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Sept. 14, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
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LIVE: Pentagon Briefing on Israel, Ukraine
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Thank you.
Thank you.
We are very, very much focused, and we've talked about this before, on ensuring that Ukraine has what it needs to be able to preserve its sovereignty and take back occupied territory, and that's going to continue to be our focus.
The bottom line is we want to see Ukraine win in this conflict, and when they feel that it's time, Ukraine feels that it's time to go to the negotiating table, We want them to do so with as strong a hand as possible.
And I would point you to Secretary Austin's comments at Ramstein last week where he highlighted there is no one capability, there is no silver bullet that is going to enable Ukraine to succeed.
It's about taking all of the capabilities that they have and employing them in a way that gets them closer to success and having that stronger hand at the negotiating table.
So, again, as this battlefield has evolved, our support to Ukraine has evolved.
But again, as of right now, the policy has not changed.
I'll just leave it there.
Another topic.
On Syria, there are reports that Israel conducted a raid against and obtained some IRGC documents and whatnot in Syria.
Can you confirm us?
Yeah, again, seen those press reports, but I'd refer you to the Israelis for any questions about their operations.
Thanks.
Jennifer.
Pat, I have some questions about the M1 Abrams tanks.
Have they been used on the battlefield in Ukraine, and if so, how many?
Thanks, Jennifer.
I'd refer you to them to talk about where and if they've employed those capabilities.
I mean, as you know, we've obviously provided them, helped train them, and provide some remote tele-maintenance capability.
But as far as where and if they've employed them, I'd refer you to them.
And do the Ukrainians have permission to use them across the border in Kursk?
Well, as I highlighted, I mean, what we've agreed to with the Ukrainians is that they can use U.S. security.
What we've agreed to is that Ukraine and Israel can do whatever they want and the U.S. taxpayer is going to pay for it.
And what we've agreed to is we will help to facilitate this genocide and carry it out until all Christians are dead.
And overall, are they making a difference?
There was a lot of debate at the time when they were being approved.
Are the M1 Abrams tanks making a difference?
Well, again, you know, I'd kind of take a step back and say, first of all, that's a question that the Ukrainians would have to answer.
I would tell you again, though, that it's not about one singular capability.
It's about how you take all of the capabilities, whether it be air defense, armor, artillery, and training, and combine all those together to create capabilities that support your strategic and operational objectives.
And so certainly we've seen the Ukrainians fight very courageously, very creatively.
And, you know, there's no reason to think that things are going to change in that regard anytime soon.
On the Hill yesterday, there was a heated hearing on U.S. chips, supercomputer chips, that have ended up making their way into Russian weapons.
Senator Blumenthal hosted the hearing.
And four technology companies, including Intel and Texas Instruments, were brought before the hearing.
Why – first of all, is the Department of Defense concerned about American technology ending up in Russian weapons still two years, two and a half years into the war?
And what can you do to stop it, and why haven't you been able to stop it?
Well, you know, broadly speaking, Jennifer, as you know, there has been an interagency effort to place sanctions on Russia.
Yep, because they kicked the Rothschild criminal central banking cabal out of their country.
That's what this is all about.
Supporting the banksters in the central banks.
Closely with our interagency partners to prevent, because again, certainly we don't want to see American technologies being used in places like Ukraine against Ukrainian citizens.
Thank you.
Konstantin.
Thanks, Pat.
The USS Roosevelt, you mentioned she's chopped into the Indo-Pacific.
Is it safe to say that she is on her way home?
Are you able to say whether she's returning home?
You know, as a matter of policy, Constantine, we're not going to talk about future deployment timelines.
It's going to the Indo-Pacific AOR, and I'll just leave it there.
And just one quick follow-up.
Are there any plans or conversations to have a two-carrier presence in CENTCOM to replace the TR? I don't have anything to announce right now.
Again, you know, the amazing thing about the U.S. military is our ability to surge and provide forces wherever we need to.
But as I highlighted at the top, we have a significant amount of capability in the U.S. Central Command and U.S. European.
Aristo 777, you're amazing.
Thank you.
