America First - Nick Fuentes·Aug. 7, 2025·TRUMP-PUTIN SUMMIT IMMINENT??? Trump To Meet With Putin... OR ELSE Major ESCALATION | America First Ep. 1546·
Nick Fuentes and his guests dissect the imminent Trump-Putin summit, dismissing it as a false face-saving maneuver while analyzing how tariffs on India and semiconductor restrictions serve diplomatic leverage. They argue that organized Jewry and Zionist billionaires control American politics, demanding an immigration moratorium and total sovereignty rather than compromise. Fuentes warns that rising oil prices will trigger inflation and debt crises, urging Americans to reject complacency against foreign influences. Ultimately, the episode asserts that only unreasonable demands for American exceptionalism can reclaim the nation from perceived globalist threats. [Automatically generated summary]
This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
And we're killing ourselves every day inadvertently with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
People have got to start to get courageous.
And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
And the alternative is that there will be no country.
Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
Roypers and all the alt-riders that got banned, all the alt-riders that got slandered, even people that killed themselves.
Our corpses paved the way for you now to walk over.
And you can't give us acknowledgement.
Now you want to slam the door on us.
unidentified
It's not right.
it's not right.
In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events.
One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th parked just across the river from New York City has not gone away.
the romans whatever they know you're looking at a mass hole There is something involved where we have to forgive them.
Cause it's gonna be a fucking No one's allowed to say that the blood is a quintessential part of this, that the blood of our people is something that is essential.
That we are different.
that America was different because we are different.
Palantir is an AI data analytics company.
They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
That's what they are.
And so many of the people that worked with Elon that came into the government through Doge worked with Palantir.
Now that Doge is finished, Palantir seems to be just getting started.
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It's not cool to shift for Israel.
It's not it's head.
You said the right towards the favor I reply.
Try to look at me, but that's just black.
I'm a bad, that's all God.
Life credits in the dark.
No, they get my heart.
And I'm on my brother blocked up on the yard.
You can still be anything you wanna be.
Went from one and four to one and three.
13 of them got it in the desert.
Be a new commander and a chief.
Definitely.
Miracle Brainwashed Bro00:04:46
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When you can move, the fear must come.
You create fear above everything else.
You talking to somebody right now that only fears God has won victory, bro.
My own narrative is not one of some sudden booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Groika Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Shill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First Movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
I mean, only, only a class of people so rootless in their transition view America in such a way as merely a vessel for abstractions, right?
We're gonna smash your brain in with the Bible, idiot.
Not Allowed To Make Jokes00:15:44
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And I'm addicted to the serotonin rush.
When's enough enough, babe?
When's enough enough?
I see.
Just need a big bag, super fish.
In a peaceful birthday, that's the stuff in life.
It's not a lie You're not allowed to make jokes anymore.
You're not allowed to make jokes.
It's not funny.
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the classroom couldn't believe it either But in the end, he had logic on his side And at the end of the day, he proved his point in Fortezino No son and when you growing on the ice What you say for me the girl she be blowing on the grace But the game dirty gang for
And, you know, there's, and we've just got to rise up above against that.
The human beings have to rise up.
You know, against all the hate, against all odds, against all the snipes and the jabs and the fads and the journalists and the doubters, the traitors, the deceivers, the human beings got to rise up.
And we got to do what must be done no matter what.
With the power of God, with the will of God guiding us, God paving a path.
We've got to rise up with our God-given strength.
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And we've got to be human again.
We've got to be really and truly and extremely human.
In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
But in June of 2024, during the all-in podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
I cannot support this, and I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
Not since he announced his reelection campaign in November 2022 have I told anybody to vote for Trump.
When pushed for details on the policy, clearly they're repeating the same script as every other Republican, and they show that they're really not serious about mass deportations.
For that reason, I actually don't believe that illegal immigration will fall to historic lows.
And this is your America first policy.
We need the people.
We need limitless green cards.
And by the way, once they come in, you can't deport them.
So people, when confronted with this reality, first they said it was a throwaway remark.
They said he didn't really mean it.
Well, he's doubled down on it many times.
He doubled down on it in June, August, last week.
Now they say, well, so what?
Even if he means it, he said it last time.
No, he didn't.
Last time he was against H-1B visas.
Like, you thought you were going to tap the screen to pressure Trump, except one problem.
Elon owns the platform.
But now the check marks are being removed, which means people are being de-amplified and it's being manipulated.
They're manipulating the conversation.
And Elon retweeted today or reposted Trump saying in June, staple the green cards to the diplomas.
That's a reminder.
Hey, this is what we got.
This is the deal.
I put in 277.
I bought the platform for you.
I made Trump win.
And now Trump's going to deliver.
And if you're against it, well, there goes your check mark.
If you voted for him, you are a sucker.
I expect apologies.
I want apology forms.
I want you.
I'm sorry, Mr. Fuentes.
should have supported Grape Award 2.
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Put up by the side.
Yeah, I'll pull up on them.
Now I got this bangle hash on him.
I'm straight out of these dumps.
I'm straight out of these lights.
Yeah, yeah.
People save these bills.
How you gonna set these lights?
Yeah, turn up at my show.
At least let's do it right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We gon' all night.
You gon' send me big, go, send me big gon' serve the outnight.
You gon' wear my dream, you're in my cup, you'll treat me all right.
They had the feeling that they had a brother figure.
They told me the blood's up tweaking.
We had the bills and put my blood, you out of your mind, you crazy tweaking.
Got some bit out of my lane, we're out of my mind.
I'm really wear out of my twigging.
Know that you're living these lights, you living this world.
Running and make every weekend.
Shutting your love from me every time I go, you're splitting.
All y'all trying to get saved is life, that world.
I mean, this is part of the sad thing of Happy Canada as far as I'm concerned.
Sad thing is, and I know that no one who watches him will believe me.
Pat does raise issues that I think are important.
Doesn't mean everything he says is false.
It doesn't mean he's not talented.
He's enormously talented.
Doesn't mean he's a bad person.
I'm not attacking him personally.
I mean, I think that, you know, the sovereignty of the American military, et cetera, I mean, these are not just crank issues.
It's young white men who've been totally cut out of our economy, attacked mercilessly.
I mean, they really are the victims and they're desperate, and no one speaks for them.
So they go to Fuentes because he's like incredibly articulate and they think he's our leader.
But unfortunately, Pat Buchanan raises them in a way that I think is discredited.
But he is clearly part of a campaign to discredit non-crazy right voices.
Pat Buchanan is part of the reason it's so hard to have that conversation because he discredits it by his presence.
That's a campaign to destroy credible voices on the right.
And Fuentes is part of it.
And that he believes in conspiracies and that he believes that the Jews are this sinister, secretly organized force trying to affect American politics.
And those aren't discussions I think normal people, sober people should be having.
Anyway, like, who is this kid exactly?
And maybe it's just an accident that the guy goes after exclusively goes after people who are in the same, roughly the same.
And then he gets up there and he's like, you know, making Holocaust jokes.
When attacked, he can always fall back on the line, well, the, you know, the tiny cabal that controls American politics doesn't like me because I speak truth to power.
This is actually, incidentally, almost verbatim what he said the other day, that I offend the plutocracy, that I'm a wanted man by the inside the beltway people, and in an every sense, cast himself as a victim who is sort of a Karen Silkwood of politics, someone who's so truthful that he's being hunted down by the conspiracy that runs Washington.
But then when it comes to me, I'm one of the real disaffected white people.
You want to talk about me and them?
I am them.
He says, Nick Fuentes is leading all of the disaffected young white men.
I am a disaffected white, young white man.
I was a precocious, intelligent, young white college student who went to Boston University, who was pro-Trump and red pilled by Trump and animated by Trump's message of America first.
And I asked questions about Israel and I was punished for it.
I did it years before Tucker Carlson started talking about Israel last year.
And I sacrificed and I was targeted by the ADL, by the SPLC, by the federal government, by the conservative movement that both Candace and Tucker were a part of.
He's lonely.
He's weird.
He lives in a basement.
That's a lot of people because of the problems you claim to care about.
Do you care about Kwarna and people going into debt to order pizzas and home ownership being impossible?
Or do you think that's a contemptible, low-status thing to be ridiculed and mocked?
What is wrong with being from Chicago?
What is wrong with being weird?
What is wrong with living in your basement?
I'm the inauthentic person.
I am that person.
I am a spokesman for the disaffected white man because I am one and you two are not.
My dad didn't even graduate college.
My mother's father was a garbage man in Chicago and he committed suicide.
He was a veteran of World War II.
Who's the CIA cutout?
Who's the poser?
Who is America?
I am America.
Chicago is America.
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The Canary Mission is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which since July 2025 has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
But the Canary mission is not alone.
Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
While government contracting with the private sector is long-standing, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence.
As Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States, and anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy, I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, I will never be okay with that.
It doesn't matter how they might try to placate us or appease our interests, the concessions they'll make.
As long as that is the case, it is unacceptable.
And that's what it means to be an American.
How did we get here?
This is not a timeline going back to 1948.
What had just happened before the 2016 election?
Barack Obama created the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
They hated Obama.
Netanyahu went to a joint session of Congress and gave a speech in defiance of the American president and its nuclear deal, and Congress gave 37 standing ovations.
This is the background of Trump's first election.
2016 election happens.
Trump gets elected with the help of the Israelis.
You don't believe me?
There's a whole article about it.
It's an excerpt from James Bamford's book, Spy Fail.
It goes into great detail about the hidden collusion in the 2016 election.
It wasn't Trump and Russia.
It was Trump and Israel.
And why was Israel so hell-bent on getting a Republican elected in 2016?
To scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal.
And that's exactly what happened.
That was the ask.
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The United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
In 2018, Donald Trump declares the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard, which is the military of the regime, a terrorist group.
Greenlights that group for sanctions, for attacks.
Now the United States is in a shadow war with Iran.
It culminates by January 2020 in the assassination of Qasem Suleimani.
Suleimani was the architect of the axis of resistance.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Suleimani built all of it.
Are you starting to see Obama had this solved?
He made the deal.
The Israelis hated him for it.
They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorists, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
That's the nature of forever wars.
Just like in Iraq, which went from 1990 until today, just like Libya, which went from 2011 to today, Syria, which went from 2011 to today, and Iran, which went from 2018 until today.
This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
And we're killing ourselves every day.
Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
People have got to start to get courageous.
And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
And the alternative is that there will be no country.
Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
Roybers and all the alt-riders that got banned, all the alt-riders that got slandered, even people that killed themselves.
Our corpses paved the way for you now to walk over.
And you can't give us acknowledgement.
Now you want to slam the door on us.
It's not right.
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that's not right in the days after the september attacks there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th parked just across the river from New York City has not gone away.
The Romans, where are they now?
You're looking at them, asshole.
They don't understand the things I say on Twitter.
There is something involved where we have to forgive them.
