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	Well, we certainly have some extraordinary things to talk about today.
	Welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for Wednesday, December 13th, 2023.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And yes, today, in a highly unusual move, we're going to talk about a film.
	And it's the Leave the World Behind movie that was just released on Netflix.
	Even though I'm not a Netflix subscriber, I was able to watch this movie.
	It's directed by Sam Eshmael, and it stars Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Marshala Ali, and Kevin Bacon, with some other supporting actors.
	And it is...
	Well, it's a rather extraordinary film, and it has a very important message.
	Some would say predictive programming about a massive cyber attack coming to America.
	And that's really the main topic here today.
	The working title for today's episode is, they want you to leave the world behind after a massive cyber attack false flag event rolled out.
	And by the way, that event is probably going to be blamed on China.
	But first, a couple of programming notes here.
	I interviewed Colonel Tony Schaefer earlier today, and so we'll be featuring that interview.
	At least that's the plan here, unless I run over time.
	But Tony Schaefer is an extraordinary man, extraordinary American, a thought leader, an analyst, a patriot, and so much more.
	And I think you'll really enjoy our conversation.
	I know he and I did immensely.
	And secondly, I interviewed Anthony Rubin from Muckraker.com, who has an extraordinary adventure to share with us.
	I won't be running that interview today, perhaps tomorrow, but he flew to Quito, Ecuador.
	And he made the trek that many of the illegals or the migrants are making to the U.S. border.
	He went through the Darien Gap.
	Well, not through the jungles.
	He took a boat around it.
	But he made the trek on trains and trucks and by foot.
	And when he made it to the U.S. border, or nearly to the border, he was kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel.
	And he lived to tell about it.
	They eventually let him go.
	And he joined me in studio to tell that extraordinary true story about mass immigration, or as Michael Yon calls it, what?
	Human osmotic pressure of this surge of illegals that are coming into the United States by the millions every year.
	So watch for that interview coming up soon.
	And then one more note.
	This Friday, I will be joining Alex Jones on the Alex Jones Show with extraordinary coverage.
	And I have a title for the segments that I'm going to do.
	I'll be with him for a couple of hours on his show.
	And I'm calling this segment Smashing the AI Threat Matrix, how the human resistance defeats Skynet and survives the coming war with the machines.
	So if you want to find out the latest analysis that I've got on AI and how we actually use technology to protect and defend humanity against what I'm calling Skynet, you know, from the Terminator movie series, Be sure to tune in at Infowars.com and that is Friday and let's see, the second hour begins at 12 noon Central Time.
	I'm joining him for two hours, but that's the third and fourth hour.
	So it's going to be 1 p.m.
	Central to 3 p.m.
	Central.
	That is this Friday, which I believe is the 15th of December.
	Oh, by the way...
	On Thursday, which is tomorrow at 11 a.m., we begin our big Christmas sale event, by the way, if you want to help support us at healthrangerstore.com.
	And you can just type in your browser in the address bar, just type healthrangerstore.com slash Christmas.
	And you'll see all the specials.
	We've got several bundles, specials for men and women and immune system and performance and so on with some pretty good savings there.
	Definitely the best savings we've had since the whole Black Friday event.
	But that all starts Thursday, by the way, at 11 a.m.
	Central.
	But the interview with Alex Jones is Friday, 1 p.m.
	Central to 3 p.m.
	Central.
	Again, smashing the AI threat matrix.
	And I spoke with Alex earlier today for the first time in many months.
	I don't speak with Alex on a regular basis.
	But he is aware of my coverage of AI. And he's also, of course, been talking to Elon Musk, who is building an AI system.
	And Alex, he's always been a very forward thinker.
	He knows what's coming many years, if not a decade plus in advance.
	And Alex knows the critical importance of AI for determining the future fate of humanity.
	And so Alex wants me on to cover this and I've got some bombshells to share with Alex and his audience.
	And also since Alex was unbanned or reinstated by Elon Musk on Twitter or now as it's called X, Alex's traffic has just exploded through the roof.
	He told me that many of his videos are now getting two million views.
	That's probably combined on X and other platforms, and they have their own platform called Band.Video as well.
	But Alex's reinstatement on X is breaking the internet, you could say, and it's making a lot of authoritarians on the left completely lose their minds, even more than usual, because they can't stand the fact that Alex Jones is allowed to speak.
	He was banished for five years.
	Not able to contribute to any debates on Twitter.
	Not able to defend himself against absolute malicious lies.
	And I was in the same boat, by the way.
	I was banned actually before Alex was banned from most platforms.
	I've been banned for many years, including today.
	Still banned on YouTube.
	Still banned on Facebook.
	But Anthony Rubin told me today during the interview, remember he was kidnapped by the Mexican drug cartels, he said that Once he got back to America, he was trying to get his film footage back from the Mexican drug cartel that had confiscated his camera equipment For whatever reason, he thought maybe he could convince them to give him back the storage cards, you know, the SD cards.
	And so he was able to search for the name of this cartel on Facebook, and he found the cartel and he contacted them through Facebook and was actually able to make contact with some key people from this cartel who knew about his story and what had happened to him near the border.
	And it struck me that I'm banned on Facebook as an American, as the health ranger, as a nutritional scientist, a published scientist, a lab owner, an analyst, you know, a compassionate pro-humanity person, whereas a Mexican drug cartel is allowed to have Facebook pages.
	So just keep that in mind when you wonder why are people like myself and Alex Jones banned?
	It's not because we're bad people.
	It's because we're good people who want to help humanity survive.
	The drug cartels are allowed on Facebook because, well, they help destabilize society.
	And the drug cartels sometimes traffic human beings or children or weapons.
	And that's what big tech wants.
	They want destabilization of America.
	They don't want people like myself or Alex or others telling people how to be more self-reliant.
	How to prepare, how to think critically, how to enhance your own longevity and avoid having to take dangerous pharmaceuticals or dangerous vaccines and so on.
	So if you are a drug smuggling terrorist, you are welcome on Facebook.
	If you are a truth teller, you are banned.
	Think about that.
	Now let's talk about the movie Leave the World Behind.
	This movie was produced with funding from a company owned, as I understand it, by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
	It was directed by Sam Eshmael, and it stars, among others, Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Marshala Ali, who's a great actor.
	I really admire his acting, by the way.
	And Kevin Bacon.
	And the movie is all the rage right now, for whatever reason.
	But it's filled with a lot of symbolism, and some people say there may be occult symbolism in the film, such as 666 in one of the opening scenes.
	And there are all kinds of other artistic interpretations and names of ships.
	For example, one of the ships that is grounded on the beach is called White Lion, which turns out to be the name of a slave ship.
	In, I think, the 17th century that was bringing African slaves to America.
	And there are overtones of slavery and racial divide and civil war throughout the film.
	However, I would say that the conservative take on this film is very shallow because I've seen a lot of headlines from conservative media, including conservative alternative media, that simply say, oh, this is a film That simply say, this is an anti-white film that makes white people look bad.
	And they mostly leave it at that.
	They're just saying, oh, this is Barack Obama funded a film that attacks whites.
	And although there are a couple of scenes in the film, where especially this young...
	Black daughter of one of the key characters in the film.
	This young black girl.
	I don't know how old she's supposed to be.
	But she's clearly an anti-white racist.
	I mean, her character is in the film.
	And she just hates white people.
	So she's this woke, little, bitchy black girl, basically, who just hates everybody with fair skin.
	And yes, there are a couple of scenes.
	in the film with her talking about how you can't trust white people and at one point she wants the white people to go away even if they're gonna get killed in the chaos but that's not what this film is about In fact, playing off against this anti-white racist black girl is the mature woman character, the mom, played by Julia Roberts.
	And this woman, although she doesn't come across as racist, she comes across as a really angry, bitchy, bitter, mature woman who just hates everybody.
	It's not about hating black people.
	It's about hating every person in the world.
	And she's a marketing executive, which actually kind of makes sense.
	And then there's a character played by Ethan Hawke, who is the husband of the Julia Roberts character.
	And they live in the city.
	I think New York City is what they're referring to because the film takes place in Long Island.
	But the Ethan Hawke character is a male, neutered, snowflake, oblivious citizen who doesn't know how to do anything.
	In fact, I'm going to play a scene for you here that reinforces that.
	He doesn't know how to change a tire.
	He doesn't know how to use a firearm.
	He doesn't know about preparedness or survival or anything.
	And basically, he is run by his wife, the Julia Roberts character, who's clearly in charge of that family.
	And then there's the character played by Marshalla Ali.
	I hope I'm pronouncing his name correctly.
	I'm sure people don't get that correct all the time.
	I don't mean any disrespect.
	I actually think he's the best actor in the film, by the way.
	I love the work that he has done.
	But he plays a really sophisticated, well-educated, well-to-do black American.
	Who owns this house that is sort of rented out in a B&B arrangement to the Ethan Hawke, Julia Roberts family.
	They're just guests staying at this house.
	But the Marshala Ali, he's the father and he's very polite.
	He's very tolerant.
	He's very reasonable.
	He has a calming personality.
	He is a de-escalation character in the film.
	Whereas Julia Roberts is an escalation crazy woman.
	And she does a great job playing that, by the way.
	But Marshala Ali does a fantastic job here bringing some key narratives to this film about preparedness and community-mindedness and how we work together and also helping to explore some of the racial overtones that we'll talk about in a second.
	And then finally, Kevin Bacon plays the American Prepper.
	At one point in the movie, he's on his porch.
	I'll actually play this scene for you.
	He's got an American flag and he's got a shotgun.
	And he's wearing a baseball cap and he's the all-American guy who's the prepper.
	And he's a handyman.
	He does contracting work and he's a hands-on guy.
	He knows how to do stuff.
	You know, he can repair plumbing, for example.
	He can probably repair car engines and whatever.
	And he's a prepper, so he's got food and ammo and who knows how much gold and whatever.
	And medicine, we find out in the film.
	And yet he is depicted as very much a you're on your own type of prepper.
	He says that what's mine is mine, and get off my porch, get off my yard, good luck, that kind of thing.
	So he is the lone wolf prepper who is going to defend his property with his shotgun, which, frankly, may be necessary, depending on how crazy things get.
	So that's kind of the mix of the key characters of the film, and there are also three children involved if you're wondering about the characters, the A young daughter and son of the Julia Roberts family, and then the young racist black daughter of the Marshala Ali character.
	And I don't recall all the names of the characters in the film, so I just refer to them as the names of the actors who play the roles.
	So, the film is not a shallow, racist, anti-white film, even though it's sometimes depicted as that.
	The film is actually very thoughtful.
	And I thought it was very well done.
	Even the direction of the film.
	I don't know if you would call it genius or just extremely creative.
	But the camera angles, for example, are all designed to create the idea of instability.
	The movement of the camera.
	It's...
	It's as if the camera is very intimate and omniscient, that the camera can move through the world.
	The camera frequently moves through windows, for example, or it floats around inside a vehicle in an intimate way with the characters and then comes outside of the car window somehow as if by magic.