Most important part of the army here.
The United States and Greek Cypriots have signed a bilateral defence agreement and Turkish foreign and defence ministries have, quote, strongly condemned, unquote, the signing of this agreement.
The U.S. has historically taken a neutral and impartial position on the island.
Would you now say that the U.S. has done away with their impartiality?
I appreciate the question.
I'd have to refer you to State Department to discuss the diplomatic discussions on that.
But the Department of Defense has signed this agreement and the Assistant Secretary was there this week.
So what does it say from a military perspective, from the DOD perspective, that this was signed?
And how does it change the U.S. military presence in that region?
Is this basically U.S. based right now?
I'll tell you what, let me take your question and we'll come back to you on that.
Thanks.
Ellie.
How much money is left from the supplemental for the presidential drawdown?
And does that money expire at the end of the month?
No money is left.
We need more money.
We're going to steal more money from you, the American taxpayer.
We're going to send it all to Ukraine, which is Israel 2.0.
We're going to slaughter everybody.
We're going to annex the people who rightfully belong to this land.
This is a land grab just like Israel, Palestine, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon.
Those authorities would expire.
And so right now, we're continuing to work with Congress to see about getting those authorities extended to enable us to continue to draw down packages.
And so in the meantime, you're going to continue to see draw down packages.
But we'll have much more to provide on that in the near future.
Is it six billion?
Let me take that question.
Janie.
Thank you, General.
We're not going to answer how much money it is.
We're not going to tell you if it's six billion.
Let me take that question.
That means I'm not going to answer that ever.
...
balloon provocations.
It launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the east coast.
Earlier yesterday, the day after the U.S. presidential debate, do you think there is a possibility that North Korea will use additional provocations to interfere with the United States presidential elections?
You know, look, we obviously saw the DPRK's launching of those missiles.
I would refer you to Indo-PACOM's statement.
Great kazoo, great question.
Why are these press conferences full of spies and not Americans?
Everybody in this press room is from a foreign country.
None of these people give a shit about America.
Nuclear weapons.
If Ukraine attacks the Russian mainland with the U.S.
long-range missiles, what is your reaction to this?
Excuse me, what was that?
Can I get somebody whose primary language is English, please, to ask the questions?
Of the guy who is authorizing the bombing of thousands, tens of thousands of kids and women, can I please get somebody to ask the question in English?
Large military country that's nuclear armed with a large military should be saying.
All that to say, we have not seen anything at this point that would indicate that we need to adjust our strategic force posture.
So we'll continue to monitor that, but at this point there's been no change to our posture.
Let me go to the phone here.
Missy Ryan, Washington Post.
MS. Hey, Pat.
Thank you.
I'm just going to ask you a question you've been asked previously in the past week about Iraq and the statements by the Iraqi Government about the Just going to repeat a question here that you've never answered over the next two years.
Are they accurate?
And I know you've said that you can't confirm that just now.
Number one, is that still the case?
And number two, can you talk About what has been agreed to in principle?
Is it accurate to say that the U.S. and Iraq have agreed in principle to withdraw all U.S. forces?
This is just a question of when and how.
That's my understanding.
Just want to make sure that that's correct.
Yeah, thanks, Missy.
So, yes, to answer your question with your question, I don't have anything new to announce.
You know, as we've highlighted, we have been discussing.
I'm just going to answer your question by repeating your question and telling you I don't know and it's none of your business.
From the global coalition in Iraq, what that transition would look like to an enduring bilateral security partnership between the U.S. and Iraq would look like.
Again, we'll keep you fully informed.
This guy is literally the devil incarnate.
Satan's minion, number one.
Thank you.
Let me go to J.J. Green, WTOP. General, thank you.
Ukraine's President Zelensky said a little earlier today that they believe Russia's begun a counteroffensive in the Kursk region.
And I'm interested in knowing what you, the Pentagon, think this means for this conflict.
When you consider what we've learned from the building and from U.S. intelligence about Russia gathering weapons as well, including ballistic missiles from Iran in recent days, and how this impacts the future and the U.S. plans to support Russia.