We do have to forgive them for their ignorance.
We do have to forgive them for their misunderstanding.
And we have to embrace them and say, better late than never.
Welcome to the right side of history.
Welcome to our, our massive vision, our massive and ambitious vision for how we want the world to be saying
to me, he's like, this is probably pretty cool for you.
I'm like, yeah, it is.
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I will fight for you with every breath in my body And I will never ever let you down A new Troy for war Yeah, nigga this war I'm tripping bodies on the floor I'm with it all I talk to my demons and I see the writings on the wall Niggas is dying when it's so I get excited for them pulse And no ain't crying when he goes brother who fighting for the I do a shit for my brothers We do shit for
The courageous fallen.
The anguished fallen.
Their lives have meaning because we, the living, refuse to forget them.
And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us.
Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world.
The mission is to create a Christian future in our time.
The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do, the only way that we're going to make this happen is with the boldness of a real Christian.
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It's the only way.
We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ.
Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
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I'm better on empty clumsy stabic than that family Wishing they meant me get it Hold it back Where you at the club Hold it back Where you had that gun Pull up by the side Yeah,
I pull up on them Now I got this bang hash on him I'm straight out of these dumps, I'm straight out of these lights bills, how you gon' serve these lights Yeah, turn up at my show and he's just doing right, be gon' serve outnight He's gon' send my dreams to my cup,
you gon' serve me alright I had the feeling that they had a brother to jump with the blood so tweaking We had a good sick button, you crazy twiggin' Got your man out of my lane, bad in my mind I'm really bad out of my tweaking Know that you're living these lights, you loving this world, we running and make it weekend All y'all try to get savage like that world When
I get home.
I want you got places to be everybody You're watching America First.
No one's allowed to say that the blood is a quintessential part of this, that the blood of our people is something that is essential.
That we are different.
that america was different because we are different palantir is an ai data analytics company
They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
That's what they are.
And so many of the people that worked with Elon that came into the government through Doge worked with Palantir.
Now that Doge is finished, Palantir seems to be just getting started.
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It's not it's gang.
And said to me, what I failed, I reply.
I'm back, that's all dad.
Life and Reddit's in the dark.
They're not doing my heart.
And I'm a brother blocked up on the car.
You can live in anything you're gonna be.
From one to four to one and three.
Thirteen per limit in the desert.
Be a new commander and a chief.
Family Call Fear00:04:48
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I fear and warm the God.
When you remove the fear and muscle time, you create fear above everything else.
You're talking to somebody right now that only fears God.
My own narrative is not one of some sudden booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Groika Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Shield Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
This is like the movie buddy, really type like every single night, every single pipe, right?
I was looking at the family, I don't even tight like I was screaming at my daddy, he told me in the Christ like I was screaming at the beat just tight, like looking for a bright light, legal with your life like riding on the white bike, feeling like it's tight like pressing on the gas nightlight.
Screaming at my dad, then he told me in a Christ-like, but nobody never tell you me being tight crites.
Only ever seeing when they keep me like a fellow parry, judging for a GT.
Now you want to be a Greek, now you wanna see it great.
Let's see you a few.
Tell me what your life like, turn it down straight like my dad and he told me it ain't Christ-like.
I'm just trying to find another business for a new way.
Just really trying not to break through the food way.
I don't have a food to put any on my chest though.
And I think our ancestors smile on us right now while we're doing it.
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In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events.
One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th parked just across the river from New York City has not gone away.
And all the alt-riders that got banned, all the alt-riders that got slandered, even people that killed themselves, our courts has paved the way for you now to walk over.
We have to want it more than they do because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny.
Nothing Scream, Run Clean00:06:55
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Then nothing can stop us, and nothing will.
God got this.
Body current train.
Wishing in their family.
Wishing in their memory.
Where you had that gun.
Put up by the side.
Yeah, I'll pull up on them.
Now I got this bag of patch on em.
I'm straight out of these dumbs.
I'm straight out of these lights.
Yeah, yeah.
How you gonna save these bills?
How you gonna shake these lights?
Yeah, turn it back.
My show at least do it right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We gon' all night.
You gon' send me big gon' send me big gon' serve up outnight.
You gon' show my dream, you're gonna come up, you gon' turn me alright.
They had a feeling to be out of front of the bank and they jumped the blood so tweaking.
We had no dust in the buttons, you out of your mind, you crazy tweaking.
Got your man out of my lane, man in my mind.
I'm really wearing out of my twinkle.
Know that you live in these lights, you love in this world.
Running and make every weekend.
Running back up every weekend.
Better see I'm run off on the clean.
They say that I'm back for no reason.
I'm
not supposed to be here tonight.
I'm supposed to be here.
I want that shot of my soul.
I don't try to have my voice just nothing while I scream up for help.
I stretch my hair, but my cup just goes up When I get home
Hello, I got places to be Evening, everybody You're watching America First.
In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
But in June of 2024, during the all-in podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
I cannot support this, and I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
Not since he announced his reelection campaign in November 2022 have I told anybody to vote for Trump.
When pushed for details on the policy, clearly they're repeating the same script as every other Republican, and they show that they're really not serious about mass deportations.
For that reason, I actually don't believe that illegal immigration will fall to historic lows.
And this is your America first policy.
We need the people.
We need limitless green cards.
And by the way, once they come in, he can't deport them.
So people, when confronted with this reality, first they said it was a throwaway remark.
They said he didn't really mean it.
Well, he's doubled down on it many times.
He doubled down on it in June, August, last week.
Now they say, well, so what?
Even if he means it, he said it last time.
No, he didn't.
Last time he was against H-1B visas.
Like, you thought you were going to tap the screen to pressure Trump, except one problem.
Elon owns the platform.
But now the check marks are being removed, which means people are being de-amplified and it's being manipulated.
They're manipulating the conversation.
Elon retweeted today or reposted Trump saying in June, state pulled the green cards to the diplomas.
And that's a reminder: hey, this is what we got.
This is the deal.
I put in 277.
I bought the platform for you.
I made Trump win.
And now Trump's going to deliver.
And if you're against it, well, there goes your check mark.
If you voted for him, you are a sucker.
I expect apologies.
I want apology forms.
I want you to, I'm sorry, Mr. Quentis.
should have supported Grape Award 2.
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Hold it back where you had that blood.
On them, yeah.
Pull up by the side.
Yeah, I'll pull up on them.
Now I got this bail hash on them.
I'm straight out of these dumps.
I'm straight out of these lights.
Yeah, yeah.
You gon' serve these bills.
How you gonna serve these lights?
Yeah, turn it back.
My show at least do it right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We gon' all night.
You gon' send me big gon' send me big gon' serve the outnight.
You gon' show my dream, you'll come up, you'll treat me all right.
I had the feeling that they had a brother to make them blood so tweaking.
We got the bills and buzz my body, you out of your mind, you crazy tweaking.
Got to be out of my lane, bad in my mind.
I'm really wearing out of my twinkling.
Know that you're living these lights, you loving this world.
We're running and make every weekend.
Shutting love every time I go, you're splitting.
All y'all trying to get saved is light in that world.
I mean, this is part of the sad thing about Happy Canada as far as I'm concerned.
The sad thing is, and I know that no one who watches him will believe me.
Pat does raise issues that I think are important.
Doesn't mean everything he says is false.
It doesn't mean he's not talented.
He's enormously talented.
Doesn't mean he's a bad person.
I'm not attacking him personally.
I mean, I think that, you know, the sovereignty of the American military, et cetera, I mean, these are not just crank issues.
It's young white men who've been totally cut out of our economy, attacked mercilessly.
I mean, they really are the victims and they're desperate, and no one speaks for them.
So they go to Fuentes because he's like incredibly articulate and they think he's our leader.
But unfortunately, Pat Buchanan raises them in a way that I think is discredited.
But he is clearly part of a campaign to discredit non-crazy right voices.
Pat Buchanan is part of the reason it's so hard to have that conversation because he discredits it by his presence.
That's a campaign to destroy credible voices on the right.
And Fuentes is part of it.
And that he believes in conspiracies and that he believes that the Jews are this sinister, secretly organized force trying to affect American politics.
And those aren't discussions I think normal people, sober people should be having.
Anyway, like, who is this kid exactly?
And maybe it's just an accident that the guy goes after exclusively goes after people who are in the same, roughly the same.
And then he gets up there and he's like, you know, making Holocaust jokes.
When attacked, he can always fall back on the line: well, the, you know, the tiny cabal that controls American politics doesn't like me because I speak truth to power.
This is actually, incidentally, almost verbatim what he said the other day, that I offend the plutocracy, that I'm a wanted man by the inside the beltway people, and in every sense, cast himself as a victim who is sort of a Karen Silkwood of politics, someone who's so truthful that he's being hunted down by the conspiracy that runs Washington.
I mean, it's all a bit much.
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My love has got no money, he's got his straw beliefs.
My love has got no power, he's got his strong beliefs.
My love has got no fame, he's got his strong beliefs.
My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs.
Want more and more people just want more and more freedom and blood.
This child, this weird little gay kid in his basement in Chicago, young white men who've been totally cut out of our economy, I mean, they really are the victims and they're desperate and no one speaks for them.
So they go to Fuentes because he's like incredibly articulate and they think he's our leader.
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But in one of the saddest ironies of all, like he's acting against your interests, actually.
But then when it comes to me, I'm one of the real disaffected white people.
You want to talk about me and them?
I am them.
He says, Nick Fuentes is leading all of the disaffected young white men.
I am a disaffected white, young white man.
I was a precocious, intelligent, young white college student who went to Boston University, who was pro-Trump and red pilled by Trump and animated by Trump's message of America first.
And I asked questions about Israel and I was punished for it.
I did it years before Tucker Carlson started talking about Israel last year.
And I sacrificed and I was targeted by the ADL, by the SPLC, by the federal government, by the conservative movement that both Candace and Tucker were a part of.
He's lonely.
He's weird.
He lives in a basement.
That's a lot of people because of the problems you claim to care about.
Do you care about Kwarna and people going into debt to order pizzas and home ownership being impossible?
Or do you think that's a contemptible, low-status thing to be ridiculed and mocked?
What is wrong with being fun Chicago?
What is wrong with being weird?
What is wrong with living in your basement?
I'm the inauthentic person.
I am that person.
I am a spokesman for the disaffected white man because I am one and you two are not.
My dad didn't even graduate college.
My mother's father was a garbage man in Chicago and he committed suicide.
He was a veteran of World War II.
Who's the CIA cutout?
Who's the poser?
Who is America?
I am America.
Chicago is America.
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The Canary Mission is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which since July 2025 has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
But the Canary mission is not alone.
Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
While government contracting with the private sector is longstanding, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence.
As Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States, and anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy, I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, I will never be okay with that.
It doesn't matter how they might try to placate us or appease our interests, the concessions they'll make.
As long as that is the case, it is unacceptable.
And that's what it means to be an American.
