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It's time for declare your independence with Ernest Hancock believe me when I say we have a

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Difficult time ahead of us, but if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I

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Stand here without fear because I remember

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I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me, but because of the path that lies behind me

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I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines and

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After a century of war, I remember that which matters most

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Oh

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But we are relatively concerned are we not you know this is it starts to bring up a lot of things

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You know, I just contracted for doing emceeing of an event in mid-april on

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You know, I mean for lack of a better term the zombie apocalypse

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But really it is sir. Thrivell make sure that you and your family are taken care of

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Occupied land stuff, you know, this has been and who do we need to talk to just what the real threat really is

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What kind of what kind of threat you say we got here? Well, Scott Ritter now Scott Ritter's former marine

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I don't know. Can you be a former Marine?

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Anyways, you know, he's a marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union

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So he's got that perspective

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Implementing arms control agreements and on the staff of General Norman Swarchkoff. Oh, I remember them days back in the first Gulf War

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There he played a critical role in the hunt for Iraqi scud missiles and weapons of mass

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Bastards. Well, he's right in the middle of all that and what you know, they

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What was shared with the American people amped up was the news

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What was and was not a real threat now from 91 to 98?

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He served as chief inspector for the United Nations in Iraq leading the search for Iraq's

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You know prescribed weapons of mass destruction be a fear now in during all of this time

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And certainly maybe because of that time all of a sudden

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You know, he's like anti-war or at least stupid wars and definitely

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Iran warned of us going into Iran and this is bad is bad

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Well, we're gonna talk about how bad we are not getting the real pictures. You do any searches

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We have a lot of stories. Of course we covering about that war war about that war. That's the category

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We started 20 years ago. Which war now the next one. I mean, there's always another one

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When is there not been one it's a continuous war? So this is kind of the mindset. We're coming at now

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Scott comes on fills in the blanks and what he wants you to know about them

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and we get into the subject of this war that war this next one Iran and

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I wanted to promote his most recent book here highway

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Highway to hell the Armageddon Chronicles damn 15 to 24 Scott. Tell us all about that book before we get started. Would you please?

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Well, certainly. It's a book I

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Put together based upon

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articles that I wrote from

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2015 to 2024 warning about

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the danger of a nuclear arms race

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encouraging people to

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Embrace arms control and to defend the processes of arms control after all it was the arms control processes

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nuclear disarmament that took us down from

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30,000 strategic nuclear warheads in the 1970s to

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1550 up until

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earlier last month

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When the last remaining arms control treaty expired because the United States had no intention of continuing arms control

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A world without arms control is a world that's on the verge of nuclear armageddon

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We live in a day of nuclear anarchy

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Where you know the slightest mistake could lead to

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The initiation of a what people might think it'd be a limited nuclear war

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I'm here to tell you that every war game that's been played out around the world

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That tries to see if a limited nuclear war would stay limited always ends with a general nuclear exchange and the death of all

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life on the planet

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So highway to hell is was written to try and get the American public to rally behind the new start treaty

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It warned what the consequences of failure

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Would be and now we have a situation where we didn't rally behind the treaty the treaty is gone

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And we're starting to live that failure

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Every conflict that takes place today is taking place in the context of nuclear anarchy and here we have a

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Conflict between the United States and Israel and Iran

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United States and Israel of course possessed nuclear weapons. They've accused Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and

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You know, we may see a situation where if we can't win this war conventionally and we're not

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we may use nuclear weapons and

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What would happen if Iran decided that it needed to build its own nuclear weapons capability because they haven't been

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But if they wanted to go nuclear

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Then they start using their nuclear weapons

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And as I said, there's no such thing as a limited nuclear war once nuclear weapons start being used

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It spins out of control rapidly and globally

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You know my I mean just

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An opinion, you know, I

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Remember the movie swordfish with Hugh Jackman and John Travolta and he goes. Oh hell man

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I you know the Soviet Union fell apart. I you know by six nuclear warheads

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I get a discount, you know, I mean, you know, it's not like they aren't available

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And we got all kinds of spy movies and this and that that you know, you know

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They acquired this from there and they got their fuel here and they keep going on

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Oh, they got centrifuges and we stuck snacks to destroy their capability of the adi adi adi adi

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And I mean when you got North Korea has them China Russia's frantic

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is there really such a

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Capability of the United States and another Western powers to be able to detect a

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Nuclear weapon that we know when someone doesn't have them. I

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It seems to me that you're

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Sovereign wealth fund of the state sponsored I got a bunch of money

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Years go by one, you know, how far off am I?

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You can't just go buy a nuclear weapon that they're not on the market never have been on the market

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there's people that have scanned people into believing that

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Nuclear weapons could be bought especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union

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But as somebody who knows the people who were assigned to protect Soviet

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Nuclear weapons, they were never on the market. They were always accounted for there's materials

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You know what you get into?

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you know

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peripheral industrial

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Areas and you know people selling a little bit of you know fissile material here a little bit of fissile material there

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There were efforts to do that. They were all uncovered and all detected and all shut down

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If you're gonna have a nuclear weapon, you're gonna have to build it

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You have to earn it you have to do it the hard way and that's an eminently detectable event

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And so the idea that there's you know covert nuclear programs around the world that we don't know about and people are secretly stashing nuclear opens away

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No

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You know and the other thing is you know, there's a high degree of confidence in nuclear non-proliferation regimes and the work of inspectors

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I'm telling you as somebody who was an inspector

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If I'm given the proper mandate and you're trying to hide something

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I will find it 100%

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Guarantee because I'm better than you. I know what I'm doing. I know how to work the intelligence collection cycle

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I know what I'm looking for and you can't hide it

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That's how good we are

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The idea that people are

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Sequoia North Korea has a nuclear weapons program not because they hid it from us because they declared it to us

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Because they said we will not tolerate the situation where you continue to fly

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Large strike packages right at our border threatening our capital city every year when a joint exercise with South Korea

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We're gonna deter you and we're gonna deter you by building nuclear weapons and they did they tested them

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But before they tested they withdrew from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty which they were a signatory to North Korea used to allow

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Weapons inspectors on their territory to inspect their facilities

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But because the United States never was seeking actual nuclear non-proliferation with North Korea

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But rather regime change we corrupted that process the same thing we did with Iraq

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It's the same thing we did with Iran the problem isn't these nations that

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You know have run afoul of us in the in the international atomic energy through nuclear sacred as a promise is United States

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We don't adhere to international law

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We create treaties not because we want universal adherence to the trees

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We create treaties to be constraining under the powers and then we the the hegemon who operates above the law

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Seeks to exploit their adherence to the law to achieve their demise. We did that in Iraq. We did that in Libya

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We did that we're doing that in Iran. We tried it in North Korea

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You know you're when your your book

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Target Iran

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When was that written?

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That book was published. I believe in

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2007

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Yeah, so this has been a concern of yours for

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When ever I mean, you know always been the target

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Well, Iran became a target

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in

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the summer of 2001 when Israel made it a target

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Israel manufactured this

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This notion that Iran was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons Israel

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Was taking a look at a scenario in which if you remember

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There was an American general Wesley Clark retired at the time and he talked about how seven nations were going to be taken out in five years

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And this was the Israeli master plan

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Iran was one of those nations. And so

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In the lead up to 9-11 and after 9-11

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Israel was making the case that Iran should have regime change

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You know foisted upon it and you needed an excuse and so Israel created a

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Non-existent Iranian nuclear weapons program sold it to the United States and the United States has been you know

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Pursuing this politically ever since but there never has been an Iranian nuclear weapons program and up until recently

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There never was going to be

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We took the one guy that said

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Having a nuclear weapons program was against

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Islam Ali Khamenei and we murdered him on the first day of this conflict

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So the guy that said there will be no nuclear weapons and everybody understood that there would be no nuclear weapons

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We killed him now. He's been replaced by his son

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Who's more conservative but we have to hope and pray that his son respects the legacy of his father and will continue the fattwa

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Otherwise, you know Iran may withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation agreements and pursue a nuclear weapons program

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You know once again, we are our own worst enemies

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North Korea

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Should never have had a nuclear weapon because all we needed to do was play by the rules

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But we're incapable of playing by the rules the United States can't play by the rules

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Okay, let's just talk about that a little bit, you know, you have a

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The son

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That just has father killed I think the son also had a lot of his family killed

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Including his 14 month old daughter, I mean, you know, and we're expecting what from this. I I'm

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It's like it's on purpose. You know, there's something else going on and I'm wondering

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What it is, you know, is it simple as saying, you know

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The Jews did it and if they didn't do it, they're gonna do it

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I mean kind of mentality or is there a

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new world order kind of

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5d chess if we got to get in a position of you know Pax

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Mara Israel or whatever the hell if the plan is there's a club. We ain't in it, you know, and I'm wondering what is

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The plan I mean they come out with the plan said this is what we wanted to control the planet and get over it

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And this how we're gonna do it

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But it seems like they didn't anticipate Iran just saying we're not giving up now what bring the boots

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We're waiting on you, you know, and for Trump and the administration and whoever

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We we get into these wars and we can't get out or don't want to get out and they

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Enticed us with Venezuela. See how easy that was all we had to do is go kidnap of you know, whatever

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What's going on really I mean to sum it all up for us

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There's a lot of details and things I want to get to but I need to have an overall understanding

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What the hell were they thinking

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Well first of all I

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Don't think we can have an honest conversation about what American policy is until we recognize two things

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And I hope I'm not insulting too many people in the audience, but

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I don't care

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We're talking about ignorance and arrogance

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The American people collectively are the most ignorant people in the world about the world they live in

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Especially given the posture that their their government has taken that that we've assumed in the aftermath of the Second World War a

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Global power with global reach and global

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Responsibilities, but we don't know anything about the world. We live global entitlement

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Well, we we I just want to remind the Americans that

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The way the global economy works right now because of the rules-based international order that we set up

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We acquire other people's resources at prices that are well below market value

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And that's the only reason why we succeed if we ever had to play pay full market value for the things that we

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acquire in Africa through child labor and

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In elsewhere we go bankrupt

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That's just the American reality

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But the arrogance to believe that we have a superior economy a superior society because we're superior. No

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We've just been robbing the world blind

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Because we built the system that enabled this robbery to take place

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The World Bank is run by us International Monetary Fund run by us nothing happens in the world or at least nothing used to happen in the

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World that wasn't controlled by this world-based international order that we constructed

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We were the global hegemon. We had some competition during the Cold War

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But the Soviet Union collapsed and we were the sole remaining superpower afterwards

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But instead of behaving as a responsible neighbor, we just we behaved as the neighborhood bully and that's what we've been doing ever since

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You know, so we're ignorant about the world and then we're arrogant and believing we've convinced ourselves that we are special

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I mean, you've heard people say we are the exceptional nation the world can't live without us

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You know things of that nature

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And we're

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Ignorant enough to believe it we look in the mirror and shake our head and said yeah, this is all true

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We're the best. We're the brightest. We're the most capable

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When in fact, we're not the best we're not the brightest and we're not the most capable

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Especially when it comes to interfacing with the rest of the world because we don't understand it

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There's an old saying that I've been using my entire adult life

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I learned it from somebody far wiser than me that you can't solve a problem unless you first accurately define the problem

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If you haven't defined a problem accurately and yet you're moving on to the solution phase

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What are you solving not the problem because you've inaccurately defined it?

