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May 21, 2025 - Jim Fetzer
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Yes, yes, well...
Well, Keenigovian is on a special assignment, and I've invited Keith Rogers to join us.
Keith is a longtime Barry Savvy political analyst.
He's had his own radio shows.
He's currently co-hosting My Raw Deal on Mondays, and I'm delighted to have him here.
You won't be able to see him because he doesn't have a camera, but you will get his analysis as we proceed.
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Sonar 21. Russia promises to double down if Ukraine does not take the offer on the table.
Here we have Margarita Sarmonyan.
Stories when making the round Ukrainians were outraged when Russian negotiators said Nigerian soldiers must leave the four new Russian regions as part of a ceasefire.
To which the Moscow delegation replied, next time it will be five.
Now a reporter in Istanbul got to ask the Russian side how it really went down.
We didn't say five.
We said eight.
I think that's right.
Remember, the Russian conditions have not changed.
Territorial concession.
Ukraine was withdrawn forces from the entirety of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kyrsten, and Zabrasya Oblast.
Including areas not currently under Russian control.
NATO neutrality.
Ukraine must officially abandon its aspiration to join NATO and adopt a neutral, non-aligned, and non-nuclear status.
Sanctions released.
All Western sanctions against Russia must be lifted as part of the peace agreement.
Demilitarization and denazification.
Future negotiations must include provisions for the...
Demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, concept previously discussed during the 2022 Istanbul talks.
Protection of Russian-speaking citizens.
Ukraine must ensure the right and freedom of Russian-speaking citizens within its territory, a threat to which in the Donbass had precipitated the initial special military operation years ago.
The Russian delegation reportedly told the Ukrainians that their troops must vacate a voloblast of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kyrsten, and Zaprasya before there could be any discussion of a possible ceasefire, and if Russia does not take the deal now, the next Russian offer will be more onerous, for example, increasing the number of voloblasts.
Russia is content to continue the war of attrition because the real threat is not Ukraine.
It's the U.S. and its NATO allies.
Ukraine is merely a pawn to the West, and Russian leaders understand that clearly.
Speaking of attrition, Russians and Ukrainians are exchanging bodies at a ratio of 27 to 1. 27 dead Ukrainians for every one Russian.
That is the definition.
Or should I say a perfect exemplification of attrition?
Look at the bar graphs there.
Initially, the red, the Russian dead, even early on, were greater than the Ukrainians.
But since around April of 2024, the situation has changed dramatically.
And now there are overwhelmingly more Ukrainians dead for every Russian.
I discussed negotiations as well as developments on Palestinian-Israeli front.
This is our host here on the show.
Meanwhile, as rumors of a new offensive by the Russian swell, Putin appoints the new commander-in-chief, a general Ukraine had previously announced it had assassinated.
When a peace negotiate between Russia and Ukraine is still showing a lot of promise, the war continues unabated.
Top Russian negotiator Mandinsky quoted famed French General Napoleon to say, wars and negotiations take place at the same time.
It seems the longer the conflict lasts, the more painful the territorial losses to the Kiev regime will be.
Now President Putin is put in charge of commander.
A young, hungry, accomplished general who, if we are to believe the Ukrainians, has come back from the dead.
Colonel General Andrei Mordelichev has been appointed the new commander-in-chief of Russian ground forces.
He's a former commander of center forces responsible for the conquest of Mariupol and Aveko and surrounding areas.
His nomination is incredibly awkward for the Ukrainians.
Because they claimed previously he had been killed in a strike on an airfield here at the Independence.
Fifth Russian general killed as planes and helicopters shot down Ukraine claims.
From beyond death, he has returned to lead what some suggest could become the final offensive of the war.
Russian channels celebrate.
His elevation brings a very welcome breath of fresh air.
That's one of the finest military minds that the Russian Unified Armed Forces have.
Watch as the Ministry of Defense presents a gold star of the hero of Russia to him for the capture of Vandvika.
Well, isn't this awkward?
Word of advice, anytime you read According to Ukrainian Armed Forces, remember, according to them, Colonel General Murdovich was liquidated in 2022.
Meanwhile, just in, peace talks in Istanbul had left in two hours.
Ukrainians complain of Moscow's demands.
Russian delegation satisfied with the outcome.
Keith, your thoughts, my friend?
Well, good evening, everyone.
I think people need to be more akin to what's really going on here because of statements from Washington.
They openly admitted that this was a proxy war.
When you got Lindsey Graham saying that a dead Russian is worth the money, I mean, I just can't believe that that would roll out of D.C. Of course, we know who Lindsey Graham is, you know.
But none of this would have happened, and it has nothing to do with what Trump or else...
This is all this Brookings Institute, RAND, Atlantic Council.
They've been planning this for years.
In fact, if you go to Brzezinski's grand chessboard and just read the first two pages, it's there.
So this has been planned.
It's all premeditated.
And so when you look at the million, almost five deaths and stuff, this was all caused by the United States, who's acting on behalf of these globalists and stuff.
Because as you mentioned before, Jim, that...
Ukraine was integral to the New World Order.
So, you know, they've caused these deaths, and it's a shame.
And when you think of a million and a half like that, that's more a population in the state of Montana.
So it's just like wiping a state completely off the map here in Montana, you know?
Well said, Keith.
Brian.
Well, I think increasingly this is looking like World War I with a bunch of trench warfare taking place.
Nobody getting anywhere.
