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Feb. 23, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Feb 23, 2024 – SUICIDE SQUAD: G7 plan to STEAL Russia’s frozen assets...

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	Welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for Friday, February 23rd, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams, a Texan and American.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	I've had some feedback that I got some Arabic wrong yesterday.
	Well, yeah.
	I just barely started learning a few phrases, so apologies if I messed something up.
	I did, by the way, I interviewed a Muslim Texan American in my studio today, and that went very, very well.
	I think I'll run that interview early next week, and he taught me on camera, this is the first time I'd ever met him, but he taught me how to say Like, thank you at the end of the interview in Arabic, and I've already forgotten that, sadly.
	You know, it's hard when you learn a new language at first.
	Your mind just can't grasp what it's hearing.
	Like, I can put it in short-term memory, and I can repeat back what I'm hearing, but then, like, two hours later, it's gone, you know?
	Whereas, since I've been immersed in the Chinese language for so many decades, I can hear it, it makes sense, I can retain it, or even in Espanol, I can learn it really quickly compared to Arabic.
	So, yeah, you know, I don't know about you, but...
	I would like to learn two additional languages in my lifetime.
	I would like to learn at least just some basics, like basic conversational.
	I would like to learn Arabic and I would like to learn Russian.
	And, you know, why not?
	Why not speak?
	Because I already speak enough Mandarin and I speak enough Espanol.
	And, of course, it's claimed that occasionally I can speak English from time to time.
	But why not learn a little bit more about the world and get a sense of the richness of people's cultures?
	And I think learning their languages is a great way to do that.
	Now, speaking of languages, I have started...
	I'm dreading this, but I've started dreaming in Python code.
	And I don't even write any kind of good Python code.
	But I've been looking at so much Python code as part of this AI project.
	And Python's a high-level programming language.
	It's very popular.
	It's used in the AI world or machine learning.
	And so I've been looking at so much Python code.
	I'm not an accomplished Python programmer by any means.
	I can change things.
	I can copy and paste, and I can alter parameters, and I can change timeouts and variables, and I can read error codes and things like that.
	My brain is now trying to get me to understand what I'm looking at by feeding it back to me in my dreams, and it's really annoying to me because I don't want to waste dream time reading freaking Python code again when I was staring at it for so long during the day anyway.
	That's enough.
	I don't need to replay it in the dream.
	Now, remember that dreaming is a learning mechanism.
	So when you're dreaming, your neural network is reorganizing and trying to structure information.
	That's why I've said that...
	Good quality sleep is really important for learning things.
	And the way learning actually works, and it took me a long time to learn how to learn appropriately, but that's one of the reasons why I learned so quickly today, is because first, learning is immersion, which is just exposure.
	If you're learning a book, you know, you're speed reading, flipping through the pages.
	First, and then maybe you're more slowly reading it, or if you're learning a language, you're hearing it, you're trying to speak it, but you're listening, you're maybe looking at it on the page if it's a language that you can read.
	You're immersing yourself, okay?
	But that's not learning.
	That's immersion.
	Learning happens when you go to sleep that night after immersion.
	Learning happens unconsciously.
	Learning happens when your brain takes all that immersion sensory experience and then attempts to reorganize it and structure it and create neural network Links in your biological neural network system, which is your brain.
	And that's when learning happens.
	And then when you wake up the next morning, you have now encoded, in a way, or you have imprinted or structured the knowledge that you were immersed into the previous day.
	So learning, like really learning things, takes repeated immersion, sleep, And then re-immersion and then more sleep and re-immersion and so on.
	And good nutrition is absolutely necessary to make this happen.
	You have to avoid inflammatory foods, avoid inflammatory substances, I don't know, drugs or whatever.
	I mean, illegal drugs.
	Probably caffeine would help you, actually, in this process during immersion because caffeine helps your brain focus.
	But avoid inflammatory foods.
	Avoid pollution.
	Avoid toxic fragrances, which causes your brain to kind of shrink back into...
	It's to try to hide from the sensory overload, by the way.
	Avoid, you know, loud music.
	Avoid processed, ultra-salty foods.
	Avoid, like, sensory overload so that your brain can reach out and become more sensitive.
	And then that's how you can learn and immerse yourself, structure it, and remember it.
	Not that I remember the Arabic yet, but I've only been exposed to Arabic...
	One time now.
	It's a process, folks.
	Alright.
	We're going to talk about the seizure of $300 billion of assets from Russia and other topics today.
	We've got a lot to cover.
	In space news today, this is fascinating because I was just talking about the moon landings yesterday or the day before.
	News story, U.S. performs its first moon landing since 1972.
	So, the Odysseus spacecraft has reached the lunar surface.
	This was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 15th.
	And, let's see, it's from a company called Intuitive Machines.
	The co-founder, Tim Crane, said, quote, without a doubt, our equipment is on the surface of the moon.
	That could mean a lot of things, by the way.
	And we are transmitting.
	That still could mean a lot of things.
	It could mean our equipment crashed on the moon and we are transmitting to it.
	That doesn't mean anything.
	It just could mean you crashed into the moon.
	Big deal.
	But anyway, you notice that even if it's all successful, if they landed on the moon, you notice there's no people on board.
	There's no people.
	You know why?
	Because those people would die traveling through space without the protection of Earth's magnetosphere.
	They would be fried with space radiation, well really sun radiation, in space.
	They wouldn't survive the trip.
	So that's why there's no people being sent to the moon.
	You notice that?
	You notice Russia hasn't sent anybody to the moon, China hasn't sent anybody to the moon, and the United States hasn't sent anybody to the moon.
	And think about all the years that have gone by Since the Apollo missions and all the advanced technology that has taken place, and with all this advanced tech, are you telling me that nobody could put a human being on the moon?
	Even though it's claimed that we did it back in the 1960s without any of this modern tech?
	Huh.
	That's a pretty wild claim, right?
	Now, speaking of technology, you may have noticed that the stock market exploded yesterday.
	It was a melt-up.
	And it's because of the AI stocks, NVIDIA, which I talked about.
	In fact, a friend of mine texted me today.
	He said, Mike...
	We're going to have to call you like Mike Stradamus now, because when I first mentioned NVIDIA, it was at $460 a share.
	Now, what is it, like $900 or $800, something like that?
	Although I've always cautioned people, be wary of the stock market.
	Now, there is a new bubble taking shape now, and it's the AI bubble.
	And NVIDIA is the most...
	Notable company in the stock market in the AI space.
	And I just want to give you a couple of words of caution but also potential promise here.
	But a disclaimer, number one, I don't own any NVIDIA stock and I don't own any stocks at all actually in the stock market that I'm aware of.
	Again, my company might have some retirement program where I have some shares of something that I have no idea what it is.
	Maybe I should find out, actually.
	But I'm too busy to worry about it.
	I invest in projects.
	My own company operations, I invest in lab equipment.
	I invest in AI equipment, things like that.
	That's where I tend to invest.
	I think I can add value to society the most by investing in our own projects, such as our AI project.
	And with that, I do want to say that it's clear to me that AI... And I know some of you are going to say AI is all pure evil, demonic stuff.
	Look, it's like any technology.
	It can be used for good.
	It can be used for evil.
	AI, when used ethically, which is the way we intend to use it, that's what we're building, is an AI project for you, a large language model that can teach you about herbs and nutrition and food and gardening and things like that.
	That's a strong ethical use of the technology.
	It's using it to enhance human knowledge, to enhance self-reliance and local community redundancy, which may really matter if we end up in World War III, by the way.
	So we're using it for good purposes.
	Now, I know there are some other big tech companies that are using AI for censorship or to spy on people or for other nefarious purposes.
	And that's true.
	AI is absolutely being weaponized against humanity.
	There's no question about it.
	But on the positive side, AI can, and I know this as a fact, AI tech can actually add a lot of value to human society, which means that companies that are involved in AI tech, they are going to contribute value.
	And so there's a really strong argument to be made that they're going to have strong returns and it's worth investing in them.
	On the other side, there are a lot of people who just jump on the AI bandwagon because they think AI is the hot new thing.
	They have no idea what it really is or how it can add value to society, and they're just kind of the mob investors.
	These are a lot of the same people that were just mob investors in the dot-com boom back in the late 1990s and 2000, 2001, or the same kind of people that maybe just jumped on crypto in the early days just because it was the hot thing, not even really understanding what it was going to do or what it was useful for.
	And so I would just encourage you, if you choose to invest in AI companies, it's probably already in a bubble, but the bubble is very likely to get a lot bigger.
	So there's no doubt there are going to be some profits to be made by people if they can time it correctly, which is always very dangerous to try to figure that out.
	But in the end, this bubble probably bursts and then it'll come collapsing back down to reality.
	But the reality is that AI will contribute a lot of value to society.
	But part of that, keep in mind, is that AI will be replacing human beings.
	I mean, do not forget that.
	That's one of the ways that AI adds value to a company is that it replaces human beings and allows those companies to save money.
	For example, in customer service.
	Customer service departments, right now, if they use AI models and they do custom fine-tuning training, as it's called, On AI models, they can have about 80% of their text-based or email-based customer service questions answered by the AI model.
	About 80% right now.
	And that may improve to something more like 90% soon.
	But that means four out of five customer service questions can be answered by machines.
	Well, that's great news for the companies that make the microchips and make the machines.
	Bad news if you work in customer service and now you're out of a job, right?
	So there's that to consider.
	And AI is replacing artists, it's replacing writers, it's replacing editors.
	It's replacing all kinds of people across society.
	But as I've said before, the smart people will learn to use AI to enhance their own value added to society.
	So whatever it is that you do, like if you're an attorney, you can use AI to help you in many ways as an attorney.
	You can use AI directly.
	To search for case precedent, although you have to remember sometimes it makes up cases, so you have to fact check everything from the AI. You could also use it to read your complaint that you're going to file with the courts and to ask it To offer you criticism of your complaint, or to point out where your complaint is weak, or what it lacks, or do you have any errors in the complaint.
	And AI is really good at doing that.
	So whatever it is that you do, probably there's a way for AI to make your job more productive.
	It's funny, the timing on this, because part of my overseas staff is telling me right now that one of our servers in our data center that has eight GPUs in it, GPU number eight has been bad since day one, since we bought it.
	And we haven't been able to use GPU-8, so we actually had a warranty repair claim.
	And the people, well, I don't want to name company names, but a major server manufacturing brand, they dispatch people to try to fix GPU-8, and in doing so, they clobbered GPU-7 also.
	So now we're down to six GPUs in that machine instead of eight, and it's an ongoing thing.
	So...
	Look, this isn't magic, right?
	Everything actually has to work.
	When they make microchips, microprocessors, they have to work correctly.
	Things can go wrong, and things do go wrong.
	I've had so many things go wrong in this project, it's mind-blowing.
	But that's what project management is, is solving problems, getting through them.
	I've had power outages because of overloading UPSs.
	They've been driving me bonkers, and I've learned about some UPS brands to never use again.
	I'm not going to mention them, because that's not my purpose here.
	Over and over again.
	It's amazing that we're even on schedule on this project, considering how many things have gone wrong.
	And maybe more things will go wrong.
	Probably.
	I'm just guessing.
	What do they say?
	Quoting Murphy's Law, you know, Murphy was an optimist.
	Ha!
	All right.
	Anyway, just be careful about throwing money into AI stocks.
	And remember that you don't really own the stocks anyway.
	They're not in your name.
	So if there's a financial reset, if there's the great taking or whatever it is, then you may not end up with any of those stocks.
	That's why I think it's always wise to have a certain percentage of your portfolio in physical gold and silver or I interviewed Alex Christoforou from Greece.
	And he is, of course, one of the two members of the Duran, the other being Alexander Mercurius, I believe.
	I think that's how I pronounce his last name correctly.
	Just a great duo, some of the best geopolitical analysts on the scene.
	And we had a full conversation today about Russia and Ukraine.
	We're going to get into Russia and Ukraine here in a minute with a lot more details, especially about the sanctions and what that's going to do to the U.S. dollar.
	So we'll get to that.
	But let me cover a couple other things first.
	Now, Martin Armstrong from Armstrong Economics, you know, also a brilliant analyst in the realm of banking and finance.
	And Martin Armstrong has written something, something very short, but I think it's worth reading.
