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Aug. 18, 2025 - Lionel Nation
17:57
Does Trump Know What He's Doing?
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The question that we need to ask and you need to ask and we must ask, and this may be difficult for some people because you might seem like a traitor to even suggest this, but the question I have to ask is, and I want you to answer this very, very seriously, does President Trump know what he's doing regarding foreign policy, Iran, Iraq, the Middle East, Russia, Ukraine, NATO.
Does he know?
He's great with border, great with domestic, great with knowing exactly what to say.
He's a political genius when it comes to matters domestic, very good with with economy, very good with with tariffs.
But does he have has any idea of what he is doing, of how this thing works when you go in one day and turn around and say something else, completely different, completely, completely different.
He just changes his mind.
Just changes his mind.
One minute he wants to have a ceasefire.
Then he says, forget the ceasefire.
We're going to go for a settlement.
And he basically today is going to hand it over to Zelensky or whoever is in charge and say, you're on your own.
I'm out of here.
I'm done with this, which is what he should have done the first place.
How does this look to the rest of the world?
How does this look to the rest of the world?
What do you think, my friends?
What do you think about this?
I want to ask you, it's a very, very simple question.
Because I don't think people really want to discuss this.
I don't think people want to deal with it.
I don't think people understand it.
I don't think people feel confident enough to really say, well, here's kind of what I think.
I think that people feel that somehow you're being some kind of a, I don't know, a quizzling or something if you were to dare suggest that the president doesn't know what he's doing.
This is the most important thing in the world.
Right now we have something which is so interesting and I think we talked about this before and it's very, very critical people have to kind of grasp this the war in ukraine was never about putin acting crazy or like some kind of a lunatic never never ever ever was that's what everybody's trying to portray him as at least here they're they're doing everything in their power to portray him as some kind of a lunatic that was never the case ever ever it
was never the case not even remotely But you've been told this.
And like most good Americans, you just are good soldiers and you say, okay, well, if that's what you say, that's what I'll believe.
That's what I don't believe.
Especially when somebody gives you a new bad guy.
You love a bad guy.
Americans don't do a lot of history.
They don't do a lot of reading.
They're not going to pay a lot of attention as to what's really going on and who's involved.
This is the most important.
Now, the idea is that this was the inevitable result.
of NATO expansion and Western arrogance, which we and everybody have been saying has been on a collision course with Russia, with Russia from the beginning.
And their demand for a secure buffer, what we would have, this is the most important thing in the world.
This is the most critical.
How people miss this, I will never know.
How they expect, they keep saying, well, what is Putin going to give?
Give for what?
What do you mean, give?
What is he going to give?
You put a NATO or threatened a NATO force on his border.
You basically stuck your thumb in his eye.
What do you want him to give you?
Do you want him to be nice?
Should he play nice with you?
What do you think issue?
What?
I heard this the other day.
I'm thinking, are you kidding me?
Be nice.
What should he be nice about?
Does that make any sense to you?
Does that make sense to you?
Why in the name of God would he do this?
The West thought that Russia would just fold, but instead Putin and Moscow doubled down.
And unless Trump and DC and Washington recalibrates, the West, all of us risk endless war and possible nuclear catastrophe.
The root cause is obvious.
It always has been.
And it's been like this since day one.
NATO's march eastward, this has been in their craw since 91.
It was always going to be unacceptable to Moscow.
And Ukraine entered NATO, I guess, I guess theoretically, meaning that hostile forces with advanced weapons were going to be on Russia's doorstep.
How do you think Putin should have responded?
Do you think that's paranoia?
It's basic great power logic.
Okay.
you've heard this a million times.
I'll say it again.
Imagine Mexico joining a Chinese-led alliance, building bases across the Rio Grande.
Just imagine it.
Imagine what that would look like.
Imagine that.
That's the part which I find so fascinating.
And yet, I don't think people, especially the Fox News group and others, really understand what this is about.