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You're only making the problem worse because you're doing things that aren't resolve the issue and you're creating new issues

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That that will further drag you down and that's how the United States operates in the world

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We don't know the world we live in we don't understand the world we live in and yet we continue to articulate

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The world as being problematic and we are the ones empowered to create the solution

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We haven't fixed and often the ones that create the problem, you know

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Galeon dialectic thing, you know, they're gonna create this problem. They we define the problem really well

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I'm gonna tell you how well we define this problem is so the problem and look at the problem

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And therefore there's a problem and then but we got a solution for you and Iran has been a problem

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According to I don't see any problem with Iran

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I haven't had anybody put in a gun to my head making me pay taxes to them or something. I mean, I so I'm wondering

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Where the Iranian prom dire, of course, we we know moves a deck 53

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They get rid of democratically elected they put in the shaw the shaw gets tyrannical

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You have the cleric comes in they take over in the revolution of whatever the heck but you know

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that really doesn't reflect, you know on

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Our negative opinion on Iran it's Iran's negative opinion of the US so well, but it actually does because I say this because

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You know, I wasn't involved. I was actually a young private in the army at the time

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But I have many friends who were on the desert one rescue mission

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You know Iran and went over the wall took American hostages held them for

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244 days we sent in a rescue team of some of the bravest Americans around

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And they ended up in a catastrophe in the desert

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leaving eight charred bodies behind

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and

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We saw the videos of in the imagery of the Iranian clerics coming out and poking these dead bodies with the stick and that

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Went the wrong way with a lot of people including myself

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You know, we were embarrassed by our failure

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And we were humiliated and from that comes anger and we in many ways, you know, blame the Iranians for this

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without understanding

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Why this these students who were not connected to the Iranian government would go over the embassy wall to begin with

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People tend to ignore the fact that these students gathered gathered up burn bags

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in the CIA

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spaces and in another classified working spaces of

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Of papers that have been shredded but back then we didn't use cross-cut shredders

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We use single single line cutters one eighth of an inch and the Iranian students

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Peaced all these papers together and they published a book and this book is it condemns the United States

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It shows our collusion with the Shah to torture

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Iranians to oppress the Iranians. There's a reason why the Shah was overthrown

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He was a bad guy a very very, you know, and that's my point. It's not like

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Iranians were

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The Iranian people, you know, even their religion whatever was a threat to me. I

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I just want to raise it whenever Israel comes up

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Foreign Wars Middle East or whatever doing a show somebody comes on surprise. I raised my hand. I go. I got a question

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I got one question

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Am I

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Allowed not to freaking care. Am I just allowed to not care?

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I don't care what they do over there. Don't care

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You know, am I allowed to not care? Nope. Nope. You got to care

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You got to care because they were poking charred bodies or something, you know

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I understand the personal people would have whatever but what if I don't care

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Why do I care?

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Well, I care when they start, you know closing the straight to horror moves

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I get I get that, you know, I care when but that all falls on a lot of on us or Israel or so

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There's something else that try to make us care. Why should we care, Scott?

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Why do we care what happens in Iran? They don't like Iran, you know come emigrate to the US

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Australia go to what I don't care, you know

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So why do I have to care about Iran? Well now they're making you care

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You know, you have mushroom cloud threat and I tell you I see a mushroom cloud nuclear war comply no more

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We've already made that decision. I see one cloud. I don't give a crap why

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Government has failed. This government's failed their government's failed trying to get another dime out of me

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I'm not playing anymore. You know vote. We're gonna vote for what?

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Still voting. So this is this is I need to know from Mr. Scott Ritter

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Iran why should America care? Why are we there?

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oil a

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Lot of oil and a lot of gas and and and then just it's the

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The geography where it's located. It's a it's a it's a big country

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it had the misfortune of being on the border of Russia and then later the Soviet Union so it became a

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central part of the

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Cold war

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You know barrier of treaties that we created everybody's familiar with NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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And that created a barrier against Soviet expansion in Europe that extended to Turkey

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But then there was something called Sinto the Central Treaty Organization and this included a one-time Iraq

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Turkey Afghanistan Pakistan

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Central Treaty and then we had Ceto the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization that completed the encirclement through Asia these

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These these this this barrier of treaty relationships designed to contain

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The the Soviet Union and defeat them in time of war Iran was central to the Central Treaty Organization

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And so that's why you were told to care that Iran was the linchpin of

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Containment of Soviet power

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Soviet aggression in the Middle East and Iran just happened to have a whole bunch of oil that the British really needed

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You know to fuel their their their their navy all right at the end of the Second World War

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And then you know, that's why we went against most today the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran

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We couldn't let him nationalize

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Erena you know because God forbid the Iranian people actually benefit from their own natural resources

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No, we should allow BP British petroleum to come in and steal these resources

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The Iranian people see nothing the British see everything

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That's how neocolonial

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Relationships work the Iranian people didn't want that so we decided that we would force it on them

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So we got rid of most of the day we put in the Shah the Shah was nothing

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But an expression of neocolonialism he was 100% beholden to the United States

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He kept Iran in the in the central treaty organization for as long as possible

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But in the end his corruption and his lack of morals

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Brought him down. We were told to care though because now Iran is collapsing. It's not just what Iran

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You know did to those charred bodies, but we are losing

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I mean there's always an intelligence picture behind the scene and the CIA when we lost Iran

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We lost the ability to look across the border in the Kapustin Yar

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Where the where the Russians were testing?

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nuclear testing missiles or

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look into Baikonur or look into

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you know the

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nuclear test range in

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Kazakhstan

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We were blinded and we needed to get those eyes back

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So we needed to you know get a government that was friendly to us, but now we have the Islamic Republic

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That's not friendly to us

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And so we were told that they are the enemy

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I mean, you know again we create the enemy

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Um, and then we're told that they must forever be our enemy

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And then the other problem is we we have them shouting death to America

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And of course many American politicians take umbrage at this and the many Americans are fearful of this

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I have been to Iran. Okay. Why why why is that death to America kill America?

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Americans bad American American and the people are like man

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I don't think they really care that much, but I mean it's death to America as

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Billboards painted on buildings so and they don't have a lot of

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Advertisements, I mean you're not getting you know selling gas jeans or whatever, but you do have

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Propaganda, and it's always against America. What is it that fuels that?

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Well what fuels the Iranian saying is that America supported the shot America helped create the savag the secret police and that America was

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Basically an evil presence in the Iranian nation

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The CIA documents for 40 50 years. I mean, you know kids that they're you know 30 something years old

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And there's just a it's just a slogan. I mean, what's the evidence?

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You know, where is it that they're physically I guess we take their money from or sanctioned or blame America?

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something we we we we helped Iraq Iraq kill Iranians in an eight-year war death to America

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We sanctioned Iran tried to starve them strangle them death to America. We've sought to assassinate their leaders repeatedly death to America

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We've denied them the ability to function as a as a member of the international community death to America

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I can go on and on and on no, no, no, that's what I needed

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You know my thing is is that they have to have a current ongoing

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Reason and we keep giving it to them. Why?

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Because we

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Well first of all if we could solve the problem we would we would attempt to solve the problem. There's a

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There's there's no doubt about that. I don't know if

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My computer is dead, so I'm using the

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Yeah, you're fine my cell phone. Am I am I all lined up because my

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All right, so we'll I'll just continue to but you know

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The Iranians every reason to be opposed to what we're doing because we are we are literally seeking regime change in Iran

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Iran on the other hand, they are looking to protect their interests

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You know, we help Saddam Hussein in an eight-year war against Iran to kill over a million people

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Again, the American people have no clue what that means to lose that many people and have your cities leveled by missiles and warfare

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They have your economy sprinkled by sanctions

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You know, and we've never really allowed the Iranians to emerge from that. We've we've vilified them again

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I come back to my ignorance

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How many people even know what Iran is I mean, I hear people say they're Muslim well the congratulations you win 50 gold stars summer

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You're a genius. Um, what kind of Muslim are they?

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Some of the more educated people might say Shia

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That's good. Why what's the difference in Shia and Sunni now people start to stumble. They don't know they don't understand and then if I say

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What faction of of Shia's um is predominant in Iran?

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They don't know if I said 12 or would you know what 12 or means? No, you don't know what 12 or means some people do

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But most don't if I asked people, what are the four key things you need to know about 12 or Shia?

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Shia faith and they'll say what do you mean? I'll say well who is Ali?

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They don't know who's Hassan. They don't know who's Hussein. They don't know. What is the battle of Karbala?

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They certainly don't know and if you don't know that then you don't understand their faith

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And therefore you don't understand the people their nation and why religion is important to them

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If I said villa it if I key would people know what that meant and the answers majority don't it's the rule of the supreme jurist

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It's what makes the supreme leader

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Functioning in in Iran. Why do they need a supreme leader? It's a we don't know

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What we do know is that we are ignorant and when things are put on the table that we don't understand we fear it

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Ignorance is the root cause of fear and it's the fear that's being exploited by people who are seeking to you know

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empower themselves by

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Playing off of the fear we have of Iran. We have nothing to fear from Iran at all. I have been there

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I have met with them

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I have heard them say death to America and then turn around and greet me with a handshake and a smile

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Because they don't want to have death to America. They just want America to leave them the hell alone

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You know, that's it. Leave them alone. Why are they capable of leaving them alone?

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Why can't we just let them live their lives? Why can't we have to go in? That's the question and the answer is that why can't we Israel?

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All right, Israel is the root evil of everything in the Middle East and the world today

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Literally and I know people say you're anti-semitic. I just want to remind the audience that says that I meant anti-semitic that

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During the Gulf War I put my life on the line and many other Americans did trying to stop scud missiles from being shot into Israel

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As a weapons inspector, I was the lead liaison with Israeli intelligence for four straight years

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I traveled Israel more than I care to admit

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met with them intimately at the highest levels and

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Worked with them collaboratively to try and find Iraqi weapons

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That phrase that means nothing to me, you know, I I'm not anti-semitic. I'm not even anti-Israel. I am anti

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Zionism especially when Zionism has been used to infect a

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Significant percentage of the American body

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Politics to where Americans seem more concerned about Israel than they do about the United States Ted Cruz

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Now is a man who said he joined the Senate to serve Israel

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I thought he joined the Senate to serve the the people of Texas. He now is going like it

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And now he's come out and said um that you know, and again, I'm not a big, you know, Christian

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But you know, you know, you can't say that Christ is king. I know that that I attended church as a kid

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I I know that Christ's king is a phrase. It's often used

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you can't say today because it's he calls it anti-semitic because

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It somehow means the Jews are bad

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This is the ridiculousness we are now at war with Iran

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Because of Israel we went to war with Iraq because of Israel all the sins

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We committed in the Middle East are because of Israel and Israel isn't just a nation Israel is a

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theology of hate

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It is designed to empower not people who live in Israel

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But to empower people who live in the United States who use Israel as a vehicle to achieve political control

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Okay, I want to talk about this very point before we get into Iran

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It is clear that Israel has a very large

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Influence in America and we can go on about how and where and why and I don't care

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The point is is that when you do this America first thing or

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Define the four words to make America great again, you'll make how you gonna make, you know

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What does that mean America America geography America ink America people American culture what the hell you talking about, you know

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Great, what is that my missile penis is bigger than your missile penis? I mean, I mean know what that means, you know again

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Well, yeah, I yeah, we go way back. He'll you know articles Confederation. I mean, you know, this is so I

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All these phrases all these just calling you a name all it's really just a trigger word for canceling

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It means oh, they're labeled anti-semitic. So therefore they don't get to go to you know this party or something

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Your club, you know, I'm not in it and don't want to be so I'm good, you know, don't worry about it

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This March to war after war after war after war regardless of what the justification or reason is

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always winds up

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Crap tons of money and

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Debtedness for the future my children now my grandchildren my grandchildren are starting to get to where they're gonna start having

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I have great grandchildren and they're never gonna pay off this debt that all these wars created and whatever real a crap that they're

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Doing so I don't I feel less and less

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Allegiance to our government because the government does not represent America interest

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The heritage of it the promise that they made, you know the Declaration of Independent principles purpose of government defense of individual rights

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You don't do that time to alter abolish. It's your right. It's your duty

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We have to have foreign enemies all the time

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So it's gotten to the point to where with the internet with you being able to come on and express yourself

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The writing of books, you know web pages podcasts on

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You're starting to see and feel a shift that wasn't there before

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Well, it's not big enough. It needs to be bigger. It's got and we're still up against the what it's a hell of a lot bigger

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And what it was okay that in opposition to this forever about that war what we're out of the next one, you know, they overlap

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So what is your impression of the mood of the American people the Western cultures?

