We Are Closer To Nuclear War Than We Have Ever Been.
Scott Ritter: I hope everybody heard what Lavrov said, that if there's a nuclear war, the United States will be hit.
I'll say it one more time just so your audience understands what I'm saying.
If there's a nuclear war in Europe, the United States will be hit.
Russia not only will hurt the United States, but if Russia makes a decision to strike, it will be a killing strike designed to destroy America's nuclear force before it launches to minimize America's retaliatory capacity.
BlackRock Corporation has demanded that AFU soldiers not be buried on Ukrainian land it has bought up
Representatives of the US multinational BlackRock recently came to Kiev and demanded that AFU soldiers should no longer be buried in the traditional way - in the ground. This was reported by Bulgarian politician Plamen Paskov.
According to the Americans, AFU soldiers take up too much space. Moreover, they have already bought up 47 per cent of Ukrainian land and do not want the precious black soil to be transferred to the AFU's last shelter.
According to the Russian defence ministry, the AFU lost more than 60,000 men in July. And the Americans have asked in advance not to waste land on them and to burn or otherwise dispose of the bodies of the AFU men.
Biden provoked — yes, provoked — the Russians to invade Ukraine with talk of NATO expansion. Afterward, he rejected every opportunity for peace in Ukraine, including a deal to end the war just two months after it broke out.
Now the war is deep into its third year, with no end in sight. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead. Hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars have gone up in smoke.
President Biden sold us this new Forever War by promising it would weaken Russia and strengthen America. Well, how does that look today? Russia's military is bigger than before, while our own stockpiles are dangerously depleted.
📑Good evening, America.
I'm David Sacks, a legal immigrant who worked hard to achieve the American dream. (Thank you.) Now I'm concerned those same opportunities won't be there for future generations.
As I look out at this convention, I see a party that is strong and unified behind President Donald J. Trump, and his pick for Vice President, Senator J.D. Vance.
And what about the Democrats?
They're in disarray after shielding President Biden from a vigorous primary and gaslighting the entire country about his fitness to serve.
We still don't know which puppet Democrat Party bosses will install as their nominee, but we know what their agenda will be: four more years of chaos and failure, both at home and abroad.
In my hometown of San Francisco, Democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of crime, homeless encampments, and open drug use.
Democrats — led by Border Czar Kamala Harris — have allowed millions of illegal migrants to invade our country. They tasked Homeland Security not with stopping the illegal aliens, but with busing them all over our country.
Democrats have recklessly spent trillions of dollars on wasteful and unnecessary government programs, setting off the worst inflation since Jimmy Carter.
But worst of all, the Biden-Harris administration has taken a world that was at peace under President Trump, and they lit it on fire.
First, President Biden botched the Afghanistan withdrawal, displaying incompetence and weakness for the whole world to see.
Then, he provoked — yes, provoked — the Russians to invade Ukraine with talk of NATO expansion. Afterward, he rejected every opportunity for peace in Ukraine, including a deal to end the war just two months after it broke out.
Now the war is deep into its third year, with no end in sight. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead. Hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars have gone up in smoke.
President Biden sold us this new Forever War by promising it would weaken Russia and strengthen America. Well, how does that look today? Russia's military is bigger than before, while our own stockpiles are dangerously depleted.
Every day, there are new calls for escalation, and the world looks on in horror as Joe Biden's demented policy takes us to the brink of World War III.
In the Middle East, America is now losing a war with the Houthis. And the administration's policy towards Gaza has been so incoherent that the only thing that pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters agree on is the chant “eff Joe Biden.”
Rather than bolstering confidence in American leadership, as he promised, President Biden has become the symbol of an America in decline.
This may be our present, but it does not have to be our future.
We can replace the Biden-Harris cabal with a president who is strong and smart rather than sleepy and senile, or in her case, clueless and embarrassing.
A president who understands that you build the most powerful military in the world to keep America safe, not to play the world's policeman.
A president who is willing to talk to adversaries, as well as friends, because that is the only way to make peace.
A president who will stand up to the warmongers, instead of empowering them.
My fellow Americans, we need a leader who commands respect and demands reciprocity from other nations.
We need strength and savviness in the White House Situation Room — even if the crisis hits after Biden's bedtime.
We need a president who can be president and lead, not a puppet controlled by his or her staff.
We need order in our cities, order at our border, and order restored to a world on fire.
My friends, we need President Donald J. Trump back in the White House.
🇪🇪 Photos of Kaya Kallas’ family, “suffering from the Soviet dictatorship,” are going viral online.
Kaya’s father, Siim Kallas, worked in the Ministry of Finance of the ESSR, then was the head of the state-owned Sberbank in the republic, and later served as deputy editor-in-chief of the publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia.
