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Jan. 29, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Jan 29, 2024 - Evergrande LIQUIDATED, Germany tells citizens to BUILD BUNKERS...

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	Oh, it's about to get interesting, folks.
	Welcome to Brighton Broadcast News from Monday, January 29th, 2024.
	Mike Adams here.
	We have so much breaking news to cover for you today.
	Let me hit the highlights here, and then we'll go back and get some details.
	So first, the Take Our Border Back convoy begins today.
	There's a convoy beginning on the East Coast, I think in Virginia Beach, and then on the West Coast as well.
	And they're both converging in Eagle Pass, Texas, this coming Saturday, February 3rd.
	So if you want to find out more about that, go to takeourborderback.com.
	And I'm also posting a special podcast.
	I'm not going to include it here, but separately, I have a podcast that's warning everybody.
	This looks a lot like a Fed trap, by the way.
	It looks like the Feds are going to try to use this for some kind of false flag insurrection and blame it on conservatives.
	It doesn't mean you shouldn't go.
	I'm just saying you should be aware of everything.
	You should be videotaping.
	Well, it's not tape anymore, but recording everything.
	And you probably shouldn't have your phone with you if you have a SIM card that is tied to your identity.
	And I cover all that in a special report posted separately on Brighteon.com and Rumble and other video hosting locations.
	So that's just one thing that's beginning to happen.
	But we've got some other major breaking news.
	For example, Kablooey.
	This is in the Kablooey category.
	Hong Kong court just ordered China's Evergrande to undergo full liquidation.
	All right, we knew this was coming.
	And I did an interview, was it over a year ago, with John Perez.
	We were talking about this very issue.
	So Evergrande has debts of well over $300 billion.
	A lot of people think it's like $350, $360 billion.
	Evergrande was a Ponzi scheme property developer scam in China that took a bunch of money up front from people to build properties.
	And then it turns out they really couldn't build all those properties and they got behind schedule on getting things built.
	It was a giant Ponzi scheme.
	They were basically taking in new money to try to pay back the original investors.
	So, this has taken a while to work its way through the system, but now, China's court, well, the Hong Kong court, because Evergrande is actually incorporated in Hong Kong.
	Hong Kong court ordered the liquidation of China Evergrande Group, reports Channel News Asia, a move likely to send ripples through China's crumbling financial markets, as policymakers scramble to contain a deepening crisis.
	Justice Linda Chan decided to liquidate the world's most indebted developer.
	With more than $300 billion in total liabilities.
	And by the way, these assets are held by U.S., well, multiple things.
	Hedge funds, pension funds, all kinds of institutional investors had invested in Evergrande, and now it's all being liquidated.
	The decision sets the stage for what is expected to be a long, drawn-out, and complicated process, of course.
	Offshore investors will be focused on how Chinese authorities treat foreign creditors when a company fails.
	I can answer that.
	Foreign creditors are screwed.
	That's pretty much the way that's going to work.
	So I don't know how much of this is held by U.S. investors, but it's many tens of billions of dollars for sure.
	But the fact that this liquidation is happening, even in Hong Kong and China, means there's going to be a ripple effect of bank failures and investment fund failures.
	Now, stemming from this, because at this point, a lot of those other institutions are going to have to write off the debt.
	They won't be able to, you know, fudge the books and say, well, we might get paid one day.
	At this point, it's over.
	They're not going to get paid.
	It's done.
	So they're going to have to write this off.
	They have different mechanisms to delay that, but they can only do that for so long.
	So bottom line...
	There's going to be a cascading tidal wave of debt collapse failures now across the world, stemming from this Evergrande failure.
	So this is another sort of reminder.
	Remember that it was about a year ago we had bank failures in the United States, Silicon Valley Bank and some others, and it looks like it's going to be an annual event.
	It's coming back.
	Just about one year later, seeing as I think that happened in March or thereabouts.
	So do you recall that when Silicon Valley Bank went down, that you couldn't hardly buy silver or gold anywhere because all the gold and silver dealers were just backlogged?
	It was horribly difficult to try to get any actual silver.
	And of course, prices spiked quite a lot at that time, but the supply of silver just wasn't there to meet the demand.
	And you may recall it was several months before supply finally caught up.
	I think that was sometime around the summer of 2023 before silver was readily available again.
	So for anybody out there thinking that they might want to get gold and silver, you should maybe consider...
	Doing it now before the Evergrande debt collapse wave sort of makes its way across the US. I mean, oh, we knew this was coming, and now it's here.
	And by the way, China has suffered quite a collapse of its stock market in the last couple of weeks due to the failure of so-called snowball derivatives.
	These are derivatives based on derivatives, like derivatives of derivatives.
	It's like a nightmare scenario when they start to unwind, you know?
	That's why they call it the snowball effect derivative.
	Well, those have been unwinding.
	Trillions of dollars have been lost in the markets, as I understand it.
	And with this Evergrande liquidation decision, that's just going to slam the accelerator even more on that.
	So the financial instability of China is really being showcased here right now, just as the economic and military instability of the United States is being showcased and the, well, the economic instability of Europe is looking horrifying at the moment.
	So there's a lot going on.
	In fact, let's talk about Europe for just a second.
	Because, let's see, in Germany now, you're supposed to build your own bomb shelter, according to the government.
	So this has been widely covered, including in the BUILD newspaper.
	But I'm reading from an RT summary of that.
	Germans will be expected to turn their homes into bomb shelters if a major war breaks out in Europe.
	The newspaper Bild reported on Saturday citing a draft document from the defense ministry.
	They're working on an operational plan called the O-Plan.
	I kind of like that name, but I think it could be improved.
	I think it could be called the O-S*** Plan, actually.
	Anyway, they call it the O-Plan.
	Maybe it's the O-No Plan.
	Oh-my-God Plan.
	The draft envisions Germany as a, quote, transit country crucial for the delivery of weapons and equipment, you know, to the front lines of the war with Russia, obviously, rather than a state with an active front line.
	So soldiers would be tasked with securing key highways, railway stations, and ports.
	And then the government would have to rely on civilians to step in and cover duties that were typically assigned to the military and the police, including the protection of power plants.
	Wow, did you know that if you're a German citizen, all of a sudden you've been recruited to be a soldier protecting the power plant?
	Did you know that?
	Did you sign up for that?
	What, all the purple-haired German soldiers can't do their jobs anymore?
	What happened?
	Maybe Germany shouldn't have been allies with the United States of America that destroyed their energy infrastructure, you know, the Nord Stream pipelines.
	Oh my gosh.
	Anyway, you can tell...
	That Germany and Western Europe, they're all gearing up for World War III with Russia, and I think that's delusional because I don't think they're going to last that long, frankly.
	Oh, by the way, sorry about the fan noise.
	If you can hear that, it's louder today because, well, our large language model processing is doing some really heavy-duty computational stuff right now in my office here.
	I'll give you a quick update on that.
	We are introducing...
	Our language model analysis engine today, in fact.
	And we've given it the name Neo, you know, from the Matrix.
	But Neo's going to write an article for you tonight.
	And it'll be on the website.
	Actually, Neo's going to write an article about this podcast.
	So I'll tell you more about that later.
	Let's go back to Germany for a second.
	From the story, it says there are 579 functional bomb shelters in Germany.
	That's it?
	Not even 600 bomb shelters?
	So the plan sees citizens setting up their own shelters in places like basements and garages.
	Oh, they're saying they don't have time to build new shelters.
	It's, quote, no longer feasible because they've run out of time.
	What?!
	They're also trying to increase the number of soldiers in the German army to 183,000 soldiers by the year 2031.
	What a joke!
	They don't have 183,000 soldiers right now?
	No, of course not.
	They've shut it all down.
	Just like they've shut down their economy and they've shut down...
	Everything.
	Farms and infrastructure that keeps German citizens alive.
	Look, Germany, like every other Western European country, is a suicide cult.
	It's a suicide cult.
	And...
	They're done.
	They will not survive to the year 2031, at least not as currently configured.
	So I'm really wondering too, by the way, when does Germany and the German press and, in fact, the whole media of Western Europe, when do they apologize to all the preppers that they've been mocking for the last 20 years?
	You know, when people used to build their own bomb shelters?
	They were mocked.
	Oh my God, you're so stupid.
	You think you have to build a bomb shelter?
	And now the German government is like, you should build bomb shelters.
	It's like, I thought you said that was stupid.
	No, not only do you need to build bomb shelters, but also you've been recruited to guard the power plants.
	Guard them against what?
	Um, pretty much like incoming hypersonic missiles and things like that.
	Well, how am I supposed to guard the power plant against hypersonic missiles?
	Well, you can just imagine the German government.
	Um, we're not really sure, but...
	It's your responsibility now.
	Let us know how it goes.
	Bye!
	This is insane.
	I thought the U.S. was going insane or that Britain was going insane.
	And now, I mean, Germany's gone just completely bat crap insane with just the denial of reality.
	I mean, if you lived in Germany, you should have had a bomb shelter years ago or at least a way to get to one.
	I mean, you should have had backup food, backup medicine, you know, gold and silver, ammo.
	Can you own ammo in Germany?
	I don't even know what the laws are there.
	But I wouldn't want to be anywhere without guns and ammo and gold, you know, all the important things.
	You know, just in case you have to roll out the oh s*** plan that the German defense ministry is rolling out.
	I've got a special report on this I recorded earlier.
	I might play it here.
	It talks about Germany, but mostly about how you need to get to where you want to be in the United States when the Civil War breaks out and the bombs start falling.
	Most of my listeners are in the U.S., but actually it applies wherever you are.
	Get out of the cities, get out of the Democrat-controlled areas.
	If I have time here, I'll play that special report.
	But how delusional are these European leaders that they think they're actually going to fight a sustained war with Russia?
	A war so big that the nation of Germany is going to be like a staging area to shuttle equipment and armament and soldiers to the front lines to fight Russia.
