Tucker Carlson and Col. Douglas Macgregor dissect Ukraine’s proposed 30-day ceasefire, exposing its collapse with 1.2M Ukrainian "dead" and Russia’s dominance, while accusing Kyiv of assassinating critics like Alex Jones’ associate Stafford. They slam U.S. aid as prolonging the war, warning it risks global escalation, and urge Trump to prioritize border security over NATO—dismissing Europe’s military as irrelevant. Macgregor calls Ukraine a "rogue" state diverting U.S. weapons (e.g., Javelins) to Mexican cartels, framing them as America’s greater threat than Russia or China. The episode ends with a call to abandon regime-change wars, focus on domestic rare earth mineral independence, and reject Germany’s self-loathing, predicting far-right AfD’s rise to restore its former strength. [Automatically generated summary]
But they don't understand why he does not act to remove this regime, remove this man Zelensky, and put a stop to it.
There's this constant drumbeat about a ceasefire.
Well, the Russians are highly organized and disciplined.
They can stop whenever it makes sense to do so.
The Ukrainians are not in the same category.
They seem to be a rogue organization now.
You know, we've got, what, 200,000 of them here in the United States, and I don't know how many thousands of them are working for the SBU, the Ukrainian secret police.
They're now running around threatening everyone that has criticized Ukraine or opposed support for Ukraine.
So he's going to sit there and say, what do I want to do?
What makes the most sense for Russia?
Set aside the emotion.
And he also knows President Trump.
And he says, President Trump wants an end to this.
So do I. How do I nudge President Trump and say, help us?
We want to end this just as much as you do.
Help us a little bit.
Can't you rid us of this man, Zelensky, and this little MI6 CIA supported cabal that surrounds him?
Can't you help us with this?
But on the other hand, he's looking at his people and they're saying, don't depend on anything the West promises.
Don't believe anything the West says.
So march to the Dnieper, cross the river, end this once and for all.
This is the decision point.
It's a strategic inflection point in the history of Europe.
Because you now have a Russian leader with the power, with the capability to do anything he wants.
But this is a Russian who doesn't want to march west.
He doesn't want to rule Ukrainians.
He's not a fool.
He knows those people don't want to be ruled by Russians.
So it's a difficult position, but he has to end it.
And there's the other dangers.
Who knows what comes next?
You know, they killed this Russian general who had a very prominent role, and his name escapes me right now, but he was killed recently.
He had a very prominent role in identifying the attempts by the Ukrainians to build a dirty bomb and also to launch attacks on the nuclear power plants.
He knows there are people over there capable of that kind of lunacy.
Well, look at what they've done to their own people.
I mean, how many of these Ukrainians have died needlessly?
The handwriting was on the wall two years ago.
Why would you drag this thing out?
And Putin has not wanted to drag it out, but he has also not wanted to give people in the West the impression that he's interested in doing anything more than removing the Ukrainian menace.
In other words, he's not interested in conquest, doesn't want to march West.
I mean, how many times can he and Lavrov say this nonsense and shut up?
I mean, the British are probably the furthest from Russia, and they all know what their army consists of today.
It's a...
It's a bad facsimile of what was there 200 years ago.
It goes back to Bismarck's famous remark in 1879. He was asked by a British journalist, what would you do if the British Army landed on the North German coast?
He said, well, I'd have it arrested.
Everyone was upset, but he was right.
The British Army was about the size that it is now.
And the German Army at that point numbered, what, four, six hundred thousand?
With the capacity to mobilize millions.
So, this is all nonsense.
The same thing is nonsensical in France.
All my friends in the French military, and I've got several, have told me, Douglas, this is absurd.
You know, the only thing the French army is prepared for is to go on safari in Africa.
This is a waste of time, money, and resources, all of it.
The issue for Donald Trump is as follows, and I think this is what's most important for him to keep in mind.
His instincts are good.
If he follows his instincts, he'll be fine.
He needs to stop listening to the people around him.
Number one, any war that breaks out today involving the United States and Russia, and whether or not Russia, we want it to be involved, Russia is involved in the Middle East.