	And this is in response to the New York court decision that is penalizing President Trump, $355 million.
	Over a completely made-up non-crime with no victims.
	And, of course, Letitia James being called the destroyer of worlds.
	Letitia James, the New York State Attorney General, has been spearheading this, and she campaigned on the promise to get Trump.
	This has all been about getting Trump.
	And now she says that they're going to seize Trump buildings and other Trump assets if he can't come up with the $355 million.
	Could you come up with $355 million?
	I mean, I know you're probably not a billionaire listening to this, or maybe you are, but even if you are a billionaire, you know that You don't have liquid cash sitting around of hundreds of millions of dollars, typically.
	You're putting your money to work for you, which is probably how you became a billionaire, right?
	You didn't just have it on the sidelines the whole time.
	So this is absurd, and Martin Armstrong says the following, quote, New York City is totally out of control.
	These bogus charges were never brought against anyone, and there was no victim.
	This definition of fraud can be applied now to anyone in New York City.
	This is obviously an attempt to interfere in the 2024 election, for if Trump had not run for president, there would have been no such charges.
	New York is just so un-American that you can't make this up.
	The Radical Attorney General not only has Trump barred from running his own company, But then they appointed a former organized crime prosecutor to manage the Trump organization, a person who has no business capability.
	I mean, yeah, they've got to turn it over to someone who can destroy businesses.
	It's unbelievable.
	It says that Trump was denied the right to defend himself before a jury.
	And they took total control over Trump's financial assets.
	Well, Martin Armstrong explains, quote, they did that to my company, Princeton Economics.
	Their agent or receiver fired all the staff and then moved to shut it down.
	This is years ago.
	Then their appointed receiver became a board member of Goldman Sachs while running my company from their boardroom.
	And this was also all without any right to a jury trial.
	They alleged that a billion dollars was missing.
	When I told them the bank stole the money, they said they believed the bank.
	Yet, he goes on, yet there was never any evidence that I had withdrawn any money.
	And in the end, the bank had to plead guilty and repay my clients.
	Still, they used a fake allegation to seize Princeton economics.
	They shut down all forecasting, which was their covert goal, and they made up allegations that not one member of the press questions except Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News, who they promptly barred from writing about what they were doing.
	Trump is getting the same treatment.
	Okay, so that's some of the background.
	And then Armstrong goes on to say the following in bold.
	Welcome to New York City, not the Big Apple, the sewer of legal corruption.
	Trump needs to file bankruptcy in Florida.
	This will move all his assets to Florida, and then he can save his companies.
	Do that now ASAP.
	Then sell everything in New York City.
	No court in New York will ever uphold the law.
	Legally, it would require the Supreme Court to intervene.
	So he says, I fear that Trump's case will be the catalyst for the decline and fall of the United States.
	We cannot stand united as a nation under such an outrageous legal system.
	When the rule of law collapses like this, no nation has ever survived very long throughout history.
	And then he says we can now see the year 2032 coming and why his computer has forecast that there may not even be a 2028 election.
	They have to stop Trump because they're taking us to war, they're canceling the paper money, and they're taxing everything that we do for climate change, and then the WHO orders lockdowns and mandatory vaccines as they surrender our sovereignty.
	So, yes, New York City has abandoned the rule of law.
	If you own assets in New York City, You need to think carefully about how the state can just seize those assets by accusing you of anything.
	Accusing you of something that you didn't even do wrong.
	They can just claim it and they can seize it.
	They can take it from you.
	They can steal your company.
	They can steal your assets, steal your buildings, steal your bank accounts.
	This is New York.
	They're like the pirates of the Caribbean of Wall Street.
	They're just stealing all your finances.
	And claiming that they're doing it under the rule of law.
	No, this is lawless.
	It's lawless.
	And this is why many observers right now are saying that they will not run any businesses in New York.
	They won't invest in New York.
	They're getting out of New York.
	Martin Armstrong says, I've never seen anyone get a fair trial in New York City.
	Never.
	He says, judges can alter the transcripts of what you've said.
	And then he says the Court of Appeals ruled that they didn't have the power to order the judges to obey the law.
	Right?
	Anyway, Martin Armstrong said that if not for the fact that the US Supreme Court agreed to take his case, he would have died in solitary confinement because he was imprisoned.
	This is what they do to you.
	New York is a den of thieves and sharks.
	And they don't abide by any rule of law.
	And if you have assets in New York City in particular, you should think about the fact that you will likely lose those assets if you end up on the wrong side of politics.
	And you're probably already on the wrong side of New York politics because New York politics is, you know, radical left wing Marxism, fascism.
	And that's probably not what you believe.
	Real quick, let me change the subject and say that we need to free Julian Assange.
	And there's a really great story from the Mises Institute, Mises.org, the outrageous persecution of Julian Assange.
	And I agree with that headline.
	And from what I was reading earlier, it looks like the extradition to the United States has now been approved.
	At least that's my current understanding.
	I hope, I mean, I wish that wasn't happening.
	Because the United States will persecute and probably torture Julian Assange.
	And we, the people of the United States, we need to make our voices heard that Julian Assange needs to be pardoned and freed.
	And this is one of the things that Trump failed to do in his first term.
	Probably because he didn't want to make any more enemies in the military industrial complex.
	But Trump needs to, if he gets into the White House again, he needs to pardon Julian Assange.
	Just on day one, boom.
	Pardon Julian Assange, and while he's at it, he needs to pardon all the non-violent J6 prisoners.
	And he needs to actually have all the prosecutions of the J6 people retracted and reversed and have their records clean because that whole thing was an FBI operation.
	It was a setup.
	And almost every signed confession has been made under threat of continued jail torture, essentially, or solitary confinement.
	So, there are many things that need to happen in America to restore the rule of law, but one of them is pardoning Julian Assange and setting him free.
	And, of course, he's the founder of WikiLeaks, and he got his hands on some sensitive videos that were showing how the U.S. military was shooting and killing civilians in the Middle East, and, of course, the establishment did not like that.
	And that led to him being framed for crimes he did not commit, and then arrested, and then held in prison for all these years.
	And it has been an ongoing struggle for Julian Assange to try to get his freedom back.
	And this is the way that the U.S. Empire treats whistleblowers.
	That challenge the establishment.
	It's okay when it's something against Richard Nixon, and it's the Washington Post, and they're exposing a Republican, or they're exposing Trump, they think.
	That's always fine, but if you expose the real truth...
	About the global wars, the military-industrial complex, the corruption and deception inside the empire.
	Then they kill you or they imprison you or they commit lawfare against you like they did Alex Jones, like they're doing to Trump right now.
	They do everything in their power to try to destroy you and silence you and they censor you.
	Which is why I continue to be one of the most censored voices in the world today.
	Remember, I was censored and deplatformed even before Alex Jones.
	And to this day, they will actually penalize channels that have me on as a guest if they upload those videos to YouTube.
	They'll get a strike against them.
	Oh, how dare you have Mike Adams on as a guest?
	Even if we're not talking about anything very sensitive, we could just be talking about growing food and you're going to get a strike.
	That's how much the deep state wants to silence people who are effective.
	And I guess it's a compliment that, you know, I'm being effective.
	I'm reaching a lot of people with good information.
	And so that's why they want to silence me.
	But, you know, look, don't forget, someone told me a couple years ago, someone who knows some of these people is like, look, they de-platformed you so they didn't have to assassinate you.
	Okay?
	So you've been marginalized.
	You've been cut down to less than 1% of your normal organic reach.
	And that way they figure they don't have to kill you.
	So he was kind of saying, like, you should be happy about that.
	You can continue to do your podcasts and reach, you know, 20,000, 30,000 people a day.
	And the deep state, they're okay with that.
	Now, if you start reaching like 200,000 people a day, well, now, then they have to kill you.
	So I guess there's like a threshold of viewership, you know?
	You keep it under 100k, you get to live, because they figure you're not really affecting that many people.
	Well...
	Of course, my secret is that you, the people that I'm communicating to, you count more than just a typical YouTube audience.
	You are some of the most kick-ass, most effective people, the movers and shakers of our society.
	And so they've miscalculated.
	I don't need to reach a million people, especially not a million YouTubers.
	I just need to reach like 5,000 awesome people.
	You know what I mean?
	And so that's what we're doing.
	But don't tell them that.
	They might change their mind.
	All right, let's move on.
	Let's talk about Navalny.
	How about that?
	Who died in a Russian prison.
	And I haven't commented on this for a while because I've been waiting to see what shakes out on this story, but now Biden is saying, going to hit Putin with major sanctions, claiming that Putin had Navalny murdered.
	You mean like Jeffrey Epstein?
	And of course, one of the first questions that came to my mind is, what about Gonzalo Lira?
	Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison as a speech criminal, right?
	A prisoner of war, you could say.
	Because of his speech, he was arrested and charged with speech crimes.
	Thrown in a Ukrainian prison.
	He tried to escape.
	They caught him at the border.
	They threw him back in.
	And now he's dead.
	And this is a U.S. ally.
	I mean, Joe Biden or the State Department could have at any moment demanded that Ukraine release Gonzalo Lira to the custody of the United States of America.
	They could have freed Gonzalo, but they didn't want to.
	They wanted Gonzalo to die in prison, which is what happened, because Gonzalo was questioning the narratives of the West.
	So it's disingenuous when Western media keeps talking about, oh, Navalny, Navalny was speaking out against Putin, and that's why they killed him in a Putin jail.
	Well, that's what the West did to Gonzalo.
	Just rank hypocrisy every single day.
	In any case, Navalny is being positioned as this hero who was supposed to overthrow Putin or something, which is absurd.
	He's 47 years old.
	And by the way, we reported on our website, naturalnews.com, Navalny, it looks like he died from vaccine injections.
	He died shortly after getting the vaccines.
	And he died from symptoms that are consistent with vaccine damage.
	But in any case, the U.S. is going to launch all kinds of new sanctions against Putin.
	And I'm thinking, like, what else can you pile on after you've already cut off Russia from the SWIFT system, and now you're about to seize Russia's, what, $300 billion in assets, which is just straight-up piracy again.
	It's kind of like what New York City did to Trump.
	That's what Western civilization wants to do to Russia, just, hey, we're going to steal all your loot.
	Why?
	Because we can.
	Because we're thugs, you know?
	You notice how the governments of the West are just thugs at the highest level.
	They're thugs.
	It's incredible.
	I don't mean, by the way, that every member of Congress is a thug.
	There are actually a lot of really good people in Congress who are trying to bring back America.
	I'm thinking like Jim Jordan, for example.
	And, you know, I just interviewed Jonathan Emord running for Senate for Virginia.
	And, of course, we have Senator Rand Paul and I like a lot of what Ted Cruz has done in Texas and there are many, many other examples.
	There are a lot of good people still in Congress.
	But there are, at the highest levels, our nations, the UK, Germany, the US, Canada, and so on, are run by such hate-filled lunatics that they will seize on any excuse to try to punish Putin even more.
	But I keep wondering, what are you going to do?
	Like, are you going to ban him from getting Super Bowl tickets next year?
	I mean...
	You've already blocked oil exports from Russia, or you've set cap limits on the price of a barrel of oil.
	I mean, you're already at war with Russia, frankly.
	You're bombing Russia with HIMARS rockets, and they're talking about the Atakums long-range missiles now being sent over there, and you're sending over F-16s.
	So, you know, you're dropping bombs on Russia.
	You're killing Russian soldiers, and now what are you going to do?
	Sanction Putin?
	Like, oh, you don't get Pizza Hut coupons anymore, man.
	Or, you know, we're going to steal your boats.
	Like, if you have a yacht, and you sail your yacht into waters controlled by the British Navy, we're going to steal your yacht!
	And I keep wondering, how's the British Navy going to steal anything when none of their equipment works?
	Let's talk about that story here for a second, because there was a really hilarious effort by the British Navy to launch a Trident missile.
	And it failed.
	It went kerplop right into the ocean.
	It's like, well, let me read you this.
	It's from TWZ, which is the war zone.
	TWZ.com.
	Royal Navy Trident ballistic missile fails test launch for second time in a row, right?
	They can't even do it right with two tries.
	This is pathetic.
	And don't forget that the British Royal Navy has, I believe, two aircraft carriers, and that's it.
	One of them is called the Queen Elizabeth.