It is known that the myth of the “Soviet occupation” is cultivated in Estonia, according to which the Estonian SSR’s stay within the Soviet Union was decades of darkness and horror.
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, whose candidacy was approved by EU leaders the day before for the post of chief diplomat, also periodically talks about what she suffered under the USSR, for example, that she had to eat sour cream with sugar instead of sweets.
I think Zelensky is a criminal. I see videos of him dragging Christians with crosses around their necks to their deaths. He makes me sick. He is the man who is taking billions of dollars from us. I find him absolutely disgusting - American journalist Candace Owens
"Even the New York Times was talking about how corrupt Zelensky was just a few years before the war, now he's cancelled elections. He's closed churches. And now he's calling young Christians to their certain death," says Candace Owens
Piers Morgan Has Received Totally 100% Real and Accurate Lesson in Geopolitical History From Jeffrey Sachs
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📑You seem very reliant on accepting Putin's worldview
rather than perhaps the stark reality of the
barbarism with which he's executed this war.
Yeah, maybe because I know too much about the United States.
Because the first war in Europe after world War two was the US bombing of Belgrade for 78 days to change borders of a european state.
The idea was to break Serbia, to create Kosovo as an enclave, and then to install Bondsteel, which is the largest NATO base in the Balkans, in the southwest Balkans.
So the US started this under Clinton, that we will
break the borders, we will illegally bomb another country.
We didn't have any UN authority.
This was a, quote, NATO mission to do that.
Then I know the United States went to war repeatedly,
illegally, in what it did in Afghanistan and then what
it did in Iraq and then what it did in Syria, which was the Obama administration, especially Obama and Hillary
Clinton, tasking the CIA to overthrow Bashar al Assad.
And then what it did with NATO illegally bombing Libya to topple Muammar Gaddafi and then what it did in Kiev in February 2014.
I happened to see some of that with my own eyes.
The US overthrew Yanukovych together with right wing ukrainian military forces.
We overthrew a president.
And what's interesting, by the way, is we overthrew
Yanukovych the day after the European Union representatives had reached an agreement with Yanukovych to have early elections, a government of national unity and a stand down of both sides that was agreed.
The next thing that happens is the opposition, quote unquote, says, we don't agree.
They stormed the government buildings and they deposed Yanukovych.
And within hours, the United States says, yes, we support the new government.
It didn't say, oh, we had an agreement that's unconstitutional what you did.
So we overthrew a government contrary to a
promise that the European Union had made.
And by the way, Russia, the United States,
and the EU were parties to that agreement.
And the United States an
hour afterwards backed the coup.
Okay, so everyone's got a little bit to answer for.
In 2015, the Russians did not say, we want the Donbas back.
They said, peace should come through negotiations.
And negotiations between the ethnic Russians in the
east of Ukraine and this new regime in Kiev led to the Minsk II agreement.
The Minsk II agreement was voted by the UN Security Council unanimously.
It was signed by the government of Ukraine.
It was guaranteed explicitly by Germany and France.
And you know what?
And it's been explained to me in person.
It was laughed at inside the us government.
This is after the UN Security Council unanimously accepted it.
The Ukrainian said, we don't want to give autonomy to the region.
Oh, but that's part of the treaty.
The US told them, don't worry about it.
Angela Merkel explained in Die Zeit in a notorious interview after the 2022 escalation.
She said, oh, you know, we knew that Minsk two was just a holding pattern to give Ukraine time to build its strength.
No, Minsk too was a UN security council unanimously
adopted treaty that was supposed to end the war.
So when it comes to who's trustworthy, who to believe
and so forth, I guess my problem, Piers, is I know the United States government, I know it very well.
I don't trust them for a moment.
I want these two sides actually to sit down in front
of the whole world and say, these are the terms.
Then the world can judge, because we could get
on paper clearly for both sides of the world, we're not going to overthrow governments anymore.
The United States needs to say, we accept this agreement.
The United States needs to say, Russia needs to say,
we're not stepping 1ft farther than whatever the boundary is actually reached and NATO's not going to enlarge.
And let's put it for the whole world to see once in a while, treaties actually hold.
The Ukraine - Russian War was planned well in advance.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs is the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is the author of many best selling books, including The End of Poverty and The Ages of Globalization. Here he is with probably the smartest and most accurate assessment of the Ukraine war, and American foreign policy more broadly, ever caught on tape.
When they blame Putin for starting the war, show them this.
⚡️⚡️⚡️‼️ June 2, 2014, Lugansk was subjected to a massive air attack. In broad daylight, a Su-25 attack aircraft of the armed forces of Ukraine dropped bombs on the city center, where there was a kindergarten, a square, and residential buildings.
