any meaningful attempt to prevent the clashes leading to the fire.
They concluded propaganda from Russia had a part, but that it does not resolve Kiev's responsibility.
The nation's law enforcement did not make any real attempt to prevent the violence or stop it.
The deployment of fire engines at the side of fire was deliberately delayed for 40 minutes.
Police did not step in to help evacuate.
Negligence of Ukrainian officials, which went beyond any errors of judgment or mere carelessness.
Authorities also did not make sufficient effort to properly secure, collect, and assess evidence, according to the court.
In order, a criminal investigation against a pro-Western activist suspected shooting at anti-maiden protesters was discontinued four times for identical reasons.
The ECHR has ordered Kiev to pay various amounts of compensation and legal costs.
The claimants are to receive between 12,000 and 17,000 euros, which is between 13,000 and 18,000 U.S., but Ukraine has not committed, and I have no doubt they will not abide.
Meanwhile, and this is an indication of Trump's thuggishness and lack of finesse in foreign policy, Washington.
Then Trump states strongly considering imposing far-reaching sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a peace agreement is reached in the war in Ukraine.
Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely pounding Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I'm strongly considering large-scale banking sanctions, sanctions, and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached.
He added both Russia and Ukraine needed to get to the negotiating table before it's too late.
Russia launched its latest aerial bombardment early Friday with 67 missiles, 194 attack drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
The majority were intercepted, the Air Force claimed, but there was damage to power and gas facilities.
Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine's electric grid, forcing blackouts in cities across the country.
Earlier this week, the Trump admin said it ordered a pause to intel sharing, a move depriving Ukraine of a key tool in fighting Russian forces, as well as suspending weapons shipment.
But since the Saudi meeting, it has resumed.
Asked if he thought Russian President Putin With striking Ukraine in an effort to take advantage of the intel-sharing pause, Trump said, I actually think he's doing what anybody else would do.
I think he wants to get it stopped and settled.
Speaking of reporters in the Oval Office, he added a Putin.
I think he's hitting them harder than he's been hitting them.
I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now.
He did say he believes Putin wants to end the war.
I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine, and they don't have any cards.
The President also said he had a good relationship with Putin, thinks the Russian leader will be more generous than he has to be to end it.
His latest comment, after a fiery office meeting with Ukraine, President Zelensky made the path forward, of course, uncertain, but it's all been ironed out, seemingly.
The U.S. and its allies have been hitting Russia with sanctions and other punitive measures for years, including an effort to cap the price of oil exported by Russia and kick Russian banks out of the SWIFT payments messaging system.
The Russian economy has been suffering from persistently high inflation, labor shortages, and interest rates, an historic high of 21%.
I'm uncertain about those claims.
My impression is the ruble is very strong, BRICS is succeeding, and Russia is making a lot of money.
Trump could still further target Russian oil, including some of the biggest oil producers, such as Rosneff and Luke Oil.
He's faced criticism from Democrats, some Republicans and diplomats, for echoing Putin's talking points about Ukraine and publicly criticizing Zelensky.
Yet in every case I'm aware of, Whatever Putin said was exactly right and accurate and was only objected to by those pushing propaganda.
Zelenskyy told Trump about Putin's history of invading Ukraine despite previous ceasefire agreements.
Since that, his meeting with Trump was regrettable.
Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace.
Unfortunately, He's reneged on that as well.
Meanwhile, Colonel McGregor talks about Trump's incoherent approach to ending the Ukraine war, and I think the colonel has got it exactly right.
Russia would not accept a standalone ceasefire without other concessions because it would only allow Ukraine to regroup and reharm.
One minute, Trump talks about normalizing relations with Moscow in the next.
He warns he can do things financially and be very banned from Russia.
Trump said last week he's strongly considering large-scale sanctions on Russia.
Unless it's willing to play ball and agree to a ceasefire, which in and of itself has zero strategic benefits for the Russians.
McGregor told Judge Napolitano Russia would not accept a standalone ceasefire without other concessions.
And frankly, Because it would only allow Ukraine to regroup and rearm it, frankly.
There's a lot of evidence to suggest that's the case.
