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BBN, June 20, 2024 – Entire South American nation goes DARK...

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	Welcome to the Ruh-Ruh edition of Bright Town Broadcast News.
	My dog, Rhodey, just heard that one crazy.
	This is for Thursday, June 20th, 2024.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	Mike Adams here.
	Why am I calling it the Ruh-Ruh edition of Bright Town Broadcast News?
	What is it, Rhodey?
	Rhodey wants to say something to you.
	RUTRO. And what makes today the RUTRO edition, well, several, many things.
	So let's start with the fact that the entire power grid went down in Ecuador.
	So I don't know its current status, but there was a total nationwide power outage, grid failure, in Ecuador.
	And the National Center of Energy Control put out a report that Says there was a transmission line failure that caused a disconnection in cascada, a cascade disconnection.
	So there's no energy service on a national scale.
	So there you go.
	There's no energy nationwide.
	So, we don't know what caused the original failure of whatever transmission line failed, but then there was a series of cascading failures that brought down the entire power grid across the entire country.
	So, you know, Steve Quayle and I have been warning everybody, and I know most of you listening to this, you've heeded these warnings.
	You've taken steps to prepare yourself.
	But right now, across Ecuador, there's no cell phone service because all the cell towers have no power.
	Now, some of them may have short-term backup generators, but I used to live in Ecuador.
	I can tell you, There's not a lot of fuel if generators exist at all for most of those cell towers.
	So they're just down.
	So people don't have cell phone service.
	People don't have internet.
	People don't have electricity.
	Maybe by the time you hear this, it's back online.
	I hope so.
	But I don't know.
	Steve Quayle and I have been warning everybody that this can happen instantly without notice.
	And that's why we've encouraged everybody to look into, you know, backup communication systems, satellite phones, for example.
	Sure, it would be nice to have a sat phone in Ecuador right now or a satellite texting device or a backup solar generator with solar panels and battery storage.
	And, you know, our sponsor offers these solutions, you know, the satellite phone store, sat123.com.
	If there's any time to plug them, it's right now.
	But this can happen anywhere.
	And my question is, how much equipment in the electrical infrastructure of Ecuador is permanently damaged and has to be replaced?
	Because when you have what they call the disconnection encascada, that means a cascade of disconnections which could indicate a cascade of component failures.
	Where maybe there was a surge and the surge went from one thing to the next and somehow, I don't know, the isolation didn't work or the breakers didn't work.
	I don't, I mean, look, I'm not a master electrician.
	I don't know the configuration of their entire nationwide power grid, but I know something horribly wrong happened.
	Otherwise, they wouldn't have lost the entire power grid for the entire nation.
	Can you imagine what it's like right now in, you know, Guayaquil or Quito at the moment?
	The Quito airport?
	It's got to be freaking chaos.
	I mean, more than usual.
	So, not a good scene.
	Hospitals have no power.
	Communication systems have no power.
	You know, emergency first responders, so-called 911, which is not the same.
	It's not 911 in Ecuador.
	But it's all offline.
	Okay, so...
	Take heed, because this can happen anywhere, at any time.
	And to those people thinking, well, that could never happen in America, here's a story from naturalnews.com.
	Entire state of Massachusetts suffers 911 outage.
	Citizens told to find police officers to report crimes.
	Yeah, seriously.
	The entire state of Massachusetts.
	No 911 service.
	That was on Tuesday, June 18th.
	So if you live in Massachusetts, you may have already been aware of this.
	But let's see.
	The journalist Nick Sortor posted about this.
	It says, the 911 system is down statewide.
	There's no estimated time of it returning.
	This comes just weeks after 15 other states suffered similar outages.
	Why does this keep happening?
	The first responders in Boston are literally recommending people go find a police officer or a firebox to pull if there's an emergency.
	What?
	What?
	Both the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department posted similar messages on the X platform.
	Here's the actual message from the Boston PD, okay?
	This is the police in Boston.
	Now, listen carefully, and then go out and buy another gun.
	Okay, here's the message.
	911 is currently down statewide.
	If you experience an emergency, please pull a firebox.
	What?!
	What?
	So if you have a police emergency, you're supposed to pull the fire box or fire alarm.
	What if there's a fire?
	Do you yell, chocolate?
	You like the old Smothers Brothers joke?
	Continuing, if you need assistance, please reach out to your local Boston Police District station.
	Oh boy.
	Then the Boston Fire Department said that they can get emergency assistance at their nearest firehouse.
	So if you have a fire, you need to drive down to the fire station.
	I am not kidding.
	This is in Massachusetts.
	It's supposed to be, you know, all advanced and liberal and, you know, a modern city.
	Folks, the system is falling the bleep apart, okay?
	It's falling apart.
	If you have a fire, you drive down to the fire station.
	Help!
	There's a fire.
	Send trucks.
	If there's a home invader...
	Or some gang members at your door with guns.
	You're supposed to find a firebox somewhere.
	Like, hey, hold on, home invaders.
	Just a second.
	Let me go.
	Let me exit here.
	I got to go find a firebox to pull to get somebody to show up.
	And who would show up if you pulled a firebox?
	Wouldn't it be the fire department?
	I mean, what is this?
	Wouldn't the fire department show up?
	Not the police, but, oh, I have a police emergency.
	I have, you know, gangbangers with guns at my door.
	They want to rob everything.
	Oh, well, we're only here for the fire, sir.
	Good luck, you know, and they're gone.
	This is insane.
	And in Massachusetts, of course, they don't want you to be able to own a firearm.
	But you can't trust the 911 system either.
	So what are you supposed to do?
	The official notice from, get this, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security.
	That's the EOPSS. Or EOPSS. EOPSS. Yeah.
	P.S. Yo system don't work.
	Okay.
	They said, quote, 911 services are currently down statewide.
	Delays in public safety response may occur.
	May occur?
	Yes.
	I think they should say, will definitely occur.
	Basically, they should say, you on your own.
	Reload.
	You know, I mean, they say, call the local public safety business line directly if you or others are having an emergency.
	Can you imagine how many calls that line would have received?
	Mm-hmm.
	So, look, these are reminders.
	Ecuador loses its entire national power grid.
	The state of Massachusetts loses its entire statewide 911 system.
	Folks, oh, and again, 15 other states have experienced that.
	Have you seen how many banks are having outages?
	Have you seen how many, like, government programs are not working reliably?
	Food stamp programs go offline.
	E-commerce goes offline.
	Amazon AWS had a big outage earlier in the week, I heard.
	And the reason I heard that is because in our fulfillment and shipping department, they rely on U.S. Postal Service, UPS, and FedEx integration applications.
	And those applications are, from the application developer side, hosted on Amazon AWS. And so when Amazon AWS went down, we couldn't fulfill packages.
	See?
	And we don't even use Amazon AWS. That was the integration with the carriers.
	So that had a cascading effect and delayed our shipments for like half a day.
	I didn't even tell you about that before because it was less than one day of a delay.
	We eventually came back up and we got back online, but that could happen at any time.
	And it's happening more and more.
	So get prepared, right?
	Get prepared.
	You're not going to have police coming to your rescue.
	You know, I'm talking about in a grid down event.
	The electricity is not going to just come back on in 30 minutes.
	You're going to be on your own, and depending on how bad it gets, we might be without electricity for weeks, maybe months.
	Cyber attack, grid down, EMP, nuclear war.
	EMP effects from a high-altitude nuclear detonation.
	You know that Russia just signed a major deal with North Korea, right?
	Putin visited North Korea.
	It was a pretty big deal on the global stage.
	And they agreed to some kind of a mutual defense.
	I don't know if it's a treaty or agreement or what it is.
	I don't want to get it wrong, so I'm not going to try to claim that I know the name of this thing.
	But basically, Russia and North Korea are in a mutual defense kind of partnership.
	Well, North Korea has nukes, of course, and they're going to get more from Russia.
	And North Korea has medium range ballistic missiles.
	They keep launching them over Japan, by the way.
	And one of the last ones that they launched was headed straight for Hawaii, the island chain of Hawaii.
	And then they had it splash down like halfway there because they're like, yep, we can make it.
	So just splash it down.
	And that's what they did.
	But it was right on course to hit and detonate over Honolulu, like a North Korean Pearl Harbor, you know?
	So there's that.
	The infrastructure of our society is absolutely crumbling.
	It is falling apart.
	And it's only going to get worse.
	The collapse is coming.
	It's going to be devastating.
	There will be light on the other side of this.
	You know, we can make it through with preparedness, but a lot of people will not make it through.
	That's for sure.
	Changing the subject here, you are living in a real-life Truman Show.
	And they change the rules whenever they want.
	They project the new reality whenever they want.
	They just feed you stories.
	Oh, look, there's a storm on the horizon.
	Don't cross the water.
	Oh, the bridge is out.
	There's a radiation leak.
	Oh, there's a bird flu pandemic.
	Be afraid and let us kill all your cattle and destroy the food supply.
	Because trust us, there's a bird flu pandemic even though you can't see it.
	And there's no test for it that actually is real and scientific, but you should trust us.
	It's a real-life Truman Show.
	Oh, look at all these dead kids.
	Look at all these mass shootings.
	Look at all these, you know, staged events or sometimes real events with fake narratives.
	It just goes on and on and on.
	It's a Truman Show.
	And some of the actors on the Truman Show are even quite bad.
	Did you see the picture of so-called Joe Biden?
	With Jimmy Kimmel and Barack Obama.
	Did you see that?
	You see that?
	It's like, that's not even the same Joe that they roll out at other events.
	They're not even trying, okay, to have the same Joe Biden anymore.
	They've got stand-ins and body doubles, and they're just...
	It's such an act at this point.
	And that's why, of course, the White House had to announce that any videos of Joe Biden acting senile are themselves...
	Deepfake videos.
	Or what do they use?
	Cheapfakes.
	That's what they said.
	They said they're all fake.
	That none of those videos are real.
	And in a sense, they're correct because, well, that's not really Joe Biden, is it?
	And he's not really the president.
	So, yeah, there's a lot of levels of fakery in this whole thing.
	But those videos are real.
	But his presidency is fake, you see?
	So, if you had any idea how deep the fakery goes, it would blow your mind.
	And you know, they bend the rules whenever they want.
	And so I want to share with you something that is just mind-blowing about how they're bending the rules now.
	So let me try to encapsulate this.
	Here we go.
	You know how the West has stolen $300 billion in Russian assets?
	And not only have they stolen those assets by, quote, immobilizing them, they're also stealing the earnings, the interest paid on those assets.
	And they're using this in order to now make payments on this new $50 billion loan that the United States has made to Ukraine.
	And they have backed up the loan with the earnings from the stolen Russian assets that are in Western banks.
	And so U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was on some mainstream media show.
	I don't know if this is CNN or ABC or whatever.
	It doesn't matter.
	They're all the same.
	They're all scripted.
	And she was asked the question, like, how do you justify this theft of Russia's earnings from Russia's assets?
	And I want you to hear the answer.
	This is astonishing.
	Check this out.
	Well, there is no sense at all in which it's theft.
	The Russian assets remain in this institution.
	They've been impounded.
	The investments that Russia had have matured, so Russia's funds are sitting in cash, but they're generating income for the institution, which Russia has no claim on.
	So there's no legal issue here.
	Whoa, did you hear what she just said?
	Did you hear that?
	She said that, oh, it's not theft, it's no problem, because Russia's assets, oh, they're fine.
	We have them over here in the corner, they're immobilized.
	And that the earnings on Russia's stolen assets, well, those earnings, they belong to the institution, not to Russia.
	She said Russia has no claim to the earnings generated by Russia's own assets.
	This is extraordinary.
	This is going to so rapidly accelerate the move away from Western currencies and the rapid global embracing of BRICS currency.
	Oh my God, Janet Yellen is, she should be the BRICS saleswoman of the year.
	She should get a commission on BRICS currency trades or something because she just told the whole world, run from the dollar as fast as you can.
	Run from the banks as fast as you can.
	Embrace BRICS as if your life depends on it because whatever earnings you think you're earning in your bank account, in your pension fund, in your treasuries, oh, those earnings, they belong to the institution, not to you.
	You have no claim to those earnings.
	Janet Yellen, that's her quote.
	That's what she says.
	And she's the Treasury Secretary.
	So think about...
	This is...
	Let me just be blunt about this.
	This is the West defaulting on its obligations to Russia.
	This is a financial default of the West.
	Because think about this.
	If you buy a bunch of Treasuries, let's say...
	Maybe you're using Treasury Direct or whatever...
	And then Janet Yellen pops up and says, oh, your assets are totally fine, but you don't get any earnings from your assets because the earnings belong to the institution.
	Then that means that the Treasury just defaulted on what they're supposed to pay you.
	They committed fraud because, you know, contractually, you're supposed to get the interest and your principal back, right?
	Right.
	Well, if Janet Yellen is justifying this against Russia's $300 billion, she can justify it against you and your $100,000 purchase of treasuries or million-dollar treasuries or whatever.
	This same logic can be used to steal all your pension earnings.
	Or your Social Security benefits.
	They can say, well, you don't have any claim to the earnings off Social Security, and what we did is, you know, well, we invested your Social Security years ago, and now the only thing left are the earnings, and that belongs to the institution, not to you.
	And you're like, what?
	What are you saying?
	And they'll just say, it's not theft.
	Trust us.
	We figured out it's not theft.
	But you're stealing it.
	Well, it's not theft when we do it.
	See, that's the liberal order.
	It's not theft when they do it.
	And by the way, almost every court in the world would completely disagree with Janet Yellen that it is theft when you seize a nation's assets and then you steal the earnings of those assets.
	Right?
	That's, it's clear-cut theft.
	There's almost no more clear case of outright theft.
	If you robbed a bank, you know, you walked in, put a gun to the teller's head or whatever, and said, don't give me all your money, just give me the earnings on all the money.