	I do remember that.
	And neither one of them work.
	They have propeller problems.
	I mean, that's the official story.
	You can bet it's way worse than that.
	But from TWZ here, the UK Ministry of Defense has moved to provide reassurances after the failure of the Royal Navy's latest Trident submarine-launched missile test.
	This is the second British Trident test in succession to go awry, and it provides further ammunition for critics of the UK's hugely expensive nuclear deterrent.
	Yeah, the...
	Oh, let's see.
	Our propellers don't work.
	Our missiles don't work.
	Our currency is collapsing.
	We're the British Royal Navy.
	It's like sailing around the world.
	The only thing you're sinking is your own ships.
	This is a far cry from when the British Royal Navy ruled the high seas in centuries past.
	Or how about when the British pound sterling was the currency of the world.
	It was the dominant currency of the world.
	Almost all transactions Yeah, of course.
	As a matter of national security, we cannot provide further information on this.
	However, we are confident that the anomaly was event-specific.
	That's an actual quote.
	The anomaly was event-specific.
	Wait a minute.
	Are you saying that the crap that went wrong went wrong during this event?
	We already know that, Jack!
	Event-specific anomaly.
	And then they go on to say, there are no implications for the reliability of the wider Trident missile systems and stockpile.
	In other words, they're saying, well, even though this one didn't work, we're pretty sure the other ones will work.
	We don't know, because every time we test them, they go kerplop.
	But we can't tell you why, because that's national security.
	I mean, what a clown show!
	What a clown show!
	I would be embarrassed if I were a British citizen right now.
	But then again, I'm also kind of embarrassed as an American citizen to see HHS Admiral Rachel Levine, transgender, biological man, dressed up in a woman's wig and high heels and pantyhose and whatever else, a bra.
	That's embarrassing to us, but you Brits, you have your shame to deal with too, which is your Navy.
	Your Navy is a clown show.
	It's a parade of shame on the high seas, and it's damn hilarious.
	And by the way, I am so accurate about the kerplop thing here from the Sun newspaper in the UK. They quoted an anonymous source who described the missile splashing down into the ocean immediately after launch.
	Quote, it left the submarine, but it just went plop right next to them.
	See?
	I just added the ker, and now it's kerplop, but it went plop.
	So...
	You can bet that the Russian military are just laughing, just uncontrollably.
	They're probably having trouble aiming right now because they're laughing so hard that the rifles start to shake and you can't even shoot straight.
	You know, the Russians make weapons that actually work.
	America makes weapons that look good on sales brochures because it's a weapons industry.
	It's a for-profit industry.
	The UK makes weapons that never work.
	It never will work.
	And Germany can't make weapons anymore.
	That's the little world tour right there.
	Russia's weapons work.
	America's weapons look good on paper.
	The UK's weapons fail.
	And Germany is no longer even making weapons.
	Because their industry has been shut down.
	Because they went along with the U.S. and the U.S. bombed Nord Stream and there goes your energy supply.
	Good luck making steel.
	Yeah.
	Well, so there you go.
	I very much doubt that Russia is terrified of the Royal British Navy.
	In fact, I think this just underscores the total clown show that is the British military at this point.
	This is not going to dissuade Russia from doing what it's doing in Ukraine.
	You can count on that.
	And the UK doesn't have hypersonic missiles, by the way.
	Russia does.
	The UK doesn't have good anti-air defense systems.
	Russia does.
	The UK doesn't have missiles that work.
	Russia's got all kinds of missiles that work, including the Iskander missiles and the Sarmat-2 missiles and so on.
	I mean, look, Russia is not afraid of the UK. The UK would just be like flicked like a bug off of a tablecloth at a picnic.
	Oh, the bug is going for the biscuits.
	Flick!
	That's the UK from the point of view of Russia.
	They're not worried about the UK. And then what?
	Denmark said, we're going to give Ukraine all our artillery.
	You know, Russia just, oh, there's another bug on the picnic table.
	Flick!
	And there goes all the artillery.
	This is a clown show.
	In fact, the interview today with Alex Christoforou really covers this in more detail.
	I should probably hurry up so we can get to that.
	Although I do want to offer music for the next Trident missile test launch from the British Royal Navy.
	So when you do the countdown and you're ready to launch the missile, here's the music that you should play.
	Benny Hill, right?
	Benny Hill music.
	Okay, moving on.
	There's a new report.
	Oh, this is just more clown show.
	There's a new report that has come out of the defense industry.
	I'll find the source here in a second.
	That says that Ukraine can't maintain the advanced US-supplied weapons.
	The Pentagon apparently is involved in producing this report.
	RT has, of course, covered it.
	And says that the U.S. has no plan in place to maintain service or repair tanks or armored vehicles and air defense systems that Washington has given to the Ukrainian military.
	This is from Pentagon Inspector General Robert P. Stork.
	Not sure how you pronounce that.
	The failure to plan, quote, Revealed in two redacted reports released to the public on Tuesday of this week that the U.S. has delivered 186 Bradley and 189 Stryker infantry fighting vehicles,
	31 Abrams main battle tanks, and an unspecified number of Patriot air defense systems, and yet the DOD, quote, this is a quote, had not developed or implemented a plan to maintain any of them.
	I mean, this is a total clown show.
	Are you kidding me?
	No plan for spare parts.
	What?
	No plan for maintenance.
	I mean, don't they need oil changes and things like that?
	Don't they need tread repair or track repair?
	I mean, don't tires get damaged?
	I mean, my goodness, I stockpile extra supplies on my ranch just to supply my tractor and my ranch vehicles.
	I've got like oil filters and fuel filters and hydraulic fluid.
	I've got tools.
	I was telling you yesterday I was re-threading a 10 millimeter, you know, screw hole because it had gotten stripped out at 8 millimeters.
	So I made new threads.
	I have the tool set for that.
	I'm not saying that's like wartime tools.
	But at least I'm planning more than the DOD. You know, the DOD is like, here, have these tanks.
	Here, have this artillery.
	Here, have these infantry fighting vehicles.
	And then the Ukrainian soldiers are like, and where are the spare parts?
	And the DOD is like, good luck, bye!
	It's like, what spare parts?
	What are you talking about?
	That wasn't part of the contract.
	That wasn't part of the press release.
	We just wanted to announce that we're giving you weapons.
	Yeah, but what about the spare parts?
	Well, that's not part of the deal.
	Because you know, Washington wants to be able to say to the oblivious American masses Like, quote, we gave Ukraine, you know, 100 tanks.
	And the American people who don't know anything about supply chains and logistics and war, they're like, yay, 100 tanks!
	That's amazing, 100 tanks!
	And then you start actually thinking about it.
	If you know anything about vehicles and equipment, you realize that 30 days into that, like 50 out of the 100 tanks need serious repair or maintenance, right?
	And then, you know, 90 days in, you're down to like 20 tanks.
	Six months in, you got like two tanks left.
	And those are the ones that didn't start because they wanted backup tanks or something.
	Folks, this isn't magical equipment.
	It doesn't just keep running without maintenance.
	You have to have a whole logistics system.
	Of repair.
	And there's a chart of how many miles or how many hours on a piece of equipment.
	I mean, my goodness, I have these charts on my ranch equipment, like on a skid steer.
	You know, 50 hours, you've got to change the oil in the track hubs.
	You know, 100 hours, you do this.
	250 hours, you do this.
	500 hours, 1,000 hours.
	On and on and on.
	And that's non-military equipment without giant guns on it.
	With a tank, you have a maintenance schedule, and if you don't meet that maintenance schedule, it stops working, folks.
	But apparently no maintenance is going to be done whatsoever.
	This is the dumbest deployment of military equipment ever.
	There's no plan to maintain any of it.
	And from the report, this has been kind of...
	Watered down.
	But here's what they say, okay?
	This is the understatement of the year.
	The DOD provided Ukraine with armored vehicles and air defense systems without a plan to ensure their long-term usefulness.
	This is a quote from Storch.
	He says, quote, while the DOD is currently working on developing such a plan, what?
	You mean you're in the planning stage now that maybe one day we might have a way to provide spare parts for all the stuff that we already sent over there?
	Yeah.
	Comma, the lack of foresight in this matter is concerning.
	That's a quote from Storch.
	The lack of foresight in this matter is concerning.
	I want to hear Colonel Douglas McGregor chime in on this.
	Because I'm sure he would have some choice words.
	He usually does.
	He will say things like talking about leaders at the Pentagon, you know, like lack of intelligence never held them back from being promoted, things like that.
	I want to hear Colonel Douglas McGregor chime in on this because McGregor is a very high IQ individual, by the way.
	And he was a commander, I don't know the exact title, but he was in charge of a lot of military forces in Desert Storm, I believe it was, and he knows that you don't have a military unless you have a logistics supply chain.
	In fact, war is more of a logistics issue than a strategic issue.
	And I forgot who said this first, but...
	Noobs, people who don't know about war, they always talk about tactics and strategy.
	But the veterans, the people who know how to win wars, they talk about logistics.
	If you don't have logistics, how to get fuel, how to get ammo, how to get spare parts, how do you repair things?
	How do you have medical supplies?
	How do you move all that to your FOBs, your forward operations bases, so that you can supply the units that are out there on the front lines?
	If you don't have that kind of a plan, you're toast, man.
	You're not going to last very long.
	It doesn't matter how cool the tanks are and how new the artillery is.
	It doesn't matter.
	No spare parts, you're dead.
	And as the report says, quote, the weapon systems are not likely to remain mission capable.
	I love how they state these things.
	Not likely to remain mission capable means they break.
	I don't know why they can't just say, all that jack is going to break down in the next six months.
	Yeah, because...
	That's the truth.
	Not going to be functional.
	Again, Russia is laughing at this.
	Russia doesn't even have to destroy the tanks and the infantry fighting vehicles.
	All they have to do is just wait.
	Tanks break themselves.
	If you don't know that, look, I own tracked vehicles, not tanks, nothing that fires rounds, but I mean, you know, equipment for ranch and construction work and so on, and I can operate a lot of different tracked vehicles.
	Let me tell you, tracked vehicles have problems.
	Tracks come off.
	Tracks get chewed up on rocks or whatever.
	If it's a tracked vehicle, it's going to have problems.
	You're going to get rocks stuck in the tracks.
	And you're going to tear out your sprocket, your main sprocket driver.
	You're going to have problems.
	Trust me.
	Kind of reminds me of Boeing in the US. You notice how all the Boeing airplanes are falling apart?
	Weird things are happening like doors are flying off and like wings are disintegrating in the air.
	It's like, what?
	And Boeing's quality control is starting to look like a woke festival of, you know, woke idiots who all got together and decided to virtue signal but not build airplanes that work.
	That's what Boeing has become.
	It's just a virtue signaling corporation, a once great American corporation.
	I toured the Boeing facility decades ago in Seattle.
	It was amazing.
	Now it's a laughing stock of the world.
	Alright, but here's the big story of today.
	Sorry it took me so long to get to it.
	I'm going to read this from RT because they actually have the most unbiased headline on this.
	G7 finds experts to declare that the theft of Russian assets is legal.
	This is great.
	So a group of, quote, experienced public international lawyers and practitioners have put together a case for confiscating Russian sovereign funds that are currently frozen by the U.S. and its allies, saying that it would be the appropriate response to Moscow's, quote, unlawful conduct towards Ukraine.
	So they just declare it to be unlawful.
	Again, this looks a lot like New York City just stealing everything from Trump.
	So approximately $280 billion.
	I've said $300 billion before.
	I think it's actually closer to $300 billion.
	In Russian sovereign funds were frozen by the G7 countries in 2022.
	This is after Russia attacked Ukraine with a special military operation, as it's called.
	And of course, hopefully you know the whole backstory of why Russia did that.
	It was provoked by the West.
	It was provoked by NATO. So the UK and the US have recently demanded the seizure of these funds in order to fund the government in Kiev.
	Now, let's back up here.
	The seizure of these funds, $300 billion.
	This is a massive looting campaign.
	This is not about funding Ukraine.
	This is about stuffing the pockets of the leaders of Western countries as one of the last desperate acts of pillaging their own countries, or in this case, pillaging Russia, before the collapse of the West.
	The U.S. dollar is going to collapse.
	In fact, this event that we're talking about here will accelerate it, no question.