	You know, I got news for the Germans.
	It's going to be over long before that happens.
	Because Europe doesn't have much in the way of troops and equipment and munitions, artillery, tanks, missiles.
	I mean, what does Western Europe have that can fight Russia?
	Aside from, I don't know, a couple hundred thousand Polish troops, but aside from that, seriously, what does Europe have?
	Nothing!
	What, the whole country of the United Kingdom has like 50 tanks, you know?
	That's it.
	Jeez, we've got a lot more than that just in the state of Texas.
	Like, way more than that.
	The UK has one aircraft carrier.
	I think it's called Queen Elizabeth.
	It doesn't work, by the way.
	It's always in port being repaired.
	And the British Navy is so freaking pathetic that they actually run ads on LinkedIn now to try to recruit naval admirals.
	Because apparently there's nobody within the ranks of the British Navy who knows anything about how to operate a ship.
	So they're just running ads on LinkedIn.
	I mean, why not run ads on pizza boxes?
	Hey, have you ever wanted to play with a boat?
	Or I should say that with a British accent.
	Or just have graffiti on the bathroom wall for a good time on a ship.
	Call, you know, 1-800, whatever the numbers are in the UK. They'll have to run desperate ads in the local British newspapers.
	Help wanted.
	Someone with naval experience who isn't a libtard.
	Please apply.
	And then they get no phone calls.
	There's nobody left.
	I got news for the Brits, you know.
	The men who knew how to sail ships, they're either retired or dead because it's from a generation long gone.
	The British were a pretty awesome navy, even in World War II. They could get some things done.
	But, of course, for a century before that as well, they ruled the seas.
	But it didn't take long to go from, we ruled the seas, to, now we're LGBTs.
	That's so pathetic.
	What are they going to fight Russia with?
	In their delusional minds, what do they think they have that's going to defeat Russia that's going to require shipping all this stuff across Germany?
	There's nothing.
	It would be like Adolf Hitler's imaginary troops, you know?
	We can still win in the Ardennes, you know?
	Send in the troops!
	Sir, there are no more troops, you know?
	Well, I'm sorry, that's British.
	I can't really do a German accent that well, so...
	Apologies.
	And just in case you thought things weren't crazy enough this week, hold on your hats, folks, because Hezbollah has reportedly received intelligence that the IDF is ready to invade Lebanon and launch a war on two fronts.
	That's according to the Lebanese broadcaster LBCI. They reported that over the weekend, saying that Israel's about ready to attack them.
	I wonder if that's because the IDF is failing in Gaza.
	IDF is getting chewed to pieces in Gaza.
	Did you see that the IDF lost 24 soldiers the other day when they wired a bunch of residential buildings with explosives?
	Because that's what the satanic cult of the Zionists do.
	They blow up residential buildings.
	They had them all wired with explosives.
	And they had about 50 troops still in the buildings.
	You know, I guess they were just finishing up all the demolition work or something, you know.
	Put an explosive charge over here, over there, over there.
	Just act like it's a World Trade Center building.
	Put them everywhere.
	And then out pops a Hamas fighter out of the ground.
	They're super secret rabbit holes, you know.
	They pop out and fired some kind of a rocket from At least that's my understanding.
	Some kind of, you know, RPG. And then it set off one of the explosive charges, which of course caused a domino effect of all the other explosive charges to be detonated, which caused the residential buildings to come crashing down on top of the Of the crushed skulls of the IDF fighters.
	Apparently 24 were killed and 30-something more were wounded.
	And it's kind of like, you know, when you see that, you know, as much as you don't want anybody to die, I don't like to see war.
	I don't want to see anybody suffer.
	But, you know...
	For all the times that the IDF has brought down buildings on the heads of Palestinians and Gazan children and women and patients in hospitals and refugee camp civilians and so on, it's kind of karmic when the IDF plants explosives in a bunch of buildings where their soldiers are still located and then it all blows up and it comes down on their own heads.
	It's kind of like, well...
	It's hard to say you didn't beg for that, you know?
	Really.
	It's like, again, I don't want to see anybody suffer or die, but you planted the explosives.
	You planned to do this to the Palestinians.
	It just happened to you first.
	It's kind of like, well, only have yourself to blame.
	And then apparently yesterday there was something like, what was it, 11 or 13 more Israeli soldiers that were just blown up in some building that was hit by an explosive of some kind.
	I don't have all the details.
	I just remember the numbers were shocking.
	And I know that over 25,000 Palestinians have been killed in this ongoing Zionist genocide, which is some kind of a satanic, ritualistic, sacrificial death cult thing that the Zionists are all into.
	And yet when every IDF soldier is killed, it's such a – one soldier is apparently sends shockwaves throughout the Israeli communities.
	I mean, they don't mind dishing out 25,000 casualties, but when one of their own dies, they freak out and panic, and then...
	In back-to-back days, they've had, what is that, like 30-something soldiers die, maybe 40, maybe 50.
	We don't even really know what the real numbers are because Israel always lies about the numbers.
	They never tell the truth about how many of their soldiers are being killed.
	But apparently, a lot more are being killed.
	So I'm wondering if Israel is just realizing they're losing in Gaza.
	They're losing in Gaza.
	I mean, all they've successfully done is carried out demolition of residential buildings.
	Have they killed, I don't know, maybe a couple thousand Hamas?
	Probably.
	But at what cost to Israel's global reputation?
	I mean, the International Court of Justice has just issued a devastating ruling against Israel, ordering it to stop carrying out acts of genocide.
	And saying that the court case of genocide against Israel is plausible and can move forward in the courts.
	And the reason that was an easy decision for the court is because Israel's leaders, like Netanyahu and Gevir and others, are all...
	On the record, saying how much they can't wait to slaughter all the Palestinians and displace them and move in and claim their land for quote, greater Israel.
	I mean, they said it in their own words.
	There's no question that it's genocide.
	They were calling for genocide.
	They bragged about it.
	They celebrated it.
	They demanded it.
	There's no question.
	Israel is guilty of genocide under this current regime, the Netanyahu regime, which I understand does not represent all of Israel and most certainly does not represent all Jews, that's for sure.
	There are plenty of Jews that oppose what Israel is doing right now.
	Lots of Jews who would rather see peace.
	And then non-Jews like myself that also want to see peace.
	And I don't have anything against Jewish people or even the people of Israel.
	I'm opposed to all this war and violence.
	We need to stop the violence and stop the war criminal lunatics like Netanyahu who are carrying it out.
	Too bad Netanyahu wasn't in that residential building when it all came down.
	Man, we could have ended this whole thing just like that.
	Maybe they should send Netanyahu out to install explosive charges in some other buildings and hope for the best.
	Anyway, according to the LBCI, that's the Lebanese broadcaster, an intelligence report on Israel's plans has been provided to Hezbollah by an Arab country that's not named.
	This IDF campaign will be aimed at compelling the militants to abide by UN Security Resolution 1701, Which was apparently adopted after the Israel-Lebanon war in 2006, and that created a demilitarized zone along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
	A zone that Israel does not even recognize any longer, of course, because they keep assassinating Lebanese citizens or Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon.
	Hezbollah MP Hassan Ezzedin said that Hezbollah would, quote, fight back twice as hard and deal a blow to the enemy.
	Does anybody remember that Israel got its ass handed to it in 2006 by Hezbollah?
	I mean, and since then, by the way, the IDF has gotten weaker and Hezbollah has gotten stronger.
	I mean, the IDF has become...
	It's pathetic, woke-tard, military, if you can even call it that.
	It's so pathetic.
	The IDF soldiers are so terrified, too.
	They have no courage.
	And this is part of this ruination of Western culture.
	I don't know if it's the TikTok generation or what it is, but these younger IDF reservists, they've got no courage, no skills, no determination, nothing.
	They're triggered and terrified by everything, just huddled in corners, shivering, hiding in their tanks, you know.
	Meanwhile, Hezbollah is out there on the front lines just taking it to them, or Hamas is taking it to them.
	You know, wearing sandals like flip-flops and sticky bombs.
	It's like there's no question which side has more courage here.
	No question at all.
	There's no question which side has actual warriors versus woke tarts.
	I mean, it's so incredibly obvious.
	But I think Israel is trying to pivot to Lebanon because they're losing in Gaza.
	And if they pivot to Lebanon, or to try to engage Hezbollah, I think they're going to get their asses handed to them again.
	Just like in 2006.
	I don't see that Israel can defeat Hezbollah.
	Especially when Hezbollah has all these rockets, like hundreds of thousands of them, that they can fire into Israel and just destroy Israel's cities.
	I mean, what is Israel thinking?
	Is the Israeli leadership...
	As delusional as Joe Biden and the U.S. State Department and Victoria Nuland and the leadership of Germany and the U.K. and all these countries that think they can fight Russia and win a war, a land war with Russia?
	Do you know how many times that's been tried?
	You know, I mean, Napoleon, anyone?
	I mean, how far back in history do you want to go?
	Russia cannot be defeated in a land war.
	Especially not today when they have far more superior weapons and, frankly, far more experienced fighting force.
	They've got the most capable and experienced military on planet Earth as of this moment.
	Nobody else can compare to Russia's military as of this moment because they've had, what is it, two years of fighting under their belt.
	Experience counts for a lot.
	Plus, they've got a ready supply of munitions and hypersonic missiles and advanced anti-air defense systems.
	And they also have hypersonic air-to-air missiles, not to mention vastly superior artillery, electronic warfare, and a whole lot more.
	So I don't know what Israel and these Western countries are just completely delusional.
	And how pathetic is it that Israel can't even defeat Hamas?
	I mean, Israel's got total air superiority.
	They've got all the tanks, all the hardware, all the night vision, all the satellites, everything.
	I mean, Hamas doesn't even have an airport.