Russia is involved in Eastern Europe.
Whatever happens, the war will expand.
We will end up with multiple enemies arrayed against us.
China, BRICS in general, and certainly Iran and other states in the Middle East.
So the first thing is all wars will expand.
So don't start one under any circumstances.
It will expand out of control.
The second thing is he's going to discover the hard way that we are grossly overstretched.
And overextended.
The American military establishment is in no position to fight any kind of long war.
Remember we used to talk about the long war that we were supposed to fight?
That was all nonsense.
If you look at all of the simulations that involve us against Iran or us against any number of great powers, they all end in two weeks.
Well, why does the war end in two weeks?
Because in two weeks, we've exhausted everything that we've got.
There's no more ammunition.
There are no more missiles, no more rockets.
I would say, in truth, right now, it's closer to one week, maybe ten days.
And we don't have this scientific industrial base with manufacturing capability that is humming along 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
We can't match Russia, a nation of, what, 140 million?
Imagine that economic base producing in China.
China is in a position today that we were in during World War II and in the aftermath.
We were the productivity giant across the world.
That's China.
You can't go to war with these people.
You'll be buried by them with conventional weapons and ammunition.
And anyone who thinks a nuclear exchange makes sense deserves to be shipped off to the nearest asylum.
And I think Trump understands that.
So those first two things.
Anything that we do expands out of control.
Secondly, we're overstretched, overextended.
Our forces are tired.
They're very exhausted.
The naval forces in particular have a lot of problems.
Not just them, but they're the ones that are sitting out there on the front line right now.
And then on top of that, you have the Air Force.
And the Air Force cannot field thousands and thousands of fighters and bombers.
You know, we lost 18,000 bombers trying to penetrate German air defenses during World War II. We in the Royal Air Force.
18,000 bombers.
Air defenses today in Iran are substantial.
And they are capable.
This is the S-400.
They are layered with multiple kinds of missiles over a vast area and radars.
We are going to lose aircraft.
No one knows how many because we've never fought our way through it.
We don't have thousands to lose.
So in an attrition setting, we can't win.
And unfortunately, when you're 6,000 miles away from home, it's attrition.
You can't replace rapidly.
You can't reload rapidly.
You can't resupply rapidly.
Logistically, it's a disaster.
Then finally, you see what's happened in the market recently.
Dropped 900 points.
What do you think happens if there's a war in the Middle East or in Eastern Europe?
It'll just intensify the sell-off.
Everything tanks.
All confidence will be lost.
No one in their right mind at this point should be talking about a war.
We should be talking about disengagement.
And Zelensky, frankly, the way he was treated, I think President Trump was far too gentle.
I'm surprised that two giant Secret Service agents did not come in, pick him up, and remove him from the office.
The way he handled Zelensky is the way he's got to handle Netanyahu.
Because if he doesn't, Netanyahu will drag him into the abyss.
Because he wants this war in the Middle East, come hell or high water.
I mean, you've seen these settings where Netanyahu sits at the table and he's got everybody around him in his cabinet and he says, this is our opportunity to settle with everyone.
We're fighting on five fronts.
No, we're fighting on seven fronts.
And he starts ticking off, you know, everyone from the Houthis to the militias in Iraq and Syria and now Iran and so forth.
If you look at the map today, He's trying to occupy Syria all the way up to the edge of Damascus.
And Erdogan, who is a very clever but slippery character, has already said, forget it.
We're not going to tolerate that in southern Syria.
So he's pushing the envelope to the very edge.
In Damascus, there are three great Islamic cities in the region.
One is Cairo, the other is Jerusalem, and then Damascus.
They're not going to surrender Damascus to the Israelis.
So whatever happens, the Turks will eventually become involved.
Well, what we're talking about will end everything that we're accustomed to.
The rules-based order, which just means our global hegemony in military and economic terms.
Everyone in BRICS is now being forced together.
We're forcing cohesion on BRICS as an alternative to our financial system, which we use to bully everybody.
So that's all that BRICS is about.