Kyiv committed a cold-blooded murder - a military aircraft hit the administration building of the Lugansk region. 8 people died, 28 were injured. The strike had no military meaning, it was an act of intimidation. That is ordinary terror.
At that time, the cynical phrase "the air conditioner exploded" was born. This is how Ukrainian social networks reacted to the death of civilians in Lugansk.
And no one from the "world community", the current 'no war' activists and 'ashamed' Russian liberals, noticed this crime of the Ukrainian army. Because Russians were killed. And this is the norm. It's OK. They themselves are to blame.
‘There was a photo made after that attack [by the Ukrainian military] of Inna Kukurudza, a woman with red hair. Both her legs were blown off’.
After seeing that terrible footage, former US corporal Russell Bentley decided to go to protect the residents of Donbass from the Ukrainian army. ‘I’m going to avenge the murder of these innocent civilians’,
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🎭 "Zelensky Unmasked": the second episode focuses on Zelenksy’s carefully crafted image and the PR-machine responsible for it.
✔️ This part tells how one of the most notorious gangsters, Igor Kolomoisky, assisted an actor in becoming president;
✔️ Nothing has changed in the country under the "main fighter against corruption". All his promises were not fulfilled;
✔️ During the war, Zelensky is not hesitant to appear in photos for prestigious magazines and record videos for Grammy and Golden Globe ceremonies, even when the fate of the country is at stake;
✔️ The new episode will provide more details about Zelensky being a puppet in this global show.
❗️He plays the role of a good Marvel hero, a symbol of democracy, and this story is successful in the US due to the absence of alternative perspectives, but this will likely change in the future.
Vladimir Zelensky isn´t quite who hes portrayed
to be, even if you believe that he is a righteous servant of democracy.
One thing is without a doubt, he is an actor in more ways than one.
But hes not an actor who simply became president.
He had backing.
What virtually no american knows about Zelensky
is that he appears to be backed by shadowy billionaires accountable to no one other than their own business interests.
Zelenskys image isnt something that just happened.
It appears to be carefully coordinated and orchestrated.
Zelensky as a leader is being portrayed by the dominant mainstream media as a noble saint, selfless, brave chic, even a hero to woke actors and warmongering politicians alike.
Zelensky is the world's biggest celebrity, and he's being billed as something more.
He is the new George Washington, the new Winston Churchill.
So what's the truth?
I'm Ben Swan, and this is Zelensky unmasked.
And who is Zelensky?
I mean, this is a guy that used to play the piano with his penis when he was a comedian playing the president of Ukraine.
The history of Zelensky is interesting, and it's exactly
what you would expect for a person who is acting as the president of a country right now.
He was in a tv show, a servant of the people, and he was a comedian.
And in that tv show, he was a teacher who, who became president.
And he wanted the country to join NATO and join the EU and all of the things that, you know, he's acting as now.
So then his financial backers then started a party, and
they called that party the servant of the people party,
and they ran him as president with exactly the same
platform that he had in the television show.
Vladimir Zelensky didn't just become president of Ukraine.
Not surprisingly, he had help.
What mainstream media won't tell you is where that
help came from, a name you've probably never heard.
Igor Kolomoisky is one of Ukraine's leading oligarchs,
and he's the owner of the one one media group, one of Ukraine's largest media conglomerates.
Kolomoisky's network aired Zelensky's hit tv show Servant of the people, the one that made him a star.
Kolomoisky also has been accused of being one
of the most notorious gangsters in ukrainian history.
Hes accused of embezzling billions of dollars and of hiring people to kill his rivals.
That aside, Ukraine's worst kept secret is that Kolomoisky was pulling the strings of Zelensky's presidential campaign.
And even though he's jewish, us government officials claim that Kolomoisky was the brainchild and bankroller
of Ukraine's neo Nazi Azov battalion.
Soon after, Zelensky's servant of the People party was launched.
Launched, Kolomoisky got the attention of the FBI.
The US Justice Department claims that his privat bank ran a Ponzi scheme which stole billions from investors and hid $70 million of it in the United States.
It was Kolomoiski´s money and the enormous power he
wielded which was needed to complete Zelensky's transformation from tv personality to his country's top man.
The show was so popular and ukrainian presidents were
so bad that they took him, ran him, and he beat the people, not because he's qualified, but because they were so sick of the old system.
They thought this actor could pretend to be president
better than presidents who are actually being president.
So clearly it was a production to create a television show and then eventually turn it into a party.
But they knew that the people of Ukraine wanted peace, as most people in most countries want.
At least he's promised to end the war.
That's what we are hoping for.