	And Hamas is inflicting major casualties and blowing up vehicles like crazy on the Israeli side.
	Israel's losing against Hamas.
	Unbelievable.
	So, from the Washington Post, it says that U.S. officials are concerned that Benjamin Netanyahu may want to attack Israel's northern neighbor, that would be Lebanon, amid the growing criticism of his government's failure to prevent the Hamas October 7th incursion, i.e.
	attack, which left around 1,200 people dead.
	But of course, hundreds of those people were killed by the IDF. The report also suggested that the IDF would find it, quote, difficult to succeed in a two-front war against both Habas and Hezbollah.
	Yeah, you think?
	Israel can't even defeat either one of those parties in a one-front war, much less a two-front war.
	All right, there's more heating up in the Middle East.
	Let's see here.
	U.S. troops.
	Three soldiers have been killed in a drone attack, although it looks like the U.S. is lying about the details of this.
	Fake President Joe Biden announced that there was a strike on this U.S. Army outpost, which he claims is in Jordan, and then he claims that it was directed by Iran.
	So this outpost is apparently known as Tower 22.
	And, yeah, three American soldiers were killed in this drone strike.
	Both Iran and the Jordanian governments deny that report, or at least certain details on it.
	Iran says it wasn't us.
	I'll bring you details about that in a second.
	But first, the Jordanian government spokesperson, Muhannad al-Mubaidin, He was on Al-Mamlaka television.
	He said, quote, the attack that killed three American soldiers targeted the U.S. Al-Tanf base in Syria, not on the soil of Jordan.
	So this wasn't even in Jordan.
	We're told by Biden that it happened in Jordan and it was caused by Iran, but it actually happened in Syria and Not Jordan.
	And then Iran, of course, denies the attack.
	Here it is.
	Iran denies it was behind the deaths of U.S. servicemen in Jordan.
	Tehran was not involved in the drone attack, says the Iranian foreign minister's spokesman, Nasser Kana'ani.
	The Islamic resistance in Iraq...
	An umbrella group for Islamist Shia militias claimed responsibility for the strike on Tower 22 But Kanaani said, quote, Is
	he going to beat up Corn Pop again?
	He says, quote, We will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.
	So three U.S. servicemen died, and my heart goes out to them.
	I don't want to see any deaths.
	I don't want to see any suffering, any losses.
	But what about the 25,000-plus Palestinians?
	The U.S. does nothing for them.
	Remember how under Bush, the United States blamed Saddam Hussein for weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be non-existent?
	Isn't it weird now that the U.S. is blaming Iran for an attack that actually appears to have been initiated from Iraq and the U.S. is saying it was an attack on U.S. soldiers in Jordan, but the people there in the Middle East say, no, it's Syria.
	I mean...
	What do you make of this?
	Of course, you may recall the whole point of blaming weapons of mass destruction on Saddam Hussein was so that we would have a justification to attack and kill Saddam Hussein and take over Iraq and take over the oil fields and all of that.
	As always, with the U.S. warmongering, corrupt system of U.S. senators and weapons manufacturers and kickbacks of fraud, it's always about setting up enough blame to justify bombing another country.
	And of course, right now, Senator Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran, and he's calling for it.
	He's out there tweeting, hit him hard, hit him hard, it's about time!
	And they don't even need any actual evidence that Iran is behind this attack.
	And by the way, not that anybody's life is inconsequential, but it's only three American service members compared to 25,000 plus Palestinians.
	I mean, if anybody should be angry about getting bombed and killed, it should be the Palestinians.
	I mean, and it's U.S. bombs being dropped on the Palestinians.
	So, what did you think was going to happen?
	And by the way, what the hell is the U.S. doing with all these bases all over Jordan and Syria and Iraq and Turkey and other locations?
	I mean, Iraq and Syria and other countries, they have officially demanded that the U.S. leave.
	Get out.
	We don't want your military occupation in our countries.
	The U.S. is an occupying military force in these countries.
	They're not invited.
	They're not welcomed.
	What did you expect was going to happen?
	Maybe you should just leave.
	Get out.
	Bring the soldiers home.
	If you don't want them to get killed, stop putting them there.
	It's like the government of Syria.
	Get your bases out of here.
	The U.S. says, nope.
	We're just going to stay here because we can, because we have enough guns and bombs.
	We don't need your permission.
	We're just going to occupy your country by force.
	And that's the way the U.S. operates in the Middle East.
	And then the U.S. is all shocked when drone attacks happen on their illegal military bases that violate international law, by the way.
	Again, what did you expect was going to happen?
	You know, all of you in the military listening to this, and look, I honor U.S. veterans and active duty soldiers, but you must know that if they send you to these bases like Tower 22, you're just bait.
	You're drone bait, guys.
	They're sending you there as drone bait to get you killed so they can justify bombing Iran.
	I hope you understand that.
	Don't think that the Pentagon or Senator Lindsey Graham or fake President Biden, don't think they value you as a human being or for your contributions or for being a warrior.
	No.
	You're bait to die in a drone strike so they can call for bombing Iran.
	That's the only purpose you have to this corrupt administration, this corrupt, woke-tard Pentagon.
	You have no other value to them other than just dying.
	And you know...
	You might want to think about getting a different employer.
	If your employer literally wants you dead, it's probably not a good job.
	Just saying.
	Just saying.
	Let's move over to Texas for a minute here.
	Got some good stuff happening in Texas.
	I gotta say, I really love our Attorney General Ken Paxton.
	He issued a statement, I think this was on Saturday, And, you know, Governor Abbott and A.G. Paxton, they have told Joe Biden to go pound sand.
	As Biden, you know, is demanding that Texas remove the razor wire and keep the border wide open and allow unlimited illegal insurrection and invasion and occupation of America.
	And, you know, Texas government said, no, we're not going to do that.
	And now Paxton is saying, essentially, come and take it, you know, make us do it.
	Here's what he tweeted out.
	Quote, today I deny the Biden administration's unfounded requests and issued counter demands.
	By February 15th, DHS must supply the official plat maps and deeds demonstrating the precise parcels to which they claim ownership.
	This is a good one.
	This is Paxton telling Joe Biden, like, show us the maps of the land that you think you own in Texas.
	Comma, an explanation of how Texas is preventing access to those specific parcels, documentation showing that Eagle Pass or Texas ever granted permission for DHS to erect infrastructure that interferes with border security, and proof of Congress empowering DHS to turn a Texas park into an unofficial and illegal port of entry.
	Show us, right?
	Show us the records where you think you own this land.
	Otherwise, guess what?
	Paxton continues, if the federal government is going to make such claims, it must provide proof.
	Presumably because you have no meaningful response to our letter, your latest letter abandons early factual assertions, asserts new ones, and supplies even less of a legal basis for your demand.
	Once again, I respectfully suggest that any time you might spend suing Texas should be redirected toward enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the books.
	As I said before, this office will continue to defend Texas' efforts to protect its southern border against every effort by the Biden administration to undermine the state's constitutional right of self-defense.
	Period.
	And he should have added hashtag go pound sand.
	Now, a lot of people think civil war is coming in America.
	They may be right.
	Secession may be coming.
	I've got a special report on this that talks about how we build a new America once the civil war is over, the secession takes place, America will be split roughly in half.
	I don't mean geographically, but I mean by states.
	And then the new free states can decide how to build a better America while the old, corrupt, Democrat-controlled America collapses into total ruin, drug addiction, child trafficking, libtardia, all that.
	But as part of this whole process of possible insurrection, possible civil war, possible riots, and so on, It appears that various health insurance companies are now updating their policies in 2024 with new exclusions saying that they no longer cover, quote, treatment of an injury or a sickness which is due to war, declared or undeclared, riot or insurrection.
	This was tweeted out by Wall Street Apes, and there's a video about this that appears to be citing policies from Cigna and United, saying that they've changed their policies in 2024.
	So let's watch that short video and see what you think.
	Y'all need to check your insurance policies.
	Listen to this.
	This is something that made me go, hmm.
	As you may know, I have had my insurance license in the state of California for over a decade.
	And when I was reviewing policies for 2024, I noticed this new exclusion.
	Look here, this is under exclusions and expenses not covered on a 2024 Cigna health policy.
	Treatment of an injury or sickness which is due to war, declared or undeclared, riot or insurrection.
	This is not typical.
	This is an insurance policy from United last year for 2023.
	And the language typically reads like this, what happens with my coverage under extraordinary circumstances?
	And it says in cases of disaster, epidemic, war, riot, insurrection, that they will do their best to provide the services you need.
	But now take a look at United's 2024 health insurance policy, another exclusion, T, war.
	We do not cover an illness, treatment, or medical condition due to war, declared or undeclared.
	Cigna and United aren't the only ones that have changed their language, excluding war from their policies.
	Anthem has also done this.
	And it just makes you wonder, why in the world would that be the case?
	So as you can see coming back from that video...
	Yeah, I wonder why they might exclude injuries and sickness from war, riots, or insurrection, you know, declared or undeclared.
	Huh.
	What might happen in 2024 that would give the insurance companies a big out?
	If a bunch of people end up injured or sick because of those circumstances, I wonder what it could be.
	Well, obviously, the federal government under the fake Biden regime waging war against the American people.
	Or civil war.
	Or actually, if they release another bioweapon, couldn't the health insurance companies just say, that's an act of war?
	Yeah, we realize you're infected and dying and you need hospital care, but that's an act of war.
	It was a bioweapon.
	And then you have no coverage at all.
	Or you get injured during the migrant uprising of August or whatever it ends up being.
	They won't cover it.
	I mean, health insurance is so often such a rip-off and such a joke anyway, but this just underscores it.
	Can't they say almost anything is an act of war, including COVID, you know, or an insurrection that, oh, you got hurt on the convoy.
	You were part of an insurrection, you know, and you're not covered anymore because you joined a peaceful convoy.
	That kind of thing.