But now BRICS is going to become increasingly militarized because we're seen as this rogue state that is willing to put everything at risk in order to retain its position of dominance.
That's catastrophic for us.
We don't want to go down that road.
And that's why I think most of us voted for President Trump.
We saw him as someone who would say no and diverge from that path.
But we don't know right now.
It's not clear.
He has not made it clear what he wants.
He has said he wants a settlement with Russia.
He wants normalization with Russia.
Okay, if you really want that, you've got to act in a way that demonstrates conclusively that you support that.
That means end all the military aid right now to the Ukrainians.
Period.
Done.
Number two, get all of the Americans out of Ukraine immediately.
Everybody.
Intelligence, civilians, contractors.
I mean, this has been another contracting bonanza in Ukraine, just as Afghanistan was.
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One of the things you need to do is account for the weapons that you shipped over there and the biolabs that you built there.
So, Ukraine, the Ukrainian military has been selling, I think everyone's aware of this, it's true, a large percentage of these weapons onto international arms markets, and they've wound up with some of the worst people in the world and destabilized the world.
But there's been no attempt by any agency in the U.S. government that I'm aware of to keep track of where they are, and moreover, the CIA has lied about that.
Well, what it means is that the cartels run everything.
I mean, we hear about this President's shine bomb in Mexico.
Forget it.
You know, she controls, what, 40 square kilometers in Mexico City.
This whole thing is an organized crime state.
Everyone in Mexico knows the truth.
If you go to Mexico City, my oldest son was just down there for a month, and he speaks very fluent Spanish, and he was talking to lots of people, and he loved the place, loved Mexico City, loves Mexicans.
But they'll tell you flat out, well, don't go there and don't go here and don't go there and don't ride in this cab and don't take this automobile.
Don't go to that airport.
Everybody knows the truth.
Everybody knows who operates what, who controls what.
And if you navigate through this maze of invested power of the cartels, you can survive.
But if you accidentally cross into their territory and are seen as a potential...
Problem in any way, shape, or form.
You're dead.
But at the same time, you've got whole families of these cartels, people that work for them, that are being treated for dental needs, medical problems, whatever else.
I mean, you join the cartel, you get free health care.
And you pointed out the weapons going down there are serious.
I was down there, and we talked to several people who were border patrolmen, also talked to some Texas Guard people, and said, we just go 100 yards on the other side into Mexico, and behind the ridgeline over there, you'll see all the weapons, all the RPGs, the Javelin missile systems that have found their way to Mexico.
Well, when they say Russians, let's put it this way.
The Russians, 90,000 to 100,000 dead.
They may have lost another 10,000 to 20,000 non-Russians from within the...
The military establishment, and that's one of the great achievements, by the way, of President Putin, has been to weld this force together that includes large numbers of Muslim Turks, who are extremely competent fighters, very tough.
In fact, the Chechen fighters are cleaning out Kursk right now, Kursk Oblast, because the Ukrainians made a mistake.
They hurled large numbers of drones down into Chechnya and killed a number of people, and that just...
That's why the notion that they can build anything now is ridiculous.
And how many millions are overseas?
What, 15 to 20 million have left the country?
There are 2 million plus Ukrainians in Russia.
And probably 15 plus million in the West.
And most of them have made it clear they have no intention of ever going back.
So this is killed, for all intents and purposes, for the foreseeable future, the Ukrainian nation.
But these things happen at the end of wars.
Most of the Germans killed in the military towards the end of the Second World War were killed in the last nine months.
Max Hastings wrote a book about it.
I can't remember the exact title.
It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't a bad illustration of what was going on.
When armies are retreating and they've lost their air and missile defense, they've lost their logistics.
In other words, units are breaking down because they can't feed themselves.
They can't protect themselves.
So it becomes not immediately every man for himself, but the units try to fight their way through to get back home.
And that's what the Ukrainians have done.
But as they're doing that, the problem today is with all of these unmanned systems and the surveillance that the Russians have, they can be killed in great numbers as they're running away, as they're leaving.
And they're not running away because they're cowards.
Nobody will tell you that the Ukrainians are cowards.