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English speaking, you know the planet

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About these wars and is America seen as the good guys anymore or the imperialist dogs or whatever

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Give me your opinion on general public opinion here and around the world the environment this war is in

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First of all, I'll say I do a lot of traveling and I will say that the

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The American people whether they deserve it or not

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Are still viewed as a people

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with

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A generally positive frame of mind by people people believe in the promise of America the potential of America

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People view Americans maybe with nostalgia

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They look at Hollywood films and they look at what they think America should look like etc

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So there's a lot of tolerance

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Towards American people

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The American government is despised globally even the Israelis don't

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They they mount they mock us because they they understand a harsh reality

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They can buy us in a heartbeat when you have apac bragging about how they're gonna spend a hundred million dollars to buy the u.s. Congress

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Um, and they're

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And they don't shut it down. They don't call them foreign agents. Um, you know, we're we're fundamentally broken

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um

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Now we could bully people for a long time and you know one of the things about a bully is you know

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There might be a period of time when the bully actually has you know physical

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Domines he picks on the weakest person and it makes it look as though he's unbeatable

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But generally speaking a bully governs through intimidation

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And what happens when people call the bluff?

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Uh, usually the bully gets the crappy down from that's the end of the bully

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The world right now is starting to call the American bluff

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Um, and this iran war is a big deal because we are not winning this war

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We are not winning by any stretch of the imagination

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We are being humiliated and we will be humiliated

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Especially when we run out of ballistic missile defense capabilities

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Iran continues to possess ballistic missile attack capabilities. Um, you know

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This this war will not end well for the united states or for israel. Um, and that's the end of the bully because now I mean

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You know we we pick on north korea

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Um, and uh, they they build a nuclear weapon and put it on the missiles

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So then we go in and put missile defense systems in south korea and tell them

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In south korea is like we really don't want to do this. We don't want to provoke them anymore

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I mean there's no you got to have it trust us. We're america. We're very strong

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The chinese say we prefer you didn't put these missiles in south korea

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We say stick it near your china so the chinese say okay

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Well, we're just going to build more missiles and move them towards uh south korea as well

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So now south korea is sitting there going wait a minute. I got the north koreans pissed at me

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I got the chinese pissed at me, but america says that's okay. You've got our ballistic missile shield

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We put five fad systems right there in your soil along with patriots. We're here for you

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We're you're oh, wait a minute. What we're where that ran and we just blew through our entire missile stock and

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We need them. Oh, yeah, um, and we don't even ask we just took them the south koreans are like

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Yeah, they just came in and took them

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So now south korea is sitting there holding an empty bag with china still pissed off north korea pissed off and we're gone

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We took everything. Um, how do you think are we going to recover from this? The answer is no

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We're not in the middle east all of the gulf arab states who spent billions of dollars buying american anti-missile technology

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If shot through their their stockpiles and they say we need more missiles and america says sorry

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We're going to resupply israel not you there's a meeting right now if gulf arab states and they're starting to recognize

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The cancer in the middle east isn't called iran the cancer in the middle east is called america and israel

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And there's talk about permanently evicting the united states from the middle east

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And this is going to happen because we're losing this war

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We will not win this war and when this war ends the people we betrayed will say you have to leave

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Um, and so we're going to be kicked out of europe right now is waking up to the fact that america is the problem not russia

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Um, and how do we deal? How do you deal with it out of control?

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Irresponsible america

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You know, we're in we're at the phase of of our existence as a nation

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Where we had been called out by the rest of the schoolyard

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Who are saying you're a bully?

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And we're not taking anymore. We're going to stand up in the bully

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We get in a fight with somebody and he beats us up their ratings are beating us up

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They're not destroying our troops yet if we try to invade on the ground

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They will um, but you know, we're not blowing things up that we claim to be pete hexeth is a liar

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Straight up liar. We're blowing up empty buildings. We're killing a bunch of people

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But we aren't having any impact those missiles keep flying. We don't know how to make them stop

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We can't open the straighter whore moose. It's shut down because the iranians have planned this operation better than we have

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The global economy is out of kilter

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Iran is actually in the catbird seat here because they have the ability

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To you know, get the world on their side. India has an energy crisis

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Well, the indians call the iranians and they negotiate a deal where iran allows indian ships to go through the straighter whore moose

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Russia and china good guys their ships to get to go the straighter whore moose america

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You're bad. We blow it up europe. You're bad. We blow it up and so, you know, it's iran that's calling the shots

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People need to understand it. When you see pete hexeth up there spewing his hatefield nonsense as he did this morning

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He's not in charge. He wants you to believe he's in charge

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Iran is in charge. They're the ones dictating outcomes right now

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And there are also the ones that are dictating the outcome to this war

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Trump right now is desperate to find an off ramp. He has been making phone call after phone call after phone call

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to get somebody to help him get out of this mess

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and

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You know the iranians have made it clear to everybody that this war doesn't end until all of their objectives have been achieved

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They didn't start their objective, but what they say

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Kick america out of the middle east to make sure this war doesn't ever happen again

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To get israel to be properly sized meaning that

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You know this concept of an israeli superpower regional superpowers absurd to terminate the abram's accords

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which was an american plan to

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You know shoehorn israel is the dominant economic power in the region controlling all the gulf arab states

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They're going to end the abram's accords america

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Be evicted israel is going to be downsized

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There should be a palestinian state and iran will continue to exist with an as a nation that has

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a conventional military deterrence

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ballistic missiles

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But they want sanctions lifted they want to be normal

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All iran asks is that they allowed to be normal in the world

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Just like everybody else to sell their resources at fair market value and to bring the money that's

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Accrued through the sale of these resources back to the iranian people so that you can live

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You know a a a a nice healthy life with a good standard of living

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Yeah, let me make an observation and i want to get your professional opinion of you know, what's going on over time as a

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talk show host and you know a

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Web news portal and you know covering, you know

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balled in politics and general public opinion and so on

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I remember that uh iran started their own oil borse, which is you know like a

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Exchange, you know a commodity exchange or something in in iran

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And they started

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You don't have to use the petrodollar here, you know

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Well, of course that gets you invaded, you know, they don't like that

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It seems like that is one of the key things if you're taking anything other than us dollars for oil

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Boom, you move to the top of the list kadhafi saddam, you know, whoever. I mean you're going to get there

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Then we plan on india, you know being with the west and kind of well, they go screw you

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They gave 200 million dollars in gold

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For oil in iran years ago. I remember this

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And I go oh, let's get you know now the

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Countries around the world are starting and even the central banks here are stocking up on gold man

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They see it coming somebody gave them a memo early over here. We go

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So

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You can't isolate them that then you got crypto. Well, then they got it, you know, we can't have crypto unless it's uh

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Trump crypto, you know, if it's trump crypto, then it's okay and back by treasury bonds

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They're just shoehorning crypto into the legacy banking system thinking that the bricks and a gold back unit or one or

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Whatever they create their own payment system and swift in the west and suck it you guys are done. We don't care

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that

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The only way to stop that

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Is to physically stop it to to put it's it's like trump is working for israel and the banks and

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Oftentimes you might find out they're the same thing. I mean, you know, so I'm just I

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Can't we just leave people low obviously not, you know, this government

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How does our government fair, you know, we got what choices between, you know

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Super surveillance and digital currency of you can and you can't and you have to and you're not allowed or

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The other option, which is the same thing. It's just a you know

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Rd after it. So I'm looking at

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We find more in common with who we say our enemies a lot of times

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We just want to be left alone

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Then we do with our own government. This is what is coming. I can see it. It's obvious to me

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I was a young 28 year old late

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80s

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You know starting to get active and doing and finding out that the government what they say it is

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And now we have the internet and people are communicating directly with each other

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You get the first three minutes or you got to wait three weeks for the truth

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If you got the guy with the iphone and took a picture of the suicide bombing did kind of whatever, you know

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Maybe that's not a bunch of bs or ai

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But you know 30 seconds after that and it's all crap until three weeks later when they don't care

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And you have actual people on the ground that tell you what really happened

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Well, we're always getting what really happened

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after we're engaged so

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With that comment, I want to know

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the fact that we are

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surplus production of oil in this country

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We start to have technologies that i'm in arizona. So solar kicks ass here. I'm i'm fine

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But around the world and certainly the country we have these small reactors that are being done

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Heck are going to be sending them to the moon and we got you know the

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Solution to energy is like the movie with keno reeves and morgan freeman chain reaction

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Well, we we got the power

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But you're not allowed to do that because we got energy companies that need to be making some money and donate to the whatever

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So i'm

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The solutions and abundance for the future humanity is right there

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It's right there

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And there's somebody something in the way and it's going to be outed. It's going to be ignored. It's going to be

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repudiated

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Or there's going to be a mushroom cloud freaking war

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In my opinion these really are our options

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What do you think?

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Well, what I would say is this on on the energy front

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You know

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We in the united states built a global economy

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Where the petro dollar was the

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Currency of reserve the reserve currency so much energy is traded around the world every day

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um, if you had exchange rates if I if you had to you know buy in in in in

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dutch marks and then

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Deal with an intermediary translation of dutch marks to

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Yuan and then to rupees

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The exchange rate alone at this volume is just going to bleed off unbelievable amounts of of of capital. So

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When you have the the petro dollar, it's uh, it's the same currency

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It creates far more efficiency in the uh

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When when you're dealing with the global

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You know sale and movement of uh, of of energy on the scoping scale that you see with oil and gas

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um

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And so the petro dollar is a is a convenience. Um, but it's also a mechanism controlled by the united states. First of all

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um

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Because we never have to deal with exchange rates. Uh our economy benefits tremendously

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I mean if we if we lost the petro dollar and we had to go into

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You know exchanging or you know getting on the market the money market, uh, we you know

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Tens of billions hundreds of billions of dollars a year would be lost in in efficiencies. Um

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You know in and we become the indispensable currency because the entire world needs

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The dollar to buy energy. That's why when you have people say we're going to set up

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An alternative to the dollar it's deemed to be such a great threat

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Um an existential threat if we lose the petro dollar

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uh, we're in for

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Total economic collapse here at home because everything we do is linked to that petro dollar

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Um, we're not going to go back to a gold standard or anything of that nature. We're we're linked to energy and now

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Um, we can't have a situation where we have a world

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gravitate away from the mechanisms of um, of of energy provision that empower us

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um, you know, we fear alternative energies because

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alternative energies

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Can be done locally using local currency. You don't need the petro dollar

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And so what we then do is we we

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Uh use the dollar as leverage. We begin to

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Sanction people we deny you access to the swift banking system

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We shut you down so that you can't have any fish in the economy. We sanction you

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Until you comply with our dollar-based rules and regulations or create competition

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Well, we can do that too, you know, it was there and marco rubio when he was a senator said one of the most amazingly honest things

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I've ever heard from a senator

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About brazil because brazil when they were joining bricks was talking about breaking free of the dollar and you know

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doing international trade with a uh

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You know with the with the chinese yuan or or you know finding some way you can have a currency basket

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The dollar was involved and he said if they do this

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Then we lose all of our ability to influence their

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Their their their their policies because the way we influence is through sanctions

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So we can only sanction if they're using the dollar if they become creative the dollar

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We can't control them anymore and there's the secret ladies and gentlemen. It's about control

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And this is absolutely show this real quick

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India drops the dollar and pays for iranian oil in gold. This was february 12th. I remembered when this happened

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So don't think it can't happen. It'll happen and then they're going to do what to india

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You're gonna say well, we don't like you no more. They have screw you. We need oil

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So this is you know, we are playing a game that we cannot win in my opinion

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And I got to wonder what they

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Convince us get back to you know the the current engagement now. We haven't even talked about ukraine. You know, I mean it's all same crap, but

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What did they do to convince

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Trump that we needed to go all in whip-ass

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Angels from god the air force to bomb the crap out of iran and whatever and you know

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I thought it was like a

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Uh

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Big faux pod you don't go after heads of state. So you have somebody to surrender or something

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I mean he just went right after that right that sounds like an israel thing

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So i'm just wondering what did they show what alien

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You know from alphas and whatever left area 51 went through the boring tunnel warp speed

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Train to washington to pop up and tell trump you better or something. I have nothing was surprised me anymore

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What did they do to convince trump to do this?