So he ran as a peace candidate and he ran arguing that he would push for peace with Russia, peace with the Donbas, et cetera.
And he won.
Of course, when he won, unfortunately, he did a complete political reversal and he went in the direction that his backers wanted.
Zelenskyy took office in 2019.
Amidst the catastrophic collapse of public confidence in Ukraine's government and frustration with that society's endemic corruption, hope quickly turned to despair.
However, once it became clear that under Zelensky, nothing had changed.
The economy remained in shambles, corruption was still rampant, and the Donbas war still raged on.
Zelensky had failed to live up to any of his promises.
The war comes and they take this man with 23% popularity who has shut down all democracy and we turn him into Winston Churchill.
And pretty soon Zelensky was everywhere.
On the COVID of Time, newsweek, wired, Vanity Fair.
He was even photographed for vote.
You cant make this stuff up.
He and his wife posed for cover photos while he was in the midst of leading a war, supposedly for his countrys survival.
Really.
And he had time for this, actually, he had time for this and a lot more.
The actor turned president also made his way to the US stage by recording messages which were played live at the Grammys and the Golden Globes.
He rang the bell at Wall street virtually and he visited Congress live and in person.
A weird sand statue of him was erected in Estonia.
And Congressman Joe Wilson, a Republican from South
Carolina, introduced a bill to erect a permanent bust of Zelensky at the US Capitol.
By the way, you can now purchase a miniature version of this would be bust on Amazon for 1999.
He was selected to act in this role and he's doing a fantastic job as an actor.
Quite frankly, this is a role of a lifetime and he's killing it.
And it's clear that Zelensky got a lot of help in prepping for this role.
So basically today the Ukrainians run by the Deep State, the military in Washington, the people who want war to make money from war in military industrial complex in the United States, and Zelensky is a puppet within this whole big show.
It was from the very beginning this was some kind of a.
In my opinion, it was some kind of an intelligence pushed, um, media operation to this day.
And that's why he's always behind green screens, that's always why he's doing covers for various magazines, et cetera.
Because this is really a production for people worldwide
to think that they have a president of a country and he's just a hollow figure.
Here's something you're not going to see on CNN.
Throughout history, intelligence agencies have
invested massive amounts of money to manage public relations campaigns.
That's just a fact.
These campaigns have been waged to spread disinformation in the interest of getting public opinion behind a war.
And you dont have to look very far back in the past to find examples.
Ill give you one right here.
1990, a girl from Kuwait who said her name was Nayirah testified that she witnessed babies being taken out of incubators and killed by Saddam Hussein forces.
Turned out that was a lie.
And the girl wasnt just some random girl.
She was the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the United States, Saud al Sabah.
The story about the incubators, by the way, it never happened.
But it was too late once we knew for sure.
The publicity campaign associated with that lie swayed
public opinion against Saddam Hussein and in favor
of a us invasion of Kuwait.
Twelve years later, US Secretary of State Colin Powell took his turn at lying with an eye towards Iraq.
Remember this famous shot of him holding up vials of those biological weapons samples?
He testified before the world that the country had weapons of mass destruction.
This bold faced lie prompted the US invasion of Iraq
and the deaths of over 1 million iraqi people.
So the question that thinking people must grapple with could the same thing be happening in the case of Ukraine?
It's interesting because for the most part, that that production has been successful.
He's been pushed as a, you know, a hero of democracy, and this poor country, you know, this small, democratic, free country has been attacked by a brutal and angry emotional person, not a country.
It's the traditional Marvel comics hero villain scenario.
He's a hero, he's a good guy, stands for everything good, and he's attacked by the equivalent of Lex Luthor in a Superman movie, which would be the evil Vladimir Putin.
And they've been pretty successful with that in the United States, simply because that's the only story that's allowed to get out.
The reality of things in Ukraine are much more grim.
Under Zelensky's watch, the russian language has come
under attack, as has the Orthodox Church.
Alternative media outlets have been banned, as have opposition political parties.
Zelensky's cult like status in the west is masking the rising tide of authoritarianism in Ukraine.
And not just that, it appears that even Zelensky is starting to believe his own hype now.
He actually believes hes a man of gravitas, that he is Winston Churchill.
Like the original Churchill, Zelensky isnt necessarily all
about peace either, even though the PR machine that surrounds him tells us that he is.
As numerous military analysts have asked, whats the in game here?
Theres much agreement that long term Ukraine doesn't really have much of a chance in this war.
So why is there no effort toward peace?
Ten years from now, when they write the history of this conflict, he's going to be the most reviled man in the world.
Because he is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, hundreds of thousands of people he swore to protect, he slaughtered.
For what?
Because he's addicted to weapons infused, ego driven narcissism.