	So they're trying to steal Russia's assets.
	They've frozen them in Western banks, saying that Russia can't have them.
	And right now they're already stealing the interest that Russia is earning on these funds.
	And now they're coming up with this legalese, these 10 experts.
	They're from the UK, the US, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands.
	And they're saying that they've come up with some justification to steal this money from Russia, saying that, well, Russia's bad for invading Ukraine.
	Okay?
	Now, interesting if you compare this to Israel, you notice that these same countries never say that, well, the Palestinians should have the right to seize all this money from Israel.
	Because Israel has been bombing Gaza into oblivion, you know, bombing residential buildings and bombing hospitals and bombing refugee camps and so on.
	So why can't the Palestinians lay claim to billions of dollars from Israel?
	Well, no, the Western countries would never allow that.
	They just want to steal money from Russia.
	So they're coming up with excuses.
	Quote, we have concluded that it would be lawful under international law For the states, meaning the nations, which have frozen Russian state assets to take additional countermeasures against Russia, given its ongoing breach of the most fundamental rules of international law, they claim.
	Of course, they don't mention how the West breached all of its agreements with Russia, like the Minsk agreements, the agreements to not expand NATO eastward.
	The West abandoned all that, violated all that, Violated, essentially, international law, but that's never mentioned.
	It's always blamed on Russia that Russia is violating international law.
	So this is lawfare by the West.
	This is a looting campaign to loot Russia, Russian assets, just pillaged it, and to justify it under legalese.
	Again, exactly the same thing that New York City is doing to Trump.
	Exactly the same kind of thing that has been done against Alex Jones by a corrupt, rigged court system.
	This is just straight-up theft.
	And they try to use lawyers to justify it.
	And yeah, they can come up with any kind of excuse that they want.
	They can declare that Russia is illegal, but everything the U.S. does, including torturing J-6 prisoners in D.C., oh, that's perfectly okay.
	Or having Gonzalo Lira killed in a Ukrainian prison, oh, that's perfectly okay.
	The U.S. is never at fault, according to these people.
	It's always Russia, so hence we can steal all of Russia's assets that we currently have under our control.
	Well, in the Tucker Carlson-Vladimir Putin interview, Putin commented about this effort, and he said that he doesn't want to use profanity, but the West is being insanely stupid.
	I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but insanely stupid to do this.
	Even though they're going to do it.
	They are moving forward with stealing Russia's assets.
	Now, why is this move stupid for the West?
	Why is this suicide for the West?
	Here's why.
	These Russian assets are largely held in dollars.
	So Russia was buying dollars.
	In fact, this goes back to trade agreements between Russia and the United States.
	Russia was buying a certain amount of US currency in order to prop up the US currency.
	Yeah, Russia actually did that.
	And that currency was being held in Western banks.
	When the West says, we're not going to give you back your money, that's kind of like your local bank telling you, let's say that you have a million dollars, and you go to your bank and you deposit a million dollars, and then you come back a couple years later and you're like, give me $100,000 out of my million dollar account, and they're like, no, we don't like you anymore.
	We don't like what you've done to your lawn.
	We think that you infringed upon your neighbor's lawn with your weed whacker, and thus we're going to actually, we're going to take countermeasures against your million dollars, and it's ours now.
	It's all ours, and it's God, you know, South Park style.
	That's what the West is doing to Russia.
	But in doing this, the West is sending a message to the entire world.
	What is that message?
	Well, it's hard to answer this question without using profanity.
	It's a giant, big-ass FU to every nation in the world that dares to hold U.S. dollars.
	That's what it is.
	It's basically arson.
	This is like financial arson.
	This is taking a flamethrower to the U.S. dollar.
	Because every nation in the world, if this happens, if this theft is carried out, every nation in the world, Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, I mean, every nation that's not under the thumb of the U.S. empire is going to say, oh my God, how fast can we sell dollars?
	How quickly can we get out of the dollars and never buy them again and never use them again and never use the Western banking system again?
	Can we do it by Tuesday, you know?
	How fast can we move over to the BRICS system?
	We need to do something other than dollars.
	And frankly, they're already moving in that direction, which is why the BRICS currencies are getting a lot of traction already.
	Countries are settling international trades using the yuan or the rupee or the ruble or what have you.
	And that's only going to increase.
	So this decision to seize Russia's assets, this is economic suicide of the West.
	Because it's just like with the New York courts stealing Trump's assets, how that has alerted every business person in New York to get the hell out of New York as quickly as you can.
	Get out of New York City, get out of New York State.
	The state can just steal all your assets, right?
	So everybody's going to leave New York who has money.
	I mean, it's already underway.
	And the same thing is going to happen internationally.
	All these countries around the world are going to say, get out of the dollar, get out of the Western banks.
	They're just a bunch of thieves and pirates and talking about the West.
	A bunch of thieves and pirates.
	So that's the reality of what this is going to do.
	And the fact that the West is in such a rush to do this means that The days of the dollar are really numbered, and the collapse of the dollar is rapidly approaching.
	The faster they loot Russia's assets, the more quickly the whole world moves away from the dollar, and the dollar collapses to a value of zero.
	Now, it's not just the collapse of the dollar which would be the ultimate result of this, because that would be the Western financial system just admitting it's all a scam.
	Yeah, sure, deposit your money with us.
	We'll just steal it if we don't like you.
	Yeah.
	Welcome to JPMorgan Pillage& Co., or whatever.
	It's just a racket.
	So who's going to use it?
	But beyond that, what would be...
	I mean, think about it.
	This $300 billion, or roughly $300 billion, this is money that Russia...
	that the Russian people earned, you know?
	Russian workers worked to generate the wealth That was paid to its own government as taxes and that its own government then used to purchase dollars to try to help prop up Western currencies.
	And then, in exchange, the West steals the money, which is really stealing the sweat of the Russian workers, if you think about it.
	It's stealing the time and effort of the Russian people.
	$300 billion is a lot of money.
	It's hard to imagine it, but especially for an economy the size of Russia, which is not nearly as big as the U.S. economy, that is a substantial amount.
	Giant pile of assets there.
	What do you think Russia will do if the West steals 300 billion dollars of its assets?
	Well, let me ask you this question.
	What should any nation do if another nation steals its assets?
	I mean, right?
	What if the US had deposited Billions of dollars or a trillion dollars with banks in China, let's say.
	And then one day China says, well, you can't have it back.
	We don't like you anymore.
	Actually, in reality, probably the reverse is going to happen because China has bought a bunch of U.S. Treasury debt to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
	And probably one day the U.S. will default on that debt, which means the U.S. is going to screw China, too.
	And the U.S. is going to screw Japan and screw all the investors all around the world that bought U.S. Treasuries.
	But that's a different story.
	That's a different podcast.
	But what should the U.S. do if China stole hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S.? What would be the right thing if the world were just and orderly?
	Well, think about it.
	If you break into somebody's house and you rob their assets, you steal their cash and jewelry and you get caught, well, you get punished.
	You go to jail, probably.
	You might get a sentence, you might get a fine, or both.
	You might have to serve, I don't know, months in jail, maybe years, I don't know, depending on how many times you've been caught doing this.
	But there's a penalty to be paid, right?
	Because you stole somebody's stuff, right?
	And if you get caught, there's a penalty.
	Well, the U.S. wants to steal $300 billion from Russia.
	Well, G7 nations want to do this.
	And they're not even trying not to get caught.
	They're saying right out in the open, we're just going to steal this from you.
	What do you suppose Russia will do?
	Now, since Russia can't force the West to pay the money back, and Russia can't force Western leaders to go to jail...
	But what can Russia do?
	Well, Russia can launch nuclear missiles that destroy Western cities and could approximate the same amount of damage as the $300 billion that has been stolen from Russia.
	So perhaps, and this is just a what-if theory, I don't have any evidence that they're planning on doing this, but who knows with Medvedev spouting off lately.
	What if Russia says, okay, to the West, If you steal the $300 billion, we're going to extract from you or we're going to cause an equivalent amount of economic damage to your nations that matches the damage that you've just caused to Russia by stealing $300 billion.
	So maybe Russia is going to calculate what cities do they have to destroy to equal $300 billion in damage.
	I mean, I hope this doesn't happen.
	I don't want to see a nuclear war.
	This is why it's a bad idea for the West to steal this money from Russia.
	But, you know, the West is stealing ships from Iran and stealing airplanes from Iran.
	Boeing airplanes, by the way.
	You realize that the Western countries are just a bunch of global pirates, right?
	They just steal ships.
	They steal planes.
	They steal gold.
	They steal assets.
	They steal everything.
	This is a looting cabal.
	That's what G7 nations are.
	Just a bunch of looters and pirates and thieves.
	Right?
	and you know crazy people on top of that and you know hate-filled racists as well but in Russia's own view They would be justified to extract a penalty from the West for stealing their assets.
	And I'm sure Russia could come up with 10 attorneys that would make the legal argument that we have the right, they might say, to cause $300 billion in damage to the West.
	Well, how many cities would they have to nuke to equal $300 billion in damage?
	I don't know the answer to that, but Medvedev is already mentioned.
	Washington, D.C., He's mentioned London, he's mentioned Paris, and I think he mentioned Berlin too, right?
	And I know he mentioned Kiev, which seems even crazier.
	Why would Russia nuke Russia?
	Kyiv, when Russia wants Ukraine to continue to function after this war is over, you know?
	But I can absolutely see Russia wanting to nuke major Western cities, like maybe New York City.
	How much damage would be caused if they dropped like a one megaton nuclear warhead on New York City?
	By the way, that would make the city's confiscation of Trump's assets look terrible.
	Like nothing in comparison.
	I wonder what Letitia James would think as the mushroom cloud is bursting over New York City.
	Like, oh, you thought you confiscated all these assets from Trump?
	Well, guess what?
	Russia just took all these assets from your entire corrupt city.
	And I'm sure at that moment there's going to be a lot of truckers who are super happy that they didn't deliver loads to New York City.
	Like, thank God we're not there.
	We can see the mushroom cloud from a distance, but we didn't go there.
	You know, because of the trucker boycott, right?
	Do you think Russia's going to nuke New York City?
	Or do you think they might do something like that to extract a cost?
	Or that they might threaten that as an attempted deterrent to try to dissuade the West from stealing their $300 billion?
	Hmm.
	I don't know how this is going to go, but I know that it is incredibly dangerous for the West to carry out this straight-up looting, this theft of Russia's assets.
	It is an extremely stupid, dangerous move.
	It will not only end the dollar, this will end the dominance of Western currencies.
	But at the same time, it risks Western cities being nuked into oblivion.
	And as we've seen from the British Royal Navy, they don't even have any missiles that can respond to a nuclear attack by Russia.
	All their missiles just go kerplop into the ocean, and that's it.
	There goes Britain.
	There goes New York City.
	Right?
	Right?
	And since you and I don't want to see this happen, we're all astonished and terrified that the leaders of our nations, like the leaders of the US, the leaders of the UK, are such insanely incompetent, arrogant morons that they are pushing us toward these scenarios without any realistic caution about what they may be setting into motion.
	They have no plan.
	I mean, we were just covering the story about how they provided all this equipment to Ukraine, but they have no plan to support it.
	They have no plan for spare parts.
	They have no plan for repairs.
	They probably didn't even send user manuals.
	How are you supposed to figure out how to disassemble a tank?
	Just, what, start unscrewing things and see what happens?
	I mean, you've got to have user manuals, and they've got to be in Ukrainian, by the way.
	You know that hasn't happened.
	That's never going to happen.
	They have no plan.
	Understand, our countries are being run by insane criminal lunatics who have no plan of how they're going to get us out of this mess that they thrust us into.
	So, they have not planned for what Russia is going to do after the West steals Russia's assets.
	They have no plan.
	And they have no effective defense, by the way, against hypersonic nuclear missiles.
	I hope you realize Russia can strike every major Western city with a hypersonic glide vehicle.
	You know, a re-entry hypersonic vehicle with a warhead.
	They can hit every city, every major city in every Western country all at about the same time.
	Russia has that technology and there is nothing the West has that can stop that.
	There is nothing in existence that can stop that.
	And Russia is probably thinking that the West can't retaliate.
	We know the UK can't retaliate.
	We know that most of Western Europe has no weapons left.
