1:12

That's good. He's

1:14

on fire! Yeah,

2:02

maybe. It's episode 254 of

2:04

Ask the Inspector on April

2:06

11th 2025. Jeff Norman with

2:08

Scott Ritter for the loquacious

2:11

version. My first ever asked

2:13

the Inspector in the central

2:15

time zone. I'm coming to

2:17

you direct from Austin, Texas.

2:19

Scott as usual in Delmar,

2:21

New York. And what was

2:23

that opening? That was not

2:25

our usual intro. That was

2:27

something different. That was something

2:30

different. No, we're premiering the

2:32

opening to the new show

2:34

Trump Watch, which is going

2:36

to be entering production hopefully

2:39

next week. And pretty excited

2:41

about it. I mean, you

2:44

know, when we conceived it, we

2:46

knew that Trump was going

2:48

to be controversial and we

2:50

knew that there would be

2:52

plenty of things to talk

2:54

about. I don't think anybody

2:56

could envision Trump would be

2:58

this controversial. And this is

3:00

actually, back, and there's always

3:02

going to be something. And

3:04

the, it literally, throw a

3:06

dart, you have a topic

3:08

of controversy, so there's no

3:10

end of material that's going

3:12

to be available here. And so, you

3:15

know, we're, we're excited. It's taken us

3:17

a while. We've been working on that

3:19

opening. Even that, I guess. needs a

3:21

little bit more tweaking but I thought

3:24

I thought we should play it tonight

3:26

just to wet the appetite of

3:28

the audience it will be it'll

3:30

be on X I know the

3:32

people out there that don't like

3:34

X I'm sorry and it will

3:36

be subscription I'm sorry too we're

3:38

not going to do something like

3:40

this and and with the production

3:42

value and and just give it

3:45

away you know so but you

3:47

know You drink a cup of

3:49

coffee, that's about what it's going

3:51

to cost you. It's not that

3:54

expensive. And you'll be getting world-class

3:56

analysis and high-quality interviews with people

3:58

that matter on the... topics that

4:01

matter most. What's going on today?

4:03

I think the Trump watch, you

4:05

know, the goal here is to

4:07

be as nonpartisan as possible. I

4:09

will adjust my interview technique based

4:12

upon the partisanship level of the

4:14

person being interviewed. So if we

4:16

bring in a very pro Trump

4:18

person, I'll be pushing back. And

4:21

if we bring in a very

4:23

anti- Trump person, I'll be pushing

4:25

back. And if we bring in

4:27

a very anti- Trump person. I'll

4:30

probably be defending Trump a little

4:32

bit more to try and bring

4:34

some balance to the show. Basically,

4:36

each topic will be graded on,

4:39

you know, three criterion. I think

4:41

I can say criterion because it's

4:43

multiples. No, criteria is the plural.

4:45

Oh, well, there I add, I

4:48

stand correct. criteria, each criterion. There

4:50

we go. See, I don't have

4:52

my editor here. But the first

4:54

one. The first one is, well,

4:57

you're right there, yes, I'm talking

4:59

about my living editor, Siri. Siri,

5:01

what is the proper usage of

5:03

the term criteria in the plural?

5:06

You said it, Scott. Thank you,

5:08

Jeff. But the first thing that

5:10

will be tested will be adherence

5:12

to campaign promises. You know, and

5:15

this one's an important one. You

5:17

know, if Trump said he was

5:19

going to do something, is he

5:21

doing it? It doesn't matter where

5:24

you like it or not. The

5:26

criteria is, is Trump living up

5:28

to the campaign promises? The second

5:30

one will be, you know, how

5:33

effective is this? Okay, he promised

5:35

to do something. Is it accomplishing

5:37

what he wanted it to do?

5:39

That's an important criteria on. The

5:42

third one, and probably for me,

5:44

one of the most important ones,

5:46

Does it adhere to constitutional principles?

5:48

you know, we are in the

5:51

midst of a revolution. I believe

5:53

much of what Trump is doing

5:55

is revolutionary and probably needed, but

5:57

is it constitutional? And that's a

6:00

very fair question. And then the

6:02

fourth and final is actually going

6:04

to be how you bring them

6:06

all together, what the what the

6:08

overall grade is. And it's going

6:11

to be graded on A, B,

6:13

C, D, and F. And so

6:15

that's how we'll wrap it up.

6:17

We'll introduce the show, we'll do

6:20

the interview and then I'll wrap

6:22

it up with you know, the,

6:24

with the report card and some

6:26

final thoughts. But, um, really looking

6:29

forward to it. Like I said,

6:31

there's just no end of material.

6:33

Even today, you know, just open

6:35

up the headlines and there's easily

6:38

five or six, you know, big

6:40

interview topics that that emerged from

6:42

from the headline. So, uh, really

6:44

looking forward to doing this. He

6:47

is flooding the zone. Unfortunately, we

6:49

can only handle one topic a

6:51

week, but it'll be, we'll do

6:53

a good enough job. All right.

6:56

Well, before we get to the

6:58

questions, let's also let people know

7:00

that Scott's substock post is out

7:02

now. We were talking about it

7:05

last week, but it was not

7:07

published until today. And it's in

7:09

reference to his book. highway to

7:11

hell so you can buy the

7:14

book right now at clarity press.com

7:16

you can preorder it at scot

7:18

ritter.com and all the usual places

7:20

and you can read the post

7:23

about it at scot ritter.com or

7:25

it scot ritter extra it's a

7:27

sub stack post and uh... i

7:29

will say this uh... there are

7:32

people now who were waking up

7:34

to the fact we have many

7:36

thousands of subscribers I mean it's

7:38

a large number. And only a

7:41

fraction of them pay. And that's

7:43

okay, that's the way we set

7:45

it up. But I think people

7:47

are starting to recognize that, you

7:50

know, these articles are good articles.

7:52

They touch upon important topics and

7:54

more and more I'm getting messages

7:56

from people, they're subscribing and they're

7:59

saying, hey, I think it's time

8:01

we stop taking this for free.

8:03

And I would ask other people

8:05

to do the same thing. I

8:08

mean, you know, we, this is

8:10

how we make a living. All

8:12

right, this isn't charity. This is

8:14

how Jeff and I earn a

8:16

living. one of the ways, one

8:19

of the main ways. And it's

8:21

also, I'm going to say this

8:23

too, you know, apparently my stance

8:25

on Iran has pissed a whole

8:28

bunch of people off. And we've

8:30

had a precipitous drop in subscriptions

8:32

because people apparently don't like what

8:34

they're hearing, which is fine. I

8:37

can't force you to, you know,

8:39

to, you know, stay on. And

8:41

I'm not going to change my

8:43

mind. I'm going to tell all

8:46

the Iran haters out there. I

8:48

was proved 100% correct as I

8:50

usually am on issues of this

8:52

nature because I don't mess around.

8:55

I deal with the facts. I

8:57

call it as I see it.

8:59

Three weeks ago I said that

9:01

Trump is threatening war and Iran

9:04

has no choice but to enter

9:06

negotiations. That is the only way

9:08

out of this. Tomorrow Steve Wyckoff

9:10

flies to Oman where he will

9:13

have negotiations, director and regret, that's

9:15

semantics at this point, with the

9:17

Iranian foreign minister, that is the

9:19

only way we get out of

9:22

this short of war. People hate

9:24

it on me. Tell me I'm

9:26

promoting war, promoting nuclear war, I'm

9:28

an imperialist, I'm this and that.

9:31

No, I'm a realist. I don't

9:33

play the game of, you know,

9:35

Iran has to have a nuclear

9:37

weapon because that's the fair thing

9:40

to do. No, it's not a

9:42

fair thing to do. It's a

9:44

suicide pill for Iran. So, but

9:46

people are, you know, fled sub

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stack as is their one, but

9:51

if you stay in the sub

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stack, I would ask each one

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of you to reflect on whether

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you think it's right to continue.

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to subscribe for free. You can.

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We're not going to stop you.

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But understand there's a lot of

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work that goes into doing all

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of this. And there's a price

10:11

to be paid for telling the

10:13

truth because people tend, you know,

10:15

like I said, we, I think

10:18

last month we lost 48 subscriptions.

10:20

And that adds up. That's, you

10:22

know, that pays the bills. But

10:24

now it doesn't. So if you're

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out there and you subscribe for

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free, I would just ask you

10:31

to reflect on whether or not

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maybe it's time to upgrade the

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subscription. And then I think we're

10:38

going to move into the next

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subscription-based thing, which is the Russia

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House. And we had a fantastic

10:45

interview with Alexander Artemonov. He is

10:47

a professor at the Russian. foreign

10:49

ministries school. I think it's Imgimo.

10:51

It's the big university where they

10:54

train the diplomats. He runs the

10:56

National and International Security Affairs Department.

10:58

And we had a discussion about

11:00

the big picture. What that means

11:03

is rather than focus on very

11:05

small things, we talked about the

11:07

big picture about a world in

11:09

transition away from your American hegemony

11:12

to a multilateral world and what

11:14

that looks like. Fascinating conversation from

11:16

one of the leading thinkers in

11:18

Russia today. As I said, he's

11:21

at sort of the Harvard of

11:23

Russia running the department. This is

11:25

the kind of talent we bring

11:27

into the Russia House. And, you

11:30

know, people will get a lot

11:32

from listening to this. This is

11:34

like, you know, if you watch

11:36

the Russia House, you're literally getting

11:39

PhD level insight into Russia, which

11:41

was the purpose. But again, it's

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a subscription-based service. There's a number

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of reasons for that, but the

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main reason is that because to

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do what we're doing, we have

11:52

to produce this in Russia, which

11:54

means that we can't use the

11:57

normal channels of funding, etc. And...

11:59

Therefore, I'm doing this for free.

12:01

I don't get paid for this

12:03

at all. But the people that

12:06

are making it happen in Russia

12:08

need to get paid. They can't

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do this for free. This is

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hours and hours of work. And

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we would just ask that people

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subscribe to this too. Again, the

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cost of a cup of coffee,

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literally. If you do that you

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support it, we can continue it,

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we can expand it. You know,

12:28

we were able to get Maria

12:30

Zakarova on the show, the other,

12:32

and we provided that for free.

12:35

Monday, I don't want to give

12:37

way too much, I'm interviewing a

12:39

cosmonaut and we're going to have

12:41

a fantastic discussion about the Russian

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space program. Where are you getting

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that? Nowhere. but the Russia House.

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So I would ask people again

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to go out there and subscribe.

12:53

We have thousands of people watch

12:55

this show, I have thousands of

12:57

followers on X and on telegram,

12:59

and we have 123 subscribers to

13:02

the Russia House. You guys got

13:04

to do better. I mean, you

13:06

say you support, you say you

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want to support, you have to

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support. I mean, you don't have

13:13

to, obviously, but you know, if

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you don't, then these projects will

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go away. They'll die. Nobody else

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is doing it. So you're losing

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a unique service. So that's it.

13:24

Jeff knows I don't normally like

13:26

to talk money because it's uncomfortable.

13:29

But the reality is shit don't

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happen for free. Nothing happens for

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free. And I'll just give you

13:35

another reality people. Our stuff gets

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stolen. Everything we do get stolen

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and put out there. The frustrating

13:42

thing is, you know, this is

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the original right here. You guys

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are watching the original. Thank you

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for tuning in. This will get

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cut up and put on channels

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that have millions of followers. YouTube

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channels. Yeah, on and out. on

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an outlet that has banned us.

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They won't let the real story

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on that. They're making stuff. Tens

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of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands

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of dollars off of this. And

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we're making nothing, which is okay.

14:11

We do what we do. But

14:14

I'm just saying people understand this.