I don't understand it.
And I don't think President Trump knows what he's doing.
I think he realizes it.
I think he's over his head.
And I think a sign of a good businessman is to know when you've been outfoxed or outmaneuvered or outplayed, it's time for you to move on.
Just get out of the way.
Don't even bother with this.
What are you even doing?
Just go.
That's it.
And it's not a sense of, you know, where we, look, we could beat everybody.
We don't have our forces, our money.
We don't have the manpower ourselves.
Russia sure as heck doesn't.
But Russia's just said, we consider, they consider this an existential.
Let me ask you something.
When I use the term existential threat, do you think Americans know what that means?
I don't.
Do you think they understand what the word existential as is existence?
Do you think they know what that means?
No.
Nope.
Nope.
It's a word that kind of slipped my mind.
by them they don't know they don't know where it came from they don't really know what it means it sounds kind of serious but they're not really sure what it is This is the part which is the most critical.
This is the part which I'm trying my best to explain to everybody and trying to bring to your attention so that you understand this.
This is the part.
I find this fascinating.
And what I also find interesting is that we still have, and maybe you've thought about this, maybe not, but we have this almost, I don't even know what the word is.
This new sense of or kind of a rekindled rusophobic nonsense.
Why in the name of God.
There's this, we're doing Rocky and Bowwinkle.
I use that phrase sometimes and I think I say this and I don't know if people really understand this or grasp it, but I was raised during a time when we were told that Russians were all bad.
Everything from Rocky and Bowwinkle to Spy versus Spy, well, that was kind of more like Cubans, but Cold War, Rocky, all of these, remember the movie Charlie Wilson's War?
I mean, just go down the list.
It's the most incredible thing you've ever seen in your life.
And people, people who find themselves in this weird kind of, I don't know what the word is, but they find themselves in this position of just looking at him as though he is the most evil thing in the body has ever.
I don't understand it.
And they take the bait so easily.
And it's just incredible.
The war in Ukraine is not crazy.
It makes sense.
It's no sudden act of barbarism or lunacy.
It was, again, a collision between NATO's expansion, the EU as well, and Russia's demand for a secure buffer zone.
That's it.
When I tell most people about this, it's so funny.
I love discussing it.
I mean, I really do.
I have, I can look in people's eyes.
They don't know what I'm talking about.
It's not because I'm so smart or I know so much.
It's that they know really nothing about this.
I mean, they really know nothing.
When I talk about the demands, I say, what do you think?
What is Russia actually asking?
What do they want?
What's been their demand?
They look at me and they say, they have no idea.
They have absolutely no idea.
They still don't have any idea.
We're on the brink of world war could be three, and they have absolutely no idea what's going on.
Isn't that amazing?
Now, I'm not even going to mention Israel, because that's something you can forget it.
Because I don't think most see for the longest time, most Americans, we in particular, have been lucky we've never had any problem we've never had look russia has had of course napoleon germany you know hitler two what two or three civil wars a revolution the fall of the soviet union do you know what that does to their mentality what's in the back of their mind Americans mostly are very lucky.
And most Americans, when you talk about this, you have to find people who really are paying attention.
And trying to find people who are paying attention to this is really seriously very hard.
I'm sorry to say, but it's true.
People nod off.
They don't understand.
They're just, it, there's no, it's not sex, it's not race, it's not, you have to talk about strategy and knowing places and knowing history.
Well, America's not into knowing history.
What are you talking about?
That's not who we are.
But this is something which is really important.
And Trump today is going to do something that is going to blow their mind.
He is going to hand off, hand off.
to Zelensky.
You're on your own, pal.
And I'm going to make it sound, that's why Brussels is there, EU is there, Starmer, they're going crazy because they realize, oh my God., because Trump, I think, finally figured it out.
It's ridiculous.
What are we doing?
And Putin is not being...
Do you believe this?
Do you believe this?