	So the camera, the point of view of the camera, appears to be omniscient, almost godlike from the camera's point of view.
	But there are many camera angles throughout the film that are designed to make you feel topsy-turvy.
	They are very radical angles.
	A lot of top-down camera angles.
	Sometimes an angle from the beach looking up at this giant ship as it's running aground on the beach, making the ship appear like it's looming as a cosmic invader of the beach space.
	And I think that these camera angles do exactly what they're supposed to do.
	It doesn't make you feel nauseated to watch the film, but it does sort of trigger something in your psyche.
	It triggers a feeling of instability or fear that something's not right with the world, which is exactly what this movie is trying to impart on the viewer.
	So I think that the camera work and the photography in this film is just downright brilliant.
	And it doesn't mean I endorse Barack Obama or the director or all the actors or whatever.
	I'm just saying that from an independent, honest film point of view, the camera work is just absolutely brilliant.
	And it's worth watching for that reason alone.
	I really do recommend that you watch this film, and I don't think I've recommended a film for a long time.
	Other than, of course, Die Hard, which has required Christmas viewing.
	But aside from Die Hard, this is probably the film that you need to see.
	Yes, the original Die Hard from what year was that?
	1986, 88?
	I forgot.
	The first one that made Bruce Willis really famous.
	Yeah, that was the best Die Hard.
	Anyway, what the movie explores is a scenario...
	Where there are infrastructure attacks on the United States of America that take down telecommunications and are designed to cause chaos and confusion among the American people in order to cause uprisings and revolts and ultimately a civil war in the country.
	And there are efforts of psychological warfare Depicted in the film, for example, a small airplane dropping leaflets that appear to contain Arabic writing that says, death to America.
	And then at another point in the movie, the Kevin Bacon character says that he knows somebody in the military that saw similar leaflets dropped in California that actually contained writing that was either Korean or Chinese.
	He couldn't tell the difference, which is understandable, I suppose.
	If you don't speak Korean or Chinese or read it, you might not know the difference.
	But it was Asian language.
	So the disinformation aspect of warfare is covered in this film.
	But most importantly, this film witnesses the process that families, i.e.
	civilians, go through in America when they don't know what is happening, but the services and infrastructure that they have come to depend upon are no longer working, and And they are temporarily or perhaps permanently on their own, but they don't know what to do.
	They don't even know what's happening.
	They don't have the normal access to information.
	The news reports aren't working.
	The internet isn't working.
	They're not getting information on their phones except in one scene.
	There are some phone emergency texts that come through.
	But other than that, there's really no communication in the film.
	There is a bunker in the basement of one home in the film where there's some kind of military messaging coming across that says, as I recall, Washington, D.C. is under attack, and this is a red alert situation.
	The nation's under attack.
	Prepare accordingly.
	But in this process, and I think this is where the film does a really good job, or the writers do a great job, They show that these people not knowing what is happening, they attempt to continue with their normal vacation activities.
	They're swimming in the swimming pool, they're taking walks, and they're just trying to live out a normal vacation, not realizing that their world is coming to an end.
	Not realizing that they probably don't have enough food to last very long.
	That was one of the questions that I had watching this film, was how come nobody in this movie is wondering where the food is going to come from?
	And I suppose normally you don't really see people eating at all in Hollywood films.
	They don't take time to eat.
	They're never eating.
	They're just busy doing their roles in the film.
	But when it comes to a prepping situation, you have to ask, how are you going to feed yourself?
	And I also kept wondering, why were these people going out?
	They were venturing out into the unknown areas around this vacation home.
	They were venturing out without firearms, which I just found absolutely, that was horrifying.
	Because if I were going into an unknown situation, well, in fact, even when I'm going into known situations, you better believe I have a firearm with me.
	And not just one, either.
	You know, a pistol on my hip, and then some kind of carbine in the vehicle, or even maybe a medium-range rifle in the vehicle, depending on what I might be anticipating.
	But these people had no guns whatsoever, and they had no plan.
	Well, especially the White family, they had no plan at all.
	Now...
	The Black Father in the film, played by Marshala Ali, he apparently knew something about what was about to go down because one of his clients in the film was a defense contractor and the defense contractor was moving lots of money around in anticipation of some kind of big cyber event.
	So he knew something was going on, but he himself also was not a prepper.
	Nobody in this movie was a prepper except for the Kevin Bacon character with the shotgun and the American flag on his porch.
	And frankly, he looked like he could probably handle himself.
	So I want to play a segment of this for you.
	It's about two minutes, or a little longer than two minutes, that shows you the kind of tension.
	This is some of the prepper versus non-prepper tension, and also the mix of races in this film, to just give you a little taste of this.
	I found this to be really the most...
	Emotionally impactful scene in the film.
	And I want to play it for you here.
	Take a look.
	All due respect.
	I would like all of you off of my property.
	Now You're not going anywhere to you give us what we need
	What the f*** is going on right now?
	Ah! Ah!
	Ah! Ah! Ah!
	I promised this boy's mother I'd give him some help.
	The only thing you're helping him do is a quick death unless you lower your weapon.
	James, put the gun down, all right?
	We'll find another way to the hospital.
	There is no other way!
	Besides, he's not gonna shoot us.
	Uh, sounds like he's gonna shoot us.
	I'm telling you, he's bluffed.
	- Who the fuck I am? - Hold on!
	Hold on!
	Try to get out of the way!
	I'm trying to reason with him!
	the only way this ends is if you get back in your vehicle and drive away now Drive away to what?
	All the roads are blocked.
	We're in the middle of God knows where.
	There's no one else around.
	I have no idea what I'm supposed to do right now.
	I can barely do anything without my cell phone and my GPS. I am a useless man.
	But my son is sick.
	And my daughter is missing.
	And I don't know what to do.
	But you are a very prepared man.
	Yeah, I am.
	That's right.
	That's why we came to you.
	Because you're the only one who can help my son.
	Not my problem.
	No, you're right.
	It's not.
	But it's like you said.
	Right?
	What would you do if it was your family?
	That's what I'm doing.
	It's the only thing I can do.
	I am begging you.
	Please.
	Please help my son.
	So several important things to notice about this clip.
	The deer are actually representing humanity, and the humans are representing animals.
	That's what I find fascinating here.
	So the deer are really more organized, they're community-minded, they're working together, they're More rational and de-escalatory.
	So the so-called animals are inquisitive and intelligent and very capable of surviving.
	The humans, especially the two women that you saw in that clip, the white woman, the Julia Roberts character, and then the younger black girl, they are acting like crazy animals, having no idea what to do, having no way to defend themselves, just feeling...
	Afraid and unsure, and all they can do is scream and dance around like animals.
	And even the deer are like, these humans are crazy!
	Let's get out of here.
	This is a waste of time.
	So that's notable.
	There's even one juxtaposition there where the Ethan Hawke character is screaming, I'm trying to reason with him.
	And then they show the two women that are screaming like animals in front of the deer.
	And the deer are probably thinking, gosh, we're trying to reason with these humans, but they're insane.
	But the most important line in that segment is when the Ethan Hawke character says, I have no idea what to do right now.
	And he says, I can barely do anything without my cell phone and my GPS. And he even says there, quote, I am a useless man, but my son is sick.
	And I think this self-awareness of being a useless man, at least useless in this circumstance, is especially notable.
	Because I think there are a lot of people in America today that do realize that they don't know how to do anything.
	But they have no choice other than just to be desperate and beg for help, ask for help, or maybe try to coerce help when they get into a difficult situation.
	And so what you really have in this scene is the Marshala Ali character, the black man.
	He is, even though he's holding a gun, he is the voice of reason.
	The Ethan Hawke character is the voice of desperation.
	Well, I should say that the black man character is also desperate, but he has more of a reasonable approach.
	Please help us at first, and only then, after that, does he draw his gun, and we're not leaving until you help us.
	I don't know if you want to call that reason or desperation, but he's not screaming.
	Anyway, the Ethan Hawke character is the voice of desperation and uselessness.
	And then the Kevin Bacon character is the voice of, well, I told you so, and isolationism.
	So, this is almost presented as a riddle, which is, what would you do in this situation?
	What would you do?
	Now, we know that the Kevin Bacon character has medicine that can help the boy, the son.
	And ultimately, the way this scene ends, I'm not spoiling the film for you, believe me, but it ends by the Kevin Bacon character selling a few pills, some kind of medication, to the Ethan Hawke character in exchange for seemingly $1,000 to the Ethan Hawke character in exchange for seemingly $1,000 in cash.
	And then the Kevin Bacon character even laments the fact that he's accepting cash because he says he doesn't know how long cash is going to be good anyway, depending on how badly things have broken down.
	But he does sell some medicine for cash.
	So there is actually an exchange that takes place.
	But the question to you is, what would you do if you are in Kevin Bacon's shoes in this situation or in any of these characters' shoes?
	Because remember, there's no one else around.
	There's not a crazy mob that's trying to loot this home where Kevin Bacon lives, or his character.
	He could...
	Easily say, yeah, I'm happy to help you to the extent that I can, especially if it's to help save the life of your son.
	You know, what do I have that could possibly help you?
	And that tends to be my answer, by the way.
	If I have something that I know can help other people, and if I can offer it to them in a way that's not going to compromise my own safety...
	And in a way that doesn't encourage mass looting of my property, let's say, then I'm happy to give supplies away to help others.
	But then again, you probably know this if you've listened to me for very long, I'm a community-minded prepper, and I've been blessed with enough resources to be able to purchase a lot of things at scale with the intention of being able to share them with the community.
	Whereas a lot of people may not be in that position.
	And I understand that.
	Especially those who are at the lower end of the economic scale.
	Let's say they don't earn a lot of money.
	And of course, food inflation is rather horrendous these days.
	And so their preparedness activities may have been quite limited.
	They may only have enough for their own families and quite literally not enough to share with others.
	I can see that situation unfolding for many people.
	But why not try to help in other ways?
	Maybe you have a book on medicine that could help them diagnose the problem.
	Maybe you have clean water with a water filter and you could offer them water in case they've run out of water.
	Maybe you have Something that's very affordable.
	Rice supplies, for example, to offer.
	Or maybe you could suggest that we work together, that we're all going to be safer if we're under the same roof, potentially.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I guess it's up to the circumstances and the people who are involved.
	You might not want to invite strangers in your house.
	But at some point, if you're in some kind of collapse scenario, there is strength in numbers, right?
	And one of the themes of this film is that these people eventually set aside their racist differences.
	Well, at least the young black girl, she's clearly an anti-white racist.
	But even the Julia Roberts character sets aside her hatred in the interest of trying to figure out how do we all survive this together?
	And that's a really critical thing that we all need to understand.
	And I was actually given a test like this just the other night.
	You know, I drive around with a lot of preparedness equipment in my vehicle and one of the things that I have is an inflator for tires.
	And I really like the Milwaukee brand of tools and batteries and they have a really outstanding inflator.