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Every time you go out and

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you watch a clip or you

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get something, people are starting to

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steal the Russia house. So if

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you go and watch the Russia

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house on something and you ain't

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subscribed, it's theft. Little theft and

14:31

people who take this program and

14:34

cut it up. It's theft And

14:36

there's not much we can do

14:38

about it, but just people need

14:40

to be Understanding that you know

14:43

a lot of time and effort

14:45

goes into doing this tonight Jeff

14:47

was working his ass off excuse

14:49

me Jeff Tushy is working his

14:52

tushy off preparing for the show

14:54

not just today, but we communicate

14:56

nonstop to do this and We

15:00

just, we appreciate the support we

15:02

get from everybody, but like I

15:04

said, none of this happens for

15:06

free. We all have bills to

15:08

pay, we have lives, we have

15:10

to lead, and this is a

15:12

full-time job. I mean for people

15:15

to say, oh, it's just a

15:17

hobby for you, Scott. I get

15:19

up like at five in the

15:21

morning, then I go to bed

15:23

at 11 at night, and with

15:25

the exception of driving my wife

15:27

to and from work, all I

15:29

do is this. This is my

15:31

full-time job. And I'm putting in.

15:33

You know, 15 hours a day.

15:35

Sometimes- Don't tell me about the

15:37

three hour five martini lunch. Don't

15:39

even mention that. I don't mention

15:41

the martini lunch because I can't

15:44

remember the martini lunch because I'm

15:46

drinking three martinis and I have

15:48

to help me get through the

15:50

day. Are you calling me an

15:52

alcoholic? No, I have a three

15:54

diet Coke lunch, but that's it.

15:56

But now we get to the

15:58

last thing before we get to

16:00

the show. Last year we started

16:02

a project called Operation Dawn. and

16:04

I, the more I reflect on

16:06

Operation Don, the prouder am of

16:08

what we did, Jeff, we did,

16:11

we did, we did some amazing

16:13

work there. And just so people

16:15

know, because I, again, I remember

16:17

when, when, when I was out

16:19

there talking about this, people were

16:21

saying, Scott, you're a fear-monger. Quit

16:23

threatening us with nuclear war, it's

16:25

fear-mongering, you're just blowing it out

16:27

of proportion, you fear-mongerer. And now

16:29

it's come out that, the Pentagon.

16:31

told Joe Biden that if you

16:33

allow Ukraine to fire attack his

16:35

missiles into Russia, that there's a

16:37

55% chance that Russia will respond

16:40

with nuclear weapons. Fear-monger? 55% chance,

16:42

guys. How many of you want

16:44

to play Russian roulette with those

16:46

odds? Nobody. And yet Joe Biden

16:48

was playing Russian roulette, Russian nuclear

16:50

roulette with all of our lives.

16:52

Because he did it. He had

16:54

to go in. And then the

16:56

Russians, just in December, the Russians

16:58

are like nook. We got to

17:00

do something. And we did a

17:02

panel in Washington, D.C. We went

17:04

to go meet congressmen to implore

17:07

them to change this policy and

17:09

to implore the incoming Trump team

17:11

to make a statement. A week

17:13

later, Trump made a statement that

17:15

said, I don't support this policy.

17:17

And the Russians responded to that.

17:19

I'm not saying that we alone

17:21

did this, there's a lot of

17:23

people moving on it, but we

17:25

were part of that movement. And

17:27

we were calling it out publicly

17:29

before anybody was talking about it

17:31

publicly. That's true. We led the

17:34

way. We said this is the

17:36

issue. And all the haters out

17:38

there, Scott's a fear marker. No,

17:40

Scott's a pretty good analyst, especially

17:42

about the topics that Scott knows

17:44

about. And I know about this

17:46

topic intimately, intimately. And we called

17:48

it right. And then the right

17:50

thing was done was pretty damn

17:52

good. And we're getting ready to

17:54

launch operation done 2.0. People say

17:56

now, what is that? Well, I

17:58

promised that Operation Don would be

18:00

a follow-through. Don stands for, you

18:03

know, what would you do to

18:05

save democracy, to save America, to

18:07

save the world through your vote

18:09

in November, and the end was

18:11

November. I'm modifying that, and that

18:13

is by acting now. We're taking

18:15

it in. So Operation Don, the

18:17

end now becomes now, act now.

18:19

And it's not make your vote,

18:21

you know, on the back side,

18:23

it's, you know, you know, make

18:25

your vote count, make your voice

18:27

heard. That'll be the modification. And

18:30

what are we doing? Well, I

18:32

just talked to Theodore Postle. If

18:34

you remember, when we did, we

18:36

did that panel, Postles did that

18:38

fantastic. Right, at the National Press

18:40

Club. He did that fantastic presentation

18:42

where he showed what the impact

18:44

of a nuclear weapon on Washington

18:46

DC would be. And Dennis Kucinich,

18:48

who was there, Larry Wilkerson, and

18:50

others. We're all saying, you know,

18:52

did the say, and Dennis said,

18:54

we gotta take the show on

18:56

the road. You know, we gotta

18:59

go scare the crap out of

19:01

all America. And I've been working

19:03

on this and the, look at,

19:05

look at Alex lithium, you're the

19:07

man. See, $5 a month for

19:09

the Russia house, $5 a month.

19:11

If I go to the gas

19:13

station and buy just a plain

19:15

old can of diet Coke, it's

19:17

gonna cost me $5. So the

19:19

price of a can of Diet

19:21

Coke at American Gas Station, you

19:23

can subscribe to the Russia House,

19:26

where once a week you get

19:28

world-class, literal world clubs. Alexander doesn't

19:30

allow me to bring in some

19:32

of the people I want to

19:34

bring in, because she says, no,

19:36

this is a high quality show.

19:38

The only people that you get

19:40

to interview on the show are

19:42

people that are state officials, they

19:44

have state awards, they, you only

19:46

bring in the best. I'm like,

19:48

okay, but I wanted to... Alexandra,

19:50

I suppose. to Alexander. She's talking

19:53

about the producer in Russia. Yeah,

19:55

she's the moderator on the telegram

19:57

channel and she's the producer and

19:59

I guess co-founder of the Russia

20:01

House. She is a equal partner

20:03

in this endeavor and she gets

20:05

all the credit in the world

20:07

for the quality of the programming.

20:09

All I do is ask stupid

20:11

questions and then she makes she

20:13

turns it into magic. You know,

20:15

she even has AI come in

20:17

sometimes to just redo my voice

20:19

so the question sounds even better

20:22

because... I'm just a Marine, doing

20:24

a Marine thing, but it's a

20:26

great show, $5 a month, guys.

20:28

That's it. That's it. That's it.

20:30

And you get the best stuff

20:32

in the world. But anyways, Operation

20:34

Don. So I was crunching the

20:36

numbers on what it would take.

20:38

First of all, Dennis is like,

20:40

we gotta take this to every

20:42

city in America. And if of

20:44

course at the time, I was

20:46

all excited going, yes, yes, Dennis,

20:49

we're gonna take it to every

20:51

city in America. Then it was

20:53

like, we'll pick the top six.

20:55

We'll take it to the top

20:57

six cities. And I crunched numbers

20:59

and went, it's still too expensive

21:01

and a lot of time. So

21:03

I came up with this idea.

21:05

We're gonna go to Boston and

21:07

we're gonna do a, it's not

21:09

a dry run. It's, we're gonna

21:11

do the full panel in Boston,

21:13

but it's going to be a,

21:15

the idea is to do it

21:18

in front of an audience and

21:20

then get. critique so that we

21:22

have the perfect presentation with the

21:24

perfect timing, everything done right. Why,

21:26

you might ask, do we need

21:28

to make it perfect? Because then

21:30

we're going to take it to

21:32

Hawaii. Now people are going to

21:34

go, Scott, you just want to

21:36

go to Hawaii for the beaches

21:38

and the sand and the surf.

21:40

You ain't wrong. I mean, I

21:42

grew up in Hawaii and the

21:45

beaches and the sand and the

21:47

surf are very nice. And it's

21:49

a hell of a good reason

21:51

to go to Hawaii, but that's

21:53

not it. Name the one

21:55

city in America that actually received a

21:57

notice that they were under eminent nuclear

22:00

missile attack. This is not a drill.

22:02

Seek shelter now. Let's see, would it

22:04

be where Tulsi Gabbard used to be

22:07

living? Yes, it would. It would be

22:09

Honolulu. Well, actually, it would be the

22:11

entire island. But it was the islands

22:13

of Oahu and Hawaii were told, you're

22:16

under attack, literally, within minutes. And these

22:18

are people just put their kids on

22:20

a school bus, and suddenly their phone

22:23

goes off, you're going to die. People

22:25

are going to work. You're going to

22:27

die. People at work, you're going to

22:29

die. What do you do? There's no

22:32

shelter. And so for 38 minutes, the

22:34

people of Hawaii thought they were going

22:36

to die. They were running. If you

22:38

remember the film, they're running. They're just

22:41

in the streets running. They don't know

22:43

where to go. A man had a

22:45

heart attack. He called his wife to

22:48

say goodbye, and he had a heart

22:50

attack. They were able to revive him.

22:52

But he had a heart attack because

22:54

he was in such shock. There are

22:57

people calling up crying, saying, I'm in

22:59

the car, I can't get you, I

23:01

love you very much. People were just

23:04

like, screw it, I ain't going to

23:06

the shelter, I'm hanging up on top

23:08

of the roof and I'm going to

23:10

watch the sun come in. For 38

23:13

minutes, the people of Hawaii thought they

23:15

were going to die. So what we're

23:17

going to do is go to Hawaii,

23:20

we're going to make this presentation. to

23:22

receive the notice that a nuclear missile

23:24

is inbound to your home and there's

23:26

not a god damn thing you can

23:29

do about it. Anybody who thought it

23:31

was a joke, who thought it was,

23:33

couldn't happen, for 38 minutes it was

23:36

happening. And we're gonna capture that, we're

23:38

gonna turn it into a documentary film,

23:40

and then we're gonna take it around

23:42

the country. But we see, we don't

23:45

have to physically go, we can digitally

23:47

take it around the country, we can

23:49

organize viewing parties when, and we get

23:52

that message out, but the message out,

23:54

but the purpose of this. is to

23:56

get the Trump administration to jumpstart arms

23:58

control. on February 20,

24:01

in next year, 2026, the New

24:03

Star Treaty expires. And when it

24:05

expires, there's no more arms control.

24:07

That's it. That's the last treaty.

24:09

And with the caps off, with

24:12

the craziness that's happening today, the

24:14

arsenals will explode, will have an

24:16

arms race out of control, and

24:18

there will be a nuclear war.

24:22

The only way we prevent a nuclear

24:24

war is to get arms control and

24:26

to put a cap on it so

24:29

that we stop this explosion of nuclear

24:31

weapons and then we buy time for

24:33

nations to sit down and talk. Maybe

24:36

get the INF treaty back up and

24:38

running. Maybe get the Chinese to come

24:40

to the table. But none of that's

24:43

going to happen if this treaty expires.

24:45

And right now, ladies and gentlemen, open

24:47

up your newspapers. Go online. Who's talking

24:49

about this? Who's saying oh we have

24:52

to have arms control? We have to

24:54

re-ignite the news no one's talking about

24:56

it We're talking about it operation Don

24:59

2.0 is talking about it And that's

25:01

what we're gonna do. So we're gonna

25:03

be moving forward on that But now

25:06

I have to make the pitch guys

25:08

nothing happens for free We're not asking

25:10

you to pay for a vacation in

25:13

Hawaii. I just told you why we're

25:15

going to Hawaii now if any of

25:17

you smart asses out. I shouldn't I

25:20

shouldn't say that I shouldn't say that

25:22

I shouldn't say that just so everybody

25:24

knows I have COVID. So I'm sick

25:26

as a dog. I'm literally dying in

25:29

place. So my temper might be a

25:31

little sharp here. So we have to,

25:33

I have to watch myself. But this

25:36

isn't, you know, we're going to do

25:38

a budget and we're going to be

25:40

honest with everybody what the budget is,

25:43

but this project to do it right

25:45

is going to cost thousands of dollars,

25:47

maybe even 10,000, 20,000 dollars. And we

25:50

need your help to do it. So

25:52

if you want to. You know, you

25:54

guys who helped us last year with

25:57

Operation Don, you literally saved the world.