How did we get here?
This is not a timeline going back to 1948.
What had just happened before the 2016 election?
Barack Obama created the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
They hated Obama.
Netanyahu went to a joint session of Congress and gave a speech in defiance of the American president and its nuclear deal, and Congress gave 37 standing ovations.
This is the background of Trump's first election.
2016 election happens.
Trump gets elected with the help of the Israelis.
You don't believe me?
There's a whole article about it.
It's an excerpt from James Bamford's book, Spy Fail.
It goes into great detail about the hidden collusion in the 2016 election.
It wasn't Trump and Russia.
It was Trump and Israel.
And why was Israel so hell-bent on getting a Republican elected in 2016?
To scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal.
And that's exactly what happened.
That was the ask.
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The United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
In 2018, Donald Trump declares the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard, which is the military of the regime, a terrorist group.
Greenlights that group for sanctions, for attacks.
Now the United States is in a shadow war with Iran.
It culminates by January 2020 in the assassination of Qasem Suleimani.
Suleimani was the architect of the axis of resistance.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Suleimani built all of it.
Are you starting to see Obama had this solved?
He made the deal.
The Israelis hated him for it.
They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorist, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
That's the nature of forever wars.
Just like in Iraq, which went from 1990 until today, just like Libya, which went from 2011 to today, Syria, which went from 2011 to today, and Iran, which went from 2018 until today.
That's the nature of forever wars.
And if you're not paying attention to those underlying forces, you're going to fall for it again and again.
You're going to be surprised and confused and coping over and over.
And people are just tripping over themselves to do it again.
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If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.
Very excited to be back here with you tonight on Wednesday.
We have a lot to talk about, lots to get into.
Big show.
It's another slow news week, man.
Boring.
That's okay.
Our featured story: we're talking all about the potentially imminent Trump-Putin summit.
I actually don't think that's going to happen.
We'll talk about why that is.
But the news is that the foreign, or excuse me, I was going to say the foreign minister, but it's the special envoy of the White House, Steve Witkoff, has returned from another meeting with the Russian president Vladimir Putin this week.
And it seems like nothing happened.
Nothing ever happens.
Steve Witkoff went to Russia, met with the Russian president, and he returned.
And both the White House and the Kremlin said there's no major breakthrough.
The White House press secretary said today that Putin is asking Trump for a meeting, which I seriously doubt.
And they're trying to throw some cold water on that idea.
Trump said that both sides are open to the idea.
They're talking about right now a potential two-way summit, first between Trump and Putin, and then after that, a three-way summit between Trump, Putin, and Zelensky.
But that's not going to happen.
I don't believe that will happen anytime soon.
This comes amid the president's threat against Russia.
Initially, he said that Russia had 50 days to come to the table and make a deal that will end the war in Ukraine.
Then he shortened that deadline to 10 days.
And the deadline is coming up on Friday, Friday, August 8th.
According to the White House, Putin has, until then, to make a deal.
Otherwise, there will be serious consequences, potentially more sanctions, maybe more sophisticated weapon systems for Ukraine.
But the threat is that there will be some major escalation in some way from Washington.
One thing that has already happened today, alongside the announcement about a potential future summit, the president announced a tariff hike on India.
The tariff sits at 25%.
Today, the president increased it by another 25% for a total of 50%.
And they say that that is a secondary tariff or a secondary sanction because India continues to buy oil from Russia.
So it is, in effect, a secondary tariff.
It is a punitive tariff on a third party, a country that continues to do business with Russia because there's not too much more we could do against Russia itself.
Although I believe there may be some other motivations behind that too.
So we'll talk all about the situation in Ukraine.
We'll talk about the Ukraine war, why the White House is struggling to bring it to an end, the state of the peace negotiations, and we'll talk about the developments that took place today, both the meeting with Steve Witkoff and Putin, as well as the tariff against India.
We're also going to talk tonight about the 100% tariff on semiconductors, which was announced.
But like everything else, you wonder what exactly is the goal here?
Because Trump said there's a 100% tariff on all semiconductors that come from outside the United States, all imported chips.
But the problem is, he says that there is a complete waiver.
Companies will be totally exempt from the tariff as long as they make a commitment to make semiconductors to make chips in the United States in the future.
And that is some of the biggest companies that would be affected in one way or another, like Apple and Nvidia and others.
So, what's really the point of all this?
You wonder there has been so much fuss about these tariffs and Liberation Day back in April and tariffs on Canada and Mexico and on the European Union and on the whole world and on certain classes of goods.
But then, always the delay, always the waivers.
The tariffs that came down in April were delayed 90 days.
And now many countries are getting more delays, more waivers.
Put a 100% tariff on imported semiconductors, but there's a waiver for some of the biggest companies in America.
So why?
We'll talk about it tonight.
That's going to be our news.
Shifting gears a little bit, we haven't talked too much about trade.
I think the last time I did a significant show about trade was back in April at the height of the trade war.
That was shortly after Liberation Day when that sent the economy into a lot of chaos and confusion over the rates.
And the bond market was in a very bad situation.
So it's been probably about four months since we did anything comprehensive on tariffs.
So we'll shift gears and talk a little bit about that tonight.
We've been talking a lot about Gaza and the humanitarian situation.
Epstein files, of course.
So it'll be a little bit of a different show.
Sort of a slow week, though.
I got to be honest.
Not a ton of stuff is happening, but that's okay.
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One other thing before we get into the show, I saw this just before I went live.
I saw this maybe about an hour ago.
And this is part of some of the things we've been talking about on the show.
Just before I went live, I saw a tweet from Charlie Kirk on my timeline.
Somebody sent it to me as well.
Just before I go live, I see this tweet from Charlie Kirk, the head of Turning Point USA.
And he says on Twitter that the Council on American Islamic Relations or CARE, the CAIR Council on American Islamic Relations, he said CARE is the number one foreign lobby in America.
The number one worst, most egregious, most offensive foreign lobby in the United States.
And we got to send them back to the Middle East.
The Council on American Islamic Relations, seriously?
I saw that.
Then I saw he did an appearance on Megan Kelly earlier today.
Charlie Kirk was a guest on the Megan Kelly show.
And what did they have to say?
Well, they reiterated what they've been saying for weeks, months, what some have been saying for the past year, which is they said, each, we are both huge supporters of Israel.
We support Israel's right to exist.
We support Israel's right to defend itself.
We love Israel and we've supported Israel for our entire lives.
They said, thus, we have some credibility and some latitude to criticize some of what Israel is doing.
They say it is not anti-Semitic to say maybe Netanyahu is going too far.
And I see these two developments.
And this is maybe the second most important intellectual trend, political trend that has happened at the same time as the mass awakening.
What is the most important intellectual political trend?
It is that in the past one to two years, since Yay 24, since October 7th, since Elon acquired Twitter, it is that there has been an explosion of the Overton window, an explosion in people asking questions about and scrutinizing the U.S. relationship with Israel and all of the other relevant related topics.
The Holocaust, Judaism, World War II, AIPAC, Epstein, the foreign influence in the United States.
That is the most important thing that has been happening in the country because it is related to the interests and the lobbies that run America.
If Israel and the organized Jewish community run America, then Americans becoming aware of this is the most significant thing happening.
Because understanding that we have a problem, understanding the nature of that problem, is the beginning of the end.
It is the first step in a convulsion that hopefully leads to the end of that arrangement.
The second most important intellectual political trend is that the regime, which is occupied by organized Jewry and its accomplices, is to infiltrate and subvert the awakening and trying to steer it,
trying to take the reins of it through subterfuge, through manipulation, and to persuade the people that have woken up into complacency, to steer them back into complacency and acceptance and compliance.
And I have heard echoes of this over the past year from all these different voices.
This is just the latest one, and maybe the most obvious.
And we talked about this last week with Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
What did they have to say?
They said that we have to stop paying attention to the crazy, hateful anti-Semites that take it too far.
And instead, we need to look at the non-crazy, non-hateful, reasonable critics of Israel like ourselves.
And what does Tucker say?
Of course we still support Israel.
Of course we love Israel.
We just don't like what Netanyahu is doing in this way right now.
Charlie Kirk hosted a focus group, a struggle session at Turning Point USA a week before that, where he listened to the Generation Z leadership of his club, where they expressed resentment towards Israel in the vein of foreign aid, Jeffrey Epstein, the Mossad, the genocide in Gaza.
And Charlie Kirk fed back to them.
So what I'm hearing is we love and support Israel.
We just have some issues with the current regime in Israel.
It's just Netanyahu and it's certain things he's doing.
And you hear this over and over and over again, which is from all of the prominent influencers in the conservative space, from Tucker to Charlie Kirk to Candace Owens, many others, Megan Kelly.
And the message is the same.
We don't want anything to fundamentally change.
We don't have a problem with Israel.
We don't have a problem with Judaism.
Our problem is not with Jews.
Our problem is not with Jewry.
Our problem is with some things that this government has been doing lately, but we still defend them and their right to exist and their right to defend themselves.
And then I see it this evening where Charlie Kirk takes a break from being the Pied Piper to double down on his real position, which is: no, no, it's the Muslims.
It's this Muslim influence.
Hamas is making everyone hate Israel.
We love Israel.
We get to criticize Israel, but Hamas is propagandizing Americans and making everyone hate Israel.
I just don't understand how people don't see how transparent this is at this point.
What even is there to say right now?
The Council on American Islamic Relations is the number one foreign lobby?
What are you talking about?
We gave Israel $8 billion so far this year.
I think it's actually $12 if you factor in the entirety of the aid.
We gave Israel $30 billion last year.
We are vetoing resolutions against them in the United Nations, voting against them in the General Assembly, sanctioning Canada for recognizing Palestine.
And they say it's care.
It's the Muslim lobby, which is more powerful.
And it just goes to show for anybody that would say, I think Charlie Kirk is wake it up.
I think Charlie Kirk is one of us now.
He's red-pilled.
No, guys, no, absolutely not.
None of these people are red-pilled.
None of these people are good faith actors earnestly seeking the truth that discover the red pill, which is the reality-destroying realization of who's really in charge.
None of them fit that description.
They are all, were all part of the system.
They were then, are now, and will be tomorrow a part of the system.
They knew the entire time.
Do you think Charlie Kirk didn't know that Israel controls politics when he was taking money with both hands, hand over fist, from Zionist Jewish donors?
You think he didn't know?
You think he didn't know when he was taking money from Bernard Marcus, from Ike Perlmutter, when he was having to attend Shabbat and having to observe Jewish holidays, when he was taking money hand over fist with both hands from Jewish donors telling him, listen, Charlie, Israel's our most important ally.
You think he didn't know?
He knew the whole time.
He knew then, knows now, because he was a part of the system then and still is now.
He is not a normie like you with no interface with politics that stumbled upon the truth and became disturbed.
This is his business.
He's a part of it.
