EPISODE 336: SAUDI ARABIA ANNOUNCES THEY BROKERED US-RUSSIA NEGOTIATIONS FOR BRITTNEY GRINER DEAL
In this cant-miss episode of Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec and co-host Libby Emmons, they’ll break down the recent news of Saudi Arabia brokering the Britney Griner Deal. They also will be exploring the potential reasons behind the negotiation, including the role of the petro-dollar and its influence on global politics. Libby and Jack then move to examine the state of the American public education system and the ongoing debate about its decline. All this and more on Human Events Daily...
So, Saudi Arabia just announced that they actually brokered the U.S.
and Russia negotiations for the Brittany Griner deal.
We're going to go through everything that's involved with this, so stay tuned.
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So, as I've said before, this negotiation was between the U.S.
government and Russia.
And that's how we were able to secure Brittany's release.
And I don't have anything further to share on that.
So there were U.S.
officials on the background call this morning thanking the Emiratis, for example, but there was no explicit mention of MBS on the role he played.
I mean, is the administration still extending their gratitude or their thank you?
So, again, the only countries that negotiated this deal were the United States and Russia.
And there was no mediation involved.
We are grateful for the UAE, as the president mentioned, as I am mentioning now, for facilitating the use of their territory for the exchange to take place.
We are also grateful to other countries, including Saudi Arabia, that released the issue of our wrongfully detained Americans with a Russian government that raised that issue.
But again, I don't have anything more to say.
But when it comes to her release, it was between the U.S.
government and Russia.
What kind of consequences?
Menendez says suspend all arms sales.
when the House and Senate gets back, there's going to be some consequences for what they've done with Russia. - What kind of consequences?
Menendez says suspend all arms sales.
Is that something you'd consider? - I'm not going to get into what I'd consider and what I have in mind, but there will be consequences.
Well, well, well.
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Today is December 8th, 2022.
Anno Domine.
Today, you just heard there, you just heard the Biden administration claiming that Saudi Arabia had nothing to do With the release of Brittany Griner in exchange for the Merchant of Death, the Merchant of Death himself, Victor Blout, Victor Bout, who, by the way, you know, the world's second largest arms dealer after the United States, because you want to talk about Merchant of Death.
If you want to talk about who's funding terrorist groups, who's funding insurgent elements, who's conducted regime changes all around the world.
You might want to take a drive down to Langley and you might want to pick up the phone and call Barack Obama.
You might want to talk to the Biden family.
You want to talk to the Clintons.
We can have a whole discussion of who's funded what groups over the years.
You've talked to Ronald Reagan about that, too.
Let's be a little bit bipartisan with this, but we really have to get into this discussion.
And so that's why joining me today as co-host for the show is Limi Emmons.
She is back from her Her she was she was on sabbatical.
She was gone.
She was totally not working.
Libby was at a at a very, very hush, hush, very secret closed door meeting in Washington, D.C.
that we shall not refer to.
However, we were very happy to have you back.
Libby, what do you think about this deal and the fact that you listen to you listen to Jean-Pierre Jean-Pierre there?
She says the Saudis, they didn't broker the deal, but then she says, wait, wait, she does say, but they did convey, all they did was convey our messages to their Russian counterparts.
I'm like, so they were involved in the deal.
They were involved in the deal.
You're trying to deny it, but you're actually admitting that they did play a role.
So you're arguing semantics here.
Um, I think that's, I think there's a lot of chum in the water and, and please give us your thoughts.
Yeah, I agree on that.
On that chum.
It seems to be all over the place.
We had Saudi Arabia, the UAE coming out with a statement this morning, talking about how they were happy to be involved in brokering this arrangement.
And then we have the White House, of course, coming out and denying it.
This also is, you know, a week after, a little more than a week after the Biden administration backed immunity for the Saudi prince and the death of Jamal Khashoggi.
So there's been an awful lot going on here with regard to the Biden administration's negotiations with Saudi Arabia all over the place, including in the lead up to the midterm elections when the administration asked Saudi Arabia to pump more oil and Saudi Arabia said no, absolutely, they would not do that.
Somebody's got us over a barrel.
I'm not quite sure who it is.
There's definitely somebody.
Ah, barrel.
I like the pun.
Over a barrel full of oil, perhaps?
Perhaps.
No, that's obviously what's going on here.
So at first we were looking at this as a ...
Because here's what we do, okay?
On Human Events Daily, one thing that we do that a lot of other shows aren't going to give you is that we interpret everything that happens geopolitically through the lens of great power politics.
So we're not going to give you the moralizing of, oh my gosh!
It's so Blue Pill.