25:59

You literally helped save the world. You

26:01

literally helped prevent a nuclear war. There

26:03

wasn't money wasted. It was money well

26:06

spent. And now we're asking you to

26:08

do. the same thing to help us

26:10

preserve a critical arms control treaty by

26:13

making a documentary film that we can

26:15

take it around and and and and

26:17

we'll get it we'll get it done

26:20

anyways that's my pitch you want to

26:22

add anything Jeff? Well I think if

26:24

you think the time is right we

26:27

can take some questions from our beloved

26:29

audience. Oh God do I have to

26:31

answer his questions tonight is that the

26:33

whole purpose? I thought it was Operation

26:36

Ten Cup. Okay. Well, that's it. All

26:38

right. Well, I will be adding to

26:40

that in the coming days, but I

26:43

think that you gave a good pitch,

26:45

and why don't we just get to

26:47

the questions? And the first question

26:49

is from Pierre Long in

26:51

the Philippines. The State Department

26:54

has approved the sale of

26:56

24 F-16s to my country.

26:58

What is the implication, given

27:00

the recent visit of Secretary

27:02

Hexeth here, amid the ongoing

27:04

PLA military exercises around Taiwan?

27:06

Just an eerie timing. Well,

27:08

nothing's done by accident. I

27:10

mean, this was clearly a

27:12

signal being sent to China

27:14

that the United States is,

27:16

you know, going to militarize

27:18

the Pacific. Hexeth has become

27:20

increasingly, I disappear from the

27:22

screen, I hope my voice

27:24

is still being heard. Hexeth

27:26

is still is becoming more

27:28

and more militant here. You

27:30

know, when we first started

27:33

talking about what Trump was

27:35

going to do in his

27:37

new term, I... believe that

27:39

he was trying to disentangle

27:41

himself from Europe in the

27:43

Middle East so that he

27:45

could pivot to the Pacific

27:47

not to fight a war

27:49

with China, but to engage

27:51

you know, in economic competition.

27:53

But Trump's expanded. I mean,

27:55

he's gone from zero to

27:57

400 on China with this

27:59

trade war and China's not

28:01

backing down. And I think

28:03

the, you know, he's now

28:05

doing what he was doing

28:07

with Taiwan, just making militaristic

28:09

threats. And this trip to

28:11

the Philippines was part and

28:14

parcel of that to expand

28:16

the military presence there and

28:18

to... you know, assuage Filipino

28:20

concerns by giving them 24

28:22

old F-16 fighters that won't

28:24

stand a snowballs chance in

28:26

hell against the Chinese, but

28:28

it'll make you feel good

28:30

for a little while until

28:32

you die. Okay, the next

28:34

question is from Franklin in

28:36

Switzerland. How can Iran destroy

28:38

Israel without simultaneously destroying Gaza,

28:40

the West Bank, and the

28:42

Al-Aqsa mosque? Iran claims that

28:44

it can fire 3,000 to

28:46

5,000 precision guided missiles that

28:48

can't be shot down by

28:50

the Israelis. When I say

28:53

precision guided, that means that

28:55

they hit the targets they're

28:57

aimed at. So I would

28:59

imply that would imply that

29:01

Iranian targeteers would not fire

29:03

into Gaza, would not fire

29:05

into the Palestinian parts of

29:07

the West Bank, that their

29:09

strikes would be... precise against

29:11

military installations, Israeli military installations,

29:13

Israeli economic targets, political targets,

29:15

critical infrastructure. But I believe

29:17

that the Iranians have demonstrated

29:19

that their missiles are very

29:21

accurate and they'll aim with

29:23

their hit at, so it's

29:25

just up to the Iranians

29:27

not to target these things.

29:29

But there's another way to

29:32

destroy Israel, just so everybody

29:34

understands. There's huge lines right

29:36

now in Israel. huge lines

29:38

because they have to start

29:40

rationing food and rationing goods

29:42

to many of their citizens

29:44

because they're is crushed. You

29:46

can think on Srala for

29:48

that, you can think Hezbollah,

29:50

you can think Hamas, the

29:52

axis of resistance, Iran. You

29:54

know, war is not just

29:56

what's happened on the battlefield,

29:58

but there's political aspects of

30:00

it, there's economic aspects of

30:02

it. Right now, Israel's economy

30:04

is crushed, it's dying. And

30:06

that's another way to destroy

30:08

Israel without physically destroying things.

30:10

Yeah, again, if Iran nukes

30:13

Israel, then they kill the

30:15

Palestinians. which is why Iran's

30:17

not going to nuke Israel,

30:19

which is that why, again,

30:21

people stop talking about an

30:23

Iranian nuclear weapon. It ain't

30:25

gonna happen. I'll tell you

30:27

why it ain't gonna happen,

30:29

and nobody wants to hear

30:31

this, because the moment they

30:33

start to produce a nuclear

30:35

weapon, we take them off

30:37

the face of the earth.

30:39

Don't you get it? They're

30:41

not going to have a

30:43

nuclear weapon. built one, we

30:45

take them off the face

30:47

of the earth. Iran doesn't

30:49

survive with nuclear weapons. Everybody

30:52

says, well North Korea did.

30:54

No, you guys don't understand

30:56

the North Korean problem then.

30:58

And you know, there was

31:00

a North Korea nuclear crisis,

31:02

I think, back in 1993,

31:04

1994, that led to American

31:06

was going north. This is

31:08

before North Korea got nuclear

31:10

weapons. This is just when

31:12

they were having issues with

31:14

weapons inspectors and specters. I

31:16

was in the Marine Corps

31:18

at the time and without

31:20

getting into too much detail

31:22

I spent a lot of

31:24

time planning counter Korean missile

31:26

operations, meaning putting teams on

31:28

the ground inside North Korea

31:31

to hunt down missiles before

31:33

they could be fired. We

31:35

were going to war against

31:37

North Korea. He was actual

31:39

war planning. We were going

31:41

to war against North Korea.

31:43

Bill Clinton pulled the plug

31:45

on it at the end

31:47

because I guess they sent

31:49

Jimmy Carter. I will not.

31:51

We were going to war.

31:53

Why didn't we go to

31:55

war? North Korea didn't have

31:57

nuclear weapons, so it wasn't

31:59

the nuclear weapons. It was

32:01

30,000 North Korean artillery pieces

32:03

dug into the hills behind

32:05

the river, the separates North

32:07

and South Korea, the capital

32:09

city of Seoul would be

32:12

flattened immediately, millions of people

32:14

killed, etc. We don't have

32:16

a solution to that. People

32:18

are people. You know what

32:20

the North Korean nuclear weapons

32:22

did? Just for all you

32:24

people out there that think

32:26

they're great? It just means

32:28

that when we do nuke

32:30

North Korea, we use bigger

32:32

weapons. That's it. That's all

32:34

that happened. Instead of hitting

32:36

North Korea with a 15

32:38

kiloton warhead, we'll hit North

32:40

Korea with a 200 megaton

32:42

warhead. That's it? You guys

32:44

think that North Korea is

32:46

safe? It's not. The thing

32:48

that's saving North Korea isn't

32:51

its nuclear weapons, you idiots.

32:53

It's 30,000 artillery pieces dug

32:55

into the mountains that we

32:57

don't have a solution for.

32:59

We don't know how to

33:01

get them. We can't stop

33:03

them. The moment the war

33:05

starts, they fire salvos that

33:07

eliminate South Korea. And it's

33:09

too close for us to

33:11

nuke them. We can't come

33:13

in and drop a nuke

33:15

on it because they're only

33:17

nukeen soul. That's the only

33:19

thing that saves North Korea.

33:21

Not their nuclear weapons. Please

33:24

don't talk about things you don't

33:26

know about It's the same thing

33:28

people Saddam Hussein gave up his

33:30

nuclear weapons He never had nuclear

33:32

weapons and he didn't give him

33:34

up. They were taking the capabilities

33:36

taken from because he's not allowed

33:39

to have it It went on

33:41

a six-month crash program. We almost

33:43

got one device, but he invaded

33:45

Kuwait That's why we took Saddam

33:47

out not because of his nuclear

33:49

weapons. He didn't give up his

33:51

shield. He invaded Kuwait lost a

33:53

war got the Americans pissed off

33:55

at him who then said he

33:58

got to go and a decade

34:00

later he went. That's it. It

34:02

has nothing to do with the

34:04

nuclear shield he did or didn't

34:06

have. If Saddam Hussein developed a

34:08

nuke, Iraq would have been removed

34:10

from the face of the earth.

34:12

Y'all don't know what you're talking

34:14

about. You're acting as if a

34:17

nuclear weapon preserves you from the

34:19

United States of America. It doesn't.

34:21

It doesn't preserve you. If you

34:23

represent an existential threat to us

34:25

or our allies, we kill you.

34:27

We kill you. If you're Russia,

34:29

you get to kill us back.

34:31

But stop pretending that having a

34:33

nuclear weapon is a solution to

34:36

your security problems. It's not. For

34:38

the North Koreans, all it did

34:40

is guarantee that if we do

34:42

go to war, we hit them

34:44

with bigger nukes. That's it. The

34:46

thing that stops the war isn't

34:48

North Korea's nukes. It's the artillery

34:50

pieces that threaten soul. Libya never

34:52

had a nuclear weapons program. They

34:55

had all these programs. But that

34:57

was resolved in 2003. Gaddafi went

34:59

out in 2011. And I challenge

35:01

any of you people that say

35:03

he died because he gave up

35:05

his nuclear weapons. He didn't have

35:07

them. He tried to illegally import

35:09

technology that could have led to

35:11

an enrichment program that maybe could

35:13

have produced if it wasn't detected.

35:16

That's not what got him. But

35:18

got him is that he basically

35:20

was talking about dropping out of

35:22

the Euro system, going to an

35:24

Africa. gold-based system and that he

35:26

also knew the secrets of Sarkozy's

35:28

corruption. Apparently some Libyan paid Sarkozy

35:30

to win an election. So the

35:32

French said he had to go.

35:35

That's why Gaddafi went, guys. It

35:37

has nothing to do with weapons

35:39

of mass destruction having them or

35:41

not having them. Gaddafi went because

35:43

he pissed off some Europeans. So

35:45

they took him out. That's it.

35:47

For all the people out there

35:49

to the Iranian saying you got

35:51

to have a nuclear weapon. No,

35:54

they don't and if you say

35:56

the afternoon then you don't You

35:58

don't care about the Iranians, do

36:00

you? You're just trying to win

36:02

some stupid debating point that has

36:04

no fact-based. I just told you

36:06

it has no fact-based. Stop asking

36:08

the Iranians to commit suicide. If

36:10

you care about Iran, and this

36:13

is what I told Professor Morandi,

36:15

I had a, they called it

36:17

a debate, it was actually a

36:19

very polite discussion on Danny Haifong

36:21

show. I said, you know, people

36:23

have to start loving Iran more

36:25

than they hate America. Because

36:28

everybody's out there, you know,

36:30

fuck America, America sucks, it's

36:32

an empire, you know, America,

36:34

bad, evil, evil, and Iran

36:36

needs a nuclear weapon. Wow,

36:38

because you just basically said

36:40

all the Iranians need to

36:42

die. Because that's what will

36:44

happen if Iran gets a

36:46

nuclear weapon. Iran will be

36:48

destroyed. Tens of millions Iranians

36:50

will die. So please, all

36:52

you America haters out there.

36:54

Love the Iranians, more than

36:56

you hate America. and there

36:58

will be a nice outcome

37:00

for this. Tomorrow, Steve Whitcough

37:02

meets with the Iranian Foreign

37:04

Minister. They'll begin negotiations. And

37:06

no, sir, people saying that

37:08

literally don't care about it.

37:10

I agree. They don't care

37:12

about Iran. They don't care

37:14

about Iran at all. They're

37:16

just trying to score some

37:18

stupid, cheap, talking points. If

37:20

you care about Iran, you

37:22

want Iran to do exactly

37:24

what they're doing tomorrow. Meeting

37:26

with a very prominent... influential

37:28

American negotiator and trying to

37:30

resolve this thing so that

37:32

there's a peaceful outcome. And

37:34

for you guys to think

37:36

Steve Wythkov couldn't pull it

37:38

off, he's the only one

37:40

he can't pull it off.