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Well, let's let's

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I'm first of all

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I don't know

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So it's speculation and I think I need to make that point. Um, you know, because I wasn't sitting in the meetings

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But I would say that um, you know, the the whole thing about iran's nuclear program was this subterfuse. That's fake. That's uh, that's an excuse

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It's a manufactured crisis

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This is more about

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um

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The united states is in a transitional period. Um, we are no longer the

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You know soul remaining superpower. We're no longer the unmatched global power

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There is competition out there

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And so the united states needs to find a way to manage this competition. We don't compete fairly

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I hope people understand that we don't play by the rules. We make the rules

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We hold everybody else accountable to the rules and then we do whatever the heck we want to our convenience

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But those days are over. The world is just simply not going to

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Play the america is great game anymore. Um

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And so now we have to

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do something globally that

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uh

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Disrupts this transition to a multi lateral multipolar world

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Because a truly multilateral multipolar world will

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Um find an alternative to the dollar

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You you mentioned gold, but um, you know, there's only there's a finite amount of gold

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Um, you know, and if you start raising the price of energy, uh high

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There ain't enough gold in the world. Um, and so I think that's sort of what we're looking at here

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There is a lot about this war that doesn't make any sense. Um, we know that the national, uh

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Director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published, uh before the war

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a

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national intelligence assessment about

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Uh potential conflict with Iran and that assessment which is the consensus assessment of the u.s. Intelligence community

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Said there is no you will not achieve regime change. This won't happen

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And the iranians will retain the ability to launch missiles for a very long time

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And the straitworn moves will be shut down and we can't reopen it

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So we knew all this and yet we went in and did this

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And so you have to ask yourself. Why would you do this just because israel has so much control and power and influence on us?

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Yes, and no, there's a bigger picture here. This is about the globe. This is about

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You know the established political and economic elites losing their relevance as this world transitions away from them

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I think and again, this is where it's probably best to get

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Uh an economist who is very well versed on

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the role that energy plays and um

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In the global economy and uh in the flow of capital and things of that nature and sustainment of the petro dollar

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I think keeping the petro dollar is absolutely essential for the security of the united states

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Keeping dollar dominance in the world today. So you have to make the dollar relevant. Um,

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You know when when will is that 68 bucks a barrel? However, you know, sometimes goes down to 40. Um

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You you can talk about other currencies filling the gap

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Uh, but remember if you're going to be a global reserve currency

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You need to have a lot of global reserve currency. So what is your currency pegged to? Um,

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You know because right now the united states just print money

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But we can print money. It can be absorbed by the world because of energy and energy costs

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And now what we're looking at is a situation where we may be

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Headed towards permanent 100 plus dollar a barrel oil

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Uh because things are happening in the energy security market that are not going

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We're not going to be able to reset to back to where we were before this war started

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There are things taking place. Uh transitions in market share. Um, you know, European desperation Asian desperation

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Um that that are going to

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Create a transition in the overall energy security

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Market globally that may keep the price of oil

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High in the higher the price of oil

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The more need for a currency that can meet that demand and there's only one currency that can do that

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And that's the petrol dollar. So part of me is starting to believe that we started this war

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Um to create a new

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global reality

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That that will empower the petrol dollar to remain

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The the world's currency of choice

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Going forward if you take a look at, uh, Russia right now, um,

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You know Russia of course was was a leader in bricks and russia talked about the potential a new currency

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But russia's whole philosophy and what they've said to trump is we didn't dump the dollar you

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Stole the dollar from us you closed the dollar market to us

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So we had no choice but to find an alternative and i think donald trump recognizes the failure of that policy direction

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Which is why we're getting russian energy back into the market

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But when russia goes and sells its oil

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To india, uh, they're gonna get paid in dollars

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Um, that's just the reality of it and therefore russia will have to

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You know go back and start doing global business with the dollar, which means russia's going to have to stay married to

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a global uh currency reserve system based upon the dollar, um

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And i think this is part of the objective here. There's uh, there's a bigger economic game at play here than most people see

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Yes

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To whose benefit

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I i i'm wondering you know, this is it it's not to mine

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You know, we go to a gold back currency

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We go to some commodity or a basket of of silver

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Coin the what whatever, you know gold backs

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Have a free market and currency get rid of the federal reserve, you know, it's called, you know, um bitcoin not bombs

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I remember that was a big thing early on not that i'm a big fan of bitcoin getting shoehorned in the legacy banking system

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But you know, the whole concept was is that if you had

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Money

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That couldn't be inflated. You wouldn't have these wars

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You know, they just you know in deading great-grandchild great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren

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And we're going to fund another war. So lock-eating bowing can make a bunch. I just I I have no love

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for this system

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And the more you know the more you understand it the more you see the ramifications of support and

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war for these systems

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To keep surveilling and ruin us. I'm like

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What the hell so when you say make america great again?

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What america are they talking about? It's not americans, you know that that definitely is not on the list

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What is you know when they say I remember the beginning of uh iron man, you know

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Well, he's defending america and her interest

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I keep hearing that all the time america and her interest well her interest was my freedom

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What what other interest is there? What are they talking about scott?

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Well, it's not america's interest. It's the interest of the empowered political and economic elite that um that are

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You know occupying the upper uh floors of the pyramid of power. Um

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These are the people that benefit from these policies

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And everything that's being done is to

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Create opportunities for them to generate more wealth

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Again, I'm not an economist and I I I I sometimes get uncomfortable

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Delving into this because I don't have the found day for instance if we're talking about weapons of mass destruction

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I'll go all day because I know I'm right

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Um, but when I get into the economy, I mean, I you know, I'm familiar with I took you know

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college level, you know macro microeconomics kinsian theory and things like that but

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What what I view what's happening right now

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is that

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There is a

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It's like a Ponzi scheme that's being run against the uh against the world right, you know the stock market

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When you know, it's funny because you know when you when you start digging into the stock market, you know

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I didn't invest in it, but remember the whole

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Was it amc and gamestop?

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um

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When when the people decided that they were gonna uh, they were gonna stick it to the hedge funds that they weren't

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Going to let this fall so they invested and you know and and and did a reversal on the stock

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Well, then what we saw is that the system said you can't do that

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You're not allowed to make money. You're the suckers

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Yeah, you're the guys that that that that invest your money and lose your money while we the elites we make money because we cheat

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We get into high speed uh trading um so that you know, we're doing you know, we make our money on volume

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And so we're doing high speed trades where we get the benefit of stock prices being where there are

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But we can we can make sure that you never get the benefit that whenever you sell

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You're gonna sell at a loss because we'll manipulate the market. You know how that never makes the money

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It manifests itself and people buying and holding precious metals. That's how it manifests itself. Never freaking mind

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We're over here. We're buying land

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We're building getting solar panels growing our own food educating our own kids

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Will withdrawing from this bs system just like other countries are

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bricks

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Is happening right here and whatever name you want to give it just say it

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No, i'm i'm i'm not i'm not debating. I think that's a good thing, but

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um

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The rest of america uh sent their kids to college and their kids went into debt uh hundreds of thousands of dollars

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Now they're out trying to get a job. Um they the the job that they get will guarantee they'll never pay off that college debt

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So they'll always be in debt. They're borrowing more trying to chase the american dream and uh learn to code and then ai took that away

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Yeah, and then they you know, so what is their solution? You know, well

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Investing you into 401k plan invest in it. Well, the 401k plan is just taking your money

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Consolidating it and letting the the the market, you know consume it and you'll you're gonna lose everything

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Is everybody always lose everything so get out of pay it's a Ponzi scheme our

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Our market our market is a Ponzi scheme designed to suck resources from the bulk of the people

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To the profit of the few and so what I what I what I see happening right now

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Is a reset because you can only take a Ponzi scheme so far

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You know eventually all Ponzi schemes collapse because that's not real and what I see right now is the the

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You know the the same bankers that gave us uh derivatives that led to the collapse of 2008

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I saw the movie the big short so i'm smart

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I actually read the book too

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And I did a little bit of research into it, but the point is that was a scam

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That wasn't sound economics. That was pure straight up

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Scam they're doing it again and they're doing it again

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And what we're seeing is the continual resetting of the scam because you've got to reset it set the conditions now

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And I think what's happening now

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Trying to preserve the

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The petrol dollar this war and I ran this is a reset

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This is an effort to reset the system so that the same bankers who have been screwing us for centuries

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Can continue to screw us for the next century until there's a need for another reset

01:03:11.240 --> 01:03:12.680
That's what I think now

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You know if I want to take the entire summer off and tune out of everything and just dig in and research

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I think I could probably produce an interesting book that made this very point

01:03:22.460 --> 01:03:27.720
But this is very superficial analysis, but I think I'm accurate. I think I'm on to something

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Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay

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Now we need to get into you know

01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:36.180
I'm glad we got this background this understanding

01:03:36.720 --> 01:03:40.220
Formatting of this because we need to get into you know, the actual

01:03:40.220 --> 01:03:44.660
Will there be boots on the ground or the military actions that's going in Ukraine

01:03:44.660 --> 01:03:50.220
And that evolves into Iran now that we have an understanding of the motivations of what the hell something is

01:03:50.220 --> 01:03:54.620
You know what's going on, but I'm going to make you a super duper

01:03:54.620 --> 01:03:58.280
Professional economist. Yeah, right now here. You ready? This is how it goes

01:03:59.240 --> 01:04:02.060
Freedom's the answer. What's the freaking question? That's it

01:04:02.620 --> 01:04:08.440
You know, it's the free to compete the free to use, you know, alternative currencies alternative vendors

01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:12.280
It's none your damn business. I don't need to report, you know to well

01:04:12.280 --> 01:04:13.160
It's kind of your money

01:04:13.160 --> 01:04:17.260
You just can't have it now unless you tell you tell us what you're going to do with that $5,000

01:04:17.260 --> 01:04:19.640
I mean freedom is the answer

01:04:20.080 --> 01:04:21.220
Leave me alone

01:04:21.740 --> 01:04:24.680
You go you're you're after someone else's

01:04:24.680 --> 01:04:28.340
You know, they're pursued a happiness. Well, then you got issues but other than that

01:04:28.340 --> 01:04:30.280
I don't freaking care

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Leave it alone

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That's it. You want to be a professional economist?

01:04:36.620 --> 01:04:40.900
Leave me alone is that's it. What are you an anarchist? What are you a temp for? What are you?

