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April 18, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, April 18, 2023 - California commits POWER GRID SUICIDE with disastrous fixed rate plan

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	Welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for Tuesday, April 18th, 2021.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	We've got a lot of news for you and a great interview coming up with Brian Berletic from the New Atlas.
	Of course, we're going to be talking with Brian about Russia, Ukraine, China, and Taiwan, and de-dollarization, and, I don't know, global hegemony, and the U.S. State Department, and so much more.
	You won't want to miss that one.
	That should be fascinating.
	And Brian's getting up early for us.
	Because he lives in Thailand.
	And, you know, the time difference is quite extensive there.
	So stay tuned for that.
	In the meantime, we're going to start at censored.news, which is the website where I post the headlines that I intend to cover here on this show.
	Plus, after that, we have automated headlines from, you know, the Epoch Times and Infowars and LifeSiteNews and a bunch of other sites as well.
	But check out today's bombshell podcast.
	The dumbest idea ever is from California, no surprise.
	California power companies roll out fixed rate bill proposal.
	Now check this out.
	Southern California Edison Pacific Gas Electric and San Diego Gas and Electric submit a joint proposal.
	It outlines a new rate structure, which is a fixed rate.
	In other words, and this is because of this bill that passed, Assembly Bill 205, which requires a fixed rate and generally simpler power bills.
	And it says that under the proposal, households are going to have fixed rates for electricity based on their income level.
	But it's not really a fixed rate.
	It's not a rate.
	It's not a rate per kilowatt hour.
	It's a fixed monthly bill.
	So they say here, if you earn less than $69,000 a year, but more than $28,000 a year, you're going to pay $20 a month if you're in Edison territory.
	If you earn more than that, you're going to pay $51 a month.
	If you earn even more, over $180K, you're going to pay $85 a month.
	All right.
	And then I think there's some rate for people below all that that are going to pay, what is it, like $15 or $20 a month, something like that.
	Okay.
	But here's the thing.
	Understand that the only reason people attempt to conserve electricity is because they're paying for it.
	This new proposal, again, it had to be California, is going to create basically an unlimited buffet of electricity for a fixed dollar amount per month.
	So, for example, if you earn under $69,000 a year, you're going to pay $20 a month in Edison and If you live in the Edison territory, $20 a month no matter how much power you use, folks.
	No matter how much power you use.
	Let's start with the basics here because, of course, leftists and Democrats are economically illiterate.
	They don't understand supply and demand or, frankly, anything having to do with numbers.
	So if all these people, I don't know how many millions of people Edison serves here, but if these millions of people realize that it's the same rate, regardless of whether they keep the air conditioner on or off, or the heater on or off, or, you know, the hot water or the lights on or off, what's going to happen, folks?
	What's going to happen?
	Human nature?
	Everybody's going to crank that air conditioning down to the lowest of 65 degrees all the time.
	Or in the winter, you know, it's going to be cozy 85 all the time.
	Why?
	Well, people are just paying the same flat rate.
	Well, not even a rate.
	Again, a flat fee.
	This is like going to an all-you-can-eat food buffet.
	What does the typical American do?
	Or frankly, people from all over the world, you pay a flat fee, like $10 all-you-can-eat.
	What do people do?
	They become instant gluttons, you know, just eating everything.
	As much food as they can shove into their mouths as possible.
	Why?
	You've got to get the best value.
	You've got to make sure you get your money's worth.
	Well, that's going to happen to all these electric companies in California.
	People are going to turn on everything they possibly can just to use the juice.
	They're not only charging their own electric cars.
	They'll be calling their friends.
	Hey, you have an electric car?
	Bring it over.
	We'll charge it here.
	It doesn't cost me anything.
	Yeah.
	That's going to happen.
	And then, and then, Wait till the cryptocurrency miners hear about this.
	The cryptocurrency miners are going to move into California under this scheme.
	For $20 a month, you can do unlimited cryptocurrency mining in one household if you make less than $69,000 a year.
	Or $51 a month if you make more than that.
	So essentially for $50 a month, you can do unlimited cryptocurrency mining.
	Under this new scheme.
	So what's going to happen, folks?
	Well, everybody and their brother are going to set up Bitcoin mining operations and rigs that mine Ethereum and everything else in California.
	What's that going to do to the demand on the power grid?
	Yeah, it's going to double and triple and quadruple the demand.
	And what is Con Edison going to say pretty quickly?
	Oh my gosh, we can't meet demand.
	Look at that.
	Why?
	Because you have an artificially low price and then suddenly everybody wants more.
	It's like if you said, okay, at all grocery stores, you pay $5 a month and you can have all the bread you want for $5 a month or even $10 a month.
	What would happen?
	Everybody would come in and say, well, give me all your bread.
	Just give all of it.
	If I'm paying a flat fee for bread and it's unlimited, I'll take all your bread.
	That's what's going to happen with electricity.
	So this proposal, which is already passed in Assembly Bill 205, by the way, this proposal, mark my words, this will absolutely collapse the power grid in California, at least in the areas served by these companies, Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas and Electric, okay?
	And those are massive.
	They have massive areas.
	I think many millions, maybe tens of millions of people.
	I'm not sure exactly.
	This is going to collapse the power grid in California.
	And this will lead to, of course, rolling blackouts.
	And this is what happens when you don't understand economics and supply and demand.
	Again, the only reason that people don't go into the grocery store and wipe out all the bread supply is because they have to pay for every loaf of bread.
	The only reason people don't wipe out the electricity supply is because they have to pay for every kilowatt hour.
	You take away that metering, it's a free-for-all, man.
	It's like, how much juice do you want?
	People will just, they'll probably just turn on the air conditioner and the heater side by side just to screw with the electric company.
	Seriously, just to get back for being overcharged all the years previously.
	Like, we're going to run both.
	Air conditioning in one room, heater in another room.
	Yeah, suck on that, Edison.
	Believe me, that's going to happen.
	They're going to run up a $1,000 a month bill, but oh, it's only $51 because it's fixed.
	Yeah, it's fixed all right.
	It's fixed so much that it's going to collapse.
	You want free market dynamics when it comes to electricity supply and demand because you want to have some supply remaining.
	But this is going to be another tragic lesson.
	For the people of California who, for whatever reason, they keep voting for fascism, socialism, and they're about to get blackoutism, by the way.
	A rolling blackoutism is going to be a whole new ism in California.
	And if you are in California and you think you're going to have a business that functions during the day, you think your lights are going to stay on, or you're going to have computers that work, forget it.
	You're going to have rolling blackouts.
	You're going to have, like, you'll have power, like, Monday and Wednesday and It's off Tuesday and Thursday because that's what it's going to turn into unless they start charging people for the power that they use.
	So there you go.
	That's California for you.
	Now, in the world of other really bad ideas, continuing this theme, we have from live action here, UN report calls for decriminalization of all sexual activity, including between adults and children.
	This is the United Nations, the same group that's running the illegal migrants through the Darien Gap into the United States to try to flood first world countries with essentially third world migrants.
	They now want to say that in their view, they should decriminalize sex between adults and children.
	Why?