As long as Putin can hold strong and protect the territories that he's got and hold his position, he should be getting stronger every day in terms of the diplomacy and negotiation talks.
Now, Ukraine, obviously, is trying to do everything it can to align itself with other Western nations and forces to try to gain political leverage in terms of leaning towards joining NATO.
And getting the special protected status that they're looking to get, because they're obviously afraid that if the West realizes that this thing is over, they've lost it, and Putin's managed to hold out, that Ukraine is going to topple like a bunch of dominoes.
They're internal forces, and the people will probably do everything they can to oust Zelensky instantaneously.
And then on the other hand...
We don't know what the power vacuum is going to look like.
Obviously, the West has ambitions to fill that power vacuum whenever it does open up, but so does Russia.
And I think Russia would have the political support of the Ukrainian people even after what's taken place, because as far as I can tell...
Internally in Ukraine, the people are beginning to really kick, or have been for quite a while, kicking against the goads in terms of sending their children off to die in this pointless Western proxy war that does nothing but support all these Western puppets.
They say he's the great dealmaker.
I don't know that I see it.
He has cut some sort of deal that's got some hidden components to it related to minerals and mineral extraction.
And it seems like Trump has sort of bent the knee on that particular issue.
But other than that, I don't see where Trump is getting any stronger every day.
I see Russia getting stronger every day.
And the appointment of this particular general, he was the one that led the next...
Which, again, it looked a lot like World War I. Everybody fighting over 50 yards of land here and 50 yards of land there, and Russia just maintaining and holding the best.
And it's not that it was even the best they could.
They could have gone all draconian on the Ukrainians, and they didn't because they wanted to keep the Ukrainian people on their side as much as possible, given the situation.
And I think Russia's played a very good play.
Now, remember...
In the big picture, they're the last chess piece that really needs to fall before the whole world topples itself to this Great Reset, New World Order agenda.
So, go Russia.
Hold out.
Very nice.
Very nice.
Indeed, Brian.
Meanwhile, Diplomacy Watch, Responsible State Grab Reports, Istanbul Talk, postponed and in shambles.
The highly anticipated peace talks in Turkey descended to bluster and confusion, shambles, and amiss.
According to reports, were postponed, yet envoys arrived, but mostly used the media, to vocalize frustration with the process.
According to the New York Times, on Thursday, the evening ended without a meeting.
Meanwhile, President Zelensky made the rounds, complaining that Putin declined his offer for face-to-face talks, was instead sending his aide, Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Istanbul talks in 2022, as though Zelensky did not know that heads of state normally only arrive after all the details have already been ironed out as a matter of formality.
Zelensky, nonetheless, called this disrespectful.
Putin unserious, echoing members of Congress, speaking at the political security summit.
For his part, when it was clear there'd be more Putin in attendance, Trump decided to skip the meeting.
I don't believe anything's gonna happen, whether you like it or not, until he and I get together, but we're gonna have to get it solved because too many people are dying.
Science sources in Moscow, the Quincy Institute's Mark, Ipikakis told R.S. that, whether deliberately or not, Zelensky was ignoring some important signals.
The decision to send Mr. Budinsky is not in itself a gauge of the hopes of Moscow, thus, in the upcoming, rather a symbolic and political signal, Russia seeks to pick up where the two sides left off at the end of the 2020 to Istanbul talks.
This offers a window.
albeit an opaque one in some ways, in Russian views on what a viable framework for war termination can look like.
Meanwhile, the truth-seeker, the Istanbul kabuki decoded.
Did Putin really change the game by proposing the resumption of negotiation on the proxy war on Ukraine in Istanbul over three years since the first were scotched by NATO?
It's complicated.
It depends on which game we're talking about.
What the Russian move instantly accomplished was to throw into total disarray the European warmonger and three stooges.
Starmer, BlackRock Chancellor, Le Petit Roy, Cocaine Express.
Irrelevant Europe was not even at the table, except in extensive previous briefing in the low-rent, shabbily-dressed Ukrainian delegation.
Compounded by the noisy, barking threat on the sidelines advocating more sanctions to pressure Russia.
In March of 2022, Kiev could have stopped the war.
Everyone who was there at the time could foresee Kiev would eventually be forced to the table all over again.
So, in essence, we're back to the same negotiation with the same Russian negotiator.
Confident historian Vladimir Bedinsky, heading a allegation composed of pros, but with Ukraine now facing over a million dead, deprived of at least four regions, more on the way, what's left of its mineral wealth de facto, controlled by the U.S., and a horrendous backhole that passes for an economy.
We're talking about country 404 territory.
During negotiation Friday, Medinsky went straight to the point.
We don't want war, but we are ready to fight for a year, two, three, as long as it takes.
We fought with Sweden for 21 years, the Great Northern War from 1700 to 1722, as it's known in Russia.
How long are you ready to fight?
That's a geopolitical military state for Kiev, and there's...
To the last Ukrainian warmonger backers, either you'll convictulate or we're going to hurt you even more.
Turkey, under uber-opportunist Sultan Erdogan, in fact, hosted a PR meeting between Moscow and Kiev and itself with the Ukrainians unleashing a blitzkrieg of infantile tantrums only designed to influence global public opinion.
By sharp contrast, The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, did his best to put a positive spin.
It's involved 2.0.
Dmitriev asserted, achieved a large exchange of prisoners, a thousand on each side.
Ceasefire options were sent by both sides in a continuation of dialogue.
