Natasha Srdoc From America's Roundtable Joins the Mike Lindell Show
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We bring in now Natasha Serdoj with America's Roundtable.
Natasha, so good to have you with us today.
Another message of peace through strength from President Trump.
Do we have Natasha to talk about that?
Natasha, there you are.
So good to see you.
So good to see you, Vanessa.
Thank you for having me.
Yes.
Peace through strength.
President Trump is the president of peace.
Exactly.
He left us with peace when he left the office.
Actually, when Biden came in the office, we had all the problems come up with catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, then Turkey going closer to Russia, Russia invading Ukraine, the Middle East Abraham Accords that we actually, that President Trump negotiated between Israel and Arab countries for the first time with the UAE, with Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan.
They fell apart.
Hamas attacking Israel.
It all happened as Biden came into office.
Now that President Trump is back, we are actually going to where we were when he left the office.
And that is peace through strength.
Unfortunately, I think Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if President Trump was in office, as well as we wouldn't see the carnage in Israel if President Trump was in office.
Now he's repairing all the damage that has been done by the Biden administration, starting with this peace between Russia and Ukraine.
And it is unfortunate how President Zelensky treated American people and President Trump in overall office by refusing to sign something that he agreed to sign before coming to America.
So that's negotiating done in a very bad faith.
There are norms of negotiating.
When you agree to something, you don't require anything in addition to it.
If you do that, it just doesn't go through.
It fell apart.
It was actually happened.
He did the wrong thing.
And now that he wants to come back to the table, I agree what President Trump is saying.
It's going to be hard.
I mean, and the fact is that President Trump offered the best possible solution through mineral deal, Rare Mineral Deal Act, because tying the economies together, America's economy with Ukrainian economy would actually protect Ukraine from attack from Russia.
And that was actually the best possible protection that they could get.
And next one would be NATO, which is impossible because Russia would have never allowed Ukraine to become a NATO member, which Ukraine thinks because of the Article 5 would be protected because all other member countries would come into defense to Ukraine.
So the best case scenario is to sign the deal, economic deal.
What were your thoughts last week when Zelensky visited the White House and then left there without a deal?
And after some back and forth, tough words between the President and Vice President and Zelensky, what were your thoughts watching that?
Right.
I felt, you know, just I did not expect it to happen that way.
We all felt that there will be a celebration of a deal that is bringing peace to Ukraine, that Russia will stop their invasion of Ukraine, and that American taxpayers will also retrieve some of the funding that was sent to Ukraine without any accountability or transparency measures.
Basically, we see European NATO members sending much less in humanitarian aid and military assistance compared to United States of America.
So basically, and some of that is with strings attached.
Some of that will be repaid to European mem European countries that are members of NATO.
So America is not treated well, and this would have really been a solution that would address all these issues and would benefit Americans, American taxpayers.
So I was very disappointed.
It was also frustrating to watch how President Zelensky responded.
It was, as I said, you don't require additional items after you agree to sign an agreement.
I mean, the fact that he came to the White House was to sign the agreement.
So it was really frustrating, disappointing, just disrespectful from him after all the billions of dollars that were sent by American taxpayers, by American people to Ukraine.
I agree.
And then, you know, he released that letter saying he wants to come back to the negotiation table.
And then President Trump issued that statement that we just aired from the Oval Office saying he's hard to deal with.
Right.
So I think that Zelensky, President Zelensky needs to apologize very publicly without any constraint, just apologize.
Instead of apologizing right away, he ran to European leaders.
Actually, it's like a playing off Europe versus America.
We should be all on the same side when it comes to peace.
And Trump, as the previous, I think it was one of the speakers said that Trump is a peacemaker.
And there's no one else that could be arbiter, I mean, neutral party to bring peace between Russia and Ukraine.
So Zelensky should take advantage of it and just apologize and see if Trump is going to, President Trump is going to accept his apology and see that they can come together at the table to sign this economic deal, which is rare minerals exploitation in partnership, because they are already working on how to establish, worked before this snafu in the Oval Office,
how to establish this partnership with a fund that would actually bring funds from all new resources of rare minerals that would be exploited or found in Ukraine.