	Well, because the globalists are pushing pedophilia, human trafficking, grooming, child mutilations.
	This is just the latest rendition.
	If you needed any more evidence that the United Nations was in support of pedophilia, Look no further than this.
	I mean, it's not a surprise.
	Probably a lot of people that work at the UN are themselves pedophiles, and they just don't want to get caught and go to jail.
	So they're trying to decriminalize their own sick, twisted, you know, pedo habits.
	All right.
	Speaking of sick and twisted, check out what the U.S. government did in the United States.
	This is from the UK Daily Mail.
	Elon Musk makes a bombshell claim that U.S. government could access Twitter users' private messages.
	He says, quote, the government had full access.
	Well, of course they did.
	Of course they did.
	The government has full access to your private Facebook messages, by the way.
	The government monitors all these social media sites that are just, they were set up as front ends as a spying operation on the people of the world.
	Facebook is a spying op.
	Google is a spying op.
	Twitter has been.
	I don't know if Elon's even saying that he's stopped the spying.
	He's just saying that he was shocked to find out that the government had full access.
	Well, do they still have it, Elon?
	Do they still have full access?
	Because he's not saying they don't.
	And this means that, again, your private messages, it's like the government opening up your mail and reading your mail, But pretending they didn't.
	So everything that you sent to a person via private Twitter, which I didn't send anything because my Twitter account's been banned for years, and Elon hasn't turned it back on, so I didn't send anything.
	But if you sent something that could be used against you, trust me, the government already has it.
	They already have it in a database and they'll use it against you at any time in the future.
	One more reason not to trust these big gigantic platforms that have a bunch of investor money and venture capital and so on, because many of them just work for the government.
	Alright, just incredible.
	Okay, the next story I want to show you, and I'm just going to narrate this, but here's looters ransacking a Compton gas station that just happened, I think, two nights ago.
	Check it out.
	These youth, they have no regard for the rule of law, none whatsoever.
	People are filming it.
	Oh, they're laughing and smiling and they're stealing everything.
	You know, Doritos and whatever.
	Oh, they're stealing beer.
	Look at that.
	Stealing Budweiser.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah, have all the Bud Light you want.
	Nobody else is buying it.
	They're stealing condoms.
	Yeah.
	Woo, boy, you're going to have a fun night with your Bud Light and your Trojans there, buddy.
	Uh-huh.
	You and all your gluter friends over there.
	This is what today's youth has become.
	I mean, there you go.
	That's today's youth.
	No regard for the rule of law.
	They don't even feel like they should listen to the police at all, or they should respect any shop owner at all.
	They're just completely unruly, out of control.
	This is happening in Chicago.
	It's happening, you know, not only in Compton, but New York and parts of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, basically every blue city.
	Every city run by Democrats will collapse into this.
	And the point that I want to make here is that, and this is going to expand far beyond the inner cities, as the financial system collapse accelerates.
	You're going to see this happening more and more, even reaching out into some rural areas, by the way.
	I mean, it's going to be not just left-wing city, but even conservative cities that will experience this.
	It's going to be in just neighborhoods.
	It's going to be everywhere.
	When people lose it, as Gerald Cilenti says, when people lose everything, they lose it.
	You just saw a bunch of broke youth right there.
	What happens when you have tens of millions of adults in America who wake up and find out their dollars are worthless, their bank account is closed because it's all a giant bail-in, and that they've lost everything they've ever worked for their entire lives, and that they can't afford groceries?
	Are they going to take to the streets?
	You bet they are.
	They're going to take to the streets, and if our communities aren't ready for that, it's going to be overrun.
	So that's coming.
	Just mark my words.
	All right, here's some good news out of Missouri, by the way.
	Missouri becomes the first state to crack down on sex change treatments for adults, not to mention children.
	Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Thursday issued an emergency rule that establishes extensive safeguards on providing transgender medical interventions to both adults and children.
	There it is.
	It's an emergency rule.
	It says that gender transition interventions are experimental and pose significant side effects.
	Yeah, such as...
	Well, slicing off their genitalia.
	There's a side effect for you right there.
	Infertility, mental illness, hormone disruption, and cancer as a result of all of that.
	So Missouri is taking action to try to stop children from being thrust into the transgenderism mutilation mill, which is what it is.
	And, of course, leftists are up in arms and freaking out over this.
	Oh, how dare you not let us mutilate children, right?
	That's pretty much what the left is screaming about right now.
	More states are going to crack down on this, and there are even some crackdowns happening in the UK at the moment, too, because more and more people all over the world are realizing, I mean, somehow it took them a while to figure this out, but it's wrong to mutilate children.
	It's wrong to chemically castrate children.
	It's wrong to inflict your mental illness on children just because you, some virtue-signaling, libtard, left-wing couple, you want to have a little trophy transition kid that you can parade around at parties He's like, look at my little boy!
	He's transitioning!
	Because you're a virtue-signaling woke idiot.
	Well, guess what?
	You should be put behind bars.
	You should be prosecuted.
	In fact, Elon Musk even said the same thing, that these parents that allow their children to be mutilated should be indicted, prosecuted, and spend life in prison.
	And I agree with that.
	And frankly, most common sense people do agree with that.
	Stop making your child your medical experiment.
	I mean, why do we even have to say this?
	It's just unreal.
	But anyway, there's some good news out of Missouri.
	Missouri's been doing a lot of good stuff recently.
	Very good action there.
	All right, next news item here out of Breitbart.
	Alleged Chinese agents arrested for operating a police station in the middle of New York City.
	So amazingly, the DOJ, this shocks me, Along with law enforcement, they've arrested two individuals accused of establishing and operating an illegal Chinese regime police station in New York City, and dozens of others, I think it's 37 or something, are facing charges of engaging in transnational repression against anti-communist dissidents based in the United States.
	Well, gosh, there are so many themes to talk about here.
	When is the DOJ going to arrest the FBI for domestic oppression of the American people?
	How about that?
	I mean, if oppression is wrong, then the Biden regime has all kinds of criminal officials that need to be arrested for operating illegal police functions at the federal level that violate the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
	So I'm wondering, when is the DOJ going to arrest the DOJ? Probably not going to happen anytime soon.
	But nevertheless, I am glad that at least this Chinese CCP police station is getting shut down because there are dissidents in the United States that are trying to sound the alarm and blow the whistle on some of the evils of the CCP. And these dissidents are being hunted down and threatened, and in some cases their families are threatened back in China.
	And this was happening right out of New York City, right under the noses of the Democrats who Probably agree with the CCP on all of this.
	So I'm a little bit shocked that this arrest actually took place, and it makes me wonder if there's some other narrative that they're developing here.
	It's just, it's a little too, like, it's, I'm always suspicious when government does the right thing, because it's like, hmm, that's not in their nature.
	What are they trying to pull off here?
	Something doesn't add up about this.
	But they say, Breitbart says, China is a totalitarian communist state currently engaging in genocide against the ethnic Turkic people of East Turkestan.
	Well, hey, I would say the United States of America, well, its illegitimate proxy puppet Biden regime is also a totalitarian fascist state engaging in vaccine genocide against the American people.