That's not much, but at least they discussed in the same language Russia.
Nothing was lost in translation.
A serious case can be made to propose a resumption under this format was meaningless.
There's no evidence in the rise in both parties might touch a fundamental issue any time soon.
The whole geopolitical strategic equation in Eastern Europe, from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea and beyond, Leading to an indivisibility of security to deal with global repercussions.
That implies whatever track the negotiations follow further, they're an objective impossibility.
Meanwhile, the proxy war in Ukraine will go on.
It also suggests Moscow's security considers the neo-Nazi instrumentalized goons in Kiev, at best a reenactment of the Sixth Army of Paulus, with which you negotiate the end of a battle, but not the end of the war.
Even NATO semi-realists, such a retired commodore, Stephen Jeremy, have been forced to admit, Russia is in the driving seat.
Clueless Europeans appear to believe that the losers should dictate the terms of ceasefire surrender.
All the barking by the European chihuahuas of the war cannot disguise a fundamental Geopolitical military fact.
A massive NATO humiliation.
Trump's humongous problem is that he has to manage it and sell it to domestic public opinion and the global public as some sort of deal he struck with Putin.
It's enlightening again to go back to Grand Master Lavrov, always the uber-realist, in September 2024.
In April 2022, Russia and Ukraine negotiated an agreement in Istanbul.
If that agreement had been observed, Ukraine would have preserved part of the Donbass.
But every time another agreement, always accepted by Russia, is broken, Ukraine shrinks in size.
Back to the great game.
Kiev negotiators eventually admitting, Ukrainian capitulation means a NATO capitulation and a Europe of chaos capitulation.
That's the ultimate anathema for the U.S. ruling class.
Even an ultra-negotiate, carefully managed Ukrainian surrender will be an impossible sell, not to mention Washington, under Narcissus Drowned Trump, acknowledging a strategic defeat.
Because that'll mean the Empire of Chaos losing Eurasia for good.
The ultimate Mackinder-Beersneb nightmare coupled with the consequential solidification of the multi-nodal, multi-polar world.
The Russian-China Strategic Partnership is very much aware of every nook and cranny in this larger-than-life process.
Beyond the current Turkish kabuki, they clearly understand The Big Eurasian Equation.
Beijing is fully aware NATO's real goal was always to confront Russia.
Ukraine was NATO's pawn to take down Russia and then get to China from the West.
The goal of the U.S. ruling elites as they configured their Thalesocratic Empire remains to blockade China from the West by land and sea using Russia.
Then use Taiwan as a staging area to blockade China from the east by sea.
No wonder control of Taiwan is a Chinese strategic imperative.
Ender, McKinder, panic all over again.
The China-Russia strategic partnership can beat NATO hands down.
And Russia by itself is already doing it.
Xi and Putin once again discuss the chessboard in detail in person.
Prior to the victory they parade last week in Moscow, the endgame once again is clear.
The U.S. losing the entire Eurasian landmass.
Ukraine, under these immense geopolitical imperatives, is only a sovereign-deprived pawn in the great game.
As for the tantrum-addle clown in Kiev, he's merely an actor with no authority whatsoever, negotiations included.
He's completely dominated by Ukrainian neo-Nazis who will kill him if and when the war is over.
He merely fronts for them and gets paid off, and that's why, enthusiastically supported by inconsequential London, Paris, and Berlin, he's obsessed to continue a forever war, destroying the very nation he claims to represent.
Brilliant.
Completely brilliant.
Keith, your thoughts?
Yeah, Brian had touched on this a little bit, but if you go back to the treaties of Versailles, all these lines and whatever of statehood, which was drawn after World War I through Wilson and those guys, you know, if I played you that video on Ramsey Clark talking about the Kosovo and Yugoslavia War, this is just a continuation of the ethnic cleansing.
Which in this case is the Far Eastern Russians.
But if you heard Ramsey Clark, all these countries over there, as NATO was preparing to start separating these Baltic states, were living in utter peace.
Muslims, Christians, all this stuff.
It's this redrawing of borders.
And we see this whether it's Turkey or what.
Old empires seem like they're trying to gain what they can to, what do you call it, formulate what's there before they push this world government for territory and stuff, you know.
But the important thing is when you look at how much all these countries were cemented until they started redrawing these borders again through NATO and taking these Baltic states, one of them is in that article.
It's dated January 8th of 2021.
It says far-right protesters in Ukraine demand that Israel apologize for communism.
And then it goes down and says far-right activists call on Israel and the Jews to assume responsibility specifically for the Haldemar.
A famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s.
So again, this is more this ethnic cleansing.
And of course, if you remember the first Soviet government, which Putin spoke about.
But these lines that were drawn, they never satisfied those think tankers and stuff.
But the real brunt of this is when you start dividing people, like this East-West Germany stuff, you know.
Imagine you living side by side, but you can't see your relatives or something because, say, the Berlin Wall and everything.
Well, walls come down and stuff, but what they're doing is, just like immigration here or in Europe, they force people into these different living conditions, into something that they're not used to.
And, of course, your own culture, society, all gets destroyed.
And it's all part of this.
Liberalism type stuff, you know?
Multiculturism.
And this is the crux of it, because when you look at, say, someone that lives in Texas or whatever, it's far different than people who live up here in Montana or North Dakota and stuff, you know?
But when you start redrawing borders, it starts pissing people off.