I've seen Blue Pill takes all over the place and people say, how could you release the merchant of death?
He's just a bad guy.
He does bad things.
The United States never should have... It's like, guys, come on.
The United States funded the Mujahideen.
The United States funded the opposition in Syria that turned into ISIS.
The United States was running guns in Benghazi.
The United States We're going to talk about what's actually going on behind the scenes.
And I think this Saudi announcement is a pretty good indication that there were, to your point Libby, there were some barrels involved in this deal.
I'm not here to play that game because people are not listening to this show for the one-on-101 level take.
We're going to talk about what's actually going on behind the scenes.
And I think this Saudi announcement is a pretty good indication that there were, to your point Libby, there were some barrels involved in this deal.
Oh, there were definitely some barrels.
Yeah, I think that's about right.
And I do think it's important to look at, look at all of these things through the lens of power and which power benefits from what moves that are being made on an international scale.
We have so many people coming at us, you know, with these moral pronouncements about how, you know, We're talking about the Griner story as well.
And you know, there's all of these moral pronouncements, assuming that the United States is always on the values high ground.
And we are not.
And I think it would behoove us to take a look at our position and perhaps restructure what we mean by values.
In terms of what is best for the United States?
And what does that mean?
And what are we willing to sacrifice in order to, you know, gain what the US needs?
I think these are important questions.
Well, and not only that, it just has to be said that this isn't just and we're gonna we're actually going to continue this discussion after the break, because this is also about the petrodollar.
Remember, what do the Saudis The Chinese and the Russians holding their hands, not just oil, but also the power of the use of the US dollar.
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And we're back.
We're here with Libby Emmons of the Postmillennial, interpreting through the lens of Great Power Politics, this deal that was, by the way, constructed between the Biden administration, the Saudis, and the Russians.
And I'll tell you something right now.
This is more than just oil, because oil is only one layer of it.
This is also about the petrodollar.
What is the petrodollar?
The petrodollar is the fact, because I keep hearing people every time I bring this up, and I know there's some people in the audience that know very well what it is, but there's other people who don't realize that the system, the world financial system, and that's why we have to go through it and explain what's going on here, because the Saudis hold the value of the US dollar in their own hands.
That's why the fact that they're making overtures To the Chinese Communist Party while sitting down right sitting down with Xi Jinping is in Riyadh right now as the Saudis are making this statement.
Do you get it?
Do you understand it?
They know that they could tank the US dollar overnight if they announce that they're going to be taking all of the world's oil sales off of the US dollar or all of their oil sales their sales do because they're the number one supplier to China.
Uh, they are one of the number one suppliers to Europe.
They supply to us.
They're all over the place in terms of oil shipments.
And we, of course, are trying to get them to pump more of this.
And I say we, I mean the Biden administration here because they refuse to allow domestic production production.
But the point is.
They could tank the US dollar overnight if they wanted to, and they know it.
So then Russia comes in and Russia gets.
Their arms dealer back at a time when the United States is shipping millions of small arms to Eastern Europe.
They're flooding the Eastern European market with small arms right now.
The world's biggest arms dealer after the CIA gets released.
He's known specifically for operating in that area in the post-Soviet years.
Now there's a huge new glut of these weapons on the market.
This guy's going to clean up.
The Russians, of course, want him back so they can plug him in to the next phase of their plans in Ukraine.
And they distracted all of you.
By getting you to talk about a WNBA basketball player rather than focus on what's actually going on on the world stage.
Libby Emmons.
Yeah, no, I think you're exactly right.
It's sort of terrifying the amount of power that these other countries hold over our ability to, you know, feed ourselves and heat our homes and get antibiotics for our children and all sorts of other things.
We really opened ourselves up.
To a lot of a lot of vulnerability globally.
And I think that in a lot of ways, it's time to bring manufacturing back home.
It's time to become energy independent.
Again, there's no reason we shouldn't be.
There's no reason to give in to these green lobbyists who, you know, their technology isn't even Not effective.
So that's an issue as well.
Yeah.
And I think as we look at this, and we look at this prisoner swap, and it's all playing on everybody's heartstrings, and everyone's glad that one prisoner is home and other people are angry that a veteran is left overseas to rot in a Russian prison.
You know, It's very easy to overlook the machinations that are happening behind the scenes, and it's really important to pull that out and to understand what's going on.
We look at the U.S.
sending weapons to Ukraine, and we also sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, and then they turn around and sell them to the Russians.
The world arms market, it's best looked at as a competition between The US, Russia, now China's getting in on it and North Korea's too, actually.
It's like if you're a country, by the way, if you're some small African nation, you can't afford American or Russian equipment, then you go to Chinese.