It's absolutely unacceptable.
These are very brave, courageous people, just like the Russians.
But they have no chance.
and so they're being driven in front of the advancing russians and people say well why are the russians advancing so slowly because from the very beginning putin has not wanted to kill large numbers of orthodox christian slavs it's not being his aim yeah was definitely the aim of the west oh my look at these uh look at these uh bio labs isn't that pretty clear from what we've seen it's
Killing Christians around the world is the actual subtext to our foreign policy.
Someone just handed me this.
This is just out.
Ukraine backs U.S. proposal for 30-day ceasefire with Russia.
I'm going to read this to you if you don't mind.
Ukraine, quote, expressed readiness to accept a U.S. proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire with Russia, the two countries said in a joint statement after a key meeting between U.S. and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia.
A ceasefire, if implemented, would be a major diplomatic breakthrough.
This is Rubio, quote, the Secretary of State.
The ball is now in their court.
We hope the Russians will reciprocate.
The U.S. agreed to lift its suspension on intelligence sharing with Ukraine and resume weapons shipments to the country, which were paused 10 days ago.
After weeks of pressure on Ukrainians, the U.S. side signaled the pressure is now on Russia.
Quote, if the Russians say no, we will know what the impediment is here, said...
Marco Rubio.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said Ukraine not only accepted the U.S. proposal, but also presented its principles for a conference of peace deal, which includes security guarantees that it requires.
Waltz also made clear to his team that all fighting needs to stop, not just air and missile strikes.
Before you negotiate, you need to stop shooting at each other.
That's what the president wanted to see, said Marco Rubio.
The U.S. and Ukraine also agreed to conclude as soon as possible, quote, a comprehensive agreement for developing Ukraine's critical mineral resources.
It wasn't clear if this meant that they would sign the deal that they'd been talking about.
Steve Witkoff, President Trump's envoy, global envoy, is visiting Moscow on Thursday to meet with President Putin and discuss this.
Well, I think there's some positive things in there, but we're missing the boat with the Russians again.
We don't understand that if Ukraine is going to be neutral, why are we continuing to supply it with weapons at this stage?
It's the Ukrainians that have to stop fighting.
The Russians will stop when they see evidence that the Ukrainian force is defeated or quits.
That hasn't happened yet.
Not with these attacks that just occurred over Moscow.
So the Russians are asking the question, you're the ones keeping this monster alive.
You created the monster, the monster is fatally wounded, and you keep putting it on life support.
Do you really want an end to this war?
I mean, imagine if we were dealing with a similar enemy in Mexico, and we found out that the Russians and the Chinese had provided vast quantities of equipment and assistance to the...
Mexicans who were trying to fight us and regain control of the Southwest.
And we defeated them and driven them back out of the country.
And they refused to stop.
They continued to fight.
We said, well, if you want this war to end, tell them to stop fighting.
Put down their weapons and back out.
And if they won't do that, then we have to do what?
March into Mexico and crush them.
I mean, this is the best analogy that I can come up with to make people understand what we're dealing with.
So if you want normalized relations with Russia, go back to what we said at the beginning.
End the military support for this heinous regime.
This is guilty of all sorts of terrible war crimes anyway.
All the things that Russia was accused of are things that the Ukrainians have done.
Well, they said that Lyndon Johnson was like, well, if we don't kill them here now in Vietnam.
We're going to be fighting them in Los Angeles, so we've got to get them now.
Come on, that was ridiculous.
I heard General Abizaid make the same stupid statement in 2004. Well, we have to kill these Islamist terrorists here in Iraq, or we'll be fighting them in our own country.
It's all crap.
It's the same old set of lies.
It's sort of like the perpetual neocon narrative, it's 1936. We all have to band together.
There's another Hitlerite on the horizon.
You know, this is a standard sort of gruel that is pitched to the American people over and over and over again, in the Anglosphere in general, whether it's Great Britain or Australia.
It's all nonsense.
We've got to get past this and once and for all bury it.
If we really want this to stop, this is not about winning or losing.
I think that's another problem.