Yeah, thanks JJ. So, you know, what we have seen is Russian units beginning to try to conduct some type of counteroffensive in the Kursk region.
At this stage, I would say that it's, you know, marginal, but something obviously that we're keeping an eye on.
And then, I'm sorry, the second part of your question.
Just, you know, how the building might view this activity, what you just mentioned, what you've seen, in the context of getting these weapons, which we were told this week the U.S. has proof of from Iran, the ballistic missiles.
And, you know, there are other plans to try to...
Just like we had proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
So, first of all, you know, with the caveat that I'm not going to discuss intelligence from the podium here, nor am I going to provide a daily update on Russian employment of various capabilities.
As of right now, we have not seen them employ those Iranian missiles yet, although one can expect that they would in the relatively near future.
But again, if you take a step back here in terms of what we're focused on, it's on enabling Russia to defend its sovereignty and deter future Russian aggression, so both urgent needs and long-term needs.
And as we go into the winter, making sure that they have the capabilities from an air defense standpoint to protect critical infrastructure, like energy infrastructure, which we know the Russians are targeting, but also at the same time that they have the capability they need on the front lines, but also at the same time that they have the capability they need on the front lines, like armor and artillery, ammunition, to be able to check any type
And elsewhere in the battlefield, to include in the Kursk region.
So it will ultimately be up to the Ukrainians as they design their campaign plans on how they're going to employ those forces.
But certainly our focus is on ensuring that they win and that they have the upper hand when and if they decide they want to go to the negotiating table.
Let me go to Howard Altman.
Oh my God.
Are you guys listening to this?
...about the Syrian, the Israeli raid of Syria.
Did Israelis inform the U.S. either before or after that raid that was being conducted?
Given that they are a CENTCOM member and also receive a great deal of U.S. aid, should they inform the U.S. either before or after this raid took place?
Thanks, Howard.
Again, I mean, I've seen that press reporting, but for any questions as it relates to any Israeli operations, I'm really just going to have to refer you to them.
I just don't have anything to provide on that.
Let me come back to the room.
Yes, sir.
Hi, Daniele Compatangelo for the Italian Television.
Thank you, General, for taking the question.
I have a question regarding the strike of the Israeli on the school in Gaza.
A few hours ago, there were some reports.
We read in Europe some report about France and Germany and the Great Britain deciding to provide less weapons from now on to Israel because of this fact that keeps happening.
Who's this based guy?
What is the position of the U.S. in light from the military's perspective in light of what just happened?
Sure, so a few things.
So first of all, I don't have any information to provide on the particular strikes that you're referencing.
Because you helped carry them out.
From the very beginning of Israel's operations, we've been very clear about the importance of taking civilian safety into account, both from a planning and operations standpoint.
That means kill them all.
And privately, and I would point you to Secretary Austin's public comments and to the readouts that we've issued.
This is a topic of frequent discussion between him and his Israeli counterpart.
The bottom line is, we believe that Israel has both a strategic and a moral imperative in terms of protecting civilians.
I will also highlight, though, that there is culpability on the side of Hamas in terms of their tactics, techniques, and procedures of embedding their operations within civilian infrastructure.
Total bullshit.
Total bullshit.
We just recently saw, you know, when they executed six hostages and their tunnel network underneath Gaza, the extensive amount of infrastructure, money...
We don't even know that these hostages are even real.
There's no proof of any of these hostages.
Approximately the size of New York City.
And instead of using those funds and using those resources to help the Palestinian people, they've instead created a tunnel network to conduct combat ops from.
This is the challenge that Israel is up against.
We do not want to see...
The challenge that Israel is up against is that Hamas allegedly executed six people.
Oh, maybe in response to the genocide and mass murder and carpet bombing that you're doing of civilian apartment complexes?
Immediately is so important and we'll continue to work towards that.
Thank you.
Tony?
A couple questions.
Does the fact that the United States...
So what he just said is unlimited funds and unlimited ammunition and munitions for war are going to go to Israel and no matter what, you're not allowed to question it, God forbid, criticize it, and we are helping to execute this land grab and annex the Palestinians from their place, from their place of living, from where they descend from.