	So, I mean, there's plenty of evil to go around, folks.
	It's just that You're only shown the selective evil that they want you to see, never the evil coming out of the White House and the Democrats themselves, who are really, I think, the most evil demons on the planet.
	So we'll see where this goes.
	But, hey, if America is supposed to be a free country, how about the White House stop censoring people on social media?
	How about that?
	How about you release the J6 prisoners, who many of them still have never had a day in court?
	You talk about illegal, unconstitutional violations of human rights and civil rights.
	It's the whole J6 arrest, and the entire J6 scene was set up by the FBI in the first place.
	The FBI ran the op with special operatives, and then some people went along with it, and those are the ones who ended up getting nabbed.
	But, hey, you talk about oppressive regimes, it's the Biden regime.
	You know, there are some things that you can do against oppression.
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	Alright, now moving over to naturalnews.com.
	This headline is really worthy of discussion.
	Biden to grant illegal aliens free government health care funded by debt placed on American taxpayers.
	So understand that it's going to start with free health care and free money and then free rent and then free universal basic income.
	Why are they doing this?
	Because they need more people to rush into the country so that Biden can grant them amnesty and voting rights before the 2024 election.
	I have no illusions, folks.
	That's exactly what's happening here.
	By 2024, you know, by November, Biden will sign an executive order granting mass amnesty to whatever illegals have made it into the country by that time.
	And that will kick in for the election.
	That's how they're going to flood the ballot box this time, plus the mule's And then there'll be lawsuits against this, but the lawsuits will take another year or two.
	And this is how they're going to maintain control through 2028.
	But, you know, the country's gone.
	By that time, it's practically gone now.
	The second story on natural news kind of speaks to that.
	Trucking companies in Illinois, Virginia, Florida, and elsewhere are failing.
	As the economy falters, more transportation companies are going out of business because consumer demand is plummeting, because inflation is skyrocketing, because the value of the dollar is eroding, and of course, transportation companies are going out of business.
	So that's more job losses.
	The next story is also critical.
	Leaked Pentagon documents indicate latest Chinese tests of hypersonic missiles can evade all existing U.S. defenses.
	This is critical to understand because the U.S. has literally no functioning air defense system that can stop either Russia's or China's hypersonic missiles.
	And that means that when we find ourselves in a conflict that is World War III... We find ourselves in an actual war with Russia, which seems to be right around the corner, or maybe a war with China, which could also happen soon.
	The U.S. has no defenses against hypersonic missiles, which are aircraft carrier killers, by the way.
	So China can take out, with these hypersonic missiles, China can take out America's aircraft carriers all around Taiwan and the Straits of Taiwan and the whole Pacific region.
	So America's dominant naval forces, which are dominant on the world stage right now, they can be taken out in like 90 seconds, I think.
	Pretty much.
	And if China and Russia coordinate their attacks on U.S. aircraft carriers using hypersonic missiles, then Very nearly the entire U.S. naval fleet can be taken out.
	I should say the fleet of aircraft carriers can be taken out in a matter of minutes by the United States and Russia.
	And there's literally nothing the U.S. can do about it that we know of.
	Maybe there's some super secret, you know, alien tech teleporter, dilithing crystal weapon projection beam system somewhere that we don't know about that they're betting on.
	Oh, that'll stop the hypersonic missiles.
	Okay, great, if you have that.
	But since the Pentagon only hires the wokest engineers instead of the best engineers, There's no such system that will actually work.
	It'll probably be like the Unicorn Air Defense System.
	It'll have a label on it that says this system self-identifies as a hypersonic missile defense system.
	You have to imagine that it's working.
	But it doesn't actually work because all the qualified engineers were fired and replaced by woke candidates in the Pentagon and in the contracting companies.
	We are literally going to have World War III with the United States military launching imaginary woke weapons that do not function any more than a man can get pregnant, by the way.
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	That's what it's coming to.
	It's all a joke.
	It's a woke joke.
	It's a woke-broke joke, come to think of it.
	And if we don't turn this around, America's done, by the way.
	It's just a matter of how and what it looks like.
	That's all.
	All right, look...
	I could go on about this, but you get the idea.
	Let's jump into the interview with Brian Verletic, because I think that will be a fascinating one.
	And then on the other side of that, I'll maybe have an audio report for you.
	And I do want to say, I think tomorrow will be audio only, because I've got meetings.
	And then the following day, I'll be back in studio.
	And we're working to get David Dubine on later this week as well.
	So Should be a very interesting week, and I want to thank you for tuning in.
	Lots of crazy stuff happening.
	So let's just jump into the interview with Brian Berletic.
	Enjoy that.
	I'll be back on the other side with an audio update of some kind.
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	Alright, welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and we are joined by a very special guest, a first-time guest, but I'm a long-time fan of this individual and his, I think, really excellent analysis of world events.
	His name is Brian Berletic, and his channel on YouTube is called The New Atlas.
	And we're going to see if we can get him a channel going on bright in the meantime.
	But, Brian, it's an honor to have you on.
	I really love your work.
	I love the meticulous nature of your research and your presentation.
	Welcome to the show.
	Thank you so much for having me.
	It's an honor to be here.
	Well, it's an honor to have you on, and I understand.
	You're halfway around the world, and you're in the early hours of the morning.
	So if you need to grab a coffee or hit yourself a couple times, it's all good.
	We understand.
	The world is crazy, and the craziness never sleeps.
	So what's your take on sort of where...
	Where we are right now, you focus a lot on Ukraine and Russia, but also about China, but kind of big picture.
	How would you like to get into this?
	Well, I think it's kind of important to see this through the eyes of the current U.S. government and their ambitions all around the globe.
	So we see this conflict taking place in Ukraine.
	It is essentially a U.S. proxy war with Russia.
	We see other conflicts along Russia's periphery, and these are all, again, the U.S. engineering these to overextend Russia, to distract Russia.
	And the U.S. is also committed to an encirclement and containment policy against China, and they do the exact same thing.
	They target China directly, and then they target nations all along China's periphery based on Here in Bangkok, Thailand.
	And Thailand is a nation that is being interfered in by the U.S. government through organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy.
	It's a lot to keep track of.
	But luckily for us, it's one single playbook that they're using.
	And so if you can figure it out in one place, then you can find the people and follow the money elsewhere.
	It becomes easier and easier to figure out.
	Well, I'm glad you pointed it out.
	It's the same playbook over and over again.
	The problem for the empire, though, is that that playbook is beginning to really fail.
	I'm sure you would agree with that.
	But, you know, following World War II, U.S. dominance at the time, the U.S. was the industrial might of the world, could manufacture the most of almost everything, including munitions and steel and tanks, and, of course, monopolistic control over the money supply.
	But now, after generations of wielding that control as a weapon against other countries, it seems like that's all falling apart.
	Would you agree with that assessment?
	Absolutely.
	And it was a huge missed opportunity for the United States.
	They had a window of opportunity where they could have demonstrated real and responsible leadership, and instead they abused it.
	A lot of the people running the United States right now, these are people who came into power.