	Would the teller say, oh, okay, that's cool, that's not theft.
	Yeah, that's no problem there, just the earnings on the money.
	Because that's what Janet Yellen is doing to Russia.
	It's like we're just stealing the earnings and so there's no legal issue whatsoever.
	Are you kidding me?
	This is why the world hates the West.
	This is why the world is rapidly accelerating the uptake of bricks and bricks currencies.
	This is why the dollar is doomed and it's tyrants and lunatics like Janet Yellen who are accelerating the demise of the dollar.
	This is why the dollar will not be the world reserve currency for more than maybe another year at most.
	I mean, you realize that BRICS is coming online so rapidly now.
	There's a big conference in October.
	They're going to be rolling this thing out through the end of this year and all next year.
	Every nation in the world that can jump over to BRICS is going to want to do so.
	And by the way...
	Very interesting things.
	Putin just said recently that the number one criteria for joining BRICs is that you have to make sure that you do not go along with any kind of punitive economic sanctions against other countries in the BRIC system.
	Well, that's the whole, I mean, that's the charade of the West.
	That's how America and Western countries, that's how they bully the world, is through economic sanctions.
	They're like, here, you give us the trust and faith to use our currency as the world reserve currency, and then in return, we'll punish you with it by making sure that you can't buy and sell in ways that we don't like.
	So that's the way the West works.
	And Putin just said, if you're going to do that, you can't join BRICS. If you do join BRICS, It's not about punishing the countries that you don't like or pushing your LGBT agenda or, you know, Stealing people's assets or nation's assets and then looting the interest on those assets.
	No.
	The BRICS currency is going to be a multi-country, multi-polar, apolitical international settlement and transaction system.
	In fact, the BRICS currency, which again is rolling out rapidly right now and all through next year, this is revolutionary.
	You know, two days ago here on the podcast, I talked about the history of world reserve currencies and how each currency typically lasts about 95 years, maybe 100 years, typically.
	So, you know, the US dollar is the current one, and before that it was the British pound, and then before that it was the French livre, and then it was the Dutch gilder, and then it was, oh, the Spanish real, and then the Portuguese real.
	So you have six centuries, basically.
	Of world reserve currencies.
	Each one failed as a world reserve currency.
	Doesn't mean the entire currency failed.
	You know, the British pound is still around.
	It's just not the same as what it used to be.
	Same thing with the dollar.
	Dollar is still going to be around.
	It's just, who's going to want it?
	You know?
	I mean, it'll still be used maybe in America.
	You can spend $500 to get a cheeseburger or whatever.
	But the rest of the world is going to say, we don't want dollars.
	Well, BRICS is revolutionary because it's the first currency that's not dominated, controlled, manipulated, weaponized by one nation or one government.
	So the BRICS currency becomes this decentralized world reserve currency.
	And that is truly revolutionary.
	This is not just a once-in-a-generation event or a once-in-a-century event.
	This is a once-in-a-millennium event, really.
	In fact, this has never been seen before in the history of money, certainly not in the last 600 years, as we just talked about.
	A decentralized, distributed international settlement currency will be behind bricks.
	It'll be driving the bricks' nations and their settlements with each other, you know, to sell trade imbalances or to use it to buy and sell, whatever.
	And no one country will be able to counterfeit the BRICS units.
	This is a game-changer.
	This is going to be the world's first honest, non-cheatable, non-counterfeitable...
	I don't know what's the right word.
	It can't just be artificially expanded into oblivion by one country gone rogue, which is what the U.S. is now.
	The BRICS currency is going to be so good...
	And apolitical and immune from weaponization that every country in the world that isn't a slave to the West will want to be part of BRICS. There was a really great interview on Arcadia Economics and the guest was Matt Riley.
	He's with E.F. Bullion.
	I think that's like Eagle Freedom or something like that, E.F. Bullion.
	And by the way, we've reached out to Matt Riley to invite him on for an interview.
	I think we can get him on.
	And Matt Riley, a former U.S. military intelligence, and he's been studying the BRICS currencies, the technical side of it for a number of years.
	And he said a couple of things that are really intriguing.
	And if you want to find that video, by the way, on YouTube, it's called The BRICS Plan for Proposed Gold-Backed Unit.
	It's about an hour, and it's definitely worth watching if you've got a spare hour.
	You want to learn about this, but let me summarize it for you here.
	It's very simple.
	The BIS, Bank for International Settlements, okay?
	BIS.org.
	BIS has chosen for – I'm simplifying this, but what's going to become the BRICS currency is going to be based on a system called M-Bridge.
	It's the letter M as in money, M-Bridge, run by the BIS and lots of various parties involved in this, including Russia and China, India and so on, and Saudi Arabia, Turkey eventually, lots of countries.
	And according to the research of Matt Riley, it's supposed to be based on a rather innovative fractal distributed ledger system that is a permissioned distributed ledger, not permissionless, not crypto like Bitcoin, but permissioned.
	which means you can only participate in the ledger if you are invited and vetted and you have due diligence and so on.
	So there's going to be a distributed ledger across...
	Dozens of nodes represented by the countries that are participating in this system.
	And it's called, the currency will be called the unit.
	Okay?
	So the unit is going to be the token or the coin of the BRICS system.
	One unit is equal to one gram of gold.
	Yeah.
	And the units are going to be backed by 40% physical gold vaulted.
	And audited by BIS-vaulted gold vaults all over the world.
	And this system allows any country that wants to participate in this, let's say India, Like, say India shows up and says, hey, I want a bunch of units, because I want to buy stuff from Russia.
	Like, I want to buy energy from Russia, and I want to pay in units, not dollars, because who wants dollars?
	So India shows up at the desk of this Enbridge system with BIS and says here...
	I want, like, a million units.
	And here's 40% of that in gold.
	So that would be 400,000 grams of gold.
	And then 60% of that is in rupees.
	So India can show up and use their own national currency plus gold.
	So 40% gold, 60% currency.
	And then they get 1 million units.
	They take those 1 million units and they buy energy from Russia.
	Then Russia has the million units and then India gets the oil.
	Okay?
	Right?
	This is how transactions work.
	Russia takes the million units and Russia can spend those units with any other participating country in the system, which will be Mexico.
	It'll be Turkey.
	It'll be Malaysia.
	It'll be China.
	So Russia goes to China and says, hey, I want, you know, 5,000 LED lights or whatever they want from China or a bunch of robots.
	And China says, cool, we'll save the robots and we'll take the units, right?
	And so China, because China will be exporting a lot of stuff, China will end up with a bunch of BRICS units, probably more than anybody else.
	So China, at some point, will want to maybe convert some of those units back into what?
	Gold and Chinese yuan.
	So then China goes to the BIS and says, hey, here's a bunch of units.
	I want to redeem them.
	And the BIS says, no problem.
	Here's 40% of that in gold, actual grams of gold.
	And then here's 60% in the yuan.
	And that's the two-way street.
	That's how any country that's involved in this system can buy units, can use them to trade and settle, and then can redeem units back for physical gold and for their own national currencies.
	And of course, there will be currency-to-currency trades taking place in this because there will be an imbalance of certain currencies.
	So there will be currency traders in this that help level that out just based on supply and demand of national currencies.
	And any country that tries to print its currency into oblivion We'll find that it can't really cheat the BRICS system because you got to bring 40% gold to the table.
	It's like, hey, if you print your rupees to Oblivion...
	You still got to get the gold.
	Otherwise, no units for you, right?
	No soup for you!
	Instead of the soup Nazi, it's like the unit Nazi, you know?
	You got to bring the gold if you want some units.
	No gold, no units.
	Kind of cool.
	It means that countries like the United States that have weaponized debt, especially since 1971, being taken off the gold standard, and have brutalized the world, With dollar coercion, you could say.
	The dollar's been turned into a weapon system.
	SWIFT has been turned into a weapon system.
	And sanctions galore everywhere.
	Thousands of sanctions all over the world.
	The U.S. won't be allowed to participate in BRICS. That's right.
	Because to be in BRICS, you have to agree to not weaponize it.
	It's got to be apolitical.
	You can't issue sanctions against other countries and beat them over the head with your currency.
	So the U.S. will not be invited.
	The U.K. will not be invited.
	Much of Western Europe, not invited.
	Some countries like Germany may eventually reconsider.
	Like, as Germany's economy is in total collapse, they might say, huh, things are looking pretty good on the BRICS side of the fence here.
	Why don't we join BRICS and start buying energy from Russia and restore our German economy, you know?
	That is, if they ever come to their senses in Germany, which...
	Given the current leadership is highly doubtful, but who knows?
	Canada, Australia, New Zealand, they'll stick with the US. Taiwan, whatever.
	Mexico will join BRICS because Mexico needs to export to all these other countries around the world.
	So what's going to happen is that the US and the Western countries will be isolated.
	Isolated.
	Most of the world won't have much interest in trading with the US. Unless the U.S. gives them units, BRICS units, you see.
	Those countries don't want dollars because they're like, what can we do with dollars?
	If you pay us in dollars, then we have to find a way to get rid of the dollars, which will involve a penalty.
	So the day is coming very soon when China will say...
	Okay, we want to export, you know, a million widgets.
	Great.
	But if you pay us in dollars, you got to pay an extra 50%.
	What?
	Yeah, it's the dollar penalty because nobody wants the dollars.
	You're paying us in like crap currency, like counterfeit currency.
	Why would we want counterfeit currency?
	In fact, it might be double price.
	Who knows?
	But if you pay China in BRICS units, China's like, awesome.
	These are super liquid.
	These cannot be weaponized.
	I can sit on these or I can turn around.
	I can use them in India.
	I can buy tractors from India.
	Or I can buy, you know, textiles or herbs from Pakistan or whatever.
	I can, you know, I can buy anything.
	I can buy avocados from Mexico using the unit.
	That's what's coming.
	And it's coming so rapidly that I can't believe how the mainstream economists don't see this.
	They're living in, you know, the Truman Show artificial reality, where they think the dollar is going to be dominant forever, and they think that, like, everybody's always going to want dollars.
	No, that's going to change overnight, man.
	Or technically, a big part of that pivot will happen this October.
	But it's already begun.
	How many countries are saying they're done with the dollar, like Saudi Arabia?
	I mean, what better example do you need?
	Like, we're not going to require people to buy our oil with dollars anymore.
	We're going to use the BRICS system, the units, backed by 40% gold.
	Why do you think China has been buying up record amounts of gold?
	Why?
	They're getting ready for the launch of the gold-backed unit.
	That's why.
	40% backed by gold.
	There's no other currency in the world that I'm aware of that's backed by even 20% gold, much less 40%.
	That's huge.
	Now, the U.S. dollar used to be convertible to gold, obviously.
	I think it was at $35 an ounce, but that's before 1971 when Nixon took us off the gold standard because, of course, the U.S. government was cheating and printing more money than it had in terms of gold reserves.
	And so, you know, the French showed up with their military ships.
	They're like, here, here's a bunch of dollars.
	Give us our damn gold.
	And that's what Nixon said.
	I mean, I'm simplifying this, but roughly that's when Nixon said, well, I guess we can't have a gold standard anymore.
	Everybody will show up and demand their gold.
	And then they'll realize it's a total fraud.
	We've been printing so many dollars.
	So he disconnected us from the gold standard.
	And since then, the dollar's lost, what, 96% of its value, something like that?
	I don't know the exact number, but it's a lot.
	It's over 90% since 1971.
	And since 1913 and the creation of the Fed, it's like 99%, I think, or something close to that.
	It's crazy.
	The dollar has been destroyed by money printing.
	Well, the BRICS currency can't be counterfeited.
	The only way that units are created is when people show up with 40% gold and 60% currency.
	And it's the gold that's the factor that makes it honest, right?
	It's like, oh, no gold, no units for you.
	So everybody in the world is going to want to, number one, escape the sanctions of the U.S. And secondly, they're going to want to have something that doesn't lose value because it's not being printed into oblivion.
	Now, here's something else that's extraordinary.
	The BRICS system has already put out an announcement that says that if you're a country that has defaulted on your debt obligations to Western banks, no problem.
	You're still welcome to join the BRICS system.
	So here's where you're going to have a lot of countries that have been put into debt slavery by, you know, the economic hitmen of the West, the World Bank.
	And oh, yeah, after we bomb your country, we'll come in and we'll rebuild it, except you'll owe us billions of dollars forever and you can never pay it back.
	And oh, yeah, we call that progress.
	Yeah, this is the American model running around the world, destroying countries and then enslaving them.
	Yeah, well, the way to escape that is very simple.
	These countries can just default on the debt to the West and then stop using Western currencies and Western banking systems.
	They can give the SWIFT system a swift kick in the butt, get out the door.
	They can stop using the dollar.
	They can just declare the debt to be null and void because the debt was imposed upon them under wartime conditions or coercion.
	They can declare it, have their local courts declare the debt to be null and void, that it was based on fraud, void.
	It violates the contracts of debt.
	And then they can turn around and join BRICS, and BRICS will say, welcome.
	We're not going to treat you that way.
	We're not going to try to enslave you.
	We're not going to bomb your country.
	We're not going to exploit your resources.
	What we're going to do is we're going to trade with you.
	And we're going to trade with you using this honest currency that is decentralized, that no one country dominates.
	No one can cheat.
	Again, it's a fractal currency, decentralized currency, called the unit backed by 40% gold.
	And with this currency, you can buy from any other participants in this system.
	And there are going to be over 100 countries that will be participating in this, easily over 100 by early 2025, and that number is going to continue to climb.
	Essentially, this is the new world reserve currency.
	So I say 2024 is the last year of the dollar's dominance as the world reserve currency.
	2025 is the year that the BRICS currency begins as the global reserve currency.
