0:56

Post assignment all units repeat your post

0:58

assignment. I

2:17

was young, I'd go

2:19

running through the forest Chased

2:21

by many uniforms, running

2:24

after unicorns It

2:26

was a land

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formed in my

2:30

imaginations Lashed in

2:32

navigation, where life

2:34

begins again Yeah

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baby, it's episode 257

2:42

of Ask the Inspector

2:44

on April 22nd, 2025.

2:47

America's sweetheart, Jeff Norman with you

2:49

as always on Tuesday for the

2:51

lightning round of Ask the Inspector.

2:53

That's when this guy, Scott

2:55

Ritter, spends 60

2:58

glorious minutes with us answering

3:00

every question in three

3:02

minutes or less. How

3:04

you doing, Scott? I'm

3:06

doing well. In

3:09

an effort to overcome the aging

3:11

process, I've started going to something

3:14

called the stretch zone. And

3:16

it's basically designed to take this old

3:18

carcass and breathe new life into it.

3:20

So today was the initial one hour

3:23

introduction session. The time is the hardest,

3:25

I know. Well, I am literally, my

3:27

body is just not happy with me

3:29

right now. It's like, what the hell

3:31

are you, what did you do? What

3:33

are you doing to me? But here

3:35

I am stretched out. What

3:37

is it called? The stretching zone?

3:40

Stretch zone, yeah. Basically, the

3:43

idea is that they

3:45

stretch you to get maximum

3:48

flexibility. But

3:50

today was the

3:52

induction. And let me

3:54

just say that on the scale of

3:56

what flexible should be. I'm

3:59

not doing very well. On

4:01

a scale of one to ten, you're a negative integer.

4:03

I was on a negative 26, yeah. But

4:05

the good news is there's a lot

4:07

of room for improvement. You

4:09

may want to include a

4:11

massage therapist among your team

4:13

of health care providers. Have

4:16

you thought about that? I

4:18

did the massage thing early on

4:20

in the neuropathy. And

4:23

I don't know if the

4:25

stretching is going to do

4:27

anything either. But the

4:29

massage thing was very expensive

4:32

and I just wasn't getting the

4:34

benefit out of it. Well

4:36

then, I don't know, you

4:39

had a different purpose then. Now

4:41

I think you might need it for

4:43

relief from the soreness. No,

4:45

no, no. My whole job is

4:47

to remind myself. the consequences of allowing

4:49

yourself to get this badly out

4:51

of shape. I've signed up for Spartan

4:53

racing. Again, I'm getting back on

4:55

the Spartan track. I'm gonna

4:58

return myself to glory, but

5:00

I also think I need to

5:02

get the body sort of, but

5:05

it's interesting because with neuropathy, I

5:07

have no feeling in my legs

5:09

at all. And so it's interesting

5:11

to go through a stretch where

5:13

the legs, You got

5:15

to be careful because the normal

5:17

you don't feel it. You may be

5:19

pushing it beyond what the limit,

5:21

right? We have to I have to

5:23

do a sort of a touch

5:25

We're German beer that might be the

5:28

solution beer and schnitzel I think

5:30

that's how I got to be in

5:32

this situation So anyway, so yeah,

5:34

but it anyways it was interesting All

5:36

right, well you work hard, you

5:38

should also play hard and exercise and

5:40

hopefully you'll find the right balance.

5:42

Speaking of working hard, we are now

5:44

in the process of developing a

5:46

new documentary project, 38 Minutes, and suddenly

5:49

that's on the fast track. We

5:51

spoke with a couple of filmmakers yesterday

5:53

who might be working with us, and

5:55

in any case we need to

5:57

start fundraising for that. And

6:00

you've talked about it before, but you want

6:02

to mention a little bit again today before we

6:04

get to the questions from our beloved audience? Sure.

6:06

I mean, if people recall Operation

6:08

Dawn, which we did last year, I

6:12

think it was very successful.

6:14

The purpose of Operation Dawn was

6:16

to inject the danger of

6:18

nuclear war into the election, the

6:21

politics of the presidential

6:23

election. And we did

6:25

this. In fact, because

6:27

of Operation Dawn, We

6:29

got the eventual winning candidates campaign

6:31

to write an article about the dangers

6:33

of nuclear war and the need

6:36

to stop it I was hoping to

6:38

get all three campaigns to Commit

6:40

and then we'd have like a bidding

6:42

war, you know, competing against each

6:44

other who could be the most but

6:46

the winners the winners made the

6:48

commitment and it's Directly as a result

6:50

of what we're doing. I I

6:53

can absolutely say cause effect. So right

6:55

off the bat. That's that's a

6:57

big deal And

6:59

whether or not that moved the

7:01

needle on an election night, you know,

7:04

probably not not not to the

7:06

degree we wanted, but at least we

7:08

put it into the mindset because

7:10

then the follow on because what we

7:12

always said about Operation Dawn is

7:14

that it's not just about getting the

7:16

person elected who's going to advocate

7:18

for. You know, no nuclear war but

7:20

to follow through and make sure

7:22

that actually things happen and we we

7:24

did a couple panel sessions one

7:26

in New York City one in Washington

7:28

DC the one in Washington DC

7:30

we You know got Congress involved and

7:33

again a direct cause and effect

7:35

what we were advocating for Which is

7:37

to get Donald Trump to commit

7:39

to walking

7:41

away from the Biden policy of using

7:43

attack arms missiles against deep Russian targets,

7:45

which we said was going to bring

7:47

us to nuclear war. The Russians agree

7:49

with us. They said we almost we

7:52

almost went because of this. Trump said

7:54

no. He publicly committed to not doing

7:56

that. And I can't speak for the

7:58

Russian government, but I think that was

8:00

music to their ears. And they they

8:02

took they sort of backed off the

8:04

need to be aggressive had the other

8:07

candidate one, Kamala Harris. I believe that

8:09

she would have furthered Biden's thing and

8:11

we'd be in a nuclear war by

8:13

now or this summer. We'd all be

8:15

dead. Which brings us

8:17

to what we're talking about now.

8:19

Because we're not out of the woods.

8:21

We have a president who is

8:23

working to prevent a nuclear war from

8:26

happening. But one of

8:28

the big constraints of a

8:30

nuclear war is that we are

8:32

limited in our arsenal. 1 ,550

8:34

deployed warheads on each side.

