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Dec. 16, 2024 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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LtCol Karen Kwiatkowski : Who Is Biden Fooling?
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Hi, everyone.
Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
Today is Tuesday, December 17, 2024.
Our dear friend, Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, joins us now.
Colonel Karen, always a pleasure.
Thank you very much for joining us.
I want to spend a little time exploring your thoughts on the government lying.
You had a great piece at Judge Knapp and elsewhere.
On that subject matter.
But before we go there to the breaking news in Syria and in Moscow, first to Moscow, where General Igor Kirilov has just been, well, a few hours now, assassinated and Ukrainian intel has claimed credit for it.
Is it odd that Ukrainian intel would claim credit for it?
Would Ukrainian intel have done this without the permission of their masters in the CIA?
Yeah, I don't think it's odd, given their behavior, which in the ending days of the Biden administration, they see the writing on the wall.
They have for a long time with Trump.
So they've really been pushing to escalate or to cause escalation, to cause Putin to overreact, which is something he hasn't done very...
I don't think he's done it at all.
And this is definitely, it looks like, aimed at getting an overreaction of some type from Russia so Zelensky can justify his demands of NATO and of the United States.
So taking credit, I think he's blatantly inviting a harsh response, which he is probably going to get.
This time, I think.
Does the CIA have an involvement there?
Well, we know that when they fly ATACAMs and other missiles into Russian territory, they're being guided by American surveillance, American targeting.
You know, all this is part of what they do.
So, you know, we said, oh, we don't want them to do that.
But we did want them to do that, and they did it, and they did it with our help.
So it's not...
It's not unreasonable to expect, and it's not unreasonable at all for the Russians to suspect that the CIA assisted with this.
It appeared to be pretty well-planned, professional, and of course filmed, and instantly the film was shared, you know, everywhere.
It has the smell of...
Could you imagine how we would react if the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or one of those senior four-stars The
American response to the American government tradition It's not one of restraint when we are attacked.
You know, we don't restrain ourselves very well at all, but we are rarely, we are rarely, rarely have events like that on our own territory that is conducted by a foreign government.
We imagine that it's going to happen, but it doesn't happen.
When we get something like a 9-11, where they can clearly point a finger at some enemy, the American rage and the political Opportunism in Washington is unrestrained.
It's not very wise.
It's violent.
You know, this is how we would react.
And in fact, we don't give, well, we don't understand Russia.
And that's pretty clear.
But we also don't give, we do understand human nature.
And Putin has been restrained.
He's been patient.
He has continued to knock on the door and communicate.
Even when the door is slammed in his face, even when we have our fingers in our ears, he continues to try.
So maybe we'll learn something from that.
But it is not the American way.
No.
You mentioned his restraint.
Here's a very interesting clip from him.
This is yesterday, December 16. He was speaking to his senior defense establishment, although there are some young people in the audience.
Today, the military and political situation in the world remains difficult and unstable.
Bloodshed in the Middle East and high conflict potential remains in a number of other regions of the world.
We see that the current U.S. administration, almost the entire collective West, does not give up trying to maintain its global dominance and continues to impose its so-called rules on the world community.
Which at the same time changes over and over again, distorts facts because it is convenient for them.
But in fact there is only one stable rule, no rules for those who do this, for those who consider themselves at the head of the whole world, those who representatives of the Lord on earth, although they themselves do not believe in the Lord and wage hybrid wars against undesirable states and implement a policy of containment,
including in relation to Russia, the desire to weaken our country to cause a defeat for us.
The United States is SEND advisors and thereby signaling a future escalation of the conflict.
It's a fair assessment.
We don't see ourselves like that.
I think maybe some critics of American foreign policy would agree with that.
But the average American, he's not happy with this American foreign policy, but he doesn't necessarily see us as not having rules and not applying those rules to our own actions.
And I think Americans really don't think of our government as godless.
There is still very much a sense that America stands for something good.
We've been indoctrinated in this for decades and decades.
So, yeah, we can learn something from listening to him.
He's, again, remarkably restrained.
And in that restraint, he is very careful.
He tries to say what is true and what is provable.
He's very different than some of our politicians, including Trump.
Trump will wax eloquent.
And go way off on the deep end and say things that are totally not verifiable.
I've never seen Putin do that.
He very much is conscious of trying to communicate honestly.
Now, people say, oh, he's an old KGB agent.
Why would he do that?
Well, I don't know why he would do that.
I'm telling you, he speaks the truth.
Chris, can you put up the full screen about the general's assassination?
So this is from the Standard, which is a British publication.
Russia vows revenge on Ukraine after a general assassinated in Moscow with e-scooter bomb.
Ukrainian prosecutors had charged General Igor Kirilov in absentia over the alleged use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine.
Now, Karen, according to Ritter, There's no evidence of the use of chemical weapons, and the Russians follow the treaty banning them.
This is one of Zelensky's stunts.
Also, according to Scott Ritter, the person in charge of seeking their revenge is Dmitry Medvedev, who is the former prime minister and former president of Russia, now the deputy.