And this is how they do that, except as this article brings it out about the communism, remember the Nazis were fighting communists.
Which would have been the early Soviet government, you know.
And now what we're seeing there is they've co-opted it to where Zelensky, I've sent the videos there of, think of $350 billion and you're watching a video of the entire resurrection of the Third Reich over there in Ukraine there with Zelensky, who's Jewish, as their president.
When you read that article from the Times of Israel, that human rights groups demand that Israel stop arming neo-Nazis, and you think to yourself, what?
Israel's arming Nazis?
But again, this is in course there because it goes with Ehud Barak, where he had written not too long ago that these so-called Jewish kingdoms and stuff, that they only last about 80 years.
Add that with Kissinger when he said that Israel would cease to exist.
I actually think, James and the rest of the group here, that this is plan B to what we might see in the Middle East in case they do lose Israel over there, that they would have this.
And why it was so important, other than Zelensky, he used to have property in Crimea, was that if you start moving all these Israelis and stuff over to Ukraine, Well, I live in Montana.
I know what it is to be at 30 below weather on these wide-open tundras and stuff.
That's why they want that beachfront property over in Crimea, you know.
So this forced displacement.
Even Putin himself mentions it, that over 2 million in Israel are Russian, you know.
So it's a great dividing.
And it's going to cause problems, and if it doesn't settle down, which is why Mr. Putin wants to end it, he doesn't want a truce or something like that so that Ukraine can rearm.
But what I wanted to say, though, is the article that the CIA created the European Union.
As you were talking there earlier about China and stuff, this is the pivot to Asia.
The U.S. wanted to keep its foot cemented over there in Ukraine, and they were going to use these proxy European countries, which is why they were bolstering up their arms deals and stuff.
And, of course, they said they have to take this from their social programs and stuff, you know, to build this new army type stuff, you know, because they all know NATO's about cooked as it is.
But then, like I say, with the pivot to Asia, I was listening to Brian Burlett, I guess his last name is, where he was talking about the fact of the massive arms buildup that the United States is doing with the Philippines, getting ready for this war-type scenario with China.
And then, final, what I want to say was...
If the United States could have simply just re-industrialized itself over time because they realized they made a mistake.
Remember our strong unions, full-time jobs, paid health care, overtime, sick leave, pregnancy leave, and a paid two-week vacation.
We had industry here.
America was running like wheels there with the Marshall Plan.
It's all gone.
But instead of...
Admitting to their mistake and stuff, what they do, and this is common with Iraq or whatever, they invade a country, they take over its monetary system, they push the country into massive debt, then they default, as John Perkins would say, they default on their debt and then they privatize it by them having to sell off their properties and stuff, which is what we're seeing right now in Ukraine, the distribution of land, minerals, stuff, you know.
Except the United States didn't get what it all wanted there.
So that's where we're at there.
But the crux of the matter is that the civilians, it's always the civilians that pay for all this because, what's her name, Brouwer, where she says, we don't care what the German people think.
Well, that shows you how much the government really cares about its people anymore.
So they're willing to, after they do that fake pandemic stuff, they're willing to take a country to war after they've killed off half of their population with those jabs and stuff, you know.
They're willing to take a country to war like I'd expect you to fight like mad there to do it after your own government just damn near killed you.
Keith, thank you for that, Brian.
Yeah, let's not forget the big picture here, the whole let's fight Nazis and let's fight communists and let's fight socialists.
That's all part of the smokescreen when the real enemy is the military-industrial complex that needs to have its war.
Remember Vietnam?
Of course, we had a big fat fall flag that got us caught up in that money machine.
We went out there and sunk a bunch of money fighting.
Communism, according to Robert McNamara, the old Fog of War documentary, we were fighting communism.
And so we spent all that money until it was Kennedy that wanted to pull us out.
And of course, he was taken out as a result of that.
There was a lot of other stuff, but just recent history.
Remember when we pulled out of Afghanistan?
Oh, that's the end of it.
There's people falling off planes.
It's bad.
Oh, we've left all our military stuff.
Bad Biden.
Well, what happened within months, really weeks afterwards?
Oh, we started it all back up in Ukraine.
And then wherever it opens up next, oh, then it was going to be Gaza with the October 7th false flag.
And then it's Iran, and then it's going to be the Hooties.
This is all the military-industrial complex driving more spending and the politicians jumping on board.
Folks, the big bad enemy here, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, the rest of the military-industrial complex that's producing arms that have to have their perpetual war.
And we can blame it on ideologies and we can blame it on different thought patterns and different techniques and different cultures and different personalities, but that's all just a bunch of crap.
The simple fact of the matter is it's the military-industrial complex, as Eisenhower warned us, that's driving all of this every day, all the time.
And I thought Trump was going to put an end to it.
No, instead he signs a minerals deal and trades $310 million worth of arms back to Ukraine to keep it all going.
So is there a hero in any of this?
No, folks, there's no hero.
It's the military-industrial complex continuing to do what it does with its spin machine trying to make cover in any way possible.
I'm afraid that's right.
And Trump is trying to look like a good guy bringing peace, but it's a facade.
Meanwhile, Trump envoy reveals NATO-Trump deployment plan for Ukraine.
Talk about a tell.
Paul Craig Roberts.
I've been wondering if the Trump peace negotiations were sincere.
The plan revealed by his envoy, Keith Kellogg, indicates they are not.