	And I'm not sponsored by Milwaukee, in case you're curious.
	I've just found that their products work really well.
	So I have this nice Milwaukee inflator, and I was driving past a gas station the other night, and I noticed that there were three Hispanic-looking individuals that were staring at the right rear tire Of their pickup truck, it was kind of a fashionable pickup truck, kind of a low rider, you know, Latino, a bit showy pickup truck.
	But these three Latino guys were standing there looking at this tire, and they had it parked in a gas station.
	And of course, I immediately thought, well, gosh, these guys, you know, their tire's flat, and they probably need some air.
	So I pull up.
	And from inside my vehicle, but I just opened the door and kind of stand up.
	And I, you know, I called out to them and said, Hey, do you need some help?
	I have in a deflator.
	And they didn't answer.
	And so, you know, I said it in Espanol.
	Instead, I figured they must speak Spanish, you know.
	I don't know if I got it all right, but it's like, necesita ayuda?
	You know, presión, air pressure, aire, presión, I don't know.
	I was just reaching for words.
	And they said, ah, sí, sí.
	And they came over and said, yeah, you know, like, do you have an inflator?
	I said, yeah, sí, yo lo tengo.
	And I bring over the inflator.
	And...
	They had not seen that inflator before and I'm just plugging it into their valve stem on their tire and Pumping air into the tire And they were very very appreciative And sadly, this did not solve the tire problem, by the way.
	It wasn't a happy thing where, oh, the tire works and they drove away and everything's awesome.
	It turned out their tire had some other major problem, like it had lost the bead seat on the rim or something.
	So the air didn't stay and I didn't solve their problem.
	But what I did do is I demonstrated to, think about it, three Latino guys in Texas that, you know, a white guy can come along and offer to help.
	A white guy that speaks a little bit of Spanish, even.
	And that counts.
	Folks, remember this.
	That counts.
	When we're talking about preparedness and we're talking about community, it's critical that we don't just go to war with each other.
	Even if we don't all speak the same language or look all the same or have the same skin color or the same religion or what have you.
	It's critical that we work together as best we can.
	Now, of course...
	I was taking every precaution.
	You know, I had my security dog with me.
	And I had the window rolled down where he is.
	And if I called him, he would have leaped out.
	And, you know, on command, he would have ripped the limbs off of these guys if I asked him to.
	And I had my firearm with me and my knife and my everyday carry stuff.
	You know, I mean, I was fully prepared and very much alert and aware.
	So I'm ready to handle trouble.
	But I wasn't...
	Pushing trouble.
	I wasn't escalating trouble.
	I was there to try to solve a problem that these guys had, these three Latino guys with the flat tire.
	And if you think about it, these three guys probably went home, I guess, eventually, you know.
	I don't know ultimately how they ended up fixing their tire.
	Maybe they put a spare on or something.
	But I would imagine they probably told their friends this story about this crazy gringo.
	Being me.
	Like, this crazy gringo comes along, just drives up, and offers to inflate our tire for free.
	And he speaks Spanish.
	Can you imagine, like, this story probably got shared throughout some of the Hispanic communities in Central Texas, and it sends a very important message, which is that, you know, guess what?
	When things go wrong, even if it's something simple, we can actually help each other.
	We can find ways to cooperate.
	Now, you know, I'm not going to go up there and offer to help if they look like sketchy human traffickers or something.
	But we need to look for opportunities to demonstrate the kind of cooperation that brings peace to society, that de-escalates events.
	We don't have to be like the Kevin Bacon character in the movie that's just basically willing to shoot everybody to get him off his property.
	Maybe you don't have to go to that much of an extreme.
	Maybe you could say, hey, guess what, guys?
	Wait out here in the yard.
	Don't pull any weapons.
	Keep your hands where I can see them and let me go check to see if I have some medicine that might be able to help your son.
	And I'd be happy to give you a couple of pills if it might help.
	That's perfectly reasonable.
	And then you never know how those people might be able to help you back in return in a way that you did not anticipate.
	You know, we are stronger together.
	Or as in Espanol, juntos es mejor, right?
	Together is better.
	If we can work together to get things done, then we have a much better chance of survival rather than just everybody opening fire on each other and the last man standing, you know, He ends up getting all the survival goods, but eventually he's got to go to sleep and then he's vulnerable anyway.
	You have to have a community in order to survive what's coming.
	And this is one of the reasons why I'm very grateful for my time living in Ecuador, even though there were some dark forces there.
	That's true in every country, but I also met a tremendous number of very amazing local people.
	Being able to speak enough Espanol and knowing enough about the culture of people, at least from Ecuador, but I've also visited many other countries in Central and South America, like Panama and Peru and so on.
	I feel very comfortable around people who only speak Espanol.
	And I found that, by and large, they are very accepting people.
	And as far as black-white racism goes, it's clear to me that Hollywood and the media, they keep trying to keep racism alive.
	They do.
	They're always trying to dredge up the history of slavery, which was also represented in this movie, and critical race theory that's being taught in the schools, which is really an anti-white racist agenda that's just designed to create division.
	And it's very clear that there is an agenda targeting the United States of America.
	Now, frankly, Yuri Bezbinov talked about he was the dissident from the former Soviet Union who laid out the plan, I think, in the late 1980s about how America would be conquered.
	And part of that conquering was the demoralization of the country.
	And that's created by getting people to distrust each other.
	And following that, then, part of the effort to destabilize America involves attacks on infrastructure, which is some of what's happening right now.
	We'll talk about that a little bit more in a few minutes here.
	But America has been turned into a country of great racial divide by design.
	And frankly, Barack Obama was part of this.
	He did the Trayvon Martin race card play to try to get black people in America to hate white people and vice versa, and especially to get black people to hate police.
	And most cops are not racist.
	Most cops are professionals.
	They're just trying to do their jobs.
	There are a few bad apples, obviously.
	But by and large, cops are underpaid and underappreciated and just trying to do the best to help create civility in society.
	We don't have to be a society that's at each other's throats racially, but those themes are reinforced by the media.
	They're reinforced by the race hoaxers like Jussie Smollett that pretended like a white attacker put a noose around his neck or whatever he claims happened.
	It was all made up.
	There are a lot of race hoaxers.
	They tend to be black people who are the ones setting their buildings on fire or painting swastikas on dormitories or whatever.
	And often they get caught and then they confess.
	And it turns out they just wanted to play the victim role because that gives them, you know, extra, well, extra virtue signaling credit in society.
	There's a lot of self-victimization right now, and there are a lot of race hoaxes.
	But this is all designed to separate people who don't have to be separated.
	And that's one of the questions that this movie explores, really.
	And that's why I think it's shallow to say that it's an anti-white film.
	I think it's a film that explores the collision of Of some anti-white woke racism, as well as just people hating individuals,
	as well as preppers versus non-preppers, escalation versus de-escalation, desperation versus being calm, knowing versus not knowing, panic versus being chill, and all these thieves.
	That's what the movie explores, and I think it does actually a good job at that.
	And the takeaways from this movie, I think, are rather obvious.
	The first takeaway is don't be like the Ethan Hawke character if you're a man or a woman.
	And don't be like the Julia Roberts character either.
	Don't be like either one of those characters because they are horrifically unprepared for what's happening in society.
	And you really don't get much traction running around just yelling and screaming and accusing people all the time, especially in face-to-face interactions.
	I mean, think about it.
	What would you do in a scenario if you were at a B&B rental home on vacation and there was a massive cyber attack and the world ended around you?
	What would you do?
	How would you treat people around you?
	Would you just get angry and start accusing everybody and start panicking or would you try to create organization?
	You know, how are we going to survive this?
	Let's list our basic needs here.
	Let's assess an inventory of everybody's skills.
	How about that?
	You know, who here has medical knowledge?
	Who has firearms knowledge?
	Who can stay up at night and do a night shift, you know, for security?
	Who is good with radios and comms?
	These kinds of questions.
	Who has the best firearm here, by the way?
	Does anybody have any night vision?
	You know, you take inventory and then you figure out how we're going to work together to survive.
	And then also what skills can we teach each other right now so we can cross train and have redundancy and, And also, what are the likely threats that we are facing here together?
	And how can we best strategically address those threats in a way that we all survive?
	The other big takeaway from this is don't be caught unprepared.
	Because we are probably facing major cyber attacks.
	And I'll cover that in the next section here.
	But this movie, in the minds of many people, is a type of predictive programming.
	It's putting these themes out there because this is exactly what is being planned.
	And it's very likely that a false flag cyber attack event is going to be rolled out and blamed on China.
	And that's my analysis, and that's what I'm going to cover in the next segment here.
	And we'll talk about some specific things that you can do to prepare for that and things that will also help you prepare for other scenarios as well.
	But that's my summary of the movie.
	Leave the world behind.
	It's definitely worth watching.
	I'm not endorsing all the themes in it.
	I'm not endorsing whatever symbolism or cultism that people might find in it.
	I'm just saying that it's worth a watch because it makes you think.
	about how you would handle these situations and in doing so it may help you better prepare for the collapse that's coming or it could be actually a multi-faceted collapse it might not be one collapse it could be a financial collapse and a cyber attack a grid down collapse a food collapse and who knows what else but watch this movie and think about your own situation and what you could do better To not
	only survive yourself, but also to help the people around you survive because again, remember, juntos es mejor.
	Together is better and we all survive with a higher chance of survival if we can figure out how to work together, whether that's in one household, a family unit, or a neighborhood, or a county, or a small town, or whatever the case may be.
	Figure out how to work together and you're going to have a much better chance of getting through all this.
	In this segment, we're going to talk about what I believe is a coming cyber attack false flag event that will be rolled out targeting infrastructure across the United States, and it will likely be blamed on China.
	In fact, we're already seeing hints of that in the media.
	Now, the big picture of why all this matters, although we will get into more details here shortly, is that the United States has lost the war with Russia in Ukraine.
	NATO has lost.
	And remember, I have an interview here coming up with Colonel Tony Schaefer where we discuss the details of that.
	So since the United States and NATO have lost this war, they are looking to get out of that quagmire as quickly as possible and get to some other distraction, which perhaps the Middle East is a temporary distraction, but the big long-term distraction will be China.
	So the United States of America wants to blame China for cyber attacks, and that effort has already begun.
	You can see stories just in the last couple of days.
	For example, here's one in the UK Daily Mail.
	Chinese-affiliated hacking groups infiltrated critical American infrastructure, including Hawaii water utility and at least one oil and gas pipeline, U.S. officials say.
	That's the key right there is that US officials say, well, who are these US officials?
	Well, they're officials from CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. Well, CISA was involved in rigging the 2020 election to steal it from the American people.
	And install Joe Biden as the president.
	So CISA is run by cyber criminals, actually, who are involved in the coup that already took over America.
	So CISA telling us that, oh, China is attacking U.S. infrastructure, that doesn't actually mean that China is doing that.
	It just means that CISA wants us to believe that that's what China is doing.