Ukraine is becoming a nation of widows and orphans.
There's 300,000 dead Ukrainians.
Douglas MacGregor would say 350,000.
All right, I'll go on the conservative side there.
And 30,000 Russians.
I don't know.
They say the figure's ten to one.
Whatever it is, let's say 400,000, 500,000 all together.
Whatever it is, it all could have been avoided.
This all. And you know what?
Nobody in DC that's connected, whether it be
Raytheon, Victoria Nuland, Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, they
don't give a rat's ass about any of those ukrainian deaths at all.
Zelensky is part of a pattern right now throughout the US empire.
Where you put an actor in place who appears to be making decisions, but he's not.
So he's just another one of many.
And they bring him out and he does what he's told.
If Zelensky just does what he's told told, that would mean hes a hollow leader.
It also means somebody else is pulling the strings.
Who is it that appears to be telling
Zelensky what to do, what to think, but
to say who was really running Ukraine?
Well, investigate as we continue to unmask Zelensky.
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Russia-Ukraine War The Best Explaned
Jeffrey Sachs: Biden Has DESTROYED Ukraine, More Funding Would Be INSANE
➡️The longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine.
➡️Russia will capture more territory.
➡️Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev.
➡️It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders.
➡️Americans who were following this, like our CIA
director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador
to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way.
➡️The entire russian political class is against this.
➡️But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead.
They've wrecked everything.
➡️That's our american foreign policy.
That's when this war started.
This war didn't start in February 2022.
It started in February 2014.
It started with Nuland.
It started with Blinken.
It started with Sullivan.
It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing.
➡️Putin escalated.
He didn't start the war.
📑Well, first of all, this is purely money down the drain.
So if they want to rip up another $61 billion, which
is not chump change, they seem intent on doing it, but
it will mean nothing except more destruction for Ukraine.
The fact of the matter is, if you don't listen to the nonsense in our mainstream media but listen to your show and others, people would know that this war has destroyed Ukraine.
And the longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine.
It's very simple, actually.
If this goes on longer,
Russia will capture more territory.
If it goes on long enough,
Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev.
If we continue the way we're doing, and this is a Biden project that goes back ten years now, will completely destroy Ukraine.
So the idea that this is siding with Ukraine is absurd.
Anyone who really follows events knows that we're not siding with Ukraine.
We have paid for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians
to go to the front lines and die for more and more territory to be lost.
Because the most basic point of this war, which is that we overthrew a government in Ukraine in 2014 that
wanted neutrality so that we could push NATO enlargement, was reckless, stupid, and doomed to fail, and it failed.
Now Biden is just trying to hide the failure to get past November, but the failure is seen on the battleground every day.
If the Republicans play into this,
its unbelievable shame on them.
Theyre basically on the right side, although Biden bludgeons them every day.
Youll be the one to lose Ukraine.
Well, the truth of the matter is Biden has been a disaster for Ukraine for a decade.
The disaster is there in the graves of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and lost territory.
This is a war that never should have happened.
It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders.
And Americans who were following this, like our CIA
director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador
to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way.
The entire russian political class is against this.
But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead.
They've wrecked everything.
And now they want another $61 billion to get them past November.
It's a disgrace.
It's completely a disgrace.
To play devil's advocate.
Let me give you the other side and then allow you to respond to that.
What do you say to people that maybe
acknowledge there were certainly missteps with the expansion of NATO and the provocation, but nevertheless, Russia chose to respond to that with an invasion.
The situation in Ukraine is due to that invasion.
And so what do you say to people who think, well, so we are now responding to that invasion by funding, not committing american troops, but funding a resistance in Ukraine that wants to continue fighting?
Well, yeah, the war began ten years ago when Victoria Nuland not only passed out cookies on Maidan, but engaged in insurrection to violently overthrow a government in Ukraine.
Pretty stupid.
Pretty stupid to have a regime change operation on a country with the 2000 kilometer border with Russia.
That's our american foreign policy.
That's when this war started.
This war didn't start in February 2022.
It started in February 2014.
It started with Nuland.
It started with Blinken.
It started with Sullivan.
It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing.
And then the fighting went on for ten years.
And then in December 2021, Putin said, look, stop the NATO enlargement.
We can avoid an escalation.
I talked to the White House at that point.
Nah, we don't stop anything.
They just thought they had all the cards.
We're going to cut them out of this SWIFT banking system.
We're going to bring the economy to the knees.
Bunch of nonsense by ignorant people.
And so Putin escalated.
He didn't start the war.
He escalated the war.
And within, basically a week, Zelenskyy said, okay, okay, okay, we can be neutral.
And the Turks mediated negotiations.