It does not actually include the minerals that have been already used by Ukraine, where Ukraine is actually making money out of it.
This is just for new resources.
So basically, American technology, American companies would help bring these resources to the market together with Ukrainian partnership.
Yes, and now let's talk about the Hamas terrorists releasing our hostages.
President Trump met with them a couple of nights ago in the Oval Office, heard their heartbreaking stories, and then he sent a stern message to Hamas over his truth social account saying, release the remaining hostages now, or this is not going to be a good outcome for you.
Right.
And again, let's just remind ourselves that it was President Trump that brokered Abraham Accords.
And when it was time for Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, Hamas attacked.
And it attacked because Biden administration released funding to Iran.
So Iran, as a state sponsor of terrorism, had enough funding to fund Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis at the same time in the Middle East.
So at the time when Saudi Arabia was actually on the verge of signing the Abraham Accords to come closer to Israel, Hamas attacked Israel.
And so we had, that was in 2023.
So all this time, there has been talks negotiating.
Israel had responded to get rid of Hamas because it's just they can't live by a terrorist state.
And it wasn't until President Trump came into office that they started releasing hostages, you know, the second round of hostages.
So again, it is President Trump that is bringing peace.
He's trying to do, it was about peace and prosperity for the Middle East through Abraham Accords, where all the parties understood the meaning of it, except Iran and the proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis.
So now we have a new era as well in the Middle East, with Israel being strengthened, with Iran being brought to the knees because they were attacked by Israel.
Hezbollah is also diminished, and Hamas is, you know, they need to deal with Hamas.
Absolutely.
And President Trump saying recently, quoting him actually, he said, quote, some interesting days are ahead with Iran.
What are your thoughts there?
Right.
So it is again, you know, when Trump imposed sanctions, President Trump imposed in his first administration imposed sanctions on Iran, Iran was exporting, I believe it was $1 billion, no, $12 to $4 billion of oil a year.
So $12 to $4 billion of oil a year.
When Biden came into power, they removed the sanctions and they actually defreeze the assets of Iran in other countries.
So Iran got assets plus was able to export oil and they were exporting $1 billion a week.
So it was a huge income and revenue that allowed them to fund terrorist groups in the region.
And most of the exports went to China.
So this is a new now, it's a new day because President Trump is back.
He placed sanctions on Iran.
They cannot export oil as they were able to do during the Biden administration.
So they're not going to be able to get that funding to fund terrorist groups in the region.
So even Hamas is going to, the funding is going to be cut, which was not supposed to happen in the first place because we have known for a long time that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.
It's labeled by the State Department as state sponsor of terrorism and that they had funded Hamas in Gaza Strip, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Houthis in Yemen.
And they have been all attacking Israel as well as our American troops in the region, our bases.
And this has to stop.
And we have President Trump, and now it's going to be stopping.
Yes, and I'm so glad you were able to break that down for the American people.
You did a really great job of doing that and explaining just how bad it was and how it's changing pretty quickly under President Trump.
Let's move on to another subject that's very popular right now.
Doge, $105 billion in savings so far.
That's over $652 per taxpayer, Natasha.
That's amazing.
Right, it is amazing.
They just started because they are finding waste, abuse, and fraud in every department they are looking at.
They actually dismantled USAD, which is, I mean, I completely agree with what they're doing because we have seen waste and abuse of USID in foreign countries, especially the Balkans that I'm familiar with.
They were not, not only that they were receiving funding for purposes that they were not supposed to receive for, because there was no need for humanitarian assistance at that time.
There was no need for funding that they were providing, but they were exporting lefty policies, such as establishing a mandatory tripartite negotiations between the trade unions and big businesses and government as a mandatory policy, and other things that actually exporting something to the former communist countries that they did not need to accept.
And then recent funding that went into LGBT education in the region and the summary of ridiculous spending by USAD, but also what you mentioned, other departments as well.
So it's good to go item per item and just remove all waste, fraud, and abuse that is in the system.
I mean, one of the figures that I remember looking at was by Congressional Office that was monitoring fraud or misspending, and they found out that some $240 billion were spent in 2024 because of the wrong recipient or the wrong amount sent to the wrong recipient.
And then they calculated for a decade that it was almost $2 trillion spent.