8:36

That's thanks to the New START

8:38

Treaty. But both sides

8:40

are talking about once that treaty

8:42

expires, which is in February

8:44

of next year, massively expanding their

8:46

nuclear arsenal. And I'm just here

8:48

to tell you guys the history of arms races is

8:50

that when you start doing that, if

8:53

you build it, you're going to use it. And

8:55

this could be a very dangerous thing. We could

8:57

just find ourselves back into a cycle where nuclear

8:59

war is back on the front burner. The

9:01

best way to prevent a nuclear

9:03

war in this case is to continue

9:05

arms control and disarm. But how

9:07

do we get people to care about

9:09

it? How do we get people

9:11

to pick up the phone and call

9:13

Congress? How we get people to

9:16

put pressure on the White House to

9:18

say this is important to us

9:20

and That's where operation dawn 2 .0,

9:22

which is what we're doing here Promoting

9:24

nuclear disarmament but again the question

9:26

is how do I get you to

9:28

care and what we're gonna do

9:30

is taking back in time to January

9:32

13th 2018 put you in the

9:34

shoes of people in Hawaii who were

9:36

there when the alarms went off. And

9:39

they were told a nuclear armed ballistic

9:41

missile has been launched and impacts on

9:43

Hawaii. And these people thought they were

9:45

going to die. We're going to introduce

9:47

you, hopefully, to people like Lydia Warren.

9:50

She was on her honeymoon or on vacation

9:52

on the big island. And she and

9:54

her husband sat there and had to say, I love you.

9:56

I love you as they waited to die. Jim

9:59

Carey, famous

10:01

actor, was in Maui at the

10:03

time. And he went to the beach. to

10:06

taking the beauty before he died.

10:08

He talks about how it impacts

10:10

him to this day that the

10:12

terror. know,

10:14

he had John Aaron on honeymoon. He

10:17

and his wife were on the island of

10:19

Kauai on their honeymoon and they thought they

10:21

were going to die. They talk about the

10:23

terror that continues to impact them to this

10:25

day. Valerie Turner put

10:27

her children on a bus and

10:29

had them say, how am I going

10:31

to deal with it? Other

10:34

people, Perlman, Stice, Jerkin, your children

10:36

were there, but they had to go

10:38

into the basement and she had

10:40

that conversation. I love you conversation,

10:42

meaning life has been over, but I want

10:44

you to know before we die, I love you.

10:47

Guys, when you have this, when

10:49

you cross that threshold and from

10:51

theory into reality, it's life altering.

10:53

Even though eventually they said false

10:55

alarm, you can't undo the emotions. Those

10:58

emotions were real. Those

11:00

38 minutes brought about a terror.

11:02

in the hearts of these people

11:04

who are impacted that every American

11:07

needs to feel. We need

11:09

to get every American to feel that because

11:11

that's the only way you're going to care. Right

11:13

now too many people say it doesn't matter,

11:15

it's all hypothetical, it's not going to happen to

11:17

me. Every single one of these names I

11:19

just mentioned, not the same thing. Up until 8

11:21

.08 a .m. on January 13th when the alarm

11:23

went off and they got the notification the nuke

11:26

is inbound, you're going to be dead. At

11:28

that point in time their life changing if

11:30

you had interviewed each one of them at

11:32

809 810 811 and said how do you

11:34

feel about nuclear disarmament right now? I

11:37

bet you they said that's the

11:39

number one priority Why because it matters

11:41

they're going to die I'm telling

11:43

everybody who's watching this that should be

11:45

your number one priority because if

11:47

you don't have it you're going to

11:50

die eventually from nuclear weapons in

11:52

the time To start the care about

11:54

it isn't when the alarm goes

11:56

off when you get the notification that

11:58

says the missiles inbound It's too

12:00

late at that point So we're going

12:03

to make a documentary that captures

12:05

this emotion 38 minutes and we're going

12:07

to capture this emotion. We're going

12:09

to package it We hope in an

12:11

innovative way a compelling way and

12:13

we're going to get it out to

12:15

an American audience in hopes that

12:18

they can They can

12:20

make a difference. They can make

12:22

phone calls. We can get arms control

12:24

on the on the agenda the

12:26

political agenda We can't do it though

12:28

without without support unfortunately, I mean,

12:30

I've been looking at it and I'm

12:33

looking at ways to pare down

12:35

costs We had some interesting discussions and

12:37

maybe not go for the full

12:39

two -hour documentary up front Collect the

12:41

data and then produce a 30 -minute

12:43

quick punch to the gut that we

12:46

can get out and then use

12:48

that also to generate more money to

12:50

create the bigger movie. But

12:52

the bottom line is whatever we

12:54

do, we need your help. And this

12:56

is the way that you can

12:58

have an impact. Everybody who helped us

13:00

in Operation Dawn, and that was a

13:02

considerable amount of help. You guys helped

13:05

fund for the biggest ticket item we

13:07

had. What was that, the National

13:09

Press Club? Don't remind me.

13:11

a lot of money going out. But

13:13

because of that, we got the

13:15

attention of Congress. So framing

13:17

and how you organize the

13:19

pitch is very important. And that's

13:21

why this documentary is very

13:24

important, because I think that this

13:26

documentary is the right vehicle

13:28

to get information to the American

13:30

public so we can make

13:32

a change. You made a difference

13:34

in the summer and fall

13:36

of last year? and I believe

13:38

that we all collectively can

13:40

make a difference here, but if

13:43

you're able to, go on

13:45

scottridder .com and click the donate

13:47

now button. And that way

13:49

we can get a move on. We

13:51

have a very aggressive schedule, very

13:53

aggressive schedule, but that schedule

13:55

can only, we can only fire

13:57

the starters pistol when there's enough

13:59

dinero in the account to pay

14:02

the bills that will immediately accrue

14:04

by hitting go. So thank you

14:06

everybody. for your support. Before

14:08

we get to the questions, we have a

14:10

technical issue that needs addressing. Remember when you

14:12

check that box, I am using a green

14:15

screen? I think you need

14:17

to uncheck it now because you see that

14:19

right there? Yes. My cursor, but yes. I

14:22

was wondering how that happened.

14:24

So I have a feeling that

14:26

is the problem. And no,

14:28

you have to it. Oh,

14:31

no. Click that

14:33

you're not using. None for

14:35

a virtual background. One

14:38

of the choices is none

14:40

and then make sure it's unchecked.

14:42

I think that's all. Yeah.

14:44

All right. Look at that. All

14:46

right. Let's get to the questions from

14:48

our beloved audience. You

15:00

all just got a sneak preview of

15:02

the Trump watch. An

15:04

unintended sneak preview. Good thing I didn't have

15:06

my only fans background up there. That would

15:08

have been nice. Got to be

15:10

careful. First question is

15:12

from FeralAgent in southern Nevada. I'd

15:15

like to see Russian treasure

15:17

returned, especially by the UK.