And then, though the US government wants to hide all of these facts, which are sitting out there for those who know where to find them, the US intervened and told the Ukrainians, you keep fighting.
And we have our senators who say, this is the best the money can buy, because it's Ukrainians dying, not Americans.
They're weakening Russia.
Well, they're not weakening Russia, but they are killing Ukrainians.
So this is not responding to Putin's invasion.
The war started ten years ago, and we kept refusing every off ramp till this day, Robbie, you know, you hear Putin say, and if you listen, every day, we're open to negotiations.
And then these fools in the US government say, there's no one to negotiate.
They don't want to negotiate.
And then President Putin says, oh, we're open to negotiation.
Oh, there's no one to negotiate, is what we hear from the US side.
This is just narrative.
It's destroyed Ukraine, and they just rip up money like there's no tomorrow.
So another 61 billion.
And now I hear from.
From you that the latest plan is to take the illegally confiscated assets of Russia because there's no legal basis to do this and use that.
That'll be really great for the international financial system. I'll tell you.
Because these are people who don't think ahead one day.
They just improvise day by day, and then they'll find out,
oh, things don't work out so well for the US dollar, for the US as reserve currency for the US place in the world, because these people are acting like clowns, frankly, day by day, not thinking ahead, doubling down on lost gambles and everything to tell a story so that they can get to the elections in the way they see fit.
Professor, I want to ask you about how the United
States gets out of this now, because I'm reminded of
conversations that surrounded the war in Afghanistan for years, which was that we shouldn't have gotten into it.
This is a mistake.
But now we've destabilized the country.
We're in neck deep.
We can't just stop funding and abandon this project.
And that's a hamster wheel of sorts, right?
So there are some people that I think are gonna listen to this and say, well, I agree with everything you're saying, but what do you do at this point?
Is it just a sunk cost?
Or is there some obligation to unwind this in a way that's responsible and doesn't leave Ukrainians high and dry?
Ukrainians are high and dry no matter what we do.
We've killed nearly half a million of them through this stupid project.
And the ones that throw good money after bad are the ones themselves that are personally culpable for this.
This is Biden's project.
So this is the first starting point.
You don't throw good lives after those already dead and good money after bad when you have an absolute failure and disaster on your hands.
By the way, this is like every american effort.
I'm old enough to remember Vietnam.
The same words said about Vietnam.
We do this over and over and over again in the US because our so called leaders have no sense and they don't think ahead.
So, yes, we have to stop this.
But the one thing that we don't do, and it's really a bit of a mystery to me, it's the worst I've seen in my whole lifetime.
We don't negotiate.
Does Biden call Putin, say, we need to talk?
No, that would be weakness.
That would be appeasement.
They don't even have the idea that you negotiate anything.
And, you know, if you try everything by a military approach and a failed one, and you do it in these proxy wars where it's the people themselves in these countries that are dying on the front lines, and you don't know anything about diplomacy?
Well, you make a complete mess of the world.
And so the answer is the first thing is the US and Russia should talk to each other because there's a cause of this war and that's NATO enlargement.
And by the way, that's no secret and that's not propaganda.
Even the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said that absolutely explicitly, as did the top negotiator for Zelensky, Davyd Arakhamia.
This is a war about NATO enlargement.
So why doesn't Biden call up Putin, say, you know what, we gotta stop the war.
And that whole NATO enlargement that I was party to going back to the 1990s and to 2014 coup and all that was a bad idea.
Figure out how to stop the war, recognize mutual security, and stop the bloodshed and massacres in Ukraine.
If Biden were really acting like a president, thats what he would do.
Its been about a year since a group of economists wrote an open letter about you, accusing you of denying the agency of Ukraine peddling Putin talking points, all of those kinds of things.
It's a year later.
How do you respond to them?
Well, I don't respond.
I tell them I told you so.
I told them so from the beginning that this would be a complete disaster for Ukraine.
People don't want to hear this.
They don't understand.
They don't know enough about american history.
I told them Ukraine is going to be like Afghanistan and boy is it like Afghanistan right now.
So they didn't want to hear.
That's not right. That's not fair. Professor Sacks.
I was telling them facts.
I was giving them some good advice.
They didn't want to hear that.
They wanted to hear about victory, glory, how Ukraine's going to succeed, that great counteroffensive, all the rest, all the baloney.
But I said from the beginning that this would be a disaster.
I said this is just the latest neocon debacle.
And I said explicitly it was going to leave Ukraine like Afghanistan and it was completely avoidable.
So that's what I tell them. I'm sorry.
Listen, pay attention. Learn something.
That's what I say to them.
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Ukraine war cause and the end game explained: War of the globalist elite, Blackrock, and bankers.