	By the way, speaking of health, I need to remind you of the Juvent platform, which is a sponsor of Brighttown.tv.
	But I've been using Juvent.
	That's J-U-V-E-N-T, Juvent.com.
	I've been using that platform for how many years?
	Seven years now, I think?
	Yeah, since 2016, maybe going on eight years.
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	It's the kind of frequency of impulses.
	I mean, you stand on the plate, and then it goes through frequencies to find the resonant frequency of your body.
	And you can feel it happening.
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	Because my opinion is that, of course, we should try our best to not need health insurance.
	I'm not saying don't carry it.
	That's your own financial decision.
	But the more we take care of our health, the less we need doctor visits and hospitals and You know, pharmaceuticals and all that garbage.
	So take care of your health and you won't need as much health insurance, really.
	I mean, that's my opinion anyway.
	In fact, the only time I visited a doctor in many, many years was because of the severe injury.
	I had the laceration where I almost lost my index finger.
	And it has almost fully healed at this point, by the way.
	But I did go to a doctor like five weeks after the injury just to see if it was healing correctly.
	And it was a hand specialist doctor.
	And he spent all of about five minutes with me.
	Like, can you do this?
	Can you do that?
	Does this hurt?
	And I'm like, yeah, great.
	You didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.
	And then, I don't know if you recall, I mentioned this.
	His office billed my health insurance company something like $1,100 for that thing, for that visit.
	It's like five minutes, man.
	You billed $1,100?
	That just seems bonkers.
	In retrospect, I didn't need to see that doctor.
	He didn't give me any information that helped me at all.
	The thing that helped me was my own nutrition and Using various herbs like lion's mane, mushroom, and so on.
	And then just doing a lot of stretching and physical therapy exercises.
	Like I bought these hand, I've got one right here, like hand squeezing exercise machines.
	Worked my way up, just kind of rebuilding the strength of the finger.
	Because at first I couldn't even pull the trigger on a pistol.
	And now, of course, that's no problem.
	But I had to work it from nothing.
	Doctors didn't help me do any of that stuff.
	That was just God's healing and Mother Nature going to work and me just respecting that.
	Anyway, that's my philosophy on health and injuries for the most part.
	Now, if I had broken a bone or if I had cut the primary tendon, I would have had to have microsurgery or Had a doctor reset the bone or something like that.
	So, you know, there is a case for emergency medicine, obviously.
	But for most of what people go in to see doctors about, doctors don't help very much.
	They just put you on another drug, which causes another cascading series of side effects, and then come see me in three months when you have, you know, liver failure from these drugs or whatever.
	That's not medicine.
	That's just whoring for big pharma.
	Oh yes, I promised that I was going to give you the interview today for Ray McGovern.
	Former CIA analyst, Ray McGovern.
	Filmed it late last week.
	So yeah, we're going to go to that interview here in a little bit.
	But first, I'm going to play the special report.
	It's a little under 20 minutes, I believe.
	I recorded it earlier.
	And it's titled, Get to Where You Want to Be When the Bombs Start Falling and the Civil War Begins.
	And it's a reminder that we're almost out of time.
	America is about to break up.
	You can see it happening.
	And frankly, I'm all in for the Texit movement.
	Texas should secede.
	In fact, 25 states should secede and form their own new America and get it right this time.
	There are all kinds of good ideas about how to do that.
	But The time to decide where you want to be or what jurisdiction you want to be under, you know, when all this goes down, that's coming to a close very quickly.
	So check out this special report, and then I'll be back on the other side of that with the full interview with Ray McGovern.
	It is quite remarkable that the government of Germany is telling its own citizens to build bunkers.
	In their basements and homes, basically to harden their own homes against war, while at the same time, the United States is moving nuclear warheads to the United Kingdom.
	Now, it's obvious that the leaders of Western Europe are expecting nuclear attacks.
	But why?
	Why are they expecting nuclear attacks?
	And the answer is, because they plan to initiate them.
	They plan to attack Russia or provoke Russia at such a level that Russia will have no choice but to retaliate with nuclear weapons.
	This is the plan of Western leaders who are on a suicide mission to destroy the West.
	I mean, why else would they have wide open borders, for example?
	It's a suicide mission.
	It's a suicide cult.
	The whole climate change bullcrap narrative is nothing but an excuse for a suicide mission to tear down infrastructure, destroy local economies, destroy industry, destroy manufacturing, make everybody jobless and homeless, and then they will make sure that they get nuked.
	This is an extermination agenda across the West.
	Have no illusions.
	What you're looking at here.
	This is a suicide slash extermination.
	I mean, why else would Joe Biden demand a deal in order to just limit the number of illegals coming across the Texas border to something like $180,000 a month?
	Like, that's supposed to be a win for Texas?
	That you're only going to allow $180,000 a month?
	That's Joe Biden's so-called deal.
	That's insane.
	That's total nonsense.
	That's a suicide mission.
	The right answer to that question should be zero.
	How many immigrants should cross the border?
	Zero if they're illegal.
	I mean, we openly accept legal immigrants who want to be part of the United States of America, but not illegal immigrants who are just violating federal law and crossing the border, invading and occupying this country.
	That's what they're doing.
	But again, it's a suicide cult on the part of the national leaders who are, you know, implicated in all of this.
	Now back to Germany.
	Think about it.
	Germany allied with the United States that blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, which cut off Germany's affordable energy sources, making Germany and other Western European countries a lot more dependent on liquid natural gas exports from both the United States and also the Middle East, in particular Qatar.
	But then because of the conflict in the Middle East, Qatar has halted all exports of LNG to Europe.
	And then because Biden wants to punish Texas, Biden has halted all new LNG exports out of the United States to Europe.
	So, you know, one, two, three.
	I mean, it's three strikes.
	You're out.
	Three different sources of energy cut off to Germany because of the United States.
	Think about it.
	The US is gutting Western Europe.
	Germany used to be, you know, the leading industrial giant of Europe.
	No more.
	Now, that's Russia.
	Russia is the industrial giant of Europe.
	Yes, Russia is part of Europe, by the way.
	Eastern Europe.
	But Germany is no longer the giant.
	Germany's collapsing.
	Germany can't even manufacture enough tanks and shells and military equipment to defend itself if Russia were to invade Germany, which it won't.
	Russia has no interest in invading Germany.
	But if they did, there's nothing Germany could really do about it.
	Germany also is a country run by libtard bureaucrat morons who are into virtue signaling, of course, and appeasing Greta Thunberg.
	And shutting down their own domestic energy supplies in order to punish the German people while having Germany overrun by migrants.
	So that's very similar to what's happening, of course, in France and the UK and the United States and other countries.
	They punish their own citizens.
	They destroy the domestic infrastructure.
	They invite unlimited numbers of illegals to come in and overrun their country.
	And then they tell their citizens to build bomb shelters in their basements because the Russians might attack.
	No.
	You know who's attacking Germany?
	It's the German government that's attacking Germany.
	The German government is at war with the people of Germany.
	Just like Joe Biden is at war with the people of America.
	And Justin Trudeau is at war with the people of Canada.
	And so on.
	Every Western European or Western nation at this point, including, obviously, Australia and New Zealand, are at war with their own people.
	They are not representative democracies.
	They don't represent the people at all.
	They're not even democratic.
	They rig their elections.
	And they fill the airwaves with propaganda from media that's paid off by government.
	And then the governments order big tech to censor any dissenting views so that there's only one allowable opinion that can be expressed in any of these countries.
	I mean, in Germany, they throw people in prison for publishing memes.
	In the UK, you can have police visit you and question you and possibly arrest you if you use the term tranny.
	Yeah, think about it.
	Oh, because that's some kind of an assault on somebody's fake, you know, delusional gender identity.
	But meanwhile, the UK is being totally invaded and overrun by illegal migrants.
	But if you say anything bad about those migrants, then you might also be visited by police.
	And you'll be called a racist and a xenophobe as well.
	Xenophobic?
	To want to have borders, don't you know?
	You're a xenophobe.
	It was Paul Craig Roberts that did an article recently, I forgot the title, but he was talking about how white Western culture is a suicide cult that will not survive because it's just flat out destroying itself.
	In white Western culture, You're not allowed to stand up for your country or defend your borders.
	And you have to appease all those who are interested in having your country overrun, you know, occupied by illegals.
	And Paul Craig Roberts is correct that Western culture has become a suicide cult.
	And I know people like this who will not stand up for America.
	They won't stand up for themselves.
	They won't stand up for their own values.
	But they will defend, and these are leftists, they will defend the rights of illegals to invade in an unlimited number.
	And something has gone so wrong in Western society that you can only describe it as mentally ill.
	Western culture is mentally ill.
	I was talking to somebody from Taiwan the other day, too, and Taiwan is considered sort of the Western version of Asia or China.
	And Taiwan's being overrun by transgenders.
	You know, LGBT is taking over Taiwan just like it has many other Western nations, including Japan, too, by the way, and there's quite an element in South Korea as well.
	But it's bad, folks.
	LGBT has become a religion that preys upon children and grooms children and mutilates children.
	But it's the one religion that is embraced and endorsed by the state itself, by the government.
	They hang LGBT flags from the Capitol building, for God's sake, and from the White House.
	They celebrate LGBT flags.
	But they despise the American flag and they hate Americans and they hate white people in particular.
	They hate Christians.
	They hate Trump supporters.
	So yes, it's a suicide cult and our nation is on a suicide path.
	And I've said this before, it's worth repeating, that even if Trump wins this next election, it's over for America.
	Because America has become...
	Mentally ill and dysfunctional at such an extreme level that there's no recovering from it.
	A significant portion of the population has become all libtarded, woke-tarded.
	I mean, it's idiocracy on steroids.
	How do you turn that around?
	Well, you don't.
	What happens historically is that you end up in a collapse.