And what actually has happened is that since so many of his constituents at his organization, at his events, since his target demographic, his audience became red pilled to the thing that he was complicit in all along, now he has to pretend.
He has to simulate what we have all gone through, which is, oh, I like you.
Thought one thing, but now I realize something else.
But this is a carefully calculated persuasion campaign to emulate us and to feed us once again the same narrative, which is complacency.
Look the other way.
What about this?
What about the Muslims?
What about the Council on American Islamic Relations?
We're not anti-Semites.
We just have this criticism.
But if you think it has to do with Judaism, you are a hater.
It's not even that subtle.
I don't believe it's subtle.
It's actually very abrasive.
It's actually very blatant.
But if you are a confused, disoriented normie, you might not notice the difference.
But now I've made it plain for you to see.
And the same is true with Tucker.
We talked a lot about that on Friday.
Tucker is a gentleman who worked for Bill Kristol.
Bill Kristol is the son of Irvin Kristol, the godfather of neoconservatism.
And Tucker worked for him at the Weekly Standard.
The Weekly Standard, run by Bill Kristol, was the preeminent neocon publication pushing the war in Iraq.
That was 25 years ago.
And he started 30 years ago.
You're telling me Tucker didn't know he got red-pilled like you and me?
His dad was at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which was funded by the mega group, the same group that funded Jeffrey Epstein, a group of Jewish pro-Israel billionaires.
It was basically a cutout for Israeli intelligence.
That was his dad.
And you're telling me that Tucker, like you and I, got red-pilled?
Here's the difference.
People like Charlie Kirk and Tucker and the rest of them, they spend their time with billionaires.
They spend their time in Washington, D.C., in New York City.
They live different lives.
They're different people.
People like you and I, you know, we come from places like Chicago.
That's where we live.
You know, you might live in Indianapolis.
You might live in Omaha.
You might live in Dallas or Phoenix or wherever.
You might live in Rockford.
You might live in Janesville.
And you may live your entire life without ever encountering a billionaire, let alone having 10 of them on speed dial.
Maybe you visit New York, you take a picture at Times Square.
Maybe you visit Washington, D.C., you take the tour of the National Mall.
You visit the Smithsonian Museums.
The way that we engage with politics is fundamentally different than the way they do.
You are watching the television that they make.
You were on Twitter reacting to the content that they put out, that they generate.
When you discover, when you get red-pilled and become aware of these things, because an alternative source bypassed Fox News and the influencer slop, that is unique to you.
They knew those things all along.
They're involved in gatekeeping that information.
They're involved in putting everything other than that in front of you all the time, the rest of the time.
So when people say, oh, I think Tucker's getting red-pilled, no, no, no.
Tucker is the human bluepill.
So is Charlie Kirk.
That's their job was to create this manufactured media perception.
And when you step outside it and 100 million other people do as well, then they're playing catch up.
They got to tag along and say, oh, yeah, me too.
I became aware of this too.
I, you know, I was ignorant the whole time.
I'm just like you.
I'm a normal guy.
Not the case.
And that's the evidence.
I mean, and can you dispute this?
This is the last thing I'll say about it.
For the past three weeks, we've just seen one of these statements after the other.
And they're all, every one of them is identical.
It's every day, every week, you get an identical statement.
And listen for these statements.
It always goes something like, Well, I'm not an enemy of Israel.
Well, I don't hate Israel.
I love Israel.
We need to support Israel.
But we just don't like this.
We just don't like that.
That is always the construction.
It's like a sandwich.
We love Israel, their right to exist, their right to self-defense.
But I just criticize what Netanyahu is doing.
I just criticize some of the excesses of the policy.
But we love Israel.
It always goes that way.
Echoed over and over again.
And this is like a containment unit.
And that's why, and this last thing I'll say, this is the most important part of this show.
My job, for those that are not wise yet, my job is to constantly push the envelope.
For people that say I'm divisive, for people that say I'm too aggressive, burning bridges, for people saying, come on, Nick, my job, it is my job, has been my job to relentlessly and ceaselessly push this issue and force this contradiction.
Are the Zionists that run our country ever reasonable?
When somebody criticizes Israel, are they reasonable?
They're calling Dave Smith a Holocaust denier.
Is that reasonable?
They're saying a Jew is a Holocaust.
And he doesn't even deny the Holocaust.
That's reasonable.
They canceled Ye and his multiple billion-dollar deals because of one tweet.
Is that reasonable?
They want to control all of social media and ban anybody from saying anything critical of Israel.
Is that reasonable?
They called Biden an anti-Semite because even though he gave Israel $25 billion in aid, he wouldn't give them 2,000-pound bombs because they were dropping them on kids.
Is that reasonable?
But then they tell us we need a non-crazy version of criticizing Israel.
Hold your horses, everybody.
Let's just calm down.
We hear you.
We're listening.
We're going to do a little focus group.
Okay, fine.
You can criticize Israel.
We won't call you anti-Semitic today.
More, more, always more, always audacity, always more aggressive, always against lethargy, always against complacency.
Until you understand this, you will always be cheated.
You will always lose.
You will always be the sucker and you will have nothing.
And until you grasp that, that's the way it's going to be.
Because that's all I hear from people.
I hear 50% of my audience, it's raucous cheering.
It is groipers that are on their feet, screaming and yelling and cheering.
And on the other side, I hear a lot of bitches and women and other people, people like Candace Owens, nincompoops, and numbskulls, nitwits, saying, hey, man, come on.
Let's not get too crazy.
Let's relax.
Well, didn't you see they're finally letting us talk about Epstein?
They're finally letting us talk about the USS Liberty.
They're finally letting us talk about some of these things.
Good.
I don't want to talk about them.
I want to do something about them.
I don't want to talk about something that happened 60 years ago.
I want to talk about what's happening today and why and what we're going to do about it.
And what we're going to do about it is make sure that no dual loyalist Jews can have as much power over our country as they enjoy now.
That's what we have to do about it.
For those that would insist that this has nothing to do with Judaism, that this has nothing to do with Jewish people, I would say, look at who is funding this.
Look at who funded Trump.
Look at who is behind the latest cancel culture campaign.
For people that would insist it is the Frankists, it is the Zionists, it is the Lykudniks, it is just Netanyahu, it is just this.
I would say this has been going on for decades, irrespective of all those variables, transcending all of those categories.
And the answer is not, by the way, hatred.
The answer is not violence.
The answer is, this is America.
The prospect of our country, the proposition of our propositional nation is of, by, and for the people.
Which people?
The American people.
As John Jay said, one people united by one culture, one religion, one heritage on one continent, a people that knows no other loyalty, that knows no other country.
The answer is: we, the Americans, who have one loyalty to this country, are going to take the country back.
That is the solution.
Take it back from who?
The dual loyalist Jews.
The Jewish oligarchs, the Jewish billionaires, the Zionists, the Christian Zionists, too, for that matter.
But we, the Americans, are going to take our country back from Dave Portnoy, from Mark Levin, from Laurel Loomer, from Stephen Miller, from Ike Perlmutter, from Bill Ackman, from Jacob Hellberg.
We are going to take our country back and put America first.
That is the proposition.
And we're going to make sure that this can never happen to our country again by curbing the influence of all this foreign money, all this foreign allegiance, all of these competing loyalties.
It's all got to go.
Don't sit here and tell me we're going to cut the foreign aid.
That's far too little, far too late.
We've given them a quarter of a trillion dollars.
And now they say, well, would you settle if we just cut the aid a little bit?
That's off the table.
That's the minimum at this point.
That's for starters.
Cut the foreign aid.
You should have done that 30 years ago.
We're not just coming for the foreign aid.
We're coming for all of it.
We want our whole country back.
We want our Congress back.
We want the White House back.
We want our military back.
Is the enemy.
Complacency is the enemy.
Let this be the mantra.
We have come so far in such a short amount of time, and they are in a panic.
And they are trying every tactic.
The censorship, they're tarring us as the woke right, saying we support Hamas.
And they're even subverting us by throwing us a bone and telling us, oh, well, you could criticize the foreign aid.
We won't call you an anti-Semite anymore if you criticize the foreign aid.
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Now, this doesn't mean we're always going to be more radical.
I'm a Christian.
So that doesn't mean we're going to embrace more extreme and violent solutions.
That's not what I mean.
What I mean is that we can never become complacent and accept less than America first.
And America first means from Stephen Miller to Dave Portnoy, from Bill Ackman to Anthony Blinken.
These people that would tell us I'm not just an American, but my heart is in Israel, that has no business at the top of our society anymore.
That is what has to come out of this.
On the other side of this great awakening, that must be the conclusion.
Don't let them water and dilute it down because they will do it every step of the way.
The devil's in the details.
And by the end of this year, they'll have you believing the problem is foreign aid.
The problem is that Epstein was Israeli intelligence.
My problem is that Alex Karp runs Palantir.
Epstein is dead.
Alex Karp at Palantir is creating a database of all your information at the federal government, and he is loyal to Israel.
Epstein died six years ago.
The USS Liberty sank 60 years ago.
I'm worried about what Eric Prince and Alex Karp and J.D. Vance and Sam Altman.
I'm worried about what they're up to in El Segundo.
I'm worried about defense procurement and how tight-knit our defensive equipment supply chain is with Israel.
They put bombs in pagers.
You think they wouldn't do that to Americans?
You think that they wouldn't put the bomb in Palantir, so to speak, in the sense of they would put a back door into our software to spy on the American government?
You think they wouldn't do that?
Of course they would.
This stuff is ongoing.
And we have to be aware of the breadth of it so that we can combat it and not be put back to sleep by CIA agents and people in arranged marriages and people that have been whores for billionaire money for the past decade telling us it's about the fucking foreign aid.
Complacency is the enemy, always forward, always more, until we have total American sovereignty.
Anyway, that's that.
I do want to move on, though.
We're going to get into our news for the night.
That's just maybe the most important message that I feel like I'm the only one delivering.
Because on the one hand, you have, well, I keep saying we're going to move on.
On the one hand, you have very sophisticated wizards.
And by wizards, I mean they are more intelligent.
They have more expertise.
They are involved in the oligarchy.
On the one hand, you have very sophisticated wizards who know the score and are sort of masters of the media.
They're connected to money.
They're connected to intelligence.
And on the other side, you have disgruntled normies who are disoriented and confused.
You have a Tucker Carlson who's been in media for 30 years.
He's been smearing critics of Israel for just as long, from Pat Buchanan to Nick Fuentes.
And he knows the game and he knows the score.
And he's a sophisticated actor.
And on the other side, you have the congenital disgruntled normie, which is people like myself and people like Jake Shields and Myron Gaines, Dan Bilzerian, people that may not have even been political their whole lives,
but have now been drawn to what is happening in the Middle East and what's happening in politics now and are looking for the truth and are trying to ascertain and orient ourselves in this new world that we've discovered.
And the trick is: how do we get these disgruntled normies to be unified and solid and to not fall for it?