Whatever, in charge of national security.
But far more aggressive than Putin.
Woe to these people if they catch them.
For sure.
Well, it is true.
What we're saying is true.
And the chemical, if you want to say there's some chemical weapons used by Russia, tear gas, for sure, and another crowd control type of gas, which is not, it's not really considered chemical weapons under that.
I mean, every European city uses that against their protesters.
So, yeah, there's been no chemical weapon use that anyone has verified, except that Ukrainians are claiming this, of course, but there's not that.
But the other thing about this general that they got, that they assassinated, he was also very familiar with...
I forget the name of the company.
The one that we don't talk about very much that Hunter was invested in.
And also some of the activity of the other...
Burisma?
Well, it was Burisma also, but there's a bio...
There was a biological company, and I wish I should have written down the name.
Hunter was invested in it, and it was actually doing some American contracts relating to these...
Biological research stations that are scattered throughout Ukraine and that, you know, our favorite neocon in the State Department, Newland, you know, explained to Congress, yes, we have those and we don't want them to fall in the hands of the Russians.
So we definitely have them.
We've definitely admitted that we have them.
And there were contractors that worked in some of these.
And one of these contractors was invested in...
That Hunter invested in this.
And so there's a Biden connection here, a very embarrassing one, which is probably why Biden pardoned his son very broadly for crimes not named, because there are some crimes that are going to be embarrassing.
This guy was on top of this.
This general was definitely aware of it.
And I think this has the stench of an American silencing operation, which, of course, the CIA has done.
Chris just found this in the Washington Post, so I'll read it literally.
Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca Investment Fund.
Finance the Pentagon's military biological program in Ukraine, said Igor Karolov, that's the general that was assassinated, head of the radiation, chemical, and biological defense forces of the Russian Armed Forces.
This is from today's Washington Post, commenting on the general's murder.
Yeah.
So you are, as usual, Colonel Kwiatkowski, onto something.
Well, I mean, it's sad, but these kinds of things are kind of predictable.
If you are looking at these things, you always have to ask those questions because we've seen it in the past so many times.
It's kind of a joke about Hillary Clinton and her enemies.
That's humorous.
I don't have evidence against Clinton killing off all her enemies or having them done away with.
But we think in these terms, and we do see it happen.
Frequently.
Whistleblowers are disappeared.
People will fire several shots and it'll be a suicide.
So, yeah, we have these things.
And the whole world sees this.
It's not secret.
And this is a concern.
Yeah, it's a concern.
I don't know.
I definitely do believe.
I know that the Russians will retaliate.
How they will, I don't know.
Medvedev, you mentioned him.
He's not like Putin.
He's actually like...
It's the opposite of Putin in many ways.
And he's a straight shooter, but he writes and speaks in a way that's kind of humorous.
And I think that hides.
He's a tough guy.
So, yeah, not good.
In a recent column that you wrote at Judge Knapp and elsewhere, I think you were channeling Friedrich Nietzsche.
Somebody you and I agree with on a lot, but on this we do.
Everything the government has, it has stolen.
Everything the government says is a lie.
Yeah.
You really did quite a job on the Biden administration and on others for their infidelity to the truth.
Why does the American government accept these lies?
You know, my column this week, I just finished it and got it back from my editor.
It's about the drones over New Jersey.
I saw this drone.
There was one right over my farm.
I don't want to sound paranoid that they were looking at me, but I looked at it.
It looked at me, and then all of a sudden it took off anyway.
Oh, my goodness.
The government is insisting, don't worry.
It's nothing.
P.S. We don't know about it.
Nobody believes that the government doesn't know about it.
No.
No, we really, we were really, I mean, where we are.
In this country, as Americans, and I don't care what Democrat, liberal, whatever you want to be, no one really believes the government.
Occasionally, we might believe our favorite politician, but nobody believes what the government says anymore.
And when both opposing parties both don't agree, this is a majority rejection of the credibility of our government.
And it also means that when the government tries something, To enforce its will, to cope with a major national concern, whether it's going bankrupt, World War, martial law, whatever it is they have to do,
the people are not going to be as cooperative and as submissive.
It's very clear that the government knows from COVID experience days, from their experience with this masking and this mandates and the destruction of the economy and limitation of our freedoms, It's very clear they're not doing that again for the next one.
They overstepped.
Too many people have learned to have contempt for government rules of law.
And, you know, back to what Putin said about rule of law.
Putin's talking about international rules, the rules-based order, whatever that is.
And he points out that we don't care about that.
If it's our friends doing it, I mean, you can't...
You can't, you know, forcibly relocate people, kill men, women, and children who are unarmed because you want their land.
That's called, you know, it's called a genocide.
It's called a clearing out of population.
Anyway, there's lots of rules against that.
And when Ukraine did that in the dumbass...
We were for it.
And when Israel does it on a day-to-day basis, we are not only for it, we make excuses and we fund it and we help arm them and replenish their stores as they murder these people.