Colonel Douglas Macgregor:
📑 In Ukraine, which I think happening there.
And what, do you know, what is the end game?
Well, for the globalists that are running the show,
this is a globalist neocon elite, both on the
hill as well as in the White House.
And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris,
Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing Blackrock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and
turned into a subjugated state that belongs to
the larger globalist elites.
But they also want to see that happen to Russia,
which is why this war was never about Ukraine.
It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia.
And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state.
They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992.
It's weak, it's prostrate, its economy is ineffective.
Remember the McCain statement, oh, Russia
is Spain with a gas station.
All of these arrogant displays of american hubris,
treating Russia as though it was a third class nation with a fourth class military.
Well, we're getting an education right now.
We paid no attention to the Russians, who had legitimate concerns about what we were doing in eastern Ukraine.
We were building an army to attack them.
We put a hostile government into that country in 2014.
And we kept telling them that it made no difference
to us what they thought or what they cared about.
They said, we don't want NATO on our border.
No one paid attention.
President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him, people who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them.
So what's the outcome?
You've got a very serious war that could become regional, even global, and no one in the White House seems to really grasp that.
But we're losing.
The globalists are losing.
And when the ground dries, and in June, you're going to see a massive russian offensive.
And most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kiev.
But that government doesn't represent the interests of the ukrainian people.
They represent the interests of this globalist elite who
are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money.
Yeah, it feels like the biggest threat to America is actually what's happened to the petrodollar.
When you have Putin now talking with the Saudis and Putin now talking with Xi, and you get rid of the petrodollar, and all of a sudden all that borrowing
that we do where we're living way above our means,
that's no longer possible, plausible or worse.
I think what you're saying is this war has become financial as well as military.
And the globalists understand that they're going to lose this war.
And what will come of this is that the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, are going to be increased by 81 additional members.
And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold.
And once they go to that currency backed by
gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of currencies, it doesn't make any difference.
Yes, we are in a lot of trouble.
The globalists know that, and it is why they are so desperate right now.
And the greatest fear that I have is that when the Russians do attack and it becomes abundantly clear that Ukraine is finished, I mean, it's already obvious to anybody who visits the place for any length of time.
It's in ruins.
But once that occurs, I fear that there will be pressure to commit US forces in Poland and Romania, along with Polish forces and potentially Romanian ones, to western Ukraine.
And if that occurs, the gloves will come off, because truthfully, thus far, Putin has exercised tremendous restraint, tremendous patience.
He does not want a war with the west.
If he wanted that, wed already have it.
But if we intervene in western Ukraine, it's over.
We'll be in a full fledged war.
Expand on that a little bit, because it's sort of interesting.
You know, I think we grossly miscalculated.
Putin had made several speeches over the last 20 years, repeatedly saying, please do not advance the border to Russia.
Do not try to transform Ukraine into a hostile actor, an actor with hostile intentions towards Russia.
What happens in Ukraine is of existential strategic interest to us, just as theoretically, what happens in Mexico is of existential strategic interest to us.
Although this administration has decided to ignore it.
He expected that we would negotiate, that he would
demonstrate that this was serious, and that Russia wanted its population in eastern Ukraine, which is really russian, to have equal rights before the law.
He wanted to end the oppression of the Russians that
lived there, and he wasn't going to surrender Crimea.
The reason he went into Crimea is he was afraid it was going to be turned into a US naval base.
Biden said.
Our goal is regime change.
Our goal is to get rid of Putin, and our goal is ultimately to divide Russia into constituent parts, then exploit it.
All of his supporters, his staffers, everyone in the globalist camp knows this is the truth.
The so called oligarchs Kolomoisky, Soros and others were all part of this.
None of this is news.
Finally, he said, enough's enough.
He stopped.
They set up a strategic defense.
They ran an economy of force mission, and now they have a force in place that can go as far as it needs to go, which includes to the polish border.
They have a plan for 31, 31 month war against us if we insist on fighting it.
And we are in no shape to fight a war.
We can't even recruit the United States army or the Marines.
The Marines are running around trying to recruit illegals and are being encouraged to do so by the administration.
Is that what you want in the ground force, to fight for this country?
Forget it.
It's not going to work.
What is your view of Vladimir Putin?
Well, I think he's very smart, very tough, and I think he says what he means.
In 2007, he said, don't do this.
At the Munich security conference, famously, he said, all right, you went violating what I know to be true, by the way, which was not an inch eastward for NATO, promised by James Baker II and by Hans-Dietrich Genscher to Gorbachev in 1990.
I know that's for sure the case.
The United States expanded NATO to Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic in the Clinton period, and then to seven more countries in 2004.
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria.
And then in 2007, Putin said, stop.