	And unlike other world reserve currencies that only lasted 95 to 100 years, I think this BRICS currency could last hundreds of years.
	Why?
	Because it's decentralized.
	And it's honest money in the sense that it's backed by 40% gold, and no one country can counterfeit it into oblivion and exploit it and weaponize it.
	Yeah.
	So, this BRICS currency is the future of honest money on an international basis, and now you understand why the West is so desperate to carry out assassinations around the world?
	Yeah.
	To start wars, to destroy countries like Russia if they can, to exploit resources from Ukraine, to weaponize the SWIFT system, to threaten everybody with the US Navy.
	The US is desperate.
	The Western powers are desperate because they know this is the end of their system.
	This is the last chance for them to bully the world and be able to get away with it through dollar weaponization.
	Beginning in 2025, dollar threats and dollar sanctions mean nothing to the rest of the world.
	We should call it like World Freedom Day when the dollar collapses, actually.
	World Freedom Day because under a non-dollar system, everybody's more free.
	You don't have to bow down to the insanities of the West and how they're always exporting debt, inflation, and LGBT transgenderism, culture wars, all kinds of nonsense and satanic Hollywood, you know, whatever, and GMOs and pesticides and herbicides and tobacco and everything else.
	The West exports poison all over the world, cultural poison, chemical poison, monetary poison, right?
	And also military poison, you know, bombs and weapons for all the other countries.
	Well, some of the other countries like Israel.
	And you might be wondering in all of this, by the way, if you're an American listening to this or a Canadian or a Brit or an Australian and what have you, you're like, well, how can I get BRICS currencies?
	Well, you probably can't.
	I can't either.
	I mean, number one, they're not available right now.
	Secondly, they're not really being built for end users like us.
	They're being built for international settlements, you know, between banks and institutions.
	But thirdly, The answer is already obvious.
	40% of the BRICS currency is gold.
	So if you own gold, you own 40% of what makes up the BRICS currency, right?
	And guess what?
	You can buy gold right now, probably.
	You can buy gold with your current fiat currency.
	So you can take your fiat dollars or your counterfeit, whatever, and you can buy gold with it.
	I mean, when I say counterfeit, I mean that the central banks are counterfeiting the dollar.
	Or printing it into oblivion.
	Or in Japan, you know, it's the yen.
	They're counterfeiting the yen.
	But you can take the yen and you can buy gold.
	And gold can't be counterfeited.
	So what you're doing is you're transitioning from something that can be counterfeited, such as the dollar.
	You're transitioning into something that cannot be counterfeited, which is gold.
	And which will serve as the basis of 40% of the next world reserve currency that will dominate our planet globally.
	For centuries to come, most likely, at least that's my assessment, not that I'm going to be around to see that, but I can already see that the structure is, it has much more longevity than anything that's ever existed in history.
	This is truly revolutionary.
	This is a paradigm shift in the very definition of money.
	Money should not be a weapon dominated by one country that's trying to rule the world through coercion and threats and destruction, which is what the U.S. is.
	Just ask Germany.
	And their lack of energy.
	Instead, money should be something that is politically neutral, something that is decentralized, something that cannot be counterfeited, something that has widespread participation without moral judgment.
	The dollar doesn't meet those qualifications.
	The BRICS currency does.
	And that's why it will be a Incredible global success.
	So buying gold gets you into 40% of what that BRX currency will be.
	And then at some point, when your own domestic currency collapses, such as the dollar or the yen or the euro, well, gold will be a store of value that will help you transition across that into whatever next currency is available in your region.
	And I interviewed a guest recently who said that the United States of America would likely be broken up into five regional nations.
	I don't know if that's true, but let's just suppose it is.
	Well, those regional nations, like let's say we have the Republic of Texas again.
	And by the way, every day in Texas, lots of people in Texas would love to just return to the Republic of Texas.
	But if they do that, you know, Arkansas will want to join in and probably Oklahoma and probably Louisiana and other states as well.
	I mean, who knows?
	Texas could be quite a large nation.
	I mean, just with Texas alone, it's already like the ninth largest economy in the world or something like that.
	But with these other states gathered together, it could be massive.
	Well, do you think Texas would want to do business with the world?
	You know, do you think Texas might want to import and export because Texas has ports, Texas has energy and food and technology and science, medical tech, you know, all kinds of things, right?
	And manufacturing and space, technology, aerospace, all kinds of exotic materials.
	I mean, this is Texas.
	Texas is a very advanced state.
	You think Texas wants to trade with the world?
	Or do you think Texas just wants to trade with the broken down, you know, backwoods, third world collapsed nations of the West?
	No, Texas wants to trade with the world.
	Texas wants to export technology to India, to Russia, to China, you know, right everywhere.
	Texas wants to buy stuff from India, China, Russia, wherever.
	So that means Texas, the new Republic of Texas, would be all in with the BRICS participation.
	And I would love to be a resident of the new Republic of Texas when that happens because that would open up incredible prosperity.
	I would love to export things to the world using the BRICS currency and get paid in BRICS currency and then I can go out and shop with that currency and I can get other things and bring them to Texas and grow the business.
	But let's say then you have like the west coast of California and Gruesome Newsome is the president of the San Andreas fault line of the West.
	And they're going to keep using the dollar because they're all into economic destruction.
	So they can only trade with partners who will accept dollars.
	Well, who would that be?
	Not that many.
	And so California or the West Coast, whatever it is, it would suffer tremendously in terms of economics because it doesn't have a lot of trading partners, can't import and can't export because nobody wants dollars.
	You need to run around with a useless currency that's been printed into hyperinflation and demand that everybody accept it.
	Or what?
	Or what?
	What are you going to do?
	It's like the prime minister of Italy, Maloney.
	She demanded Russia's surrender.
	She demanded that Putin surrender to Italy and Turkey.
	It's like, this is really hilarious.
	We might die from laughter, right?
	But, you know, what would Putin say?
	Okay, why don't you come to Moscow and make us surrender?
	Yeah, how about that?
	It's kind of like the same thing with the dollar.
	It's like, what are you going to do?
	Run around and say, you must accept the dollar.
	It's the world reserve currency.
	And, you know, Vietnam would be like, no, we don't like dollars.
	What are you going to do?
	Make us take dollars?
	No, we take bricks.
	You got bricks?
	Ah, we'll sell you something.
	No bricks, no soup for you.
	Yeah, and the level of fear that will strike into the hearts and minds of the Western tyrants and authoritarians who will find that their currency is no longer useful on the world stage because they weaponized it and thereby destroyed public faith and trust in the currency.
	They will poop themselves to such a degree that that's the origin of the phrase shitting bricks, actually.
	Yeah, that's That's where that comes from, but now it's spelled differently, B-R-I-C-S. So yeah, they'll be shitting bricks, and the world will be laughing at them.
	And it's going to be very interesting one day when the rubber meets the road on the dollar, and Janet Yellen, her quote comes back to haunt her.
	I could just see Russia confiscating all these assets from the West, and As part of reparations for the theft and Janet Yellen being reminded, oh, you said it's not theft when you do it.
	It's not theft.
	We're only stealing your assets and stealing the interest on your assets.
	Therefore, it's not theft because it belongs to the institution.
	Yeah, I wonder if one day if the U.S. tries to participate in BRICS, And then the U.S. tries to deposit a bunch of gold and dollars.
	And then the BRICS countries just steal it all and say, for you, for the United States, yeah, theft isn't theft.
	So what we did, we just took all your gold and took all your money.
	That's not theft.
	And if you don't believe us, you could just go ask Janet Yellen.
	Because she's the one who set that whole thing in place.
	Yeah.
	Not that the U.S. even has any gold.
	You think Fort Knox is filled with gold?
	You think that the gold deposits in America are still there?
	You know, in any significant volume?
	No way!
	The gold's gone, man.
	It's all been looted.
	The gold's gone.
	There's no gold.
	The whole thing is, I'm telling you, this is a giant Truman show.
	You've been living in an artificial reality.
	There's no gold in the vault of the US government, the US banking system.
	It's all been looted.
	It's all gone.
	There's nothing left.
	There's no value to the dollar other than just faith and that's collapsing by the day.
	There's nothing backing it.
	There's not even any competence in the US government and there's no real competence in the military at the highest levels anymore either.
	So keep all this in mind.
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	And it can become an instant local barter item, especially following the collapse of whatever currency that you're living with right now.
	If that currency collapses, everybody's going to start using various forms of gold and silver.
	So goldbacks are just one form of gold that can help store value.
	And goldcoins are another form, but goldcoins can't be easily divided into a thousand pieces.
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	Disclaimer, I'm not your financial advisor.
	Everything I've said here is my personal analysis and opinion.
	I don't know your financial situation.
	I don't know if gold and silver are right for you.
	Maybe you really want to stay in the dollar and just lose everything because that's your karmic path, your karmic cosmic path.
	I don't know.
	That's up to you.
	It's not my deal.
	So get all the best advice you can.
	Gather the round table, the king's knights of experts and everything else.
	I don't know.
	Grab a Ouija board.
	Talk to spirits from another dimension to see if you should stay in the dollar.
	I don't know.
	No, I'm kidding.
	I would not do that.
	That sounds kind of demonic, actually.
	It'll probably tell you, keep your dollars.
	It's like, oh, the demons told us to keep the dollars.
	Yeah, well, that demon looked a lot like Janet Yellen.
	That's funny.
	How did that work?
	Oh, my God.
	No, seriously.
	Don't use the Ouija board.
	Don't talk to demons and alternate dimensions for your investment advice.
	Instead, think about where this is going.
	Think about all the signs that you're seeing.
	Look at the evidence in front of you.
	Make your own informed decision.
	I share this with you because I want you to be successful.
	I want you to make it through.
	I don't want anybody listening to this to lose their assets.
	And I know that gold and silver are the best asset freeze, you know, like an asset container, like a cryo freeze that just hold the value to bridge you over to the next currency.
	I know that there's nothing in the world, nothing in history that does that better than physical gold and silver.
	And that's why I've been recommending it for years, probably a decade at this point, maybe more.
	Now, there's one more big news item today that must be covered, and that is the fact that peace negotiations have broken down between Israel and Hezbollah.
	Now, of course, we knew this was the inevitable outcome because Israel wants to attack Lebanon because this is Netanyahu's survival game is to just keep the country in perpetual war.
	Otherwise, he goes to prison.
	And so Israel wants to attack the north, you know, Lebanon, Hezbollah, and the way they're going to justify this is say, well, we found that there's terrorists over here.
	Bomb it.
	Oh, we think there's terrorists over there.
	Bomb that.
	And they're just going to keep bombing everything.
	We think the terrorists moved north.
	Bomb that.
	And then pretty soon they're all the way bombing Beirut, right?
	And this is the way Israel justifies everything.
	We think there might be terrorists there.
	And even if they're wrong, after they bombed the place and then there's a bunch of dead bodies all blown apart, they hold up the dead bodies and say, look, terrorists!
	It could be a 12-year-old child, just a headless child.
	They're like, look, we've got a terrorist!
	And then they say, we're the most ethical army in the world because according to our own accounting...
	90% of the casualties are all terrorists.
	It's just completely insane.
	So they are now going to attack southern Lebanon, and this attack is probably just days away.
	In response to that realization, Hassan Nasrallah, who is, of course, the chief of Hezbollah, he has brought a new wild card into this discussion.
	He says that...
	The airports in Cyprus or the air bases, airfields in Cyprus, yes, in the Mediterranean, these may be used by Israel to bomb Beirut.
	Now, Israel already bombed Beirut, that so-called fertilizer bomb from a few couple years ago, one of the largest explosions that has ever been witnessed in that region.
	That was Israel.
	That was Mossad.
	It was not just bad fertilizer or whatever.
	No, a lot of people thought that was a nuclear bomb, by the way.
	And Dr. Chris.
	Chris Busby, by the way, is absolutely convinced that Israel is using neutron bombs right now in Gaza and may be about to use more neutron bombs in the region.
	And I interviewed Dr.
	Busby on that point, and he talked about the radioisotopes that provide evidence for that.
	Well...
	The point is that Hezbollah is going to attack Cyprus if Cyprus allows its naval bases and runways and so on to be used by Israel to attack Beirut.
	And so this is going to get very, very messy very quickly because, you know, Greece is right there and Greece is usually trying to appease Western forces.
	Cyprus is under a strategic cooperation pact with the United States.
	But if Hezbollah begins to get really strongly attacked by Israel, two things can happen that can change the course of history.
	One of them is of course that Hezbollah can launch a barrage of probably hundreds of thousands of rockets against Israel that will utterly obliterate Israel as we know it today.
	By the way, in addition to that, Hezbollah, at least I was told many months ago, that Hezbollah has an elaborate tunnel system where they've tunneled many kilometers deep into northern Israel.
	And they're able to pop up out of the ground behind, let's say, the front lines of Israeli armor.
	They're able to pop up with RPGs and anti-tank missile systems and take out Israel's armor.
	And then to, you know, disappear back down into the holes and, you know, cave in those tunnels and escape.
	And Hamas has done that very effectively in many ways.
	A lot of tunnel warfare in Gaza.
	And Israel has lost a tremendous amount of armor and vehicles and also IDF soldiers, if you can even really call them soldiers, I suppose.
	Many of them are just...
	Sort of young, woke people just thrown at the front lines.
	It's like, here, put on a uniform and go act like a soldier.
	And they're not really soldiers, you know?
	Many of them.
	Some of them are, but many of them are not.
	Not really cut out for that kind of thing, because they've become kind of privileged and weak, you know?
	So you're going to see Israel suffer tremendous defeat at the hands of Hezbollah.
	The next thing that's going to happen is that most likely Iran will enter the conflict.
	Now, Iran, this was already proven in mid-April, I believe April 14th, when Iran launched all those drones at Israel in response to Israel bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
	Remember that?