They acted like he's never heard of it, never saw it, never.
He has hypersonic missiles.
Do you think anybody even, you think he knows anything about this?
They made it sound like, look how, and I know people who, honest to God, you know, the Charlie Kirks and others.
Look, everybody's paid off.
Everybody's paid off by somebody.
And you know what I'm talking about.
Everybody's paid off.
You got to find out where's the money, where are the purse strings, who's your daddy, who's paying you off, who is the paymaster for what you're doing.
And once you understand this, you'll be so much better off.
Seriously, you'll be so much better off because you'll understand specifically what's happening.
And I understand it.
Look at, look at, first, I don't mean to in any way impugn somebody's suggestion of this because they're being paid off, but you have to follow the money.
The Ukraine war, which is a collision of geopolitics, miscalculation, the end of illusion.
The war in Ukraine is now grinding again.
again through its fourth year And despite what these people think, it was never a sudden eruption of madness or some, you know, some pique, some anger, some.
moment screen it was the inevitable collision i'm telling you right now and the thing is how do you expect us to get people in the united states to know what's going on how do you think we can do that i don't think we can but maybe i'm missing something how do we get people to understand what is happening seriously how do we do it Because most people can't.
There's a lot of moving parts here.
Now watch what happens today.
This is a very scary thing.
Israel's paying attention.
BB's paying attention because what they're doing is they're saying, if the United States gets tired of this now.
If the United States gets tired, and already has been, what's going to happen next?
If Trump's numbers, the poll numbers go up with a sense of exclusion, America first, save our money, keep our people...
Then he looks at Israel next.
Is that going to happen?
Not a long time.
That commitment is already there.
The hardest part, the hardest part, like I told you, is to get Americans.
See, if Americans cared about this, it'd change everything.
But unfortunately, a lot of people don't.
And it's not their fault.
This is kind of over their head.
And they're bored and they got busy things to do.
But that's always the way it is.
We just sit back, whether it was Vietnam, whether it was Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Northwoods.
We didn't know about that.
We just sat back.
So my friends, I want you, by the way, to tune in tonight at 1 a.m.
Mrs. L is going to be my special guest.
We're going to be talking about the sex trade industry around the world and how this con has been nothing but the biggest duplicity anybody's ever seen.
So that's coming up.
Make sure you follow that.
and pay very very close attention my friends listen to what i'm saying i'm going to leave you with this why is this important we are this close to world war three the russians have said it if somebody decides to go go crazy, full throttle, and really decide to drop the hammer on Putin.
And he says, all right, that's it.
I've tried everything.
It's over.
I'm not saying it's the end of the world, but once there's a limited nuclear war, it's hard to keep it limited.
And that's what they're planning.
And then America will care.
And then they'll pay attention.
But right now, they don't because they always figure somehow that God or Jesus or common sense bails us out.
Not necessarily.
Right, my friends, you've been terrific.
Thank you so much for your kindness.
Thank you so much for your focus.
Thank you so much for listening.
Answer the question, yes or no.
Does Trump know what he's doing?
Yes or no?
Give me a one or a two.
Yes, one, two, no.
Does he know what he's doing regarding Russia?
Yes or no?
One or two?
Tell me quickly.
I got a two.
I got a one.
And don't just say because you like him, because I think he's great too.
I think he's great too.
I think he's wonderful.
But I don't think he understands anything that's going on.
And the word says, Marco Rubio.
It's Lutnik, it's Whitcoff.
Those are the ones running it.
Even Marco Rubio, he goes like, he's being slapped around.
He's basically what he wants to say is don't look at me i'm not in charge i'm not in charge that's exactly what's happening and everybody knows it imagine him against against lavaroff come on whether you like it or not putin handled himself beautifully because the way he does it he's been doing this forever this is this is their thing all right my friends that's enough have a great and a glorious day.
Thanks so much for watching.
And until we meet again, my friends, remember the monkey's dead.
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