15:20

Don't you think it would be great to

15:22

have the USA return of Faberge egg

15:24

for Easter and another for Victory Day? We've

15:26

got a couple of those beautiful eggs

15:28

here to return. This question came in last

15:31

week, even though it's a little bit

15:33

after Easter now. I figured we'll get to

15:35

it today. I'd

15:37

have to do the research on it. Are

15:39

the Faberges eggs stolen or are they

15:41

gifts? Why would we

15:43

return a gift and why would Russia want us to return

15:45

a gift? If these are

15:47

legitimately in the possession of people who are displaying

15:49

them, I want to keep them here in the

15:51

United States so that the American people can see

15:54

the beauty. The

15:56

eggs, trust me, Russia's got

15:58

a bunch of them. I've

16:00

been to the Hermitage Museum

16:02

and I've seen them on

16:04

display. The Russians are very

16:06

proud of the Faberge eggs. They're

16:10

national treasures, but

16:12

I'm all in favor. If we, as long

16:14

as we didn't steal them, I mean, this

16:16

is, you know, it's the same, how I

16:18

feel, for instance, if I go to the

16:20

Museum of Natural History and you go to

16:22

the American indigenous American Indian

16:24

section and you're looking at artifacts

16:26

and you're sitting there going wow this

16:28

is great history except we stole

16:30

all that stuff and you got people

16:32

are saying that belongs to us

16:34

you might want to return it to

16:36

us and I agree on that

16:38

one or you know you reach some

16:40

sort of accommodation where if we're

16:42

displaying it We have permission to display

16:44

it. It's being done in a

16:46

way that's respectful to the heritage. But

16:49

if it's a gift, for instance,

16:51

if Sitting Bull gave the American

16:54

president a peace pipe and all

16:56

this, and we have that on

16:58

display, that's a gift. We get

17:00

to display it as long as we do it with

17:02

respect. So I'd have to do the research on

17:04

the Faberge eggs. I have

17:06

a feeling that they're gifts, that we

17:08

have them legitimately. So I don't

17:10

want to return them. I want them

17:12

to stay here. What I want

17:14

to do is promote Russian culture I

17:16

want to encourage Americans to come

17:18

and look at it and see the

17:20

beauty of you know of Russian

17:22

culture All right, the yokes on you

17:24

Scott Eric Blair from from central

17:27

Connecticut. I think there may be a

17:29

joke in there somewhere I'm not

17:31

sure as the authorization for use of

17:33

military force approaches its 25th anniversary. What

17:35

do you think of its continued

17:37

use? It's as unconstitutional

17:40

today as it was back

17:42

then. There

17:44

should be no permanent

17:46

authorization for military force

17:48

because that makes the

17:50

role of Congress unneeded,

17:52

unnecessary. And

17:55

it gives the president powers and authorities

17:57

that he does not have and should

17:59

not have constitutionally. I'm for

18:01

the repeal of the War Powers Act.

18:03

I think that any use of military

18:05

power should be done in concert with

18:07

the president and Congress. Given the state

18:09

of play with communications today, it's

18:12

not a problem to assemble the gang of

18:14

eight. and have

18:16

consultations and at least get interim

18:18

permission to do something in the

18:20

name of national security with an

18:22

absolute requirement for the president to

18:24

follow up, not 90 days, but

18:26

in nine hours or something, but

18:28

Congress should have its thumb on

18:30

the pulse of America's wars. We

18:33

shouldn't give the president the authority

18:35

to drop bombs on Yemen without

18:37

congressional authorization to drop bombs anywhere

18:39

in the world without Congressional

18:42

authorization as I said this isn't you know

18:44

back in the day where you know you had

18:46

to bring everybody in and you know it

18:48

took days to travel by horseback or something even

18:50

though when they did the War Powers Act

18:52

that wasn't the case either but with communications that

18:54

we are the way they are today It

18:57

should be absolutely no problem. If

18:59

you want to be part of the

19:01

gang of eight, meaning if you

19:03

assume a position of congressional leadership, you

19:05

should be briefed on the reality

19:07

that if the president needs to use

19:09

military force, you need to be

19:11

aware of where the nearest secure facility

19:13

is where you can do video

19:15

conferencing. And there are certain timelines. The

19:17

president will convene a meeting. He'll

19:19

communicate to you. And if you can't

19:21

be in a secure location to

19:23

participate in this, then you're out. out

19:26

that you're on you because you assume the

19:28

responsibility. If you're going to be the Speaker of

19:30

the House, you're going to be the Senate

19:32

Majority Leader, you need to understand that there's an

19:34

inherent responsibility. Just like where the President goes

19:36

around, he has a nuclear football nearby, you

19:39

need to make sure that where you go, you

19:41

know where the facilities are and you'll have an

19:43

hour to get there when the President, this

19:45

is what needs to happen.

19:47

We need to get Congress back

19:49

in the business of fulfilling

19:51

its constitutional responsibility when it comes

19:53

to war powers. The president

19:55

should not have any authority to

19:57

go to war without the

19:59

permission of Congress, none whatsoever. All

20:02

right, let's take a voicemail message

20:04

now from a human who calls

20:07

himself Patrick. Hmm,

20:14

doesn't seem to be working.

20:19

All right, let's move on to the next

20:21

question. I will try to fix that as

20:23

we go on. The next question is from

20:25

Big Mike in Israel. What

20:27

do you think will happen after Trump's

20:29

visit to Saudi Arabia? We

20:31

all know that nothing is likely

20:33

to escalate in the Middle East

20:35

before Trump secures the trillion -dollar

20:37

deal. Do you expect a major

20:40

war to erupt this summer? And

20:42

if Israel strikes Iran on its

20:44

own while negotiations are still ongoing, Do

20:46

you think the U .S. will intervene

20:48

and defend us, or will we

20:51

be left to face the consequences alone?

20:53

I'd say Big Mike crammed a

20:55

lot of questions into what's supposed to

20:57

be just one question, but give

20:59

it a shot. What

21:04

do I think will happen after Trump's visit

21:06

to Saudi Arabia? I think the primary focus for

21:08

Saudi Arabia is energy security. getting

21:11

oil to the price where we want it.

21:13

And I think that the majority of

21:15

the conversation will be based on that. Of

21:17

course, they will talk Iran, but Trump

21:19

may not want like what he hears from

21:21

Saudi Arabia, given the fact that Saudi

21:23

Arabia and Iran have had a rapprochement negotiated

21:25

by the Chinese. And we just had

21:27

the Saudi defense minister show up in Iran

21:29

and have meetings with senior level Iranian

21:31

officials. So I

21:33

don't think the visit to Saudi Arabia

21:35

is going to be conducive to

21:37

drumming up a case for war. And

21:41

yes, you know, you don't want

21:43

to do something that your Trump

21:45

has a bigger picture. He has

21:47

to worry about which is the

21:49

economy And getting the Saudi Arabian

21:51

trillion dollar deal is is important.