	Which was a blatant violation of the rules of modern warfare.
	But of course, Israel, just like the U.S., violates the rules whenever it wants.
	So Iran launched a bunch of rockets and drones and then a few ballistic missiles.
	And the ballistic missiles hit the targets, exactly the targets they were aiming for.
	The Iron Dome was useless.
	And what actually happened on that day was that Israel and the U.S. expended...
	Now it turns out at least $1.5 billion worth of defensive munitions.
	And Iran proved that they can deplete Israel's Iron Dome munitions within a matter of a few hours.
	And they can cost Israel over a billion dollars a day in munitions, which is unsustainable.
	So that was a probing attack by Iran to find out what they could achieve.
	And it turns out that the Iron Dome is absolutely obsolete.
	So if Iran gets involved in retaliating against Israel after Israel attacks Hezbollah, Then, of course, the U.S. is going to want to get involved in attacking Iran.
	There'll be a lot of voices in the U.S., like Senator Lindsey Graham, who will be saying, you know, it's time to bomb Iran, bomb Iran into oblivion.
	Well, then U.S. aircraft carriers and naval forces might be involved in some bombing runs or some missile launches and whatever and try to hit Iran, try to hit their oil fields and cripple them economically.
	Well, what do you suppose would happen then?
	Probably Russia gets involved.
	Because Russia has hypersonic Kinzhal missiles that are launched from their aircraft and that have a very long range, and the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles can also carry nuclear warheads.
	Now, how many nukes does it take to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier?
	And the answer is only one.
	Turns out it only takes one.
	And that would be 5,000 casualties roughly of U.S. sailors, which would be, you know, a catastrophic level of casualties, and it would...
	I really probably escalate the war, so let's hope Russia doesn't do that.
	But Russia can also hit aircraft carriers with non-nuclear kinetic weapons or thermobaric bombs, and there's nothing that the U.S. can do to stop it.
	Now, importantly, I mean, you can see the escalation ladder here, right?
	It's very easy to see.
	So Israel strikes Hezbollah.
	Hezbollah launches rockets at Israel.
	Israel uses air bases in Cyprus to bomb Beirut.
	Iran gets involved, launches missiles and bombs at Israel.
	The U.S. Navy comes in and bombs Iran's oil fields, which will make oil go to $200 a barrel.
	Russia gets involved and starts attacking the U.S. Navy and then shows the world that the U.S. Navy is not very strong.
	This is a big risk in all of this, is revealing that the United States Navy, not as strong as they pretended to be all these years.
	And this is then when the countries of the world looking at this say, whoa, why are we betting on the West?
	The West is weak.
	The West is obsolete.
	The West is incompetent.
	The dollar is done.
	And by the way, who wants to deal with all the Western sanctions and economic tyranny and all the lunacy and the senile Joe Biden, all the lies from the Western White House and the Western corporate press and all their exporting of all the LGBT transgender agendas, even to Muslim countries.
	Like, we don't care if you're Muslim.
	Here, you know, be pedophiles now.
	Groom your children.
	And a lot of these countries are like, the West is insane.
	And now, if their naval vessels, if the U.S. naval vessels are at the bottom of the Red Sea, then it makes it very easy for a lot of these countries to say, eh, we're done with the West.
	I think we'll go with BRICS. You know, I think we'll do business with Russia, China, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, whatever.
	I think we're done with the West.
	You're going to see that happening just cascading across the world so fast.
	Because nobody actually wants to do business with the West.
	Nobody wants to be under the thumb of the West, is what I'm trying to say.
	And if there's a way out, most countries will take that way out.
	Because they've seen how domineering and how desperate, dishonest, and destructive the West has become.
	Far from a liberal democracy or the new rules-based order, it's like, we make the rules and we give the orders, and you follow orders or we bomb you, you know?
	And that doesn't get you a lot of friends.
	I was just thinking, you know, Russia...
	I mean, Putin just visited North Korea, right?
	And made all kinds of great friends in North Korea.
	They signed, you know, the mutual...
	Defense agreement or whatever that was.
	And Putin makes friends in Vietnam and wherever he goes, he makes friends.
	What does the U.S. make?
	Enemies.
	Everywhere the U.S. goes, they make new enemies because the U.S. doesn't know how to be friendly.
	It would be like if you were at a party and then somebody shows up at the door and And they get led into the party, and then they run around the party threatening everybody.
	Like, you do what we say, or, you know, we're going to shoot you.
	We're going to steal your beer.
	It's like, yeah, they run around like, yeah, you look fat in that dress.
	Yeah, and yeah, you're ugly.
	Yeah, yeah, what happened to your hair?
	Oh, you're bald, you know, on all these insults.
	That's the U.S., While they're picking your pocket, looting you.
	It's like, yeah, give me your wallet.
	Oh, thanks.
	Bye.
	You know, that kind of thing.
	It's not theft when we do it.
	You know, like if Janet Yellen were invited to your party, you know, hide the jewelry, children, you know, or hide the children and the jewelry, you know, whatever.
	Would you invite Janet Yellen to your party?
	You'd be like, she's going to steal the spoons, isn't she?
	Like, don't use the fine china tonight.
	Janet Yellen, she's going to come in.
	She's going to start putting forks in her purse.
	It's not theft when we do it.
	It's like, I feel sorry for the restaurants where she eats.
	She probably walks off with all the tableware, you know, and the napkins and everything.
	That's the kind of person she is.
	It's not theft when we do it.
	She probably goes to laundromats and steals other people's clothes out of the dryer.
	Yeah, that's the kind of person she is.
	Not theft when we do it.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	Siphoning gasoline out of people's gas tanks.
	Can you just see Janet Yellen sucking on a little hose, you know, trying to get the suction.
	You got a little gasoline in there.
	Woo!
	We got it going.
	Stealing people's gas, you know.
	It's not theft when we do it.
	This is central bank gasoline.
	Okay.
	By the way, just a quick little tidbit, bit of advice.
	For not getting caught up in bad situations.
	Did you know that in Texas and in many southern states, did you know that a purple painted fence post or a purple painted tree like a Like a section of purple paint on a tree or a post.
	Did you know that is a legally binding no trespassing warning?
	Did you know that?
	I'm just saying this more from the perspective of if you're out wandering around in the wilderness or if you're lost and you come across like a purple painted tree, try to figure out which side of that you should stay on and which side maybe you should not trespass onto.
	And the same thing with fence posts and what have you.
	And there's also, there's a cattleman's group, I don't know the exact names, like a cattle raisers association or something, that they post signs on their cattle ranches.
	I've seen these around Texas.
	And I asked a cattle rancher about that one time.
	I said, so what's with the signs?
	He's like, oh, yeah.
	Because when people steal cattle, and if the cattle belong to this group, Maybe I shouldn't say this publicly, and I don't think this represents what the group stands for, but just between you and me, they're like, we hunt them down and shoot them.
	If you steal cattle in Texas and the ranchers find you, you're dead.
	So anyway, just saying, you know, in the interest of public safety, number one, don't trespass.
	Don't walk past purple trees.
	Purple signage, purple painted trees, purple painted posts, okay?
	And then secondly, absolutely do not steal ranchers' cows.
	You may think you can get away with it.
	You better hope you get away with it.
	You better hope for your life that you get away with it because if they find you, yep, well, it'll be the last cow you ever see.
	In fact, I was, I mean, I don't mean to get carried away, but I was talking to an old-timer in Central Texas a couple years back, and he was telling me about trespassing because the ranches used to be very, very large.
	You know, it might be, it could be a thousand acres.
	And it was very much almost like a wilderness situation.
	There weren't a lot of fences, you know, and cattle would be run from one area to another.
	I mean, I guess there were some fences, but in many ways, areas weren't well-fenced.
	So they would use purple paint as a no trespassing sign.
	And anyway, this old timer was telling me about, I think it was like his grandfather or great-grandfather used to have a rifle with notches on the side.
	Like notches that were cut into the wood of the rifle.
	And he said that it was one notch for every trespasser that he killed.
	And I'm like, really?
	Really?
	It's like you just shoot trespassers?
	Yep.
	They just shoot trespassers.
	And then they would put notches on the rifle?
	Yep.
	What do you do when you run out of rifle space on that rifle?
	Well, I don't know.
	You can double notch it or start notching the other side.
	I don't know.
	Apparently they take this pretty seriously in Texas, or at least they used to, and trespassing can get you killed.
	So just be mindful of that.
	I know it's not 1935 anymore, whatever, but it's still state law in Texas that trespassing is a serious crime.
	So, you know, be cautious.
	Respect people's private property and don't steal people's livestock.
	So I looked it up here, by the way.
	Turns out that trespassing is a Class B misdemeanor in Texas.
	And then if the trespasser is carrying a firearm, that becomes a Class A misdemeanor.
	But again, especially in the old days, I don't think the ranchers cared Class A, Class B, Class C. Pretty much, you're going to end up as a notch on the rifle.
	You know, that's the way it used to be.
	Like...
	These people, they're not district attorneys.
	They're ranchers just shooting trespassers.
	So there you go.
	By the way, I was driving down my driveway just two days ago, and this giant female wild hog gallops in front of me across the road.
	And the first thing I noticed was this hog had giant teats.
	I was like, look at the teats on that thing!
	Seriously!
	I mean, I've seen a lot of wild hogs, but this mama had some sacks, you know what I'm saying?
	And I was expecting, I looked on the other side, I was expecting this train of baby hogs to come along, because often when you see a female hog, there can be like 15, 20 babies.
	Usually it's a couple of females out harvesting for food, and there's like 20 baby hogs, you know?
	And they're kind of funny, the baby hogs, because they're just like running and squealing, and sometimes they try to play dead, and it's like, oh my God, that's so funny.
	It's like a cartoon, you know.
	But this mama was huge, man.
	She was huge.
	I was thinking, there's no famine in America if you're a hog, you know, if you're a wild hog.
	There's no famine.
	And you know why?
	Because they don't eat processed food.
	Yeah, they don't live on food stamps.
	You know what I mean?
	They're just living off the land, and everything they're eating is foraged wild food, better than organic, if you think about it.
	They're not eating herbicides, pesticides, processed food, high fructose corn syrup, artificial food colors, whatever.
	And these wild hogs are healthier than most humans.
	Plus, they have giant teats.
	So it's like, I wish I would have got a picture of that, but it happened so fast.
	It's like, wow.
	I've seen large male hogs, but I've never seen a female this large before.
	And I don't mean like obese.
	I mean, she was just built big.
	She was fast.
	It's like cross on the road, you know, she could chuck and weave and everything, and just like full-on athletic mama hog with giant teats.
	You know, she could probably join the Olympic bobsledding team and just win a gold medal just sledding on her teats, barreling down head first, you know.
	That's the way they sound sometimes.
	Okay, getting carried away.
	Let me get back on track.
	Hey, I bet you Janet Yellen could steal your cattle.
	Remember, it's not theft when we do it.
	Janet Yellen shows up like, we're just going to steal some of your cattle and horses because it belongs to the institutions.
	Good luck, Janet Yellen.
	Okay, enough of that.
	We've got a great interview coming up for you here today.
	I know I've rambled on for quite a while, but we've covered some very important issues of what's going on in the world.
	And my overall advice is get ready for some real escalation of global warfare, not just with Russia, but also in the Middle East.
	And ultimately, it can all become the same world war.
	Just depends on how the escalation happens.
	Now, I invited a guest, Andrei Martinov, who is a Russian-American immigrant, and he previously served in the Soviet Union Navy as a young man.
	I think he said before that he worked on the...
	Was it the nuclear power system of the Soviet submarines?
	He may have said that.
	I forgot.
	But he's an author, and he's an analyst.
	He's an American, and he wants to see peace.
	And he is, I think, one of the best analysts of what's going on geopolitically between the U.S. and Russia, or NATO and Russia, because he's been on both sides, you know?
	I mean, he grew up in the Soviet Union, served in the Soviet military.
	Now he's an American and he doesn't want America to be nuked and he lives on the West Coast and he wants peace.
	But he's observing these events and his analysis, I think, is very valuable for us to consider whether you agree or disagree with what he says.
	And, you know, I didn't agree with everything he said, but he's a very highly intelligent person to talk with and to ask questions.
	And that's why I invited him back.
	So this is the second interview I've had with Andre.
	He has a new book coming out, which, well, we'll talk about in the interview.
	I think you'll find it to be very valuable.
	Before we get to that interview, just a plug.
	Thank you for your support of our store, HealthRangerStore.com.
	And there at the Health Ranger store, you can find, of course, storable foods, certified organic, laboratory tested, clearly the most heavily scrutinized foods and superfoods and supplements, long-term storable foods also, for your survival, for preparedness, for good health, for...
	You know, ongoing prevention or support of your overall health.
	You can use our foods and supplements to be a healthy person.
	So check it all out at thehealthrangerstore.com.
	We also have our knives that I co-designed with Dawson Knives.
	We have Escape from L.A. back in stock.
	I don't think we sold out yet.
	I know we sold a lot of them during Father's Day.
	But we still have some, I believe.
	And we have other knives as well that are all made from the MagnaCut steel, which is a very advanced steel.
	And you know what?
	There's something else.
	Dawson just sent me some new prototypes.
	And I literally have not seen them yet.
	Let me just open one up here.
	Hold on.
	Alright, I know we were working on a machete design with Dawson, but these look too small to be machetes.
	What are these?
	Oh, this is an upgrade to the bushcrafting knife.
	Okay.
	With a blue G10 handle.
	That's pretty cool.
	What's this one?
	What is this?
	Apocalypse Black...
	CPM 3V. Oh, this is also a bushcrafting knife, but it's in the CPM 3V instead of MagnaCut.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Yeah, they really sharpen these puppies before they send them out.
	That's a nice color.