You know, we've got to make sure this is a win for the president.
A win for the president is an end to this war.
Period.
Number two, what are our interests in Ukraine?
Tell me what they are.
What are the strategic interests that justify intervention in that country?
Time's up.
There are none.
We've never had any interest in Ukraine whatsoever.
We wish them well.
We want them to be happy and prosperous.
But we have never had any interest in defending them against anybody under any circumstances.
We've got to get back to what's rational, not what's emotional.
The president just needs to look at this and say, we need to stop this.
And he can be a world historical figure if he ends the carnage in Ukraine by simply saying, that's it, we're out.
And then turns around to the Middle East and says, stop now.
No more mass murder and expulsion of human beings from Gaza or the West Bank or anywhere else.
If he's willing to do those things, he's a world historical figure.
That's a dramatic sea change in the history, I would say, of the West and probably of the world.
But instead, what we get is, oh, we can't do that.
We'll look weak.
Sort of the argument that Kissinger made to Nixon.
Well, we can't just leave Vietnam.
Well, that's exactly what the hell we did, right?
We left.
So, no, we've got to go into Cambodia to show them that we're strong.
How many people did we lose in Cambodia needlessly?
It's the same mentality.
Just be honest.
This is over.
And then tell the Europeans, these are people that we're supposedly allied with, that they need to sit down at the table with Moscow.
In the UK right now, even Nigel Farage, head of the Reform Party, which I think is the biggest party, doesn't have power, but it's by registration the biggest party in Britain.
And it's the counterbalance both to the...
You know, the crazed laborites and the pathetic castrated Tories, they won't say that we should end the war in Ukraine.
Even they won't.
I mean, it's like there's nobody, there's no party that I'm aware of in all of Europe with power that will say that.
And the Russians have no interest in destroying Germany.
It's the ruling classes in these countries.
They're globalists and they need to be removed.
And they will be removed.
I'm confident that it will happen.
The British have not had a real revolution since Cromwell.
But I think they've reached the point now where they very much need a Cromwellian figure to clean house because the people ruling them are weak and inept.
The other thing, as an example, I said, well, have we stopped everything?
And, you know, you talk to sheriffs, and I went down there and talked to really a great man, and he's a huge supporter of President Trump, as I am.
I walked into his office, this building, and here's this life-size photograph of Donald Trump pointing at you.
I thought it was Trump.
I mean, I really did.
I said, my God, how did the president get here ahead of all of us?
It was about the same time that Vance and Tulsi and Hegseth went to Eagle Pass.
And this was Kinney County, and this was Sheriff Coe.
And Sheriff Coe says, oh, things have gotten so much better.
You know, that's right.
The optics are much better.
There are no longer thousands of people marching over the border anymore.
But what about the legal ports of entry?
The Border Patrol has nothing to do with the legal ports of entry.
Those are controlled by police authorities, customs police, and others.
And I said, well, what's the problem with the legal ports of entry?
Well, most of the drugs and a lot of the human trafficking comes to the legal ports.
I said, well, how does that happen?
They said, well, if somebody comes up to you and you make normally $3,000 or $4,000 a month, and they say, here's $20,000, let us through, you get through.
And that's part of the problem on the border.
So I said, well, what do you think needs to happen?
And people told me privately, you need to get the U.S. Army on the border.
He's done great work down there at all these camps.
And we, the American federal government, has actually helped to fund these non-governmental organizations in order to sponsor millions of people to invade our country and give them phones.
So just to bottom line it on a couple of issues, how would you rate the likelihood?
I mean, it does seem like the president, having run on the promise of peace in Eastern Europe and inserted himself right into the middle of it, being the only person who can bring peace, you know, he kind of has to see this through and likely will.
How hard will it be to get some sort of settlement between Ukraine and Russia?
You cannot turn around after the American government and all of its agencies have worked tirelessly to kill, maim, murder, harm as many Russians as possible.
Yeah, over the last, what, three and a half years.
So we have to understand that.
You just can't...
You can't just flip the switch and say, sorry, we want to be friends now.
However much you may want to do that, you can't.