Putin, Lavrov, and Security Council Secretary Shogun, former Minister of Defense, have all made it clear NATO troops in Ukraine are unacceptable.
Could even result in World War III.
So why has Kellogg supported or arranged a joint statement with the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the UK pledging robust security guarantees for Ukraine consisting of a coalition of air, land, and maritime reassurance forces that could upgrade confidence in any future peace and support the regeneration of Ukraine's armed forces.
This is certainly not the demilitarization of Ukraine the Kremlin requires, and protection by NATO forces is the same as being a member of NATO.
Putin is brought upon Russia by he and his foreign ministers continuously bleeding for a negotiated settlement.
For more than three years, he has avoided a military victory.
The explanation I'm Paul Craig Roberts off, he saw in the conflict what he thought was an opportunity to reach a great power settlement, like a mutual security agreement with the West, he and his foreign ministers sought to achieve during December 2021 and February 2022.
His failure to be prepared for conflict with the West in Ukraine, his withholding, of military victory has produced a dangerous situation.
Putin's tolerance of a never-ending conflict has widened the conflict in a missile strike deep into Russia, the recent closing of all Moscow airports.
This must raise a question among Russians of Putin's efficacy as a war leader.
One result is the West has so little regard for Putin that despite his dire warning, The West is planning to station NATO forces in Ukraine.
It would have been far better if Putin had gone about the business of winning the war instead of trying to use it to negotiate a settlement with the West.
Meanwhile, while Trump speaks of Ukraine peace, Washington opens a second front against Putin.
Further proof of insincerity.
The U.S. House has passed a Megabari Act.
That place is Georgia, now an independent country, once a province of the Soviet Union, under American protection.
Washington has to protect free and fair elections in Georgia from Russia and protect Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity from further Russian aggression, or so they would claim.
This is absolutely indefensible.
There's been no Russian aggression toward Georgia.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Caused by the Bureau of South's arrest of Russian President Gorbachev, Russia under Yeltsin accepted Washington's dismemberment of the Soviet Empire.
Soviet republics, some never having been independent states such as Ukraine, were turned by Washington into new countries.
In 2008, a Georgian army, trained and equipped by Washington, invaded south of Sasha.
A Russian protector had a part of Georgia that did not want to exit Russia.
Russian peacekeepers were killed.
This brought Putin, inattentive as always, back from the Chinese Olympics, to send in the Russian army.
The American-equipped and trained Georgian army was totally defeated within a few hours, and Georgia was in Putin's hands.
What did he do?
He released Georgia to themselves and took his army home.
How is that Russian aggression?
As obvious, the members of the House are completely ignorant and uninformed morons.
America, as Mark Twain observed, elects morons to represent them, and that is what Americans have.
We are governed by morons.
Protecting Georgia from Russia is an excuse for Washington to take over Georgia, and of course, bags full of money will facilitate the process.
So what we have here is Washington's effort to open a second front against Russia.
Adam Dick with the Ron Paul Institute gives us a reliable indication of what's happening.
So what are we to make of this?
On the one hand, Trump is pursuing peace in Ukraine with Russia.
On the other, Washington is preparing another bait, and this time in Georgia.
How stupid are the Russians?
Did they learn nothing from the Minsk agreement?
Is the Kremlin blind to the obvious fact?
Washington is sequencing its war with Russia and China by pulling out of Ukraine, turning it over to Europe, so Washington can focus on China?
This is a policy described by Wes Mitchell in Foreign Affairs.
Why has no one but myself and John Helmer commented on this revealing article?
Keith, your thoughts?
Yeah.
I've been proposing that question there on Twitter.
We know what they're doing in Georgia there, as you mentioned, Second Front.
Moldova is another one, but no one can show anywhere where the United States owns deed to the planet.
And they're pushing us through that.
I hate to use the plurality of us, but anyway, they're pushing the United States, who they're using, as you mentioned, or Brian mentioned there, the military-industrial complex.
They're using that, they use all these falsehoods to get these young American boys, like accepting all these, say, Muslims and stuff like that, and equity and tolerance and stuff, but you can still hate Russians, you know?
I mean, I get so sick and tired of this, the way they run this around there, because they, well, as John Stockwell, former CIA, once said, he's got a wonderful book called In Search of Enemies.
The United States, to fuel that military-industrial complex, Needs to have a constant enemy.
So it doesn't matter what skin color you are or what like that, whether they want to call you a dictator.
They always use something.
And of course, the U.S. wants something out of it, which is usually the resources, oil, minerals, whatever like that.
And it does no benefit.
Just like when Goldman Sachs came out and they started talking about for Ukrainians, they were digging up old graves to put other bodies in.
I mean, no respect for the dead or any of those.
And these are the same ones that are supposed to have allegedly fought for their country.
They can't even be buried in their country.
Nice points, Keith.
Brian?
Well, I would say the neocons are pulling the strings on Trump so that Trump can get the components that he needs.
From his domestic agenda, it seems that the Republican Party is divided on the Ukraine-NATO issue, which is why we can't get out of the way.
So that's why Putin did direct talks in Istanbul with the Ukrainians to get the Americans off the table because they were muddying up the waters in achieving any sort of peace.
And Keith is correct in terms of...
The Minsk agreements.
Does Russia have no memory of what the Western people will do to achieve their goals?
Obviously not.
It's a very fine line that's being fought.
And I can tell you the one thing that doesn't seem to be playing in anybody's mind, and that's the death.