That was my big war on Trump, not to fall for it again, not to be tricked by the wizards, not to be tricked by the people that are running society.
And wizard, I hope you understand, is a figure of speech before right-wing watch comes in and says, Nick Fuentes said wizards.
I don't mean literal wizards.
That's the trick.
And it's sort of, I see myself as one of the only people on the side of the disgruntled normies that is kind of clarifying these things because it's a convoluted operation they're running on us.
Our featured story tonight, we're going to be talking all about the war in Ukraine.
And it's been a minute since we talked about the war in Ukraine.
There hasn't been a ton of movement on this.
The big story today is that we are coming down to the wire on Trump's deadline for Vladimir Putin.
Last week, the president, who is completely frustrated with Russia at this point, who has exhausted all of the diplomatic overtures to Russia, they have all ended in failure to bring the war to an end.
Trump announced last week that Putin had a 50-day deadline to end the war in Ukraine.
Otherwise, the United States would escalate its tactics against Russia.
Now, what exactly that means, we're not sure.
Probably it means more weapons shipments to Ukraine and maybe more advanced weapons systems, Patriot missiles that Ukraine can use to strike targets in Moscow or even deeper into Russian territory.
That the United States will back more Ukrainian attacks inside of Russia against its oil refineries, against its military bases.
It could be more intense sanctions on financial transactions that are being processed in China and Kyrgyzstan on behalf of Russia.
It could be secondary sanctions on the countries that continue to do business with Russia, on Russia's shadow fleet.
Trump has a number of options at his disposal to put the screws into Russia.
The deadline was set 50 days out, and then Trump changed his mind and said the deadline is 10 days.
And that would put the deadline at Friday, August 8th, in two days.
Now, today, Trump sent his special envoy Steve Witkoff to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin.
This is, I believe, the third or fourth meeting that Witkoff has had directly with Putin so far this year.
And he came away empty-handed.
There was talk about a potential future summit.
And this is being represented by the White House as a request that Putin made.
They say that Steve Witkoff came to Russia to negotiate ahead of the deadline.
And the White House is claiming, well, during this meeting, Putin asked for a bilateral summit between Trump and Putin sometime this month.
And this is a story on that.
This is from the New York Times.
It says, quote, President Trump intends to meet in person with President Vladimir Putin as soon as next week, and he plans to follow up shortly afterward with a meeting between himself, Mr. Putin, and President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine.
Asked later on Wednesday if Russia and Ukraine had agreed to the summit, Mr. Trump told reporters there's a very good prospect that they will.
Mr. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not respond to a request for comment, but Zelensky appeared to signal that a direct meeting was possible.
Just a meeting with Mr. Trump would represent something of a victory for Mr. Putin since the Ukraine invasion.
He has been largely isolated by NATO leaders, refused to deal with him directly until Mr. Trump started phone conversations with the Russian leader after coming to office.
Several European leaders on Wednesday's call were surprised by Mr. Trump's plan and expressed skepticism that it would be effective.
So they have this meeting today.
And you have to understand this is situated right before the deadline.
What's the context of all of this?
For the entire year, and this is just bad diplomacy.
Trump has been begging Putin to end the war.
That's how I see this.
That's how Putin sees it.
I think that's how the world sees it.
Trump, ever since he was inaugurated, has basically been begging Putin to come to the table and to end the war and make an agreement.
And I characterize it this way because we have given so many concessions and Putin has given nothing.
Trump gets into office and immediately calls for a very high-level diplomatic meeting in Saudi Arabia between the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.
Now, what this represents, if you understand, these are the two highest-level diplomats meeting for the first time in years, ever since the war in Ukraine began.
This is very significant for Russia because up until this point in the war, Russia has been totally isolated.
They have been frozen out of the Western system, out of NATO, the United States, its allies.
They have been sanctioned.
They have been isolated from the financial system diplomatically, kicked from the Olympics.
And this is not a major penalty on Russia.
The sanctions and the financial isolation, maybe more than the diplomatic stuff and the political isolation, but nevertheless, this does impose a cost.
And so for Trump, right out of the gate is effectively rolling out the red carpet and saying, all right, here we go.
We're going to end the war.
We're going to have a meeting with Marco Rubio.
This gives Russia legitimacy.
It legitimizes the Russian regime.
And it says, even though our rhetoric from Washington up until this point has been that Russia has committed war crimes, Putin is a war criminal.
This constitutes something like a genocide.
He's kidnapping orphans.
He's bombing pregnant women.
Like these are some of the narratives coming out of Washington.
You're a wanted war criminal.
You are a maniac.
This is in violation of all the laws of war.
You are going to be overthrown.
Your country's finished.
In comes Donald Trump this year and says, oh, forget all that.
We're going to have a high-level meeting.
We're going to shake hands.
We are going to reestablish embassies.
We're going to reestablish the red line or the red phone hotline for military miscalculations.
We're going to have phone calls again.
Trump actually calls Putin on the phone multiple times.
The special envoy, Steve Witkoff, goes out and meets with Putin and with Russia's diplomatic personnel.
This is a major thaw in relations, constitutes something like a normalization for the purpose of diplomacy.
In a sense, by thawing and normalizing, this is legitimizing, which weakens some of what Biden's pressure on Russia was in the early years of the war.
And Russia is giving nothing in return at all.
Russia gets to nonchalantly accept these overtures.
We'll go to the meeting.
We'll take the call.
We'll open up the embassies, but we're still going to fight the war.
We're not going to stop.
And actually, Russia is only advancing more.
Russia is not suspending their electrical warfare when Trump requests that they do so.
Russia is launching new offensives and is gaining more territory, maybe more rapidly than at any other time besides the beginning of the war.
Meanwhile, Trump is giving them everything that he can short of real concessions like sanctions relief, among other things.
But it's not even just the diplomatic thaw.
Trump also berates Zelensky and browbeats him in front of the world.
He's undermining the whole NATO alliance from a political point of view.
Trump also excludes Russia from the tariffs on Liberation Day.
And he's saying something like, we are open to a deal.
He's signaling this openness.
He's coming down off of the most maximalist position of the Biden administration.
Whereas the Biden administration said, we're going to put maximum pressure, maximum economic, military, diplomatic, political, moral pressure on Russia.
We're going to shut down Nike and McDonald's, and we're going to call you a war criminal.
Trump is coming down off of that maximalist position, coming down off of the maximalist even demands of the United States.
Whereas Biden was claiming Ukraine's going to win, they're going to take back all the territory, and then Ukraine will join NATO.
Trump is saying, well, we're going to open up embassies.
We're going to normalize.
We're going to interact again.
We're going to come off of our biggest demands.
We're going to signal that we, at the minimum, will not escalate.
We're going to show willingness even to negotiate within our own camp against Zelensky, against Stoltberg, against the NATO alliance, the European Union.
Trump is even offering to come off of some of the more extreme demands, saying that Ukraine may not join NATO at all.
So this is, and by the way, I'm saying all of this descriptively, just so you understand.
I'm not saying this like, I will give you my judgment on this towards the end.
I'm telling you descriptively what has happened.
So I see some people saying, oh, Nick flip-flopped on Russia.
I'm not going to lie.
I changed my opinion somewhat on Russia.
I'll explain that more towards the end.
But I'm telling you, from an objective point of view, Biden had a maximalist campaign.
Trump has thawed relations.
That is objectively what has happened.
He has come off of the most maximal, most extreme demands.
He has reduced the maximum diplomatic pressure.
He has thawed relations.
And that has, this is just objectively true, by thawing relations, this does give some legitimacy to what Putin has done in Ukraine.
And that does constitute something like a concession.
Whereas Biden would say, you invaded a sovereign state.
We will never accept this.
Things are never going back to normal.
You are a war criminal.
Trump gets into office and says, yeah, yeah, forget all that.
You're not a war criminal.
We're going to talk on the phone.
We're going to shake hands.
We just want this whole thing to end.
That is a significant thaw in relations.
And Putin welcomes that because it does confer upon him some legitimacy, not just for his rule and his regime, but his regime.
This is now an existential part of it.
It's the prosecution of the war also.
Now, Russia's response from the start, they're not giving an inch.
So for all that Trump has done, opening up these diplomatic channels, orchestrating these high-level meetings, begging for a summit between the leaders of the countries, excluding Russia from the tariffs, coming off of some of the demands, Russia has not budged even slightly.
If anything, they're going harder.
They're pushing Ukraine very, very hard.
They've launched this major offensive in the summer.
They took complete control over Luhansk.
They completed that this summer.
And now Trump is starting to get frustrated.
From January through June, Trump is giving, giving, giving, begging.
Really, and this is a position premised on the idea that the whole war is a big misunderstanding.
Well, Russia doesn't see it that way.
And what is the premise of the negotiations?
When the foreign ministers of the two countries sit down, when the special envoys sit down, what is actually the conversation?
The conversation goes something like this.
Trump's interest is to end the war permanently, a comprehensive peace.
But in the short term, what Trump is seeking is a temporary ceasefire, a short-term truce.
So Trump is opening up these diplomatic channels so that Moscow and Washington can sit and they can have a 30-day truce.
Now, why does Trump want a 30-day truce?
One, this is going to be the building block for the comprehensive peace if they could stop the shooting.
Two, they arrest the progress of Russia's forces.
These are some of the major things.
Three, maybe more importantly, it's a big political victory for Trump.
This is a major check on Trump's column.
It's a major victory.
So Trump is coming to all these meetings and saying, you need to stop your advance.
Russia's winning the war.
So if Russia is gaining more territory and gaining an inch every day all the time, and they do a 30-day truce, guess who that benefits?
That does not benefit Russia.
That benefits Ukraine.
So you stop the Russian advance because Russia's winning and they're moving forward.
That's good for Ukraine.
Two, because Ukraine is in retreat and because their front line is collapsing, this is why Russia is advancing.
It gives time for Ukraine to consolidate.
Ukraine gets to gather some strength and regroup a little bit.
And then three, Trump gets some political capital.
This is a big win for him domestically and maybe internationally.
Once you stop Russia's advance, it kills their momentum and maybe you get to a more comprehensive peace.
This is really just good for the United States.
So Trump is begging Russia, please negotiate, please come to the table and please just agree to a 30-day ceasefire.
And Trump is kind of using a new moral appeal, if you've paid attention to this.
Whereas the Biden moral appeal was, you invaded a country, you go to hell.
Trump's moral appeal is, let's just stop the killing.
And I actually think that is pretty smart.
That's a pretty smart way to pivot because I think that Trump and maybe even the whole system recognized that the moral appeal, the moral pretext for ending the conflict wasn't really working.
Under Biden, they were saying Putin is a war criminal and we're going to settle for nothing other than they got to leave Ukraine.
Like they have to give everything up and leave.
Maybe the whole regime has to go.
Maybe Putin has to go to jail because of what he has done.