	They did not earn it, and they're not qualified to be in the positions that they're in.
	That's for sure.
	They have no grasp on reality, and they're beginning at a starting point that is irrational.
	So everything that they try to build on top of that is likewise irrational.
	It diverges further and further from reality, and now it's starting to...
	It's starting to come back, and it's kind of exploding in their face right now.
	You make a really good point, and this divergence from reality can become extremely dangerous when they're playing with nuclear weapons, because what I've noticed too, and I've watched your channel quite a lot, and many other channels as well, a lot of analysis.
	I've interviewed people like Scott Ritter as well.
	But what I'm noticing is that the irrational response to the reality of what's happening on the ground, let's say in Ukraine, or what's happening geopolitically or what's happening financially with de-dollarization, this irrationality is leading an entire nation, the United States this irrationality is leading an entire nation, the United States of America, into almost like suicidal pathways that can only end badly, not just for the U.S., but even for all of Western Europe.
	like we saw with the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
	I mean, this is a suicide mission, it seems.
	It's interesting that you bring up Nord Stream.
	I mean, it demonstrates that the U.S. isn't just waging essentially proxy wars against Russia and China, but it also abuses its own supposed allies.
	Before they blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, they were putting sanctions on Germany for building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline with Russia.
	That was a project that wasn't only going to benefit Russia, it was also going to benefit Germany.
	Other companies from Europe involved in the project and also the rest of Europe that would have benefited from cheap energy.
	And now that's all gone.
	And it was a bid by the U.S. to prevent Europe from sliding out from under that shadow of hegemony.
	The U.S. has cast over Europe since the end of World War II.
	And now it's basically a hostage situation.
	And we can see the leadership in Europe going along with it because the European Union, the respect of governments in each European country, they're not making decisions that represent the best interests of the European people.
	They're making decisions that represent Washington's best interests.
	Yeah, you know, a clear, direct connection of that.
	I'm glad you offered that description.
	But when the U.S. destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines, which, I mean, I don't even think there's a debate among informed people about the fact that the U.S. did that.
	They took away the affordable energy supply that's necessary for countries like Germany to manufacture munitions in order to potentially defend itself against, let's say, a war with Russia.
	And so here's America taking away Europe's self-defense capabilities while also provoking the Russians into probably launching more missiles, maybe even nuclear missiles or nuclear artillery, if they can provoke that.
	It's almost like...
	It's almost like a plan to destroy Western Europe.
	I'm not saying for sure that it is, but it sure looks like one.
	It could be.
	It could also just be the folly of empire, which we've seen repeat itself over and over again all throughout history.
	You're absolutely right.
	They made this move to deny cheap energy to Europe, and then they also need Europe to produce more munitions to fuel their proxy war with Russia and Ukraine.
	So these decisions are self-defeating that they're making, and I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that they're out of time.
	They're out of time.
	They did not get things done that they wanted to get done, and now they're rushing.
	And we all know that when we try to rush things, we make a lot of mistakes, and that's What we're seeing, but on a geopolitical scale.
	I think the US, since the fall of the Soviet Union, they had this idea of asserting themselves over the entire planet.
	They had a time window.
	I think some people might remember General Wesley Clark talking about seven nations in seven years, but it didn't even come close to fulfilling that timeline.
	They're way behind, and other nations are now catching up.
	But even this whole idea...
	But the philosophy of the U.S. Empire resorting to coercion, violence, the bombing of civilian targets, as we saw in Iraq and Syria, and threatening, assassinating leaders, all of this.
	The fact that this is what the U.S. Empire resorts to now, to exert global control, Frankly, it is incompatible with a peaceful world of nation-states that have the right to exist.
	I mean, this whole premise of how the U.S. chooses to interact with its neighbors is unsustainable, and frankly, it is evil.
	It is immoral.
	Your take?
	Absolutely.
	Empire always has been, and this is the cycle that empire goes through.
	It rises.
	It overextends itself.
	It becomes abusive and increasingly desperate to maintain its grip on its holdings.
	And then everything starts to unravel.
	And as it's unraveling, their adversaries are growing in strength and taking advantage of that weakness and that retreat.
	And then the empire collapses.
	So we're watching this on a very accelerated timeline because of technology.
	2,000 years ago, information traveled at the speed of a horse, Now it travels at the speed of light.
	So everything is going to unravel much quicker now.
	Now, anybody who offers an analysis like yours or Scott Ritter's or Gonzalo Lira or anyone in that space is, of course, routinely accused of working for the Russians.
	I mean, it's just a flippant accusation.
	Oh, if you don't go along with the regime in America, then you must be working for this regime in Russia.
	And since you're here, I'd like to ask you, can you share with us just a little bit of your background?
	Because I've never heard you talk about that.
	Where did you grow up?
	And how did you end up in Thailand, by the way?
	I mean, as much as you care to share, it's up to you.
	Sure.
	I was born in New York.
	I spent part of my childhood in Pennsylvania, very close by.
	And I joined the U.S. Marine Corps at a high school at the age of 17.
	I elected to go overseas.
	You can ask where to be sent, and since nobody wants to go overseas and I wanted to go, so they sent me to Japan.
	I spent most of my time in Japan.
	I was a 2171, which is electro-optical ordinance repair.
	I was trained to work on things like the Javelin missile system, the tow missile, fire control on the LAV-25 and the M1 Abrams.
	Things like that.
	I worked in the armory on Okinawa, Japan.
	And I was a very patriotic person.
	I believed in America as a force of good around the world.
	But almost the moment I joined the military and I saw what was going on, it didn't add up.
	And I had to make a decision.
	Do I pretend that I'm not seeing this and go along with it?
	Or do I... Or do I stop what I'm doing and get out?
	So I decided to do that.
	I was still very gung ho on 9-11.
	I was ready to do anything that they told me.
	Luckily, my unit was never sent anywhere.
	By the time the U.S. was getting ready to invade Iraq, I was totally disillusioned.
	And even other Marines around me, we all knew that there weren't going to be WMDs in Iraq.
	We knew it was a lie.
	And as I was getting out, I had a lot of even officers say to me, you know, I couldn't do what you're doing.
	You're young.
	You can start over.
	I understand why you're doing it, though, why you want to get out.
	And if they could, they would, but they're too old to start over.
	So anyway, I got out of the Marine Corps and I wanted to be out of the U.S. I mean, I was so repulsed by the lead up to the war with Iraq and then watching it unfold.
	I was so repulsed.
	I just wanted to wash my hands of everything.
	I went to Thailand because that's one of the places I went while a U.S. Marine on deployment.
	I've been there ever since.
	Basically, my whole adult life, I've been living in Asia.
	I started getting into geopolitics simply because I was tired of watching the news and listening to them lie.
	You feel like you just want to shout at the TV, but then eventually you realize there's things like blogs and different platforms you can use.
	You can get your message out and have your say.
	I've just been doing that ever since, really.
	What I really appreciate about your presentation is that, number one, you do a lot of research and you portray the information in a calm, meticulous, thoughtful manner.
	And if there's something that is clearly just straight-up opinion, you'll often offer that description.
	Like, this is my opinion.