You've got to admit this is a catastrophe, and we are mightily responsible.
And that's why I would urge the president to do exactly what I said.
End all aid to Ukraine.
Stop pretending that that government and anything we've done in that country is a positive thing.
It's not.
Has nothing to do with liberal democracy.
Has nothing to do with goodness in any form.
What we've done there is terrible.
What we need to do is stop it.
So stop sending any aid and then get everybody out.
Everybody.
And then offer to host a conference between, and I would not argue everybody in Europe, but I would certainly argue all of the states that border Russia and Germany.
Because Germany may not border Russia, but Germany has long-term strategic interests in Russia, as Russia has in Germany.
They should all meet in a conference room and agree to a new map with new borders.
We don't need to draw those.
They need to draw those.
And Europeans can do that.
They have been around forever.
How many times have European borders changed in the last thousand years?
And stop this nonsense about, well, you can't trust the Russians.
They'll take advantage of that.
Come on, this is nonsense.
They've lost 120,000 human lives.
You really think they want to continue?
There's no interest in that at all.
And, you know, what's really distinguished President Putin from all of his predecessors, I would argue, is his concern for the lives of Russian soldiers.
None of his predecessors were ever that concerned about how many lives they lost.
You go back to the First World War, and Nicholas II was a good man, but he was willing to accept tremendous losses if he thought he was going to pave the road to victory with Russian dead.
That's not Putin.
That's not what he wants.
Lavrov doesn't want it.
The general staff doesn't want it.
The population doesn't want it.
So we need to stop that nonsense.
And that's about as much as we can do.
We're not going to overnight cultivate new friendship with them.
It's going to take at least a decade, probably two decades, to restore some sort of normalcy to our relationship.
I don't know what the president is talking about in Ukraine, because all of those rare earths in any kind of concentration are in eastern Ukraine, under Russian feet right now, or in Crimea.
So I'm aware, I knew, that's why I asked you the question, because I knew that.
And I'm, or I think I know that.
And so it makes me wonder, like, if Zelensky is, you know, now anxious to sign this deal, was anxious before to sign the deal, before his arrogance and bad advice got in the way, maybe what this really is.
Is a way to change U.S. policy and sort of have us try and force the Russians to withdraw from Crimea and eastern Ukraine, which of course is not going to happen.
Do you think at the Pentagon, you no longer work at the Pentagon, but if you were to spend a week there talking to people off the record, what would be the level of support for new wars?
That doesn't mean there aren't lots of full colonels out there who are desperate to be generals.
And so they'll try to provide you with the answer they think is most likely to get them promoted.
Right.
But when you go into the general officer corps at the three- and four-star level, they have been conditioned for decades to look for trouble, literally.
In other words, go out and find a reason why we need Central Command.
We need Africa Command.
We need European Command.
We need Pacific Command.
Now we call it Indo-Pacific.
Insane.
When I was sitting over at the National Defense University before I retired, they came over and said, well, we're going to have Africa Command.
And I looked at, and Abizade at the time was the J-5.
I said, why?
I mean, how would you feel if you're an African?
Well, the United States military has now created a command and calls it Africa Command.
How's that good for Africa?
Are you planning on invading, you know?
I mean, having been to Africa, the last thing Africans need is a column of U.S. or British or French troops marching through the neighborhood.
It's a disaster.
They have enough violence and problems there.
We don't need to add to it.
I think President Trump wants to get rid of Africa Command.
We don't need most of these.
We should have four.
We should have Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, and Atlantic Command.
That's it.
You know why?
Because that's all we need.
You know why we have all these commands?
This all emerged as a result of the Second World War.
Because you needed layered commands over distance to communicate.
That's going to depend a great deal on the emergence of real leadership in Germany that is clear-eyed and focused on what's important to Germany.
I think the last time they had that kind of capable leadership was really with Bismarck.
I think Wilhelm I was a good man, but he wasn't strong enough to resist the dumb ideas that came his way.
And Hitler obviously overreached and destroyed everything, put everything at risk.