I mean, what savings can we have for American people if we can just safeguard how taxpayer funding is spent?
So we look forward to.
Actually, we had an interview with the Senator Marshall Blackburn yesterday through America's Roundtable Radio, AmericasRT.com, and we're going to be airing it tomorrow.
And she is working very closely with Elon Musk.
And the fact is that Elon Musk is finding all this waste, fraud, and abuse.
And now Congress has to codify it through laws how to get rid of it and to actually, through codification, it becomes a bill, a law.
It's mandatory how to actually, you know, for the future, how to proceed with avoiding this kind of behavior in the future.
And you know, Natasha, just weeks ago, people, a majority of people, had never heard of USAID.
And now all of a sudden, all of this corruption is being uncovered and all of this wasteful spending.
Americans had no idea.
And that's what's sad about it.
President Trump has promised from day one that he was going to be very transparent.
And they are being transparent.
They're letting the American people know everything that they're uncovering.
And what's so interesting is that the left, if you watch Tuesday night during his joint address to Congress, the left is holding up signs that say Elon steals.
They're mad at Elon instead of mad at the people who are funding money to all of these corrupt organizations and made-up organizations.
Right.
And actually, that showed how disrespectful they are towards President Trump and how they are disrespectful to their constituents.
Because most of the constituents are going to applaud these actions where we are saving taxpayers' money on all these fronts.
And by reducing spending, government spending, we are reducing budget deficits, reducing inflation.
We are actually enabling higher growth.
And this is all what American people care about.
Absolutely.
So we're going to continue to follow that and follow the money as President Trump, Elon Musk, and their team continues to try to save taxpayer dollars and wasteful spending.
Let's quickly talk about advancing flat tax in America.
You've actually written a book about this.
Yes, I did.
Actually, I have a book here with me.
And this is the book.
It was written in a different language.
Actually, it's in Islavic language, understood by all former countries of former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe, much of it.
And we did simulations for the flat tax.
And the interesting thing is that the flat tax was basically this first simulation for last simulation for America was done at Hoover Institution here in America, but it was firstly adopted by Estonia in Eastern Europe.
And then it spread throughout Eastern Europe.
And now some 300 million people are living in a flat tax jurisdiction.
And basically, there are two very simple principles that you follow in order to pay taxes within the flat tax system.
And that is that you're paying taxes only once and as closest as possible to the source.
If you follow these two principles, you always know when you tax and when you will not tax again, and you will, it's a very closed system.
So basically, countries that implemented the flat tax never went back to former tax system.
The interesting thing is that the flat tax is a revenue-neutral tax reform.
Basically, you accomplish the same tax revenue amount just one year after the adoption.
So there's no risk of lacking revenues compared to the previous year.
And it's the fact that you actually close all the loopholes, exemptions, all special interest lobbying for special taxes.
So you broaden the base and you're able to reduce the rate.
So reducing the rate, you get the same amount of revenue, tax revenue, but it makes it more conducive to higher investments, higher savings, more economic growth.
And that's all what all the countries that implemented flat tax experienced.
So we hope and trust that very soon we can see that kind of simplification in America because you just file taxes on a postcard, postcard, and you don't need to worry about IRS because compliance is almost 100% because people like to pay lower taxes.
Usually it's around 15% on average, the flat tax, that when you compare the highest and the lowest that it is in Europe, you come up to some 50% average flat tax, which taxes income equally, meaning business or personal income taxed the same way.
And it's actually very successful.
So we need to look into that option.
There are so many proponents of it, like Forbes, and even the president candidates that really ran on the flat tax.
Absolutely.
If people want to get your book, purchase your book, and also follow you, how can they do so, Natasha?
Right.
So I think AmericasRT.com is America's Roundtable Radio Podcast website where they can find all of our Joel Alan, Sami, and I are co-hosts.
And we have regular interviews with, as you can see, some very important and very interesting individuals in business, in law.
Senator Blackburn is going to be tomorrow, we're going to be airing it.
Then as a secretary, there was also Dr. Carson, I wanted to say, Dr. Ben Carson ran on the flat tax, and that was his platform.
And he so we can all work together to get the flat tax adopted in America.