21:55

I Don't expect a major war to

21:57

erupt this summer. I think that we

21:59

are well on the path of negotiation

22:01

with the Iranians. Very good meetings in

22:03

Rome. We appear to have reached a

22:05

framework, a deal that matches

22:07

the original intent of Trump. Trump

22:09

has since backtracked and embraced a

22:11

Netanyahu -like posture, but I don't think

22:13

that that's sustainable, especially given

22:15

the fact that Russia, China, and other

22:18

nations are saying the Iranians appear to

22:20

be doing what Trump originally asked them

22:22

to do. Israel,

22:25

Trump It's

22:27

impossible to say what he'll

22:29

do. I know under the Biden

22:31

administration, the Israelis were told that

22:33

if they start a war with Iran, we'll

22:36

defend them from attack, but we're not going

22:38

to participate in any attacks against Iran. I

22:40

would imagine that the same mindset

22:42

is that Israel's on its own if

22:45

he wants to go and attack

22:47

Iran. It's on its own. And

22:49

we will have our ballistic missile

22:51

defense capabilities lined up to help defend

22:53

Israel, but we're not going to

22:55

throw in the weight of the United

22:57

States military, especially if the president

22:59

told the Israelis that this isn't what

23:01

America wants to do. So you're

23:03

pretty much on your own. All

23:06

right. I don't want to spend too much time

23:08

on this, but checked. All our settings seem to be

23:10

correct for voice mail. So I don't know why

23:12

it didn't work, but let's try it one more time

23:15

and maybe it'll work. Here

23:17

we go. Hey Scott. Hey

23:19

Jeff You got a quick

23:21

question for both for for

23:23

you Scott I'm sure maybe

23:25

you maybe one of you

23:27

guys is familiar with Baldwin bankrupt He's

23:29

a youtuber that does a lot of

23:32

videos on Russia and that and specifically

23:34

in the past Had you know has

23:36

a lot of content about Russia? Not

23:38

so much anymore. Anyway, he recently went

23:40

to Ukraine. I think it was yesterday

23:42

or the day before and He

23:44

has a friend that he sometimes meets

23:47

up with named Johnny FD. And

23:49

he's like a, I think

23:51

he might be Chinese or Vietnamese.

23:55

But this guy, Johnny, he lives in

23:57

Ukraine and he felt like almost

23:59

full time, I think, in Kiev and

24:01

other parts. And

24:03

he has, I checked on

24:05

his Instagram and it seems like

24:07

he pedals a lot of,

24:09

I don't know, stuff that you

24:12

wouldn't normally see an expat peddling and I

24:14

just thought it was interesting and I thought

24:16

maybe I'd get your opinion on it. I'm

24:18

gonna send in a file that Jeff can

24:20

maybe pull up if you guys are curious

24:22

and wanna look at it. Anyway, thanks. All

24:25

right, you know what he's talking about or who he's talking

24:27

about? Nope, I'm both. I'd

24:30

have to go look at it

24:32

and I don't know if it's

24:34

worth my time. I'm just gonna

24:36

look at this. They

24:39

claimed to kill the high -ranking

24:41

NATO officers when in fact there

24:43

was civilians at home walking to

24:45

park and that short plate and

24:47

peg only one person in the

24:49

natural was killed and it was

24:51

a sort of disinformation You know

24:54

That's this guy was he there,

24:56

you know, he's posing at a

24:58

at a at a park where

25:00

flowers and toys have been put

25:02

on a slide you

25:04

know, obviously designed to achieve an

25:06

emotional response. Is he familiar with the

25:08

totality of the intelligence? Was he there when

25:10

the missile struck? Was he there counting the bodies

25:12

they came out? Or is he repeating Ukrainian

25:14

propaganda? I have

25:16

a feeling that he's repeating Ukraine because

25:18

guess what, loser, the

25:21

Ukrainians don't agree with you. So,

25:24

no, the Ukrainians acknowledged that there

25:26

was something going on there. Photographs

25:28

prove that there was a meeting

25:30

going on there. So it's I

25:32

have no use for this. It's a

25:34

waste of my time. I

25:36

mean, I'll look at it out of

25:38

respect for the questionnaire. I'll delve into

25:41

it and I'll have an open mind

25:43

when I look at it. But my

25:45

initial reaction is that this guy is

25:47

just a mouthpiece of Ukrainian propaganda and

25:49

should be treated as such. But that's

25:51

jumping to a conclusion before I've actually

25:53

seen the data firsthand. I'm just going

25:55

off of what I read on that

25:57

little snippet. But we'll look at it.

26:00

All right, you're allowed because you qualified

26:02

it as a hunch with an open

26:04

mind. You could be persuaded. Well, the

26:06

good news is we got the voicemail

26:08

thing working. Now let's see if we

26:10

can take a phone call and then

26:12

we'll really be professional. Hey

26:14

there, you're on with our favorite weapons inspector. What's

26:16

on your mind? Oh,

26:18

hi guys. I want to thank you

26:21

for this show. It's a breath of

26:23

fresh air and I hope you're doing

26:25

well Scott and Jeff. Thank you. I

26:27

have three questions. Three. Subtract

26:30

two. Okay,

26:34

so the first question is about the

26:36

Department of Justice and the State

26:38

Department going after critics of palace, critics

26:40

of Israeli genocide. Is

26:42

that an abuse of power? Is that

26:44

unconstitutional? I would love to

26:46

hear Scott's view and also the idea

26:48

of anti -Semitism Arabs or Semites. So

26:50

is that a misnomer? And

26:53

I was just wondering if you heard

26:55

about the assassination of Fatima Hasuna. She

26:58

was a Palestinian lady

27:00

who was nominated for the

27:02

Ken's Film Festival. Why

27:05

did they assassinate her? What was she doing? That

27:07

was so threatening to them. So

27:09

those are my questions. I appreciate

27:11

your time and your beloved audience.

27:13

And I appreciate your courageousness. All

27:16

right. And do you appreciate that I let you get all

27:19

three questions out, even though I don't want to? All

27:22

right. I'll do my best.

27:24

I got three minutes. So, you

27:26

know, three questions. Normally

27:28

I get three minutes for one question. I got

27:30

to basically work it. And since I'm blabbering now,

27:32

I'm losing time. Time is money. The

27:36

assassination of the filmmaker. Israel

27:40

goes after what they call propagandists.

27:43

They've done this before. This is Israel

27:45

targets, you know, reporters. But

27:48

they're not the only ones. The United

27:50

States has targeted media representatives that we

27:52

don't like. When we invaded Iraq, we

27:54

hit the Al Jazeera stand. We killed

27:56

Reuters people. It's not

27:58

right. It's wrong. It's a crime. But

28:01

you asked, what was the motivation of Israel?

28:03

The motivation of Israel is to silent

28:05

dissenting voices, to silent

28:07

those voices that

28:09

are able to generate

28:12

support for the

28:14

anti -Israeli position. Gosh

28:19

the danger of going backwards as

28:21

I erased the first question Well, I

28:23

remember the question about the terrorist

28:25

attack in India today There wasn't a

28:27

question about terrorist attack of India.