37:42

He just finished having a

37:44

four and a half hour

37:46

meeting with Vladimir Putin in

37:49

St. Petersburg and he's reality

37:51

base. You know what the

37:53

phone call he made back

37:55

to Donald Trump was on

37:57

his way to Oman? He

37:59

said, the quickest way to

38:01

have peace here is to

38:03

give the Russians control of

38:05

the four territories. Give Russians

38:07

control of Kharso, Soporizia, Donetskin,

38:09

Lugans. and we could probably

38:11

get a deal. That's reality-based.

38:13

Maybe he'll call Trump up

38:15

from Oman and say, all

38:17

right, if the Iranians get

38:19

rid of 60% enrichment and,

38:21

you know, they get rid

38:23

of their excess enrichment requirements

38:25

and we put a nice

38:27

monitoring program in for what

38:29

remains, we probably got a

38:31

deal. Trump will probably say,

38:33

yeah, let's do it. Would

38:35

cost a good negotiator. Very

38:37

good negotiator. And this is

38:39

what we need. We need

38:41

negotiations. Diplomacy. Yack, yack, yack,

38:43

yack, better and bang, bang,

38:45

bang. Next question. Nice man

38:47

in Scott's house. Who's more

38:49

dangerous or worse? Ukrainian banderist

38:51

or Al-Qaeda. Please explain your

38:53

choice and the difference between

38:55

the two. I feel like

38:57

I'm at college and I

38:59

sat down, I just sat

39:01

down in my government, you

39:03

know, midterm and opened up

39:05

the blue book. And here's

39:07

the question, essay question for

39:09

50 points. Who's more dangerous?

39:11

Ukrainian bandarists or al-qaeda. The

39:13

bandarists are a localized threat,

39:15

meaning that if you are

39:17

in the vicinity of Ukraine,

39:19

They represent a threat. If

39:21

you're Poles, they represent if

39:23

you're Jews living in Ukraine,

39:25

they're a threat. If you're

39:27

Russians, they're a threat. If

39:29

you're South Africans, they're not

39:31

a threat. If you're Filipino,

39:33

they're not a threat. If

39:35

you're South Korean, they're not

39:37

a threat. HTS is not

39:39

a threat. But I'll address

39:41

both. First of all, you

39:43

said, who are they? The

39:45

Banderas are actually a Ukrainian

39:47

now. group that traces its

39:49

roots back to, you know,

39:51

right around the end of

39:53

World War I. At the

39:55

end of World War I,

39:57

there was something that was

39:59

formed called the Western Ukrainian

40:01

Republic or something of that

40:03

nature. They declared independence for

40:06

a while. They got caught

40:08

up in a fighting between

40:10

the Poles and the Russians.

40:12

And many of them fled,

40:14

came here to the United

40:16

States, one of the first

40:18

waves of the diaspora, the

40:20

second wave of the diaspora,

40:22

and they began creating... I

40:24

just wrote an article about

40:26

this last week we posted

40:28

in the sub stack about

40:30

the threat from inside and

40:32

the threat from within. But

40:34

the, the, the Banderas are

40:36

part of a party, it

40:38

started off being called something,

40:40

but I can't remember the

40:42

name, but it grew into

40:44

the organization, Ukrainian nationalists, and

40:46

a step on Bandera was

40:48

one of the founders. of

40:50

this very extreme nationalism that

40:52

is built around the notion

40:54

that the Ukrainians are ethnically

40:56

pure and therefore racially superior

40:58

to the Poles, to the

41:00

Russians who they call subhuman

41:02

and the Muscles, they make

41:04

fun of them, mock them.

41:06

Jews definitely don't rate anywhere

41:08

near as good as the

41:10

pure Ukrainians, but these people

41:12

have an ideology that's very

41:14

similar to Nazi Germany in

41:16

terms of the the Aryan

41:18

race and all that and

41:20

they were very closely linked

41:22

to to the Nazis in

41:24

the 30s. It was interesting

41:26

now when the Bandarists started

41:28

to come over here to

41:30

the United States in the

41:32

1930s and early early before

41:34

we went to war in

41:36

the Russia, the Soviets were

41:38

our allies, the Bandarists were,

41:40

you know, hunted down by

41:42

the FBI because of their

41:44

Nazi affiliation. We've known they've

41:46

been Nazis the whole time.

41:48

But so, you know, they,

41:50

they, the organization Ukrainian nationalists,

41:52

They created a resistance movement

41:54

against the Soviets in 1944.

41:56

They continued to fight up

41:58

until 1953, 1954. They went

42:00

into diaspora. They went to

42:02

the Gulag. They got released.

42:04

The CIA got in touch

42:06

with them. Managed in them

42:08

up until 1990 when they

42:10

were handed over to USAID

42:12

in a National Endowment for

42:14

Democracy. and the CIA got

42:16

it again, they came into

42:18

power 2014 with this coup,

42:20

and they're there today, but

42:23

it's a localized threat. These

42:25

are Nazis, they're evil people,

42:27

they're bad, but they haven't

42:29

manifested themselves globally yet, although

42:31

I am concerned about the

42:33

Ukrainian diaspora here in the

42:35

United States and in Canada,

42:37

where the Banderas have taken

42:39

control, and that's the whole

42:41

purpose of the article that

42:43

I wrote on Substack. last

42:45

week because that was to

42:47

say we got a threat

42:49

here right here we got

42:51

Nazis here that are their

42:53

loyalty. They have for summer

42:55

camp right here in Ellenville

42:57

and they have them in

42:59

other parts of the country.

43:01

If you read what they

43:03

would you know they take

43:05

these guys from kindergarten up

43:07

until they graduate from high

43:09

school and near the end

43:11

when they become camp counselors

43:13

and the senior scouts you

43:15

know they go through the

43:17

various things that are being

43:19

taught and one is absolute

43:21

loyalty to the organization. I

43:23

don't know what absolute means

43:25

in other people's terms, but

43:27

in my term it means

43:29

absolute like total loyalty to

43:31

the organization. I wonder where

43:33

the Constitution fits in that

43:35

because nowhere does it say,

43:37

you know, adherence to the

43:39

Constitution or the rule of

43:41

law, absolute loyalty to the

43:43

organization, its goals and its

43:45

mission. And the organization goal

43:47

and mission is to... have

43:50

a pure Ukraine. Somebody flashed up

43:53

a message there about killing Poles.

43:55

Volin is a region in... Western

43:57

Ukraine, Eastern Poland during World War

44:00

II. The Bandarists rose up in

44:02

the summer of 1943 and killed

44:04

about 110,000 Poles. These are really

44:07

good people. You know, because as

44:09

they closed in on the villages,

44:12

they'd go into homes and, you

44:14

know, they'd nail the women to,

44:16

literally nail the women to a

44:19

table while the women was raped.

44:21

in front of her husband. They

44:23

take the babies and they would

44:26

cut them apart, alive. They would

44:28

cut dissect them in front of

44:31

the parents and then they would,

44:33

you know, make the man watch

44:35

his wife be raped until she

44:38

died and then they'd kill him.

44:40

All the while the screams are

44:42

drowned by the screams are drowned

44:45

by him. All the while the

44:47

screams are drowned out by the

44:50

beautiful Ukrainian costumes out there and

44:52

singing, whatever the hell they were

44:54

singing back then. But they're drowned

44:57

out to do the same thing.

44:59

These are really good people and

45:02

they live right down here in

45:04

Ellaville, New York and the reason

45:06

why bring it up is people

45:09

are you know The sins of

45:11

the father don't translate to the

45:13

son. Well, they do when they

45:16

worship step on bandara the guy

45:18

who did this They literally parade

45:21

with his damn portrait carrying torches

45:23

and the brown Nazi uniforms. They

45:25

have a hill of heroes where

45:28

bandara and you know, Roman Shishkebitch

45:30

another murderous son of a bitch

45:32

who slaughtered Jews and everybody Well,

45:35

they're Americans. You can't deport them.

45:37

They're Ukrainian Americans. But anyways, so

45:40

the Ukrainians are localized. HHS is

45:42

an Al-Qaeda affiliate. Al-Qaeda, of course,

45:44

is a global terrorist organization. I

45:47

want to remind Americans they did

45:49

attack us in 9-11. So it's

45:51

not like they're friends. And yet,

45:54

Donald Trump's going to meet with

45:56

the president of Syria who is

45:59

Al-Qaeda-HTS. I don't understand what's going

46:01

on here. Putin in May is

46:03

going to meet with Beijing. ping

46:06

ping and in Modi, the Indian

46:08

Prime Minister, coming to Moscow to

46:11

attend the May Day ceremony. The

46:13

big three are going to be

46:15

there. And Donald Trump's meeting with

46:18

the head of al-qaeda. There's something

46:20

wrong with that picture. But it

46:22

is an al-qaeda affiliate. HHS is

46:25

a Turkish intelligence-backed, American-backed terrorist organization

46:27

that incorporates terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, that

46:30

incorporates terrorists from all around the

46:32

world. Mainly from Turkic regions. They

46:34

come from Chechnya. They come from

46:37

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. The Uyghurs from China

46:39

play a big role in this.

46:41

And these are horrible people. They're

46:44

the ones, if you take a

46:46

look at the butchering that's being

46:49

done of the Alawites and the

46:51

Christians in Syria today, it's HTS,

46:53

it's these foreigners, these Tajikhs, these

46:56

Uzbeks, who are making the people.

46:58

crawling the ground, barking like dogs

47:00

before they beat them and then

47:03

execute them in cold blood. They're

47:05

killing women, they're killing pregnant women,

47:08

they don't care. That's outkind. It's

47:10

a global threat. It's a much

47:12

bigger threat than the bandarists. Okay,

47:15

the next question is from session

47:17

Mumbai. A lot of you were

47:20

talking about people who care about

47:22

Iran. I think our audience cares

47:24

quite a bit. We have a

47:27

few questions about Iran that indicate

47:29

such concern. This is session Mumbai.

47:31

Many wars start because either side

47:34

does not believe in the other

47:36

side's capabilities or intentions. If, as

47:39

you say, the U.S. will use

47:41

tactical nukes to take out Iran's

47:43

underground nuclear sites, surely Trump should

47:46

publicly announce that intention, strategic ambiguity

47:48

in this matter is unforgivable given

47:50

how the world will change in

47:53

the weeks and months thereafter. And

47:55

I think the next... is also

47:58

about Iran. Maybe you can address

48:00

these two together. Scott Bernard from

48:02

Hull in England. Would you get

48:05

a mushroom cloud if the Iranian

48:07

underground sites were targeted or would

48:09

you see nothing as detonation would

48:12

be so deep underground? To the

48:14

first one first, mushroom cloud comes

48:17

from an air burst. So the

48:19

weapon comes in and detonates, they'll

48:21

pick whatever the optimal detonation height

48:24

is based upon the nature of

48:26

the terrain, the target, the size

48:29

of the weapon, but it blows

48:31

and then it basically, that overpressure

48:33

hits the ground and the mushroom

48:36

ground is, the cloud is formed

48:38

when the pressure pushes its way

48:40

back up into the sky and

48:43

you get the mushroom cloud. If

48:45

the weapon penetrates, you have a

48:48

different impact, it's going to be

48:50

a below the ground explosion. The

48:52

weight will make if it does

48:55

break through will manifest itself as

48:57

a typical Explosion there won't be

48:59

a mushroom cloud. So a mushroom

49:02

cloud is is derived from an

49:04

air burst Going back to sash

49:07

You know could you put that

49:09

question? I just want to say

49:11

you know point something out. I'm

49:14

in a very good mood tonight.

49:16

So but if as I say

49:18

sash, please don't do that If,

49:22

as I say, I don't make

49:24

shit up, okay, I don't, I

49:26

don't come out here and just

49:29

throw BS at you. It's if

49:31

the U.S. will use to nuclear,

49:33

now let's, let's talk about this,

49:36

Seth, because you say that the

49:38

U.S. hasn't declared it. Do you

49:40

know what the nuclear posture guidance?

49:43

that's done published by every administration.

49:45

Donald Trump published one in 2018.