	And we know that the United States Department of Defense is now run by a bunch of woke, incompetent people at the top levels.
	I'm not saying everybody inside the organization is that way.
	There's still a lot of good Americans and good patriots and white hats inside every system, you know.
	But at the top, it's these woke morons who don't know what they're doing and they probably won't even respond.
	They probably won't even give the order to respond.
	So we are extremely close right now to the doomsday clock striking midnight.
	We are extremely close to the total destruction of the Western financial system and possibly the destruction of Western cities, major cities like Washington, D.C. and New York City.
	Not that Martin Armstrong would be annoyed at all if New York City vanished, you know.
	I'm not saying that he wants New York City to be nuked.
	Nobody does.
	I mean, no good person wants New York City to be nuked.
	But if New York City vanished, there's a lot of people who have had bad experiences with the corruption in New York City that probably wouldn't be shedding a lot of tears, is all I'm saying.
	Not that we want any of that to happen.
	We don't.
	I mean, we're all going to suffer if there's a nuclear war.
	Nuclear winter, food supply collapse, radiation fallout.
	Bad things will happen if any nukes start to fly.
	But the Western leaders are pushing us towards that every single day.
	And I wonder, what is the...
	Let me look this up.
	What's the economic output of New York City?
	How about this?
	What is the GDP of New York City, if there is such a stat?
	Let's see what comes up here.
	The economy of New York City.
	The GDP in 2022 was $1.2 trillion.
	$886 billion is from Manhattan.
	Okay, so, well, I guess then, if Russia nuked New York City, then that would be overcharging by a factor of four.
	Yeah, that would be a factor of four.
	Because if the West steals 300 billion from Russia, Russia nukes New York City, which causes $1.2 trillion in economic loss in one year, then that might be overkill.
	Maybe they only nuke part of New York City.
	Maybe they use a smaller nuke.
	I don't know.
	Hopefully they don't do any such thing.
	Hopefully we can find peace in our world.
	But wow, I didn't realize that New York City has a GDP of $1.2 trillion each year.
	But I wonder how much of that is like made-up finance.
	This is like trading, you know, CDOs and derivatives and manipulating...
	Silver markets and things like that.
	I bet you at least half of that is just all made up nonsense GDP. It's not even real.
	That's just my guess.
	But in any case, the destruction of New York City would be devastating to the United States economy and none of us want to see that happen.
	So let's hope that cooler heads prevail here.
	Let's hope that the West comes to its senses and doesn't steal all this money from Russia.
	Let's hope that we can find peace with Russia and Ukraine and even peace in the Middle East if that's ever possible.
	And let us hope and pray that we can get Someone better into the White House.
	Get these crazed, insane Democrats out of power and get Trump in there right now.
	It looks like the only viable candidate to challenge the Democrats.
	Let's get Trump in there and let's start reeling in all this insanity.
	Let's protect America first.
	How about that?
	Let's protect our borders.
	Let's have benefits for our veterans, our people.
	The American people, instead of funding $60 billion to Ukraine, how about we start with protecting Americans?
	Let's build infrastructure for Americans.
	Let's build the schools.
	Let's build the wall.
	Let's reform our broken judicial system.
	How about that?
	Let's repair the bridges that are all falling down and falling apart all over the country.
	Let's build a better rail transportation system which would boost the economy.
	Let's enhance our ports.
	Let's enhance our energy infrastructure all across the country.
	This is a number of things that we can do with billions of dollars.
	We don't have to be spending money all over the world and fighting wars all over the world and angering all the other nations.
	We should be focusing on what we need right now in America to protect our nation, protect our communities, protect our families and our people.
	And that's what I support.
	I know I criticize America's leaders quite harshly, but that's only because I love America.
	I love what America was founded on.
	I love what it stands for.
	I grew up pledging allegiance to the flag, and I believe it.
	I believe in the American dream.
	I'm, in a way, living the American dream.
	Entrepreneurs, self-made businesses helping the world, shipping clean food to people.
	Having platforms for free speech, doing an AI project right now to put knowledge into the hands of the people.
	You know, America is a great incubator for this kind of innovation and entrepreneurship.
	And I'm grateful to God and to our founders that we have a nation like America.
	I'm grateful to be here and I'm grateful to be in Texas.
	And I don't want to lose it.
	This is why I fight verbally so aggressively to protect America, because I care about this country.
	If I didn't care about it, I wouldn't complain about it.
	I'm sure there's corruption over in Nigeria right now.
	It's not on my list, because I'm not Nigerian.
	And I'm sorry, I'm not wishing for anything bad to happen to people in Nigeria.
	I'm just saying, That's not my priority, okay?
	My priority is America.
	Let's protect our country and our people and our borders and our states, our civil liberties, our human rights right here at home.
	And we can't do that by making enemies all over the world and fighting wars all over the world and throwing money all over the world.
	Throw more money to Ukraine and Israel and Taiwan and who knows what else.
	We need to bring it back home.
	And protect the American people.
	Serve the American interests.
	Build stronger American communities.
	We need to revolutionize our education system and our health system, our nutrition system.
	We need to dismantle the entire FDA and the CDC and start over, man.
	By the way, that's a whole different podcast.
	We need to dismantle HHS and the NIH, for God's sake.
	We need to tear down the whole system, start over, and build a better society right here at home.
	And we have a lot of good ideas about how to do that.
	But we also have to not get nuked and not get destroyed in the process.
	So let's hope that cooler heads prevail.
	Now, we're going to jump into the interview here in just a second.
	I do have a special report for you today about the fact that AT&T had a major cell tower failure, major outage.
	Everybody's AT&T cell phone stopped working yesterday for several hours.
	So I've done a special report on that.
	I'm actually going to put that after the interview today.
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	Everybody was calling them.
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	Satellite phone store.
	Even though the cell towers were down, AT&T was down, you could still text people on bivvy sticks.
	You could use satellite phones.
	You could make calls.
	You could receive calls.
	It was all working.
	The sat phones were working just fine.
	And people who have them were really glad to have them when the outage happened.
	So, right now the satellite phone store, they're getting hit pretty aggressively with a lot of new calls and customers, so have patience with them.
	But if you contact them, they'll help you get squared away with a satellite phone or a bivy stick.
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	And with that said, here's the interview with Alex Christoforu from the Durand.
	And then remember, I'll have a special report on the other side of that.
	And I'll also have some updates for you this weekend.
	Got some topics we need to cover, and I'm sure there'll be some crazy breaking news in the meantime.
	Maybe the British Royal Navy will try to launch another missile, and it will kerplop in the ocean, and we can have something else to laugh about.
	Please, please try to launch a missile every day so we can just keep this thing going.
	It's like a perpetual clown show of a failed military.
	Just hilarious to watch.
	But anyway, enjoy this interview.
	I'll be back with you this weekend.
	Take care.
	Alright, welcome to today's broadcast on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and recently I was honored to be a guest on The Duran.
	And we have one of the hosts of The Duran, Alex Christoforou, joining us today from Greece, or Cyprus, I believe, joining us for analysis of world events.
	And I gotta tell you, The Duran...
	Welcome, Alex, to the show today.
	Thank you for having me.
	Great to be here.
	It's great to have you on.
	I know it's been a long day because it's late evening there, I would imagine.
	You've already done a lot of interviews, a lot of things today.
	It's been a huge day.
	What are the highlights, you think, of the last 72 hours of what's happening in the world, especially with Russia and Avivka and so on?
	Avdevka is big, but that is the big story.
	But the recent news that came in was Joe Biden on a campaign stop, I believe in, I want to say either Colorado or California, he called Vladimir Putin a crazy SOB. And that is all over the news right now.
	This was like three hours ago.
	Oh, wow.
	This broke.
	A crazy SOB? Well, okay.
	We don't have the video or the audio recording of this yet, but this is all over the internet and all over social media now.
	Well, I would imagine Putin is just devastated that a senile dementia patient called him crazy.
	Well, you know what he said?
	He actually responded to this.
	Did he?
	Yeah, so Putin got up on a fighter jet earlier in the morning.
	He flew on this new, on the new TU, I believe, TU-190 fighter jet.
	Then he got into a truck and he drove a big rig truck through the streets of Kazan.
	So he's been busy.
	And then as he was doing all of this stuff, the media caught him and they said, what do you think of what Biden just called you?
	And you know what Putin said?
	He gave a really good answer.
	He said in my video interview that I did a couple of days ago, and they asked me about who you prefer, Biden or Trump as president of the United States.
	Putin said, I respect the decision of the American people, and we're going to work with any president that is voted by the American people.
	But he's like, you know, I said that Biden is predictable.
	He never said that he preferred Biden, by the way.
	He said that Biden, he hinted at it, but he said that Biden is predictable.
	Yeah.
	So it's very predictable to understand what he's going to do.
	And that's what he said in his answer when Biden called him an SOP, a crazy SOP. He said, it's predictable that Biden would call me this.
	So he's like, you see, I was right.
	We understood that Biden would get to this level where he would call me a crazy SOB and I was proven right.
	So that was his response.
	Okay, I'm a little bit surprised to hear you say this, though, because I thought, I mean, you're in Greece and I thought Joe Bidenopoulos was Greece's favorite son.
	Yeah, he met the Greek Prime Minister like two years ago or three years ago.
	He had this joke.
	Joe Biden was like, my name is Joe Bidenopolis, Greece's favorite son.
	And the Greek Prime Minister was like, okay.
	He's like, alright.
	Alright, let me provide our audience a little more background on where you're coming from on all of this.
	So let me just, if it's okay, let me clear up one question.
	You're a Greek citizen, but you talk just like an American with no accent at all.
	Just for the sake of our audience, can you explain a little bit about your history?
	Yeah, I'm from Cyprus, Greek, Greek from Cyprus.
	So I've lived most of my life in the U.S., or at least half of my life in the U.S. I grew up in the U.S., went to school in the U.S., went to university.
	So what part of the U.S. did you live in?
	Oh, everywhere, to be quite honest.
	I was in D.C. and New York and Virginia and Maryland and Arizona and California.
	Wow.
	So I've seen a lot of the – and I've traveled everywhere around the U.S. I've traveled.
	I've taken my car and gone all the way up to Vermont, all the way through Pennsylvania, down to Miami and Florida, and traveled all around California as well, and the south of the U.S., and Texas, and Nevada, all of it.
	So, yeah, I have a love for the U.S., which is why I think I say the things that I say, because it's This craziness that's gripping much of the Of the collective West, which is just hard to understand.
	Well, I think your perspective...
	Why they're doing the things they do.
	Yeah, let's jump into that.
	And your perspective, I think, is really valuable because you've lived in the U.S., but you now live in Europe.
	You're a citizen of Greece, and you do have an international perspective that evades, I would say, most Americans, because most Americans have never lived abroad.
	And they don't even speak any other language other than...
	American, as we say.
	So right now, let me ask you this.
	The current leadership of the United States of America, our audience mostly believes that the election was rigged and Joe Biden is not even legitimate, but he is.
	The puppet and somebody's in power behind him and they're calling the shots right now.
	And it seems like the posture of the United States of America through the State Department and Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken and others is a posture of insanity.
	No rationality, no competence, kind of arrogance, kind of like what Joe Biden calling Putin, you know, a sick son of a bitch or whatever he said.
	That's just indicative of this total disconnect from reality that the West now exhibits.
	To what do you attribute that disconnect?
	You know, I think they're ruled by their emotions.
	I mean, I understand that there's politics at play.
	I understand that there's a lot of money at play, and you have anything from big pharma to the military-industrial complex, and you have all of these very powerful corporations and groups making a lot of the The decisions are influencing much of the decision making in D.C.,
	but the people that are making the decisions, if you take out the money part of the equation, I think a lot of them are just ruled by their emotions.
	I can't remember a time when you had a U.S. president ruled by their emotions like Biden is.
	I'm trying to think if Even Obama, he had his moments.
	He was sharp, though.
	Obama was sharp.
	Yeah, at least he was sharp, and at least he didn't come unhinged.
	He didn't make these types of comments.
	Even Obama, when the coup in Ukraine went down and everything with Kribea happened, even Obama was like, no, we are not going to provoke Russia because this is their backyard.
	They have escalatory dominance in the region.
	As powerful as the United States is, he even understood that we can't go into that part of the world and take on Russia because it's a huge risk.