So there's an example of a rule that is not followed when it's in Washington DC's interest.
But when someone else does it...
Or anyone else does it.
Or if it happens elsewhere and we think we'll get points, we say, oh, no, that's really awful.
We can't have that.
That's terrible.
So guess what?
The whole world sees us as liars.
But the problem is, and Americans don't pay attention to foreign policy so much.
They don't see the hypocrisy as much.
But when we start seeing that hypocrisy at home, which we are frequently with so many things, and this drone, this drone, whatever it is, is a prime example.
Then we don't believe our government.
When we don't believe our government, it doesn't matter who you vote for.
It doesn't matter.
Oh, I believe in the Constitution.
I'm a good American.
I'm afraid of cops.
No, you're not afraid of cops anymore when you don't believe in it.
And we will become a country that is collapsing.
We already have a lot of signs of some interior collapse of our society, some spinning apart.
But that will get a lot worse because a country is nothing more than people who believe The same thing about themselves.
And we don't.
And we don't trust the government that tells us.
The government narrative is a joke.
I mean, there's literally, if someone says government narrative, there's a punchline to follow.
We know this.
And it's not just people who spend their time criticizing the government.
It's really just about everybody.
And you can go on TikTok and you can go on Facebook Reels and see what people are producing.
And there's a contempt.
For their government.
Honestly, I would love to see a draft.
Just for one day.
So they can see how many of us are not going to participate in that.
Simply not going to participate.
Because we don't take the government seriously.
Here's a clip that will raise your blood pressure.
From December 1913.
Excuse me, December 2013.
By a person no longer living, who might very well have been the anti-Putin.
I won't even tell you who it is, but you'll know in a heartbeat.
Cut number 14. People of Ukraine, this is your moment.
This is about you, no one else.
This is about the future you want for your country.
This is about the future you deserve.
A future in Europe.
A future of peace with all of your neighbors.
The free world is with you.
America is with you.
I am with you.
And the destiny you seek lies in Europe.
Ukraine will make Europe better and Europe will make Ukraine better.
Before you comment on that, we have another one for you.
It's a little shorter.
The lighting is not as good, but it is clearly Senator McCain filming one of the demonstrations.
There might be a million people there.
It's hard to tell, but you'll see a mass of humanity in Maidan Square two months later in February of 2014.
Cut number 15. Have you seen American stuff down there anywhere?
There'll be one somewhere.
Now, we used AI to lighten up the face.
You could see it's John McCain, and we used AI to enhance the female voice in the background that says, do you see an American flag?
And Senator McCain says, you'll see one.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah.
You know, McCain, I mean, what a icon of American foreign policy for really 30 or 40 years.
Putin talks about containment and about not just Western domination, but the American pursuit of global domination.
Everything McCain said to that crowd, every single phrase, the opposite was true.
Ukraine will be better.
Ukraine will have peace with its friends.
Ukraine has a future in Europe.
None of this, every bit of it is a lie, and it's a lie.
That the American government, partly because of McCain and partly because McCain was channeling the rest of the DC neocons in this, this was their plan.
You know, I am all about change.
And if you have to fight for change, that's all good.
But if you wear a suit and you're going to tell other people to die, you better be in front of that line.
And, you know, McCain never did that.
He gets credit for, I don't know, how many airplanes did he crash before they finally made him stop flying in the Navy.
I think it was three.
You know, he has the soldier cred, I guess you could say, but none of these guys are willing to personally sacrifice.
They're playing a game with other people's lives.
And the Ukrainians today.
Maybe a year ago, maybe two years ago, the Ukrainians knew.
They understood exactly what was happening.
They're getting not just raped, but they're getting trampled, abused, and destroyed.
Their property, what's left of Western Ukraine, will not be owned by Ukrainians.
Most of it is not owned by Ukrainians.
It's owned by the same people that own half the houses in this country.
Americans are not so happy about that.
We have this grand corporate purchasing of all the homes and you can't afford them because BlackRock buys them or whatever.
That may or may not be true.
But in Ukraine, it is the life that they have now.
And when peace comes, they will be desperately impoverished.
They will not be empowered.
They're going to be, and they're not going to be welcomed into Europe.
I mean, Europe has a hard enough time with small economies like Greece and others, you know, and Germany can't.
Germany is collapsing.
They can't carry everybody.
This is nuts.
And anyway, I hope more people will recognize this.
Thank you very much for your comments, Colonel Kortowski.
Karen, always a pleasure.
We will probably see each other next in the new year.
Merry Christmas.
And a Happy New Year to you and your family and with deep and profound gratitude, not just from me and the team, but from all the viewers who've grown accustomed to your face and to your thoughts.
Yeah, well, thank you so much.
Merry Christmas to everybody.
Thank you.
All the best to you.
Coming up tomorrow at 12 noon, Matt Ho at 1 o 'clock in the afternoon, Colonel McGregor at 2 o 'clock.
Aaron Maté at 3 o 'clock.
Phil Giraldi.
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