28:30

Oh, he didn't know I thought maybe

28:32

I misheard it. That's what I

28:34

was that's what's on my mind That

28:36

wasn't his third question. What

28:38

was his first question? Well,

28:40

I don't remember sorry I

28:45

was doing myself a favor of going

28:47

to the last one first and then

28:49

I just see it. It's gotta be

28:51

one question. You throw us completely off

28:53

kilter. Okay, it's about Israel. I

28:56

assume you'll and I get it some

28:58

help from the audience. Somebody in the

29:00

audience may remember somebody please. We got

29:02

a minute 27 seconds left. Somebody please

29:04

tell me what the question was. All

29:07

right. this is what happens when you get we

29:09

can come back we can come back to it

29:12

see now people who went to the stretch zone

29:14

see all that blood just got coagulated in my

29:16

brain that's your excuse what's my excuse I

29:19

should have written it down. I'm

29:21

at the point now, I guess. Okay, isn't

29:23

the nuclear issue... If we get

29:25

it, we can come back to

29:28

it. Yelena, let us know if

29:30

anyone from the audience can remember.

29:32

Tom in Pittsburgh, isn't the nuclear

29:34

issue just an attempt to create

29:36

a pathway to a regime change

29:38

war against Iran, very similar to

29:41

Iraq and its WMDs? If that's

29:43

the case, would Iran's abandonment of

29:45

its nuclear program simply mean that

29:47

the aforementioned attempt continued? Well,

29:50

first of all, who's talking about

29:53

the abandonment of its nuclear program?

29:55

I'm not, are you? I'm

29:58

talking about Iran backing

30:00

away from aspects

30:02

of a nuclear program that lend

30:04

themselves more to a nuclear

30:07

weapons program than a legitimate nuclear

30:09

energy program. I'm talking about

30:11

Iran reconfiguring its nuclear program so

30:13

that it can be justified

30:15

solely by the need to enrich

30:17

3 .65, 3 .7 percent uranium

30:19

hexafluoride. Converted into fuel rods use

30:21

it to bushier nuclear reactor

30:23

So I don't talk about the

30:25

abandonment of Iran's nuclear program

30:27

and the Iranians certainly aren't talking

30:29

about the abandonment the Israelis

30:31

are but that's not what the

30:34

Iranians are negotiating for and

30:36

that's not what I've been pushing

30:38

for so You know No,

30:40

what's the first part of the

30:42

question? I Keep

30:44

going backwards and it's

30:46

the mistake I

30:49

was looking in the comments to try and

30:51

get the last question. We're really having a

30:53

hard time here. Let me get the question

30:55

back for you. Is nuclear temp dissipate? No,

30:58

you can't compare apples and oranges.

31:00

That's what you're doing here. You're

31:02

trying to, you

31:04

know, shoehorn the

31:06

Iraq. situation with

31:09

the Iran situation, two totally different predicates,

31:11

two totally different histories, etc. It's

31:13

not an attempt to create a pathway

31:15

to a regime change war against

31:17

Iran. If we wanted a regime change

31:19

war against Iran, we'd already had

31:21

had a regime change war against Iran.

31:24

This has been going on for 25

31:26

years. Okay, so

31:28

no. You

31:30

know, with Iraq, you know, we had

31:32

the regime change war 91, we failed,

31:34

but it only took us 12

31:37

years to get back on track and

31:39

remove Saddam Hussein from power. It's been going

31:41

on for 25 years. If we want

31:43

to regime change, we'd have gone in that

31:45

direction. This is about controlling Iran's nuclear

31:47

program. That's the primary

31:49

note. There's other things happening that

31:51

we can, you know, we've always

31:53

had regime change options in place,

31:55

but not a regime change war.

31:57

That's a totally different policy direction.

32:00

This is about making sure Iran can't have

32:02

a nuclear weapon. And

32:04

that's it. That's it.

32:06

And I think the current

32:08

negotiations move us in that direction

32:10

while respecting Iran's sovereign right

32:13

as a signatory of the Nuclear

32:15

Nonproliferation Treaty to have a

32:17

nuclear enrichment program inclusive of the

32:19

totality of the enrichment cycle. Elaine,

32:23

that's just a message. Seems

32:25

people don't remember either. Well,

32:27

anyway, let me ask you about the

32:29

terrorist attack in India. I figured somebody would

32:31

ask about it. That's why I had

32:33

it ready to go. Did

32:35

you get much chance

32:38

to look into

32:40

it and are you

32:42

for or against

32:45

the terror? No, I'm

32:47

just kidding Well,

32:49

this is the first

32:52

time hearing of

32:54

it, I mean did

32:56

they kill soldiers

32:59

did they kill? civilians

33:01

about it. Okay. Yeah, I

33:04

didn't look into it that

33:06

much, but apparently they killed

33:08

tourists and they were checking

33:10

their nationality before they killed

33:12

them. Well, then what

33:14

do I think about? I think these

33:16

guys are criminals who should be brought to

33:18

extreme justice. This isn't, you

33:20

can't support any cause by doing

33:22

what they do. I'll say this, my

33:25

daughter spent six months in Pune,

33:27

India as an exchange student. And one

33:29

of the things she did while

33:31

she was in India is that she

33:33

went up to Kashmir. It's beautiful

33:35

up there. She went up there and

33:37

she hiked around. And my daughter

33:39

could have been one of these tourists. And

33:42

all she was doing is trying to

33:44

see the beauty of India, beauty of

33:46

Kashmir. And

33:48

I can't support this. I can't

33:50

support it at all. There's no

33:52

support. And for anybody who believes

33:55

and calls these resistance fighters, you

33:57

just condemn that movement. You

33:59

can't support a movement that

34:01

does this at all This wasn't

34:03

a military raid where civilians

34:05

got caught in the crossfire This

34:07

isn't October 7th where you

34:09

know Hamas went in and kicked

34:11

the snot out of the

34:14

Gaza division and then you know

34:16

advanced in We're the at

34:18

least 50 % but maybe majority

34:20

of the civilian casualties suffered by

34:22

Israel were inflicted by the Oh,

34:26

I already answered that one

34:28

about about the anyways. No,

34:32

this I condemned this wholeheartedly. This

34:34

is not this is not resistance.

34:36

This is not, you know, supporting

34:38

a liberation movement. This is the

34:40

murder of innocent civilians. And it

34:42

should be condemned wholeheartedly. Yeah, I

34:44

found out about it just before

34:46

we started. So I didn't have

34:48

too much. I didn't read too

34:50

much about but I think JD

34:52

Vance is in India now, and

34:54

that may not be a coincidence.

34:59

Debra from the Netherlands, do

35:01

you think it's only corruption

35:03

by the Zionist lobby in

35:05

the US that explains the

35:07

appointment of a former member

35:09

of the Israeli Ministry of

35:11

Defense, Mirov Seren, to the

35:13

US National Security Council? Or

35:15

could it be something

35:17

else such as potential

35:20

blackmail? Epstein

35:22

stuff. I

35:24

think it's corruption by the Zionist

35:26

lobby. I

35:30

don't know what the linkage of are

35:32

you saying that everybody in the National Security

35:34

Council went to Epstein Island and had

35:36

sex with underage girls and therefore the Israelis

35:38

have it on them so much that

35:40

they slip this person in? No. You

35:43

know, Michael Waltz's name. He's the National Security

35:45

Advisor. He's the one that nominated this individual. He,

35:48

he's not on interesting island. So what

35:50

do they have over him? This is

35:52

what happens when you sell your government

35:54

to the pro Israeli lobby. This

35:57

is what happens when, you

35:59

know, you, you subordinate your national

36:01

security prerogatives to the state

36:03

of Israel. Israel gets to

36:05

slide in their, uh, their

36:07

controlled resources, their controlled assets. Uh,

36:10

this happens in the state department.