And if you still can't afford that, then you're going with the North Korean stuff is basically how it goes.
Nobody wants the made in North Korea army, you know, the made in North Korea AK-47s.
One question I guess you could say is, does this open the door possibly for U.S.
negotiations, further negotiations with Russia?
Because another thing that we do talk about here is de-escalation vis-a-vis this two-front world, the Mearsheimer warning, okay?
And I think, I don't think anybody other than Human Events has really talked about the Mearsheimer warning and the importance of it.
The fact that we are facing A potential two front global conflict if we continue escalating, number one, our proxy war with Russia that we are currently in a hot proxy war with Russia.
And then number two, continue escalating with China, which, as I've said for 15 years, is that we are on a collision course with China.
And I have not seen anyone other than Donald Trump try to deescalate things there and actually call for peace and understand that you need to decouple our economies in order to deescalate things there.
We are the ones that are building up the Chinese war machine, us.
Yes.
And who do you think they're going to target it at?
Now, people say, oh, they would never do that because, um, you know, because they're really, because we're their consumers that we're their market.
But my point is, um, it's not going to start with an attack on the United States.
Um, don't get me wrong.
I love John Milius, but the red Don scenario would be very hard to work because you're just not going to get a massive army from, China or Russia, for that matter, into Mexico without us noticing.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
An attack on Taiwan, an attack on South Korea.
I mean, yeah, I think that's much more likely to kick off something.
Yeah.
And I also think that it's important to look at it when we talk about potential peace negotiations with Russia over the Ukraine situation.
You know, we really have to realize that in this case, from my view, anyway, we're coming at this from a much weaker position.
We already capitulate to what they want.
So by the time we get to the table, our position is already lesser than it would have been had we not capitulated in the first place.
There's no value in going to the table and saying, hey, I made some You know, I made some considerations for your side.
So now make considerations for my side, because by then you've already given up more than you maybe would have had to give up at the negotiating table anyway.
And you're certainly already behind the game there.
So I do think that, you know, this prisoner swap gives us a position of weakness.
And, you know, that's really too bad.
That we played it that way.
The real question, I guess the real question is, how would Captain Sisko handle this one?
Would Captain Sisko just go in there guns blazing and say, no, we're not going to take that for an answer.
We're getting all Americans out.
Yeah, he totally would.
He'd start with negotiations and behind the scenes he would have stuff going on so that, you know, he would get those people out.
And if he had to sacrifice a little bit here and there or play some Kardashian dirty dealing to get it done, he would do that.
You almost said Kardashian.
I caught you on that.
You almost said Kardashian.
I almost did, I know.
But a Kardashian.
It really is the same thing.
Keeping up with the Kardashians.
I would totally watch Keeping up with the Kardashians.
I would totally watch that.
With the spoon on the head?
Oh my goodness.
Yes.
Yes.
And the Balenciaga.
I want to know the evolutionary reason for involving a spoon on your head, by the way, in Kardashia.
Right?
I think it's just that it's a majority.
We'll figure it out.
But the problem is, of course, we don't have Kardashian or Vulcan negotiators.
We have Kardashian negotiators.
And they're the worst.
They're the absolute worst.
Come right back.
Libby Emmons.
That's a video from my hometown.
down.
That's Norristown High School.
And Libby, I don't know if you know this, but my family, when we arrived from Poland, we settled in Norristown, just outside Philadelphia.
And my family was the one that left that town because, and I mean, you can see the reason right there.
It was getting crazy.
It was getting absolutely crazy, violent, chaotic.
The crime was rising all throughout the 90s.
We got out towards the end of the 90s, moved a couple of miles away.
And, you know, Libby, you and I are both from the Northeast in terms of the country.
And when we look at what's going on, these social trends, these cultural trends, what I want people to understand is, That's in the suburbs, right?
This stuff is spilling out into the suburbs.
It's building out into small towns.
It's becoming a problem for people regardless of where you are.
People would say, oh, that, you know, that's some, that's some school, high school, you know, in the inner city.
No, it's not.
It's actually not.
And why are our schools so violent and horrible, Libby?
Why are they so violent and horrible?
I think that schools really took a downturn when they started implementing ideas of relativism across the board, saying that every idea, every moral framework is equivalent to any other moral framework, that any religion is absolutely equivalent to any other, that not having a religion is equivalent.
We teach kids that whatever they desire is what is correct.
We teach them that the only thing that matters is making money in the world.
We try to teach them to be manageable as opposed to be thinkers and doers and people who invent things.
So we're doing our kids a disservice and they are paying us back by turning into crazy people with absolutely no direction or understanding about the difference between right and wrong.