01:04:41.060 --> 01:04:43.940
I'm gonna leave me alone us man. I don't know what the hell you guys talking about

01:04:43.940 --> 01:04:49.940
So boom you're a professional economist. The next thing is, you know, there's um,

01:04:50.500 --> 01:04:55.180
You know, the idea that you can mold the economy. Well freedom does that, you know

01:04:55.180 --> 01:05:00.580
I mean, it's just you you're accountable for your mistakes. You don't get subsidized for being stupid

01:05:00.580 --> 01:05:05.040
You know on and on and on so it doesn't need a mechanic. It's organic

01:05:05.660 --> 01:05:11.480
You you have freedom. It takes care of itself. You don't like it. Don't buy it

01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:17.400
Go somewhere else use something else. You don't trade something else. So it's freedom solves these problems

01:05:18.040 --> 01:05:24.440
Freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom. Are we getting that hell no and now the next monetary system they want to do

01:05:25.180 --> 01:05:30.540
We're gonna track you and we're gonna tell you what you have to get can't get and delay to get to get

01:05:30.540 --> 01:05:33.880
So i'm just so freedom freedom freedom freedom

01:05:33.880 --> 01:05:40.020
Then we had the the impact of um, you know a bunch of the young with the romp all evolution

01:05:40.020 --> 01:05:42.960
That started in 07 08 and then we got to go again

01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:48.440
And 12 and that was something they didn't see coming, you know, we were in the middle of that

01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:50.820
In fact, i'm the one that created the romp all evolution logo

01:05:50.820 --> 01:05:56.140
But what happened was you have all of these young people that got educated

01:05:56.140 --> 01:06:01.960
They understand the reasons behind this and they're starting to live their life

01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:09.500
Understanding that they got to be outside of this kind of control mechanism for them to flourish for themselves and their family

01:06:09.500 --> 01:06:13.220
How do they do that? Well, they're working on it. It's a technology thing

01:06:13.220 --> 01:06:19.320
It's a you know obfuscation. It's you don't see what i'm doing. You can't say oh the hell we don't we got

01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:22.440
We in your smartphone all the time

01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:27.840
I mean, you so there's this battle that's been going on since freaking there were kings and serfs

01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:33.100
I mean, it's all about, you know, I own you you're mine. You're my subject

01:06:33.100 --> 01:06:36.920
No, we're not. Yeah, you are. No, you're not. Yeah, we are so you know

01:06:36.920 --> 01:06:38.980
It's just back and forth

01:06:39.520 --> 01:06:41.180
And that is the real battle

01:06:41.180 --> 01:06:45.140
So now I want to get to where how this is manifested

01:06:45.900 --> 01:06:52.360
The same crap the same read the same were in charge the same corruption the same same same

01:06:53.040 --> 01:06:56.060
Garbage, you know what's going on in europe and ukraine

01:06:56.060 --> 01:07:01.560
We take, you know, a whole bunch of munitions and go into ukraine and do an outskirt and then

01:07:02.200 --> 01:07:02.580
ew

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Now i ran

01:07:05.300 --> 01:07:09.580
I don't think israel give a crap about ukraine. Hey, you're doing all this ukraine stuff

01:07:09.580 --> 01:07:14.660
You know, what about a little something for the whole team over here? You know, we need to get aran we need to burton

01:07:15.100 --> 01:07:15.340
so

01:07:16.140 --> 01:07:16.920
from your

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professional

01:07:18.780 --> 01:07:19.260
soldier

01:07:20.620 --> 01:07:25.180
Been you know, iraq gone through all and actually looking for and then

01:07:26.540 --> 01:07:27.960
Pontificate and write books on

01:07:29.380 --> 01:07:33.700
Is there going to be boots on the ground in aran and if that starts

01:07:34.410 --> 01:07:36.840
What's going to happen? I don't see

01:07:38.160 --> 01:07:40.600
How aran loses

01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:45.980
Losing means they have to give up and i'll see i'm given up

01:07:46.830 --> 01:07:50.060
How close is america to using?

01:07:50.540 --> 01:07:54.360
Nuclear weapons. I need to know what you predict

01:07:55.370 --> 01:07:59.060
The timeline is that we're on a trajectory now with aran

01:08:01.220 --> 01:08:03.520
I think you can take it necessary

01:08:05.260 --> 01:08:12.260
Well, I think actually there's a there's the makings of a grand bargain taking place right now between the united states russia and china

01:08:12.820 --> 01:08:13.240
um

01:08:14.540 --> 01:08:16.220
You know as we speak

01:08:17.080 --> 01:08:19.160
curio dimitriov who is the

01:08:19.900 --> 01:08:21.480
former goldman sacks banker

01:08:22.020 --> 01:08:26.700
Um, who then is now rushing the running the russian sovereign wealth fund

01:08:27.640 --> 01:08:34.660
Appointed by vladimir putin not as a member of government but to be a special envoy to interface with steve whitcoff

01:08:34.660 --> 01:08:37.340
Man who has no diplomatic skills not

01:08:37.960 --> 01:08:42.680
Not a government employee, but a special envoy appointed by donald trump to resolve

01:08:43.260 --> 01:08:46.440
Several issues to include the ukraine conflict and iran

01:08:47.160 --> 01:08:49.700
These two guys are meeting in florida

01:08:49.700 --> 01:08:53.900
Um, well, this is like comparing it's art of the deal versus the art of war

01:08:53.900 --> 01:08:56.140
I mean, are they even the same thing?

01:08:57.420 --> 01:09:02.820
Well, there's there's you know, that's semantics, but there's a deal being cut right now

01:09:02.820 --> 01:09:06.620
Um, I don't believe there's going to be boots on the ground because that's suicidal

01:09:06.620 --> 01:09:12.220
If we do do boots on the ground, it'll be a demonstration only just to save face for donald trump

01:09:12.220 --> 01:09:16.780
No, we landed we landed marines on this island. We planted the american flag

01:09:16.780 --> 01:09:23.160
We smoked some cigarettes. We ate some uh, you know ham slices and then we uh, then we left

01:09:23.160 --> 01:09:30.280
But we're not going to we we can't we literally lack the resources to get involved in this and the lead time

01:09:30.940 --> 01:09:36.100
To get significant troops positioned in the region. We're talking months. If not more than a year

01:09:36.100 --> 01:09:39.820
Okay, before you get into that I want to dwell on what you just said

01:09:41.340 --> 01:09:44.280
Can there be a token, you know

01:09:44.280 --> 01:09:49.440
Counting coup nananan a poo poo. I put a flag on the beach of you know, and had a ham sandwich

01:09:49.440 --> 01:09:53.000
I mean they even even do that

01:09:53.900 --> 01:09:55.400
How will that go over?

01:09:56.820 --> 01:10:02.760
Well, I don't think they're going to do that because the risk is too uh, is is too much I I uh

01:10:03.340 --> 01:10:09.600
I in in in 1990 I was uh, pulled out of the amphibious warfare school

01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:15.460
Which was the captain's level course because I used to be in the rapid deployment force and was the uh,

01:10:15.460 --> 01:10:21.920
I ran Iraq war intelligence officer and uh, now that we're getting ready to go to war with Iraq in 1990

01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:23.260
The common on the marine floor

01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:26.140
Was looking for amphibious warfare options

01:10:26.140 --> 01:10:31.480
He created this ad hoc cell under the war fighting center commanded by general matt caulfield

01:10:31.480 --> 01:10:35.820
And they brought in a bunch of colonels and lieutenant colonels none of whom were iraq experts

01:10:36.420 --> 01:10:38.300
Uh, and they were looking for an iraq expert

01:10:38.820 --> 01:10:42.520
And uh, my name came up and so they pulled me out of school, which is unprecedented

01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:45.160
And they put me on this on this

01:10:45.160 --> 01:10:47.120
This planning cell as a captain

01:10:47.560 --> 01:10:53.480
But I was the subject matter expert and so I got to do a lot more as a captain than I would have it

01:10:53.480 --> 01:10:59.300
If I'd been a colonel, uh, but I came up with a couple options one of which was a marine raid

01:10:59.800 --> 01:11:06.060
Using light armored vehicles. We were going to conduct a raid a classic marine operation against the

01:11:06.980 --> 01:11:07.420
azubair

01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:14.620
Logistics base to go in and create havoc blow up supplies tear up their logistics and get out

01:11:14.620 --> 01:11:19.280
And I thought it was the greatest plan since slice bread. I mean this was going to be beautiful

01:11:19.760 --> 01:11:23.880
Um, and it's a marine mission. It's what we what we claim. We're ready to do

01:11:24.360 --> 01:11:29.700
Uh, but when we took it up and uh, and we got it, you know getting sanity check, um

01:11:29.700 --> 01:11:35.220
There was a colonel colonel ciphered. He was a uh one of the pilots on desert one

01:11:35.220 --> 01:11:40.860
He's one of the guys that flew the helicopters into desert one and you know, we couldn't get the six we needed

01:11:40.860 --> 01:11:43.980
Well, we got five. We had to abort the mission and and all that

01:11:43.980 --> 01:11:49.300
But this is a man who understands what it's like to be sitting in the middle of a country when a plan goes to hell

01:11:50.020 --> 01:11:54.340
Um, and he sat there and he listened to it and he gave me great credit. He says this is a really good plan

01:11:54.340 --> 01:11:58.100
Uh, you thought it out, but he said there's just too many things that can go wrong here

01:11:58.100 --> 01:12:03.840
Um, you know the the risk isn't worth the gain. Um, you know, we we can't be putting

01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:07.020
You know 500 marines lives at risk

01:12:07.570 --> 01:12:13.380
To achieve a propaganda exercise the we're not going to get war-winning results out of this

01:12:13.380 --> 01:12:17.900
This is a feel-good operation and therefore I have to say no to it and

01:12:18.820 --> 01:12:21.780
He actually won the day. I mean because he was right

01:12:22.480 --> 01:12:26.200
I believe that in the military today, we have sufficient people like him

01:12:26.200 --> 01:12:31.320
Who will listen to whatever crazy plans that pete hag says and the region came

01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:35.180
Idiots come up with and say no, we're not doing that

01:12:35.180 --> 01:12:37.860
Um, we're not putting our marines lives at risk here

01:12:37.860 --> 01:12:43.060
There's got to be a real war-winning reason to do this, but we're not going to play a propaganda exercise

01:12:43.060 --> 01:12:45.600
I'm not going to be right. We saw that happen with the

01:12:46.860 --> 01:12:53.280
Navy escorting thing. I remember there were some admirals going yeah, we're looking at we're probably not gonna you know

01:12:53.280 --> 01:12:54.240
They didn't do it

01:12:55.020 --> 01:12:59.980
The navy can't do it. They you'll get you'll get a ship sunk

01:13:00.620 --> 01:13:03.200
Um, and the navy's not in the business of getting their ships sunk

01:13:03.200 --> 01:13:08.100
Um, and there's no reason to do it. I mean the the the bottom line is again

01:13:08.100 --> 01:13:11.640
I said the earlier the iran the iranians are in the driver's seat here

01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:19.120
Um, the iranians are allowing sufficient safety valve meaning the the leakage of of energy out of the

01:13:19.120 --> 01:13:22.860
Persian Gulf through the straight or moose to avoid a global collapse

01:13:23.340 --> 01:13:27.580
I don't think the american audience understands just how responsible the iranians have been here

01:13:27.580 --> 01:13:30.040
Let me make this point awfully clear

01:13:30.620 --> 01:13:32.800
If they were in the business of killing americans

01:13:33.420 --> 01:13:37.020
We would have suffered so many more casualties than we've suffered right now

01:13:37.020 --> 01:13:43.160
These people have precision weapons that are extremely lethal. They're not in the business of killing americans

01:13:43.160 --> 01:13:48.640
They're in the business of destroying critical american infrastructure that weakens us

01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:51.000
But they're not in the business of killing americans

01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:56.460
So this death to america thing forget about it if they were in the business of killing jews killing israelis

01:13:56.460 --> 01:14:02.940
There'd be more than 20 dead. There'd be thousands dead because that's the easiest most vulnerable target in the world right now

01:14:02.940 --> 01:14:07.480
Especially with no missile defense, but they're not in the business of taking israeli life

01:14:07.480 --> 01:14:14.320
They're in the business of destroying israeli infrastructure to make israel uninhabitable so that the people who they're not killing

01:14:14.320 --> 01:14:18.760
Wake up one morning and say we don't want to live here anymore and they go back home to europe and

01:14:18.760 --> 01:14:24.220
Wherever they came from and that's how you defeat israel is to depopulate israel not by killing them

01:14:24.220 --> 01:14:26.500
But getting them to leave voluntarily

01:14:27.080 --> 01:14:29.820
And there's not that many anyway. There's like, you know the

01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:36.300
Population of phoenix, you know, I mean this is not like i'm you know saving an entire

01:14:36.300 --> 01:14:39.520
You know big giant chunk of the planet's population

01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:43.140
The other thing, you know, not that that matters, but I just in perspective

01:14:43.660 --> 01:14:45.480
We're not talking about a lot of people here

01:14:45.480 --> 01:14:52.020
So this is one thing that what you just talked about they're not in the business of killing americans

01:14:52.020 --> 01:14:56.900
If they really would that well this applies to the russia, you know, this ukrainian

01:14:56.900 --> 01:15:02.300
They've been doing in russia every which way they can trying to provoke putin into

01:15:02.900 --> 01:15:08.320
Justifying nato full-on of whatever they them those won't leave us alone

01:15:08.900 --> 01:15:14.560
Want a war and if it goes mushroom cloud all the better. So i'm just

01:15:15.160 --> 01:15:18.660
this provoking of russia is now

01:15:19.560 --> 01:15:24.340
Seems like they're trying to do the same thing with the rand and the rand is not playing the way they want

01:15:25.340 --> 01:15:31.020
So russia is not playing the way they want. Um, you know, I mean if you're kirstarmer the british prime minister

01:15:31.020 --> 01:15:34.100
Uh, you're you're already politically dead

01:15:34.740 --> 01:15:37.820
I mean you're a useless human being a failure of a politician

01:15:37.820 --> 01:15:43.960
You have the lowest population rate a popularity rate and you're going to lose you're going to get routed in the next election

01:15:43.960 --> 01:15:46.540
So now you're the russians and you have kirstarmer

01:15:46.540 --> 01:15:54.620
Seeking relevance by you know, the british building the flamingo cruise missile for the iranians who've been fired against the vodkin's machine building plant

01:15:54.620 --> 01:16:01.300
The best ballistic missile uh plant in all of russia, uh, you have the british providing advanced storm shadow

01:16:02.560 --> 01:16:08.740
Air-delivered cruise missiles that strike an electronics facility in bryansk and it's humiliating for russia

01:16:08.740 --> 01:16:12.040
The whole purpose is for russia to react or overreact

01:16:12.040 --> 01:16:14.880
Um, so now you're valiant reputant

01:16:15.640 --> 01:16:16.980
And you're saying okay, uh

01:16:17.820 --> 01:16:22.340
Are we still making missiles? Yes, so that didn't interrupt our strategic capacity. No, sir

01:16:22.340 --> 01:16:27.720
Are we still getting sufficient electronics output? Yes, that didn't interrupt our strategic capacity. No

01:16:27.720 --> 01:16:31.200
Is kirstarmer in the in freefall political freefall? Yes

01:16:31.200 --> 01:16:36.300
If we responded by striking a british factory, what would happen to kirstarmer?