We're going to kick them out of there.
We're going to grab all of this, and then we're going to expand this into Lebanon, and we're going to expand this into Iran, and we're going to trigger World War III. That's what he just said.
...against Israel, and so we're going to continue to take that threat very seriously, and we're going to continue to maintain a robust presence in the Central Command and European Command AORs.
And so that's not going to change, and we're going to, again, maintain, as we always have, the ability to surge forces or capabilities anywhere in the world we need them, when we need them.
What's the rationale for moving the carrier group then back to the Indo-Pacific?
Well, I mean, you know, again, broadly speaking, you know, when you look at fleet management, you've got to take into account things like the readiness of, you know, our various ships, aircraft, and so that's always going to be something that's...
Old Saucy says, why is Israel considered an ally anyway?
What have they done for America?
Well, I can tell you.
They have occupied our government.
They've basically overtaken and overthrown our government.
They bombed and strafed the USS Liberty.
They have fought alongside of us in exactly zero of these forever wars that we're fighting on their behalf.
So all of the...
Tens and hundreds of thousands of lives that have been lost between soldiers and innocent civilians.
It's all been for Israel, which is a fake country.
It's a construct that wasn't even a country until May 14, 1948.
These arbitrary borders were set up there to convince normie, boomer, Christian, evangelical, Protestant, Schofield Bible-ingesting retards that this is the Israel of the Bible and that these are the Jews that are God's chosen people.
That's what this is all about.
From the Congress that they will get paid, but I think it's important to highlight because there are no funds available and and because the the baseline budget would not change that would force offsets force us to offset the costs of these well-deserved pay raises and it would cut into other programs and accounts at potentially damaging levels and so again we would encourage By
the way, Benjamin Netanyahu is actually Bozayan Malkowski, who was born in Poland.
He's not even Semitic.
The people that are being Referred to as anti-Semitic are those that are against this genocide and the people that are committing the genocide aren't even Semites.
The people that they're killing are, however.
U.S. systems provided to protect against ballistic missiles would be effective against these Iranian Well, Chris, I would tell you that it's not just U.S. systems.
The international community has rushed air defense capabilities and training to the Ukrainian armed forces, and so this is really an international effort to support Ukraine and their integrated air defense capabilities, and that's something that we're going to continue to look at to enable them to defend against those kinds of missiles and the other threats that Russia has employed.
You know, and don't forget, you know...
When he says the threats that Russia employs, that means not going along with the ushering in of the one-world governance and CBDCs and digital IDs and rejecting the central bankers.
So they are absolutely complicit in the continued death and destruction of innocent civilians inside of Ukraine.
And we'll continue to do everything we can to enable the Ukrainians to be able to defend themselves, both on the ground and in the air.
Thank you.
Yes, Otep.
Thank you.
I have a question on this new NATO command and the police button that was supposed to coordinate security assistance for Ukraine.
Has it begun its operation?
Do you have any details or updates on that?
So that's really a question for NATO. You're talking about NSATU, which is the NATO element.
My understanding is that yes, they have begun.
But again, I'd refer you to NATO for any details.
NATO, by the way, the alliance that was formed for one reason, which is to fight Russia, and which we've reneged on promise after promise to not expand NATO further east, but yet we keep pressuring these countries to join NATO, to bear down on Vladimir Putin, and the ultimate goal of the one-world governance is regime change in Russia, if not just killing Vladimir Putin.
You know, we'll defer to them on that.
And the objective, by the way, is to usher in the central banks again, Bolshevism, and take over that land.
More land grabbing.
Thank you.
Time for a few more.
Riu.
Thanks so much.
The question is about Okinawa.
Yesterday, the governor of Okinawa Tamaki met with officials of the Pentagon and the State Department, and the governor expressed his concerns about recent alleged sexual assault by U.S. service members in Okinawa and a lack of transparency in these cases.
So could you please provide a comment on this meeting and on how the… What does she have to do with any of this?
Shut up.
Yeah, no, I really appreciate the question.