	Your nation collapses and all the libtardedness vanishes in the collapse, by the way.
	And there's a mass die-off and a huge loss of money and banks and financial infrastructure and so on.
	And then you end up with just rubble of a nation that once was.
	And then out of that, you rebuild a new nation.
	And that's exactly the path that we're on.
	We're going to have to rebuild a new America at some point after the collapse of this one.
	And that new America?
	It'll probably start in Texas.
	And then it'll be 24, 25 other states that go along with Texas as they are right now, over the border dispute.
	And you'll have over half the states that will join the New America, perhaps.
	I mean, this is one way it could go.
	And then you'll have the Democrat-run states that will refuse to join the New America.
	They will want to continue with their libtard suicide cult, their mass psychosis, mental illness, violent crime on parade.
	I mean, every horrific thing you can imagine, all their demonism and Satanism and child pedophile grooming perverts, many of whom are serving in public office, by the way, and running their schools.
	And those states will just collapse into, I guess at some point, just anarchy and despair.
	It'll be kind of like that time that the libtards in Seattle took over, six city blocks.
	Remember that?
	What was that called?
	They captured six city blocks.
	This was during the Trump administration, I think.
	And they said, this is our new utopia.
	And they pretended to do gardening.
	They thought they were going to grow some food.
	Actually, what happened is they went out to Home Depot and bought a bunch of small tomato plants.
	And then they just threw them all over the ground and all those plants died.
	Because they don't know how to garden.
	Because they're woke-tard idiots.
	And the police, the Seattle police, fled the area.
	The governor of Washington State refused to do anything about it.
	Didn't send in the National Guard.
	Nothing.
	Just let this zone of left-wing, libtard idiocracy run its course.
	And they started shooting and killing people.
	A few people were killed in that area.
	And then it was like the rest of the country is watching and saying, this is insane.
	What, the police?
	The police can't do anything about this?
	The National Guard can't do anything about this?
	And the answer is, it was because the governor of Washington and the police chief and the mayor of Seattle, they wanted it to happen.
	They tolerated it.
	Wasn't it called CHAZ at first?
	I remember I went through a couple different names.
	They tolerated it.
	They loved it.
	They loved the total left-wing collapse of the city of Seattle.
	They were probably unhappy that it didn't expand even more.
	So kind of getting back to the original topic, if you think that Germany is on the edge telling their citizens to build bunkers in their basements, what do you think is coming for American cities that are run by woke-tard Democrats, huh, that will not what do you think is coming for American cities that are run by
	When the Civil War gets underway and states like Texas secede from the union and form their own new union and say, we're done with Washington, D.C., we're done with the insanity world.
	We're going to defend our borders.
	We're going to have honest currency.
	We're going to have a whole new system of government.
	We're going to get rid of all the corruption and all the Mitch McConnell's and all the Nancy Pelosi's and everything else that's wrong with America.
	We're going to start fresh and we're going to have a fair, free, abundant society.
	No censorship by the government.
	Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to carry firearms.
	When that happens, and the left-wing states face off against that, who do you think is going to win?
	It's simple.
	It's simple.
	I mean, the left-wing states can't even defeat some Antifa hoodlums that took over their city.
	They won't even fight.
	The police won't even fight.
	The National Guard in Washington State won't even fight.
	The governor won't even fight.
	They won't fight for their own citizens.
	You'd think they're going to Defeat?
	Free America?
	Not a chance.
	Free America is where people have passion and skills.
	They know how to grow food.
	They know how to clean firearms.
	They know how to reload ammo.
	They know how to fix things.
	They know how to change a tire, you know, which most people in left-wing cities don't know how to change a tire.
	I mean, you're laughing, but it's true.
	They don't know how to change a tire.
	Some of them don't know how to change a light bulb.
	And all you got to do is screw it in.
	So there is no way that libtard left-wing America is going to defeat real America.
	The real Americans who have skills, who have knowledge, who have determination, who have spirit, who have morals, and who have the rule of law and the Constitution on their side.
	So it's almost the last call here, folks.
	If you are currently living in libtard America, that would be a blue city or a blue, like a really strongly controlled blue state, you have a choice.
	Either you and your neighbors are going to have to split off from the libtards and form your own new state and join free America, and that'll probably happen in, you know, eastern Oregon and Northern California, or actually most of California, most of Oregon, most of Washington, and so on.
	Most of Colorado, even.
	Almost all of Arizona and so on will just join the free states and they will kick away the tyrants that are running cities like, you know, San Francisco and Los Angeles and Seattle and Portland and so on.
	I mean, those cities are just going to burn.
	And real Americans will join the new free America.
	So you have a choice, either plan accordingly, prepare for that to happen, or move out of the blue states before that happens.
	That's your choice.
	No wonder everybody's coming to Texas.
	But a lot of people are also moving to Oklahoma.
	And frankly, places like Missouri are looking pretty good to a lot of people, or Indiana, or Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, and so on.
	A lot of good places for people to get to.
	And the big move is underway right now.
	This is the pre-Civil War move that's underway.
	So take your positions.
	Decide where you want to be when the Civil War goes down.
	Because once it begins, there's no moving around.
	You're going to be wherever you're at.
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	God bless Texas.
	Take care.
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	We're going to go to the interview with Ray McGovern.
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	So thank you for your support and enjoy the interview here with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
	And I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, and our guest today is former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who also used to give the daily briefing to President Ronald Reagan.
	Mr.
	McGovern is, I would say, an expert on what's happening with Russia, Ukraine, and also has a lot of analysis intelligence about the Middle East.
	He joins us today to try to help navigate what's going on in our world.
	Welcome, Mr.
	McGovern.
	It's an honor to have you on today, sir.
	Thanks, Mike.
	Glad to be with you.
	Well, I'm a fan of your work.
	I've seen many of your interviews.
	I really appreciate your analysis.
	And, of course, your analysis often runs counter to the Western corporate media propaganda that is just constantly lying about everything, it seems.
	But how would you summarize the current situation?
	Let's start with Ukraine and Russia.
	What's your overall summary of where we are right now?
	Well, funny you should ask, Mike.
	We and the group that I helped co-found, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, have just issued a memorandum to President Biden.
	On the first anniversary of our last memo to him in which we suggested that he get rid of his diplomatic, his foreign policy and his military advisors because they were misleading him on Ukraine.
	You may recall at this time last year The head of national intelligence said, you know, things are really looking good.
	I'm very optimistic about the spring.
	It was then a spring offensive, right?
	They were going to be in Crimea by summer.
	Yeah, and one of the reasons, of course, Mike, Is that the Russians are running out of ammunition.
	I remember that.
	And they have no indigenous capability to produce these shells.
	We're sitting pretty.
	Now, that's what Averill Haynes, the Director of National Intelligence, said a month before our previous memo.
	And we said, look, Mr.
	President, you're being misled.
	Now, we wrapped up what's gone on for the past year since that memo.
	And we pointed out, hey, Mr.
	President, when you said the Russians have already lost in Ukraine, That wasn't so, okay?
	When you took the cue from the head of CIA that the Russian forces have been embarrassed and have been shown as inept by all the world to see, that was also not true.
	And when you listen to Jake Sullivan say, oh, there's a stalemate now in Ukraine, that's also not true.
	Mr.
	President, sorry to break this to you.
	Nobody else is breaking it to you, but Ukraine and its patrons have already lost the ground war in Ukraine.
	And it really just depends on what Mr.
	Putin and the rest of the Russians decide to do, whether they will keep this attrition, attrition, attrition, attrition, gradualist approach, or whether when they break through Ukrainian lines, which we think will be the next couple of weeks, They'll go all the way to the Dnieper River to glide Ukraine in half.
	So that's what they have to contain with now in the administration.
	But, you know, if they're blind to the reality, if Biden is still being told that Russia has lost, well, I don't know who tells him that, but it's 180 degrees away from what's really happening.
	Well, do you find...
	I want to contrast...
	The era of Reagan versus where we are now, because it seems to me that Ronald Reagan, whether our viewers loved him or didn't love him, he did deal with reality, I would say, and his State Department lived in reality.
	And it seems to me, although you're free to disagree, of course, but it seems to me that today we have, you know, not only do we have a sort of gender-fluid society, but we have a fact-fluid State Department, you know?
	Yeah.
	Fat fluid.
	That's good, Mike.
	I hadn't thought of that.
	Fat fluid.
	You mean lions with their teeth?
	Yeah.
	It's awful.
	You make a good analogy here.
	As you said before, I briefed the President's Daily Brief every other morning, six days a week.
	My partner and I did that for the first four years of Reagan's first term.
	So I know what he came in with, and what he left his first term with was completely different because he listened, okay?
	Now, he ended up listening to the right people.
	Not only me.
	George Shultz, the Secretary of State, saw that this new fellow named Garbachev It was the real deal.
	I mean, he was criticizing the Soviet Communist Party.
	He was doing all kinds of measures to increase a period of detente, a period of less tension with the United States.
	And Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, And my nominal boss, Casey, at the CIA was telling Reagan, oh, no, no, no, no, don't trust this guy.
	He's just a more clever commie.
	A commie is a commie.
	A Communist Party of the Soviet Union will never, ever, ever give up power without a real struggle.
	Well, they were dead wrong.
	And gradually, we persuaded Schultz mostly and the Vice President.
	Vice President Bush did a good job.
	Say, look, you know, this guy's the real deal.
	There's lots of...
	Go see him.
	Talk to him and see what he's willing to do.
	And what he was willing to do, one of the crowning achievements, was he proposed this treaty which would not only prohibit or limit, but which would Destroy, right?
	Like, destroy a whole class of intermediate and medium-range ballistic missiles already in place in Western Europe and in the European part of Russia.
	European part of Russia, those were SS-20s, okay?
	And Pershing 2s in Europe.
	Now, Gorbachev said, look, we don't need those.