36:12

If you go to the whole department

36:14

that's involved in, you know, Israeli

36:16

support Middle East policy. pro -Israeli Zionists

36:18

dominate that. You go to the Pentagon,

36:20

they dominate the civilian side. If

36:22

you go to, you know, um, you

36:25

know, here you have, you know, the situation, national

36:27

security council, the same thing. Um, but,

36:29

you know, it's not just Israel. How did

36:31

Alexander Venman become the, uh, Ukraine desk officer

36:33

for, you know, the, the Biden because he's

36:35

a, he's a Ukrainian shill. This is a guy

36:37

who actually at one point in time before

36:39

he got that position was asked by Ukraine

36:41

to be the minister of defense. Now,

36:44

in my mind, even though

36:46

that's not his fault, that's automatically

36:48

disqualifying because that implies a

36:50

relationship of familiarity with Ukrainians, with

36:52

a serving officer in the

36:54

United States military, where they

36:56

would even raise this issue. Even Venman may

36:58

be innocent, may have said no, but I'd

37:00

say, I'm sorry, you can't have anything to

37:02

do with Ukrainian policy now. You're out of

37:04

the picture. You get to go back to

37:06

what you were supposed to be doing, commanding

37:08

troops in the battlefield, go fat body and

37:11

die. But instead, He got to stay in

37:13

the National Security Council and do the bidding

37:15

of Ukraine. Which is what

37:17

he did. He betrayed the United States.

37:19

And this person here is going to betray

37:21

the United States. This person literally is

37:23

a Ukrainian agent. I mean, an Israeli agent.

37:26

Shouldn't have anything to do. Shouldn't be allowed

37:28

anywhere near the White House. Probably shouldn't be

37:30

allowed in Washington, DC. But nope,

37:32

they're right there in the midst of it all.

37:35

The highest security clearance is seeing everything. And

37:38

I can guarantee you. That

37:40

that person will be

37:42

meeting with his or

37:44

her Israeli counterparts and

37:46

we'll be passing this

37:48

information on Committing espionage,

37:51

but it'll be done

37:53

lawfully. This is a

37:55

horrible horrible horrible thing.

37:57

It's an embarrassment to

37:59

the United States of

38:01

America Knucklehead in Alberta,

38:03

Canada The following statement

38:05

was released by the political

38:07

party that has a good chance

38:09

to form the next government. In

38:12

short, they will

38:14

immediately send the $22 billion

38:16

in frozen Russian assets

38:18

to Ukraine. What

38:20

would be the consequences

38:22

for Canada? And

38:25

I think in short is good

38:27

enough. But here is the whole statement

38:29

for those with a magnifying glass. You're

38:37

committing a crime Everybody acknowledges

38:39

this a crime and Russia

38:41

will view it as a

38:43

crime and eventually when Ukraine

38:45

is defeated and destroyed and

38:48

Canada's left holding the bag

38:50

and and you will have

38:52

to You know Suffer the

38:54

consequences of his actions. You'll

38:56

have to pay Russia 22

38:58

billion dollars and with interest

39:01

So that's all you've done. You haven't done

39:03

anything. You're going to go burn the money

39:05

in Ukraine, get more Ukrainians killed. Ukraine

39:08

will lose. Ukraine will collapse. Canada

39:10

will then be called upon to return this

39:12

money. And understand the whole world is going

39:14

to turn against you, Canada. You

39:17

think you have friends and allies out here in the

39:19

United States? Screw you. We'll be,

39:21

we'll be up there. We'll have diplomatic relations

39:23

with the Russians and we'll say you

39:25

owe them 22 billion plus interest. And trust

39:27

me, Europe is going to collapse. Macron's

39:29

holding parliamentarian elections this summer and the parliament

39:31

could flip to the right and then

39:34

Macron could be, you know, forced to resign.

39:37

And now you have a right wing and they're going to

39:39

be against this and they're going to turn to you

39:41

and say, got to return the money. Cure

39:43

Starmer, once he gets his tongue out of

39:45

the mouth of his butler Prince Ali, will

39:50

Collapse and the British will you'll have

39:52

to acknowledge that their entire dream

39:54

and vision of Ukraine is finished and

39:56

they're gonna turn you and say

39:58

you got to pay the 22 billion

40:00

Germany is gonna the same way

40:02

Europe is gonna flip can't it'll be

40:04

left alone and This is stupid

40:06

stupid. It's Russian money. You are breaking

40:08

the law That's okay. You're Canadians.

40:10

What do we expect? Well,

40:13

speaking of Canada, our guest

40:15

on the winers Thursday night will

40:17

be Megan Murphy, the most

40:19

canceled Canadian ever. Are you familiar

40:21

with Megan Murphy, Scott? No,

40:24

she was canceled. A

40:26

lot. Oh, yeah. She just

40:28

was running. She is running for

40:30

parliament right now and her bank account

40:32

was frozen and she's been canceled

40:34

many times before. So we're going to

40:36

be talking to her Thursday night

40:39

on the winers at 7 p .m.

40:41

Eastern time. Don't miss it. You

40:43

may want to tune in and also Scott to

40:45

find out all about her. I don't want to be

40:47

canceled, man. Just by

40:49

watching her, you think it's contagious. Yeah,

40:51

I think so. Yeah. Got

40:53

to walk on thin ice here. Bill

40:56

T in Arlington, Virginia. Will

40:58

you be attending the Immortal Regiment

41:00

March in Washington DC coming

41:02

up soon? I

41:05

can't say that I won't be.

41:07

I just found out I just read

41:09

today that they're going to be

41:11

hosting that for the first time in

41:13

several years. And if I find

41:15

a reason to be in Washington DC

41:17

about that time, then sure, I'll

41:19

print out a photograph of my grandfather

41:21

and my uncles and my father

41:24

and all veterans who fought in the

41:26

service of the United States. And

41:28

I'll be more than happy to participate

41:30

in that march. It's a wonderful

41:32

way to celebrate the

41:34

heroes of past conflicts, but

41:36

especially the conflict against Nazi Germany.