We've seen in recent reports out from Project Veritas just yesterday, a private school in Chicago, I mean this is not even localized to necessarily public schools, but a private school in Chicago had a dean that brought in an LGBTQ health person to literally teach the children about queer sex.
He is quoted as discussing saying that there was discussions with the students about the difference between spit and lube about dildos and butt plugs.
So this stuff is going on in schools in public schools.
We have a lot of fights.
My son comes home from school and tells me that his teacher kept his class late after the bell a couple of times.
You know, this happens periodically because there's fights in the hall and the teacher doesn't want to release the kids into the hall where there's fights going on.
He tells me about fights at lunch.
Yesterday, we had a bunch of cupcakes and I said, hey, do you want to take a cupcake in for lunch dessert at school today just as a special thing?
And he said, no, it's probably just going to get stolen.
You know, it's madness in these schools.
They're not educating our kids properly.
They're not teaching them the difference between right and wrong, in large part because the teachers and the administrators don't know the difference between right and wrong.
They think teaching them really inappropriate things is progressive and good.
The problem with relativism, what you're saying there, is with relativism, the idea that all ideas are equal and all ideas are good, is that you actually lose Standards.
So there's no standards.
Yes, 100%.
So you can't turn around and say you have a standard if all ideas are good.
Because there's no way to judge anything.
And you can't make any judgments because you have absolutely no basis upon which to make the judgments.
When I was teaching CCD for a couple of years, I was always trying to instill in the kids, this is your moral baseline.
When you have decisions to make, bounce those decisions off the moral baseline, and then you're going to know what's right and wrong.
Use God's teaching.
It's not bad teaching just because, you know, it's Christian and everybody likes to hate Christians now.
You know what I mean?
There's no reason for that.
Well, yeah, there are two pieces of that.
If there is any religion that the world hates, then surely that one is probably the right one.
I actually believe that, and something I've gotten to understand more as I've gotten older, is that things that are considered sinful are also bad for you.
are also negative.
They also negatively impact your life.
So not only should you not do them because of the moral baseline, but the moral baseline is there because of natural law and because of natural morality that follows through with it.
And so when we're, you can say, oh, well, oh, that just comes from some old book.
And I say, well, but it's right.
But it actually, if you use this, you know, what is it?
B-I-B-L-E, right?
The basic instructions before leaving earth.
Right.
And when you look at it, too, my son and I were recently talking about some people in his school were saying that you're fat phobic, you know, if you're telling people to eat healthy.
And we've seen this from school districts coming out with, you're fat phobic if you tell people to eat healthy.
And I was talking to my son, you know, about what the seven deadly sins are, and gluttony is on It's an attempt to try and be healthy.
If you're gluttonous, you're going to be fat and have trouble moving and have a heart attack.
You're going to be in trouble now because what's another?
What's that?
What's that P word on the seven deadly sins again?
Which one?
Which P word?
P word.
The word starts with P as in Papa.
Oh, that's the word pride.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.
Oh yeah.
The pride is a sin.
And so when I hear pride parade, That conflicts with my Catholic upbringing.
You guys said pride is one of the greatest sins out there.
Parades are great.
We love parades and processions.
Everyone needs a bread and circus.
But pride?
That's a sin!
That's like, it's like the views.
Sunny.
Exactly.
The views, Sunny Hoffman came out and said Jesus would be heading the pride parade.
And I was thinking, I think we're right about this.
I was like, Jesus would be like, also sloth, wrath, greed, and envy.
Sloth, wrath, greed, and envy.
Which by the way, communism is just envy as a political ideology.
Yeah, right.
Wait, I'm going to say that again so we get clean audio.
Communism is just envy as a political ideology.
Yeah.
And then you feel bad.
About everything, including yourself and everything else.
I should tweet that.
Communism is just all of the seven deadly... Do you want to just, do you want to take a minute and just do it right now while we're on air?
Well, I'll do it right.
We're only a couple seconds left.
By the way, America Fest, um, coming up, everyone's going to love it.
You coming out, right Libby?
Yeah, I'm totally going to be there.
I even bought a new dress because that's what I always do.
You bought a new dress?
I bought a new dress.
I love buying new dresses.
Wait, should Tanya, Tanya's going to buy a new dress.
This is going to be one of those things where, You know what?
Me and Tanya should get a picture in our new dress.
Mine is ridiculous.
I wasn't at that.
I had a family reunion.
I had a legit family reunion.
Oh, come on.
We get so little joy.
It's fun to buy a new dress.
Yeah.
You can find me on Twitter at Libby Emmons, and you can check out everything we're doing at ThePostMillennial.com.