	But you can go back to last year, and you can see on the CISA.gov website, here's a story of Russian state-sponsored and cyber-criminal threats to critical infrastructure, May 9th, 2022.
	And it talks about how there's a joint cybersecurity advisory that's being released because of malicious cyber activity from Russia.
	And they're just trying to blame Russia and demonize Russia.
	It's probably all completely made up.
	But now they're just pivoting to China.
	So they float these stories out in the press that say, oh, water systems have been compromised.
	Oil systems, gas systems have been compromised.
	And it's all China's fault.
	And what they're doing is they're setting a precedent here that when systems start to fail, people will blame China and they will support a war on China.
	Because do not forget that several years ago, the United States of America, and I forgot what year it happened, but there was a new military posture designation that said that the United States can respond to cyber attacks with nuclear weapons.
	And just checking some of the history of news on this, the Washington Post covered this in 2021.
	A headline, the U.S. says it can answer cyber attacks with nuclear weapons.
	And it's talking about the Trump administration and its rules of engagement.
	There's another story here under Arms Control Association.
	Which I'm not familiar with, but it says cyber battles and nuclear outcomes dangerous new pathways to escalation.
	And there it cites a January 2018 nuclear posture review under the Trump administration.
	That got posted online and it talked about this shift in US nuclear policy that basically said that the US can use nuclear weapons to respond to cyber attacks.
	So this has all been put in place.
	And the other thing that we know that's really critical to understand here is that the CIA and the NSA in particular, and there are many contractors with specific areas of technical expertise that would add to that list, But they are capable of carrying out cyber attacks that leave behind traces that would work as a false flag to blame any nation they want.
	So, for example, they could run a Trojan horse cyber attack, let's say, on a nuclear power plant control system, and they could sort of sprinkle in, let's say, Chinese language code in it.
	And then they could say, well, we found traces that indicate this must have come from China.
	Well, that's not hard to sprinkle into the system, even when you're doing the attack yourself.
	And let's not forget, by the way, that it was the NSA and Israeli Mossad that created the Stuxnet virus, which was one of the most successful espionage malicious code projects that was designed to slow down Iran's nuclear weapons development program by interfering with the centrifuge control systems that were creating Well, the weapons grade plutonium that they need for their weapons.
	So the United States is very good at writing malicious code.
	And to this day, I don't think the U.S. has claimed responsibility for Stuxnet.
	They just say, well, we don't know who did that.
	Kind of the same answer to the Nord Stream pipelines that got blown up, you know, last year.
	We don't know who blew that up.
	It wasn't us.
	Couldn't have been us.
	Yeah, sure.
	Right.
	Just had to be somebody who hates Russia and somebody that has a very capable Navy with underwater diving demolitions, explosives experts, who also happen to be running a drill in the Baltic Sea.
	I mean, come on.
	The list points to the U.S. Navy carrying out that attack, but you can't prove it, you know?
	Like, you can't prove Stuxnet was created by Israeli intelligence and U.S. intelligence, but it was.
	So the point is that I'm seeing a setup for a false flag operation that's going to blame China.
	Well, let me back up.
	They're going to roll out major cyber attacks on U.S. infrastructure that will likely target power infrastructure, banking and finance, telecommunications, which will bring down everything.
	And, oh yeah, water systems and maybe ports and transportation and things like that.
	They're going to blame China and they will install traces in the code that will point to China.
	And then China will say, well, it wasn't us.
	We didn't do it.
	But the Western press will say, you're lying.
	Of course you did it.
	Just like the Western press says Putin is always lying, even though it's the Western media that's always lying.
	Not to say that Putin isn't capable of lying.
	Surely he is and he has.
	I'm not a Putin advocate here.
	I'm just saying that what the Western media does best is push lies and propaganda over everything else.
	So when the time comes to shift the focus to blame China...
	And wage a war with China, which is what the establishment needs as the war with Russia is lost, then you're going to see the Western press, New York Times, Washington Post, whatever, they're going to fall in line, and a lot of the alternative media will fall in line too, and they'll just print whatever is being pushed out there.
	I see this right now.
	I see alternative media parroting Israeli propaganda like crazy.
	It's like they're the propaganda arm for Israeli Mossad at this point, especially the conservative Christian alternative media outlets.
	They're basically just parroting everything Israel says.
	Which is crazy, given how much Israel lies about everything.
	Well, so in a similar way, a lot of alternative media will simply parrot whatever anti-China narratives are put out there.
	And, you know, I'm no fan of the Chinese Communist Party.
	I've spoken out against them repeatedly over many years.
	But it's also clear to me when China is being set up as the fall guy...
	For a cyber attack false flag that's actually being planned domestically by our own intelligence agencies against we the people.
	That's what's clear.
	And then in the chaos of that cyber attack, they can pull off the great reset.
	You know, all your money disappears from the banks.
	And they say, well, it's China's fault.
	Or maybe they blame Russia at some point, but probably China.
	You lose your pension.
	Oh, it's China's fault.
	Your dollars are worthless.
	It's China's fault.
	Not our fault.
	We didn't do this to you.
	The government is saying that it wasn't us.
	It's China's fault.
	And that's why we need to nuke them or attack them or destroy them or whatever the case may be.
	So this provides a very convenient excuse for why all your assets are vanishing, why your bank accounts don't work anymore, why the currency is collapsing.
	Why telecom doesn't work, and so on and so forth.
	Why you can't get food deliveries.
	Why the grocery stores are down.
	Why the power grid isn't functioning, and so food freezers aren't working.
	This is why hospitals aren't functioning, and so on and so forth.
	Oh, it's all China's fault.
	I can see it coming as clear as day.
	And then, in that panic and chaos, the U.S. government will roll out an emergency CBDC. And they'll even present it as a life-saving measure.
	Sure is a good thing that we had these central bank digital currencies ready to go.
	Because even though China destroyed all your money in the bank, this is how the narrative will go.
	China destroyed your money, but thanks to the pioneering innovators under the Biden administration, we have already built a digital wallet system to restore all your money.
	All you have to do Take this mark of the beast upon your palm or your forehead and then you're good.
	Yeah, just get the microchip or the tattoo or whatever, the micro dots, the quantum dots, just get it on your palm and all your money will be restored and you are good to go and that's To the thanks of the Biden administration, you see, China can't bring us down.
	We are strong.
	We are resilient.
	We are America.
	Sign up to the Mark of the Beast.
	Get your money back and tell China to go take a hike.
	And this is how they're going to get everybody signed up for the Mark of the Beast system, which, of course, is a control grid system that will monitor and surveil everything you do with your money, all your income sources, all your expenditures, and they can set all kinds of crazy limits, of course, about where you're allowed to spend money or if you're allowed to spend it at all, because they have absolute control over all your money at that point, or at least whatever money is in that system.
	I should mention, by the way, that gold and silver and gold backs outside this system are really wise, important things to consider because you have self-custody.
	In the same vein, privacy crypto like Monero is also decentralized and you can have self-custody.
	Even ammunition, for example, or land or, you know, all these assets that I've talked about.
	And let me mention too, I will plug the gold and silver sponsor of this podcast, which is the Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals Company.
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	But either way, take a look at physical gold and silver as part of your strategy.
	Take a look at ammunition.
	Take a look at other hard assets that you can have in your hands.
	Because when the cyber attack comes, think about it, everything electronic fails.
	So most of your assets are electronic.
	You have an account on, let's say, Robinhood, or you have an account at, I don't know, Charles Schwab or wherever.
	And you think you've got this big retirement fund there.
	Let's say, well, it's all digital.
	You know, you log in or even at your bank, you just log in and they show you digits on your screen.
	Look, look, you have all this money.
	Look, it's got a bunch of zeros, you know.
	You're like, awesome, it's there.
	I can see it on the screen.
	It's there.
	But it's not yours, is it?
	It's the bank's asset.
	You are a creditor to the bank, and the bank can just declare a bail-in, and that's probably what's going to happen, and then they'll just seize the customer deposits.
	And by the way, a lot of people have never heard of bail-ins before.
	They've heard of bail-outs, but not bail-ins.
	Imagine their surprise when the bail-ins are announced, and they find themselves saying, what?
	What do you mean?
	What do you mean my money is now the bank's money?
	What are you talking about?
	Yeah, welcome to the world of bail-ins.
	Maybe that's why you should have maybe had some cash out or gold or silver or anything other than just digits on a screen.
	Isn't it funny how they can show you digits on a screen and they can say, look, you're all set.
	This is your pension fund or this is your retirement fund or this is your checking account.
	This is your savings account.
	These are your stocks.
	It's just digits on a screen.
	Not even real.
	And you accept it as if it's real.
	But in a cyber attack event or a grid down event, all those numbers become, well, meaningless.
	And you could argue, of course, too, that, well, so does cryptocurrency.
	However, cryptocurrency being that it's decentralized, cryptocurrency will be back online faster than the banking system because crypto can work even just regionally.
	Even if just some of the nodes are back online, people can start using crypto.
	But when it comes to centralized banking control, You're out of luck until the central server systems come back online.
	And if that server is stored in New Jersey or New York or wherever, but if that gets hit by a natural disaster or a domestic terrorism event or an act of war and struck by a nuclear missile or what have you, that's never coming back online.
	Your bank records are history.
	Everything just goes to zero.
	So having things under your control, under your custody, actually counts, especially as the world becomes a very dangerous, unpredictable place.
	Now, I also have to mention that if you have not yet heard my interview last week, I believe it was, with Steve Slepsovich from SRP24. Yeah, that was about a week ago.
	You can find that interview on my channel page on Brighteon.
	Just go to Brighteon.com and search for HRR or HR Report.
	Or you can just search the site for, frankly, SRP24. And that should bring up that video.
	SRP24. I think that's Strategic Response Partners.
	I'm not 100% sure of that, but I think that's what it is.
	Well, Steve Slepsovich, his company specializes in going into areas that have been hit by disasters and bringing systems back online.
	So his teams are really experts in restoring infrastructure.
	And Steve Slepsovich, he says his teams rely heavily on satellite phones.
	We talked about satellite phones a little bit during that interview, and yes, a satellite phone company is a sponsor from time to time of this podcast, but that's because their stuff actually works.
	I mean, when the grid is down, you will want a satellite phone.
	It's the option that senators use.
	It's the option that the military uses.
	It's the option that these response teams use, because it works.
	When the local power is down, the local cell towers are down.
	Or who knows what else is happening?
	Maybe a cyberattack on those systems.
	Well, the satellite phones are going to continue to work because, frankly, that satellite network is really a military network.
	It's considered critical infrastructure for the U.S. military, and they protect those satellites at all costs.
	Now, if we lose the satellites, well, then we're all in a heap of trouble.
	Then something much bigger has happened, like the alien mothership has arrived in orbit or something.
	At that point, satellite phones are going to be the last of your concerns.
	But barring that, sat phones are a really good option for backup communications.
	So if you want to check that out, our sponsor is sat123.com, sat123.com.