McGregor also noted that Trump admin has begun to provide aid and intel again to Ukraine, which is an inconsistent message for Russia.
If you are on the one hand saying, I want a normalized relationship between my country, the United States, and Russia, I'm sincere, I'm serious about it, well then.
Why not stop the aid to people who are absolutely committed to killing Russians?
That ought to be done right away.
Trump last week threatened Russia with new sanctions over recent attacks in Ukraine as the White House continues its efforts to push for a ceasefire after the high-profile meeting in Saudi Arabia.
I think Krakow's got it right.
Joaquin, your thoughts?
Yeah, I mean, the way to...
Go about it.
That's absolutely wrong.
Give Russia more sanctions.
They've dodged all the sanctions that the last few years have thrown at them.
They're better off now than they were even before the sanctions financially, economically.
They've learned to be able to work with...
Third world nations with BRICS nations with China, its allies, India.
And so they've gotten around all these Western sanctions.
So idiot Trump throws more at them.
I mean, it's so ridiculous.
It's like it's being scripted for the West to fall flat on its face in a World War III against Russia that has the superiority militarily.
Far above the NATO.
NATO's a joke.
I don't even know how NATO's even going to survive any of this.
So, yeah, it's a disgrace.
And as far as that European Court of Human Rights, sounds like the ICC, you know, the thing that went after Netanyahu.
Oh, yeah, they got a lot of punch.
You know, it's all talk, no action.
It has no teeth.
So, you know, yeah, they killed a lot of people in Odessa.
The ones that Valerie, you know, she put them in there.
You know, and we knew this in 2014 that they killed all these, basically, the people in Odessa.
We knew that a long time ago.
So, yeah, it's all, you know, hyperbole bullshit.
They're headed straight to...
Yeah, I think Russia's had enough.
Ryan, your thoughts?
You know, sometimes when you're caught up in a very complex quandary, you have to ask yourself the question of, can we cut to the truth?
While that sounds good, it may very well weaken you in terms of your ability to negotiate.
And that's the problem that we've got right now.
If Trump admits the truth that, yeah, these people are pulling his strings too, and he admits that to Putin, you've got something to talk about.
But on the other hand, you're giving Putin an upper hand in that he's hearing and beginning to understand what the truth really is.
And so a lot of all of these problems are all deceptions related to whether or not Trump can tell the truth.
And be trusted to do what he needs to do to make a peace settlement.
Think about being in a very, very tough situation.
Maybe with a detective or maybe with a police officer or something like that.
Incredibly complex circumstances led to a terrible mess.
Do you lawyer up?
Do you go in and sit down and talk with the detective?
Do you let it all work out in court?
Well, court is going to be a nuclear war in this particular situation.
Is there a time to come out and say let's sit down and let's negotiate this?
Well, how can you start a negotiation unless you can just deal with the truth for what it is?
I don't think that Donald Trump is capable of admitting that there are forces beyond his control.
That he cannot push around because of his pure narcissism.
I don't think he's capable of admitting that these people have more power over him than he thought they did or would.
At this particular point in time, it looks like he's quickly becoming sort of the enemy of the Western power influence machine, and they're going to do everything they can to bury him.
It looks like they've told...
Zelensky, that Zelensky's preferred over Trump, and that, you know, he should go ahead and ally himself with France and Britain and Western and quote-unquote Western forces, and Trump's on the out.
Well, at the same time, Trump's trying to fulfill promises to the American people and build a relationship with Putin, yet every word is being, you know, hit with a microscope.
I mean, even Rubio had a call with...
Lavrov the other day, and it went nowhere because none of them could sit down and talk to the truth because it's being recorded.
That's the nature of the mess is that nobody can sit down and say, look, I can't do that because of this.
Let's find something else that we can do to work around this problem.
Oh, by the way, I can't really tell you what the real problem is because that's admitting that I'm not as powerful as I should, and that's going to give you leverage.
This is a mess.
It's a mess.
And messes like this can lead to absolutely disastrous results.
Sometimes you just need to send in a good private investigator and figure out what everybody wants.
Well, it looked like Trump had a handle on the situation when he cut off arms and intel to Zelensky until he complied with a ceasefire and it appeared it was going to work.