	At least there was some rationality there.
	There was some logic there.
	But this Biden White House, and starting from Biden, Biden is very emotionally undone.
	And then you have this group around him, and they also seem to be ruled by their emotions.
	And it's these emotions of – they have this obsession with Putin, with Trump, this animosity, this jealousy, this hatred.
	It's all rolled into one, and it's coming through.
	It's coming out there, and people are seeing it.
	Do you think it's – It's very embarrassing. - Interesting.
	Yeah, well, exactly.
	I mean, it's embarrassing for all of us as Americans to see this.
	It's like, my gosh, what's happening to our country?
	But do you think that this is a result of the desperation that the dominant empire of the West, which has been the United States since World War II, is clearly losing its grip over the world?
	It's lost control.
	I mean, I would say, I would argue it's done.
	I mean, look at the Houthis in Yemen have carried out an effective naval blockade that the U.S. can't do a damn thing about.
	The dollar is losing its dominance globally.
	Saudi Arabia is moving away from it.
	More and more countries are accepting BRICS currencies.
	The U.S. didn't want to live in a world, a multipolar world, where Russia was powerful and China was powerful and Iran even existed.
	But they're losing it.
	And it's so obvious.
	Does that help explain the frustration and desperation, you think?
	Yeah, I mean, I think that plays a big part in what's happening.
	But, you know, the U.S. was sliding under Clinton and Obama.
	The slide started.
	You can say Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama.
	That's when things started to move downhill.
	And then you had 2016, and it was either going to go to Hillary Clinton, and then the slide would have accelerated, or the presidency would have gone to Trump.
	And Trump came in when he became president, and he stopped it.
	He stopped the slide.
	He didn't stop it because...
	I get very frustrated with a lot of the commentary, especially from the independent conservative analysts in the United States, which say, oh, well, Trump stopped the slide because he was tough and he was, you know, going back to predictability, he was unpredictable and people were afraid of him.
	No, that's not why Trump stopped the slide.
	It's because Trump...
	At the end of the day, taking aside whatever he tweets and whatever he says, he is a rational thinker.
	And he's someone who likes to engage in negotiations and dialogue.
	And whether he got along with Putin or not, whether he got along with with the European leaders or not, or with Xi Jinping or not, at least he wasn't afraid to talk to these people.
	And he would sit down and talk to them and listen to them and engage in dialogue and negotiation.
	And and the world respected this.
	Yes.
	Again, these leaders in the world may not have liked Trump.
	Maybe maybe they disliked him as well.
	Maybe they were friends with him, but at least they appreciated the fact that this guy is going to sit down with me and hear what I have to say and take it into consideration and just not come out and call me a dictator or call me a crazy this or or insult me or or lecture to me.
	And I think that's important.
	Yeah.
	This group of people, they lecture.
	Trump never lectured.
	Right, right.
	And, you know, Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson, I think, was really enlightening, too, about the failures of the United States and also the sabotage of Boris Johnson.
	And, you know, think about one man, a former U.K. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is responsible for unleashing a series of events that have killed or severely wounded over half a million Ukrainian men.
	And, you know, just the devastation that one person, one globalist can do.
	And then you realize that our country, the United States, is run by a bunch of these globalist oriented people who don't have, they don't want a world of abundance and peace and joy.
	They don't want people to get along.
	They want conflict and war and death and destruction.
	I know you see it more clearly than most as well, but isn't it true?
	You've lived all over the world, or at least different places.
	Isn't it true that people want to get along with each other for the most part?
	It's the governments that are the problem.
	Yeah, look, there should be no reason for the United States to be in conflict now.
	Continuously with the Russians.
	When you travel to Russia and you talk to the people there, you actually come to an understanding that Russian society and the Russian thinking, the everyday Russian citizen is very similar to the everyday American citizen.
	And when you take a step back and look at both countries, you can understand why you're talking about these big landmass continental powers.
	They are very resource rich.
	They believe in putting in a lot of work to earn your living.
	I mean, when you go back through the history and you see the makeup of these countries, you start to say, you know, there really isn't much that separates the Russian people from the American people.
	And when Americans actually come into contact with Russians, they actually get along very well.
	But there's this there's this never ending demonization and animosity towards towards Russia, which which I I find it hard to understand.
	But it's coming at the elite level.
	Well, yeah.
	And filtered down to the citizens.
	That is state sponsored hate speech.
	And it's very interesting to me that these nations say they want to censor hate speech, which in their view, that means they want to censor anybody who criticizes the left or criticizes LGBT or criticizes the Biden administration.
	But it's the state itself that's pushing the worst hate speech to hate Russians or, right now, to hate all Muslims, to hate all Arabs.
	I mean, the hatred from the top down is very strong.
	And maybe...
	We want to talk about that more, but I want to ask you before I forget, you were in Moscow, I don't know, a few months back.
	I remember you broadcasting from there.
	And since Tucker Carlson was there and Tucker said, you know, the subways are all clean, the cities are clean and nice, and the food in the grocery store is all affordable.
	He's been attacked by a lot of Western journalists to say, no, no, that's not true.
	You tell us, in your experience, Alex, was Moscow a clean city where the subway is clean?
	It's always been like that.
	It's always been clean and orderly.
	The decade of the 90s was when things came undone for Russia.
	And Russia was on the brink of collapse in the 90s when the Soviet Union broke apart and Russia was forced to make this neoliberal type of transition.
	That's when everything came undone.
	And at the end of the 90s, the beginning of the 2000s, this guy appeared named Vladimir Putin, and he put the country back together again.
	And since the 2000s, it's been very orderly and very clean.
	My understanding is that the West was really manipulating Yeltsin into...
	In effect, setting up Russia to be pillaged by the West.
	Is that also your understanding?
	Yeah, it was in a terrible state.
	It was in an absolutely terrible state.
	And what I mean that the country was on the brink of collapse, it really was.
	It was a very humiliating time for the Russian Federation and for Russian citizens.
	The oligarchs were the oligarchs and the mafia.
	They were pretty much running the country.
	Corruption was everywhere.
	Crime was everywhere.
	It was very, very dirty, very unsafe.
	Even the city, even the city, the architecture was not being kept clean.
	It was not being kept orderly.
	You know, when you walk through a city, you can understand what type of country you're dealing with when you go to their cities and you either see cleanliness, beautiful architecture, culture, clean streets, and then you see the opposite.
	That's where you know what kind of government you're dealing with.
	And back in the 90s, Moscow was not in good shape.
	Now it's absolutely a beautiful city.
	Well, we were told by the Western media that the dirty subways in New York City, that's the price of freedom.
	Somehow.
	I don't know what that means.
	For me, the U.S., for me, when I lived in the U.S., it was brutal.
	Fantastic.
	I don't remember these.
	I mean, I see the images of the subway in New York or I see the images of like just even the streets of New York or San Francisco.
	Yeah.
	And for me, it's it's not the San Francisco that I remember.
	That's right.
	No, I really isn't.
	I haven't been to San Francisco for 20 years.
	The last time I was there didn't look that bad.
	Now, the horror stories, you know, feces and needles all over the streets of the city.
	This is not what I remember.
	Me neither.
	For me, this is, yeah, I remember a beautiful, I mean, like a jewel of the United States.
	Right on the bay, everything was just kept really well and beautiful city and you could walk around in the city no problem.
	I don't know how it descended to these levels so quickly.
	Yeah, well, we have the same question, but there are some pretty clear answers in the U.S. Remember, I'm in Texas, as you know, and Texas is a proud state, and even in Texas, There's a city, Austin, that is kind of like a little San Francisco in the middle of Texas.
	And it's a reflection of the value system of the leftists who they collapse everything they touch.
	Basically, they destroy everything.
	They defund the police.
	They allow tent cities to pop up everywhere.
	They they incentivize illegals to come into the city and carry out crimes and trafficking, even human trafficking everywhere.
	And they punish the taxpayers.
	It's kind of like, well, what did they expect was going to happen?
	Yeah.
	And then as taxpayers, you kind of wonder, what am I paying taxes into?
	It's a circle where it just doesn't make any sense.
	But it's hard to get out of this.
	This is the problem with the U.S. that I'm seeing.
	It's going to be very hard to get out of this spiral.
	Very much so.
	Very much so.
	I want to ask about your show a little bit more.
	Let me give out your website.
	The Duran is the name of your show with your co-host, Alexander, and it's theduran.locals.com is where people can find you and support you also.
	And I want to ask you also about your co-host, Alexander Mercurius.
	I have been so impressed with his knowledge of history.
	Oh my goodness.
	I mean, when I first started listening, I had no idea what his background was.
	Really didn't know.
	But he understands law.
	He understands history.
	Now, he repeatedly says, I'm not a war expert.
	I'm not a military strategist.
	It's kind of a universal disclaimer.
	But he actually knows a lot.
	How did you connect with him and get your show going?
	We met in 2016, and then we started our show in 2018.
	Towards the end of 2018 is when we started to actually do the show together.
	We just had a good chemistry when we decided to do the format.
	It's not a debate.
	It's a conversation.
	Many people think it's a debate format.
	It's not.
	It's just a conversation.
	We're having a conversation.
	I'm asking him just some questions and some ideas, and he's coming back to me with his thoughts.
	Alexander is, in my opinion, I think he's probably one of the best geopolitical analysts out there.
	And he understands the macro picture and the macro trend of where things are going.
	I remember he wrote an article, Mike, in 2016 when we were covering – when he was writing articles, he was actually posting – I remember in that article,
	he said that Hillary Clinton has planted a bomb underneath the The foundation, the democratic foundation of the United States with this Trump-Russia claim.
	And that always stayed with me, and he was right.
	Because if you take this thing where we are today, you go to the origin story of where we are today, and it was that lie of Trump-Russia collusion that has led to this This implosion of what we're seeing happening right now in the United States.
	And they're bringing the lie back, by the way, for the next election.
	Yeah, and they're bringing it back.
	They're recycling the same fraud.
	It has done so much damage to the US. So much damage.
	It delegitimized Trump.
	It delegitimized the US's standing on the global stage.
	It antagonized, demonized Russia.
	It brought in all of these people who have now taken the U.S. into all of these entanglements all over the world.
	That was such a terrible, terrible thing that she did.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, as you know, she projects everything onto Trump that the Democrats are actually doing.
	For example, recently Hillary Clinton, she accused Trump of wanting to use the military against the American people if he becomes president again.
	Well, that's because that's exactly what the Democrats plan to do.
	We know this, and that's why they're having illegals now taking over the ranks of the military and kicking out the Americans or incentivizing them to leave, and they're going to have a domestic military run by illegals who will fire on the American people.
	We see what's coming.
	That's...
	It's terrible stuff, man.
	It's terrible stuff.
	But yeah, Alexander, he was talking about German deindustrialization two years ago, and now everyone is talking about deindustrialization.
	So he's able to see the trends and to see the big picture, like no other analysts that I've encountered.
	I appreciate his courage and your courage in just telling the obvious truth and sticking with it.
	So, even since, I don't know, the summer of 2022, let's say, it became obvious that Russia's military strength Was overpowering, even though Russia intentionally backed off early in March of 22 to try to negotiate, but that Russia had the military might to defeat Ukraine's military.
	And you've been consistent with that analysis, and I think events have proven you correct again and again.
	I mean, for example, the defeat of Advevka.
	Not to mention Bakhmut a while back, but we're just constantly lied to by the West that Russia's going to be defeated and Russia's demoralized and Russia's run out of weapons.
	You want to talk about that a little bit?
	Just terrible analysis in the White House.
	I mean, who are the people that are consulting with the White House?
	Who are the people that are telling Joe Biden that Russia's going to lose this conflict?
	Russia was never going to lose this conflict.
	That was obvious from day one.
	Russia didn't want this conflict.
	And the narratives that they spin in this administration are cinematic because – but there's no reality or truth to them.
	And from the beginning of this conflict, we understood that this is – that for Russia, what they wanted to do in the beginning is they wanted to force Ukraine to the negotiating table and to just get Ukraine to say that they're not going to enter NATO.
	That's all they wanted.
	That's all Putin was aiming for.
	And he almost got it.
	He almost accomplished it in the end of March.
	And then, as you said, Boris Johnson came in and He destroyed the whole ceasefire opportunity.