49:48

Joe Biden published one, I think,

49:50

in 2022. But the posture review

49:52

that's done and then the posture

49:55

document that comes after that says

49:57

what the United States is going

49:59

to do. So you say if,

50:02

as I say, the US will

50:04

use tactical, the posture says we

50:06

will use tactical nukes. I'm not

50:09

making it up. It's written right

50:11

there. We'll use them preemptively. in

50:14

a non-nuclear environment, meaning that we

50:16

don't have the deterrence policy here

50:18

in play. And as you read

50:21

this document, it's a classified document,

50:23

but unclassified things you put out

50:25

there, then the press tends to

50:28

release things. You'll see there's a

50:30

discussion about Iran's underground nuclear facilities.

50:32

Now the interesting thing is, when

50:35

the United States says, work with

50:37

me on this one, Seth, when

50:40

the United States says, we will

50:42

take these sites out, when the

50:44

United States says that Iran will

50:47

not be allowed to have a

50:49

nuclear weapon. Do

50:52

you understand what that means? That's

50:54

a statement made by the United

50:56

States government. It's pretty damn clear.

50:59

Iran will not be allowed to

51:01

have a nuclear weapon. And we

51:03

will use the totality of the

51:05

means available to ensure that doesn't

51:07

happen. I'm not making this up

51:10

Seth. It's official statements in the

51:12

United States government. So now you

51:14

say, gosh, but that doesn't say

51:16

nuke, no, Seth, but let's work

51:18

with me on this one. The

51:21

US government has publicly said in

51:23

the same documents that we can't

51:25

destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities using

51:27

conventional munitions. Help me out Seth.

51:30

So if we say... We can't

51:32

destroy the underground facilities using nuclear

51:34

weapons, but if Iran builds a

51:36

nuclear weapon or seeks to build

51:38

one, we will destroy those facilities

51:41

and we have a doctrine that

51:43

says we will use nuclear weapons

51:45

when needed. You tell me what

51:47

the statement is, Seth. Two plus

51:49

two equals four. That's why I

51:52

said it. I'm not making it

51:54

up. I'm not blowing smoke up

51:56

your ass. I'm telling you exactly

51:58

what the policy of the... United

52:00

States of America is. No

52:03

president's going to come out and say

52:05

I'm going to nuke you. That's political

52:07

suicide. But if you're telling

52:09

me that the Iranians don't

52:11

understand what the hell is

52:13

happening, it's right there in black

52:16

and white. They have very good

52:18

intelligence services that review US doctrine

52:20

inside and out. And they know damn

52:22

well that what I'm saying is the truth.

52:25

the whole truth in nothing but the truth.

52:27

And that's why I say it, not because

52:29

I support it, I condemn it, I don't

52:31

want this, I'm not saying this is good

52:33

policy. Every time I say this,

52:35

people are out there going, Scott

52:37

Ritter, he's a war-monger and imperialist

52:39

who wants America to nuclear

52:42

on. Nope, I don't want America to

52:44

nuclear on. Whether you want him to

52:46

or not, they're going to do

52:48

it if we go to war,

52:50

because we don't. have a weapon

52:52

capable of taking out. Trump thought

52:54

we did. This is the big

52:56

news flash for people. We deployed

52:58

our newest bunker-busting technology to Yemen.

53:00

Because we were going to show the

53:02

Iranian something. We were going to

53:04

go in there with the B2

53:07

bomber and drop the biggest damn

53:09

conventional penetrating bomb ever. And we're

53:11

going to blow up the underground

53:13

Yemeni facilities. And turn to the

53:15

Iranians and go, and that's what

53:18

we're going to do to do to you.

53:20

And we went there and we dropped two

53:22

of them and they went boom! And we

53:24

didn't, we didn't do anything to the

53:26

Yemeni facility. The Iranians went,

53:28

yeah, what, what, what, what, were you

53:30

trying to tell us? That didn't work.

53:33

But what the Iranians don't understand is

53:35

that means that if we attack because

53:37

we can't destroy the facility

53:39

with the biggest ground penetrating

53:42

conventional weapons in our arsenal,

53:44

we're going to destroy the facilities

53:46

with the weapons we have. which

53:50

are ground penetrating

53:52

nuclear weapons. It's

53:55

in black and white,

53:57

so black and white. I

54:00

think you said the USA

54:02

decided to attack Iran with

54:04

nukes unless Iran stops support

54:07

for Yemen, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.

54:09

If so, wouldn't this immediately

54:12

trigger panic-driven covert development of

54:14

nukes by countries that are

54:16

threatened by US rhetoric but

54:19

do not have nukes? Wouldn't

54:21

such a crime isolate the

54:24

USA and seal its decline

54:26

as a hegemonic power? I

54:31

never said the U.S. decided to attack

54:33

around with nukes unless Iran stops before

54:35

giving Hezbollah, Hamas, etc. I don't know

54:37

where the hell you got that, but

54:39

those words never even left my mouth,

54:42

because I don't think them. They're not

54:44

in my head. The United States would

54:46

only use nuclear weapons against Iran to

54:48

destroy Iran's nuclear infrastructure. That's it. So

54:51

quit making shit up. But I didn't

54:53

say, but now let's get to the

54:55

point you're making about these, these, these,

54:57

these. You know what what the results

54:59

I don't know what the results would

55:02

be if the United States used these

55:04

weapons first of all I don't think

55:06

I actually think the if we use

55:08

these weapons against Iran That would send

55:10

a clear signal that it's a suicide

55:13

pill for anybody to try and covertly

55:15

develop nuclear weapons I just told you

55:17

that nuclear weapons won't save you If

55:20

you're a nation that's not allowed to

55:23

have nuclear weapons and you develop them

55:25

and we determine that those nuclear weapons

55:27

represent an existential threat to us, we

55:29

will kill you. So no, I think

55:32

the opposite effect would be that people

55:34

would not seek it. Now, the condemnation

55:36

of the United States, yes, there would

55:38

be. The end of America is an

55:41

imperial hegemony power. Gosh, I don't know

55:43

didn't Russia just develop a nuclear doctrine?

55:45

I just told you guys that there

55:48

was a 55% chance I was the

55:50

Pentagon's estimation that Russia might use nuclear

55:52

weapons today in Russia There is a

55:54

whole host of people saying if we

55:57

don't bring an to this war, we

55:59

may have to use nuclear weapons against

56:01

Ukraine to break the thing if NATO

56:03

starts coming in. We may have to

56:06

use nuclear weapons. Why aren't you saying

56:08

the Russians are going to go down

56:10

in hell, hell fire for even thinking

56:12

that? Because it's their nuclear doctor. And

56:15

if Russia does it, it's going to

56:17

be because it's doctrinally necessary to do

56:19

it. And if America uses nuclear weapons

56:22

against Iran, it's because doctrinally we have

56:24

to do it. You know,

56:26

the Russians and the Chinese, nobody

56:28

wants us to nuke Iran. Nobody's

56:31

going to support, you know, say

56:33

they support that. But there's no

56:35

one out there right now saying

56:37

Iran build a nuclear bomb. There's

56:39

no government saying that. They're all

56:42

saying the opposite. Don't do it.

56:44

Continue to comply with this and

56:46

we can back you up. But

56:48

if Iran crosses that threshold and

56:50

they get hit, I don't think

56:53

it's going to be as bad

56:55

as you think it's going to

56:57

be. I mean, there will be

56:59

some condemnation, but it's not going

57:01

to be the end of America.

57:04

In fact, if anything, it's going

57:06

to project America even more powerfully,

57:08

because now, for all those people

57:10

out there, again, I'm just saying

57:12

it's not because I want it,

57:15

but you know, America got their

57:17

ass is kicked in Afghanistan. America

57:19

left Afghanistan voluntarily, guys. It just

57:21

got to be too much of

57:23

a drag. It was inconvenient. But

57:26

when we left we didn't leave

57:28

licking our wounds and going back

57:30

to a country that had collapsed

57:32

because the Afghans defeated us. When

57:34

the boys came home, America didn't

57:37

care. We just kept on going

57:39

on. Same thing in Vietnam. The

57:41

Vietnamese kicked your ass. We got

57:43

tired of it. We just didn't

57:45

want to do it anymore. So

57:48

we left. We left. We came

57:50

home to an America that functioned.

57:52

The Vietnam War had no existential

57:54

detrimental impact on America. We just

57:56

moved on, not even thinking about

57:59

Vietnam. We forgot about it. if

58:01

it didn't exist, Vietnam on the

58:03

other hand was destroyed, millions of

58:05

dead, collapsed economy. Be careful what

58:07

you ask for wanting to beat

58:10

America because your country will pay

58:12

the heaviest price possible and because

58:14

you can't reach us, because you

58:16

can't do anything to us, we

58:18

just walk away from it. But

58:21

people mistake that for weakness because

58:23

we decided not to stay there

58:25

and have an existential struggle. I

58:27

can. Again, people go back and

58:29

study the Vietnam War. There was

58:32

a discussion in the, I think,

58:34

1968-69 that to win the war,

58:36

we're going to have to use

58:38

nukes. And we actually drew up

58:40

plans where we're going to go

58:43

and nuke the crap out of

58:45

North Vietnam and China. Would the

58:47

Vietnam have won the war then?

58:49

No. They would have been destroyed.

58:51

We opted wisely not to do

58:54

that. because we're just tired of

58:56

it. Vietnam just didn't float our

58:58

boat anymore. But you didn't beat

59:00

us. If anything, we beat ourselves.

59:02

We got tired of it and

59:05

we left. You know, this isn't

59:07

the French. There was no Dien-Ben-Fu.

59:09

You all tried that or the

59:11

Vietnamese tried that at K-Sahn. Got

59:13

the snot snacked out of them.

59:16

Every big battle you lost. We

59:18

won. The Ted offensive. We slaughtered

59:20

you. We slaughtered you. We slaughtered

59:22

you. Slaughter, you got surprised? You

59:24

took the city away? The Marines

59:27

came back and pushed you out

59:29

and killed every single one of

59:31

you. So quit saying Vietnam won

59:33

the war. They didn't win. We

59:35

got tired and we left and

59:38

then Vietnam was left holding the

59:40

pieces. And it still resonates to

59:42

this day. This isn't a good

59:44

thing. I'm not proud of this.

59:46

I'm just telling you the reality.

59:49

So you sit there and go,

59:51

you know, well, America got beaten

59:53

Vietnam. America hasn't won a war

59:55

yet. Well. Because we haven't fought

59:57

one. If you think Afghanistan was

1:00:00

a war... Afghanistan was a police

1:00:02

action. A war means your nation

1:00:04

is on the line. Your survival

1:00:06

is on the line. That's what

1:00:08

a war is. It's a war

1:00:11

between nations, winter take all. We

1:00:13

don't lose those wars. And that's

1:00:15

why for the people thinking that

1:00:17

because we aren't defeating the hoodie,

1:00:19

that's not existential to us. It's

1:00:22

about opening up shipping lanes and

1:00:24

helping Israel out. But it's not

1:00:26

about the existential survival of America.

1:00:28

If what the hoodie were doing

1:00:30

was causing a collapse of the

1:00:33

American stock market and putting America

1:00:35

into a great depression, I think

1:00:37

you'd see a little bit different

1:00:39

approach to the problem. Right now,

1:00:41

all it is is a police

1:00:44

action. That's it. It's horrible for

1:00:46

the hoodie. It's horrible for the

1:00:48

Yemenis. On Srala, I'm not praising

1:00:50

what's happening here, but don't pretend

1:00:52

that that's a war. It's not.

1:00:56

A war is when we

1:00:58

destroy your nation or you

1:01:00

destroy our nation. That when

1:01:02

it's over, one doesn't walk

1:01:04

away from it. Ask Nazi

1:01:06

Germany what a war is.

1:01:08

They lost it. Ask Imperial

1:01:11

Japan what a war is.

1:01:13

They lost it. That's what

1:01:15

war is. These things that

1:01:17

you're out there, crowing that

1:01:19

America got beaten, America's weak

1:01:21

and America. We beat ourselves.

1:01:23

We quit. We walked away

1:01:26

because we got bored. We

1:01:28

came home. and nobody cared.

1:01:30

It's not like when Afghanistan

1:01:32

fell, the Americans all lowered

1:01:34

their flags to half-mast and

1:01:36

we had a, no, 20

1:01:38

days of national mourning because

1:01:40

we lost a war and

1:01:43

the women are wearing black.

