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Feb. 23, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Alex Christoforou joins Mike Adams to cover latest developments on Ukraine, Russia...
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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. We're good to go.
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, and...
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 in 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 It's this craziness that's gripping much of the...
of the collective West, which is just hard to understand 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 where he would shed tears.
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 Crimea 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.
It's very embarrassing.
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, and 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.
Once 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.
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.
There should be no reason for the United States to be in conflict with 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?
No.
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.
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 incentivize illegals to come into the city and carry out crimes and trafficking, even human trafficking everywhere.
And they punish the taxpayers.
And 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, yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
But it's hard to get out of this.
This spiral.
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... 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.
So yeah, our show was not...
Many people think it's a debate format.
It's not.
It's just a conversation.
We're having a conversation.
And I'm asking him just some questions and some ideas, and he's coming back to me with his thoughts.
But 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 go, 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, 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...
Yeah.
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 have encountered.
I also appreciate his courage and your courage in just telling the obvious truth and sticking with it.
So even since, I don't know...
In 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 2022 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 were 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.
That's what this has always been about.
That's what this remains to be 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.
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.
Like, they don't need any parts.
They don't need maintenance.
Nothing.
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.
Yeah.
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 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 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, I think...
First off, I think the US 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 if Russia can do this, the US can absolutely do this or is thinking about this.
But I think this was an easy one to figure out.
It's all in the context of the $61 billion.
Everything that has taken place over the last week The 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 zillion 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 you 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 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 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.
Exactly.
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.
Yeah.
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?
Right.
This is 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.
Yeah.
If it was a Trump presidency, he would have called Putin.
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.
I mean, 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, you know, because of the woke culture that's taken over the Pentagon.
So are you going to have, like, obese drag queen soldiers?
Fighting, hardcore, veteran, Russian, 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, though, no one wants this.
No one wants to see this.
And there's no need.
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?
Yeah.
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.
They don't have any more weapons.
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 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 still got catapults.
It's like slingshots.
I mean, it's completely insane.
It's over.
This is the part that's over.
No one to quit.
It's over.
Pick up the phone.
Call the Russians.
They're still open to make a deal.
Putin told Tucker last week, and he keeps on saying it.
If you take our security concerns into consideration, we're listening.
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's 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 can 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 it.
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.
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