	We have these ICBMs, these intercontinental ballistic missiles.
	They can do their job.
	We don't need to have just like 10 minutes warning with these missiles that could hit Moscow or whoever in 10 minutes.
	So let's get rid of them.
	Now, Mike, when I heard that Gorbachev made that proposal, I said, right.
	Okay, right.
	Let's see how that works.
	But Reagan had learned to listen, and so did Schultz.
	Long story short, they destroyed him under international supervision, and that was the first and only time where a whole class of missiles were destroyed.
	So what's my point?
	My point is there was a time when people learned When people, when even Reagan decided, well, maybe evil empire is rhetoric, but maybe this is a group that we can deal with.
	And they did deal with them.
	Now, of course, in the last year of Trump's administration, that deal was canceled.
	We got out of the deal.
	And now we have the same kind of intermediate and medium-range ballistic missiles in Russia and going into Romania, Poland, and, God forbid, Ukraine itself.
	So we're back to the...
	Mid-80s, actually, before we started to destroy those.
	That treaty was called the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty.
	And it was, you know, it was really not only Reagan's, but Gorbachev's crowning achievement in the strategic bombs realm.
	See, that's fascinating because at that time there was a real willingness to back away from escalation, whereas right now, at least what I see from the West, is intentional provocation, a deliberate escalation, really trying to, as I see it, but of course, I'd love your analysis, trying to provoke Putin into an overreaction.
	And I would say...
	Putin has exercised quite a lot of discipline so far and restraint.
	Would you agree with that assessment or am I off base on that?
	I would agree, Mike, and it's a damn good thing that he has exercised restraint.
	Now, we have no George Shultz as Secretary of State anymore.
	We have this well-heeled, effete and elite leader Fellow named Blinken from the best schools, mind you, but doesn't know his rear end from his elbow when it comes to dealing with other countries.
	He's supported by a fellow named Jacob Sullivan.
	Comes out of the same fine schools.
	And there's another jerk named Brett McGurk.
	He runs our policy vis-a-vis the Middle East or Southwest Asia.
	So these guys think they know it all.
	They're captive to this notion that the U.S. is not only exceptional, it's indispensable.
	And Biden himself comes from that reign of thought.
	Biden, you know, with a 60 Minutes interview about three weeks ago now, he ended it The interviewer says, do you think it's wise to get involved in like two or three front wars like Ukraine and Southwest Asia and East Asia?
	And here's Biden.
	Come on.
	We're the United States of America.
	The most powerful country in the history of the world.
	In the history of the world!
	No.
	We used to be, Mike.
	Right.
	When I was young, after World War II, we were.
	After the Soviet Union crumbled, we still were.
	We're not anymore.
	And the fact that our president has this delusion that we can work our will wherever we want, and he's supported by these sycophants who say, oh, you're right, you're right, Mr.
	President, we can do all this stuff.
	That's a very dangerous situation.
	And your point about Putin being very circumspect and proceeding gingerly, I mean, he could go to the Dnieper River now if he wanted to.
	Sure.
	Instead, he's a tritting, a tritting, a tritting, and he's giving the West a chance to say, hey, all right, okay, this was a bad idea for us.
	We didn't really mean that 500,000 Ukrainian kids would be killed.
	But I think
	Russia's economy and prohibit Russia from being able to manufacture munitions.
	But what happened instead, as you know, is that Russia, all its investment remained local.
	Russia began locally sourcing all the components, including electronic components and obviously steel and raw materials.
	And Russia has now become the largest munitions manufacturer in all of Europe, dwarfing the United States output and Britain's output and Germany's output combined.
	So the sanctions backfired.
	Well, that's right, Mike.
	And you know, when you look at his economic advisors, they're no better than his foreign policy or military advisors.
	You don't really know which end is up.
	I mean, Here's Janet Yellen, head of Treasury, saying, oh, these sanctions are going to be the cat's pajamas.
	They're really going to work well.
	And hey, let's put a cap on Russian oil.
	Right.
	$60, yeah.
	Yeah, and she's asked, can we finance two front wars or three front wars?
	Ah, no problem.
	It's the same attitude, right?
	We're the United States of America!
	Anyhow, that's very mischievous.
	And what we've been pointing out to, what we tried to point out today, as a matter of fact, it's on consortiumnews.com, our memo, our VIPS memo to the president.
	We say, look, you've been demonstrably misled.
	And we cited what he was told last year, and we cited what happened this year, this past year, and then what's going to happen now.
	And so, look, Mr.
	President, you know, you can...
	You can be wooden-headed, okay?
	A term I got from that wonderful historian, what's her name now?
	I'll think of it in a second.
	March of Folly is the book that she wrote.
	And she said, look, you know, wooden-headedness is the ability to dismiss all the evidence on the ground and believe that you're going to prevail As a matter of fact, she adduces an example.
	She says, Philip II, Spain, 1600s.
	He was going great guns.
	He wouldn't listen to anybody about what was really happening, and he lost his empire.
	I got that?
	He lost his empire.
	We told Biden that this morning.
	We always wonder whether his minions ever let our take on things through to him.
	But this time we're hoping that it will get wide dissemination since the subject is on the front burner.
	That is, should we pour more money?
	Should we throw good money after bad in a dearth of intelligence information?
	Or should we come to our senses and make a deal?
	The deal will be bad, but that's our fault because we had a great deal ready in March of 2022.
	That's right.
	When the Ukrainians themselves and Russians had come to an agreement that would have ended, would have prevented a half million Ukrainian soldiers from ending up dead.
	Absolutely.
	And I want to ask you about Ukraine running out of men, but let's show that news item on screen there from Consortium News.
	This is the memo that you're referring to, the VIPS memo.
	To Biden.
	Correct.
	Avoid a third world war.
	And I would also like to bring up Ray McGovern's website as well if you can do that.
	Show that on screen.
	It's raymcgovern.com if you want to follow Mr.
	McGovern's content.
	And also on X, his username is Ray McGovern.
	So pretty straightforward.
	I'd like to ask you...
	I just add that my website is easily searchable, so...
	My son who runs it has been running it now for 15 years.
	You can find pretty much anything on there because he's made it easily searchable.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay.
	So you mean your site itself has a really great search function for all the content that you have there?
	Correct.
	You just kind of go down there from the face page and you'll see a big You know, a big square.
	I see.
	Yeah, search.
	There it is.
	Type in whatever you want there and chances are it'll come right up.
	I use it myself all the time.
	Oh, that's great.
	Because I tend to repeat myself when conditions require it.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Outstanding.
	Well, we will take advantage of that, and probably in our own reporting as well.
	Maybe we can find articles that we can cite on your site.
	But let me ask you then about the current...
	Biden administration position on Ukraine, which is obviously delusional, but it's that if we print enough money and send enough money to Ukraine and send enough money to weapons manufacturers to claim we're sending weapons that haven't been made yet, for the most part, by the way, then Ukraine will somehow find enough people to keep dying.
	Right?
	You know, I mean, it's absurd because they've run out of men.
	Zelensky says we're going to find 500,000 more.
	They're training women.
	They've dropped the disability exemption from their recruitment and conscription, as I understand it.
	And 10 million plus people have left Ukraine.
	I mean, how does anybody think that this plan can work?
	You can't create soldiers by printing money.
	There you go, Mike.
	It's wooden-headedness.
	I'm not sure that our president is fully compass mentis.
	I am sure that his acolytes have this benign, have this benignity view of America's place in the world and that we can pretty much do whatever we want.
	And if we want to use Ukrainian youth to weaken Russia, well, we'll go ahead and do it.
	Now, people say, oh, Putin, he's neuralgic.
	You know, he's fearful.
	He's, you know, really gone off the rocker.
	Well, you know, he's not.
	When he looks at what our defense minister, our secretary of defense, Austin, he said two years ago now, we're going to, the main reason here, we're going to weaken Russia.
	We're going to, his words, we're going to move heaven and earth.
	To weaken Russia and defeat it in Ukraine.
	Okay, so here I'm Vladimir Putin, right?
	I'm saying, huh?
	How are you going to do that, you know?
	Even Obama, back in the day, 2016, said, look at the map, for God's sake.
	There's no way that Ukraine, with any amount of help, can defeat a much more strategic, much more powerful Russia.
	Obama's words.
	So, what do we end up with?
	We end up with a situation that's really kind of scary and not funny at all.
	Here's Blinken and not Nod, but Sullivan and Noland and Biden himself.
	Oh, my God.
	We've got to do something to prevent people from realizing we lost in Ukraine.
	Because if we lose in Ukraine, we lose the election.
	If we lose the election, we could lose our Freedom, for God's sake, because if that other guy comes in, he could put us in jail.
	He's got enough evidence to do that.
	This is a personal stake.
	This is an existential threat for me, Biden, and his acolytes.
	What am I going to do?
	Am I going to say, oh, okay, we lost.
	It was a bad idea.
	No.
	He's going to look where his ammunition is and say, got any more of those cluster munitions?
	No, they're all out.
	How about 155 regular?
	No.
	What's up there?
	Oh, those are the mini nukes, Mr.
	President.
	Well, let's use one of those.
	Now, I have no confidence in his military advisors to say, That's not a good idea, Mr.
	President.
	You want to prevent World War III? That's not a really good idea.
	Would he opt for that rather than ostensibly, well, really lose that war?
	And would he think that maybe in our show the Russians we mean business?
	I don't know.
	But I've been at that.
	I've had this for many decades.
	I've never been more fearful that these people, at a personal stake as well as benign or benighted views of the strategic reality, might resort to that kind of thing.
	And I'm sure Putin's looking at this and seeing a not fully compass-mentist president with junior acolytes that don't know which end is up.
	So, what I'm saying right now is that the strategic situation is even more perilous than before.
	And I'll just add one more thing.
	Lavrov, the foreign minister, he warned two weeks ago, he said specifically, look, we know what war is.