1:01:45

Nobody cared. Because it's not

1:01:47

a war. Let's move on.

1:01:49

Here's a voicemail message from

1:01:51

a gentleman named Hans Pudarian.

1:01:53

How would the start of

1:01:55

the war on the eastern

1:01:58

front gone if Stalin did

1:02:00

not purge so many? officers

1:02:02

from the army. Would Germany

1:02:04

have made it as close

1:02:06

to Moscow? Thanks. I mean,

1:02:08

this is the, you know,

1:02:10

it's one of the things

1:02:12

you're talking about. You're talking

1:02:15

about the Great Purge. I

1:02:17

guess the, start with Tukachevsky,

1:02:19

and then they just went

1:02:21

down and started taking out

1:02:23

officers that may have, you

1:02:25

know, Anti-Soviet thinking or feelings,

1:02:27

etc. During the great purge

1:02:30

there's a moment of great

1:02:32

paranoia and many officers were

1:02:34

were purged from the military.

1:02:36

Would this have had an

1:02:38

impact on... You know the

1:02:40

officers the Russians had during

1:02:42

that war are pretty damn

1:02:44

good. I mean the implication

1:02:47

is that the Russians and

1:02:49

Zukov was pretty damn good.

1:02:51

Konev was pretty damn good.

1:02:53

Rokosevsky was pretty good. The

1:02:55

junior officers that led the

1:02:57

charges were very brave. The

1:02:59

soldiers fought very hard. Their

1:03:02

pilots were extremely well. So,

1:03:04

you know, even though there

1:03:06

was this purge, I think

1:03:08

that the officers that were

1:03:10

in command did a damn

1:03:12

good job. I don't think

1:03:14

the issue was leadership. I

1:03:17

think the issue was the

1:03:19

ponderous nature of the Soviet

1:03:21

military. I think it was,

1:03:23

you know, communications problems. I

1:03:25

think the Germans came in

1:03:27

and struck harder. But, you

1:03:29

know, people don't realize this.

1:03:31

The Germans lost a lot

1:03:34

of guys. I'm not talking

1:03:36

about the totality. the battles

1:03:38

that the Germans were fighting

1:03:40

where they're surrounding the the

1:03:42

soves. Everybody talks about the

1:03:44

number of... Soviet prisoners. But

1:03:46

nobody talks about the fact

1:03:49

that, you know, the Germans

1:03:51

were losing hundreds of thousands

1:03:53

of men dead. And you

1:03:55

don't die, you know, because,

1:03:57

you know, the incompetence of

1:03:59

your enemy. You die because

1:04:01

the enemy's putting up a

1:04:03

hell of a fight. And

1:04:06

they're put up a hell

1:04:08

of a fight because they're

1:04:10

well led. Well led by

1:04:12

junior officers, well led by

1:04:14

battalion commanders, well led by

1:04:16

their regimental commanders, their division

1:04:18

commanders, their core commanders. So

1:04:21

I think the Soviet army

1:04:23

did quite well, leadership-wise. I

1:04:25

don't see any leadership. There's

1:04:27

a, you know, there's this

1:04:29

anti-Soviet school of thought out.

1:04:31

I'm not defending the purges

1:04:33

at all. I mean, I

1:04:35

studied Tukuski. I've studied his

1:04:38

doctrine, his way of fighting,

1:04:40

etc. I think he was

1:04:42

a genius. He's the guy

1:04:44

that sort of invented the

1:04:46

Soviet style of maneuver warfare.

1:04:48

You know, and I'm not

1:04:50

saying that he was bad

1:04:53

or wasn't bad or, I

1:04:55

don't know. I mean. I

1:04:57

mean. I know what the

1:04:59

history book say, but I

1:05:01

don't know. I haven't done

1:05:03

the deep dig into to

1:05:05

Kucziawski. But he was purged,

1:05:07

and many other officers were

1:05:10

as well. But the purge

1:05:12

kept people like Jukov, who

1:05:14

won the Battle of Kalkin-go

1:05:16

against the Japanese in 1939.

1:05:18

execute, you know, executing Tukachev's

1:05:20

military philosophies flawlessly. So, you

1:05:22

know, we, I can't buy

1:05:25

into that that, that, that

1:05:27

it was the, you know,

1:05:29

a deficit of leadership caused

1:05:31

the Soviets the problems. First

1:05:33

of all, you have to

1:05:35

give the Germans credit for

1:05:37

being just damn good. They

1:05:39

had a very good military,

1:05:42

heavily mechanized military, very effective

1:05:44

tactics. Very effective tactics. And

1:05:46

the Soviets were too plotting.

1:05:48

There was, you know, a

1:05:50

surprise there. Maybe this is.

1:05:52

failure of intelligence that we

1:05:54

can talk about or whatever.

1:05:57

But the point is, the

1:05:59

Germans did what they did

1:06:01

because they had a very

1:06:03

good military, but the Soviets

1:06:05

fought back hard. You know,

1:06:07

it wasn't, again, a deficit

1:06:09

of leadership. I didn't say

1:06:11

that they were leadership issues,

1:06:14

U.S.-S-S-S-S-R-S-S-S-R-S-S-S-R-S-S-S-R-S-S-S-R-S-S-S-S-S-R-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S caused all the problems

1:06:16

up front. I think that

1:06:18

the leadership that the Soviet

1:06:20

army, the Red Army, had

1:06:22

during that time was a

1:06:24

very, very good leadership. Could

1:06:26

it have been better had

1:06:29

there not been a purge?

1:06:31

Well, here's the thing. Was

1:06:33

the purge purely Stalin paranoia?

1:06:35

Or were there actually counter-revolutionary

1:06:37

movements still in existence in

1:06:39

the Red Army? I think,

1:06:41

you know, it would be

1:06:43

interesting to probe the following

1:06:46

proposition. that had there not

1:06:48

been a purge, the Red

1:06:50

Army may not have performed

1:06:52

as effectively as it did

1:06:54

because the officers who would

1:06:56

have been in command would

1:06:58

have been fully supportive of

1:07:01

the Soviet Union. That's just

1:07:03

a counter proposition. I can't

1:07:05

say it's right. I'm just

1:07:07

saying, you know, there's that

1:07:09

because these officers were accused

1:07:11

of having counter-revolutionary sympathies. Would

1:07:13

they have been as effective

1:07:15

as the ideologically pure officers

1:07:18

that ended up fighting? So

1:07:20

it's an interesting question. Thank

1:07:22

you for the question. And

1:07:24

you actually see, sometimes I'm

1:07:26

like, that kind of question,

1:07:28

I just asked the question,

1:07:30

you know, the counter-props. Guys,

1:07:33

I'd love to spend six

1:07:35

months researching that, going to

1:07:37

Russia, going to archives, getting

1:07:39

this. And yeah, I am.

1:07:41

and writing an article about

1:07:43

that. I mean, that's my

1:07:45

true passion in life is

1:07:47

historical questions. that. But I'm

1:07:50

going to be doing this,

1:07:52

which I like doing. I'm

1:07:54

just saying, going back to

1:07:56

what we're talking about, allocation

1:07:58

of time area, this is

1:08:00

a full-time job. I don't

1:08:02

get to do things I

1:08:05

love, because I'm doing this,

1:08:07

because it's needed to be

1:08:09

done. Operation Don, 2.0 is

1:08:11

essential that it happens. This

1:08:13

whole process of answering these

1:08:15

questions. I believe it's essential.

1:08:17

I believe it's essential to

1:08:19

empower people with knowledge and

1:08:22

information, to get people to

1:08:24

think, to ask critical questions

1:08:26

and hopefully get answers that

1:08:28

set your mind straight. So

1:08:30

this is something I want

1:08:32

to do, but when I

1:08:34

hear a question like that,

1:08:37

you know, the interme is

1:08:39

like, God, I'd love to

1:08:41

spend six months just diving

1:08:43

into that one and getting

1:08:45

my teeth into it because

1:08:47

that would be fun to

1:08:49

research. Okay,

1:08:51

it's almost time

1:08:54

for Ryan to

1:08:56

join us with

1:08:58

some live chat

1:09:00

questions, but let's

1:09:02

try to squeeze

1:09:04

in a phone

1:09:06

call first. It's

1:09:08

our friend John

1:09:10

in Somerville, South

1:09:13

Carolina, top of

1:09:15

the evening to

1:09:17

you, John, how

1:09:19

are you? No,

1:09:22

you're moving. Okay. Is

1:09:24

John speaking? Yeah, you

1:09:26

don't hear him? Nope,

1:09:28

not at all. All

1:09:30

right, I just got

1:09:32

can't hear you. What's

1:09:34

the... Are you there?

1:09:36

Well, he can't hear

1:09:39

you. He can't hear

1:09:41

you, so... Can you

1:09:43

can you ask the

1:09:45

question like real quick

1:09:47

and I'll ask him?

1:09:49

All right you know

1:09:51

what I'm sorry John,

1:09:53

I'm sorry. John, let's

1:09:56

save it for the

1:09:58

next time. I'm sorry.

1:10:00

All right, I don't

1:10:02

know what's happened. We

1:10:04

can't get the audio

1:10:06

there. So let's bring

1:10:08

in Ryan with about

1:10:11

15 minutes of live

1:10:13

chat questions. And these

1:10:15

are questions with, I

1:10:17

got a message. You

1:10:19

can't hear John either.

1:10:21

Okay, got it. So

1:10:23

let's move on to

1:10:25

the segment with Ryan.

1:10:34

All right, Scott. So I

1:10:36

got a bunch of questions

1:10:38

here from Twitch. Sandy Dogga.

1:10:40

I want to ask Scott

1:10:42

what Trump is talking about

1:10:44

when he says the USA

1:10:46

has weapons. We don't even

1:10:49

know what they are. Look.

1:10:51

modern state with a developed

1:10:53

defense industry. You're going to

1:10:55

be working on the next

1:10:57

generation of weapons. And there

1:10:59

is a period of time

1:11:01

where these weapons become viable,

1:11:03

but they haven't been revealed

1:11:06

to the public. I'll give

1:11:08

you an example. The F-17

1:11:10

stealth fighter was developed in

1:11:12

great secrecy. And yet... the

1:11:14

public didn't know anything about

1:11:16

it until 1989 when I

1:11:18

believe it was used to

1:11:20

drop a bomb on Panama.

1:11:22

And suddenly I was like,

1:11:25

what is the still thing?

1:11:27

And even then we wanted

1:11:29

to keep it secret and

1:11:31

talk about it, but then

1:11:33

the Gulf War happened and

1:11:35

we started deploying F-117 squadrons

1:11:37

and suddenly, you know, there

1:11:39

it is and it's been

1:11:41

around forever, but it's been

1:11:44

around for a couple years.

1:11:46

That was a weapon that

1:11:48

existed. and nobody knew about.

1:11:50

And I mean, I can

1:11:52

go into different things. It

1:11:54

happens that we have weapons

1:11:56

that are developed. And a

1:11:58

lot of times it's aircraft

1:12:00

because we have this whole

1:12:03

skunkworks thing going on in

1:12:05

Area 51 and down in

1:12:07

Palmdale, California. And they're developing

1:12:09

things that are experimental. Then

1:12:11

they transition operational but before

1:12:13

they're just not made public

1:12:15

because They were so secret

1:12:17

that they haven't figured out

1:12:19

how to get it to

1:12:22

the public yet So usually

1:12:24

they're revealed the moment. They're

1:12:26

used and they'll be they'll

1:12:28

be briefed and all that

1:12:30

So I think the president

1:12:32

Got a briefing Mr. President,

1:12:34

these are the toys we

1:12:36

have, that nobody else knows

1:12:38

about. These are the following

1:12:41

projects that have now reached

1:12:43

fruition and we can deploy

1:12:45

them, but they're top secret

1:12:47

and we haven't revealed them

1:12:49

to the public yet. And

1:12:51

Donald Trump seems to be

1:12:53

a man who doesn't know

1:12:55

how to. not say something.