	But even if you don't want a satellite phone, or if you can't afford one, listen to that interview with Steve Slepsovich, because...
	We got a huge response to that interview in terms of positive comments and people learning from it and people shoring up their own preparedness.
	Just hearing about the kinds of challenges that SRP goes through to try to bring hospitals back online or governments back online or universities or corporations or what have you, factories.
	It's a big deal.
	You're going to learn a lot in that interview, so don't miss it.
	I would say then overall...
	Even though it's pretty dire news that probably a cyber attack false flag event is coming in order to justify war, of course.
	The good news is that there are a lot of things that we can do, practical things, to be prepared.
	And the entire broadcast today has touched on this from lots of different angles, you know, community preparedness.
	Being a cool-headed person who can de-escalate events.
	Being someone who actually can work with others who speak different languages or have different skin color or maybe have different religions and so on.
	Not being that person that just can't tolerate anybody else and you want to be a lone wolf.
	Because lone wolves die all the time.
	But people who can work together are a lot more resilient.
	And then also, yes, you can invest in things that can help you protect your assets against collapse or protect your ability to communicate when the grid goes down.
	And I've talked before about things like storing diesel fuel.
	And I've talked about a setup where you can get a small tractor, you can get a PTO-powered generator.
	And then you store some diesel fuel, and basically you're storing your own local electric grid, because as long as you can keep pouring diesel into that tractor, it can keep spinning that PTO, and then that PTO generator provides you with electricity for as long as you have fuel.
	And you'd be amazed on a small tractor, I'm talking about like a Either like a 30-horsepower tractor or something like that.
	You can get, by the way, about 15 kilowatts of electricity out of a little generator.
	So for every 2 horsepower of the tractor, you get about 1 kilowatt of electricity from these generators that are called Winco, W-I-N-C-O. And they do make, by the way, a 15-kilowatt PTO generator model, which is, I think it's 110 volts AC is the output.
	I don't know if it does 220, but I know it does 110 or 115 in that range.
	And you'd be amazed how much electricity you can get from a little bit of diesel.
	You can just get a relatively small tank, 250 gallons of diesel, let's say.
	Or if you're thinking bigger, get 500 gallons.
	And diesel is very safe to store relative to gasoline, And diesel has a very long shelf life.
	You need to treat it with some stabilizers, but it can last for many years.
	And it can give you a power grid even when the mainstream grid is offline.
	So that's a very smart thing to do.
	And since this generator is attached to the back of your tractor, you can also drive it around.
	You could potentially drive it over to your neighbor's house, you know?
	Or drive it to some other location where you need the power.
	So it's mobile electricity, which is a big deal.
	And then most of these tractors also have a little bucket on the front.
	And you can use buckets to scoop up dirt and compost, obviously.
	And so it can help you grow food.
	You know?
	So that's why these little small tractors are really such a great investment.
	For even small acreage locations.
	And I do recommend the Kubota brand, by the way.
	K-U-B-O-T-A. It's a Japanese brand, Kubota.
	I think the website is KubotaUSA.com, but you can look for it.
	Kubota small tractors are really reliable.
	They're just extremely well made and they start.
	They start, which...
	Not all brands start that well, but Kubota, for whatever reason, they just have the best engines for starting.
	And so even if it's cold, which affects diesel, you'll be able to start that tractor.
	So something to think about.
	And one more thing on that line of thought.
	Let's say you're sitting on, I don't know, $100,000 in the bank.
	We have $100,000 in treasuries and you're wondering what to do with it.
	And you don't want it to vanish in a bank collapse.
	Depending on your circumstances, translating $25,000 of that into a small tractor might be the best investment you could possibly make.
	Because did you know that tractors are valued based on the hours they have more than the years they have?
	And this is true for most farm equipment, agriculture equipment, construction equipment.
	It comes down to the number of hours that they have.
	And for a tractor like that, even if you have...
	1,000 hours on the engine, which might take you years to accumulate 1,000 hours.
	I mean, that's 1,000 hours of driving your tractor around or 1,000 hours running a generator.
	That's not even considered a lot of hours on a diesel engine.
	Not at all.
	Now, sure, you have to do some maintenance at a thousand hours, probably at 500 hours.
	You're going to have to change the diesel fuel filter, the oil filter, do an oil change, and maybe some hydraulic fluid change, whatever.
	There's a little maintenance schedule with every piece of equipment.
	But even if you have to run that thing for a thousand hours to provide electricity, it's surprisingly affordable in a small tractor to do that.
	And even if you're running this thing 24-7, for whatever reason, you need electricity all hours of the day and night, so you just leave the tractor running the whole time.
	Well, 1,000 hours, that gives you almost 42 days of power.
	You know, that's almost a month and a half of power.
	And if the grid is down for 42 days...
	You're going to be really thankful that you had this because society is going to be falling apart long before 42 days.
	In fact, you're probably going to try to figure out a way where you can run your tractor so that nobody knows you have a tractor and fuel and a generator.
	They might want to come for it.
	But think about it.
	For a little bit of money, you can insure your own electricity supply, which translates into things like refrigeration.
	Or being able to charge batteries for flashlights at night vision or being able to run computers or charge satellite phones, cell phones, mobile devices, all these kinds of things that matter.
	So it's a big deal.
	The bottom line, I think a major cyber attack event is coming.
	I think it's likely to be a false flag.
	And I think it's coming before the election.
	I hope it's not.
	I hope that somebody stops it inside the government.
	But if they don't, we could be subjected to a very nasty event with an unknown duration.
	If the power grid just goes down for one day, a lot of people panic.
	If it goes down for one week...
	Society starts to fall apart.
	If it stays down for one month, well, then you have a real problem on your hands.
	And then you're headed into uprisings and revolts and revolutions and other themes that you really don't want to see happen.
	And then you're going to have mass starvation and looting and bad things happening with refugees fleeing the cities, but some of them being well-armed and looting homes in the countryside and things like that.
	And that's when you do want to be the Kevin Bacon character and have that shotgun.
	Actually, not a shotgun.
	You want to have a longer-range rifle ready to go if you're living out in the country.
	And you need to have a good ballistic reticle and experience with the rifle and so on.
	Shotguns, not good for long-range engagements, obviously.
	But to my point, the more you're prepared, the better you're able to handle all of that.
	And some people believe that there's going to be an activation day of all of the occupiers that have crossed the southern border.
	And they're now spread out across America and they're awaiting instructions from maybe Beijing or maybe the Mexican narco drug cartels or who knows who, maybe from the UN. And they're just going to activate one day and start slaughtering Americans and attacking infrastructure and taking over the country.
	Well, what will you do then?
	You better be prepared.
	Is that coming for sure?
	We don't know that.
	But it's a possible scenario.
	There are a lot of very dangerous scenarios that appear to be converging for the years 2024 and 2025, including if Trump is elected, let's say, in obviously late 2024, and then he gets sworn in in January of 2025,
	which I think is increasingly likely, then You're going to see the globalists go insane and you're going to see the uprising again of Black Lives Matter and Antifa and probably all kinds of efforts by anti-American globalists to try to create a civil war in America on a scale that we have not seen before.
	You're going to see the radical left, the fascists, going to war against the federal government.
	They'll be launching bombs and rockets and RPGs and CNN will report it's mostly peaceful.
	While RPGs are flying overhead, you know, and buildings are blowing up.
	Mostly peaceful.
	But it's going to make the years of the Trump administration look like a walk in the park by comparison.
	So be prepared for all of that.
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	Welcome to today's interview on Bratian.com.
	We're joined by an extraordinary guest today, Colonel Tony Schaefer, who I think has offered some of the very best analysis of geopolitical events, including Russia, Ukraine, as well as the situation in the Middle East.
	And he joins us today, a first-time guest here, but I'm a longtime fan of his work.
	Welcome, sir.
	It's an honor to have you on the show today.
	Look, thank you for having me.
	It's always great to join folks who want to discuss facts rather than fiction or...
	The reality rather than emotion.
	So thanks for having me.
	Good to be on with you.
	Absolutely.
	And I do want to preface this discussion just by saying or repeating something that you have said recently, that you're not a fan of Putin.
	And neither am I. And nothing that we say here should be interpreted in that manner.
	But I think right now, at this time in history, it's very clear, and we're starting to see admissions from the West, that NATO has been defeated by Russia in Ukraine.
	Is that sort of where we're at now?
	Yeah, it kind of is.
	I mean...
	I'm a big believer in accountability as well, and the $113 billion, I think, was largely misspent.
	Where we got the idea of funding community theater and the civil service of Ukraine would help the Ukrainians beat the Russians is beyond me, but that was wasted.
	And then just the graft and corruption, which has yet to be looked at, is another drain on those resources.
	And ultimately, I called some of the strategies put forth by Victoria Newland, who's not a military strategist, Jake Sullivan, who's not a military strategist, Mark Milley, who I think is better at wearing high heels and forcing people to look at gender norms versus being a strategist.
	And people like Dave Petraeus, who have always put a really...
	And General Hodges, Ben Hodges, I think, they all put this really rosy picture.
	Oh, everything's fine.
	We're training people in the four wins and hoping for the best.
	And it's been a travesty.
	I feel horrible.
	For the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian military, who's had to suffer this outrageous tapestry of incompetence.
	And so, yeah, at this point, it's very clear that what our side put forward, to include NATO, NATO was a wingman of the United States on this, it's just not worked.
	And many of us said, by the way, that it wasn't going to work.
	Right.
	This could have been avoided.
	Well, it could have been.
	It should have been.
	That's the issue.
	It's like, If you look just at history, history does not repeat, but it likes to rhyme, and you look at the numbers.
	And my job as someone who's, you know, I'm retired, but I'm not, I do feel obligated, based on my oath, especially as a public citizen, as a public figure, to tell the American people the truth is best I understand it.
	Yes.
	And I said from day one, No matter what happens, the numbers aren't there.
	Zelensky finally admitted, I think, within the last 24 hours, the actual number of Ukrainian forces Which was a tick under 600,000.
	Oh, my.
	Okay, so in other words, this whole time when people like you and others, like I'll say Scott Ritter and other analysts, have been talking about 300,000, 400,000, 500,000 Ukrainians killed or injured, and the Western media would say, no, that's absurd.
	It's only 60,000 or 80,000 or whatever.
	So that's now a confirmed giant lie by the Western media.
	Yeah.
	Precisely.
	And so it's kind of like we've been saying they've been lying about the numbers.
	And by the way, Western media, especially the British media, have been co-conspirators to cover up the reality.
	I mean, the BBC in particular was hyper-focused on every Russian loss.
	Oh my God, a Russian general stubbed his toe today.
	It's the end of the world.
	End of the Russians.
	It's going to collapse.
	Like, I don't think so.
	And it was like this over...
	for the Ukrainian inability to tell the truth or get the word out.
	And so it's kind of like, and I was, I said early on, because a lot of US media then were certain sensory rushes like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Even propaganda means something literally.
	Let the information be available to all so people can make their own assessment.