And not just because he's invading Europe, but because he's killing innocent people and the casualties are so high.
So they said that is why we have to rally and turn them around and win this war once and for all.
I think Trump came in backed by the security state on some level with a recognition that those strategic objectives were no longer achievable and that moral argument wasn't persuasive anymore.
Saying, look, we're never going to turn Russia around.
Russia's winning again.
Are we ever going to kick them out of these four oblasts that they're trying to annex?
No.
Are they ever going to give them up or give up Crimea?
If we do a 30-day truce, Ukraine is going to mobilize more soldiers.
They're going to get more missiles from you.
You get to make more missiles.
And we stop our momentum in the middle of our offensive.
Why would we agree to that?
Russia is saying, no.
If you want a truce, these are our conditions.
And the conditions are these.
Ukraine has to leave all the territories we're trying to take.
Putin is saying, okay, you want to stop the bloodshed?
Bet.
Then Ukraine has to leave the four provinces that we are currently trying to take and give them to us.
Two, you have to stop giving them weapons.
And three, they can't mobilize anymore.
You want a 30-day truce?
Fine.
But, you know, we're going to take what we came here for, and you can't keep resupplying their front lines.
How's that fair?
You want the truce?
Put your money where your mouth is.
Give us what we came for and don't let them replenish.
If you're interested in stopping the bloodshed, that's how you do it.
And of course, the Western side is saying that's ridiculous.
We want to freeze the battle lines where they are.
Putin says, well, in that case, we're going to need a comprehensive peace.
And our terms for that is we're going to need these four territories.
Ukraine's going to have to remain neutral and they can't have a military.
Because why would we agree to a comprehensive peace where you're just going to keep fighting the war under the table?
Once Ukraine built another army and replenishes all their equipment, you're just going to come and take the stuff later.
So, and here's what is important to understand.
If the details are maybe lost on you, it's that this is a war that is still dynamic.
There are two sides that are mutually opposed.
Russia came there to at least secure a land corridor to Crimea.
They came there to demilitarize Ukraine and effectively end it as a sovereign entity.
And the West is never going to let that happen.
The West is going to fight for every inch of Ukraine.
They're going to fight for Russia to lose its personnel and equipment.
And of course, they want Russia to have as little territory as possible.
And this is very much in flux.
Russia still believes it can take more.
And the Ukrainian side still believes that they can slow the Russian advance.
So at the end of the day, this is still a contested battlefield.
And both sides are under the impression that the other, one day, after some peace, is going to restart the conflict.
Russia is suspicious that if they stop the war, Ukraine's going to rearm and they're going to try and go for Russia some more under the table.
And Ukraine and the Europeans and America believes that if we stop the war now and we do what Russia says, well, one day Russia is going to keep going and they might even go for other countries.
So what does that mean?
It means that the war still has to be fought.
The war cannot be end until one side is exhausted, until one side capitulates.
And neither side has reached that point yet.
Both sides are pushing each other to the breaking point.
On the Russian side, they're being pushed to the breaking point of their economy is kind of running out of money.
These sanctions in the short term did not have the catastrophic impact that they thought they had.
But a lot of Russian economists are now saying Russia is out of reserves.
They have a 20% interest rate.
They rely on foreign currencies.
They're just running out of savings.
And so sooner or later, something is going to give in the Russian economy.
This fully mobilized wartime economy is going to start to crack up.
This is what Western intelligence says.
Now, on the Western side, there's a lot of concern about the Ukrainian front lines.
They're running out of men.
Russia is running out of savings.
They're running out of currency.
On the Ukrainian side, they're just running out of men.
And they're not able to keep up with equipment.
Russia is making millions of drones per year.
They're making way more artillery shells than we are, a lot more armor.
We're running out of our existing stock of missile interceptors, of artillery shells, of anti-tank missiles.
And we can't keep up with drone production.
So, in terms of the attritional warfare, Russia is running out of reserves and savings.
Ukraine is running out of men, and the West is running out of equipment.
It is an attritional war.
It's very much like World War I, where each side still believes it's going to win.
Each side still believes they're on the cusp of some breakthrough and waiting for the other to collapse.
So, this has been the basis of the negotiations so far.
Trump is telling Putin: look, I'm going to be the good cop.
I'm going to be Mr. Nice Guy.
You dealt with Biden and these nutjob neocons.
You dealt with Victoria Newland.
You dealt with Anthony Blinken.
You dealt with all these, you know, it's not even Biden, it's the people behind him.
Now you're going to deal with me, and I'm going to open up the possibility of normalcy, of cooperation, strategic partnership.
All you got to do is cut your losses and end it now.
And Putin is not biting on this at all.
They're still winning the war.
They're going to fight for every inch they can get before they're ready to drop it.
And you know what?
As long as that offer remains open, Russia would be stupid not to do this.
If Trump is telling Putin, I'm ready to make a deal anytime you want, Putin is going to say, okay, cool.
We're going to fight for every inch we can take.
And then when we're ready, then we'll take the offer.
Yeah, that's great.
Thank you very much.
We're going to keep invading.
And then when we decide we've had enough land, then we'll take you up on that offer and then we'll call it quits.
Once the Ukrainian frontline breaks, once we take as much as we came for, then we're going to.
Now enter in the latest breakthrough in negotiations or the latest inflection point.
Last week, Trump comes to Putin and says, all right, enough.
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
Trump comes out and says, now there's a deadline.
I'm going to give Ukraine more weapons.
I might give them Patriot missiles to bomb Moscow.
You want to play games?
You want to still prosecute the war?
Okay, maybe I'll fight the war too.
Trump is saying, we've been fighting with one arm tied behind our back.
You still want to fight for more territory?
We will give them Patriot missiles and rain on Moscow.
We'll do drone attacks and bomb more of your aircraft.
We'll put sanctions on your shadow fleet and on your oil.
You think you're getting away with something?
That's because we allow it.
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
So Trump says last week you have 50 days.
Then he says, you know what?
Scratch that.
You have 10 days.
But what does Putin say?
Putin comes out and says, I don't care.
Last week, Trump says, now you have 10 days to make a deal, or else we're doing secondary sanctions, or else we're doing these other things.
And Putin ignores the offer.
Putin says, you know what?
Forget it.
You're not going to do secondary sanctions.
You won't sanction because who are you going to sanction?
If Trump wants to escalate against Russia, he's going to have to put sanctions on China and on India, which Trump does not want to do.
And Russia knows that.
Trump is on the verge of a trade deal with both India and China.
Now he's going to put major tariffs.
It's not only going to scuttle that deal, but it also may hurt the U.S. economy.
What's more, if Russia cannot export its oil through its shadow fleet, through these other countries that are taking the oil, what does that do?
It reduces the global supply of oil and increases oil prices.
What does that do?
That increases inflation in the United States.
If Trump makes good on the promise and he's going to reduce the available supply of oil in the globe, the price of oil goes up.
Inflation goes up in the United States.
What has Trump been begging Jerome Powell to do since he got into office?
Lower interest rates.
If oil goes up and inflation goes up, then interest rates cannot come down.
And if interest rates can't come down, then we're going to pay a lot of money on the debt.
Interest payment on the debt is going to be huge.
It already is.
So forget about reducing rates.
Inflation is going to tick back up.
It already is, if you've been looking at the numbers from the past month.
And this is going to hurt the Trump economy.
They're revising the job numbers down.
We're looking at maybe a housing bubble.
There's all these signs of trouble in the economy.
So Putin's calling Trump's bluff.
Putin is saying, oh, we have 10 days to end the war, or else what?
You're going to scuttle your major trade deals with China and India.
You're going to increase oil prices.
You're going to tank your own economy.
Yeah, not going to happen.
Well, Trump needs Putin to come to the table because the bluff got called.
So Trump sends out the special envoy Steve Witkoff to basically soften the position.
Trump realizes yet again, the bluff has been called.
The bluff has been called over and over and over again.
How many times?
In how many countries?
With Iran, with China, with Russia.
They did this in like April, where Marco Rubio said, oh, Putin better make a deal or else we're done negotiating.
And then what did they do?
They negotiated for three more months.
So Putin called the bluff, and he was correct.
So Trump, because he does not want to follow through on these promises on Friday, sends out a special envoy, and the special envoy comes home with nothing.
And they say, oh, Putin wants to meet.
Putin wants to meet in a big summit next week.
Yeah, that's a lie.
And the idea that Putin requested the summit, that's a lie too.
To the extent that a summit was discussed, it was probably offered by the U.S. side, not Russia.
And I'm sure that Russia made no hard commitments about that, because why would they?
So Steve Witkoff comes home and says, oh, yeah, they're like begging us to meet up.
And all of that is supposed to do is to communicate to the world, oh, well, you know, we can back off a little bit because Russia may want to negotiate.
There's this prospect that we might meet in the future.
So maybe we're not going to go so hard on them on Friday.
And that is a way to save face and soften the position and to effectively back down from that threat.
Trump talks this big game last week and says, you have 50 days.
But alongside this announcement, Trump announced a major tariff on India, seemingly making good on the promise.
This is the other part of the story.
So alongside this announcement that Steve Witkoff comes back and there's going to be a meeting between Trump and Putin, in the same post, Trump says on True Social that he's tacking on a 25% tariff on India, effective at the end of the month.
And this is the story on that.
It says, quote, shortly after the meeting, Trump signed an order doubling tariffs on India to over 50% or to 250% over its purchase of Russian oil and paving the way for similar penalties for other countries.
With the India tariffs, Trump jumped the gun on his ceasefire or sanctions deadline for Putin, which was supposed to expire on Friday.
Trump said the 50% tariffs would be effective August 27th and that other countries could face tariffs if they keep buying Russian oil.
He didn't say whether China, Russia's other top customer, would face a similar penalty to India.
Three weeks ago, Trump said he was giving Putin a 50-day deadline to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine.
That ultimatum came after Trump became convinced the Russian president wasn't negotiating in good faith.
Last week, he shortened the deadline for the same reason.
He also exchanged nuclear bluster with the former Russian president Dmitry Medvedov in a sign of how far U.S.-Russian relations have fallen, despite Trump's desire to improve them after taking office.
So Trump says today, well, we met with Putin and he wants to have a summit next week.
At the same time, he said, we're going to make good on our promise even two days earlier, and we're going to double the tariff on India.
But what are the details of the executive order?
So Trump's deadline, which was originally 50 days, got shortened to 10 days.
It's supposed to be Friday.
The threat was secondary sanctions.
Why?
Well, the U.S. has already put a ton of sanctions on Russia.
But other countries are still doing business with Russia, namely China, India, and Turkey.
So Russia is being kept afloat because China, India, and Turkey are still buying Russian oil.
And they're still providing goods and services to the Russian economy.
That's keeping Russia afloat.
So Trump says, how are we going to put the screws in on Russia?
How are we going to hasten the collapse of their economy or starve their war machine to get them to capitulate?