1:12:57

He was told something really

1:13:00

cool and so he's sort

1:13:02

of like the kid that

1:13:04

has the secret so he

1:13:06

implies that he has the

1:13:08

secret. We have weapons you

1:13:10

don't even know about. I

1:13:12

will tell you that none

1:13:14

of those weapons are game

1:13:16

changers. They're just cool weapons

1:13:19

with cool capabilities but they

1:13:21

don't, they don't. fundamentally changed

1:13:23

the problem. The F-17 was

1:13:25

a cool aircraft and it

1:13:27

could fly over Baghdad at

1:13:29

a time when no other

1:13:31

aircraft could do that in

1:13:33

a survivable fashion. But it

1:13:35

had a high failure rate.

1:13:38

It had, you know, I

1:13:40

think the, I think that

1:13:42

they had a below 50%

1:13:44

strike efficiency rate. So, you

1:13:46

know, here it is, the

1:13:48

F-117 spent all this money

1:13:50

so we can still fully

1:13:52

fly over Baghdad and half

1:13:54

the time it wasn't hitting

1:13:57

the targets it was supposed

1:13:59

to hit. Not too

1:14:01

much of a game changer and

1:14:03

then the Serbian shot it down.

1:14:05

So right Anyways, that's that's what

1:14:08

I think was going on. All

1:14:10

right. Excellent. So let's see here

1:14:12

I'll bring back Alex lithium He

1:14:14

says he's heard the term Finlandization

1:14:17

in relation to Ukraine as one

1:14:19

of the options for its neutrality

1:14:21

in the future like Finland after

1:14:23

World War II What is it

1:14:26

and is it possible? I

1:14:32

mean I've heard that term

1:14:34

too, but I have to

1:14:37

be honest, that's a term

1:14:39

that probably generates, is generated

1:14:41

in the West as their

1:14:43

interpretation of what Ukrainian neutrality

1:14:45

could look like. But you

1:14:47

know, Finlandization, Finland at the

1:14:49

end of World War II,

1:14:51

did the Russians say we

1:14:53

have to come in and

1:14:55

purge the government of Finland

1:14:57

that was involved in this?

1:14:59

No. There was no denonsification

1:15:01

of the Finnish government. Did

1:15:03

the Russians come in and

1:15:05

say that Finland has to

1:15:07

pass a new constitution that

1:15:09

fundamentally changes everything about how

1:15:11

they define themselves as a

1:15:13

nation? No. So, you know,

1:15:15

the Russians are talking about,

1:15:18

you know, denonsification. This is

1:15:20

a big thing. I just

1:15:22

was a participant in a

1:15:24

conference where they talked about

1:15:26

denotification. And every time I

1:15:28

hear, and I've talked to

1:15:30

the people, I've talked to

1:15:32

people who are involved in

1:15:34

that planning, this isn't little

1:15:36

stuff. This isn't, you know,

1:15:38

throwaway words. The Russians were

1:15:40

talking about a complete, absolutely

1:15:42

purging of right-wing nationalist ideology

1:15:44

of Ukraine. I think it's

1:15:46

genitization. That's denotification. That's what

1:15:48

happens when you lose a

1:15:50

war. Germany, denotification in Germany.

1:15:52

So that seems to be

1:15:54

the direction the Russians want

1:15:57

to head. Now, it's interesting.

1:15:59

because Steve Wilkoff came in

1:16:01

and said if you want,

1:16:03

you know, if you want

1:16:05

to bring this thing to

1:16:07

an end, Mr. President, we

1:16:09

need to give the Russians

1:16:11

the territories that they've demanded.

1:16:13

And it's interesting, he said

1:16:15

that, because Matt implies that

1:16:17

the Russians are giving up

1:16:19

something, that if we give

1:16:21

the Russians the territories, they

1:16:23

say, yeah, they're giving up

1:16:25

something. And so, one of

1:16:27

the things the Russians, the

1:16:29

Russians, could be giving up

1:16:31

is immediate denotification. What I

1:16:33

mean by that is the

1:16:35

harsh occupation of Ukraine, the

1:16:38

compelled denotification, prison trials and

1:16:40

that nature, the Russians may

1:16:42

yield on this one to

1:16:44

bring it into the conflict

1:16:46

so long as Ukraine is

1:16:48

neutral. from that perspective, that's

1:16:50

where Finlandization could come in.

1:16:52

But this is a whole

1:16:54

new way of thinking. Like

1:16:56

I said, Wiccov just met

1:16:58

with Putin today, and that

1:17:00

message to Trump was just

1:17:02

released right before we came

1:17:04

on air here. So it's,

1:17:06

you know, this is a

1:17:08

whole new concept. It's, whatever

1:17:10

they're talking about, Finlandization, it

1:17:12

wouldn't apply to this, but

1:17:14

I think that the way

1:17:17

Woodcov's talking is there's a

1:17:19

deal there. If we give

1:17:21

the Russians a territory, then

1:17:23

the Russians are willing to

1:17:25

do something to bring a

1:17:27

rapid hit this war. So

1:17:29

there's a follow-up question to

1:17:31

that from Lonesome Fugitive. He

1:17:33

says that Kellogg just suggested

1:17:35

that Ukraine could be split

1:17:37

into different zones like Berlin

1:17:39

after World War II, the

1:17:41

US, French, UK, Russian zone,

1:17:43

and it actually news provida.com

1:17:45

they actually have a map

1:17:47

that sort of looks like

1:17:49

that. First of all, that

1:17:51

implies that the Russians are

1:17:53

occupying Ukraine. And the Russians

1:17:55

aren't occupying Ukraine. The Russians

1:17:58

own Russia. Constitutionally, these four

1:18:00

territories and Crimea are Russian

1:18:02

territory. So right off the

1:18:04

bat, Russia's not going to

1:18:06

bind anything that doesn't say

1:18:08

these territories belong to Russia.

1:18:10

Two, the French and UK

1:18:12

zone implies there will be

1:18:14

troops there for five years.

1:18:16

Russia won't allow that. There

1:18:18

won't be troops there. So

1:18:20

I think the Kellogg Plan

1:18:22

is just as lunacy stupidity

1:18:24

and it's a non, it's

1:18:26

a non-plan. There's a reason

1:18:28

why a guy named Wyckoff

1:18:30

went to St. Petersburg to

1:18:32

meet with Vladimir Putin and

1:18:34

a guy named Kellogg didn't.

1:18:36

And the Kellogg Plan is

1:18:39

the reason why. Excellent. All

1:18:41

right, from Twitch, Luke, Luke,

1:18:43

Man 2. Not being a

1:18:45

smart ass, what is Russia's

1:18:47

and China's thoughts on other

1:18:49

nations proliferating? Surely, they're just

1:18:51

as concerned as we are.

1:18:53

Yeah, I don't know why

1:18:55

people wouldn't think that. You

1:18:57

know, the sanctions that were

1:18:59

imposed on North Korea for

1:19:01

its nuclear weapons program were

1:19:03

voted in favor of by

1:19:05

Russia and China. or else

1:19:07

you wouldn't have sanctions. You

1:19:09

know, and the sanctions that

1:19:11

were, you know, when the

1:19:13

Iran nuclear program was elevated

1:19:15

and then sent to the

1:19:18

Security Council of the United

1:19:20

Nations, which led us on

1:19:22

a potential past per war,

1:19:24

that was voted in favor

1:19:26

for by Russia and China.

1:19:28

They don't support this. Where

1:19:30

Russia and China draw the

1:19:32

line is when the United

1:19:34

States starts to use nonproliferation

1:19:36

as a front for regime

1:19:38

change. and when the

1:19:40

United States is unwilling to work

1:19:42

with a party and such, then

1:19:44

the Russians change their tune, which

1:19:46

they've done with North Korea right

1:19:48

now. But right now, no, you

1:19:50

know, Putin, you know, there were

1:19:52

two meetings, one in March, and

1:19:54

then the other one today, or

1:19:57

yesterday, two days ago, where Russia,

1:19:59

China met with the. Iranians to

1:20:01

talk about their nuclear program. And

1:20:03

I believe the one that just

1:20:05

took place is where Russia and

1:20:07

China, you know, I love people

1:20:09

like, oh, the Russians are going

1:20:11

to, this meeting was about Russia

1:20:13

and China saying, we're going to

1:20:15

be there for Iran. No, it

1:20:17

was the exact opposite. Is Russia

1:20:19

and China saying, hey, we want

1:20:21

to do great things for you,

1:20:23

but on this nuclear issue, you're

1:20:25

on your own? We're not going

1:20:27

to go to war for your

1:20:29

nuclear weapons capability. You have to

1:20:31

do something here. And I think

1:20:33

the Russians talked to them a

1:20:36

lot. I think the United States

1:20:38

was talking to Russia a lot

1:20:40

about Iran. And I think the

1:20:42

Russians told the Iranians, you're going

1:20:44

to have to make some compromises

1:20:46

here. You're going to have to

1:20:48

do things. The Americans will be

1:20:50

reasonable, but you're going to have

1:20:52

to do something. And that was

1:20:54

the message I believe that was

1:20:56

imparted to Iran. And if you

1:20:58

don't do this. We ain't there

1:21:00

to help you. We're not going

1:21:02

to lift a finger. There's nothing

1:21:04

we can do. Neither Russia nor

1:21:06

China supports nuclear proliferation at all.

1:21:08

So yeah, there it is. But

1:21:10

neither Russia or North China or

1:21:12

the world's policeman. Only we have

1:21:14

that mantle. So that's why you

1:21:17

don't see the Russian Chinese deploying

1:21:19

armies. First of all, they can't.

1:21:21

They don't have the ability to

1:21:23

project military power. There's only one,

1:21:25

and this is the other thing,

1:21:27

I just try and remind people,

1:21:29

America is such a defeated nation,

1:21:31

we're so horrible, I'm not here

1:21:33

defending anything we do, but I'm

1:21:35

being real here guys. What nation

1:21:37

can deploy carrier battle groups around

1:21:39

the world at a moment's notice,

1:21:41

anywhere in the world, to project

1:21:43

American military power? Just the United

1:21:45

States? What nation could deploy, you

1:21:47

know, strategic bombing wings around the

1:21:49

world to project military power? just

1:21:51

the United States. There's no nation

1:21:53

in the world that can do

1:21:56

what we do at all. And

1:21:58

people need to understand that. And

1:22:00

because we can do that... We

1:22:02

become the world's policeman. I don't

1:22:04

want us to be the world's

1:22:06

policeman. I prefer we didn't do

1:22:08

that. I'd like to see carrier

1:22:10

battle groups done away with because

1:22:12

it's there's no need for them.

1:22:14

We shouldn't be projecting power. But

1:22:16

we are and we can. Just

1:22:18

because you don't support it doesn't

1:22:20

mean it isn't happening. And for

1:22:22

all the America haters out there

1:22:24

saying that we're weak and we're

1:22:26

this and we're that. We're the

1:22:28

strongest nation in the world. Nobody

1:22:30

can do it we can do.

1:22:32

No one can even come close

1:22:35

to doing what we can do.

1:22:37

We shouldn't be doing what we

1:22:39

do half the time, or more

1:22:41

than half the time. I'm not

1:22:43

saying it's good, but to pretend,

1:22:45

just because you think America is

1:22:47

evil and bad, and we probably

1:22:49

are, probably a lot of your

1:22:51

complaints are legitimate. It doesn't mean

1:22:53

that we're weak. We're not. We're

1:22:55

the strongest nation in the world.

1:22:57

We can do things militarily that

1:22:59

no other nation can do or

1:23:01

even come close to doing. Which

1:23:03

is why we're end up being

1:23:05

the ones enforcing global non-proliferation. All

1:23:07

right, so from Rumble, Vedrin, Sladejes,

1:23:09

says, Mohammed Mirandi said on a

1:23:11

different podcast, quote, if Iran is

1:23:13

being attacked, the Iranian government has

1:23:16

decided to exit the NPT and

1:23:18

will go for nuclear weapons, unquote.

1:23:20

Would the US-Iran coalition still go

1:23:22

forward? I don't know

1:23:24

what that means, coalition. Maybe he

1:23:26

means negotiation. No, if Iran goes,

1:23:29

withdraws from the MPT, goes for

1:23:31

nuclear weapons, Iran will disappear as

1:23:33

a modern nation state. I've said

1:23:35

this. And Mr. Morandi understands that.