	You may disagree, but here's my analysis.
	And then over here, these are the facts of the situation.
	And more often than not, people can't argue with you on the facts.
	So, you know, they just try to change the subject or character assassination or make up something or whatever.
	And that's I mean, we all experience that.
	But your style is actually very compelling.
	Well, one of the things that I make sure I do is I cite only the Western media information.
	I don't cite Russian or Chinese or Thai media when I'm trying to make a point.
	I always cite the Western media.
	Because always buried deep in their articles, they will bring something up that is popular.
	More aligned with the truth.
	And it'll even contradict the premise of the entire article that they're writing or previous articles that they've written.
	So I make a point to do that.
	And I list all of my sources in the video description of every single video so people can see it for themselves.
	And I often show it on the screen as I'm doing it.
	It is a lot of extra work, but I think it's worthwhile.
	I know a lot of people out there...
	Think the way we think.
	I'm not really trying to convince them.
	I'm trying to convince people that still don't get it, and especially people that still tune into the Western media.
	When they can see the BBC saying the things that I'm trying to wake them up to, it becomes very hard.
	Just like you say, it's very hard for them to argue, and usually their reaction is very irrational.
	But also sometimes people respond to it and do wake up, and that's why I do it.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	There are those people right on the in-betweens or the margins that are ready to wake up.
	And like they've known it, as they say in the matrix, a splinter in your mind.
	They've had the splinter in their mind the whole time.
	They know something's wrong with the world around them.
	They just don't know what it is.
	And then sometimes you might say something or...
	I might say something, or people in alt media can bring something up.
	In fact, let me bring this point up here.
	Here's an article from the last, I'm sorry, the conservative treehouse.com.
	And this is regarding that recent so-called leak from the Pentagon.
	Here it is.
	The leak was the op.
	White House and Congress demand new powers, think Restrict Act, in aftermath of classified intel leaks.
	So I'd like to ask you, Brian, and it's been, you know, a while, a week or so, maybe, since that leak came out.
	I'd like to ask your analysis of, first, the material that was contained within the leak, because there's some pretty shocking things there.
	But then secondly, from a meta level, Do you think that this leak was an operation?
	Because a lot of questions have been raised about how this low-level guy could have access to this high-level CIA document.
	What's your take on this?
	It's very hard to tell at this point because Again, the way America's leadership is acting right now is extremely irrational.
	The way they're organizing things are equally irrational.
	So I would say almost anything is possible at this point.
	But when you actually look at the contents, at least the contents of material that I saw presented by the Western media, I wasn't really shocked by any of the revelations because these are things that have been apparent and also mentioned obliquely or dishonestly, but mentioned nonetheless even in the Western media.
	So I honestly, I don't know what the story is behind this.
	And it could very well be an op.
	And of course they're going to use it, whether it was or it wasn't, to grab more powers because that's something that they constantly try to do anyway.
	And if there's some sort of Perceivable justification then they'll definitely take it.
	Yeah, okay, good point.
	It's almost as if they're screaming, well, our security is so bad that we need more power to have more bad security.
	Because, I mean, if a low-level guy like that, relatively low-level, can get his hands on such an extremely, seemingly an extremely important document, then what does that say about the leakiness of if, like, a Chinese agent...
	Or a Russian agent is trying to get their hands on something.
	How easy would that be if just some gamer boy is able to get his hands on this stuff, right?
	It's crazy.
	Yeah, it is.
	The whole story is very odd.
	The motivations of this...
	Service member who got them, he was basically trying to show off in front of his friends, allegedly, the speed by which he was found.
	And the way it wasn't even the FBI who found him, it was the so-called open source intelligence networks online, Bellingcat, which is actually funded by the U.S. government and the British government.
	So they actually are serving as a function of their intelligence apparatus.
	The whole thing is odd.
	Bellingcat itself is solely for spreading disinformation.
	So the fact that they were involved, because they don't do real intelligence, they just do disinformation, the fact that they were involved, it's all extremely suspicious.
	I've heard other people speculate that it could be them making this overly elaborate off-ramp from Ukraine, kind of easing the public into the reality that things are not going as well as they have been saying in Ukraine and giving them the ability to kind of work their way out of this kind of easing the public into the reality that things are not So I'm going to keep my mind open to all possibilities, because at this point, I think anything is possible.
	Okay, yeah, fair enough.
	And I do want to ask you about the Ukraine off-ramp question here in a minute.
	But first, I just want to direct people, if they want to follow you, your channel on YouTube is, is it New Atlas or The New Atlas?
	I think The New Atlas.
	And I think if you type either one in the search bar in YouTube, it should be one of the first ones that pop up.
	Okay, okay.
	All right, great.
	And then how many videos do you normally put out?
	I mean, it seems like it's daily or most days.
	Is that right?
	I try to put out at least three a week, and then sometimes more if there's a lot going on, but usually three per week.
	Okay, great.
	And how has the response been on YouTube?
	Because YouTube isn't necessarily an alt video site.
	It's more of a mainstream type of platform.
	Well, you can never tell because the algorithm is manipulated for all kinds of different reasons.
	Being deplatformed off YouTube is a concern that I have.
	Obviously, I've diversified.
	Everything is automatically backed up onto Odyssey and Rumble.
	I also am on Telegram.
	I had been deleted off of Facebook and Twitter several years ago as part of, I guess, an alternative media sweep, and they were deleting a whole bunch of people.
	They actually investigated me and deleted me for some fabricated reason.
	Of course, yeah.
	So only very recently have I gotten back on Twitter, and that was after Elon Musk bought it and now That seems to be getting better, so I don't know, but I try to diversify as much as possible because you're right, especially YouTube and other mainstream social media platforms based in the U.S. I mean, it is rigged, and we know it's rigged.
	After Elon Musk took over Twitter and he was exposing some of the business going on behind the scenes, these were all things that we all knew anyway, but it was just confirming it.
	Yeah, another good point there.
	And by the way, Elon Musk hasn't turned my account back on yet.
	And Brighttown links are banned on Twitter at the moment.
	So by the way, you're welcome to come to Brighttown.com and have your content there.
	We are going to roll out a tipping system, a monetization system, that will apply even to videos you've previously uploaded.
	So all your assets that end up on Brighteon can receive some tips that you can translate into fiat currency.
	That's coming soon, so we're really working to try to monetize it for content creators.
	But it'll never be the ad revenue that YouTube generates because of the reach of Google.
	Nevertheless, I think you're wise to be on as many platforms as possible.
	Can I shift gears and ask you a little bit about China and Taiwan with a little bit of prelude here?
	Sure.
	Okay.
	I want your take on this, but I need to set this up so that you and the audience understand.
	My wife is from Taiwan.
	Her family fled the communists in China with Chiang Kai-shek.
	And I've lived in Taiwan for a couple of years.
	I speak a fair amount of Mandarin Chinese.
	And, you know, I'm very, very favorable to Taiwan because I live there.
	I know the people there, and I know this nation, which is why I am so concerned that the United States is going to exploit the people of Taiwan in the same way they've exploited the people of Ukraine.