	And I learned from the Cold War that even the lies that are being told will tell you something about the reality of what that country is trying to say.
	True.
	And it's like the more you try to basically make everybody look at everything through a little straw, the more you contort and distort the reality which is going on.
	And that's what happened.
	Let's cover the big lie, which is we've been told this whole time that we need to support Ukraine because Ukraine is a democracy, that Ukraine has a free press.
	I mean, come on.
	You know, the free press was banned, was outlawed.
	There.
	And elections have been canceled.
	I mean, Zelensky is an authoritarian.
	And so this whole lie from the get-go is, look, if we're going to support a country, shouldn't they actually support the ideals that we once believed in?
	But then again, America has lost a lot of those principles as well.
	So go ahead.
	So let's break that down.
	So first off, Ukraine went from being the second most corrupt country in Europe behind Russia to Oh, we've got to be with them.
	They're our friends.
	Okay, well, that's kind of weird, but okay, we'll try to open that up to a conversation.
	And it was universally accepted that Ukraine was corrupt, every element of Ukraine.
	That's why they were never making any headway to join the EU. The EU would not accept them because they're corrupt.
	And then the other thing then, you just take that and set that aside then, I've argued that we are involving ourselves in what essentially is a civil war.
	Ukraine as an area has been part of the Russian, greater Russian Republic, Empire, whatever you want to call it, forever.
	During the Soviet Union days, obviously it was a key component of the Soviet Union regarding essentially everything that was going on in Russia.
	Chernobyl was in Ukraine.
	Many of the things that were produced are Ukrainian.
	Regarding military equipment during the Cold War.
	And so what I believe is going on is a civil war.
	And I've said this publicly and I'll say it over and over.
	Russia and Ukraine are cut from the same bolt of cloth.
	They're both cut from...
	They're both the same.
	They're just...
	The only distinctive difference is you have two competing sets of governance that were created at the end of the Cold War.
	And there are elements of the West...
	Who have been pushing, especially Obama and the Bidens, to remove Ukraine from the sphere of influence from Russia.
	I think it's because of energy.
	Doug McGregor and others don't agree with me on this, but I believe what really prompted a great deal of the...
	I'm showing you, I didn't mean to interrupt, but I'm showing you a headline from the gray zone.
	Ukrainian trial demonstrates the 2014 Maidan massacre was a false flag.
	This is kind of what you're talking about.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And so there was a prompting of a separation of Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence.
	I think it was done with the Color Revolution.
	Victoria Nuland and others were involved.
	All sorts of shenanigans were going on.
	And I believe that it was more Ukraine's I'm not blaming Ukraine.
	I'm blaming the government and Western forces who were creating conditions to almost encourage Putin to move in.
	I'm going to say this, and I may get in trouble for it.
	When the Cold War ended, when the Dayton Accords were signed, I think in 94, which created the conditions for Ukraine to return nuclear weapons to Russia with an agreement that Ukraine would be given territorial integrity.
	That is to say, Ukraine would be Ukraine.
	And one of the other agreements in that timeframe was NATO would not move east.
	So NATO moved east, moved east a lot.
	It took Poland, it took a number of formerly Warsaw Pact nations, To include the Baltic states, which is right on the Russian.
	And the Russians have always been paranoid.
	The Russians have always sought to have what they consider a sphere of security influence that essentially, if it's not pro-Russian, at least it's neutral.
	And that's what the West started incurring into.
	And so Putin Tried to make the best of it in the early days.
	I think he tried to do outreach and tried to engage.
	Could I offer that what you just said, Russia wanting a buffer zone, this is justified by history.
	This is not irrational on Putin's part, and not just World War II, but long before that.
	Look at the history of Russia and the wars.
	If anything, Russia knows that its survival depends on protecting its own borders.
	It does.
	And it goes back to before Napoleon.
	Napoleon was one of the great examples of a Western army going east.
	Right.
	The Germans, the Nazis, that was another episode.
	Before that, the Tsars, I think it was Tsar Alexander, had to face off against a number of things going back to the Mongols.
	Right.
	This is not without reason.
	The Russians are paranoid because of their experience.
	And no amount of explaining it away or us trying to kowtow them is going to change the culture.
	The culture is the culture.
	And this is one of the things I find most frustrating about the current administration.
	pretend to not understand history.
	The Russians have a paranoia that is informed by their experience, and you're not going to change it.
	Putin has been successful because he recognizes what his culture calls for.
	That's why his approval rates are high.
	That's why the current war is supported by the Russian people, because they understand what's going on.
	More deeply than I think even Putin, this paranoia.
	And Putin has understood it.
	That's why he's still in power and he will continue to be in power.
	And this whole idea that these minor incursions that somehow this conflict was going to end Putin was insane.
	You had people literally believing that somehow if they could just keep the Ukraine conflict going long enough, Putin would fall.
	It's never going to happen.
	I want to ask you about that in particular.
	You mentioned the suffering of the Ukrainian people, and I completely agree with you.
	My heart goes out.
	It's an atrocity that so many young Ukrainian men, in particular now, apparently women on the battlefield, have lost their lives in a way that was utterly unnecessary and in a way that's also been an extension of the arrogance of the State Department of the United States.
	But Ukrainians are not the only victims here.
	The German people, look at Germany's economy, look at all of Western Europe with the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines and the cutoff of energy.
	And also, by the way, the lack of trade now between Russia and Western European economies.
	This has caused these European economies to be unable to export and trade goods, which has caused economic devastation in Germany and other nations as well.
	So it's like the United States from afar says, oh, we don't care if we leave your country a mess as long as we think we're going to hurt Putin, which didn't really happen anyway.
	The only people that got hurt here are the Ukrainians and the Western Europeans, it seems.
	I agree with you.
	So...
	Ultimately, I think in 2014, 2013, 2014, I think the straw that kind of pushed Putin to do something was the solidification of an understanding of the massive gas and oil reserves in the Donbass and in the Black Sea.
	There's no doubt, in my mind, even practically speaking, that Putin would want to see a West— Dominating Ukraine, basically bringing Ukraine into their sphere, and having those gas resources as a competitor against Russia.
	It's a practical thing.
	He does not want that.
	So I think that was a key factor.
	With that said, the Russians have massive amounts of resources.
	They want to maintain those resources, and they want to have markets to sell those resources.
	And so I think the Europeans had established what I thought to be a practical way of dealing with Russia.
	Obviously, Nord Stream 1 and 2 were providing a great deal of important natural gas.
	And let me cover this real quick.
	I've got a degree in environmental studies.
	The current movement to essentially remove fossil fuels from use is insane.
	You and I are speaking.
	The material we have around us, anything that's made from petrochemicals, you know, polyester, polyurethane, nylon, it's all from But petroleum.
	That's right.
	And the idea that somehow we're going to remove petroleum.
	COP28. We should have another show about COP28. Yeah, I'd love to have a show about that.
	Oh, my God.
	That is just so, like, insane.
	They're now debating.
	I was listening to NPR this morning.
	By the way, I don't know if you do this.
	I listen to NPR, and I almost drive off the road because I'm rolling my eyes so often from everything they're saying.
	It's like, oh, my God.
	I can't even listen to NPR for more than about five seconds.
	I know.
	Beat my face with a hammer or something.
	But it's...
	It's such torture.
	Well, let me get back.
	So I don't want to distract, but they were talking about COP28 and wanting to get rid of fossil fuels.
	And the Germans have been big on this.
	Like, you know, we want to defund our economy.
	We want to end our economy.
	It's like, really?
	You're going to have a really hard time convincing your people to not grow food, grow food without using nitrates, to eat bugs and avoid having meat.
	Because Germans, I'm part German and I love meat.
	I love raw food.
	So the very issues relating to energy, which are necessary for any Western economy, especially Western Europe, to be prosperous, is being essentially sacrificed on the altar of Joe Biden's wish to crash Putin.
	I mean, that's what it is.
	The Nord Stream destruction, I don't know who did it, but I don't think it was the Ukrainians.
	I don't think it was two men in a rowboat, to quote, get smart.
	I think it was done with design.
	To do an attack like that, you have to have a sophisticated naval submarine capability that limits the suspects greatly.
	I think that Biden has done things to essentially damage our European allies in ways the European allies are just now starting to figure out.
	Poland's figured it out.
	Poland's backing off supporting Ukraine.
	I think the Germans are going to go through another awakening about how badly they've been deceived by the United States.
	And I think everybody's backing out of supporting Ukraine because the support for Ukraine It's not only damaged the Ukrainian people, it's damaged essentially the global order of things that I think was working very effectively under Trump.
	And by the way, you know, I worked for Trump.
	I was the National Security Advisor to Trump 2020.
	And I do believe that this would not have happened under Trump.
	I think Trump would have forced both sides to do something other than go to war to see this massive loss of life.
	I agree with your assessment.
	And Trump is good at de-escalation.
	Absolutely.
	Despite the fact that he gets right in people's face, yes, he's a master of de-escalation.
	You have to be the guy that carries a big stick.
	Absolutely.
	Because otherwise, everybody calls your bluff.
	I mean, Joe Biden says something.
	All the other countries say, yeah, we don't think you mean it.
	But if Trump says something, they will take that seriously.
	Now, also, by the way, to Trump's credit, and I voted for Trump twice, and I'm pretty sure Trump's going to have his third victory coming up here soon, in another year or so.
	I agree.
	And I do mean third.
	Yeah.
	And Trump, I mean, he had us domestically energy self-sufficient.
	And that matters because of right now what's happening in the Middle East.
	But, yeah, your comments on that.
	So, as an environmental studies guy, CO2 is a plant food.
	The idea somehow of us trying to remove petroleum from the global stage is beyond insane.
	As a matter of fact, there's been several hearings on this there that if the left is able to remove CO2 from the environment, they basically have said we want to lower the global temperature by removing CO2.
	The linkage of the two is not there, but they pretend it is.
	The sun is the biggest dominant factor of climate, of temperature.
	CO2 has nothing to do with it.
	But they want to basically remove from 0.03% of CO2.
	That's how small it is, 0.03% of the atmosphere is CO2, 0.02%.
	At 0.02, photosynthesis stops.
	Plants don't have enough CO2 to function.
	Then, if they can't produce oxygen, we start dying.
	That's how insane this all is.
	So this is a long way of saying the very target of what the left's trying to achieve by removing CO2, by removing, by stopping the use of petrochemicals, is within the human race.
	That's how stupid it is.
	You're absolutely correct in that conclusion.
	I completely agree with you.
	I do just want to say, though, I believe the current CO2 levels in parts per million are about 417.
	I know the percentage is different than the parts per million, but the parts per million they're trying to say is what's driving all this, and I don't believe it.
	Right, right.
	But you're absolutely right.
	And this carbon sequestration, this would kill photosynthesis on the planet if they pull CO2 out of the atmosphere.
	And I don't know about you, Colonel, but I learned photosynthesis, I think, in 10th grade science class.
	And you know the inputs are sunlight, Right?
	And water and carbon dioxide.