01:16:36.440 --> 01:16:39.960
The population would rally around him. He'd become the new winston churchill

01:16:39.960 --> 01:16:45.420
Do we want a new winston churchill? No, so let's not attack england. We're winning

01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:50.780
He's losing the same thing with europe and everything else. The russians aren't taking the bait

01:16:50.780 --> 01:16:59.700
They are winning across the board and the patience of putin by not getting involved in these kind of existential struggles with europe and nato

01:16:59.700 --> 01:17:04.160
Is by being patient you leave windows of opportunity open

01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:08.400
In the united states took advantage of one of those open windows of opportunity

01:17:09.060 --> 01:17:12.680
Because they desperately needed to get russian oil on the market

01:17:13.340 --> 01:17:16.820
And so now the united states has agreed that russia can sell oil

01:17:17.360 --> 01:17:22.580
And and russia's like thank you very much. You just solved our financial problems. We really appreciate it

01:17:22.580 --> 01:17:25.820
But that happened because russia kept doors open

01:17:25.820 --> 01:17:32.360
They didn't slam any doors shut and this is what the iranians are doing too. The iranians are not slamming any doors shut

01:17:32.360 --> 01:17:33.720
They're keeping doors open

01:17:34.440 --> 01:17:35.440
so that

01:17:36.420 --> 01:17:37.720
Again, you're donald trump

01:17:38.380 --> 01:17:38.860
um

01:17:39.400 --> 01:17:46.360
You've started this war and uh, you've got your cheerleaders out there convincing american public that we're just doing gang gang busters

01:17:46.360 --> 01:17:52.300
We're blowing everything up. Everything's wonderful. Uh, but now you realize that you're gonna lose this war if this continues

01:17:52.300 --> 01:17:53.540
You need an off ramp

01:17:54.160 --> 01:17:58.420
Uh, is it in the iranians business to ensure that there is no off ramp?

01:17:58.900 --> 01:18:03.980
So that now you have to be increasingly desperate and do even more damage to iran or

01:18:03.980 --> 01:18:08.500
That there will be an off ramp that can that that trump can take iran's job

01:18:09.030 --> 01:18:12.760
Is to make sure that trump eventually gets on an off ramp

01:18:12.760 --> 01:18:21.220
And that this war comes to an end on conditions that are favorable to iran and that's what they're doing if they killed 500 americans

01:18:21.820 --> 01:18:24.100
You and i would be having a different conversation

01:18:24.700 --> 01:18:30.720
Because america would be rallying around this president because americans don't like their boys being killed

01:18:30.720 --> 01:18:35.400
Okay now that brings up, you know false flag options and other kinds of crap

01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:43.200
This is one thing that it seems like they found the predictability of dealing with trump is

01:18:43.200 --> 01:18:49.960
Playing to his vanity or humiliating him or or besting him or he he can't claim a win

01:18:49.960 --> 01:18:53.760
And then he says he wins everything no matter what happens. It's the best thing that ever happened

01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:55.100
I went but

01:18:55.700 --> 01:18:59.820
For them to go they want to continue this if they want to amp it up if israel

01:19:00.460 --> 01:19:02.680
Want to thermo nuclear whatever?

01:19:03.440 --> 01:19:07.140
Happen and all they got to do is you know, I don't know have

01:19:07.800 --> 01:19:08.100
Some

01:19:08.920 --> 01:19:10.360
Leader in iran

01:19:10.360 --> 01:19:17.460
Say how small his penis is or something. I mean, I it's just amazing how he is so susceptible

01:19:18.080 --> 01:19:19.620
To attacks on his ego

01:19:20.400 --> 01:19:21.680
And it seems like

01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:28.320
Yeah, well, it seems like everybody knows it the intelligence community the parties, you know, lindsey graham

01:19:28.320 --> 01:19:34.800
I mean, you know all these guys they're playing him and he's so just a big bass fiddle and

01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:39.160
Stroke it man, you know and made me feel good or you diss me

01:19:39.160 --> 01:19:41.760
I'm gonna have to nuke you and I'm like

01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:43.000
Wow

01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:47.120
This is a kind of you know representation we want

01:19:47.120 --> 01:19:50.440
You know, I mean we need somebody to go in and whip ass and

01:19:50.440 --> 01:19:55.220
Take out the deep state, but then he installs them anyway. So I just I

01:19:55.220 --> 01:20:02.080
I'm I was never a fan of delegating authority to anybody rule me out care, you know next president good bad

01:20:02.080 --> 01:20:03.440
It's not my thing

01:20:03.440 --> 01:20:05.440
But to have this

01:20:05.440 --> 01:20:07.540
You mean I'd rather him be stupid

01:20:07.540 --> 01:20:13.940
I'd rather it be biting everybody know how stupid I don't want somebody blustering confidence with his finger on the button

01:20:13.940 --> 01:20:17.900
All you got to do is piss him off personally and say he's got small hands or something

01:20:17.900 --> 01:20:21.160
You know or bad hair and all of a sudden he wants to bomb you

01:20:21.160 --> 01:20:25.960
So how likely is it or how susceptible are we to

01:20:27.020 --> 01:20:28.840
Escalation just by

01:20:29.960 --> 01:20:35.860
Any interested party creating a false flag doing what you're saying. It's the marine barracks

01:20:35.860 --> 01:20:39.660
They take out one of the aircraft carriers. Hell, they take out one of the PT boats

01:20:39.660 --> 01:20:44.400
I mean if they do what is it that they would I hate even saying it

01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:45.700
Because they go

01:20:46.340 --> 01:20:53.560
Yeah, that Scott Ritter said yeah if we got 500, you know Marines and then we get to have us a ground war and I'm going

01:20:55.220 --> 01:20:56.260
Don't say that

01:20:56.880 --> 01:21:04.320
So what do you think their thinking is required for us to get behind this because I'm already against the next war

01:21:04.320 --> 01:21:08.400
Whatever, I don't give a shit, you know do whatever just bring them home

01:21:08.400 --> 01:21:11.480
Get out of here. Let the Middle East have them up. I don't care

01:21:11.480 --> 01:21:17.280
Don't care. We'll go to the world soccer tournament in Bahrain and you know, or saudi arabia

01:21:17.280 --> 01:21:23.640
You know beach skin diving whatever and other than that. I don't care. Don't care. Don't care

01:21:24.300 --> 01:21:25.760
False flags. What do you think?

01:21:26.680 --> 01:21:29.600
I mean first of all, we know that false false flags are real

01:21:29.600 --> 01:21:33.960
So we can't sit there and dismiss it as a conspiracy theory

01:21:34.400 --> 01:21:39.480
Um, we know that the joint chiefs of staff. We're looking at a false flag to get us involved in Cuba

01:21:40.040 --> 01:21:43.040
Uh, remember the main if you want to go back

01:21:43.700 --> 01:21:45.300
That was a false flag

01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:53.900
You know and and so, you know, I you can't answer it by saying, ah, false flags conspiracy theory

01:21:53.900 --> 01:21:57.820
Don't worry about that. Uh, no, you you do need to be worried about false flags

01:21:57.820 --> 01:22:03.520
But I think you hit the nail on the head. We have this, uh, narcissistic egomaniac

01:22:03.520 --> 01:22:07.100
Who no longer governs as president but as a cult of personality

01:22:07.100 --> 01:22:12.820
And if you you've got to stroke the personality, um, that's how you get by in washington dc

01:22:13.410 --> 01:22:20.280
Uh, the good news is that the iranians the russians and the chinese know this and understand this

01:22:20.860 --> 01:22:27.380
Uh, vladimir putin is a master of trump stroking and I don't mean that in the way some people might take it. Um, but

01:22:28.140 --> 01:22:33.840
He he you know when when trump, uh, you know, when butler pennsylvania took place

01:22:33.840 --> 01:22:40.560
Putin called him up and said what a brave man you are the courage you took you're a warrior all the things trump wanted to hear

01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:45.100
Um, not because putin believes it, but he knows, you know, he's been told

01:22:45.100 --> 01:22:49.540
This is what you say to win trump over every time they have a meeting putin is very powerful

01:22:49.540 --> 01:22:56.620
Uh, in terms of his praise of donald trump and his leadership and his vision and his this and that and it keeps trump in the game

01:22:56.620 --> 01:22:57.380
Um

01:22:58.480 --> 01:23:00.540
Is he he does the same thing

01:23:00.540 --> 01:23:03.360
Bang things strokes him around keeps him in the game

01:23:03.360 --> 01:23:07.860
And the reason why you want him in the game is so that they're not susceptible to the false flags

01:23:07.860 --> 01:23:15.060
The false flags are designed to create divisions. Uh, and so what the russians the chinese and the iranians are seeking to do

01:23:15.060 --> 01:23:16.300
is um

01:23:16.300 --> 01:23:20.400
Is minimize the divisions that could be created by something like this

01:23:20.400 --> 01:23:27.540
And for iran they need to understand the longer this war goes on the greater the possibility of a false flag

01:23:27.540 --> 01:23:35.120
Being done to keep america in this war. Um, they got him on some script somewhere right now. I guarantee it

01:23:36.280 --> 01:23:42.340
I i i'm not debating that i i agree, but the iranians need to make sure he's on their script

01:23:42.840 --> 01:23:45.900
Uh, and they're doing it. I mean every i mean again

01:23:45.900 --> 01:23:51.100
This is a sad thing to say is an american because I'd like to believe our leadership would be better than this

01:23:51.100 --> 01:23:53.460
But we are being played like a fine tooth

01:23:53.980 --> 01:24:00.580
Fine finely tuned fiddle. Um, the iranians are playing us. They're playing the energy market. They're controlling outcomes

01:24:00.580 --> 01:24:02.980
There's there was a air force colonel

01:24:03.740 --> 01:24:08.400
John boyd. He uh, he talked about getting inside the decision-making cycle of your enemy

01:24:08.400 --> 01:24:15.220
He came up with uh an acronym the udaloop the observed orient decide act if you could execute those for

01:24:15.900 --> 01:24:17.480
phases quicker, um

01:24:17.480 --> 01:24:22.840
You would always win a dogfight or win a battle because you're inside the enemy's decision-making cycle

01:24:22.840 --> 01:24:26.920
They're reacting to you. You're not reacting to them right now

01:24:27.610 --> 01:24:34.860
The united states is in 100 reactive mode to iran iran is calling every single shot

01:24:35.420 --> 01:24:42.680
Um, we aren't making iran respond to anything we're doing iran is making us respond to everything