And life of any of the soldiers that are involved with this, nor does the political will of any particular populace seem to play in any agenda whatsoever.
Sometimes when doing these shows, I feel like I'm talking in the wind because it seems that there's nothing that we as a population can do other than expose the machine for what it really is on a day-to-day basis.
And if we were to get critical mass with enough people to begin to realize that this is nothing more than our local representative gaslighting us on why they should sign the next spending bill and why we should continue to allow this, we ought to be hunting these people down and letting them know in no small terms that we need to stop the spending completely.
The problem is...
It's entirely the Republican Party that's involved in keeping it going.
Entirely.
And the Democrats, obviously, they get their payola, too, just like any good puppet would.
So how are we going to stop it?
We just got to keep exposing it for what it is.
Good, good, good.
Can I add something there, Jim?
Go right ahead, Keith.
I found it.
How they buy these politicians off, it's like the big corporations, whether it's an arms manufacturer, pick state, whatever.
What they do is they get these lobbyists to go in there and talk to their politicians and say, hey, look, you need to back us on whatever it is.
And if you don't, we're going to pull 35,000 jobs out of your state.
And that's how they blackmail them because these states depend on the massive wealth from the taxes, from these high-paying jobs of arms industry, the people that have to register their RVs, their boats, all this stuff.
This is how they do it.
It's like economic blackmail here at home to facilitate these wars over wherever.
And then, of course, they use the poor kids that normally when you're young and they were like, Ed, if you're not out dating and stuff, you've got a job.
And they rip those kids away from that under the threat that, you know, like someone wants our freedoms.
Right, right, right.
Well, the kids are really turning against the war, turning against Israel, as indeed is the whole world illustration.
Half a million marched to Downing Street.
To urge Starmer to cut ties with Israel.
An estimated 600,000 marched through central London to Downing Street on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the arrival of the Jews in Palestine.
The demonstration began at embankment before passing Big Ben, crossing the river to Waterloo, to Downing Street, where the Prime Minister resides at number 10. It was organized by Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Alaska, the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War, the Palestinian form of Britain, and other pro-Palestine groups.
I applaud them.
Protesters from around the country, including even Wales and Northern England, stopped the war, said the demonstration was attended by an estimated 600,000, the largest demonstration since November of 2023.
The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign said the march was intended to mark the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba.
And demand our government take action to end the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land, which Donald Trump continues to support.
A small contingent of pro-Israeli protesters stood on the Strand chanting, "Terror supporters off our streets!" Indian flags were being seen waved alongside of Israelis outside Danoneen Street.
The pro-Palestine marchers heard from speakers including M.P. Epsa, Begum, Palestinian Ambassador Zan Zumlat, and historian William Dalrymple.
Saturday's protest came as Israel continues its blockade on Gaza, now on day 77. Bombings have increased, and the death toll has surpassed 53,000 since 7 October of 2023.
During the Nachman 48, Zionist forces had killed thousands of Palestinians, destroyed hundreds of villages, forcibly expelled 80% of the Palestinian population from their homeland.
After more than a year of relentless violence, the newly created State of Israel captured 78% of historic Palestine.
The remaining 22%, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, were occupied by Israel 19 years later.
And remain under Israeli military rule.
I was hoping to have here a video cut of the student here at NYU protesting the war, which received a huge reception from the students.
Meanwhile, Israel has already lost the Gaza war, just doesn't know it yet.
In the latest episode of the TV game show, The White House on Hoover.
How to repurchase a U.S. president appears fleetingly, as if the hosts were reading from the right script.
Trump said in Saudi Arabia, liberal interventionism was a disaster, that's true.
He said you can't break and remake nations.
Post-Soviet Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen are each testimony to that.
He stopped bombing Yemen and reversed decades of sanctions on Syria, blocking in the process two of Israel's key routes to regional dominance, dividing Syria and starting a war with Iran.
I say fleetingly, as Iran has been through this script many times before in negotiations over its nuclear program, what a U.S. president promises and what he delivers are two different things.
Not least of those blindsided by Trump's announcement alting Syrian sanctions or zone officials at the Treasury.
It turns out the cessation of the multi-layered sanctions piled on Syria since the U.S. first put the country on its list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1979 is not so easy, nor will it be rapid or consequential.
Comprehensive.
There is a Caesar system.
Civilian Protection Act, which requires Congress to overturn it, although Trump would suspend parts for national security reasons, the sanctions themselves amidst executive orders and statutes could take months to unwind.
There is scope for more handbrake turns.
This particular episode shall cause its sponsors, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, staggering sums of money, more than $3 trillion and counting.
Which is high even by the standards of the Gulf.
There was $600 billion from Saudi Arabia, $1.2 trillion deals with Qatar, a personal $747 for users present, a tower for Trump's son Eric in Dubai, and more to come, including cryptocurrency deals with the Trump family firm, World Liberty Financial.
The richest Arabs were competing with one another to lay tribute.
At the feet of Washington's latest emperor.
While the orgiastic display of wealth was taking place in Riyadh and Doha, Israel, was marking the anniversary of the 48th Nakba by killing as many Palestinians as it could in Gaza.
Wednesday was one of the bloodiest days since Israel's unilateral abandonment at the ceasefire.
Nearly 100 were killed.
Bunker-busting bombs dropped near the European hospital in Kanyunas.
A strike aimed at Mohamed Senwar, the de facto leader of Hamas in Gaza.
His death has not been confirmed.