	Right.
	And if you don't have those three things, and by the way, they're trying to block the sun, and they're trying to reduce carbon dioxide.
	So if you don't have two out of the three things that make plants grow, then you don't have food.
	Right.
	It's obvious.
	No, and so before I get back to petroleum, let me just divert for one second to trees.
	So right now, the moment we're speaking, at this very moment in time, according to Princeton, there's 3.04 trillion trees.
	Trillion!
	Trillion!
	And each one of those trees, on average, uses about 48 pounds of CO2. Now, if you multiply...
	Is that in its lifetime or per year?
	No, per year.
	Per year, okay.
	So if you multiply 3.04 trillion...
	We don't have a CO2 problem.
	We have a problem with the left trying to frighten people to believe somehow that the basic photosynthesis that you learned in middle school is dangerous to mankind.
	It's insane.
	It is insane.
	It's literally insane.
	So going back then to the primary producer of man-made carbon is us burning coal Fuel.
	Well, you know, it's plant food.
	As a matter of fact, back during the Reagan years, they did a survey of the effects of CO2 being produced by catalytic converters.
	Catalytic converters really do basically produce water and CO2. That's it.
	And so they did a survey to find out what the effects of CO2 is on the interstate system, what happens to the plant life.
	It grows.
	There's more green next to interstate highways than there is other places because of more CO2. So if you want to combat CO2, grow more trees.
	It's insane.
	Anyway, but my point is to what Trump was doing.
	Trump, I think, fundamentally knows this whole green movement is nonsense.
	And I and others, I work with Steve Moore of his economic team, and it's like, no, we need to produce as much petrochemical, as much petroleum as we can, because it's not just about gas, it's not about cars.
	It's about manufacturing.
	Again, most phones contain elements of, you know, this cover.
	It's made of petrochemicals.
	So it's not only about energy.
	It's about what can be produced from petrochemicals.
	It's a very useful resource.
	And so the idea was we should go back to being the net exporter globally.
	And then two things happen real quick, and I just want to hit this real quick.
	If you want to hurt Putin, defund Putin's war by going to mass production.
	Outproduce Russia.
	You will take out about 40% of his ability to make money by dropping the bottom out of oil.
	Period.
	That's right.
	And then you massively increase the ability of the U.S. economy to prosper.
	Two big things.
	But they will never happen because the left, especially Joe Biden and the progressives, have turned this climate crisis into their religion, and they will never go against their religion.
	You're exactly right.
	Well, I would call it even a cult, a climate cult.
	I was being polite.
	Okay.
	Well, thank you for that.
	But just to summarize what you said, which I think is brilliant, if the U.S. were to produce massive amounts of energy and to export that onto the world, not only would domestic energy prices in the United States go down substantially, which is associated with strong GDP growth domestically.
	Which would make Americans more wealthy and more prosperous and more competitive, by the way, in terms of global manufacturing.
	But at the same time, you would deprive Russia of the current premium that it is obtaining from heightened energy prices.
	Absolutely.
	Russia's been selling oil way over $60 a barrel.
	Yes.
	Russia's selling natural gas.
	Russia is selling diesel, refined fuels as well.
	But see, you make too much economic sense.
	That's the problem.
	You're not a fit for the Biden administration, obviously, thank God.
	No, as a matter of fact, you might find this funny.
	I've advised every administration, and I've worked for every president in some form.
	As a matter of fact, I just hung my certificate up on the wall from when I was a very young high school student working for the Carter White House.
	No kidding!
	No, I'm not.
	I actually went to high school in Lisbon.
	And I was assigned to the Carter entourage to go out and buy a sweater, a Portuguese sweater for Amy and a vase for Zygmunt Brzezinski.
	And I'm not joking.
	No way.
	I just put it up today.
	So I'm saying that I have worked in some form for every president except for this one.
	So just saying this.
	Yes.
	But no, they don't want to hear any of this stuff.
	I've advised chairmen of the Joint Chiefs.
	I advised Mike Pompeo when he was both Secretary of State at CIA, both.
	And I try to give people, and Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, because I asked him one time, I said, you know, Joe, why do you have me in?
	Why do you allow me to be one of your advisors?
	And he says, because you see things differently.
	And I don't know if it's differently.
	I'd like to believe it's just, I will look at the facts for what they are and not allow myself Luxury of tainting them for purposes of political gain.
	So I think that's part of the problem with our system right now.
	But people with your philosophy that you just described are rare species in Washington, D.C. True.
	Right?
	So for whatever reason, you have a survival instinct that is extremely uncommon.
	But let me ask you about your project Sentinel, by the way.
	Yeah.
	As a segue to that, the website, folks, is ProjectSentinel.com, and this is your project.
	You founded it.
	Can you tell us about this and what the goals are?
	So we believe, the small group of board members, myself, and some of the folks who are leaving the London Center for Policy Research, which I ran up until this month, and we're in the process of disbanding that because we just never came back from COVID. There's nothing wrong with it.
	Just the funding dried up, and we've got to move on to other things.
	Many of the principles of Dr.
	Herb London, who was the founder of the London Center, have been moved over, and those were very much focused on constitutional governance.
	And I mean governance based on what George Washington prescribed as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
	He had a very, I think, very realistic view of warfare.
	I think we need to start looking at how Washington as our first general, first commander-in-chief saw things, and then also how the founding fathers established warfare.
	A series of philosophies, laws, and policies which essentially have sustained our nation, the Republic, for what it is.
	And I think we are straying away from those things too often.
	For the military, I think Washington would be really horrified by what we're doing in Ukraine.
	He advised to stay out of foreign entanglements.
	I think it's a foreign entanglement.
	We do not want to be in the middle of it.
	We are.
	We are looking at the federal government essentially absorbing authorities beyond the 10th Amendment, far beyond its charter.
	I don't understand how the government can tell me or incentivize me to buy an electric car when I know electric cars are wasteful, harmful to the environment.
	The dictate that the Biden administration said to move to a certain percentage of electric cars by 2030 is insane.
	To meet the goals would require they find three times more sources of nickel than exist right now to known resources.
	And that's not even mentioning lithium, which are rare earths, and cobalt.
	And it's these sorts of things I don't believe the federal government should be in the middle of.
	The things like economic development, transportation, those things should be left to industry.
	And the states should be the primary regulator of how things work within their own geographic boundary, not the federal government.
	I don't see how the federal government can tell us what lights to buy.
	It's like, really?
	I like what lights I like, and I think the market will bear out that LEDs are probably better, more efficient.
	Let the market determine that, not by government.
	And then the bureaucracy.
	We have a bureaucracy now, which I think has become a third party.
	You've got the Democrats, Republicans, and the bureaucracy.
	And it's a very dangerous thing to have unelected people, such as ATF and other organizations, IRS, I think our audience will resonate with everything that
	you just said there.
	So let me encourage our audience, again, go to ProjectSentinel.com And there's also a donate button there if you want to help support Colonel Schaefer's organization and the mission and what they are working on.
	So be sure to check that out.
	I'll give it a more detailed look here as well after the show.
	I'm really glad to learn about this.
	And, you know, a great example of the overreach of the bureaucracy would be the ATF and its arm brace rule.
	Oh my goodness, yes.
	Right, so I'd like you to talk about that for a second here.
	You mentioned before the show, Sig Sauer is, I think, one of your sponsors for another project that you do.
	I'm a huge fan of Sig.
	As I said, I own their MCX rifles, you know, multiple versions, and also some arm-braced MCX pistols, by the way, which I had to, you know, I had to be worried that the ATF was going to come confiscate my firearms during that, but, you know, thankfully a judge pushed back on that for now.
	But how could the ATF suddenly decide to write new laws and 5 million Americans are suddenly felons?
	Because they can.
	And I think this was pointed out by Thomas Massey and others during hearings on this.
	Like, this is a common-use weapon.
	And literally, there's probably 30 million, 30 million weapons that have some form of brace.
	I've got one within arm's reach.
	I prefer a brace.
	Because I have about three acres and I want a medium range weapon.
	I don't need something that's going to give me a reach out to a mile.
	I don't need that.
	And I need something more than a pistol.
	So a brace gives me the ultimate ability to do what I need for my defense.
	I got that right.
	Last time I checked, Second Amendment.
	So the idea that you would have unelected bureaucrats decide, oh yeah, we've changed our mind.
	And despite the The comment period, which pointed out all the things that we're talking about right now, about common use, the actual practical use of braces for people who are disabled or otherwise, braces is a practical component of a weapon that makes it more accurate and stable.
	Why would you want to remove something that makes a weapon accurate and stable?
	I mean, think about it.
	It's like, are you kidding me?
	Oh, it may be used by a criminal.
	A car may be used by a criminal.
	You're not going to take cars off the road because some criminal may use it to assault somebody, which they do.
	Especially arm braces for women.
	I found that a lot of female users that are training on either 9mm carbine-style pistols or AR-style pistols, they need an arm brace because they don't necessarily have the upper body strength to hold the full mass of a 16-inch rifle.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I do.
	The closer you can hold it in, the easier it is.
	Right.
	And again, to your point, my point, it makes it more accurate.
	If it's more comfortable, you can shoot it better.
	It's just the way it works.
	And so this is where I and others were mortified by the idea that they were all of a sudden just, oh yeah, we've changed our mind.
	despite the fact that they had given all sorts of guidance and approvals for the manufacturing of these things.
	And then overnight, to actually try to turn people into felons is insane.
	And I think it's going to come down to, is it a "common use weapon?" Now in my interview with Tom Taylor, who's the Executive Vice President for Commercial Activities and Marketing, the Chief Marketing Officer, SIG has gone back to shipping them As a matter of fact, Tom said publicly, yeah, no, we've resumed shipping arm braces as part of the SIG's manufacturing, which, God bless them, I'm glad they are.
	And I think it's one of those things that most pragmatic people who understand the need for the effective use of firearms recognize the braces are just another thing you can use.
	And I'd like to see this Maybe even push out the whole restriction on short-barreled rifles.
	I'm still not understanding how a short-barreled rifle, which is less accurate than an AR, I worry about it just from the perspective of you're not going to win any competitions with it.
	No, I mean, the whole NFA harkens back to, what, the 1930s or something, and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
	You know, the 16-inch rule and now that whole point system that the ATF was talking about.
	I know you probably went through that, too.
	I was looking at that thinking...
	This is insane.
	I'm going to have to apply calculus to this thing to figure out how many points this, you know, this pistol is.
	But anyway, I'm glad that you work with SIG because I think SIG provides a lot of really important solutions for Americans for self-defense and also for our soldiers as well.
	So speaking of that, yeah, they've just completed the initial and I guess complete contract for the manufacturing of the M-17, M-18 aircraft.
	Versions of the P220. People can buy essentially slides, the military slides, what they have access to for a number of their weapons, great weapons.
	And then so they've completed that.
	Now they're selling the M17 and M18 platform to a number of foreign countries.
	The Australians, I think, just bought it.
	Canadians are buying it.