	We lost 26 million people in the last one, World War II. You've been prevented from damage during wars by two big oceans.
	Guess what?
	Two big oceans are not going to protect you anymore.
	Whoa!
	That's as specific a threat as I've seen coming from a very high senior Russian official.
	In other words, it's over for our dominance of the seas as well as Europe.
	And the sooner we realize that, well, the better for us all because the Russians are not going to give up in Ukraine.
	They're not going to We're not going to permit us to attack Iran and the Middle East.
	And right now, the Russians are powerful enough to be able to do those things despite the fact that our president still thinks that we're the most powerful country in the world.
	I'm glad you brought up all of that, and some of that's quite frightening, but I'm glad you brought up Lavrov because I think he is a very serious man, and the West takes him as a non-serious person, which is a horrible mistake in my view.
	And Putin is also, again, a very serious, intelligent, informed, deliberate thinker, planner.
	Regardless of what people might think about his past or agree or disagree with him, he is a brilliant strategist, right?
	I mean, any honest observer would have to point that out.
	Versus Biden, as you said, who is cognitively impaired with certainty...
	We continue to see these miscalculations by the West.
	For example, the US, I believe the US destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines, which cut off Germany from the energy needed for Germany to power its own industrial base.
	So if we're talking about an escalation of war in Europe...
	Why would the US cut off the energy supply of European countries that need to build tanks and weapons and steel?
	You need energy to make steel.
	Now Germany has a lot less energy.
	Right?
	It's like America is sabotaging its own allies.
	That's right.
	And, you know, if you look at the figures, Russia's economy has become larger than Germany's, which used to be The biggest in Europe.
	Germany has really taken a bad hit with the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
	And we did it.
	Cy Hirsch has a blow-by-blow account.
	The way we did it, who we hired, Navy SEALs and all that kind of stuff.
	So we did it.
	Now, why do we do it?
	Well, number one, because we can.
	Number two, because we don't want any Russian influence in Western Europe to grow, right?
	And what's number three?
	Number three is it's an economic boon for us because, whereas before they depended on Russian natural gas, now they have to buy LNG, liquefied natural gas, from us!
	And yeah, they pay seven times as much, but hey, you know?
	Profiteering on all this.
	So, you know, it was so transparent and Blinken, dummy that he is, bragged about what a strategic Great benefit this was because the Europeans will have to depend more on us.
	I mean, he said that.
	He said that out loud.
	And the Germans, the Germans said, oh, darn.
	The Germans will never grow up.
	I've been saying for decades, for God's sake.
	You know, you can understand after the war, the Germans would have to act like children, right?
	Then a couple decades later, like adolescents, they will never grow up and act like adults and defend their own interests because the government they have in there is right under the thumb of these neocons that are running our government.
	And, you know, it's just a matter of time, in my view, before the German people will replace the current government.
	And that's not true.
	Undeniably a great thing because we have the Alternative für Deutschland, which is a questionable party that is the biggest party now and might do stuff such as we've seen.
	Germans do in the past.
	Well, I mean, thank you for that analysis.
	And I would just add that I think ultimately Germany is to survive as a nation.
	It's going to have to leave NATO and recreate economic ties with Russia simply because of energy and industry and trade.
	I mean, and if you're in Germany and you're looking at what the United States did to you via Nord Stream and other mechanisms, you're You have to be asking the question, you know, with friends like these, who needs enemies, you know?
	Mike, that would be the natural thing to assume.
	But the big deal, of course, is that the media in Germany is just as bad, maybe even worse.
	I'm talking about mainstream media as it is here.
	People don't know what's going on.
	There are fairy tales spread around like, oh, the Ukrainians blew up that pipeline.
	Oh, no, no, it wasn't the Ukrainians.
	And all they have to do is sort of ask the Swedes, right?
	Now, the Swedes went right down in those waters with the most sophisticated diary device.
	They know who blew up that pipeline.
	And when they came up, it's time for the water, right?
	People ask them, well, who did it?
	And they said, we can't tell you.
	Yeah.
	It's a national security secret.
	Joe Biden and Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken are all on the record saying that they're going to destroy Nord Stream.
	I mean, it's not ambiguous.
	And they even bragged about it, like you said.
	But let's pivot for a minute to the Middle East because this is related to energy for Europe.
	You may have seen, I'm sure you have, Qatar.
	That's how I pronounce that nation.
	Some people say Qatar, but I say Qatar.
	Qatar had announced temporarily ceasing all LNG exports to Europe because of what's happening in the Red Sea with Yemen striking vessels.
	So now...
	Europe has lost Nord Stream and LNG exports from Qatar, which is a very big deal.
	A lot of the world's energy sails right through the Strait of Hormuz and through the sea there.
	And again, this is a result of United States policies Particularly the U.S. supporting Israel's military actions in the region with supplying bombs, supplying the U.S. Navy, and so on.
	And as a result, now Europe has even less energy.
	It's like, again, the U.S. has struck Europe once again.
	Well, Mike, when you talk about the Houthis, you know, The Houthis have risen to the occasion in terms of how the Arabs looked at things and shamed those Arab governments that have really bad rhetoric against what's going on but don't do much at all.
	So it's kind of ironic that you have the Houthis in this position.
	And the Houthis are...
	They're a tough bunch.
	I mean, Saudi Arabia tried to pacify them, tried to beat them with U.S. help for about seven or eight years, and they lost, okay?
	So, all that has to happen is that the Houthis get what they want.
	What do they want?
	They want a ceasefire, and they want the provision of aid to the starving, to the sick, to the people in Gaza that have been kept in such extremis, okay?
	Now, Hello?
	Isn't that easy enough to do?
	All Biden has to do or Blake can get on the phone and call Netanyahu and say, oh, that's it.
	No more 200-pound bombs.
	No more 2,000-pound bombs until you open those gates and let that food in.
	Then the Houthis will stop.
	Then the Houthis would stop, and they'd clap themselves on the back and say, well, look, we faced into this Goliath, and then the Qatar people could get their natural gas in.
	There's one other aspect to this, and that is off the shore of Gaza, there are very, very lucrative gas and oil fields.
	Now, Cyprus and We've been talking about tapping into those things and having a pipeline into Europe to solve some of these problems.
	So they're on that.
	Who does that oil and gas belong to?
	Gaza.
	Gaza is occupied territory.
	So this is yet another reason why the Israelis don't want anybody to have anything to do with Gaza now, except Israel, so that they can dominate offshore Mostly gas deposits, which are very lucrative indeed.
	And they've got cooperation from the Greeks and the people in Crete and other people already looking at that.
	So it's pretty complicated.
	But when you come right down to it, the U.S. policy could affect all this.
	And the big thing, of course, is stop the bombing, for God's sake.
	Stop killing the children.
	Okay?
	Yeah.
	Children should not be killed.
	I mean, Roger Waters.
	You would think that that would be a principle of an advanced nation.
	That no one kills the children anymore, as one of Roger Waters' songs ends.
	It's just so sad.
	I had a chance to challenge Bobby Kennedy.
	He came to where I live now in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	And I shouted out in the middle of his speech, what about the 10,000?
	It was 10,000 then, two weeks ago.
	What about the 10,000 Palestinian children?
	What about them?
	What are you going to do about them?
	How come you don't talk about that?
	And I think he's very, very bad on that policy.
	I think he's probably, in my view, not so bad on other things, but on this one, you know, The only excuse he has is invincible ignorance, and it's hard to think that a guy as smart as Bobby Kennedy can be invincibly ignorant on this key issue.
	Well, it's a moral failing, is my assessment of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of his view on this.
	I'm really glad you challenged him on that point, because The non-profit he founded is called Children's Health Defense.
	And if you can't protect children from bombs, how do you protect children's health?
	I mean, what could be less healthy than being bombed as a child?
	Having concrete fall on you and being smashed between layers of residential apartment buildings in Gaza.
	So the silence of RFK Jr.
	on that topic, in my view, is...
	It's the ultimate failing of a man who says he comes from a place of morality protecting children.
	You can't have it both ways.
	Yeah.
	It's unconscionable.
	And as I say, one cannot attribute invincible or invincible ignorance to him.
	So it must be something else.
	And I don't like to explore motives of domestic politicians, but...
	I understand that Rabbi Shmuri is schmoozing with Bobby regularly.
	Yeah, well, I think we know probably the donor influences behind CHD and so on, but that's not our focus.
	because let's go back to how the United States appears to want to use Israel as a proxy in order to wage war on Iran, which is a blueprint that we've seen in Europe, right?
	We want to use Ukraine as a proxy to go to war with Russia.
	So we've seen U.S. senators, Lindsey Graham notably, and others, saying how much they can't wait to start bombing Iran.
	And I have to think that Lindsey Graham is still living in the 1980s because apparently he doesn't know that Iran has very advanced ballistic missiles, very advanced weapons, possibly nuclear weapons at this point, perhaps hypersonic missiles that they purchase perhaps hypersonic missiles that they purchase from Russia because Russia has very capable hypersonic missiles.
	and that the entire U.S. Navy is just sitting there well within the range of Iran's very capable missiles.
	So what's your take, Mr.
	McGovern, on this attitude of let's just murder Iran like we thought we were going to do to Russia?
	Mike, that's the $64 question right now.
	I see the Biden regime as being divided on this issue.
	There are the neocons, Victoria, Nolan, Blinken, Maybe Sullivan, who would really dearly love, just really dearly love to get into an open fight with Iran on Israel's behalf.
	But those were not the people that withdrew the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group four weeks ago.
	What was that all about?
	Well, I found it odd, really odd, and really different from the rest of the mentality.
	So somebody was responsible for getting that aircraft carrier out of Dodge, right?
	Out of harm's way.
	Now, if another one goes back, that will tell me a lot more.