And, you know, as we've said before, the alleged behavior of these service members in no way reflects the core values of the U.S. military, nor does it represent the conduct of the overwhelming majority of U.S. personnel who are based in Japan that we have forward deployed.
And so we do share.
The concerns of the local community regarding these cases.
We are deeply troubled by the severity of the allegations and we absolutely regret the anxiety this has caused.
I do know that the respective units are working very closely with local authorities to investigate the allegations thoroughly while at the same time ensuring the due legal process under applicable laws and agreements.
And I would refer you to US Forces Japan for any further questions on that.
Thank you.
My first question is about Pakistan's role in the Indo-Pacific strategy of the U.S. As I'm sure you know, that China has invested big billions of dollars there in the seaport, and their weapon is mostly now Chinese as well.
Is there any other role of Pakistan from a military point of view you see beside the terrorism operations that you guys conduct?
Well, I mean, that's really a question for Pakistan to address, certainly, as you know.
We value Pakistan as a partner, and we'll continue...
Yep, we value Pakistan sending all of their terrorists through our wide-open southern border that you're helping to facilitate by not protecting it.
Thanks.
One more to...
In Pakistan, they have...
Bringing dirty bombs and weapon caches into the interior of our country.
Waiting for your false flags that you're going to activate as the Department of Defense.
Before, by the way, unleashing another Department of Defense operation bioweapon on the American people.
The name would smell as sweet.
So just to America, their change of name makes a difference.
I mean, a terrorist organization.
Yeah, I mean, that's really, again, a question for the Pakistani government to address.
I'm not going to Get into you know, what's really a domestic decision on on terminology, but okay last question.
Yes, sir Can you provide us some details about the Pentagon delegation that talks with Chinese the details I'm sorry in the Yes, we did send a representative.
We responded to an invitation from the PRC. And so, yes, we did.
And we've done that in the past as well.
Is there any indications that the tension is going to be known like before that in some certain points many people were talking about a possible war or something or a cyber war between the United States and China or Taiwan?
So do you think that is not a high possibility anymore?
Well, you know, look, Secretary Austin's been pretty clear.
You know, we do not believe that conflict is inevitable or imminent.
Our focus is...
Look, China is just absolutely not...
It's not the enemy of the United States.
China is not who we need to be talking about.
We need to be focused on Israel and Ukraine.
Ukraine is Israel 2.0.
You heard this guy in the room literally saying, there is nothing that is going to stop this.
We are going to continue to send weapons.
We're going to continue to send money to Israel.
We're going to continue to support them, bombing the shit out of innocent women and children in the name of defeating Hamas, which is an unbenchmarkable goal.
You can't determine a success for eliminating...
This is just like climate change.
It'll always be there.
The bar will always be raising.
We will always be taking more of your freedom.
We will always be clamping down on you more.
We will continue to get more tyrannical.
We will continue to steal your money.
We will take Raytheon and Lockheed Martin weapons that you have paid for and you Americans are going to fund this genocide whether you like it or not.
That's what this was.
Back with more shortly.
I hope Benjamin Netanyahu borns in hell.
I hope him and his generals and the fair right government in Israel born in hell.
We are looking for babies, but there is no babies left.
Maybe I killed a girl, she was 12, but I'm looking for a baby.
We'll do whatever we need to do to defend ourselves.
An investigation is underway into whether Israeli forces blowing up the main drinking water reservoir in Rafah constitutes as a war crime.
You cannot tell me to ever feel comfortable with 18,000 children being ruthlessly murdered.
Let me hear you cheer if you support Israel.
The Jews are everywhere.
All the assistants of Trump, Jews.
All the assistants of Sleepy Joe, Jews.
Obama, Jews.
Everyone around the reformed Jews, conservative Jews, Chabadnik, this.
Today the Jews rule this world by proxy.
They get others to fight and die for them.
Everyone who dares utter a word of criticism against Israel as accused of antisemitism.
When I was very young, I was forced to participate in that, in which I had to sacrifice an infant.
And the purpose of sacrifice is to what?
Is to bring you what?
What are you sacrificing for?
For power.
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