And then Zelensky went to Europe and Macron started offering lunatic ideas about a French nuclear umbrella, which turns out isn't even consistent with French law, because French nukes can only be used in France.
And then Zelensky reversed himself and Trump capitulated by restoring aid and intel.
I think it is utterly incoherent in that there's no good reason to believe he knows what he's doing.
Meanwhile...
In furtherance of my hypothesis, he's following the Bibi Netanyahu lead.
Major U.S. attacks in northern Yemen is Trump's house overwhelming lethal force.
Trump threatens to hold Iran responsible for anything the Houthis do.
U.S. airstrikes are hitting the Yemeni capital city of Sinai, with Trump promising overwhelming lethal force once again.
The fog.
The brute.
I champion the Houthis.
They're heroic.
They're magnificent fighters, and they are the only nation that has declared war on Israel.
Trump said he decided to launch decisive and powerful military action against the Houthi terrorists, except they represent the government of Yemen now.
They are not terrorists by anyone's standard except those who don't like what they're doing.
He condemned former President Biden for being pathetically weak, said no commercial americanship had gone through the Suez for over a year.
Like many of the important U.S. declarations of war these days, his declaration came in a post on his social media, was punctuated with all caps, railing about hell raining down on Yemen like nothing you've ever seen before.
Well, I hate to tell you.
Mr. President, the Houthis have seen it all before.
Trump also took time out from announcing attacks on the Houthis to threaten Iran, insisting if Iran continues to support the Houthis and the Houthis do anything to threaten Trump, who has received one of the largest mandates in presidential history of dubious claim,
he would hold Iran responsible and won't be nice about it.
Again, more thuggery.
The U.S. has been backing military action against the Houthis for many years now, dating back to the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen in 2015, predicated on the idea of reinstalling President Abrahman Mansurhati, a close ally of the Saudis,
who resigned a few months before the invasion.
The Saudi invasion led to a protracted war, leaving Saudis and their allies in control of much of the historic southern Yemen, But the Uthis retained the North, including Sinai.
But the U.S. for years has backed the on-again, off-again offensive against central Yemen, trying to push toward Sinai, but that ultimately never happened.
They'd become a bigger deal internationally after the Israelis began the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
They made it a policy of attacking Israeli-linked vessels, picked that up to include commercial vessels, Including any shipping companies, leading major shipping companies to avoid the area.
Under Biden, the U.S., Israel, and U.K. launched airstrikes on the Houthis again and again and again.
Did not once result in halt of attacks on ships.
The Houthis, however, did briefly stop their attacks when there was a ceasefire in Gaza.
Though they've resumed attacks in recent weeks, we said they were blocking humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip.
They reportedly sank two boats in 2024, where Trump claims they cost the U.S. economy billions.
It's difficult to quantify, though the Suez was a popular shipping route, while many now avoid it in favor of safer options.
Meanwhile, 13 dead after U.S. begins its decisive and powerful attack in Yemen.
The U.S. is conducting its air strikes.
Several have taken on.
They claim the strikes are the beginning of an escalated military campaign against the Houthis.
Earlier, a local TV reported an attack on Sinai late Saturday night.
The health ministry said, according to initial reports, the U.S. had left 13 dead and nine others injured.
Meanwhile, Iran's president refuses to talk.
Tells Trump, Do whatever the hell you want.
I like this guy.
Iranian President Echo Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's refusal to talk while being bullied.
Iran's president has ruled out talks with the U.S. while being threatened, according to Iranian state media.
It's unacceptable for us that they, the U.S., give orders and make threats.
I won't even negotiate with you.
Do whatever the hell you want.
Wren said Friday, it's not prepared to negotiate a new nuclear deal with the U.S. after Trump revealed he'd sent an angry letter to the Supreme Leader asking for talks.
On Saturday, Khamenei reiterated his view, saying he would not be bullied into talks with the U.S. as it exerts a maximum pressure campaign.
That was a hallmark of Trump's tenure after he unilaterally withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal.
In an interview with Fox Friday, Trump said the letter was sent Wednesday.