	But what's happening here is that there's a battle royale going on in Washington between those who Blame every little Houthi or any other terrorist attack on Iranian-backed groups and go after Iran.
	The problem is that, as you point out, Iran has got a deterrent now between what it has and what Hezbollah has right in the north of Israel.
	They could destroy Israel, every major city, in the blinking of an eye, and Israel knows that.
	Now, Israel, too, has a deterrent.
	They have a nuclear weapon.
	Iran does not have a nuclear weapon.
	And the latest intelligence estimate is consistent with the one from 2007 saying Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon right now.
	They have nuclear material, but not a weapon.
	Okay, so what do we have?
	We have a standoff here.
	And hopefully the deterrent aspect will work its way so that these crazies in Washington will not start a war with Iran and have Israel destroyed in the process because that is precisely what would happen.
	Wow.
	Okay, let me ask you this then.
	You mentioned how everything is being blamed on Iran.
	And I remember seeing right after October 7th, the Wall Street Journal came out with an article, I think the very next day.
	I may be wrong about the day, but it said, well, the Hamas leaders were trained in Iran or trained by Iran.
	And I thought, well, that's amazing that the Wall Street Journal could do such a deep investigation in 24 hours and come up with this conclusion.
	But you, as a former CIA analyst, does that smack of just sort of a planted story?
	Or what do you make of that?
	Well, as the British say, rubbish, rubbish.
	What was learned after October 7th was that neither Iran nor Nor Hezbollah, nor anyone else knew about this Hamas attack.
	That's been openly admitted by everybody, okay?
	Now, what's noxious is that more recently, we have that, well, two weeks ago, our ambassador at the UN, Thomas Greenfield, she blamed some attacks on Iran directly.
	I'd like to see the evidence for that because she proclaimed that at the Security Council meeting.
	They're getting to the point where this faction in our leadership would really like to bloody Iran.
	They make up this fiction that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon.
	Just so your listeners or your viewers know, that's what everyone thought up until November of 2007, when an honest manager of intelligence had a national intelligence estimate made, and the conclusions were Iran stopped working on a nuclear weapon five years earlier, 2002, and had not resumed work on a nuclear warhead.
	And that was expressed unanimously, all intelligence agencies, 16 at the time, and with high confidence.
	George W. Bush complained about that.
	He went to Israel and said, I don't really agree with that, but how can I make war?
	He says this in his memoir.
	Wow.
	How could I make war in a country that the intelligence community says has no active nuclear weapons program?
	Bummer.
	Clear.
	Clear.
	They wanted to do this war as they went out into the sunset in 2008 and leave the subsequent administration to mop up and to survive to the degree it could.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	And then, well, we saw what Obama did with the agreements with Iran and the sending of internationally laundered pallets of cash flown into Iran at that time.
	But, I mean, this brings us full circle talking about Russia also, because if the US attacks Iran...
	Wouldn't that obviously pull Russia into the conflict?
	Because Russia can't allow Iran to fall, Iran being such a gateway between the Middle East and not only Eastern Europe, but Southeast Asia as well, and Iran being a major trading partner with Russia, and also trade both ways, resources and technology, transfer and energy.
	Wouldn't that pull Russia into the conflict?
	But, Mike, We're the United States of America!
	Right.
	Delusional.
	You're exactly right.
	The Russians would have to do something.
	And that's what would really worry me.
	Now, most people don't know because the mainstream media hasn't given any play.
	There is a treaty that the draft has been already concluded by Iran and Russia.
	It's a strategic treaty like the one that Russia has with China.
	Do you call it a mutual defense treaty?
	The Russians don't like to call it that.
	The Chinese neither.
	It'll be a strategic cooperation treaty, but it will have military and security guarantees in it.
	Now that's just about to be ratified or signed and ratified.
	Whoa!
	That's how serious Russia is in trying to prevent these crazy people in Washington from thinking they can go after Iran and suffer no consequences.
	So That's a subject really worth watching in the next few weeks.
	How soon will that treaty be concluded and exactly what will it provide?
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Okay, yeah, that's a really big deal.
	I'm glad you brought that up.
	And what do you think will happen with Yemen?
	Do you think that the U.S. will wage a much more aggressive war?
	I mean, something beyond missile strikes, because the Yemenis, they can survive strikes and bombs.
	They've done it for many years, as you already mentioned.
	But are we talking about some escalation involving potentially, dare I say, boots on the ground?
	Would that be considered by the U.S.? That would be really crazy, probably beyond the crazy imagination.
	Now, what I'd like to do is just point out that the reason I have this kind of hair, I've been around a long time, right?
	And I remember Vietnam all too well.
	There are these naked-footed people pattering through the jungle.
	We're not going to defeat the United States of America, right?
	Right.
	Fast forward to Afghanistan.
	Matt Ho, my good friend, who was a captain in the Marines and then worked in Kabul as a high-level diplomat, he said the sentiment there was, are we going to lose this war to those people?
	Now, there's a similar sentiment having to do with Yemen.
	They're the next generation of those people, okay?
	So the United States of America will never get it to its head that it can't beat, not even, it can't even beat these barefooted people in the jungle, people in the mountains of Afghanistan, and it certainly can't beat the Houthis in Yemen.
	Saudi Arabia, with U.S. support, has been trying to do that for the last seven to eight years.
	Boom!
	The Houthis won, okay?
	So I don't think the U.S. is foolish enough, I hope I'm wrong, I hope I'm not wrong, to put ground troops in there.
	But they're going to have to do something.
	Now, what they'll do is foreshadowed by an interview, a real quick interview that Biden himself, he was asked this question, he said, well, are we going to keep, how's the bombing of the Houthis going?
	And he says, well, it's not stopping what the Hooties are doing, but we're going to keep doing it.
	I saw that, yeah.
	Now, I think that's the definition of insanity, isn't it, Mike?
	It is.
	You keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
	So, I'm hopeful.
	That people will suffer enough commercially and economic disadvantage that'll talk some sense into Biden and the rest of them saying, look, let's have a ceasefire.
	Let's provide aid to the people in Gaza.
	And the Houthis will stand down.
	For God's sake, it's very simple.
	So they can get rid of that problem by doing the right thing.
	Happens to be the morally right thing as well.
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	And isn't it interesting that if the entire US Navy left the region, A peace might break out.
	Because Israel would say, oh my gosh, the U.S. Navy no longer has our backs.
	Maybe we should stop committing genocide in Gaza.
	And then the Houthis would say, oh, I guess we can stop launching drones at the cargo ships.
	And then everything returns to normal trade.
	But no.
	Because I think, again, because the U.S. really wants to go to Iran, wants to bomb Iran.
	And as a result, they will not leave.
	They will only escalate.
	They will only provoke.
	It's a fascinating and disturbing world.
	With the West having so much firepower and so little wisdom of how to use it.
	That's unfortunately a good way to put it.
	Now, Mike, the next benchmark in all this is the decision of the International Court of Justice, which comes down tomorrow morning.
	Oh, yes, you're right.
	6 a.m.
	your time, I think.
	But do you think that would they possibly call for a ceasefire?
	I mean, I'm skeptical.
	Well, I don't know.
	All I'm saying is that if they do, that will be the crucible.
	Israel will, of course, say no.
	What will Blinken and Sullivan and Nolan do then, you know?
	I mean, we are, let's face it, we are responsible for For allowing this genocide to continue.
	Without us, without our weapons, without our political support, the Israelis would stop it.
	So will we continue down this road if the International Court of Justice rules that this is genocide?
	I'm old enough to have remembered genocide in World War II, okay?
	And, you know, six million Jews?
	Well, are two million Gazans?
	Is that not genocide?
	Of course it is.
	And it wouldn't be so bad if the Israeli leaders weren't themselves proclaiming this is their intent, this is their purpose.
	And that, of course, is part of the deal where, by all rights, they should be convicted, they should be told to stop.
	So we'll know more tomorrow with respect to how major powers react to this.
	We've already lost many allies.
	The United States has, France, Germany, and so forth on this issue.
	We'll have to see whether the ICJ ruling will affect any of this.
	It's got to affect it one way or another.
	We have to watch for it closely.
	I think you're absolutely right.
	And I wonder if an ICJ ruling that declares that Israel must stop might be the opening chapter to ICC convictions or prosecutions, indictments, let's say, of the so-called war criminals who have been carrying this out.
	And clearly, at least in my mind, Netanyahu is a war criminal.
	No question in my mind.
	He's...
	At that point, I would think that people like Antony Blinken would start to be concerned.
	Hey, could I be named as a war criminal by a future administration here in the United States or by the ICC? Or what about Joe Biden himself, right?
	So maybe they start to think about self-preservation.
	I think that's right.
	It is a bigger case.
	It's not just Netanyahu for who he is, but it's for those people who enable I stress again, enable Netanyahu to do the kinds of things that he's been doing.
	Genocide, you know, the word doesn't slip easily off the tongue.
	I mean, genocide?
	United States, my country that I love, enabling genocide?
	God, it's gotten really bad.
	It has.
	It has.
	And those are American 2,000-pound bombs that are being dropped on hospitals and residential areas and refugee camps in Gaza.
	It's American taxpayer money.
	It's unbelievable.
	Well, Mr.
	McGovern, this has been just an incredible opportunity to interview you and get your analysis on what's happening in the world.
	I really want to thank you for taking the time to do this today.
	You're most welcome, Mike.
	Glad to be with you.
	Well, thank you so much, and you're welcome back anytime.
	And let me just remind our viewers, your website, raymcgovern.com, and also Mr.
	McGovern's Twitter handle, or X now, is also just his name, Ray McGovern.
	So be sure to follow him there as well.
	Again, thank you, Mr.
	McGovern.
	Pleasure, sir.
	Thank you for your service to our country and your ongoing analysis, hopefully in the interest of peace.
	Thank you so much.
	Most welcome, Mike.
	All right.
	Take care.
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