01:24:42.680 --> 01:24:47.700
And this is uh, this is why I believe actually we'll get out of this war

01:24:48.280 --> 01:24:50.580
Without you know triggering a nuclear

01:24:51.320 --> 01:24:57.380
Holocaust because it's iran that's calling the shots. It's iran that has gotten into this president's brain

01:24:57.380 --> 01:25:00.260
um, and you know, they

01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:05.200
They're in control and and now russia who is you know

01:25:05.840 --> 01:25:06.140
the

01:25:06.840 --> 01:25:09.480
We can't use the word ally because there's no formal alliance

01:25:09.480 --> 01:25:17.800
But they are you know the colleagues of uh of iran in this fight russia's now engaged and ibea russia has been read into the iranian plan

01:25:17.800 --> 01:25:22.680
They agree on the outcomes and russia's in the business of stroking trump next month

01:25:22.680 --> 01:25:28.840
uh zhijing ping won the business of stroking trump and i think that there's going to be a grand bargain um,

01:25:29.200 --> 01:25:34.720
Which might be humiliating for us, but if it avoids a nuclear war i'm in favor

01:25:34.720 --> 01:25:36.360
We go back to what we said at the beginning

01:25:36.970 --> 01:25:42.480
We live in an age of nuclear anarchy right now. This is an extraordinarily dangerous situation

01:25:42.480 --> 01:25:52.000
Where one mistake one miscalculation one misjudgment could lead to actions that ultimately manifest themselves in the global exchange of strategic nuclear weapons

01:25:52.000 --> 01:25:52.800
And we all die

01:25:53.360 --> 01:25:56.440
So the sooner we can get this iran war over

01:25:56.440 --> 01:26:02.700
Um the better because then we reduce the possibility of a false flag continuing dragging us in

01:26:02.700 --> 01:26:06.480
Divert in our resources and eventually may be using a nuclear weapon

01:26:08.960 --> 01:26:09.680
Iran

01:26:12.020 --> 01:26:21.120
Is represented by what these people making these decisions and observations and negotiations

01:26:22.340 --> 01:26:28.200
Who are we really talking to is it you know the clerics the supreme we know better

01:26:29.080 --> 01:26:30.700
you know, uh

01:26:30.700 --> 01:26:31.520
bearded people

01:26:32.120 --> 01:26:39.060
Is it uh economist entrepreneurs? I mean, what are we really dealing with in iran?

01:26:39.160 --> 01:26:41.100
What's the most influential component you think?

01:26:42.200 --> 01:26:47.800
Well, the interesting thing is that iran is a better functioning constitutional democracy than the united states

01:26:48.380 --> 01:26:55.020
Um, maybe i just irritated everybody, but we have ceased functioning as a constitution. I hear that a lot. Why is that said?

01:26:55.800 --> 01:26:59.440
Because they have a constitution and they adhere to their constitution

01:27:00.140 --> 01:27:03.580
Iran is the greatest functioning democracy in the middle east today

01:27:04.120 --> 01:27:07.380
And people will say wait a minute. What do you mean? I find yeah, they have elections

01:27:07.380 --> 01:27:11.520
Well, aren't the elections just dictated outcomes? Absolutely not

01:27:12.140 --> 01:27:18.660
You know in america we take we oftentimes joke about how we we get jerked around from republican to democrat to republican to democrat

01:27:19.240 --> 01:27:21.820
You know because you know the way the

01:27:21.820 --> 01:27:22.820
computers work

01:27:24.460 --> 01:27:26.040
Um in iran

01:27:26.760 --> 01:27:30.820
They get jerked around between conservative moderate conservative moderate because

01:27:31.640 --> 01:27:32.700
The the people

01:27:33.260 --> 01:27:38.680
Vote and they vote in the people that they want. Um, the president is democratically elected

01:27:38.680 --> 01:27:43.740
Um, the president has gone from being a conservative like, uh, ahma dinezade

01:27:43.740 --> 01:27:47.640
To being katame to you know and on and on and on

01:27:48.560 --> 01:27:54.140
The parliament is democratically elected and the parliament and the presidency are imbued with specific

01:27:54.760 --> 01:27:58.500
powers of legislation and lawmaking from the constitution

01:27:59.120 --> 01:28:05.560
They run the government. They run the nation. Um, there are local elections mayors and local

01:28:06.200 --> 01:28:09.300
You know city councils democracy in action

01:28:09.300 --> 01:28:14.560
Um, and then we say well, what about the supreme leader? How can that be democratic? Well

01:28:15.320 --> 01:28:19.220
The supreme leader is appointed by a body known as the assembly of experts

01:28:19.220 --> 01:28:25.840
This is a body of 88 of the wisest religious minds are supposed to be the wisest religious minds in iran

01:28:26.320 --> 01:28:29.180
Who are elected by the people of iran?

01:28:29.520 --> 01:28:35.020
You know, so it's not that the church is you know, nobody elected the conclave in the catholic church

01:28:35.020 --> 01:28:39.200
That's just a bunch of uh appointed people coming together to keep the system running

01:28:39.200 --> 01:28:45.180
The iranian people elected the assembly of experts and the assembly of experts job is not only to

01:28:45.180 --> 01:28:50.980
Find a supreme leader but to hold him accountable for what he does in accordance to the constitution

01:28:50.980 --> 01:28:56.940
There are constitutional limits to what the supreme leader can do the constitution matters

01:28:57.520 --> 01:29:08.520
The guardian council is a constitutionally mandated body that works out constitutional differences between the secular parliament and the um

01:29:08.520 --> 01:29:13.480
The the the religious or theocratic um elements of the iranian government

01:29:13.480 --> 01:29:18.960
Their job is to find constitutional balance. You also have the expediency council that does the same thing

01:29:19.560 --> 01:29:25.360
democratically elected bodies, but the biggest test comes when a democracy is challenged when they go through

01:29:25.360 --> 01:29:32.140
Uh, a crisis of existential proportions. For instance, if the supreme leader is assassinated

01:29:33.400 --> 01:29:38.340
Did iran fall apart many people thought that they would because they may have operated on the mistake

01:29:38.340 --> 01:29:42.740
An assumption that iran is governed by this one man the supreme leader who's a dictator

01:29:43.430 --> 01:29:49.460
Well, that's not the case. He's not iran is not governed by one man the supreme leader iran is governed by

01:29:49.460 --> 01:29:51.840
um a president parliament

01:29:52.420 --> 01:29:52.760
um

01:29:52.760 --> 01:30:00.160
And the islamic aspects of iran are monitored by the supreme leader to make sure that the president the parliament as they pass laws and

01:30:00.160 --> 01:30:05.500
Work on the secular governance of iran don't deviate from um islam

01:30:06.140 --> 01:30:10.160
That's the purpose of the supreme leader to keep iran, uh, you know

01:30:11.420 --> 01:30:16.600
Coherent from a uh theocratic standpoint. Um, but now we kill this guy

01:30:16.600 --> 01:30:21.500
And how did iran respond? Did they fall apart? We thought they would

01:30:22.220 --> 01:30:24.860
No, iran turned to their constitution

01:30:25.420 --> 01:30:31.120
The constitution says that when the supreme leader is removed from power or dies or whatever that

01:30:31.500 --> 01:30:35.720
There will be a three person committee emergency committee created

01:30:36.260 --> 01:30:40.040
Consisting of the president of the head of the judiciary and a senior

01:30:40.800 --> 01:30:48.120
Cleric appointed by the guardian council and this three person committee will rule instead of a supreme leader

01:30:48.120 --> 01:30:54.720
Until which time the assembly of experts elects a supreme leader. This is exactly what happened

01:30:55.320 --> 01:30:58.740
The constitution worked exactly the way it's supposed to

01:30:58.740 --> 01:31:01.540
Um, and it always has an iran

01:31:01.540 --> 01:31:04.040
They've always had their constitution

01:31:04.040 --> 01:31:10.940
Went out in the end because they care about their constitution their constitution is what defines them as an islamic republic

01:31:10.940 --> 01:31:16.300
Unlike the united states where our constitution is supposed to define us as a constitutional republic

01:31:16.300 --> 01:31:22.380
But we are governed by a cult of personality a man who declares himself to be a dictator who says he's not beholden

01:31:22.380 --> 01:31:26.340
To the constitution or any law just his personal moral beliefs a man

01:31:26.340 --> 01:31:32.160
Who is told the supreme court to pound sand and a man who operates free of checks and balances from the united states congress

01:31:32.160 --> 01:31:35.940
Because congress is sold out we have a dictatorship today

01:31:35.940 --> 01:31:39.400
Our constitution is dysfunctional or non-functional

01:31:39.400 --> 01:31:40.580
iran has

01:31:40.580 --> 01:31:42.300
a functioning constitution

01:31:43.000 --> 01:31:48.940
And i come back that they are the greatest constitutional democracy in the middle east today

01:31:50.460 --> 01:31:54.680
Well, they demonstrated a continuation of the um

01:31:54.680 --> 01:31:58.180
The one thing that i i want the audience to

01:31:58.660 --> 01:32:00.660
Be aware of and to understand

01:32:01.980 --> 01:32:02.460
is

01:32:03.660 --> 01:32:06.460
How close we are to this spending out of control

01:32:07.820 --> 01:32:11.060
Is that your opinion? I mean are we on the edge of their

01:32:11.060 --> 01:32:16.100
Adults in the room would keep this from happening or there aren't any i mean, you know

01:32:16.600 --> 01:32:21.780
What do you what do you think how close on the edge are we we need to

01:32:22.310 --> 01:32:25.140
Start building bunkers. I mean, where are we at?

01:32:28.740 --> 01:32:34.740
I mean, this is serious ladies and gentlemen. Um, we're playing with global energy security

01:32:35.540 --> 01:32:41.960
Um, this war has the potential of destroying the global economy and making it um, you know

01:32:41.960 --> 01:32:43.520
So it cannot recover

01:32:44.230 --> 01:32:48.480
The lifestyle that you are enjoying today is in danger of being terminated

01:32:48.480 --> 01:32:51.820
Permanently and i'm not talking about nuclear war. I'm just talking about

01:32:51.820 --> 01:32:57.980
Uh, you know what energy will do to prices and what energy will do to everything. Um

01:32:58.740 --> 01:33:05.160
And and when you have that kind of global crisis, then you're going to get dislocation of populations populations moving

01:33:05.760 --> 01:33:11.440
Because people are going to be starving to death dying of thirst. Um, you're going to have global war global famine

01:33:12.160 --> 01:33:12.720
creeps around

01:33:13.540 --> 01:33:15.240
and because we live in a

01:33:15.960 --> 01:33:20.740
In a in a world that's no longer governed by a framework of um of treaties

01:33:22.220 --> 01:33:24.980
Seeking to control the nuclear genie

01:33:24.980 --> 01:33:27.340
We live in an age of nuclear anarchy

01:33:27.340 --> 01:33:34.320
So you combine nuclear anarchy with a world that's in free fall economic and social free fall

01:33:34.320 --> 01:33:38.480
You have great potential for nuclear weapons being used. Um

01:33:39.440 --> 01:33:43.140
And again, you define nuclear anarchy at the beginning of the show

01:33:43.140 --> 01:33:47.900
Sum that up in a sentence for us. Would you please you know nuclear anarchy is what?

01:33:48.760 --> 01:33:54.780
A world where there are no rules regulations or limitations about the acquisition of nuclear weapons

01:33:55.460 --> 01:33:56.920
Well, once they detonate a

01:33:57.620 --> 01:33:58.180
cloud

01:33:58.180 --> 01:33:59.900
Then it kind of that

01:34:00.580 --> 01:34:05.980
Is no longer verboten or something once that starts once that you know that seals broken

01:34:06.660 --> 01:34:07.220
Um

01:34:07.680 --> 01:34:10.980
How likely is to have a second a third and a 15th one?