	Let's see what else they have.
	I don't know.
	Whoa, what is this?
	Okay, well, this has a Rockwell hardness of 60 to 61, which is quite extraordinary.
	I've got to give one of these knives to Daniel Vitalis.
	I think he would greatly appreciate this.
	Wow!
	Okay, Apocalypse Black as the handle.
	We don't have these in our store yet, but I'm loving what I'm seeing here.
	Very cool.
	But no machetes!
	Okay, so I'll talk to the Dawson folks, make sure we get some machetes on hand.
	And also, there's one more thing for you.
	I forgot.
	I have an update for you on our partner that has ivermectin available that I've mentioned one other time, and we've already gotten a lot of good positive feedback, so I'm going to give you the full details of who they are and how...
	I got connected with them and what they do with their pet-labeled ivermectin that is a fraction of the cost of normal pharmacy costs.
	I mean, a fraction.
	It's like, what is it?
	Not quite 1 1 20th of the cost.
	It was like 1 15th of the cost, something like that.
	Very affordable ivermectin.
	So we'll do that special report first here.
	I don't know.
	It's like 12 minutes or something, maybe 15 minutes.
	And then the interview with our friend Andrei Martinov, who is my favorite Russian-American.
	Let's put it that way.
	And he's hilarious, actually.
	He's a serious guy, but his answers are, I find them very funny.
	Like, we were joking about how Putin was going to have to Surrender to the Prime Minister of Italy, Maloney.
	And he was laughing.
	Anyway, you'll see in the interview, but I think Andre is very...
	I think he's got a good sense of humor, is what I'm saying.
	I'm not saying that he's funny, funny, not like funny, weird.
	I mean, he's got a good sense of humor.
	He's willing to laugh.
	And like you and I, he doesn't want to die in a giant mushroom cloud of radiation fallout.
	So let's not push us into World War III. You know what I mean?
	So anyway, enjoy the special report, enjoy the interview with Andre, and thanks for listening.
	So here's how I ended up with $10,000 worth of ivermectin in my hands to be donated to a local animal adoption center, well, the animal shelter in Central Texas.
	And actually, this animal shelter, I know some of the people there because this is where I adopted a couple of dogs from.
	Now, I don't know, a year and a half ago, something like that, the Bunny Gobbler came from this shelter.
	By the way, remember the Bunny Gobbler?
	Yeah, she's our blue healer mix that runs around gobbling little baby bunnies and digging them up out of their holes and just swallowing little bunny rabbits' hole.
	Yeah, that's how she got the name Bunny Gobbler.
	In any case, I literally have $10,000 worth of ivermectin in my hands that I'm going to be donating to this animal shelter.
	I'm just going to make sure I can get a receipt for it and everything so that nobody can accuse me of inventing A story or something.
	These animal shelters need help and they're operating on very limited budgets and this particular shelter has a clinic attached to it and the clinic offers very low cost veterinary care and so I really want to support them.
	My heart goes out To all the animals and all the people that are working with animals and animal shelters and animal adoption.
	It's like, my God, I wish I could help all those poor dogs and cats that are suffering.
	And this is one way that I can help.
	So here's how this happened.
	And this has to do with a partnership, an affiliate arrangement that we have now with a company that I discovered called Virex, which I'll tell you about.
	And Virex, I learned about them through a Substack article a couple of months ago.
	And they offer ivermectin labeled for pets.
	And they call it Petmectin.
	And it's 12 milligram tablets, which is actually quite a lot for most pets.
	So you might have to, you know, cut them in half or whatever.
	Or quarters, depending.
	I mean, you know, talk to a veterinarian if you're going to give these to your pets.
	But I had been buying agricultural ivermectin.
	For a couple of years, you know, since COVID. And I was getting in the 1% liquid solution format, which is a lot less expensive than prescription ivermectin.
	Because when COVID first happened, I actually got a prescription for ivermectin.
	I just wanted to, I don't know, I wanted to check out the process and see what it costs.
	And I was just stunned.
	It was so expensive.
	It was $20 a day.
	And that's the going price right now, $20 a day for roughly 12 milligrams of ivermectin.
	And I was like, that's crazy, and insurance doesn't cover it, and some pharmacies refuse to even fill those prescriptions.
	And I don't want all these medical records of me buying a bunch of ivermectin, but I do want to stockpile this for all the obvious reasons.
	Especially because I have a lot of animals.
	But over the years, I also personally, I ended up using it myself as just a preventive treatment for...
	Now, I can't recommend this to you.
	I'm not your doctor, so I'm not advocating this.
	But I'm just telling you my story, what I did.
	So I would take...
	What did I use?
	1.5 milliliters.
	Of this 1% solution.
	So I was getting essentially 15 milligrams of ivermectin.
	And I would put it in my smoothie and I would drink the smoothie.
	And man, this helped me so many times over the years.
	It's really amazing.
	And then if you go on to places like Amazon.com to try to buy this, they have warnings.
	Like, you know, warning, do never consume this, you know.
	And it's actually still quite expensive, even in that format.
	So when I found out about this company called Virex, I found that what they offer, labeled for pets, is so much cheaper.
	A 12-milligram dosage comes out to about $1.26.
	Instead of $20 a day, it's like $1.26 per day, you know, although it's labeled for pets, not for humans, and it's not prescription.
	But I placed an order with them just to see, like, are they legit?
	Like, do they do a good job?
	Are they professional?
	And it was all legit.
	And they sent me what I ordered.
	I'm like, great, I'll add this to my stockpile.
	And then I reached out to them and said, you know, hey, I reach a lot of people and, you know, I'm a prepper and so on.
	Would you be interested in an affiliate arrangement where if we promote what you offer here, you know, this ivermectin, they also have fenbenazole, you know, fenben for pets.
	If I mention this, Then would you give me back a percentage in product based on the sales that I could donate to local animal shelters?
	And they said, yep, no problem.
	So they set it up.
	And they also gave us a discount code, which I insisted.
	I said, look, you've got to give our audience a discount.
	So the discount code is Ranger.
	And the way you get to this company is you go to naturalnews.com slash virexhealth.com.
	That's V-I-R-E-X, Virex Health.
	And I've only mentioned them one time before.
	You may recall I mentioned them in a podcast.
	And I said, in the podcast, I said, look, I don't know this company very well.
	I placed orders with them.
	They did what they said they were going to do.
	I got the product.
	It's really professionally done.
	It's, you know, it's labeled.
	There's an expiration date.
	There's a lot number.
	The manufacturer's on it.
	It's well, just well delivered, like very professionally done.
	They have their own boxes and labels and everything.
	I was like, you know, this company seems very professional.
	So I mentioned them in a podcast one time.
	And I asked you, the audience, I said, you know, please tell us what's your experience with this company.
	Oh, by the way, sorry about the background noise.
	I'm actually in a vehicle, and you might hear some windshield wipers or some rain or whatever.
	Sorry about that.
	I use all my time to communicate as best I can.
	So I mentioned Virex one time, and from that one mention, apparently many people who listen to this podcast placed orders.
	And I asked you to let us know by emailing us at situationupdate at protonmail.com.
	Let us know your experience.
	And now that people are starting to receive these products, we're getting emails from many people, and they're saying the experience is really great, very professional, well done, no overcharging.
	I'm sure that in the mix, probably somebody didn't get a delivery because of UPS or whatever, you know, but they will sort that out.
	But overall, it's been very, very positive.
	And then I was really shocked that the company, they kept their promise, and so they shipped to me $10,000 worth of ivermectin.
	Now, when I say $10,000, what I mean is the human price.
	Which is $20 a day.
	Actually, the Virex health price is a lot lower than that, so it's not actually $10,000 worth of product per se, but compared to the human form, it's technically worth $10,000.
	Anyway, so I have this, multiple boxes of ivermectin, and now we're reaching out to the animal shelter.
	There's also an emergency veterinary surgeon that I know locally, a woman.
	She was very well known.
	She's quite elderly.
	She actually retired for, I think, six or seven years from veterinary medicine.
	And then she came out of retirement to serve the community and is rescuing cats and dogs and has a lot of rescue operations going on.
	I'm trying to make contact with her in order to make this donation to her as well.
	Or, you know, split the donation like half and half or whatever.
	Anyway, the point is we will find where to donate this product.
	And I'm just happy that, number one, we can help you get ivermectin in a very affordable format that can help you stockpile this medicine labeled for pets.
	Secondly, that this company, they did a professional job.
	They kept their word.
	They sent me what they promised, and then I'm going to be able to donate that to animal shelters as well.
	Because I've already got my own stockpile of this, because I'd already purchased quite a bit before I even did this.
	So I don't personally need any more of this.
	But what I do, and part of my mission is to help distribute things where they can do the most good.
	And so I feel very blessed that this opportunity allows me to do that.
	And so everybody wins.
	The Virex company wins.
	They get new business.
	You get affordable pet-labeled ivermectin.
	I get product that I can donate to animal shelters or emergency veterinary medicine groups, and they can help save the lives of cats and dogs, and they can reduce their expenditures on prescription dog medications or what have you.
	So everybody wins.
	So if you want to get your hands on some of this, this arrangement is still in place.
	There's a percentage, I think it's about 10% of your purchase actually results in a donation to myself, which ends up in a donation to animal shelters.
	So just go to naturalnews.com slash virexhealth, all one word, no spaces or anything, obviously.
	And then use discount code ranger, you'll save 10%.
	And they have not only these products that I mentioned for pets, but Which includes fenbendazole, which is something that you should learn about.
	It's also an anti-parasite type of prescription medication, typically.
	They also have something there on the website that I'm not even going to mention here, but it's something for fish.
	So check that out in case you have fish.
	And if you don't have pets, you can still order this, by the way, because you might be planning to get pets.
	You might be planning to adopt pets.
	And that's all up to you.
	Now, obviously, I'm not your doctor.
	I'm not recommending that you consume this for human consumption.
	I'm not telling you what to take, right?
	I'm not your doctor.
	You can decide with your naturopath, your doctor, all your experts, all your research, you know, obviously you can decide what's right for you, what's right for your pets.
	I have donkeys on my ranch, but so far I haven't given them any of this ivermectin, but I have given it to my dogs.
	Actually, ivermectin is a very common treatment for heartworms or heartworms prevention for dogs.
	It's just very interesting that ivermectin works for so many other things that currently plague our health environment today, if you know what I mean.
	Very interesting.
	Also, by the way, from a chemistry point of view, and again, I apologize for the background noise.
	We're getting more rain.
	From a chemistry point of view, and you know I'm a food scientist.
	I run a food lab, and we do mass spectrometry, ICP-MS analysis, liquid chromatography, and now GC, gas chromatography, multiple mass spec instruments.
	And I can tell you that from a true scientific perspective or a chemistry perspective, Ivermectin is ivermectin.
	Just like glyphosate is glyphosate.
	If I take glyphosate, the weed killer, if I spray glyphosate on grass, the glyphosate doesn't know that it's sprayed on grass versus if I spray it on a bush or if I spray it on a sidewalk.
	The molecule doesn't know.
	It's the same molecules.
	Ivermectin doesn't know if it's being consumed by a dog or a horse or a monkey or a rabbit or whatever.
	Ivermectin is ivermectin.
	Glyphosate is glyphosate.
	Vitamin C is vitamin C. It's all the same.
	Molecules don't know who's eating them.
	People say, well...
	Is this ivermectin?
	Can I give it to, you know, fill in the blank, can I give it to my giraffe?
	Well, check with your veterinarian, your giraffe vet.
	What about I have llamas?
	I have alpacas.
	Can I give it to alpacas?
	I don't know.
	You should probably check that out and see.
	But I guarantee you that ivermectin is ivermectin, doesn't know what an alpaca is.
	So, look, I just say, your use of this product is your responsibility as a responsible adult.
	Use it wisely, or if you're unsure, donate it to an animal shelter.
	They know how to use it, that's for sure, which is what I'm doing.
	It gives me a lot of joy to be able to do that, by the way.
	I spoke previously about being a community-scale prepper.
	And it's, for whatever reason, God has thrust me into this position where, for one reason or another, I find myself in possession or in control of large quantities of things that communities might need, like food, for example, or superfoods.
	Or, you know, I'm the inventor of a radioactive cesium eliminator invention.
	It's in the United States Patent Office.
	It's called Cesium Eliminator.
	And I still have stockpiled 10,000 kilograms on pallets in our warehouse.
	10,000 kilograms of cesium eliminator.
	And I'm waiting for the first nuke.
	Not that I want that to happen, but I'm saying if a nuke hits Texas in particular, or a nearby state, if I can donate this, I'm ready to donate it.
	I imagine there would be a lot of interest at that time.
	Like, hey, does anybody have anything that can...
	Help save lives from radioactive cesium-137 fallout.
	I'll be raising my hand.
	Yeah, I've been talking about this for five, six, seven years, by the way, Governor.
	And you're welcome.
	Just bring a truck and bring a forklift and you can have it.
	In fact, I'd like to get it out of my warehouse because it's taking up space.
	So that's the kind of thing I do.
	And, you know, I'm doing that with Ivermectin with your support, with your help.
	You know, thank you.
	God bless you.
	There are so many ways that we can help society, and I'm doing my part the best way I can to redistribute, redirect resources into meaningful ways that can help save lives or help people, help pets and animals, even help the animal shelters.
	And gosh, if we all just help where we can, in whatever way we can.
	It doesn't have to be big scale.
	It's just persistent help.
	If we do that...
	We're going to be in good shape, all of us together.
	Oh, I almost forgot to mention that the price of ivermectin through virex.health is very affordable.
	Each 12-milligram tablet comes out to about $1.26.
	That's just remarkable, especially compared to the prescription.
	Ivermectin that's prescribed for people is $20 for the same 12 milligrams.
	$20 versus about $1.26.