	I feel like Taiwan is next to be used as a proxy nation to provoke China into a war in exactly the same pattern that we're seeing in Ukraine.
	So that's my background.
	Just so you know, I feel very friendly about Taiwan, but, my God, I don't want those people to suffer.
	What's your analysis of how the U.S. might be exploiting that situation to try to punish China?
	Well, you're 100 percent right.
	That's exactly what they're doing.
	They're doing it openly.
	They write entire articles in the media about how Taiwan is the next Ukraine, essentially.
	And Taiwan has been a proxy of U.S. power in the region since the end of the Chinese Civil War.
	The U.S. military was actually stationed there until they adopted their One China policy.
	But after adopting the One China policy, they still played this double game where they recognized Taiwan as part of China.
	They recognized the People's Republic of China and Beijing as the sole legitimate government, but they have been promoting essentially separatism in Taiwan ever since.
	And they're not doing it out of any sort of interest for the people living there.
	They're doing it solely for this desire to encircle and contain all of China and actually all of Asia.
	They don't want a prosperous Asia to collectively surpass the U.S. any more than they want China individually to surpass the U.S., This is what they have been working on for decades.
	And what they have been talking about more recently as the disparity between the Chinese military and the US military, as that diminishes, they're realizing that if they do provoke some sort of war with China There will be total devastation and the US military most likely won't be able to defend Taiwan, but that's not even their interest.
	And they admit in their policy papers that the goal is...
	To simply humiliate China at Taiwan's cost.
	And they admit infrastructure and industry will be destroyed.
	And they even admit that if China doesn't destroy the infrastructure and industry, the U.S. will step in and do it, deny it to the rest of China.
	So this is what they're openly planning to do.
	Are you talking about Taiwan's infrastructure?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yes.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, especially Taiwan's infrastructure and industry.
	They've war games, blowing up the semiconductor facilities.
	Airports and ports.
	So where does that leave the people living on Taiwan if they have no infrastructure?
	Obviously, just absolute devastation.
	So we're watching it unfold in Ukraine, and that is exactly what they have planned for Taiwan.
	And I think it really only has been because China is patient, and they understand that time is working in their favor.
	They understand that reacting to the United States plays into Washington's hands.
	And so this is why they're very hesitant to do that.
	And I don't think that they want to do it either.
	As a matter of fact, I mean, Taiwan and the mainland have a lot of trade going on, essential trade for everyone on both sides of the street.
	There's a huge number of people from Taiwan living and working on the mainland.
	So this is not something that...
	Anyone on either side of the strait wants, except for a small political elite in Taipei who's working with the United States, just like the regime in Kiev is working with Washington.
	But it seems like a lot of the leadership in Taiwan is lashing its fate to the shipwreck of the U.S. empire, in a sense, to the U.S. currency and to U.S. policies.
	Of course, the U.S. has bases in Japan and a lot in South Korea and many other places there, and actual U.S. troops training in Taiwan.
	By the way, that's been reported in the mainstream media.
	I think you've probably covered that.
	But is this really wise for a nation like Taiwan to put all its eggs in the U.S. basket when...
	Global de-dollarization could lead to something like, I mean, this is just my analysis, but something like a 1991 Soviet Union breakup event where the U.S. just in one day ceases to have control over its empire.
	Like, that's kind of what happened in Russia.
	Maybe it wasn't one day, but it was a compressed timeline.
	Is there a risk of that happening to countries like Taiwan?
	Well, I think that is a risk.
	And I think Taiwan, the current governments in Taipei, they have irrationally tried to create distance between themselves and the rest of China that has hurt the economy there.
	And I think that if they continue doing that, that will cause damage.
	But still, my greatest fear is an actual conflict.
	And I think if both sides of the strait can prevent that from happening, and as the US fades from the region, and I would say, real legitimate sovereignty restored to Asia, I think they'll eventually be able to work out their differences in a mutually beneficial way.
	I know there's a lot of skepticism, but I have been to China and I live in a region where China has a lot of influence and I can easily compare and contrast their approach to China.
	I think the U.S. right now is Taiwan's biggest threat.
	Wow, wow, that's a major statement right there.
	The U.S. needs Taiwan's semiconductors, but also the U.S. needs access to Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek Airport, the military runways that are present there, and also the ability to recruit the Taiwanese people.
	To wage a war with China, which is what the US is really good at doing, is getting other people's young men to die.
	I mean, they're doing that in spades in Ukraine right now.
	And I don't know, Brian, it's very disturbing to me that it seems like the US has become an incredible tyrant on the world stage.
	But, you know, the CCP is also another form of tyranny, right?
	So there's no good guys in this conflict, it seems.
	I don't know.
	You have to kind of think about your understanding of China and where it's coming from.
	Like I say, I have been to China and I live in this region and I see it quite different.
	I can understand why people might see it differently.
	We have to ask ourselves, where is this information coming from?
	And are these things that we're saying or thinking about China Coincidentally, the same things the US State Department is saying about China.
	And then we have to ask ourselves, why is that?
	We have to really interrogate that line of thinking.
	And it's not to say that the government in Beijing is perfect or that China is perfect.
	But I would say, having been there and living in this region, I would say that the government more or less is looking out for the best interests of its own people.
	And I would say most countries around the world are doing that.
	It's the United States that is not only harming other nations, but they're doing it at the expense of their own people.
	And I don't think that we can compare what you see when you travel throughout China.
	You cannot compare that to what we see unfolding, and I would say unraveling, in the United States.
	It is so different.
	There's so much disparity between these two societies.
	I mean, of course, you have certain bad things that are shared, but You don't see the homelessness or the drug addiction or the violence across China that you see in the United States.
	And that is a problem that is getting worse and worse in the US. And it's something that when you travel through Asia, I've felt safe pretty much everywhere I've traveled through Asia, Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore.
	And I don't understand why the U.S. has allowed their society to unravel the way that it has.
	Yeah, I felt so much safer.
	I've traveled through Singapore and Malaysia and Hong Kong and, of course, Taiwan and parts of Japan and so on.
	I never felt danger there like I would feel in East St.
	Louis or downtown Chicago or Los Angeles or, frankly, Austin, Texas, which is not far from me.
	You go down to 6th Street on Austin, Texas, and it's total lawless chaos.
	But the hypocrisy that you pointed out, it is stunning.
	For example, a couple weeks ago, we saw U.S. members of Congress grilling the TikTok CEO, who I believe is from Singapore, by the way, the TikTok CEO, grilling him and saying, well, you know, we can't go on TikTok and search for news about the Uyghur populations.
	As if the United States government didn't order big tech to censor me and you and all of us about everything from vaccines and Ukraine and the Federal Reserve and you name it.
	I mean, what is wrong with these American politicians?
	Do they have no clue that they represent the tyranny right here at home?
	Geez.
	I mean, that's a really good point.
	And we watched the United States kill a million Iraqis right in front of the entire world after deliberately lying.
	Now, it's interesting you bring up the situation with the Uyghurs.
	That is something that if you try to look into and find actual evidence for, none of it exists.
	And you will see all of the papers produced about this so-called genocide.