We're going to have to go after these other countries that still do business with them.
Unfortunately, for the United States, we do a lot of business with these countries too.
So if we're going to put sanctions on China, India, and Turkey, that's also going to hurt the United States.
And it's going to scuttle our trade negotiations with those respective countries.
This is why Putin called the bluff.
The details of the deal, Trump says we're going to put a 25% additional tariff on India as long as India is buying Russian oil.
How does that hurt Russia?
Because Russia is a petrostate.
They get 40% of their government revenue from oil sales.
India is one of the biggest customers.
If we lean on India, we're their number one trading partner, they're probably going to choose American markets over Russian oil.
So if they stop buying Russian oil, that's going to hit Russia to the tune of $3 billion per month in revenue, which is not catastrophic, but it's going to hurt them a little bit.
So that's the deal.
Trump says 25% additional tariff on India, but it's effective at the end of the month.
It doesn't go into effect until August 27th.
So what does this do?
It sort of means that Trump can have his cake and eat it too.
He may back off the tariff.
He may make a comprehensive trade agreement with India.
But in the meantime, many Indian companies are going to complain to Narendra Modi and they're going to say, hey, we want access to American markets.
You need to stop buying Russian oil.
India is a democratic country.
Modi might become unpopular if their trade with the United States gets cut in half by these tariffs.
So it's going to cause a lot of chaos.
It's going to cause a lot of pressure on the Indian government.
And the pressure is going to be that they may reduce in the short term purchase of Russian oil.
And maybe then that will put pressure on India to make a comprehensive trade agreement.
Because what else is happening with India?
At the same time that Trump put these tariffs on India or announced that they'll come into effect at the end of the month.
We have been in these very comprehensive trade negotiations with New Delhi already.
And those negotiations fell apart last week.
Trump made a deal ahead of the deadline for the 25% tariff on August 2nd with Japan, with the European Union, with Japan, a framework agreement with South Korea and Vietnam.
We were going to make an agreement with India, but they started to push their luck.
We had a framework for an agreement with India, but they saw Japan and the European Union get a 15% tariff rate.
And they said, maybe we could get more concessions.
Maybe we could push the United States on dairy, on agriculture.
They overestimated and overplayed their hand.
And so Washington walked and they said, you know what?
No deal, no dice.
Now, a week after those negotiations fell apart, now the United States is saying, well, we're going to slap 25% on you over Russia.
Now, what's really going on here?
Is the United States really putting a 25% tariff on India over Russia?
No.
This is a three-way diplomatic maneuver.
And the maneuver is this: by announcing a tariff that will go into effect at the end of the month on India, one, in the short term, it puts pressure on Modi to negotiate with the Americans.
Two, in the short term, it means that Modi may stop buying Russian oil to appease the United States.
So it achieves the objective without the tariff even needing to go into effect.
So there's this benefit vis-a-vis Russia.
You're going to get the pressure on Russia without even having to put the tariff on India.
But there's also a benefit for the United States directly, which is that with the 25% tariff, you're putting the screws in India on trade.
And this is also going to leverage them on a bilateral trade agreement, which has nothing to do with Russia directly.
So not only are you going to put pressure on Modi to stop buying Russian oil, you're also putting pressure on India to come to the table and have a comprehensive trade agreement and to go through the finish line on the framework that they already had at the end of July.
And that's going to mean more investment in the United States in exchange for a lower tariff rate on Indian imports into the United States.
So in my opinion, it's actually a brilliant maneuver.
This is actually like a three-way diplomatic move.
As far as Russia is concerned, however, this is not going to put a tremendous amount of pressure.
And it remains to be seen what happens on Friday.
I think that ultimately another part of this play is that by threatening to put tariffs on India, it takes the pressure off of Trump to do something really extreme on Friday.
So Trump said last week, you just ran out of time.
The deadline got cut by 40 days.
You better make a deal or else deadlines in two days.
I don't think Trump really wants to do something drastic.
By doing this fake little deal with India, you get the pretense that we punished Russia through the secondary tariffs.
In reality, it's a little, it's not what it's cracked up to be.
It's going to help us in our existing negotiations with India, and it lets us save face.
If on Friday Trump doesn't do something drastic, he can say, well, I put tariffs on India.
I think that is maybe the way that he's threading the needle on this one.
So that's where we are with Ukraine.
When all is said and done, there's not much that we can do.
Unless Trump wants to escalate the war, there isn't too much that can be done.
Russia is making advances.
Their conditions for negotiations are they want all of the four provinces they're going for.
They want everyone to recognize their annexation of Crimea, and they want every country to recognize their annexation of the Donbass and Kherson and Zaporizhia, if I'm pronouncing that right.
I never pronounced that one correctly.
Putin is going to fight that to the finish.
And unless Trump is willing to give Ukraine more sophisticated weapons and take the gloves off, unless he's willing to bring the hammer down on Russian oil and Russian trade, which is going to hurt the American economy, it's going to naturally reduce global oil supply.
It's going to naturally interfere with our trade negotiations with China, India, and Turkey.
Unless he's willing to do that, escalation against Russia, which risks that we get further involved, nuclear war type scenarios, unless he's willing to sacrifice the American economy, what else can be done to slow Russia down?
We're going to have to wait for them to be satisfied in some way.
But I think that we will escalate more before this war is finished.
Russia is not going to stop anytime soon.
They're not going to run out of gas anytime soon.
It has become an existential battle.
And maybe more than anything, what is on the line, I think everybody recognizes, on some level, it has less to do with Russia having the most Ukrainian territory.
It has a lot to do with the legitimation or the legitimization of Russia's invasion.
If Russia was able to bite the bullet, invade Ukraine, take territory, annex it, and the United States recognizes their annexation and then normalizes the country.
It signals to the world that the United States is not really willing to fight.
If Russia is able to do that without any kind of catastrophic consequence and they win, they achieve their victory conditions.
It says when Push came to shove, Russia backed down from confronting a nuclear power.
Russia was able to test and then push the boundaries, the red line set by the United States.
They were able to push back the periphery of American empire.
And the United States did not step up to defend a non-NATO country, which they were not in bound by treaty to defend directly.
They would not confront Russia directly.
They didn't have the willingness.
Ultimately, they lacked the resources to do it.
And ultimately, Russia was able to, they paid some price, but they're able to expand at the expense of NATO and the United States.
And the signal, of course, goes out to China.
The signal goes out to every other country.
And the question is: is the United States reliable?
Is their deterrent threat reliable?
Do they have the willingness and ability to fight?
Because if they don't, then maybe other countries start to test.
And maybe not now, but maybe in the future.
And as China rises and the United States is undergoing some difficulties, other countries might test those similar lines.
And of course, all eyes are on Taiwan.
If the United States would not fight Russia directly because it's a nuclear power and all we did was give Ukraine the means to defend itself, will the United States defend Taiwan?
Will we actually bomb the People's Liberation Navy directly?
We've armed Taiwan, but Taiwan cannot resist China by itself.
Will we actually risk a full-out war with China?
Can we repel China without a full-scale war?
Well, if the lesson of Ukraine is that we were not willing to go to war with Russia and Ukraine was not able to repel Russia without direct intervention, the message is unequivocal.
China will test.
They will invade Taiwan.
They'll make an attempt.
So it has this global significance.
And the reason that Trump won't just let it go is because it would be a complete capitulation.
And even in as much as Trump wants to reallocate our defense resources to the Pacific, in as much as he wants a strategic partnership with Russia, he does not want to lose.
And he, representing the U.S. security state, really cannot afford to legitimize Russia's annexation of those provinces in Ukraine.
It won't be enough to say, well, they didn't take the whole enchilada.
I mean, that's just not enough.
Now, my position on this has changed somewhat, as I've said in the past.
When Russia launched the war, there was this idea that they would win very quickly, but they didn't.
The U.S. strategy of denial has sort of worked in the sense that the conflict lines have been frozen for three years.
Everybody expected that Ukraine would fall immediately.
Russia expected that Ukraine would fall immediately.
And they've walked that back.
I don't know that I believe that.
I think that Russia was confident that they would defeat Ukraine utterly and quickly, and they did not.
In the early months of the war, that initial blitz, they utterly failed.
And then when the U.S. cavalry came in, Ukraine did launch successful counteroffensives.
And now the conflict lines are effectively frozen.
And much has also been said about these other theaters of the conflict, of this global conflict.
Everybody said that Israel would fail in Gaza.
They didn't.
Everybody said Israel would run into problems in Lebanon.
They didn't.
Everybody said that Israel would lose against Iran.
And, you know, these guys like Scott Ritter and John Mearsheimer and others, and I like some more than others.
I definitely respect Mearsheimer, Scott Ritter, I think is ridiculous.
But they all said, oh, Israel's collapse is imminent.
And in this case, we're looking at Israel as a client of America insofar as it uses American weapons, insofar as it is ostensibly an ally of the United States.
And Iran and Syria are clients of Russia.
Well, Israel killed like half of Iran's officer corps in the IRGC.
Israel destroyed a third of their missile launch platforms.
It achieved air superiority over Iran.
Assad is gone.
Hezbollah was defeated.
So much so, even that in these other theaters, like in Armenia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenia is now looking to the United States, whereas they were an historic ally of Russia.
So in 2022, I was angry with the U.S. government.
And we had this idea that maybe a China, Russia, Axis might provide opportunities for U.S. dissidents in the form of social media, in the form of tech.
That has not materialized in any way.
What's more, they have utterly failed.
Russia and its security partners have failed against Western allies and U.S.-provided weapons.
That's just true.
Now, you can feel a certain way about that, but that is descriptively just true.
Everyone else is this idea that Israel's on the verge of collapse, that's just sort of delusional.
Yes, there are some problematic things happening in their society, but militarily, they're winning these conflicts.
The NATO alliance is winning this conflict.
I mean, right now, Russia's advancing, but for three years, Ukraine and NATO were able to hold back Russia, which I don't believe Putin anticipated.
On the other hand, I think that when Russia talks about nuclear weapons, I think that's scaremongering.
I think they know that if Push comes to shove, they would lose a war with the United States outright.
And so I think that the first country to change their nuclear doctrine, it's actually a sign of weakness.
You know, we did this in the 40s.
When Russia had the conventional edge, we hedged, we balanced with strategic air command with nuclear.
I think Russia's doing the same thing now.
So I think I want to avoid World War III, but I think a lot of that is overblown.
I think when they talk about, you know, we're lowering our threshold for the use of tactical nukes, I think a lot of that's bluster.
You suppose that you want peace.
At the same time, Russia's fighting to the finish.
What do we do?
Do we give up?
Does the United States say we're going to throw in the towel and let Russia take over Ukraine?
I mean, and let the United States lose.
I suppose that's the accelerationist position.
And if you say that the United States capitulates, then maybe America undergoes this convulsion.
If China makes a grab at Taiwan, if the United States gives up in Ukraine, then there is this like political legitimacy crisis in the United States.