	And it comes in 50 tablet packs, by the way.
	That are, I think, $69.95, but then you can save 10% by using discount code RANGER. So it makes it, like, ridiculously affordable.
	And this is what it should be.
	I mean, it really tells you about the price gouging of prescription pharmaceuticals and what happens at the pharmacy.
	Like, why do they have to charge at the pharmacy, like, 15 times higher prices for something like this?
	That's off patent, by the way.
	It has been for a long time.
	Because ivermectin's been around for decades, and billions of doses have been consumed by people and animals over those decades.
	It's one of the safest drugs that's ever been approved or recognized or used.
	And yet, they want to charge you $20 a day.
	I mean, what do you think this stuff costs to make?
	It's a fraction of that.
	And the Virex Health price, obviously the Virex company is still making something off of it, but it's not insane price gouging.
	It's a fair price based on the actual production costs.
	So I believe that solutions should be affordable as much as possible.
	I'm a big opponent of people who engage in price gouging.
	I remember after Fukushima, by the way, When everybody in the world was trying to get potassium iodide, which is just a form of iodine, by the way, that protects the thyroid from nuclear fallout radiation.
	Well, iodine-131 in particular is what it protects against.
	I remember that you couldn't get potassium iodide anywhere, and some people were on eBay selling a few packs that usually were $20 or $20 or $25.
	They were selling them on eBay for $600.
	It was just, are you kidding me?
	That's very unethical.
	But I mean, I know some of you as libertarians would argue, well, you know, supply and demand, whatever.
	Okay.
	Okay, fine.
	But I'm not going to charge $600 for that.
	And we sell iodine today in our own store, healthrangerstore.com.
	And believe me, if there's a nuclear event...
	We're not hiking the price, you know, 40 times or whatever.
	It's going to be, the price is going to be what it is right now.
	Possibly with, you know, if the supply chain prices go up to some amount, we would reflect that eventually.
	But we wouldn't be price gouging.
	We would just be tracking along with the price of the raw materials or the price of acquiring the product.
	And as a result, it would just completely sell out.
	It would be gone.
	And, you know, then some people would say, well, you know, how come you couldn't get more supply?
	Well, because everybody in the world is trying to get it right now.
	That's why.
	But I'm not going to price gouge anybody on this.
	It's like I'd rather sell them at the normal price and just I'd rather have the inventory completely wiped out than to sit there and hike it to some insane number and And price gouge off people.
	Anyway, that's the way I operate.
	Those are my ethics.
	Big Pharma has the opposite ethics.
	Big Pharma and the prescription drug pharmacies, their motto is, like, extract whatever we can, take as much as we can.
	They do that with the EpiPens.
	Those went up like 6,000% a couple years ago.
	You know, they do that with diabetes drugs.
	They do it with everything.
	It's highly unethical.
	But then again, you know, it's big pharma.
	What do you expect from an evil regime that's pushing depopulation agendas, right?
	So anyway, ivermectin, honest price.
	Go to naturalnews.com slash virexhealth and that will take you to the Virex company and use discount code ranger to save 10% and you get an honest product at an honest price that can honestly help in many ways.
	So thank you for your support.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, naturalnews.com and of course brighteon.com.
	Take care.
	Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
	And with what's going on between the NATO forces and Russia, especially with the West now stealing nearly $300 billion worth of Russian assets and using that to try to fund more money to Ukraine, which is a failed state and a corrupt failed state at this point, we had to bring on returning guest Andrei Martinov.
	And this man is absolutely brilliant.
	He is a, well, I guess you could say a Russian-American, although he wasn't born in what is today considered Russia, but he did serve in his youth in the Soviet Navy, and he's a brilliant man, but he is an American, and he has incredibly valuable commentary that you won't hear anywhere else.
	So welcome, Mr.
	Martinov, to our show today.
	It's an honor to have you on, sir.
	Oh, it's my pleasure, Mike.
	Definitely my pleasure.
	May I just call you Andre during the interview?
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Please.
	Well, I have seen so many of your interviews and I've really come to admire the depth of your analysis and your understanding of geopolitical events and also especially military events.
	So here we stand at the verge of what many Americans believe is You know, three seconds to midnight or whatever it is, on the verge of nuclear war.
	And I will say, as an American, that our own leadership have demonstrated themselves to be the most incompetent, arrogant, and historically ignorant I think we've ever had in this nation, in the whole history of the nation,
	and that they are thrusting us toward nuclear war, whereas Vladimir Putin, in a speech he gave last Friday, just laid out calmly, methodically, the truth of the situation and the West completely ignores it.
	How would you describe the current situation between the West and Russia?
	Well, I want to go as far as the danger of the nuclear war.
	There is a lot of hand-waving and, you know, statements on part of the West, such as this stupidest statement from Jan Stoltenberg yesterday, I believe, about the fact that, oh, yeah, we need to We're good to
	go.
	So, in this case, it's primarily an increase in the aggressive rhetoric on the part of the combined West driven by the United States, but I don't think so there is any danger of the nuclear confrontation.
	And one of the reasons for that, and why they went into this, you know, how to put it, yeah, increase the pitch of the hysteria Because there is no force which NATO can produce which can fight Russia conventionally without being defeated, utterly sustaining catastrophic losses.
	So as a result, they do what they usually do.
	And the only thing they can do, the combined West and so-called leadership, they can do PR. They have only two skills which they have.
	Well, probably three.
	They have the ability to PR themselves, to reelect themselves, and of course, yeah, they take bribes in different forms, you know, so it's not very corrupt.
	Andrei, let me just jump right into a deeper question from that, though.
	Another skill that the West has is the skill of carrying out false flag attacks against themselves.
	This is a major concern among many of us in alternative media, so I'll ask you to just give us your analysis, but many of us believe that the West acquired, of course, Russian nuclear material, which is, you know, over the years, since the 1990s and so on, and of course, you know, A lot of the processed uranium comes from Russia anyway for the nuclear power plants in America.
	So there's a lot of Russian nuclear material that the West, some deep state intelligence organization, could build even a crude atomic bomb, not even a modern thermonuclear weapon, but an old school atomic bomb using Russian material.
	They could detonate it in a U.S. city or on a U.S. aircraft carrier or whatever and then blame Russia and then start the war that way.
	That's a concern of ours.
	What do you say to that?
	No, it's highly unlikely because, well, if you have the situation with, let's say, imagine this, from what's the name of it, this stupid Tom Clancy book, I mean, I don't think he ever wrote any smart book in his life.
	The Hunt for Red October, is that one?
	No, no, the sum of all fears.
	Oh, the sum of all fears, okay.
	Yeah, so yeah, they show, well, yeah, so we have the explosion, nuclear explosion, they blame it on Russia.
	Well, they have to respond with the nuclear strike after that, because as I already stated, West is absolutely conventionally impotent.
	So, well, then it's World War III and everybody dies, including those people who wanted, you know, to create this false flag.
	I'm not saying that there are no nut jobs in Washington.
	I don't talk about Europe.
	They are irrelevant.
	But, yeah, there are some nut jobs.
	There are neocons, obviously, some of them fanatical Russophobes, and they do it not only out of any kind of geostrategic, so to speak, considerations.
	They do it out of spite of Russia.
	They hate Russian guards.
	But I doubt it, you know, because in the end, if they blame it, and let's say, God forbid, of course, something happens like this and they blame it on Russia, what do they do?
	Launch?
	Well, Russia will launch in response immediately.
	And that will be it.
	Including those neocons, however fanatic they are.
	Well, I'm glad you used the term fanatic because I think that's an accurate description of what many of these people are.
	But here's the problem with fanatics is that they're not rational.
	So, you know, years ago we had more of a rational discourse.
	We had diplomacy, which does not exist in the West anymore.
	Nobody in the West bothers to even read Putin's speeches.
	They're probably incapable of comprehending a 10,000 word speech, by the way.
	So we don't have diplomacy.
	We have fanatics.
	And I mean, I say this with respect, Andre, because I respect your opinion, but I think it might be possible you may be underestimating the insanity of the fanaticism of the Western leaders.
	Is that a possibility you would consider?
	Well, it is definitely a possibility.
	In fact, as I considered, I spoke about it on a number of occasions that, of course, we cannot never discount some, you know, nutjob who will somehow get, you know, to the nuclear button, you know, but this red button actually is the,
	how to put it politely, it's several ways to, so to speak, make a decision on the deployment of the nuclear deterrent, and In this case, it's not, except for the U.S. president or anybody who comes after him, God forbid something happens to Joe Biden before November elections, but the point is there is always a possibility.
	The question is how probable it is.
	And the probability of this is not very high.
	It does exist.
	It's non-trivial, but so far I don't see any, how to put it, signs that in the end, you know what, these are military who do all that.
	And U.S. military, even today, after purges of smart people, it's still more rational than whatever is happening now in the political top in Washington.
	All right, okay.
	Let me mention a couple of things on your behalf here.
	You've got a new book that's coming out, America's Final War.
	Here it is on Amazon.
	It's being released August 1st.
	And apparently it's available in the electronic Kindle version right now.
	So that's America's Final War.
	I do not own that book yet, but I own several of your other books.
	I also want to mention your blog site.
	It's called Reminiscence of the Future.
	It's at smoothiex12.blogspot.com.
	That's smoothiex12.
	Now, let's talk about naval power and the protection of sea lanes for international commerce, because one of the things that just happened is that Malaysia announced that they're going to join BRICS. This is on top of, of course, Thailand recently announcing it, Turkey announcing it, the Saudis dropping the petrodollar arrangement for selling oil, and so on.
	Well, Malaysia, of course, between Malaysia and Indonesia is the Strait of Malacca, this narrow strip of water through which about a quarter of the world's commercial ship traffic sails.
	On top of the fact that the Yemen military has shut down the Red Sea access to the Suez Canal affecting U.S., U.K., and Israeli traffic, If Malaysia joins BRICS, and Malaysia and Indonesia are primarily Muslim countries, they're not necessarily very friendly to the West, and they shut down that strait, then the West has only one canal left.
	It's the Panama Canal.
	And what's the implication of all of that, Andre, in terms of naval power projection globally?
	Well, yeah, the Malacca Strait is one of those fundamental chalk points, you know, on the map.
	I doubt anybody will, you know, shut down the strait.
	So nobody wants to start any kind of the trade war which threatens to grow into some kind of military operations.
	Having said all that, if the United States, for some reason, decides to commit suicide by COP, You know, and start moving its forces over the Atlantic.
	Russia has all necessary means to interdict those shipping lanes of communications which are critical for whatever many people think that will be the war in Europe.
	The problem with this, however, hypothesis, which still has the right to exist, is the fact that The United States, in this respect, is one trick pony.
	They want Europe fight Russia.
	And then, you know, as a repetition of the World War II, come in late and, you know what, reap all benefits and just profit greatly from all this destruction and catastrophe.
	Obviously, it's not going to work like this anymore.
	And the United States operates with the legacy navy.
	The legacy navy being the carrier-centric navy, which is absolutely not designed to fight modern weapon systems.
	They simply have no ability to shoot down anything modern in terms of their modern anti-shipping supersonic, let alone hypersonic missiles.
	And as you correctly pointed out, look what Houthis, I mean, Houthis won essentially their naval campaign without having a navy.
	Yes, it's extraordinary.
	This is incredible.
	They shut down the major shipbuilding of communications and NATO navies can do nothing about it because the only thing they know how to do is to, you know, launch the carrier-borne aviation, bomb something, or shoot something in the waters and go back.
	And then suddenly you have to have a completely different modus operandi to fight this threat, which is, you know, is political, ideological, cultural, if you wish, on part of Houthis who support Palestinians.
	So, and guess what?
	U.S. Navy and NATO navies, they failed.
	Well, it seems to me there are enormous economic implications and geopolitical implications to this.
	And one example of that is that Intel, the chip maker, recently canceled a $25 billion chip plant that they were building in Israel.
	And the reason they canceled it was because they cannot get raw materials in the Israeli ports because of the Yemeni military interdicting the ships.
	I mean, right there, $25 billion plant, canceled.
	Yeah, and they shut down almost 90% of the traffic there.
	It's life, unbelievable.
	You see, that's the problem.
	Fact is, they also pushed Eisenhower's carrier battle group further into the ocean, because obviously, even against the salvo of old anti-shipping missiles, you will have difficulty shooting them down when they are in salvo.
	That means what numerous missiles, not just one or two.
	Uh-huh.
	Then, of course, you have drones, and you have this and that, and the result now, suddenly, what is happening when your Aegis ships, you know, destroyers of the Arab work class, ran out of their SM-6 missiles?
	Wow.
	Yes.
	What are you going to do after this?
	Evidently, who just have their, you know, what, absolutely eternal supply of those things, you know, so they can fly them, you know, 24-7.
	And yeah, there you go.
	At some point of time, you have 96 cells, 96 cells on the Arlenburg destroyer.
	Half of them are loaded with the air defense missiles.
	Okay, you can say that you have also this RIM Sea Sparrow type, a World Sea Sparrow missile on the aircraft carrier itself, then you have those close incoming artillery things, but who would actually risk, let alone reputational risk?
	Forget about just physical damage to the aircraft carrier, but it's a reputational risk, which blows...
	The whole premise of the existence of the American power, which is, of course, primarily naval power, and it's about, you know, what, projection of power.
	Projection of power meaning what?
	You launch carrier-borne aviation and you bomb with impunity some third world, you know, hole somewhere, you know?
	I think you're exactly right.
	Right.
	But if if the U.S. Navy cannot credibly threaten many other nations, I mean, the U.S. spent a billion dollars bombing Yemen is my recent reports said that.
	And they didn't stop them, didn't stop them at all.
	So if the U.S. can't credibly threaten these other nations, then doesn't that have huge spillover implications into currency?