	Any number of countries are buying this, but also now they've finalized and are going into full production of the M7, which is the military's version of the Spear, basically the big old rifle that's going to be the new battle rifle.
	And I've shot it.
	It's an amazing weapon.
	They've done some amazing things with both the ammunition and the system that allows for the absorption of a high caliber, higher grain bullet.
	Plus, they have something called suppressors on them because it's not like the movie.
	They're not silencers.
	They actually make the weapon more shootable by the fact that they remove a great deal of the sound, which actually harms your hearing.
	And I wish I had those things, but they've actually incorporated those as a part of the weapon system, and they're about to go into full production of those coming this January of next year.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Outstanding.
	All right.
	Let's move back to Ukraine for a minute here, and then I want to ask you about the Middle East situation.
	But in terms of the U.S. extricating itself from the loss, Russia has won on the battlefield, and Russia wasn't even trying full force.
	They weren't waging a full-blown war.
	But how does the U.S. actually pull itself out of this without the geopolitical damage that we anticipate?
	Well, the damage is done.
	And it started with Joe Biden's wackadoodle withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	It's that show of weakness and incompetence which has encouraged everyone else to act, and to include Putin.
	I mean, it's like, that guy doesn't know what he's doing.
	And this goes back to, I think, Bob Gates, former Secretary of Defense Gates, said, you know, Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of every decision.
	That's been made regarding foreign policy.
	And I think it's that Gates observation, which is true, and the feckless nature of the people that Biden picked to work for him.
	And full disclosure, I worked for Lloyd Austin when he was a brigadier general.
	And, you know, he signed off on my Bronze Star.
	I granted that.
	With that said, Lloyd Austin is out of his element as Secretary of Defense.
	I think the recent comments he made in front of Congress saying, either you give us the money or we're going to send your kids to their death.
	Oh my.
	I think that was a counterproductive thing.
	To say the least.
	Yeah, you're being polite.
	Thank you.
	I am.
	And then Tony Blinken, you know, I make fun of him when I talk about him, but he is completely out of his element.
	Everybody blows him off.
	He tried to make the initial rounds of talks to convince allies to support Ukraine.
	Everybody blew him off, and to include the Europeans now.
	The Europeans are fed up with him.
	It's hard to even hate Tony Blinken because I feel so sorry for the man.
	Yeah, and I think it's interesting that at the time he was motivated.
	He should have most been focused on trying to resolve the situation.
	He's creating a band, a State Department band, to do rock and roll globally.
	It's like, really?
	Yeah.
	No, I mean, there's videos of this he put together and he's doing bass or something.
	And I've said in other interviews, I said, yeah, it reminds me that his nickname in college was Spanky Banana.
	You know, that was his rock and roll name.
	I'm just joking about that.
	I don't know that.
	But it is funny.
	You have to admit it is funny.
	So, anyway, I say I make fun of the guy.
	And you've got Jake Sullivan, who looks like the character Beaker from The Muppets.
	You know, he's got that long neck and he's kind of always surprised by everything.
	And so, these people do not invoke confidence.
	I've compared them to being a high school debating team in charge of national security, because that's what level they operate at.
	Nobody takes them seriously.
	So I know this is a long way to get to answer your question.
	The damage is done.
	They have done the damage.
	The question becomes, how does the United States move forward with some ability to influence situations and world leaders going forward?
	Because that is the question, and I don't think we have the capability.
	Ukraine is done.
	Here's who's running our State Department.
	Here we go.
	That's right, Beaker.
	That's right.
	Always surprised.
	Always surprised.
	Always playing with dangerous chemicals, too, by the way.
	That's right.
	That's what they do.
	With explosions in the background.
	But that's the point.
	It's like they are always like the last to, oh, really?
	We didn't know that.
	So being reactive, being presumptively reactive rather than aggressively chartering things through, trying to basically be a chess player, it's not in the DNA of the current administration.
	And I think people recognize that.
	And at this point, I don't think the money's going to go to Ukraine.
	I think Mike Johnson's going to, Speaker Johnson's going to hold the ground about the southwest border.
	I don't think it's going.
	I don't think they're going to give it to him.
	Well, but, okay.
	I mean, I'm glad to hear that.
	I'm still skeptical about that situation because there, you know, it seems like my perspective on this is we are in a waning phase of the U.S. empire and all the people in power are just looting the treasury for everything they can get before it gets worse, it seems to me.
	And a lot of these payouts to Ukraine are just forms of looting and kickbacks and money laundering.
	I couldn't agree more with you.
	I think one of the things, I'm not sure if your show covered, was Sam Bankman-Fried, SPF, and the whole debacle.
	That whole thing, to me, was a big money laundering thing that they haven't got to yet.
	But think about it.
	Mind the Gap, this non-profit, and the Bankman-Frieds, the parents, were political operatives for the Democrats.
	This whole Ukraine thing, I guess at one point, FTX was going to be the bank for Ukraine or help the bank.
	It's like, really?
	Are you kidding me?
	So, yeah, I think the whole funding thing through Congress, wiping out debt.
	Remember, some of this was wiping out existing debts of loans during the war.
	To me, it's like, okay, how does that help win the war?
	That just basically pays people off.
	That creates more unaccountability by basically having Ukraine take these loans out.
	And you say, oh, yeah, don't worry about it.
	It made no financial sense to me.
	I'm not an economic guy, but I've been around enough to know this doesn't look right.
	And so, yeah, I think it's been a massive money laundering scheme to include the Bidens.
	Back when Joe Biden was making claims about Trump coming after him and all these other things that Trump was doing to benefit him, I think it was all projection.
	It was all what Joe Biden and Hunter was doing to benefit themselves and enrich the family during that time.
	Well, I hope all of that comes out.
	It seems like it is a little bit more each day.
	Now, in the few minutes we have left, and by the way, thank you so much for taking the time.
	Sure, I really enjoyed the conversation.
	Absolutely.
	So let's talk about Trump because it seems to me like key decisions are being made by influential nodes inside the system, inside the military even.
	that Trump is the answer here.
	And I think there's a lot of regret of the anti-Trump crowd that they sure wish they could have Trump back right now.
	And that the U.S. military, you know, it's a pretty good gig to be a top person in the military or to be at the top of a military contractor.
	There's a lot of money in it, you know, pretty good power.
	You have the strongest Navy in the world and so on.
	And that the Bidens are putting that whole thing at risk, whereas Trump could bring it back.
	Yeah.
	Does that assessment make sense to you, or what's your perception of Trump in the coming election?
	It does.
	So one of the notable things, last week they had the Republican debates, and Trump won, and he wasn't there.
	Yeah, right.
	And the reason I've said this several times, because I've been asked about this, is because his policies were correct.
	No matter how you feel about the mean tweets or what he did or did not do in his personal life, his policies are correct.
	And they're correct for two reasons.
	First, He's not willing to accept the status quo.
	He's like, yeah, I don't like this.
	I'm going to change it.
	And that's what scares the left and the rhinos.
	Like, oh, my God.
	And you mentioned this earlier.
	World leaders looked at what he said and took it seriously because Trump says, yeah, I'm going to do it this way.
	Sorry.
	It's the way.
	And so I recommended to senior Pentagon leaders back when Trump came in Use Trump and his strengths.
	One of his strengths is if he tweets, use that to your advantage because he's going to be able to do and say things that other presidents were not willing to do.
	And I think it resulted in very favorable things.
	NATO was better funded.
	We had a very strong not only a military that was not only well funded, it was respected.
	Not feared, respected.
	There's a big difference.
	And right now there's fear Of the U.S. military because a miscalculation would result in the U.S. doing something stupid with its military.
	And that's the Joe Biden way.
	It was respected under Trump because Trump was very reticent to get the U.S. military involved.
	He wanted to use other options before we get to that point, which I agree with.
	I was like, yeah, let's exhaust all other options before we have to go with the military.
	And Trump understood that.
	He always led with diplomacy, with commercial potential agreements.
	The Abraham Accords is one of the most brilliant, sustainable artifacts from his administration.
	The Saudis and Egyptians continue to work that with the Israelis behind the scenes because that was the right answer and still, in my judgment, is.
	And I did some talks over the weekend.
	I talked to a federal law enforcement agency group I think it's inevitable at this point.
	If he maintains his health, I don't think they're going to prevail on any of the lawsuits or prosecutions of him.
	I think he's going to be the next president.
	Yeah, I've reached the same conclusion just recently, by the way.
	And I think that...
	The left may go completely insane, but we're also seeing the tables turn on them with Elon Musk and X and Twitter and even bringing back Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson is making waves.
	I mean, the tables are turning quite rapidly.
	So, look, I know Tucker.
	I think he's a good guy.
	I think he's like many of us.
	I wasn't fundamentally as conservative as I am growing up.
	I consider myself in many ways still a libertarian.
	I think many of us recognize that you had to do something.
	I'm friends with Tulsi Gabbard.
	I was advising Tulsi when she was still a Democrat because it was the right thing to do.
	She was concerned about Hawaii.
	So yeah, Jim Woolsey, former director of CIA and I were in advising her.
	And I think she's another person that recognized the direction of her party was counterproductive.
	And I don't believe Elon Musk is fundamentally a conservative.
	I know that they brand him as a conservative now, but I don't see him as a guy who's A business guy who recognizes some of his political philosophies were flawed and he decided to abandon them.
	I don't think it makes him conservative, makes him practical.
	But I think he ultimately, like others, recognized Trump is the ultimate solution to give all political sides the best possible shot at being prosperous.
	And I think that's why people like Musk, like Tucker, like Tulsi, like others, have all recognized that Trump is the answer to give everybody the best shot at prosperity in the nation.
	Well, I think that's well stated, and I think that's a great way to summarize this.
	We didn't get to talk about the Middle East, but if you're okay, I'll invite you back.
	Please!
	We'll talk about the climate again, and we'll talk about the Middle East.
	Yeah, and look, I'm with you.
	If we want to have abundance for humanity, we have to have affordable energy and affordable food, and those two things go together.
	Absolutely.
	And you have to have carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
	So that's why I tell people, if I'm idling my car in the driveway, they're like, oh, you're wasting fuel.
	Yeah, but I'm feeding the trees.
	I mean, this is good for the plants out there.
	Just want to mention your website again, projectsentinel.com, the blessings of liberty.
	Anything else you want to add here as we wrap this up today?
	No, I appreciate being on the show with you.
	I always enjoy having these discussions where I can be a little bit snarky, but really try to help people understand that they've been lied to by the mainstream media and other folks.
	And simply put, I appreciate having this opportunity to be on your platform and have this conversation.
	So thanks for having me.
	Absolutely.
	Well, we appreciate your candor and also your sense of humor here today as well.
	So thank you so much, sir.
	It's been an honor.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	That was Colonel Tony Schaefer, everyone.
	And again, his website is ProjectSentinel.com.
	That was a wonderful conversation.
	I hope you enjoyed it.
	Feel free to repost this on other platforms and channels as well.
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