And with this great shame, maybe it causes some kind of political reform.
You know, maybe something like that happens, but I think that's very unpredictable.
So I'm ambivalent.
I don't feel very attached to the United States government and the war it's prosecuting.
I think it's their fault.
This is Trump's mess.
Trump instigated this war.
Realistically, every administration had a hand in it, but maybe Trump more than anybody because he was the one providing Ukraine with lethal aid.
He was the one that redeployed intermediate missiles to Eastern Europe.
So our regime has created this crisis.
I don't feel particularly attached to it.
I would not fight a war for Ukraine.
With that being said, I don't feel particularly strong about the Russian cause either.
I don't necessarily see Moscow or Beijing as an ally of the American dissidents, the way that at one time it was theorized that they might help us.
So I'm ambivalent about the whole thing.
I'm just kind of giving you analysis.
With the Israel conflict, it's a little bit different.
With the Russia conflict, I suppose I'd have to say I'm more pro-NATO than I was three years ago.
I don't know that I'm all in on the Ukraine war.
I'm certainly not.
I probably have the Trump position, which is I think that we have to find the best way to make peace.
My position is we should bring an end to the war as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, it seems the only way we're going to do that is escalate for the time being.
Trump tried it.
I mean, look, the stuff that all these people said, like Tucker Carlson, this strategy of, hey, man, just back off.
Like, Russia's this caged animal.
Just chill.
Look, the United States did back off and Russia kept pushing.
What do you do now?
I don't think Trump wants the war.
I don't think his allies want the war.
They're very Russia-friendly.
But they're making an overture and Russia's not accepting it.
So what do you do now?
Do you just wait for them to finish?
Or do you increase the tension?
How do you do it without losing your deterrent credibility?
You have to give Putin a rap in the beak.
I mean, if he's ignoring the threats, if he's not acting in good faith, if he won't negotiate, the United States, what more can they do?
They berated Zelensky.
They offered to reduce the sanctions.
They offered a 30-day truce with no starters in the negotiations, no preconditions.
What more can Washington do?
This has been going on for six months, and Putin is ignoring the threats, continuing the war anyway.
You got to fight it to the finish.
So I understand why the Trump administration is doing what it's doing.
I always believed the idea that he would end the war in 24 hours.
It was obviously realistic because it's based on some naive assumptions about Russia, which is we just got to leave these guys alone.
Yeah, I mean, they don't trust us.
And here's the thing.
Putin, you can't even blame him.
Putin has no basis to operate in good faith with the administration because look at what happened.
Trump lost the election.
And even if he didn't lose the election, Biden became the president.
And Biden put the screws in Putin.
So Putin's going to make a good faith deal with the United States.
And then what happens?
The deep state comes in and they reneg on their commitments.
And then we're at war all over again.
So, you know, what characterizes the relationship between Moscow and Washington or Tehran and Washington is that diplomacy is impossible because we never operate in good faith.
And I suppose they don't either all the time.
But that's why this position has been so naive, which is to say, hey, we just got to lay off Russia and then everything would be okay.
You know, look, it takes two to tango.
So that's why I'm a little bit ambivalent.
Three years into the war, Russia hasn't won.
Trump won the election, made a diplomatic overture, and Putin won't take the peace.
So what reasonably can we expect Trump to do to retain the deterrent credibility of America?
Now, if you are a dissident and you're cheering for the government to fall, then yeah, you would cheer for America to fail.
But Trump, as the president, you can understand why he wouldn't be on board with that.
So there's a lot of difficult considerations surrounding this conflict.
This is a very destabilizing conflict, or at least it's a symptom of a planet which is destabilizing.
And these are the things that tend to happen.
The domestic situation is destabilizing.
The international situation is destabilizing simultaneously.
And that's where it becomes very confusing.
It becomes very complex because you don't quite know what side you are on in the United States.
You don't know quite what side you are on internationally.
So I have ambivalent feelings about the whole thing.
Back then, I was just furious.
I was like, they put me on the no-fly list.
Fuck them.
I hope they lose this war.
And now I guess I don't really care.
If we lose the war, I think it'd be funny.
But you can understand why Trump wants to fight it to the finish.
He broke the promise regardless.
I guess he didn't understand the, I mean, he may be bit off more than he can chew, so to speak.
But that's my position on it.
All right, but we're going to move on.
We're going to take a look at the super chats.
We'll see what you guys have to say about all this.
I'm just being honest about how my position has evolved over time.
Because at one time, it seemed very clear, and now it seems very unclear.
Because what happens when the U.S. is at war with Russia and China?
I suppose to the extent that the United States loses a confrontation like that, it does hasten the end of the current regime, which I'm in favor of.
But you also just don't know what happens.
I mean, I don't want a conflict with China where a ton of Americans die.
So ideologically, I'm in favor of a containment and balancing.
I want the transition from unipolar to multipolar to be peaceful and to be transactional and to be characterized by competition rather than confrontation or a war.
But it's notoriously thorny when you get into these, you know, when you have the rising power challenging the falling power, notoriously, it's difficult to manage these relations without a major war.
And that's what I'm in favor of.
But I suppose that would be the less accelerationist position.
An accelerationist would say, we want Russia and China to win in a calamitous war because then the government falls and then white supremacists take over the government.
It's like, yeah, I think that hinges on a lot of assumptions and a lot of death and destruction.
And I'm not in favor of that.
I think as a Catholic, you have to be in favor of peace.
That's axiomatic, actually.
And so I think you're rooting for the leadership of America to find a peaceful solution.
So I want a peaceful resolution to Ukraine, which is hasty.
But as I said, easier said than done.
It's going to take a very tactile approach.
Tactile.
And I suppose it's a good thing that Trump initiated the normalization of diplomacy with Russia early, because if you are going to engage in this kind of gunboat diplomacy with Russia, you need to have the hotline.
If you're going to take this very sensitive, tactile approach, you're going to be pulling levers, carrots and sticks, using incentives and disincentives, threatening Russia, putting red zones and red lines in place.
You know, that's all fine and well.
But to sort of cajole Russia into making a peace, coercing them into a peace with sanctions, giving Ukraine more advanced systems, you need the hotline to avoid miscalculations.
You need the hotline to make sure that there is calibration when you undertake these actions.
So I suppose this is the right track.
I do support, even though Trump's approach to Ukraine is going back on what he promised, I think that Trump on this one has a smart approach.
And I think there's not much else he could do because he did what you or I would do.
He opened it up, gave Russia a chance, signaled the willingness to negotiate, and Trump will not meet halfway, won't even meet.
And Trump is threatening and he's trying to do it in a smart way using smart power.
That's what we talked about tonight, obviously, with these India tariffs.
I think it's a clever approach.
But there's just not a lot of good options here.
In many ways, the die is cast.
At a certain point, after, look, this didn't start in 2025.
It didn't start in 2022.
It didn't start in 2014.
Didn't start in 2008.
We got in this position over 30 years, 30 years from the expansion of NATO, the Yugoslav wars, what happened in Georgia, the Euromaidan, all the way through to the invasion, the renewed arms race, pulling out of the ABM, the INF treaties.
I mean, we have been on this road for a long time.
And in many ways, the moment that Russia invaded, the die was cast.
And what really could be done at that point?
And this is what we talk about a lot with regard to Iran.
At a certain point, you get trapped.
The decision makers in Washington and Moscow get trapped into these reciprocal actions and reactions.
If this one does this, we have to do that.
And because of the mutual distrust, it's hard to find an off-ramp.
It's hard to find a way out of that cycle.
I suppose if you're going to do it, you have to initiate diplomacy, which is what Trump did.
But now we're in this position where he's got to play bad cop.
And I guess we'll have to see what happens next.
Trump on Friday is either going to put up or shut up.
He's either going to have to put down some new aggressive actions against Russia.
We'll see what that is, if it happens, and what he actually does, because that's going to have a lot of significance.
And then we'll have to see how Russia responds.
We saw Mr. Nice Guy.
Now we got to see Trump trying a completely different approach.
But Trump is calibrating.
So in many ways, although I, you know, I've been very critical of Trump, I do, and I will maintain this, he and his team are pretty savvy.
He is obviously controlled by Israel.
Like, you know, we don't have to relitigate that right now.
But with regard to the terrorists, with regard to Trump or with Russia, I do think that Trump is smarter than a lot of people give him credit for.
I'll just say that.
Even though he had his part in orchestrating this whole thing.
But anyway, so that's that.
We're going to move on.
And I'm going to say this.
You know what?
I see these guys like on Judge Napolitano, and I got to push back on this.
I love the judge.
But I see these guys.
This is the last thing.
I see these guys on Judge Napolitano's show.
You're Scott Ritters, your John Mearsheimers, your Lawrence Wilkerson's, you know, these types of people.
And day in, day out, it's like, ah, Trump's a war criminal.
Ah, his neocons are telling him bad information.
You know, he's just got to end the war with Russia.
These neocons are crazy.
And it's like, yeah, but what is he realistically going to do?
I mean, that's all great when you're on a talk show, but if you're Trump, if you put yourself in the shoes of the decision makers in Washington, realistically, what is the Judge Napolitano doctrine?
That's fine and well for polemics.
But what is actually the doctrine?
Because Trump berated Zelensky and put him in his place.
What more do you want?
They paused arms shipments to Ukraine.
They said, listen, bitch, you make peace with Russia now.
Oh, you mean, oh, I thought you meant he was running it until 2014.
Yeah, his Wikipedia.
But, okay, that's just wrong, though.
He Tucker has said for 30 years his dad works at Voice of America, and he said that his dad works for the CIA, at least we know for the past couple of years.
But the question is: was he acknowledging he's in the CIA?
I think that it should be American-owned, but I don't see what's wrong with an energy partnership.
And here's the reason why: because we need other countries.
America's running out of shale.
A lot of people don't know this, but we reached peak oil around about 2006.
And what happened is that after we reached peak oil, oil became very expensive.
And then it made fracking lucrative, you see?
Because fracking's been around for a while.
It's just that it's a very capital-intensive form of energy extraction.
It wasn't profitable.
But when we reached peak oil around 2006, 2007, and oil prices skyrocketed past $100 a barrel, then it became profitable to do fracking.
And we had this shale oil boom.
That is how America has become an energy superpower.
That is what has made energy affordable for the last 17 years.
But once again, now the low-hanging fruit has been picked.
And the shale oil that was cheaper to extract is now gone.
So we're sort of in the same boat as before.
And there's other problems too.
The oil that we extract is not oil that we can use because our refineries are built for the oil from Saudi Arabia.
We have refineries that are made for the source heavy.
What is it?
What are the classifications?
It's sweet and sour, and it's light and heavy.
And so I believe our oil refineries are built for the heavy sour oil that you get from Saudi Arabia, which it's more intensive to refine it to make it usable because that's historically the oil that we were consuming.