41:38

We were allies of the

41:40

Soviet Union back then, and we

41:42

should have representatives in Moscow

41:45

on May 9th. We're not going

41:47

to have the seniors. It's

41:49

a huge faux pas on the

41:51

part of the Trump administration. Instead,

41:54

they're yielding the floor

41:57

to Xi Jinping of

41:59

China and Modi of

42:01

India, among others. The

42:04

American voice won't be there, but

42:06

at least we're showing that we

42:08

are respectful of the sacrifice made

42:10

by everybody in the defeat of

42:12

Nazi Germany. So if I'm there,

42:14

I'll be marching. All

42:17

right. Next question is

42:19

from David in Bellevue,

42:21

Washington. In Annie Jacobson's

42:23

book, the Russian Tundra

42:25

early warning satellite system

42:28

is described as dangerously

42:30

inaccurate. Do you

42:32

think the US would ever

42:34

consider helping Russia improve its

42:36

missile detection systems to help

42:39

them avoid making catastrophic mistakes? Or

42:41

would that always be looked at as

42:44

giving away too much to an adversary?

42:49

Well, first of

42:51

all, Andy Jacobson's book is

42:53

based upon analysis from some

42:56

highly respected people, but it's

42:58

analysis of of a

43:00

system that's not fully understood. It's a

43:02

classified system. I don't

43:04

believe the Russians have released the

43:06

technical specifications of the Tetra system,

43:08

so certain assumptions are made. The

43:10

Russians aren't stupid. They've been in

43:13

space a long time. They

43:15

build good satellites, and they know

43:17

what they're looking for. And I

43:20

have trouble accepting a face value

43:22

that the system, I think one

43:24

of the things is the coverage

43:27

I don't want to get into it,

43:29

but the nature of coverage, the delay,

43:31

the gaps in coverage, et cetera. But

43:33

I think the Russians have been launching

43:35

satellites lately that seek to close in

43:37

these gaps. We

43:40

don't need to give the Russians anything. I

43:43

can't imagine a

43:45

treaty where that's

43:47

part of it.

43:49

I think we'll

43:52

be focusing more

43:54

on... the

43:57

alerts that we give on our end

43:59

to cue the Russians any tests that we're

44:01

doing and things like that. And

44:03

then also just the deemphasis

44:05

of forces that are ready

44:07

to launch at a moment's

44:09

notice that we can stand

44:11

these down, we can detarget

44:13

our warheads. We should

44:15

be able to remove the warheads

44:17

of the majority of our systems

44:19

so that there's a physical. act

44:21

that needs to take place before

44:23

they can be launched to buy

44:25

time for people in a crisis

44:27

to make appropriate decisions. So there's

44:29

a lot of things that can

44:31

be done that don't require us

44:33

to give away very sensitive technology,

44:35

just as if we went to

44:37

the Russians and said, hey, could

44:39

you give us this because we're

44:41

not Russians aren't going to do

44:44

that. It's up to us to

44:46

do it. But what we can do is the

44:48

Russians would say, well, what are you worried about?

44:50

What can we do to physically constrain the activities

44:52

you're worried about so you don't have to worry

44:54

about how we collect intelligence? Okay,

44:58

before we get to Yelena with

45:00

the live chat questions, let's take

45:02

a phone call from John in

45:04

Somerville, South Carolina. John,

45:06

unlike some of the others,

45:08

I know I can count on

45:10

you to limit it to

45:12

one question expressed concisely, politely, and

45:14

always interesting. Hello, John. Hello

45:19

Jeff. Yes, always greetings

45:21

to you Scott and

45:23

to your international audience

45:25

Scott my question to

45:27

you is regarding US

45:29

Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick

45:31

who recently released a

45:33

video of video of

45:35

himself firing a weapon

45:37

in Ukraine against Russia

45:39

Is this an open

45:41

act of war by

45:43

the United States on

45:45

Russia since mr. Fitzpatrick?

45:47

is an official member

45:49

of the US government.

45:52

Thank you very much, Scott, and

45:54

God bless everybody. Stay safe. Yeah,

45:57

unless he's called out and

45:59

condemned, he committed an act

46:01

of war against Russia. That's

46:04

just the way it is. He

46:06

committed a crime, and he

46:08

should be held accountable for that crime.

46:11

He's not going to be, but he should be. Oh,

46:17

that's the end of the answer.

46:19

Okay. Let me just adjust that.

46:21

Okay. I'm ready now. Let's bring

46:23

in Yelena now with what do

46:25

we call it? 10. I'm

46:27

throwing fruit. They're 10 perfect

46:29

minutes of live chat questions. See

46:31

you all soon. Hello,

46:43

Yelena. Nice hat. Yeah, thanks

46:45

a lot Okay, let's go

46:47

straight to the question. We

46:49

have a lot of them

46:52

and mostly they are concerning

46:54

Iran and Israel and Well,

46:56

I will pick one of

46:58

them and it comes from

47:00

Ali Ali Sheets tea on

47:03

rumble. Hello Scott if Iran

47:05

and America make a deal

47:07

would would that be good

47:09

enough to placate

47:12

Israel and avoid the Israeli

47:14

attack on Iran and there are

47:16

alike questions, so this is

47:18

like summarizing Yeah, if Iran and

47:20

the United States make a

47:22

deal I think that brings it

47:24

into Israel's ability to attack

47:26

Israel won't go against the national

47:28

security interests of the United

47:31

States If we finalize a deal

47:33

we have an arrangement. It's

47:35

been codified Israel will not attack

47:37

Iran I believe that that

47:39

resolves the threat of an Israeli

47:41

attack. The key thing is

47:43

getting to closure on such an

47:45

agreement. We appear to be

47:47

moving in the direction where it's

47:50

possible or even plausible. But

47:52

until we actually seal the deal,

47:54

there's always a threat that Israel will

47:56

do something to disrupt the negotiation

47:58

process. But once the negotiations are done,

48:01

I think that eliminates Israel's

48:03

threat. They're not going to

48:05

go against an official agreement.

48:07

by this president that president

48:09

says he wants that would

48:11

be committing political suicide okay

48:13

thanks and now there is

48:15

one more also concerning the

48:17

same topic comes from ranger

48:19

uh two one two to

48:22

one, Regnar R. On Rambo,

48:24

if Iran abandoned all nuclear

48:26

development, not likely. Would the

48:28

USA still find the reason

48:30

to threaten Iran? The similarity

48:32

with Iraq is that you,

48:34

Scott, were there, told us

48:36

where, and there were no

48:38

weapons of mass destruction. Well,

48:41

remember with Iraq, Iraq kicked

48:44

weapons inspectors out in December of

48:46

1998, and they weren't allowed

48:48

to return until November 20. 2002

48:51

that's almost four years during

48:53

which time the United States

48:55

was able to take advantage

48:57

of the lack of inspectors

48:59

to create a alternative reality

49:01

of fiction about Iran's reconstituted

49:03

weapons and mass destruction program

49:05

that they were able to

49:07

sustain thanks in part to

49:09

Colin Powell's presentation at the

49:11

Security Council in February of

49:13

2003 to legitimize this conflict.

49:17

Iran has never kicked out the

49:19

IAEA inspectors. There's a continuity

49:21

of findings. And the findings are

49:23

that Iran is in compliance

49:25

with its obligations. And if we

49:27

get a new agreement that

49:30

then expands upon this existing findings,

49:32

there won't be anything to

49:34

hook onto. There won't be an

49:36

ability to say, Iran's cheating.