	So why would countries feel like they have to be forced to use the dollar when the dollar can be weaponized against them and the U.S. Navy cannot really destroy them anyway and the U.S. doesn't have the land forces to do a land invasion of even Yemen for that matter.
	So isn't this just, it points to the end of U.S. global hegemony, doesn't it?
	Yeah, it has been, and that's why my book is called, my latest book is called The America's Final War.
	The point is not just, it all started with a launch of special military operation, which now, after 30 months, destroy, it's not about Russia fighting Ukraine, Russia is fighting NATO there, and Pretty much the whole reputation of the NATO weaponry, American weaponry, and this mythology of some kind of the operational prowess have been blown up to smithereens there.
	So in Saudi Arabia, yes, people such like Saudi Arabia.
	They look at this and say, yeah, we don't need your Patriot PAC-3, which couldn't stop in 2019 to defend Aramco facilities.
	All right.
	Apologies to our audience.
	We had a little glitch right there, but we're back.
	Thank you, Andrei, for your patience.
	Italian Prime Minister Maloney has suggested that it's time for Russia to surrender to the West.
	And I think it was Poland's leader that also suggested during the Swiss Peace Conference that Russia should be broken up into 200 ethnic countries.
	So I want to ask you, Andrei, in all seriousness...
	What will be the terms of Russia's surrender?
	And how quickly will Putin sign the surrender documents to Italy?
	Well, yeah, it's primarily, Russians will die primarily from the Homeric laughter.
	That's the only way they can really damage Russia, which happened before.
	Remember that the Russians were taking chips out of the washing machines?
	So, yes.
	And, of course, Christine Lambert saying that Putin will not be able to shop in Paris.
	And there was, I mean, the wave of hilarious, you know, sarcastic articles about that.
	So other than that, I don't know.
	I mean, it's difficult to imagine, you know, but I'm sure the mighty power like Italy certainly has something on Russia which we don't know.
	Yeah.
	I mean, they probably take from the same stack as Zelensky does, you know, and he's high pretty much, well, pretty much constantly now.
	So, I don't know.
	It's difficult to comment on that.
	I was imagining that Putin would respond to Maloney by saying, you and what army?
	You know, because what is Italy's army compared to Russia's army?
	You know, nothing.
	Nothing.
	Not even France's army.
	Combined Europe is pathetic militarily.
	It reminds me of some of, which is not a legend that was recorded.
	It was recorded and historical record exists when one of the envoys of Pope came to visit Stalin in 1943, I believe, in Moscow.
	And Stalin, of course, graciously accepted them.
	But they were talking about that, yeah, you know what, Pope obviously has a very huge influence in the Catholic world and overall in Christianity and things like that, and we can do this and that and that, and Stalin, you know, smoking his pipe, says and asks them questions.
	And how many divisions does Pope have?
	That was it.
	Okay.
	So I want to talk about finance here, and In response to this theft of Russian assets, reported to be nearly $300 billion in assets, and of course the West describes it as immobilized assets.
	Like, we didn't steal them, we immobilized them.
	Okay, it's still theft.
	But Putin responded, as I understand it, with the phrase, theft is theft.
	At least that's the translation.
	Can I ask you as a personal favor?
	I would really like to know, how do I say that in Russian?
	How do I say theft is theft in Russian?
	Воровство есть воровство.
	Воровство is theft.
	Воровство?
	War, which is war, which is theft.
	It sounds almost like war.
	Really?
	I mean, not quite.
	War is a thief.
	Воровство is theft.
	Воровство.
	Ства.
	- Stwa. - Vorostwa. - Vorostwa. - Vorostwa. - Yeah, I know it's Russian language, yeah.
	- Okay.
	Well, I do speak Mandarin Chinese, so I do have some ability, but I do not speak any Russian, although I wanna be able to cite this phrase, that theft is theft, because I think it's historic.
	I really do.
	And so, all right.
	Vóravstvo, yes, vóravstvo.
	Yes, vóravstvo.
	Yes, vóravstvo.
	Okay.
	I'm going to try that.
	I'll improve that, but thank you for that.
	That should be the name of a book.
	That should be the name of a movie.
	The West is committing financial suicide in terms of the global perception of the credibility of assets held in Western currencies.
	This affects all of us.
	I'm an American.
	I want America to succeed.
	I want our economy to succeed.
	I want the American people to do well and to be prosperous.
	But if they're committing economic suicide...
	I mean, our leaders, by telling the world that you can't trust Western currencies, then we all suffer.
	That's my point.
	Does that make sense?
	Yeah, it does.
	It's absolutely true.
	A lot of their financial interactions, as existed prior, have been on primarily trust.
	You know, you trust in the system, you do your thing.
	But yeah, the system is broken, actually, completely.
	It's destroyed.
	It is.
	It is destroyed.
	But this gets back to my original point.
	I was pushing back on you a little bit that as the financial system of the West is imploding, it leads to increased desperation, I believe, on the part of the leaders to try more and more crazy things.
	For example, one of the theories currently being talked about by some of my other guests is that the West wants a war, a nuclear war, with Russia because it provides a cover story for For the financial collapse that's about to happen anyway in terms of dollar debt.
	I mean that's at least a theory that's being talked about.
	Well, no, somebody definitely does want a war, because you have to understand, those people militarily are incompetent, utterly incompetent.
	There is not a single person in the national security circles in Washington who really understands what is coming, you know, if they decide to do this.
	So they want a war in Europe.
	They would love nuclear war in Europe.
	Because it's already stated they are one trick pony.
	They have this...
	Listen, we all remember, well, we know.
	We didn't leave then.
	But what was happening during the Great Depression and then 1937-38 with another Great Recession, which exacerbated the whole situation.
	And whatever the reasons have been, but the United States had the unemployment rate of more than 25%.
	And then in two years, in two years with the start of the World War II, and essentially once the legislature for the land lease has been pushed by FDR through the U.S. Congress, wow, in literally three months, the United States had a full employment.
	And they think that, oh yeah, we can repeat that.
	The problem is, first, there is no FDR. There is no industry left in the United States which can do that.
	That's right.
	Yeah, and then they are complete idiots.
	They don't understand that, you know what, if it, God forbid, comes to it, Russia will wipe Europe out of the map, and then, you know, United States might get some too.
	So these people are insane.
	They are not very smart.
	That's clear.
	I didn't see the smart American politician, let alone Western politician, in a while.
	Some common sense people in Congress here and there, like Thomas Massey or Marjorie Taylor Greene and people like this, they are far in between.
	Most of them are just morons, pretty much.
	As I already stated, three skills.
	Well, I think our audience agrees with you on that assessment.
	That's absolutely true.
	And also, they don't understand what nuclear war entails.
	They don't understand radioactive isotopes or half-lives or fallout or cesium or anything like that.
	They have literally zero knowledge on these subjects.
	And yet, and this is important, We're good to go.
	We're going to have them take off from Romania and then they're going to bomb Russia and come back to Romania and we're going to say we're not involved in the war and so on.
	Provocation after provocation.
	At some point, I mean, how does Russia endure this without a response of some kind?
	I mean, do they just keep taking all this?
	Oh yeah, steal all our assets.
	You know, lie about us all over the world.
	At some point, what does Russia do?
	It's very simple to do what she's doing right now.
	The fundamental political objective of this is demilitarization.
	Now it's not demilitarization of Ukraine.
	Ukraine has been demilitarized thoroughly and we are looking at losing actually one and a half generation at least of the population.
	So, in terms of the overall population, I'm talking about, of course, people who are men primarily who can fight.
	But when you look at the population at large, it's been reduced twice.
	I mean, twofold.
	Yes.
	And so, in this case, well, only victors write the history and write the rules.
	And right now, as I already stated, it is not about Ukraine.
	It is about defeating NATO, which is happening as we speak.
	And yes, the only thing NATO can do are some PR actions.
	Yeah, F-16s make no difference whatsoever.
	Yeah, they don't make any difference whatsoever.
	Their task is just to fly in, maybe to use some jump airstrip.
	Of course, there will be NATO pilots.
	Well, ask today anybody in the U.S. Air Force, who wants to go against Russian pilots flying in?
	I don't think so.
	There will be many takers, those people who are not completely nuts and who didn't drink too much Kool-Aid on this stupid propaganda piece of what's called Top Gun Maverick.
	So, yeah.
	If you know what it is, they won't go there.
	So you'll have some adventurers who think that they're cool, you know, so they will take off, they will be shut down.
	If it comes down, they will be using their Ukrainian airstrips as jump airstrips while flying from Romania and Poland while Romania gets it there.
	Yeah, but what are Western leaders going to say when NATO pilots get shot down by Russia and perhaps captured alive?
	And what are they going to say?
	That they're not military pilots?
	What, that they're contractors who happen to have F-16s?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	They lie.
	As I already stated, practically the only thing they do is lying.
	They lie about everything.
	They lie about their losses.
	And, you know, it's like this famous, you know, Patriot Pact-3 shooting down six Kinshaw.
	Hypersonally.
	I know.
	I mean, it's so reasonable.
	But yeah, they believe that.
	Some of them are stupid.
	Again, do not forget, most Western politicians are lawyers and political scientists.
	And political science is not a legitimate science.
	It's some, you know, random, you know, political history facts.
	And that's about it.
	So when you have lawyers running your country, they know how to avoid, you know, making statements, and they know, have this, you know, generalizations, platitudes language, but that's about it.
	So in this case, yeah, just recently, Russians captured, you know, yet another French POW, So, yeah.
	What are they going to say?
	Well, Macron goes, you know, hysterical.
	Obviously, he has problems at home with his husband or whatever, wife, whatever the thing is.
	So, and, yeah, you look at them, they react like children throwing tantrums.
	They're making those claims.
	At first, Macron stated that there will be 26 Mirage 2000-5.
	Now it was reduced to 6, so probably by the end of the month, it will be reduced to 2, and maybe sometime in the future.
	Well, I'm sure if an Italian pilot gets shot down, Maloney will say, well, we sent him in there to accept Putin's surrender.
	That's why he's there.
	Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
	Yeah, okay.
	Now, fast forward two years in your assessment, okay?
	Mid-2026.
	Is Odessa Russian territory or Ukraine territory?
	I think so.
	Russians will make their surrender, which will be dictated.
	The conditions are already being dictated.
	Essentially, they will break Ukraine into some kind of their entities, some of which will have autonomous powers, such as was the idea behind the initial Minsk agreements to give their wide autonomy, for example, to Donetsk and Lugansk republics.
	So in this case, it will be something even sharper, something even sharper, something even more pronounced, for example, that, okay, here's your Kiev, here's your...
	Whatever regions you want to keep.
	Odessa and what is called Malarossia, used to be called Nikolaev region.
	Yeah, they become autonomous republics and eventually with such their kind of long-term ability to vote to join Russia.
	So that probably will be the arrangement like this.
	There is no necessity to go there and take either Kharkov or Odessa.
	These are large million-plus population cities.
	Apart from the fact that Odessa's architecture is absolutely gorgeous.
	Who needs to do that?
	Why would you go and lose, let's say, 10,000 killed by taking these huge urban centers while destroying them pretty much?
	So no necessity to do that.
	Let the fruit to get ripe, and it will fall on its own.
	So there you go.
	That's a really important analysis.
	Thank you for that.
	That makes a lot of sense, because that was the process, actually, of Lugansk and Donetsk that the Russian Duma recognized in February of 2022.
	I mean, they were already undergoing that process that you just described, so it seems like a natural process.
	But, of course, attempting to interfere with this are the Western European countries now initiating military drafts, or at least in the process of that.
	So we're seeing a lot of talk in the UK of mandatory military service for 18- to 26-year-olds, similar talk by some lawmakers in Germany.
	Of course, you know what Macron is talking about in France, although I think he's talking to himself most of the time.
	But is there any legitimate ability of remaining Western NATO countries to conscript enough soldiers to send to the front lines to thwart Russia's current territorial gains?
	No, they don't have any sustainability, so to speak, in the modern economic structure in the combined West.
	It's like, yeah, you can draft people, you have to feed them, you have to arm them, and yeah, if they want to thank those, you know, legions of their primarily...
	Light armor, you know, and firearms people, they will be slaughtered within like 48 hours.
	So you need to arm the army, and you need to train it properly.
	No European country has any capability to do that.
	They can draft people, definitely.
	And again, I don't know where they will put them, what kind of barracks, what they're going to be feeding them, what they're going to be dressing them with.
	And again, you know what?
	For example, a Bundeswehr is a joke.
	It's a joke.
	Military is a joke.
	In terms of UK, they can draft whatever and whoever they want.
	I mean, their present armed forces, as Colonel Douglas MacGregor stated, Lilliputian, and they cannot even provide for these guys.
	Their whole armed forces can fit inside their Arsenal or Manchester United football stadium.
	This is ridiculous.
	This is ridiculous.
	And these people, yeah, Italians are about the same.
	They can produce here and there something like, well, they have already been corrected by some French generals today.
	Oh, you want to send 26 old Mirage 2000-5?
	Well, then French Air Force will be on its knees.
	We cannot produce enough Rafals, which is extremely expensive aircraft and very slow in production, and it is not as effective anyway.
	It's a good aircraft, but nothing more than that.
	And the same goes for the United States.
	Okay, one more question about the situation there.
	Then I want to ask you about submarine technology, U.S. versus Russia.
	But Zelensky, as I understand it, is now pushing a requirement for...
	They have military firearms training among high schoolers across Ukraine.
	So I guess they're going to take 15, 16-year-old males, maybe the women too, who knows, teenagers.
	No, they're taking women already.
	There are many women who are recruited.
	So I guess, you know, you go to high school in Ukraine and now suddenly, oh, what's our field trip today, teacher?
	Your field trip is you're going to get killed by Russian artillery on the front line.
	So load up on the bus.