01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:12.420
Well, they've never

01:34:13.060 --> 01:34:14.860
done a war game

01:34:15.680 --> 01:34:20.000
Um, where you were able to contain a nuclear conflict

01:34:20.660 --> 01:34:22.720
Um, once one is used

01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:28.180
Um, it's going to trigger a second one being used in the third one

01:34:28.180 --> 01:34:33.220
And then it's going to rapidly spin out of control. Uh, if you remember that old, um,

01:34:33.620 --> 01:34:38.760
Uh, Matthew Broderick movie, uh war game. I think it was yeah, and they had the you know

01:34:38.760 --> 01:34:45.260
It was back before we had really good CGI, but um, you know, you had the pong version of uh, of the of the of war

01:34:45.260 --> 01:34:49.580
But basically every time a nuclear war started it always ended with a general

01:34:50.280 --> 01:34:54.700
nuclear exchange and the computer realized that the problem was humans because humans will well

01:34:55.620 --> 01:34:58.260
Every war game that's been run by the pentagon

01:34:59.580 --> 01:35:01.560
About limited nuclear war

01:35:02.120 --> 01:35:05.200
It always ends in a global, uh exchange

01:35:05.780 --> 01:35:09.740
Um, a world ending event it cannot be contained

01:35:10.260 --> 01:35:16.620
And so that's what the importance of arms control is it's important that we keep the genie in the bottle right now

01:35:16.620 --> 01:35:20.720
The bottle is out there being kicked around the cork is off

01:35:20.720 --> 01:35:23.040
And the genie's down there waking up

01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:30.020
And I want to get your comment on this you've described a something that I think is needs to be addressed

01:35:32.180 --> 01:35:34.780
To keep the cork in the bottle

01:35:36.500 --> 01:35:41.060
You keep mentioning leadership government structures

01:35:42.000 --> 01:35:46.160
Geographic America Inc. I mean, you know whatever doing this stuff

01:35:46.720 --> 01:35:52.100
And then it only takes, you know, one of them to break the seal and here we go that genie's out

01:35:52.760 --> 01:35:53.880
but um

01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:56.640
It just seems to me that

01:35:57.300 --> 01:36:06.420
These positions of control and power it's always about control. You got, you know, palantir knows everything about everything and we control but the um

01:36:07.220 --> 01:36:08.340
Is it those

01:36:09.100 --> 01:36:09.740
positions

01:36:10.520 --> 01:36:12.540
That are the target of infiltration

01:36:13.080 --> 01:36:18.560
Is it where you look for the bad guys the sociopaths the psychopaths the

01:36:19.440 --> 01:36:22.380
Lack empathy love compassion. They're in it for themselves

01:36:22.380 --> 01:36:25.060
They don't give a crap how many starving dying

01:36:25.060 --> 01:36:28.740
You know babies there are with the get whatever it is that they want

01:36:28.740 --> 01:36:37.320
So where do they go to control they populate positions of government to the point that they got their finger on the button

01:36:37.320 --> 01:36:38.800
So i'm

01:36:38.800 --> 01:36:42.120
I I see the more and more we embrace

01:36:42.860 --> 01:36:46.200
Somebody we're going to delegate our personal authority to somebody to

01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:48.400
Not push the button

01:36:49.160 --> 01:36:51.120
That very creation

01:36:51.800 --> 01:36:57.680
Seems to be the threat. I don't feel threatened by ukraine. I don't feel threatened by iran

01:36:57.680 --> 01:37:03.100
I don't feel threatened by russia or china. I don't I feel more threatened from my own government

01:37:03.740 --> 01:37:04.960
and it's not

01:37:05.480 --> 01:37:06.480
You know like I

01:37:06.960 --> 01:37:13.160
With computer election fraud whatever that's what started me down my activist road is that I can see that

01:37:13.160 --> 01:37:18.720
It wasn't really the will of the people that created this. I don't believe that I believe humans are

01:37:19.220 --> 01:37:21.380
In on the whole much better

01:37:21.380 --> 01:37:22.760
than what we get

01:37:22.760 --> 01:37:27.240
But we created a system that these bad guys are attracted to

01:37:27.820 --> 01:37:32.420
That sociopaths want the brass ring. They want the button. They want the control

01:37:32.420 --> 01:37:35.160
They want to maintain enhance and expand their control

01:37:35.160 --> 01:37:38.140
They need more control and they'll spend us into oblivion

01:37:38.140 --> 01:37:42.220
You know to to get it maintain it do it and enrich themselves and we suck

01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:47.100
So I don't see this correcting itself until

01:37:47.720 --> 01:37:54.720
We as human beings understand we need to retain our authority when you talk about iran being a

01:37:55.300 --> 01:37:57.200
Better functioning democracy

01:37:57.200 --> 01:38:00.040
There might be something to look at to see why

01:38:00.640 --> 01:38:01.880
Gaddafi, you know

01:38:01.880 --> 01:38:08.380
Decentralized down to the little village and they built, you know a lot of infrastructure for the i'm a river to my people from the oil

01:38:08.380 --> 01:38:14.320
You know revenue that goes we have and we bomb that you know, so I I'm

01:38:14.320 --> 01:38:16.620
I need your opinion

01:38:17.950 --> 01:38:26.000
On who populates these positions of control and power that influence a trump to go start a war with iran

01:38:26.450 --> 01:38:33.820
There's a philosophy. There's a an evil. There's a an intent of something that is not

01:38:34.860 --> 01:38:41.860
Human or not for the benefits of humans, you know for being pro living pro life

01:38:42.410 --> 01:38:50.360
Pro production pro the future has so much potential for abundance with the technology that we have and it's not

01:38:51.140 --> 01:38:55.360
Why who and what philosophy is doing it scott?

01:38:57.100 --> 01:39:02.860
Philosophy of power and control that's always existed and we can go back to the founding of this nation

01:39:02.860 --> 01:39:07.360
We will look at the founding fathers a lot of what the constitution was supposed to achieve

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Was to consolidate power in the hands of a few

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That's what a constitutional republic does

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They were supposed to be checks and balances put in place, but you know, alexander hamilton wasn't talking about

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you know his uh

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you know the power federal control the

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of

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Of the economy because he believed in the benevolent treatment of the american people

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He believed in the enrichment of the elites and we've always had that

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case, but we we we balanced that with the

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What I hoped wasn't the fiction of individual civil liberties that this was a nation

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Um, you know founded on life liberty to pursue the happiness and as you said to leave me alone ism

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I mean I should be allowed to live my life as long as i'm not

01:39:52.360 --> 01:39:57.000
You know interfering with your ability to live your life. We should live our lives together

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Um, but and that you're a professional economist already

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And and that worked when we had a safety valve meaning that you know, we had manifest destiny and you know

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I'm sorry about the american Indians and I truly am. I just did a trip

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In january where I drove from california

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to to new york and uh

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traveling the american

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southwest is uh

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You just go through one

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Um place of betrayal to the next to the next to the next. I mean

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What we did to the navajo what we did to the comanche what we did to the cherokee, uh, you know, so

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You know, but manifest destiny was a safety valve because uh, it allowed for growth

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The ponzi scheme, you know could uh could could could could grow and and and survive a little bit longer

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But eventually we reached the limits of uh of growth and then we have to um

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You know, we have to start changing the game change how we control. We now need absolute control freedom becomes

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Uh an inconvenience. Um

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And and and that's where we are today. I mean we freedom is an absolute inconvenience to the people who are uh

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Who are in power? This is why you see what you see. I again i'm not an expert in this, um

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But I you know my wife and I

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You know, we have these iPhones and they're just convenient as hell and they and all this but um

01:41:22.160 --> 01:41:27.660
You know, I have neuropathy and um, it sometimes it gets pretty painful. So I'll be in the car

01:41:28.160 --> 01:41:34.840
Uh with my phone and talking to my wife talking to my wife not googling anything nothing just talking to my wife

01:41:34.840 --> 01:41:40.300
I she'll say, how are you doing? I said, man? It's a bad day. Neuropathy. I use that magic word neuropathy

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Later on when I open up my email

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My email will be full of

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Communications from people wanting to help me with my neuropathy

01:41:49.940 --> 01:41:55.740
I haven't communicated to anybody, but apparently I've communicated to everybody. Uh, it's a control mechanism

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It's how they're going to shape everything. So, you know, that's where we are. Who's who's doing this the the elites, um,

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You know at there was a time though when

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You know when we still had

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The potential of growth at the end of the second world war we went into a growth mode

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Where, you know, we now we're going from being an isolationist nation to a nation with global reach and so

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You know, the the elites encouraged

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positive interaction

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With the world academia. Let's just take russia. We trained actual russian experts people who learned about russian

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the culture language history traditions etc

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So we could

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Yeah, you interface with them

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Realistically, we had people like paul neti who was there at Hiroshima, you know right afterwards

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He's the one who you know helped craft the containment strategy led to the cold war. He was a cold warrior

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But at the end he was the guy that said we need to get rid of intermediate nuclear

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Weapons because they're inherently destabilizing. He's one of the, you know founders of the modern arms control. We trained entire

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Generations of people over the course of decades to try and limit the the expansion of nuclear weapons and to reduce them

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And that was all premised though on this this containing factor called the soviet union

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We were in a you know a cold war, but when the soviet union collapsed

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The the the intellectual foundation of arms control was no longer there

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We no longer had to be responsible about nuclear weapons because we no longer had a soviet style threat when george

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w. Bush

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Withdrew from the anti ballistic missile treaty in 2002

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This is a foundational treaty that set the stage forearms controlled by acknowledging that nuclear wars cannot be won

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Therefore should never be fought. Therefore. There's no reason to create a missile defense system

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Because all that it does is encourage the development of offensive weapons to defeat it

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We need to bring it into this cycle of

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You know escalation

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So we had that treaty we withdrew from it because we suddenly wanted to have ballistic missile defenses and

01:44:06.160 --> 01:44:10.060
The russian said hey, if you do this, we're gonna have to make some adjustments

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We're gonna have to put more warheads on our missiles, etc

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The response from the united states is the response from the united states says do whatever you want

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We don't care. We no longer worry about you. You're you're you just go play your your game

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And when you know the industrial complex needs to make some money

01:44:25.660 --> 01:44:26.780
We need a program

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We need to well what happens is people like me becoming convenient

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um

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The the true arms control specialists the people that knew arms control

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We're suddenly unemployed

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And arms control like anything any part of diplomacy is you know intellectual muscle memory

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If you stop using a muscle you atrophy

01:44:49.790 --> 01:44:55.800
And our arms control muscles atrophied and we replace them with people who no longer believed in arms control

01:44:55.800 --> 01:44:58.580
Viewed arms control as an impediment and inconvenience

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People like christopher ford is the man. I was there at the birth of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty

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I was the guy that made it work

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He's the guy that killed it and that's the kind of people we have running arms control today people who don't believe

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In furthering arms control, but in dismantling arms control and killing arms control

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And that's where we're at today and we no longer have people who are intellectually

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Capable and philosophically capable of resurrecting arms control. We're in a very very dangerous situation

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Okay, let's let's bring it up

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Because we mentioned it and I do want you to you know give some details on

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A ran and how this yeah, I unfortunately I got I got to go in about two minutes

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Okay in your last two minutes, you know

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Mentioned cuba is that just going to happen?

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We're going to you know go stupid on that and then a ran is just we have no idea what's going to happen

01:45:57.400 --> 01:46:01.780
We got wait for negotiations, but uh, give me a cuba comment

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A cuba, you know, we've been trying to solve the cuba problem for decades

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And we haven't been to the pharma resilient than uh, then we think um

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You know we're we have marco rubio who's a big anti cuba guy position himself to be

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Somebody of relevance and that we think we have a plan

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Normally, I would say it's 100 certain that we won't solve the cuban problem

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But then I took a look at venezuela and how the cia was was able to go in there and exploit social differences and buy people off

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um

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I still believe the cuba is uh is resilient and that we can't go in there and buy them off

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What we could have we would have bought them off a long time ago. Um

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I see cuba

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Being a continued political problem for the united states so long as we believe that we have a right to replace their leadership

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scott ridder scott ridder give out where they need to find all your stuff and we support scott

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Where's it at?

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It scott ridder.com one stop shop bear go there and and you got it scott ridder.com

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scott thanks for spending the extra time with me

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We learned a lot today and I really really appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thanks. Thanks for having me