I don't see any evidence that the Germans are interested in overreaching or conquering anybody, but they do have an interest in restoring their productivity, their scientific industrial base.
They've thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
You know, when I went to school over there, and I went to a good school, and I was at a good school in the United States.
I was at the oldest Quaker private school in the United States, founded in 1681. The same year that my maternal ancestors arrived in the United States.
And I was sent there because my maternal ancestors were all Quickers.
And many of them had gone through all these friends, school sisters.
They were very good.
And I went from that school for one year to Germany, to Braunschweig, in northern central Germany.
We call it Brunswick in English.
Braunschweig.
And I went back to see the school in 2015, and I saw it in 2011 briefly, and then again in 2015. And it was all male.
And when I got into the 11th grade, they were studying differential calculus and preparing to move into integral calculus.
Well, that was a bit advanced for me.
You know, I'd gone through algebra and trigonometry and so forth, but differential and integral calculus in the 11th grade, this was...
A real problem.
And I struggled mightily.
And this was a school with 13 grades.
And by the time you finished, if you completed your abitur, you were qualified to go to any university in the country.
You were stamped.
You got the stamp of approval.
They did look at your performance on your final exams.
But this was very, very rigorous.
I mean, I was dealing with classmates who were on the humanities side.
I was stuck on the math-science side, which was the wrong place for me at the time.
But, you know, I survived.
Lots of beer.
Anyway, on the other side, they were studying Greek and Latin, along with French and English.
It was very rigorous.
This was a university prep school, because the Germans had a system where, at the fifth grade and the ninth grade, People were separated and were sent off to what we would call trade schools.
You could learn to be a hotel manager.
You could learn to be any number of different trades or whatever skills were needed, from electrician to plumber or something else.
Only about 15% went through this university prep system, which was designed to send you to a university where you would go on to do great things.
So I got back there and we were all male.
And the first thing that I saw on the first day, I came in there, and everybody was fairly nice to me.
They thought I was strange, and I thought they were strange, but, you know, whatever.
Germans were different, you know?
I said, geez, these Germans are very different.
And they gave me a seat, told me where to sit, and the instructor walked into the classroom.
And the instructor said, Guten Morgen, meine Herrschaften!
And he would say, Bitte, meine Herren, setzen Sie sich.
And we all sat down.
Let me tell you, what happened after that was serious.
We sat down and we focused nonstop for an hour, hour and 20 minutes on whatever the subject matter was.
And the instructor was very well trained, very well educated, and he would turn around and he would say to one of the students at the top of the class in the front row, I sort of sat in the back.
And this guy was the individual that recorded whatever was taught in the class that day.
And he would say, what did we discuss the last time?
And he would open the book and he said, the last time we discussed the following things.
And he said, exactly.
This time we are going to do the following.
Let me tell you, it was one of the best educations I've ever gotten in my life.
But what really struck me was focus.
School was not about anything else other than infusing minds with understanding and knowledge.
It was very effective.
So when I went back in 2015, I looked around.
Suddenly, there were all these girls.
There were no women with us.
We were all male.
Suddenly we have all these...
Girls in the hallways.
And I peeked in and I saw and the teacher walked in and said, okay, students, please take your seats and we'll get going.
I'm not saying Germans are perfect, but every nationality in Europe has a certain area of expertise, a certain specialty that they do very, very well.
The Germans need to get back to that and stop apologizing for events that happened long before any of these people were born.
That doesn't mean that you're denying something that happened.
Absolutely not.
No one denies anything in Germany.
In fact, You know, when they started showing these Nazi symbols in Ukraine, people in Germany were horrified, saying, my God, what is going on in that country?
And there's so many good things about Germany that that's the last thing in the world you want to resurrect.
And I think that will happen.
But it's not going to happen under Mats.
He's another semi-globalist with connections to BlackRock and others.
He's going to stagger forward, and eventually the Germans will get rid of him.
And eventually, I think the AFD will come to power.
In fact, they've done the AFD a great favor by refusing to cooperate with them because that will draw more people into the AFD so that when they do get power, they will have an ironclad majority and they can do the things that are needed to save Germany.
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