	But, you know, from the Biden White House's side of things, they started to spin this siege of Kiev and the Russian military was demolished and demoralized.
	And now we have to pump up Ukraine with weapons and give them billions and billions of dollars because, you see, they can defeat the Russians.
	They did it in the siege of Kiev and they can take back all of Crimea.
	This was a lie.
	This wasn't what Putin was aiming for.
	He wasn't looking to take over Kiev, a city of two million people with 40,000 troops, if he even had 40,000 troops.
	That wasn't his goal.
	And and the Biden White House spun the events that took place in the beginning of the of the special military operation so that they could then get the money and the weapons to start being pumped into Ukraine.
	Because for the Biden White House and for the for the Blinkens and the Sullivans and the Newlands and all the people in and around Joe Biden, this was not about Ukraine.
	For Russia, this was about Ukraine becoming neutral.
	For the Biden White House, this was about regime change in Russia.
	Yeah, that's what this has always been about.
	That's what this remains to be about.
	about because as with Trump, Putin has broken their brains.
	Just like Trump has broken their brains, Putin has broken their brains and they want him gone, but he's not going to leave.
	Whether you like Putin or hate Putin, it doesn't matter.
	The Russian people want him.
	Yeah, Putin's at about 80% approval in Russia, and Joe Biden's at like 25% maybe in the U.S. But let me ask you, Alex, what is the next secret magical weapon system that the West is going to deliver to Ukraine that's going to suddenly win the war?
	Is it the million drones?
	Is that it?
	There's nothing to do.
	They're going to try to spin that.
	It's fiction.
	The drones is fiction.
	Yeah, so...
	Yeah, there are no more weapons that they can give them, wonder weapons, magic weapons.
	Actually, the Pentagon, they came out with a report the other day, and they said that the Biden White House, get this, this is crazy stuff that's coming from the Department of Defense.
	They said that the Biden White House rushed the weapons to Ukraine.
	Weapons that are part of the US's military stockpiles.
	These aren't like weapons just lying around that they don't need.
	These are weapons that the US Army needs and uses.
	They rushed these advanced weapons to Ukraine.
	They had zero plan in place as far as how to maintain these weapons.
	They say these weapons will probably last until October 2024.
	Then they will start to break down, which is natural.
	This is something that happens.
	But Ukraine is not equipped to maintain these weapons.
	They're going to become useless.
	And the document actually ended up saying, you know, we're going to have to make a choice as a defense department, whether we continue to give weapons to Ukraine or if we decide to to keep the weapons for our own national security and our own army.
	Yes.
	And I was just like, this is madness, man.
	What are you guys doing?
	I saw that report.
	It's like comic book thinking where you can just give people F-16s and they're good forever.
	Like, yeah, just keep flying them.
	They don't need any parts.
	They don't need maintenance.
	Nothing.
	Yeah.
	Who thinks like that?
	Children think like that.
	Who is calling the shots?
	Who is making the decisions here?
	And is this really all worth it for one country, for Ukraine?
	Is all of this really worth it?
	Just call up Zelensky and tell him no to NATO. That's it.
	Yeah, and look, negotiate peace.
	Negotiate peace.
	I mean, end the conflict.
	That's the only way.
	End it while you still have some territory remaining, you know?
	It's so simple.
	Just say you're going to be neutral.
	Yeah.
	Put it in your constitution.
	Conflict is over.
	Now, I've read in the last 24 hours that Russia has now positioned 40-plus Iskander missile platforms on the border.
	I believe that each platform, which is a very large vehicle, has two Iskander missiles.
	These are medium-range ballistic missiles.
	They can be outfitted with nuclear weapons.
	I don't think that these are, but that would put them at 90-plus Iskander missiles within reach of cities easily like Kiev and perhaps Warsaw.
	I don't know the exact range, but what do you know about that situation?
	I imagine it's just Russia once again responding to whatever movements are being made by NATO and by the Europeans.
	You know, Russia is always operating in a manner of reciprocity.
	That's how they always operate.
	They see whatever moves are being made by NATO. So you're going to have these big military drills that are going to be taking place in the east of Europe for like 90 days.
	And so what Russia does is they just respond in kind.
	So I imagine that's all this is.
	I don't think there's any there's any threat of of any type of.
	Of exchange of these types of weapons, either in Ukraine or definitely not in in Eastern Europe.
	But.
	Well, what do you make of Medvedev and his recent response?
	He's the bad cop.
	Yeah, I know.
	He's playing bad cop.
	Yeah, he's the bad cop to Putin's diplomatic good cop.
	You know, if people want to believe that Putin is the good cop, Putin is a moderate.
	He is a moderate politician in his economic views, in his social views, in his social views.
	He may be a little more towards the the center conservative.
	But in general, he's a pretty moderate political figure, you know, Medvedev.
	Medvedev used to be considered liberal, but he's now switched since the conflict started to being considered to be a hardliner.
	Yeah, that's fascinating.
	Yeah, it's fascinating the way he's switched.
	But I just think that Medvedev...
	You know, he just kind of says the quiet parts out loud or issues the warnings that the West may not want to hear.
	But, you know, Medvedev says Kiev and he says Odessa.
	You know, I think the West should take these warnings from Medvedev seriously and just tell Ukraine to become neutral.
	Yeah.
	Well, the West seizes upon Medvedev's words, of course, in order to sound the alarm.
	And I want to ask you about, you know, a week ago or so, there was all this alert over Russia launching orbital space weapons or orbital nukes.
	Which I would imagine that Russia has that technology.
	It doesn't seem like it's incredibly complex if you already have nukes and you can launch rockets into space, which they do very well.
	But what do you make of the sudden congressional alert in the West over that issue?
	Well, first off, I think the U.S. and Russia and China are probably working on this technology or have this technology available.
	So, I mean...
	I think all the military powers are thinking about this or have the capability to do this.
	So, you know, if Russia can do this, the U.S. can absolutely do this or is thinking about this.
	But, you know, I think this was an easy one to figure out.
	It's all in the context of the $61 billion.
	You know, everything that has taken place over the last week.
	These space nukes, Navalny, every other story that's coming out about Russia.
	It's all about pressuring Mike Johnson to put the $61 billion package up for a vote in Congress.
	Yeah, this was a funding play.
	Just a little panic for funding.
	They want that money.
	They want that money.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, they've got to pay off people before the dollar collapses.
	They need to leave the treasury.
	Yeah.
	Absolutely.
	You're spot on there.
	I mean, they want to get this last money, the $61 billion, the $300 billion in Russian assets.
	They want to grab it all.
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	The $300 billion.
	Now, that would be something tragic and historic.
	Even Putin responded to that in the Carlson interview, saying that, I think he said he didn't want to use profanity, but it would be incredibly stupid for the West to seize the assets of Russia.
	Because at that point, wouldn't that just be a...
	A grand global advertisement for all nations to get your money out of Western currencies and banks?
	The best advertising for BRICS you could possibly ask for.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, I mean, it's very much like the Trump ruling in New York.
	You know, you fine Trump $355 billion, whatever, a million dollars, whatever.
	You're funding the guy with 9% interest.
	And who's going to want to...
	Do business in New York.
	Exactly.
	Same concept.
	Especially, I mean, you can get loans from banks.
	You can use those loans to build value in real estate.
	You pay the loans back with interest.
	The banks are thrilled.
	They made profit.
	You built up some real estate.
	And then years later, some politician can come back and target you and steal your company and make you pay almost half a billion dollars in fines.
	I mean, who wants to do business in that environment?
	It's all so self-inflicted.
	That's the part that drives me crazy with all of this.
	It doesn't have to be this way.
	Exactly.
	Normal thinking people, rational people understand.
	You don't have to be an economics expert or a lawyer or a real estate developer to understand this is not a good idea.
	You know?
	But they're obsessed.
	There's something else that's compelling them and driving them to make these types of decisions.
	Yeah.
	And it's just hard to understand what that is.
	Or maybe we know what that is.
	We need to call an exorcist at this point, perhaps.
	Get the demons out.
	Yeah.
	The West did the same thing, though, by destroying Nord Stream.
	So they blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, thinking, hey, this is going to separate Germany from Russia.
	It's going to make Germany dependent on the West, right?
	And actually what it does is it collapses Germany's economy with horrible ripple effects across all of Western Europe.
	And how is it, in your view, Alex, how are the German...
	Leaders still allies with the United States at this point.
	I have no clue.
	That's a great question.
	I think everyone's asking that question.
	I mean, they're absolutely captured.
	They've absolutely been captured.
	And you know, it's not the United States.
	That's the crazy part.
	Because once again, if you go back to Trump, Merkel despised Trump.
	And that's when you actually saw Germany starting to say, you know, we don't want to be allied with the United States because of Trump.
	But then you have this Biden White House come in.
	And all of a sudden the German leadership is willing to destroy their own country for Joe Biden.
	And I just sit back and I ask myself, really, for Joe Biden?
	For this White House, you're willing to destroy your country?
	For Zelensky, you're willing to destroy your country?
	It's bizarre, but...
	You know, Germany's de-industrialized.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And a lot of that is never coming back, like the base of factories there.
	I mean, that's moving offshore.
	Germany will not recover in a generation from this.
	The businesses are moving to China and to the United States.
	Yep, yep.
	This is really like World War II-level economic destruction of Germany.
	Yeah.
	But without dropping bombs on them.
	It makes no sense.
	It makes no sense.
	It makes zero sense.
	All right, let me ask you this.
	How do you think this ends with Russia and Ukraine, and will that happen this calendar year?
	I don't know if it'll happen this calendar year.
	It could happen very quickly.
	There's that saying which says that the decline, the war, it starts to end slowly, and then all of a sudden it happens quickly.
	Right.
	So, it's hard to say, but it could happen this year.
	Russia may wait it out until 2025.
	We don't know.
	But it's going to end in a Russian victory.
	I mean, barring some unforeseen circumstance, I don't know what else could happen.
	But if things continue to go this way, then yeah, I mean, Russia's already essentially...
	One, this conflict.
	It really is now up to the West whether they want to continue this suffering because that's what we're seeing.
	But we know the West is completely irrational and they do want to continue the suffering.
	I mean, that's what characterizes this whole thing.
	There's no reason to give the $61 billion.
	There's no reason.
	It's a very simple formula for the West.
	It's just talk to Russia.
	Just call them up, talk to them, and end this conflict.
	You see, Biden has boxed himself in.
	He cannot talk to Putin.
	When he says stuff like he's a crazy SOB or he's a dictator, he's this...
	This is the foreign policy genius that everyone was talking about when he won in 2020, really?
	This is the master diplomat?
	This is...
	It's diplomacy 101.
	You don't call any – even if they're your archenemy, you don't say he's a dictator.
	Right away, you've disqualified yourself.
	You've boxed yourself in.
	So they can't talk to the Russians now.
	They can't talk to the Russians.
	If it was a Trump presidency, you would have called Putin.
	Absolutely.
	But what we're hearing from Biden, or perhaps not from him himself, but his administration, is that if Ukraine doesn't defeat Russia itself, then it's going to require U.S. troops.
	Why?
	Why?
	But can you imagine if the U.S. tried to deploy American troops who are, by the way, now incredibly obese and dressed in drag, a lot of them, because of the woke culture that's taken over the Pentagon.
	So are you going to have obese drag queen soldiers?
	Fighting, hardcore, veteran, highly experienced Russian soldiers who have now created, I would argue, the world's most effective military force that is active today is the Russian military.
	How are you going to defeat them?
	Does anyone want this?
	No one wants this.
	The Russians don't want this.
	The American people don't.
	No one wants this.
	No one wants to see this.
	And there's no need to even go there.
	It's...
	It's just a matter of finally understanding the reality of the situation, which these people, they're delusional.
	But someone needs to intervene.
	They need an intervention.
	Like I said, we need an intervention.
	We need an exorcism or something.
	And it's time for for these leaders, if you want to call them that, to just accept the fact that this didn't work out.
	You're not going to regime change Putin and Russia.
	But at what point is that an inescapable realization?
	Because, you know, as you and I are talking here, the West has been able to set aside reality for a long period of time here.
	And delusions collapse when you can no longer explain away what you're actually experiencing, you know?
	When does that moment arrive, you think, for Ukraine?
	What does that look like?