49:38

They're doing this. We have an

49:40

agreement. We know they're not

49:42

cheating. They were certified as not

49:44

being cheating. I

49:46

think it's, you know, apples and oranges

49:48

on this one. I don't think

49:50

that there's the ability to take an

49:52

agreement that's agreed to by the

49:54

Trump administration and turn that into a

49:56

causes bill. Thanks.

50:00

And the final amount to run

50:02

in the U .S. Is it

50:04

comes from Basel Fahmi Kant

50:06

on Facebook? Is it possible

50:08

for the U .S. ruling class to

50:10

ever be free from the grip of

50:12

IAPAC? It's possible.

50:14

I even believe it's probable, but

50:16

it may take some time. What's

50:19

going to have to happen is that

50:21

we're going to have to get a

50:23

sufficient enough number of Americans who believe

50:25

that the security of the United States

50:27

is threatened by Israel more than enhanced.

50:30

And when we get to

50:32

that arrangement, then the

50:34

political sustainability of a pro

50:36

-Israeli lobby becomes questionable and

50:38

we'll see that they'll

50:40

diminish in terms of their

50:42

influence. Thanks

50:45

a lot. And here is

50:47

the next question from our

50:49

regular Hassan Jahangiri. I

50:51

can't help but to wonder

50:53

if a living Ukraine, along with

50:55

Desperate EU, will be tempted

50:58

to do some mischievous, perhaps, assassination

51:00

attempts on May 9 parade

51:02

in Moscow. Well,

51:06

gosh, who are you

51:08

going to try and assassinate? J .J. Ping? Modi?

51:14

Other international leaders are going to be

51:16

there. It'd

51:19

be the kiss of death for both Europe

51:21

and Ukraine to do something like that. And

51:23

it's the kiss of death to try and

51:25

take out Putin. Russia

51:27

would literally eliminate you. You'd be

51:29

moved from the face of the earth.

51:32

If you want a Russian nuclear response,

51:34

try to assassinate Vladimir Putin on

51:36

May 9th. That'll be the end of

51:39

your... That'll be end of Europe.

51:41

So I just don't see it happening.

51:44

They may seek to make mischief beforehand,

51:47

as they did in 2023, where they

51:49

had a drone come through and tickle

51:51

the rooftop of the Kremlin on May

51:53

3. But I don't

51:55

see them doing any major attacks against

51:57

Moscow on May 9. That

52:00

would just be because it

52:02

doesn't accomplish what they want to

52:04

accomplish. What it does

52:06

is guarantee they're demised. Maybe

52:09

a follow -up question

52:11

quickly to this point.

52:13

Maybe Scott, you know

52:15

something about probable provocation

52:18

that was planned in

52:20

summer 2024 on Navy

52:22

parade in St. Petersburg, where

52:25

some Baltic states were allegedly were

52:27

involved. Maybe you could comment something

52:29

on this topic. Well,

52:31

no, I mean, but that wasn't an attack

52:33

on the Kremlin. That wasn't an attack on

52:35

Vladimir Putin. That was an attack on Crimea

52:38

on a Russian naval

52:40

presence. So even though

52:43

it would be despicable

52:45

had they carried it

52:47

out, there's a

52:49

difference between the two. Thank

52:52

goodness the Russians were able to

52:54

prevent the attack and all that. But

52:56

if Europe wants to become intimately

52:59

familiar with what a nuclear armed or

53:01

Russianic looks like, try

53:03

and kill Putin on May 9th in Moscow.

53:09

The next question comes

53:12

from Yuko24. Scott,

53:14

I know rumors are rumors,

53:16

but they also don't just come

53:18

out of nowhere with the

53:20

recent leaks that Putin is ready

53:22

to accept the most of

53:24

the Kellogg's plan. What would

53:26

be your view if he does? Vladimir

53:30

Putin is the president of

53:32

the Russian Federation and it's a

53:34

sovereign state and he gets

53:36

to make any decisions he wants

53:38

in regard to The Russian

53:40

Federation, it's not my view the

53:42

council would be what the

53:45

Russian people think about that I

53:47

Haven't seen any indication that

53:49

Vladimir Putin is position

53:51

to accept any aspect of

53:53

the Kellogg plan. In

53:55

fact, Dmitry Peshkov, the spokesperson of

53:57

the Kremlin's command, said that Russia

53:59

has no knowledge of this plan.

54:01

It hasn't leaked, and it's not

54:03

been... I believe Wittkoff is on

54:05

his way to brief. to

54:08

have meetings with the Vladimir Putin this

54:10

weekend where the plan might be discussed,

54:12

but the idea that Russia's been given

54:14

the plan and Putin's ready to sign

54:16

on, that runs counter to everything that

54:18

the Russian government has spoken about in

54:20

terms of their posturing, et cetera. I

54:23

don't believe any of that reporting, but we'll

54:25

find out. As

54:28

I read Peskov said that

54:30

you're not supposed to trust what

54:32

Journalists are writing trust on

54:34

these official sources. So this is

54:36

what was Peskov commentary on

54:39

that Yeah, he's basically it's a

54:41

denial though. He says that's

54:43

not that's not happening. Yeah. Yeah,

54:46

and I think the

54:48

final question for today from

54:50

Summerville Joan Scott Russian

54:52

General Valery Gerasimov informed president

54:55

Vladimir Putin on Saturday

54:57

that 99 .5 % of Kursk

54:59

region has been regained.

55:01

Will Ukraine just invade in

55:03

another place like Belgorod? Didn't

55:07

they try? I thought they tried during

55:09

the the Easter ceasefire and I think

55:11

they're all dead. So yeah,

55:13

Ukraine will continue to

55:15

do what Ukraine believes it

55:17

needs to do. They're

55:19

operating under some sort of

55:22

misguided direction that if

55:24

they can seize enough territory of

55:26

old Russia that they can use that

55:28

as leverage to get Novorossiya, the

55:30

four new territories, returned to them. I

55:33

think Russia's made it clear that this

55:35

isn't going to happen. What all the Russians

55:37

will do is kill every Ukrainian that

55:39

steps foot on Russian soil and continue to

55:41

liberate Novorossiya. And that's that. This

55:44

is why the war needs to

55:46

come to an end because the

55:48

only thing that's gonna happen is

55:50

you know a tremendous amount of

55:52

Ukrainians are gonna die and sadly

55:55

a Significant number of Russians will

55:57

die to further you know What

55:59

is an inevitable result you can't

56:01

reverse what's going to happen? Ukraine

56:03

has lost this war Europe has

56:05

lost this war the United States

56:07

has lost this war Russia has

56:09

won this war And that's what

56:11

the outcome is going to be.

56:14

There's literally nothing that can happen

56:16

that can change that outcome. And

56:18

yet Ukraine will continue to pour

56:20

lives and resources into, you know,

56:22

a losing effort. Thanks.

56:26

Okay. Thank you. Okay,

56:28

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