1:23:38

He thinks, he believes that Iran

1:23:40

can ride out this attack and

1:23:42

launch devastating attacks. Maybe. But then

1:23:44

the second wave comes in. Then

1:23:47

the third wave comes in. And

1:23:49

eventually there's no Iran. So

1:23:52

yeah, no, I know what he's

1:23:54

saying I and he's reflecting the

1:23:57

but here's the interesting thing I

1:23:59

and I have a lot of

1:24:01

for Mr. Morandi and all that.

1:24:03

As he himself said, there's a

1:24:06

lot of dissent and a lot

1:24:08

of opposing points of view. And

1:24:10

there's many things that the Iranian

1:24:12

government has done over the years

1:24:15

that he's opposed to. He didn't

1:24:17

like the JCPOA. He doesn't like

1:24:19

the current negotiations. And he wants

1:24:21

to take a harder line. This

1:24:23

means that when Professor Morandi says

1:24:26

something, it's not government policy. It's

1:24:29

his assessment. It's his belief

1:24:31

of what should happen. The

1:24:33

only person that can say

1:24:36

Iran will withdraw from the

1:24:38

MPT and secure nuclear weapons

1:24:40

is the Supreme Leader. And

1:24:43

as much as I respect

1:24:45

Professor Morandi, he's not the

1:24:47

Supreme Leader. I pay close

1:24:50

attention to what he says

1:24:52

because he's a knowledgeable man.

1:24:54

He's in Iran. And he

1:24:57

knows the players. But I...

1:24:59

I would hope, and this

1:25:01

is the point I tried

1:25:04

to make in the discussion,

1:25:06

in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomani,

1:25:08

the founder of the Islamic

1:25:11

Republic, after spending years saying

1:25:13

that this war won't end

1:25:16

until Saddam Hussein is removed

1:25:18

from power, we eliminate this

1:25:20

threat, this man who occupied

1:25:23

our country, da-da-da-da-da, had to

1:25:25

make peace, had to accept.

1:25:27

conflict termination in accordance with

1:25:30

the United Nations resolution. And

1:25:32

he said, I will drink

1:25:34

this poison cup. He didn't

1:25:37

want to, but he had

1:25:39

to, had no choice to

1:25:41

save Iran. If he didn't

1:25:44

do it, Iran would have

1:25:46

been destroyed. I totally al-Hachmannay,

1:25:48

I believe, will drink the

1:25:51

poison chalice. He will make

1:25:53

the compromises necessary to save

1:25:55

Iran. That's what

1:25:58

I believe because I Iran's

1:26:00

not suicidal. They're not suicidal

1:26:02

and they've done it in

1:26:04

the past and I believe

1:26:06

they'll do it now. It's

1:26:09

the smart move. You don't

1:26:11

need a nuclear weapon. It's

1:26:13

a suicide pill. Next question.

1:26:15

Man, last question here from

1:26:17

Mute McGee. Is there a

1:26:20

percentage of people within the

1:26:22

U.A. Ukraine that are banderites?

1:26:24

I estimate it's like 75

1:26:26

percent. Well, what's interesting is,

1:26:29

um... the definition of

1:26:31

what a bandarite is. I've had,

1:26:33

again, ladies and gentlemen, this is

1:26:35

why you should watch the Russia

1:26:38

House, because I've had some fascinating

1:26:40

conversations with experts about Ukrainian nationalism.

1:26:43

And what we call a bandarite,

1:26:45

the Organization Ukrainian Nationalists, is typically

1:26:47

a small group of people who

1:26:50

don't have political viability, meaning that

1:26:52

even if there's an election, you

1:26:54

know, they they garner single-digit percentages

1:26:57

of the vote. They don't have,

1:26:59

you know, main, you know, the

1:27:01

ability to, you know, have majority

1:27:04

rule and all that. So actual

1:27:06

banderites, there's a smaller number. But

1:27:08

there's a, there's a phenomena taking

1:27:11

place in Ukraine. For instance, when

1:27:13

the, I forget what the Russians

1:27:15

call it, the something train, but

1:27:18

the right sector formed a train

1:27:20

that was going to go into

1:27:23

Crimea and was loaded with these

1:27:25

nationalists. They were going to come

1:27:27

off and they were going to

1:27:30

seize control. And they were met.

1:27:32

And again, I interviewed the guy

1:27:34

who met them. He was one

1:27:37

of the guys who was the

1:27:39

Crimea resistance movement. You know, they

1:27:41

were met by Russians who basically...

1:27:44

told him to get back on

1:27:46

the train and get the hell

1:27:48

out of Dodge. But the people

1:27:51

on that train weren't necessarily... Banderis

1:27:53

from Western Ukraine. They were primarily

1:27:55

soccer hooligans from Kharkov. And when

1:27:58

you take a look at the

1:28:00

Azov Brigade, that ended up seizing

1:28:03

control of Mariopo in 2014 and

1:28:05

then occupied it up until its

1:28:07

liberation in 2022, the Azov Brigade

1:28:10

is primarily from people from Kharkov.

1:28:12

not your traditional Western Ukrainian Bandiras.

1:28:14

So, you know, I think what

1:28:17

we have to say is, are

1:28:19

we talking about Bandiras? Are we

1:28:21

talking about right wing Ukrainian nationalism

1:28:24

that is influenced by Stepan Bandiras,

1:28:26

but not necessarily part of the

1:28:28

organization of Ukrainian nationalists? But even

1:28:31

then, I would say that the

1:28:33

overall percentage is. Not as much

1:28:36

as, not 75%, but here's the

1:28:38

thing that's happened. Since 2004, when,

1:28:40

2005, when, if you remember, the

1:28:43

Orange Revolution, that was a CIA

1:28:45

broker, nationalist revolt, Yushanko, stolen election

1:28:47

from Yanukovych who won, but the

1:28:50

CIA worked to get it overturned

1:28:52

and there was a second election,

1:28:54

Yanukovych won, and constitutionally that means

1:28:57

it was it, but they overturned

1:28:59

it and then Yishanko won. He's

1:29:01

a nationalist, first movie did, was

1:29:04

to elevate Stepan Bandaras, the national

1:29:06

hero of Ukraine. There's a lot

1:29:08

of pushback at that time because

1:29:11

not every Ukrainian is a Bandarist,

1:29:13

but what happened is at that

1:29:16

point in time the Bandarists took

1:29:18

control of certain aspects of the

1:29:20

government. One of the things they

1:29:23

took control of was scouting. And

1:29:25

so they started indoctrinating Ukrainian children

1:29:27

from an early age. Now you

1:29:30

already had indoctrination like this. place

1:29:32

in the West in the Western

1:29:34

camps, but they basically started indoctrinating

1:29:37

all Ukrainian children and they've had

1:29:39

20 years to do that. And

1:29:41

so the people that are in

1:29:44

their 20s today are hardcore nationalists,

1:29:46

many of them, because they were

1:29:48

raised in that. So there's a

1:29:51

greater percentage. I would say that

1:29:53

75% number as you. go down

1:29:56

the age gap and you get

1:29:58

into people that are in their

1:30:00

early 20s, between 20 and 30,

1:30:03

then I think you're looking at

1:30:05

75% Ukrainian nationalists because they've been

1:30:07

indoctrinated. They hate the Russians. I

1:30:10

mean, they literally hate that there

1:30:12

was a Spanish thing, Spanish sporting

1:30:14

event where a Russian and a

1:30:17

Ukrainian one. And they were young

1:30:19

kids, like you're talking. They're like

1:30:21

13 years old. And then you're

1:30:24

right. The karate thing. The karate

1:30:26

thing, exactly. And he would not

1:30:29

take a picture. And he walked

1:30:31

off shaking his like this. No,

1:30:33

and no, I'm telling you, the

1:30:36

Ukrainian youth are brainwashed. 100% brainwashed.

1:30:38

And it's a problem. It's a

1:30:40

big problem for Ukraine, because, you

1:30:43

know, it's, you know, and again,

1:30:45

to deal with this, we're going

1:30:47

to have to have to go

1:30:50

back in history. The Nazi youth,

1:30:52

you know, what do you do

1:30:54

with the Hitler-Yungen, Hitler youth, who

1:30:57

were fanatic fighters fighting for Adolf

1:30:59

Hitler? What do you do with

1:31:01

a generation of kids who were,

1:31:04

you know, the same, it's the

1:31:06

same dynamic of people who went

1:31:09

to these Nazi camps starting in

1:31:11

1934, 35, when the Nazis took

1:31:13

over and, you know, the indoctrination,

1:31:16

it took place. You know, if

1:31:18

you went to that camp when

1:31:20

you're 10, you know, and then

1:31:23

when you're 18, it's 19, you

1:31:25

know, 42, 43 and you're suddenly

1:31:27

in the military, you're a fanatic.

1:31:30

And then as, you know, that

1:31:32

each year comes by a new

1:31:34

generation of fanatics comes in and

1:31:37

by 1945 when they were reaching

1:31:39

down and having 10 year olds,

1:31:42

11 year olds, 12 year olds

1:31:44

with Panserfaus facing down the Western

1:31:46

tanks. These are true believers. This

1:31:49

isn't like taking a kid and

1:31:51

going, all right, you know, you

1:31:53

plan hook, you go home to

1:31:56

your mom. Because when he gets

1:31:58

home to his mom, he's like,

1:32:00

you know, you know, Adolf Hitler

1:32:03

is. is the man, he's, he's,

1:32:05

he's God. How do you, how

1:32:07

do you get that out of

1:32:10

their head? This is why, I'm

1:32:12

just telling you, when I lived

1:32:14

in Germany, I, we lived in

1:32:17

a little village called Shalodenbach, beautiful

1:32:19

village. I mean, God, you, you

1:32:22

want a picture perfect German village,

1:32:24

it's small farming town, and, you

1:32:26

know, the beautiful German homes with

1:32:29

the wood, you know, the... the

1:32:31

wooden framework and all this stuff

1:32:33

of the big church steeple and

1:32:36

the bakeries and all this stuff.

1:32:38

And when I first moved there,

1:32:40

we were like the only Americans,

1:32:43

there was one or two other

1:32:45

American families in that town, but

1:32:47

mainly Germans, and I made friends

1:32:50

with a German kid, and he

1:32:52

provided me over to his house.

1:32:54

All right, that's cool. Well. on

1:32:57

the way of the house though

1:32:59

we stopped off at the local

1:33:02

Shalodenbach cemetery where he had to

1:33:04

you know he said he had

1:33:06

he's responsible maintaining the the graves

1:33:09

of the family and you get

1:33:11

to the area and but part

1:33:13

of the family graves were these

1:33:16

crosses that said lost in the

1:33:18

east meaning these were the crosses

1:33:20

of his family members who died

1:33:23

in Russian the bodies never came

1:33:25

back and so it's just the

1:33:27

cross you know saying they're lost

1:33:30

in the east And I'm like,

1:33:32

whoa, you have family members, oh

1:33:35

yeah, so my father's uncle, this,

1:33:37

that, I'm like, oh, okay. I

1:33:39

go to his house and we're

1:33:42

sitting there, you know, drinking soda

1:33:44

or whatever the hell we drank

1:33:46

back then from the refrigerator. and

1:33:49

then he takes me down to

1:33:51

the basement, the man cave. And

1:33:53

I get down to the man

1:33:56

cave, and I'm walking into a

1:33:58

SS Museum. I'm looking at the

1:34:00

Nazi flags, I'm looking at uniforms,

1:34:03

I'm looking at, you know, photographs

1:34:05

of, you know, what the uncle

1:34:07

was doing during the war and

1:34:10

all this stuff. And so we're

1:34:12

down there, and it's, I mean,

1:34:15

it's cool stuff. I mean, you

1:34:17

know, hell, how old was I,

1:34:19

70, I would have been 70.

1:34:22

I was 16 years old. And

1:34:24

so I'm just like, wow, this

1:34:26

is really cool. That the mother

1:34:29

comes out and says, kill him

1:34:31

out of there. And I was

1:34:33

never allowed back in the house.

1:34:36

I'm here to tell you that

1:34:38

every damn German house in Germany

1:34:40

at that time had a man

1:34:43

cave full of Nazi paraphernalia because