	They are coming out of U.S. government funded organizations.
	I have read several papers from Adrian Zenz from cover to cover.
	And even in the paper itself, he suggests that it could be happening.
	There's the possibility that it's happening.
	But he'll even admit that there is no actual evidence of this happening.
	And so you're talking about a million Uyghurs locked up somewhere.
	You'd have no evidence of it.
	And you're talking about coerced labor, but you admit there's no evidence of it, that there's only the possibility of it.
	Of course, there's the possibility of mistreatment anywhere you go in the world.
	But if you can't find evidence of it, then it's probably not systemic.
	And it most certainly isn't.
	And it's to China what WMDs were to Iraq.
	This is what the US does to absolutely everyone.
	They do it to Russia, China, Iraq.
	Yes.
	That is absolutely fascinating that you mentioned that because we, even in my own memory of, you know, weapons of mass destruction and 9-11.
	I mean, you, you know, you were talking about 9-11 earlier.
	When I saw 9-11 take place at that time, 2001, the narrative was controlled by the news media.
	I was outraged.
	Oh my gosh, America's under attack.
	Look at this.
	And now, here we are, years later, looking back, and I know that was an op.
	That was allowed to happen.
	It was real.
	I'm not saying it was holograms.
	It did happen.
	People died.
	But it was allowed to happen in order to have the reaction.
	And we know that about the U.S. We know that about the, what was it, the yellow cake, uranium, the weapons of mass destruction, WMDs.
	I've interviewed Scott Ritter, who says they ordered him to go in and say he found something, and he refused to do it.
	You're right, Brian.
	The U.S. State Department fabricates evidence to start wars that get millions of people killed, potentially.
	And I believed some of that until I got informed.
	I think we've all been guilty of that.
	I mean, we're born and raised in the U.S. We're basting in it.
	a grave.
	And I think it's remarkable that I somehow woke up.
	I mean, there were people out there planting the seeds of doubt, and eventually they grew luckily.
	I'm very fortunate that that happened.
	But going back to China, the things being said about China by the people we know are verified liars and have lied about everything else.
	What are the chances that this is the first thing that they're telling the truth about?
	But beyond that, we can actually just look at the sources that they're citing, and we can see that there's no evidence.
	We also have to understand that the imperative for them to lie about China, to vilify and dehumanize the Chinese people and the government, It's a top priority.
	No nation on earth threatens the US empire more than both Russia and China.
	China has a population four times the size of the US, a larger industrial base.
	They graduate millions more engineers every single year than the US does.
	They are going to surpass the United States.
	And when you really think about it, It's almost irrational to think that they shouldn't.
	Just more people have access to plenty of resources.
	Why wouldn't they be able to?
	I guess as an American having lived overseas for so long and seeing other nations, I mean, if America was always number one, all of these other nations have learned to live with being number two or three or four or wherever they are in the ranking, and their people are still able to survive and even thrive.
	And the United States can do this too, but first they have to let go of this obsession with global domination.
	Well, we have major problems even beyond that in the United States.
	We don't have a culture that's willing to work, for one thing, especially the younger generations I'm referring to, just apathy across the board.
	But back to your point about the Chinese people, I mean, obviously I'm married to an ethnic Chinese person who grew up in Taiwan.
	And the Chinese people as an ethnic group are incredibly impressive.
	In fact, I would say some of the smartest people that I've really ever met tend to be Chinese, Ukrainian, and Russian.
	I mean, the Ukrainians and Russians are really, really bright people.
	They really are.
	And so are the Chinese.
	They're incredibly bright.
	And occasionally, you know, like an India person would come out on top.
	But there's a whole lot of people in India, even I think now more than China, I've met a few of the cream of the crop there in the science realms and so on.
	But these people are bright.
	That's for sure.
	The question is, your channel name is The New Atlas.
	Can we ever get to a new geopolitical structure of the world where the tyrants stop murdering us?
	Well, I think we see that emerging and we can see how desperately the incumbent world power is fighting against it.
	Something that China is doing and being here in Thailand, Thailand is a partner nation in this project, the Belt and Road Initiative.
	This is China investing in infrastructure all around the globe.
	And this is infrastructure that once it's built, I've traveled through it.
	And so when I traveled through it, it was before China built any highways or any railway, and you were going through windy mountain roads, extremely dangerous.
	It took over three days to go from Huoming, China, to Vien Chan, the capital of Lao on the border with Thailand.
	They built the highway, cutting it down to 24 hours.
	Then they built the high-speed rail that cut it down to just a few hours.
	And the people in Laos now have access.
	Yes, they have access to China's entire economy and rail network.
	They also have access to Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia.
	And that is the type of thing that China is doing.
	They're doing it.
	And my biggest fear is that, okay, China and Russia, they're building a multipolar world where there's a better balance of power around the globe.
	My fear is that one of these nations might just replace the U.S. and what they're doing now, what the U.S. is doing now, just become the next U.S. That is the biggest fear.
	But the way they are setting this up, multipolarism and the Belt and Road Initiative, is that they're distributing this economic power by building this infrastructure globally.
	I don't remember the United States doing this.
	They may have done it initially right after World War II, but they soon stopped.
	I don't know anything.
	The U.S. doesn't even build rail and roads in their own country now.
	No, the U.S. goes in and bombs infrastructure and then creates indebtedness in the nation to have U.S. military contractors rebuild something that doesn't work.
	Like, that's the model.
	Exactly.
	That's what they did in Afghanistan.
	Trillions.
	And it was worse than when they arrived.
	That really is the model.
	And so, when you see multipolarism and you see...
	How it is working and almost the exact opposite And you can see the results on the ground.
	I mean, I'm in Southeast Asia, and I'm benefiting from this development that's taking place.
	I'm also watching how the U.S. was manipulating the region, causing unrest.
	I think everyone's familiar with the concept of color revolutions and the National Endowment for Democracy.
	They are involved in virtually every country on Earth, and you could go to their website and see the programs they fund everywhere.
	Here in Bangkok in 2009 and 2010, It was so violent.
	They had around 300 militants out on the street with war weapons.
	They were burning the city down and killing people.
	That was backed by the U.S. They do this absolutely everywhere.
	Well, they've done it in the U.S. They did it in the U.S. against Trump and in the 2020 election.
	We are the victims of a CIA color revolution.
	Absolutely.
	And in the U.S., there's the added component of a very deliberate and thorough division of the country.
	They tried to divide America's not not just left and right, but along as many fault lines as possible.
	And if it's not enough fault lines, they'll just start creating new ones, because that's that's how a small handful of people can control a much larger group of people is by dividing them all against each other.
	It's imperialism 101.
	You're exactly right.
	They tried to turn blacks against whites and vice versa during the Obama years.
	They couldn't really foment a national color war.
	So now they're trying to push it on trans versus non-trans.
	They're trying to get non-trans people to provoke violence against trans people while some trans people are becoming militants and shooting up Christian schools.
	It's like, okay, this is obviously another blueprint, just another chasm that they're trying to push out there, and who knows what's next, but they'll find another way to divide people, for sure.
	Absolutely.