There are two ways Iran can be handled militarily, or you make a deal.
I prefer to make a deal, because I'm not looking to hurt Iran.
They're great people.
Trump said he hoped to negotiate a deal.
Rittering must become a classic carrot-and-stick approach to his diplomacy.
If we have to go in militarily, it's going to be a terrible thing for them, he said.
The other alternative is we have to do something, because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon, even though there's no evidence they're seeking one.
Iran denies it's even developing a nuclear weapon, but it has.
Continue to enrich uranium to higher levels for peaceful energy purposes, particularly after the U.S. withdrew from the nuclear deal, killing the Obama-era arrangement with Iran.
Joaquin, your thoughts?
Well, you know, we knew it would not be long before Trump sets his sights on attacking Iran.
You know, as we keep saying, the thug is at work.
He goes after the Hooties.
Now, the Hooties have managed to wage pretty good leverage with the control over the Suez Canal navigation by so many ships.
You know, just with their drones alone, they've managed to even kick out the Navy.
You know, the US Navy with its warships and aircraft carrier group, you know, so they've had all the leverage, basically, with helping out the poor Gaza people.
They're the only ones, basically, that are directly involved in the war against Israel.
Obviously, we have the...
Hezbollah now also involved in the war against Israel too.
But yeah, this is all going from bad to worse because the thug's tactic is completely about threatening others into submission that will not submit.
And Iran's just saying, you know, why should I talk to you when you're threatening war against me?
You're not approaching me in the right way with any kind of respect whatsoever.
So it's like he's making more enemies.
That's all he's doing is stirring it up.
He's stirring the pot so that Netanyahu does a false flag
I agree completely.
This is an Israeli-driven foreign policy, and it just has...
Thuggish and brutal as the Israelis are to the Palestinian, it bears all their hallmarks.
Brian?
Yeah, well, the Houthis, however you pronounce it, they're no saints either.
Here you have this weird hodgepodge collective outcry with the political slogan of God is the greatest, death to America, death to Israel, curse beyond the Jews.
Victory to Islam.
You have basically a full-on persecution of women and women's rights being violated, a blend of politics, religion, very poor educational standards, and guns mixed in with...
An appetite for political power.
And they've grown from, you know, 5,000 when they first started, I think it was around 2002, 2003, up to about 150,000 right now.
Their allies would be the, you know, the Iranian types, the North Korean types, the Syrian types, the Russian and Chinese.
style of play and Hamas types.
And while their opponents would be, you know, sort of the
States, Israel and others,
They're designated as a terrorist organization, but they do have a tremendous amount of power and a lot of guns, and they pretty much do what they're told since they've become a militarized political branch of...
Yemen.
Yemen, obviously, down there on the border.
Now, on the Iran issue, you know, here you've got basically an Iranian leader that says, do whatever you want.
Do you remember the last leader who was like that?
That was under Hillary Clinton's term or her time as Secretary of State.
That was Qaddafi.
Remember what got Qaddafi killed?
Oh, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and issue a new gold-backed standard, and then next thing you know, he's enemy of the entire world and all the...
Everything comes down on him.
So Iran's taking a chance in fighting the establishment.
The CIA doesn't seem to be able to control the situation over there.
We're getting a lot of political heat on Israel next door to them, and it's well-deserved, and I hope there is.
It's going to turn very, very ugly over there very, very soon unless somebody can get control of the Middle East.
That's why U.S. hegemony is a policy.
Seem to sort of be the nasty, gross, disgusting glue that held the world together and that we were just basically sending plain loads of gold over to anybody out there that threatened us.
But it doesn't appear that that's going to continue to work because of our alignments with Israel.
That seems to be the fundamental problem here.
And it's just got to stop.
They don't belong.
It's not their land.
And Rothschild doesn't.
Have that much power that you can just simply say, here you go, Zionism, you get your own little kingdom here and all these poor people that are surrounding you or, you know, they're inside the land are just going to have to be eliminated.
Sorry, but, you know, it's just not going to, it's just not playing very well right now.
And I suspect that there'll be missiles that begin to fly pretty quickly here in this mess.
Well, Gaddafi was such an humanitarian, he didn't even put up a fight against a NATO attack.