	I think you're 100% right.
	The problem with all the decisions that these people make, whether they're in Brussels or in D.C., that have led us down this road, is that they're never held accountable.
	For the bad decisions that they make.
	So they keep on doing them.
	And actually, something even worse happens.
	They get promoted to better positions off of these terrible decisions that they're making.
	So yeah, the delusion just keeps on going.
	I guess it breaks when finally someone comes into power in one of these countries in the West and says, you know, you, you, and you?
	You made these decisions?
	You're going to have to face the consequences, whatever that may mean.
	I don't know, a court case, a fine.
	I don't know, whatever that is.
	But you're not going to get promoted to this new position.
	You have to retire from politics.
	But it's time that they face the consequences of their actions, because they have led us in every country in the West, all throughout Europe, in the United States, in Canada.
	They've led us into this terrible position on all levels, culturally, socially, economically, militarily, and no one's going to face any of the music.
	And that's the problem.
	That is the big problem to all of this.
	But I feel like even if Russia advances all the way to the Dnieper River, Zelensky would just reposition.
	I mean, even if Russia takes Kiev, let's say, Zelensky would just move to the west and say...
	We're still winning.
	We're just repositioning to higher ground or whatever.
	I mean, it's like the Black Knight from Monty Python.
	Yeah, it really is.
	But the problem is that the economies which have decided to die on this hill that is called Ukraine, and that's what they've decided to do, the Germanys and the Frances, and even to a certain extent.
	To a certain extent, the United States is insulated.
	It's going to be okay.
	There still is political discourse.
	There still are people that can right the ship.
	But they made the decision to bet it all on Project Ukraine.
	They're going to also crumble.
	And especially Europe.
	Europe has come out the big loser out of all of this.
	And so yeah, they could reposition Zelensky.
	They could try to spin a new narrative.
	But you know, the farmers, they're protesting everywhere.
	This is so ridiculous.
	They're talking about Ukraine entering the European Union and entering NATO. Meanwhile, you have every single country that is bordering Ukraine.
	They've blocked off all the roads, whether it's Romania, Slovakia, whether it's Poland.
	They've blocked off all the roads because they don't want any of the goods from Ukraine being dumped in their countries.
	This is the insanity of all of this.
	One more question.
	I meant to ask you this.
	I'm trying to find the link, but the failed missile launch from the Royal British Navy, was it?
	And this missile plops into the ocean right next to the launch ship, and the two aircraft carriers don't work.
	I mean, it's like a Monty Python skit right now of what's happening with the British military.
	They can't even launch a dummy missile without it looking like a clown show.
	And they're the ones that are out in front provoking more of the war because they have this belief that they can provoke and provoke.
	And it's going to be the U.S. that's going to come and save me.
	This is not rational, sane thinking.
	Well, according to Alexei Danilov of Ukraine, he tells the European Union, give us all your weapons.
	They don't have any more weapons.
	And then we can destroy Russia.
	He says, give us all your weapons.
	Send us everything you got.
	Empty the museums.
	Yeah.
	They don't have any more.
	That's the crazy thing is they keep on saying, oh, well, Europe hasn't given us all our weapons.
	Are you kidding me?
	Europe has given all of their weapons, all of it.
	Poland has given something like half of their tanks or like a third of all their tanks to Ukraine.
	All the ammunition's gone.
	All the ammunition's gone.
	They've still got catapults.
	It's like slingshots, yeah.
	I mean, it's...
	Yeah, it's completely insane.
	It's over.
	This is the part that's so...
	It's over.
	No one to quit.
	It's over.
	Pick up the phone.
	Call the Russians.
	They're still open to make a deal.
	I mean, they told...
	Putin told Tucker last week, and he keeps on saying it.
	If you take our security concerns...
	Into consideration, we're listening.
	And what are Russia's concerns?
	Just no NATO in Ukraine.
	That's it.
	Russia just wants the West to stick to the agreements they already signed on to years ago.
	Yeah.
	Essentially.
	It's that simple.
	It's so simple, but, you know, there's all the money tied into NATO, and then there's all of this lobbying from NATO, which is, and then all of these bureaucrats, technocrats, all of these guys who have this belief that if NATO gives in to Putin and to Russia, well, then we're all going to be out of jobs.
	And we're all going to lose the money from the U.S. Once again, it all goes back to the Americans, to the U.S., because everyone is feeding off of the U.S., but The U.S. can't continue this any longer either.
	Yeah, we can't print money forever.
	And the dollar is not going to have world value much longer.
	Anyway, Alex, we're out of time.
	I want to give you a chance to tell our audience how they can find your work.
	TheDuran.Locals.com.
	And we are on all the video platforms as well.
	Got it.
	Okay.
	And somehow you're still on YouTube and not banned.
	Knock on wood.
	I don't think we should be banned from anybody.
	We've been getting it right for a while, and we've stayed as honest as could be.
	But that's why you get banned, though.
	If you get it right, you've got to be banned.
	Yeah, I know.
	Let's knock on wood and hope that we're still allowed to broadcast.
	All right.
	Well, thank you so much, Alex.
	It's been a pleasure.
	Appreciate your time.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Take care.
	All right.
	Take care.
	All right, everybody, that was Alex Christoforou and, of course, his co-host, Alexander Mercurius.
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	I mean, it's the perfect reminder of why you can't count on the cell networks because they can go down.
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	Now, Alex Jones is reporting right now that this may have been linked to a communist China cyber hack event.
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	It's also economic suicide or sabotage to take down the economies of Western nations.
	It's all part of the same agenda.
	So when you wake up and you see that AT&T doesn't work and telecom doesn't work, and the only thing that actually works are your satellite phones or your bivvy sticks, you know, things that are alternative, then you know It's just another sign of the accelerating collapse of the system.
	And it's all by design.
	So do not be surprised as more of this occurs.
	You will see more failures in the banking system.
	You will see more failures across government and institution.
	You'll see more telecom failures.
	And ultimately, I think this is going to coalesce into the internet kill switch.
	They're going to take everybody offline.
	And the only tools that you'll be able to use are tools that you have offline.
	Now, will they take down the power grid?
	Perhaps, maybe only regionally, I don't think there's going to be a long-standing, permanent takedown of the nationwide power grid, but I do think the power grid is going to fail in certain areas, and it may stay down for a matter of weeks in some areas, depending on exactly what happens.
	So be very, very cautious and prepared for off-grid survival.
	Now, in terms of off-grid survival, it's Not good enough to just have a little bit of backup power, although that is a great idea.
	You need to have some solar capability.
	You need to have solar generators or some kind of backup power system.
	Maybe a diesel generator would be an even better idea.
	Oh, and by the way, if you want my recommendation on diesel generators, go with Kubota.
	Kubota is a Japanese brand.
	Their diesel generators are based on their diesel motors.
	They start very easily.
	Kubota has a very solid reputation for farm equipment and tractors and things like that that function really well.
	They always start.
	And if I were going to buy a standalone generator, it would be a Kubota generator.
	Of course, I have the Winco PTO generators that attach to the back of a tractor, and then you can just run them by running your tractor.
	That's the setup that I use because it's very versatile, plus it's good to have a tractor, right?
	But anyway, standalone generators go with Kubota if it's a diesel generator.
	And why diesel?
	Because diesel fuel stores for a very long time.
	It's very safe to store.
	It doesn't easily combust.
	And it's got a much longer shelf life, many, many years if you treat it correctly.
	So diesel is the way to go on that.
	But in terms of communications, obviously satellite phones and bivvy sticks.
	Of course, our sponsor in that space, satellite phone store, sat123.com.
	But also think about local radios.
	Get yourself some Baofeng radio.
	So you and your neighbors, or in a small community, or if you're on a road trip, you can talk to each other in your cars.
	Short distances is all that's good for, but it does work.
	You can also get into ham radios, of course.
	That's a lot more technical, requires a lot more equipment.
	But using many different frequencies, including shortwave, you can communicate with people halfway across the planet if the conditions are right and you have the right equipment.
	So that's something to keep in mind as well.
	Now, I will mention here that we're about to release an AI tool, a large language model tool, and it's going to be available at brighteon.ai.
	That website's not up yet, but it will be.
	You'll be able to register to download it for free.
	And this model is being trained on off-grid survival skills related to food, nutrition, growing food, natural medicine, herbal medicine, things like that, even emergency dentistry.
	You'll be able to use that tool offline as long as you have electricity and a computer.
	Your computer will need to have 16 gigabytes of RAM, most likely, in order to use the model locally.
	But you'll be able to download it.
	It's about an 8 gig download, something like that.
	It might be a little bit smaller.
	It might be 5, 6, 7 gigs.
	We don't have the final size yet.
	But it'll be under 8 gigs or at 8 gigs.
	You'll be able to download it.
	You'll be able to run it locally.
	And you will be able to query it and ask it questions about survival skills and growing food and all kinds of things.
	That's going to be a very important tool for people when the Internet kill switch is activated.
	And that's coming.
	That's one of the reasons that we're working so hard on this tool in order to provide an open source, free, downloadable, offline solution for people.
	And also it allows you to query the model without anybody spying on you.
	So there's nobody surveilling your queries.
	It's not going to the cloud.
	You can ask it whatever questions you want, and it doesn't know everything, and some of the answers might be experimental.
	It may not give you perfect answers on everything because these language models are not yet perfect.
	Sometimes they make mistakes, so use it with caution.
	But the bottom line is this is going to be a really valuable technology for people to use in an off-grid situation, and that's what's coming.
	Now, by the way, consider what's going to happen to your assets when the kill switch is activated and everything stops working in terms of comms.
	Think about that.
	What's going to happen?
	Because all your assets in the banking system and in the stock market and all the Nvidia stock that you just bought that just skyrocketed, you're welcome.
	All that's going to vanish because you won't be able to access it.
	So when the digital system goes down, what's real money going to consist of?
	Real money is going to be physical gold and silver in your hands.
	And it's going to be things like bullets and seeds and things that you might be able to barter or emergency medicine or iodine or what have you.
	So think about this.
	I know you are.
	If you're listening to this podcast, you're probably already way better prepared than most in all these things.
	But think about why it's important to have gold and silver.
	Think about Goldbacks.
	If that's appropriate for you, check it out at verifiedgoldbacks.com.
	Very popular solution for people.
	They love the Goldbacks because they contain real physical gold embedded in them.
	That's our affiliate site, or our sponsor in that space is the Treasure Island Company at metalswithmike.com.
	If you want to check them out, you can check out their prices in real time.
	Just go there and at the top of the site, just pull down what kind of coins you're looking for.
	They'll give you real-time prices based on the current market price, you know, spot price plus premium for gold and silver coins.
	And you get them delivered into your hands.
	I mean, it's just on and on.
	Think about emergency medicine.
	What are you going to need when the hospitals aren't functioning?
	And they're not going to function when the health insurance systems do not function.
	You know, without the internet, hospitals cannot function today.
	Without the internet, banks cannot function.
	Without the internet, 911 services cannot function.
	What are you going to do for self-defense and safety of your home and your community?
	I hope you have some firearms.
	I hope you have maybe look at body armor if that's legal for you and appropriate for your situation.
	Check it out.
	Think about these things.
	Get prepared.
	The systems are breaking down.
	AT&T is just the latest failure, but it's not the last failure.
	There will be a lot more yet to come.
	Banks are going to go down.
	Deposits are going to vanish.
	Nations will fall.
	And the nations that are being undermined the most and sabotaged the most are Western nations.
	So will the United States of America even exist in the next few years?
	I mean...
	I don't think, as currently structured, I don't think it's going to be the same.
	I think the United States of America will still be around, but it's going to be very different.
	And when the dollar collapses, then there's going to be a giant default.
	And when the government goes broke and can't pay its bills, what do you think is going to happen?
	It's going to be a collapse of centralized power and control.
	And you're probably going to see secession and breakups.
	You're going to see maybe civil war.
	It's not clear yet how this is going to unfold, but it is clear that we have to be ready for infrastructure failures.
	Telecom, food, medicine, money, internet, all that.
	Keep on getting prepared.
	It's the right thing to do today.
	Just proved it yet again.
	Prove you got to have backup comms.
	Otherwise, you're going to be just out of luck.
	So thanks for listening.
	Mike Adams here, brighteon.com and naturalnews.com.
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