Like the assassination of Lake Hamas leader Ishmael Hania in Tehran, Israel was targeting a key negotiator at the time it was reporting to negotiate.
My source would tell me, just before Israel resumed its attacks on 18 March, the political leadership of Hamas abroad Had accepted a deal with the Americans, that would have led to more hostages released in return for an extension of the ceasefire, but with no guarantee of an end to the war.
But Sinwar rejected it accordingly.
It did not proceed.
If indeed Sinwar is dead, it will take time to reestablish secure communication within the mosque, with one of several who could now step into his shoes.
His attempt at her actual killing had proved, if more were needed, that Netanyahu has no intention of bringing the remaining hostages home alive.
A hostage deal needs Hamas forces to retain command and control.
A guerrilla fight needs none.
Netanyahu's mission at Gaza to starve and bomb as many of the 2.1 million out of the enclave as it can has become so clear, so obvious.
Not even the misnamed international community can now ignore it.
Tom Fletcher, UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, told the Security Council, for those killed and those whose voices are silenced, what more evidence do you need now?
Will you act decisively to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?
French President Emmanuel Macron.
Called Israel policy in Gaza shameful.
Spanish PM, Pedro Sanchez calls Israel a genocidal state.
While speaking in parliament, knowing that Madrid does not do business with such a country.
And interestingly, Spain has suffered a blackout that has caused a lot of economic and other difficulties as a consequence, I have no doubt.
Not one public word of condemnation about Israel behavior was spoken to Trump from the lips of Mohammed bin Salman, the grandparents and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, nor from UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed or Qatari Emir Sheikh bin Hamid al-Thani.
The charade in the Gulf was a massive betrayal for Palestinians, but as they know only too well, Arab rulers...
Have a track record of abandoning them.
In the past, they wanted a few decent months or years after a military defeat to do so.
It took a while after the 1967 war for Arab leaders to talk about a peaceful solution for the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Today, they are abandoning the true heroes of the Arab world as they are being starved and bombed to death.
Hamas and Hezbollah have both been severely weakened.
Though I question whether the blows they received are terminal.
But Hamas is still fighting on the ground, as an under-reported Israeli military death toll in Gaza continues to show.
No single guard has given up their hostage to save their own life.
The spirit of resistance in Gaza has not been defeated.
The barrels with another historic defeat of colonial forces, the French and the Americans, have only grown stronger.
In one sense, there's no comparison between Gaza and the Vietnam War.
The force Israel uses today in Gaza dwarfs that, used by JFK, LBJ, and Richard Nixon, the three presidents whose terms were doomed by Vietnam.
Not really for JFK, who was going to pull our forces out before the situation got more serious, but was stopped from doing so by a...
In a span of eight years, the U.S. dropped more than 5 million tons on Vietnam, making it then the most bomb place on Earth by January.
Israel had dropped at least 100,000 tons on Gaza.
Put another way, the U.S. has dropped around 15 tons per square kilometer of Vietnam, while Israel has dropped 275 tons per square kilometer of Gaza, a figure higher by a factor of 18.
That being said, other points of comparison hit you between the eyes about a war that scars the U.S. to this day in the current war in Gaza, which Netanyahu is set to deepen by attempting to reoccupy the territory permanently.
The current generation of war watchers can only experience a crushing sense of deja vu.
When they watch painstakingly complete the conflict in the new miniseries, Turning Point, the Vietnam War.
The since-acknowled futility of the U.S. military campaign against the Viet Cong is mirrored and amplified by the Israeli military's attempts to wipe Hamas off the mat.
As U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War expanded and Washington had to drop the pretense More than 16,000 troops and pilots were advising the South Vietnamese Army.
It became clear to both Washington and Saigon they were going to have to push the Viet Cong out of the countryside and regain government control of around 12,000 hamlets.
Probably nothing turned villagers in South Vietnam against the U.S. and their own government in Saigon faster than the strategic hamlet program.
These were fortified settlements where villagers, if it turned out of their ancestral land by U.S. troops, would be forced to resettle.
In the jargon of the newsreel of the times, the villagers could start a new life purged of the communists.
As James Bass, author of Vietnam America, the war comes home, put it.
You have these entire regions that would be declared a...
A war zone that was open for attack.
Closely allied was another assumption of the U.S. pacification program, the father of today's counterinsurgency.
Born out of the problems U.S. soldiers had, distinguishing civilians from combatants, the solution lay in treating any Vietnamese encountered in a declared free fire zone as the enemy, opening fire without...
Requiring authorization from the chain of command.
As one former U.S. Marine said, we were taught all Vietnamese were free to leave.
All that stayed were part of the infrastructure of the Viet Cong.
You just hunt for people and you kill them.
And you can kill them however you want.
Commanders were expected to come back with a high body count.
All of those killed, women and children included.
We're treated as dead communists.
I was told that if we killed 10 Vietnamese for every American, we would win, another vet said.
Villagers starved in their Viet Cong free encampments because they lost access to their paddy fields.
The main aim, however, was not to feed them, but to clear the countryside.
The result was that villagers fled, and the Viet Cong came ever closer.
To the cities, at one point, up to 70% of the villagers who volunteered to join the Viet Cong were women.
Tran Thái Yên Ngọc from the National Liberation Front said, they called us the Viet Cong, but we were the Liberation Army.
We were all comrades and consider ourselves one family.
When one person fell, five to seven others stepped forward.