Iran is not going to be passive.
Iran is prepared and can take out Israel, all U.S. forces in the area, and he's just telling Trump, we've had enough of this.
If you're not going to be a diplomat, if you're just going to threaten, to hell with that.
And I agree with Iran 100% on that score.
I say, well done.
Meanwhile, genocide in Gaza with Israeli rapes even of children?
Schilling UN dossier.
Terrifying accusations over war crimes by Netanyahu's army supported by Zainas Trump.
Some Palestinian children are forced to undress in Gaza by Israeli soldiers.
The reconnaissance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the battlefields?
On Thursday.
Some senior human rights investigators who report to the United Nations Human Rights Council said sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians, including children, has been increasingly used as a method of warfare since the attacks of 7 October.
That triggered the war in Gaza.
Thus begins a summary of the dossier published yesterday, 13 March, 2025, on the official website of the UN, which confirms abominable war crimes committed by the Israeli army led by the Zionist regime of Bibi Netanyahu,
and therefore reiterates the validity of international rest warrants issued against him by the International Criminal Court.
The report is a punch in the stomach to the rulers of his allies in the U.S., Donald Trump and Italy, Prime Minister Giorgio Malone, supported by the President of the Republic,
Sergio Mattarella, who had already received an indirect slap from Pope Francis, adamant in condemning the genocide in Gaza.
Although in a reserved prognosis in hospital for a serious form of pneumonia.
Here's the story.
Sinus raids in West Bank, even 90 Palestinian kids arrested by Israeli defense forces despite human rights laws.
While in the West, the killing of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October and sporadic cases of rape never documented in detail.
Because they appear to have been fabricated, have had a vast echo.
The bodies of children and adults tied up sometime beheaded with human organs removed from the black market, found in the graph mass graves of Kahn Yunus, have found space only in counter-information newspapers such as Gospa News.
Now, to those horrors confirmed by unequivocal photos, To the massacre of defenseless children and their mutilation is added the grim practice of serial rape.
Given the seriousness and sensitivity of the complaint coming from the U.M., we limit ourselves to reporting about the article.
Rape increasingly used as a method of war.
Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians.
As part of a broader effort to undermine the right to self-determination, meaning Chris Seduta for the Commission of Inquiry in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Meanwhile, Israeli minister says God sent Trump to help build Jewish settlements in Gaza.
In it, Selman, Israeli minister of environmental protection, said Tuesday, God had sent a Trump admin to advance the goal of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the building of Jewish settlements in the Strip.
According to Haratz, Selman, a member of PM Netanyahu's liquid party, said the government is committed to the idea of encouraging immigration.
And added, she believes God has sent us the U.S. administration and is clearly telling us It's time to inherit the land.
Selman vowed that Gush Katav, a Jewish settlement in Gaza, evacuated in 2005, would return.
It could be a single-family or Trump-style towers, but we'll definitely go back there.
I see no other solution to terrorism.
The answer to terrorism is sovereignty.
Selman said, the only solution to the Gaza Strip is to empty it at Gazans.
In options, she said, is realistic.
Other extremist members of the Netanyahu government have welcomed Trump's call for Palestinians in Gaza to remove permanently for the U.S. to take over the Palestinian territory, including Finance Minister Benzalel Smutrich,
who said earlier this week the plan was taking shape.
Smutrich said the Israeli government, We'll establish a new migration administration to facilitate ethnic cleansing.
If we remove 5,000 a day, he said it'll take a year.
This is a huge logistic operation, not just a bus it takes, and we need to know who is going to which country, what age, and vocational training.
Huge operation we are preparing.
Montmux made the comments after vishing Washington, claimed that sources in the American government agreed.
It's impossible for two million people with hatred toward Israel to remain a stone's throw from the border.
Don, take us out.
We'll get comments from Joaquin and Brian when we return.
Oh, boy!
Take us out, all right.
You took us out here, Jim, on a long run, a terrible way.
We're going to war.
We ought to pray for peace, I think, and hopefully we can revert this.
But right now, it looks like we're going full steam ahead into the wrong abyss.
So this is Truth vs.
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