	We're going to send you.
	I mean, it's point.
	What is this?
	It's like a self-genocide almost among Ukrainian leaders.
	Yeah, it's an American plan, plan quote-unquote, because the United States doesn't do military strategy, they don't know how to do it.
	When you look at the military record of the United States, it's pretty much one lost war after another, but they, for some reason, consider the Senate the finest fighting force in history.
	As Mr.
	Obama stated, well, you have to win wars in order to be the finest, you know, fighting force.
	But the point is that at this stage, Washington doesn't care.
	Keep in mind that for many people, not all, but for many people in the U.S. Congress or even in U.S. military, Slavic people, like Russians or Ukrainians, are viewed as the untermensch.
	You know, intervention is racially inferior.
	This idea is out there.
	Remember James Plapper, who was talking about genetical inferiority of Russians, who constantly, you know, ready to, you know, do some nasty things because he said it was genetic.
	And when you look at this, yeah, that's why the United States loses its wars, because it doesn't understand their enemy.
	As per Ukraine, yeah, it's a whole other story of the 30 years of being brainwashed.
	And with them, you know, paid for by CIA and other non-governmental organizations.
	And while they wanted it, it is what it is.
	You know, some people think that there is a lot of brotherly feelings between Russians and Ukrainians.
	No!
	Russians do not have very many brotherly feelings towards Ukrainians anymore.
	It's like, you know what, if your relative becomes a homicidal maniac, We don't like this relative.
	He jumps on you, you kill him.
	And that's what Russia is doing.
	And in this particular case, if Ukrainians want to take it, they don't.
	We already know half of the country escaped already, and they shoot people at the border who try to actually cross the river Prud to escape in Moldavia, Moldova at least.
	So they have the minefields now, not allowing them to escape.
	It is a totalitarian state, and you look today at any Ukrainian city, the streets are empty, like really empty.
	There's nobody on the streets.
	Right, right.
	Okay, let's...
	Let's talk about naval forces, an area where you have a lot of expertise.
	So let me set the table, please.
	So the United States, of course, known for strong surface projection of power through the aircraft carrier fleet, but the Yemeni military demonstrating that that may be obsolete.
	China with massive shipyards, massive output of surface vessels.
	The last report I saw was that China has 200 times more dry dock shipyard capacity than the United States.
	That's massive.
	And Russia, not known for surface fleet projection, you know, not aircraft carriers, but well known, as I understand it, for submarine technology.
	And also, of course, you know, nuclear or submarine launched nuclear missiles with a very advanced technology.
	Now, What's your assessment of between these three major powers, the naval forces, strengths, weaknesses, numbers, what matters in your mind?
	Russia doesn't really depend on the shipping lengths of communication.
	If there is a country which can be identified as the almost full autarky, It's Russian.
	She has everything.
	All necessary resources.
	China obviously needs the Navy to break out of the first island chain because obviously as shipping lanes of communication which pass through the Indian Ocean will be immediately attacked by the US Navy.
	So China needs some kind of the naval counterpoint to this.
	So, in this case, there are totally different requirements for China.
	China lags dramatically behind American and Russian nuclear submarine technology.
	They're trying to improve, but yes, a surface fleet today has to have immense anti-submarine warfare technologies and extremely advanced air defenses, apart from the strike capability.
	So, well, just to give you an example, Russia doesn't need carriers, except for the maybe demonstration of flag and kind of, you know, representing the country.
	So, Kuznetsov is coming out on their trials this year.
	So, the only Russian aircraft carrier.
	But Russian strike power is on the submarines and surface slits, which carry such strike weapons as their caliber land attack missiles, especially 3M14M. Which is now 4,500 kilometers range.
	There's nothing out there.
	Tomahawk is not even the same name.
	And, of course, the strike weapons such as, which has been confirmed over the weekend by Russian sources officially, that not only Garshkov-class frigates carry Zircones, now the nuclear-powered submarines of Yassin-class, which is Project 885, such as Kazan, which visited Havana, they carry Zircones.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but the Zircon hypersonic missile can carry many different payloads, warheads, right?
	Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
	Their condition for Russian ships to visit Havana was not to carry any kind of the nuclear, you know, Ammunition there, you know, warheads, so they carry it only conventional.
	But in case of Zircon, you know what?
	Mach 10, 1500 kilometers, it's beyond even the reach of the front edge of the Hakai E-2, you know, long-range radar picket of the carrier battle groups.
	So they will not see anything that is being launched at them, let alone when it's launched from the underwater.
	And yeah, you cannot stop.
	The only way that Zircon can stop, could be stopped if Zircon itself breaks down somewhere, you know, for technical reasons.
	Other than that, there is no air defense system, especially American air defense system, which didn't give itself a pretty good account as of lately.
	So yeah, you cannot intercept it.
	And what do you want to do?
	Well, die.
	So even single zircon definitely is more than enough to just basically obliterate something like this.
	Early work class destroy and damage critically, for example, aircraft carrier.
	To sink it, it probably will need a couple of zircons or a couple of king-johns, you know.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Now, what about the Poseidon naval drone?
	Of course, it's been written up in many media sources as being capable of a 100 megaton warhead.
	You know, you've seen the stories about the radioactive tsunami that could be unleashed by the Poseidon.
	What's your take on the Poseidon?
	Well, Poseidon is actually much more useful.
	Obviously, it's a cataclysmic picture, which they...
	I don't think so as 100 megaton.
	It's certainly a megaton-class weapon, no doubt about it.
	Probably even tens of megatons, something like, I don't know, 10, 15 megaton weapon, maybe.
	I'm speculating.
	But obviously, its range is absolutely unlimited.
	And the scary part of it is because it uses an extremely advanced software.
	I hate to use this stupid artificial intellect garbage, you know, because there's no artificial intellect.
	But no, it uses a very advanced software and neural network and things of this nature.
	And it's capable to actually lay in ambushes.
	You know, it could be activated.
	We don't know.
	Maybe it's already had implanted.
	But the thing is obviously huge.
	And even in conventional way, it carries several tons of the high explosives.
	And let me tell you, when this thing explodes underneath the aircraft carrier, I can guarantee you it's going down and it's going down really fast.
	So it's a horrifying weapon, and that's why I'm a very peaceful man.
	I hate war.
	I live on the west coast of the United States.
	It will be absolutely unacceptable for me to die from the Russian guys blowing up my area of living.
	So that's why I'm always for the world's peace.
	Well, you and I both, Andre, and I do want to make that very clear to all those watching.
	Even though I'm considered more conservative domestically in terms of economic policies, I'm a peace activist.
	I'm not charging for war.
	I don't want war.
	I want to bring our troops home.
	What I want, Andre, and I think more and more Americans are joining me in this, We just want to engage in trade with the countries of the world using an honest currency that no government can counterfeit.
	And by the way, that's the BRICS currency, it turns out.
	But we would like to trade with Russia.
	We want to trade with China.
	We want to trade with India, with Turkey, with the Saudis, whatever.
	But the West doesn't want to compete.
	What they want to do is they want to bludgeon and bully and coerce all the other nations of the world and then steal their resources and assassinate their leaders and bomb their countries.
	And that's the reality of what the U.S. empire has become.
	It's far from what it should be.
	We could all have prosperity if we just agree to not kill each other and just trade with each other.
	But this is not for this financial class.
	And this is financial class.
	It's not productive class.
	It's their, actually, parasite.
	As Michael Hudson, incomparable Michael Hudson, wrote a wonderful book on that called Killing the Host.
	And you look at these Wall Street types.
	These are people, most of them are sociopaths.
	So, and they only care about their bottom line.
	So, and of course they are not competitive because you basically, they offer only bubbles which are, you know, done by the means of so-called capitalization or, you know, speculation on the market.
	And I know this look at the real estate.
	So, and this is how they grow, quote unquote, the economy.
	Well, those hedge funds, you know, making money out of the thin air.
	Trading, well, that's the whole other story because it involves competition.
	But just to give you one very sad and in the same time, you know, very, how to say it, very human thing between Russians and Americans.
	NASA knows that Russians are done with the United States in the space, well, until the ISS eventually will be, you know, well, it's an old station now, you know.
	But what is really remarkable, NASA and Roscosmos, by understanding their parting way, they set out, they negotiated that each American spaceship and each Russian spaceship will have their same docking device in order to help each other if, God forbid, something happens in the orbit.
	You know, this is like, yeah, man, that's how professionals should be doing this, you know.
	Everybody understands that for political reasons they are, you know, just basically dragging, you know, space exploration in the United States away from Russia.
	Wow.
	I'm really glad that you mentioned that.
	Now, I have a question for you.
	You said earlier that you live on the west coast of the United States.
	Are you doing anything for yourself, your family, your household to prepare for the possibility of nuclear war?
	Well, we bought some, you know, I'm armed and dangerous if somebody gets into.
	But, yeah, we bought those, you know, what's called 25 years lasting, you know, all those, what's called the food supplies.
	Yeah.
	Casca was selling them.
	We went out and bought them, you know, a number of them.
	Okay.
	So...
	And, well, that's about it.
	If, God forbid, something happens, well, especially in Seattle area, boy, we're going to get it, man.
	Big time.
	Yeah, well, I think a lot of these chaos cities, you know, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and so on, are not going to fare very well in any kind of a destabilization scenario, nuclear war or otherwise, you know, financial crisis, power grid crisis, whatever.
	That is why I live north of Seattle and do not go there.
	I didn't go in Seattle, let's say, last time I was there, it was December of last year.
	I see.
	And it was like 20 minutes to pick up my friends and get out.
	Yeah.
	Well, I feel the same way about Austin, Texas.
	I don't go into Austin anymore.
	Used to all the time.
	Not anymore.
	It's just become too lawless and crazy.
	And yeah, sure, I bring my firearms with me everywhere I go.
	But I can't even trust the DA in that county, Travis County.
	The law...
	The prosecutions are completely out of whack now.
	There's no rule of law.
	You can be prosecuted for defending yourself.
	And that actually happened in Austin.
	And I think the governor of Texas had to pardon that man who shot in self-defense.
	But anyway, in terms of wrapping this up...
	As I take it, what I think you're describing is that Russia is just going to continue methodically doing what it's doing.
	No major changes.
	It's going to continue this war of attrition and then at some point demand an unconditional surrender of Ukraine.
	Is that sort of where this is headed?
	Yeah, well, that's exactly where it is.
	And Mr.
	Putin spoke about this openly.
	He put the conditions last week.
	He said, those five regions, non-negotiable, it is all to the administrative borders as they existed at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
	They removed all troops.
	Then, of course, Ukraine will be demilitarized.
	It will have about 70,000 to 100,000 police officers.
	Lightly armed, you know, police cars and things of this nature.
	No real armed forces.
	No NATO. If they want to go to the EU, good luck.
	Apply it for you.
	And it's going to be reduced, which has already happened.
	Ukraine doesn't have any more serious industry.
	It's going to be reduced to the agricultural society, you know, so let them do it.
	Who says no?
	And no, Russians do not want to feed them.
	That's the other thing, which many people don't understand.
	Can Russia take Kiev?
	Yes.
	Why?
	Right.
	To get, what, surrender from those remaining 19 million who hate Russian gods?
	Most of them are.
	Some people don't.
	So why would you feed those people?
	Why would you put them and bring them to the standard of living which exists in Russia today, which is extremely high?
	It's high than many developed countries in Western Europe.
	It's definitely higher today than it is, for example, in Italy, and so on and so forth.
	And many people do not understand what is happening in this respect, because obviously the majority of the political class in the West, they still think that it's Russia's 1990s.
	And as a result, why do you need those 19 million people?
	Actually, Russia, even today, struggles with the remnants of the Ukrainian psychology, Ukrainian idiosyncrasies, including bribery and utter corruption, even in Donetsk and Lugansk republics and in Zaporozhne.
	Still kind of removing those people who, you know, are locals, you know?
	So evidently because of that, very many localities there, they require actually Russian bureaucrats to go and serve there and clean things up.
	You have FSB working and police working 24-7.
	Even today, even today, it's 10 years after this all happened, you know?
	So, but can you imagine when you get into, well, Ukrainian economy is utterly corrupt.
	Well, yeah, I mean, the economy is basically subsidized by the West at this point.
	I mean, all the pensions, the payroll, health care, all the employees.
	I mean, I think maybe it was Medvedev who described Ukraine as a failed state.
	That seems to be accurate at this point.
	Yeah, it is a failed state.
	Okay.
	Well, Mr.
	Martianov, we're out of time for today, but I really want to thank you for your analysis, and thank you for pointing out that you and I both are calling for peace.
	We don't want war.
	We don't want one side to win and the other side lose.
	We want both sides to win, and that only happens through peace, by the way.
	Let me give out your website again.
	It's called Reminiscence of the Future.
	This is your blog site, and it's at smoothiex12.com.
	Maybe that was your secret call sign before Smoothie X12. No, no, there's nothing secret about it.
	I'm kidding, I'm just joking.
	It's such a fun name.
	And then your book is called, your newest book is America's Final War, and that's coming out August 1st in paperback.
	On booksellers everywhere, and it's available electronically right now, like the Kindle edition is available right now.
	And then another one of your previous books is Disintegration.
	I really encourage people to read your books because I think your analysis is spot on.
	And if anything, your analysis, like some of the things that you mentioned in Disintegration, have already come true in spades, by the way.
	So, you nailed it.
	All right, Andre, thank you so much for your time today, sir.
	We appreciate you.
	My pleasure.
	All right, take care.
	And thank all of you for watching.
	I hope you learned something from this interview, and please joining us in pressuring our representatives to stop this provocation against Russia, stop the war call for peace, stop funding war all over the world, and maybe we all won't die in a nuclear war.
	So if you want to live, then join us in calling for peace.
	Thank you for watching today.
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