There are two other similarities between today and 1968, the protests and vicious levels of repression on U.S. campuses, and the extent to which American and Israeli militaries felt they had to dehumanize their enemy before committing atrocities.
After the 1968 Miley Massacre, in which around 500 unnamed innocent civilians were killed in a span of a few hours, the American commander General William Westmoreland said, life is cheap to the Vietnamese.
The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner.
Israeli leaders go much further than Westmoreland did.
They call Palestinians human animals.
Indeed, all this history from decades ago sounds eerily pertinent to the present day in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
In an interview on 28 October 2023, only weeks into the war, Georia Island, a retired major general reserve, said Israel should not allow aid into the territory.
The fact that we are breaking down in the face of humanitarian aid to Gaza is a serious mistake.
Gaza must be completely destroyed.
Terrible chaos.
Severe humanitarian crisis.
Cries to heaven.
I'm sorry to say, that's the way it was then and remains today.
Keith, give us your thoughts.
Yeah, well, like I say, there's no different than Ukraine.
The ethnic Russians over there, you can't speak Russian.
Zelensky passed a law that you can't even talk to Russians, which is why they ask why or how is there going to be a peace talk.
You know what?
I was going to say, one of the best things today in modern warfare has been apps like Twitter and Telegram and stuff because you get live footage.
When you watch U.S. soldiers under contract or whatever they want to call it, paramilitary, over in the Kursk region crying like babies as they know they're about ready to get hit by a Russian drone.
Well, they're illegally in Russia.
Kursk, you know.
And I was going to say here, what I thought was interesting is reading the Pentagon Papers.
They thought that they could get the VC to capitulate by saturation bombing.
But in fact, it drove them underground.
And so there's a little bit of humor on there.
I thought when I saw that video of this so-called underground of the pyramid and stuff, why didn't Israel use that around these hospitals and stuff where they claimed all these Hamas tunnels were and stuff?
There never was.
And of course, the latest hospital they just bombed over there, they claimed again that there was an Hamas tunnel underneath it.
But anyway, back to this modern warfare.
Do you realize how many Israeli soldiers are not showing up?
And those that have, that you've seen them before dancing around, having a good time, and now they show videos of them, the same people with their legs blown off or something, or arms missing.
So I think that's why recruitment levels are going down in the entire world, is because people have direct access to what's on the battlefield, especially with this drone footage.
And I'll sum it up this way.
Watching these old World War II reels there.
You can see the fighting off in the distance of the bombing and stuff like that, and suddenly you hear a world above you and you realize...
That even though you're 50 miles from the front line or 30 miles from the front line, with the new drones and satellite feeds, you're a target.
It doesn't matter where you're at.
And this is a warning to these kids with these video games, which is a training spot for them.
And I asked my little friend here, are they out with the drone jet?
And he says, they're just coming out.
See, so these video games are another one of these tools that they're trying to implement there so these kids get used to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, the video games are priming them for being drone operators.
Absolutely right.
Brian, your thoughts as we conclude the first hour?
Yours.
You know, all of this chatter about all the different wars reminds me of the massive failure of the academic system to prepare.
You know, it used to be that the American University was the original battleground for thought, thinking ideas related to picking back against the government, picking back against the perpetual wars.
It was the universities that drove the mental defense of America.
Yeah, it was the heart and center of where the anti-war movement would develop in thought.
Thought about life and death, thought about the war industry, thought about what it is that we're actually doing.
It seems like the American University has dropped the ball.
And just to give you a feel for it, over the last 30 years, more than 70% of university research projects have been funded by the Pentagon.
So if the Pentagon is out there driving these university projects to make sure that each university is getting their money from the war, and then the media industrial complex is also in on it, so the university is captured.
The media industrial complex is captured.
And we no longer have independent, free-thinking Americans that can really think through these issues.
We found ourselves in a position where we are so weak that we don't have any intellectual or thought leadership developing that's anti-war anymore.
What happened to the Democrat of the 60s?
They're gone.
They're dead.
They don't exist anymore.
So, I don't...
I don't know that there's a lot of hope unless we can get the kids involved.
But what's interesting, Heath mentioned Call of Duty.
Well, it was just recently revealed by some online researchers and gaming researchers that Call of Duty had built in a special pack in one of their updates recently where they were recording the eye movements during the game and sending the information off to the industrial...
The military industrial complex to analyze, to figure out how people reacted to different scenarios and what would happen to their minds when those scenarios took place.
So yes, the gaming industry, the universities, it's all preparing everybody to increase the demand for more war products and services to keep the military industrial complex happily funded up until it's the thing.
And just to remember, we take on Brillions of debt every year to keep these wars going.
Debt to keep these wars going.
Can I add one thing?
If you remember the video, The Last Starfighter?
This is the same thing.
The video games are being used to train a starfighter to go to another galaxy like that.
This other stuff here about the fact that how these games themselves are being used, when you mentioned that earlier, I was thinking, what's the difference in what's being done at these colleges right now to that of Kent State, except they haven't started shooting yet?
Hey, thank you.
Thank you, Don.
Take us out.
Yeah, not shooting yet, but boy, we had a hot show this first hour here on May the 20th, Tuesday, 2025.
Wow.
I mean, this is getting pretty heavy, folks.
And we want to come back for the next hour because we might have some answers.
So we look forward to that.
And you want to share this widely because you ain't going to hear stuff like this, truths like this, anywhere else.
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