	It's easy to tell people you should try to resist this.
	When you're living in the middle of it and you're a victim of it, it's very hard to ignore your emotions and try to appeal to your more rational nature.
	It's very sad.
	What I worry about For the United States is that the U.S. is going to just have to have, I think, like a top-level collapse.
	And then hopefully, just like what the Soviet Union went through, hopefully there are circles of interests who have a more constructive vision for America's role around the world that can step in and revitalize the country.
	The most important resource is human resources, and America has plenty of that.
	Yeah, can you imagine, Brian, the universal abundance and wealth at every level, cultural wealth, spiritual wealth, and also financial wealth, material wealth, that could be experienced by all of us if it wasn't being constantly destroyed or confiscated by these rogue governments?
	I mean, we would all be doing well.
	Every family would be doing well if they even worked a little.
	I mean, it's incredible.
	Yes.
	Yes, and I think if we look at what the rest of the world is trying to do, we look at the Middle East, for example, as the US is kind of being displaced out of the region.
	What do we see?
	We see Russia and China coming in and they're making peace between what we were told were implacable enemies that could never be at peace with one another, and we see that happening.
	Because in reality, the U.S. was doing to the Middle East what they're doing to their own people at home.
	They were creating these divisions and they were fueling them very deliberately.
	And then the insecurity that you feel being in the middle of these type of conflicts, you end up depending on the U.S. for defense, for weapons, for support of all kinds.
	And so as the U.S. is displaced in this role around the globe, I think you're going to see nations pursuing their own best interests.
	And their own best interest is peace and stability internally and regionally.
	And then hopefully eventually America can benefit from that process as well.
	Well, and for those Americans watching this, let it be known that what Brian just described, this is going to translate into vastly more expensive goods because America has been ripping off the world by printing currency and trading it for goods.
	Basically printing debt and trading it for physical stuff.
	You're going to be paying ten times more for a lot of things a few years from now compared to what you are now.
	That's just my take on it, Brian.
	But in the few minutes we have left, I'd like to ask you about the off-ramp in Ukraine.
	You've studied this extensively.
	It's very clear that the U.S. can't even run the munitions necessary to engage Russia in a land war.
	I mean, and the UK doesn't have an army that could last more than a week.
	The Germans don't really have an army anymore.
	You know, on and on.
	How does this end, you think, with Ukraine?
	I think it's going to end in a very similar way to the way we see the US proxy war unwinding in Syria.
	The US tried to overthrow the government in Syria.
	Russia intervened.
	First, they stopped the terrorist proxies the US was using.
	They kind of boxed America into eastern Syria so they couldn't expand their grip over the country any further.
	And so they just ground down the U.S. proxies there.
	And they started eliminating all of the options the U.S. had.
	And all at the same time, they were avoiding direct escalation with the U.S.
	So I think a very similar process, but just on a much larger and sadly more destructive scale is going to unfold in Ukraine.
	It's going to have to be settled on the battlefield.
	Russia is going to have to create the conditions on the ground that eliminate all the options for the U.S. except negotiating an exit out of this this proxy war.
	Unfortunately for the U.S., they have no no motivation, no incentive to stop fighting because they're not paying for it in their blood and treasure.
	They're paying for it in Ukrainian blood and American treasure, the American people's treasure.
	So it's going to be.
	Well, I would add America's printed currency, which has confiscated treasure from other countries around the world that hold the reserve currency.
	So, in fact, America is not even paying with its blood nor with its treasure.
	It's fabricating fake money, fake fiat, and getting other countries' young men killed.
	I mean, there's literally no cost to the decision makers in the State Department who are making these horrific, irrational, even genocidal decisions, in my opinion.
	That's my take on it.
	I think you're right.
	And actually, that could play a big role in ending the conflict.
	The fact that the world is awake and aware that the US dollar is a pyramid scheme.
	And actually, they've been working for years on ways of exiting out of it and hedging it and creating alternative systems of all kinds.
	The U.S. has kind of burned bridges and painted themselves into the into the corner with all of their sanctions, thinking they're going to isolate all of these countries and ending up only isolating themselves in Europe in the process.
	And so I think that that's actually going to play a big role in it, too.
	The transition away from the U.S. dollar is going to drastically reduce Washington's options.
	And again, like I said, I just hope that a more constructive circle of interest can take over in the U.S. and get things back on track.
	It's a shame.
	There's so much potential being wasted.
	It's the woke curse.
	I mean, they're completely irrational.
	All they focus on is being woke and virtue signaling, even at the geopolitical level.
	But one more question before we go, Brian.
	You live in Thailand.
	And this is a question about whether the central banks of the world can convince people to move into digital wallet systems.
	Now my understanding, I haven't been to Thailand, but my understanding is that it's a very cash-focused type of country.
	Do you think that the people of Thailand would go for some kind of a digital wallet mandate?
	No, I don't think...
	If it was a mandate, no.
	What I think...
	Because Thai people, and I think people in Asia, from my experience, are very practical people.
	They like to have a multitude of options, and they always like to try to find a middle path through everything.
	So they would never...
	Want all cash or all digital currency.
	They want to have a multitude of options.
	Another thing that is huge here in Thailand and always has been is gold.
	It's a very liquid gold market.
	They have shops literally everywhere, almost everywhere you can find an ATM. There's some gold shop nearby.
	You can buy and sell golds on the same day if you wanted to.
	And so Thai people are aware of the benefits of all of this, and I don't think they would give that up.
	Not easily.
	Yeah, well, that's interesting to hear because, you know, there are many other cultures around the world.
	Like, take a look at Mexico.
	Is Mexico going to convince everybody to go to digital cash?
	Not on your life.
	Most of the Mexican economy is a cash, or, I mean, a lot of it is a cash economy.
	And I've lived in South America, too.
	Cash, cash, cash, man.
	It's not, you're not using credit cards or writing checks.
	It's cash in the Middle East, in many areas.
	It's a cash economy as well, so...
	Good luck with that digital Mark of the Beast system, Globalist.
	I don't think it's going to fly.
	But, Brian, it's been a pleasure.
	Thank you for taking the time with us today.
	I really enjoy speaking with you.
	Thank you so much for having me.
	I would be very happy to come back and talk again.
	Well, we'd love to have you back as things escalate, especially get your analysis on what's happening.
	There's going to be more news, obviously, on Ukraine and also with China and Taiwan.
	And I just want to say, I pray for all the people of all these countries.
	And if I could apologize on behalf of America, not that I'm...
	An official or anything, but if I could, I would apologize to the people of Ukraine and apologize to the people of Taiwan for being exploited by our careless, reckless, unethical, immoral, lunatic leaders who weren't even elected, by the way.
	We didn't elect those people.
	It's not our fault!
	Absolutely.
	They stole power.
	Anyway, okay, the channel, folks, is New Atlas.
	Look for it on YouTube.
	And also, I believe, Brian, you said you're on Rumble and Odyssey.
	What about Bitchute?
	Got to get on Bitchute, get on Brighton, get everywhere you can, and people will find you everywhere.
	Thank you.
	Yes, thank you.
	Okay, excellent.
	All right.
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