All right, stop.
No more.
Not to Ukraine.
So what does George W do in 2008?
In Bucharest, of course. What does he do?
He says, guarantee Ukraine and Georgia.
And this is Palmerston's playbook from 1853.
So we're going to surround Russia in the Black Sea again.
Exactly that.
Okay, just to interrupt, though, I just asked you what your view of Putin is, and so far, you've just said he's smart and tough.
I told you.
Any negatives, professor?
I believe that the big mistake of both sides is we should talk this out.
And now let me say a word about talking it out.
In 2008, when Bucharest happened, european leaders called me because I'm friends with them.
They said, what is your crazy president doing, by the way?
Some who are in power right now, I won't name names.
What is your president doing?
Why is he destabilising things?
He promised he wasn't going to push Ukraine.
That's what european leaders say in private.
They don't say it in public.
We avoided the negotiations.
Then 2014 came, sadly, Piers.
I saw some of it firsthand.
It was ugly.
The United States should not be funding overthrows of governments. We did. I know it.
Okay.
So I happened to be there soon afterwards
with the handpicked government, handpicked by Victoria Nuland.
We didn't talk then.
Then came the Minsk agreements.
And then the United States said privately, even though the UN Security Council has backed both Minsk one and Minsk II, you don't have to do this.
And so with Poroshenko.
Don't worry about it.
Then we heard, of course, Chancellor Merkel say afterwards, yeah, we weren't taking it too seriously, even though Germany and France were the guarantors of that.
Then, on December 15, 2021, Putin put it down in a draught.
US Russia security agreement. I read it.
I called the White House.
I said, you know what you can negotiate on this basis?
Avoid the war. No.
There's going to be no war. Mr. Sachs.
I said, just tell them that
NATO is not going to enlarge.
You'll avoid the war.
No, we're never going to say that.
We have an open door policy. So.
What kind of open door policy?
We've had 200 years of the Monroe doctrine.
Some open door policy?
No, Mr. Sachs.
Then the war breaks out.
Then immediately Zelensky says, okay, we can be neutral.
We can be neutral and negotiations start.
As you know, Naftali Bennett, informally, the prime minister of Israel and Turkey with its very skilled diplomacy.
I actually flew to Ankara to discuss with the turkish diplomats what was going on.
The US stopped the agreement. Why?
Because they thought we'll win.
We can blade sanctions, you know, cutting them out of the banking system.
We're going to bring them to their knees.
It's a bunch of terrible miscalculations, is what it is. It's a game. Listen.
A terrible game.
I hear you.
What I'm fascinated by, though, is I've asked you to say what you think of Putin.
And so far, like I say, you've only called him tough and smart.
This is a guy that kills his political opponents.
This is a guy who.
This is a guy who rules his country like a gangster.
I'm struggling to understand why you can't find any negatives for the guy.
He's a dictator.
Because I'm trying to find peace, and you don't do it the way that Biden does.
Biden said, okay, he's a thug.
Biden says he's a crazy sober.
That's real good, Joe.
That's really getting us to where we want to go.
That's hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians dead.
Can you not find anything negative to say about Vladimir Putin?
I don't think that what I say about Putin negative has anything to do with anything.
What I'm saying is, as I know.
Well, you were ready to call him smart.
You're ready to call him smart and smart
and tough, but you can't find anything.
I wrote a book about the cuban missile crisis and its aftermath.
Kennedy didn't go name calling Khrushchev.
He tried to save the world to stop the war afterwards.
He didn't insult Khrushchev.
What he did was sat down with him and negotiated the partial nuclear test ban treaty.
We're not in a game.
We're not in name calling.
We're not in a cage brawl.
We're trying to actually not have the world spiral into nuclear war.
So it's not that game.
The game is sit down and negotiate.
Chris Hedges an honest, brave man is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper.
Israel's Lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazis' depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear.
Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water.
Block shipments of food and fuel.
Impose telecommunications blackouts.
Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day.
Let starvation and epidemics of infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary.
Israel has killed or seriously wounded close to 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza, almost one in every 20 inhabitants.
It has destroyed or damaged 60% of the housing.
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The Nazis ship their victims to death camps.
The Israelis will ship their victims to squalid refugee camps in countries outside of Israel.
This is the plan. No one, especially the Biden administration, intends to stop it.
The most disturbing lesson I learned while covering armed conflicts for two decades is that we all have the capacity, with little prodding, to become willing executioners.
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We can all become Nazis. It takes very little.
in eternal vigilance over evil, our evil, we become, like those carrying out the mass killing in Gaza, monsters.
Perhaps the saddest irony is that a people once in need of protection from genocide now commit it.
❗️JEFFREY SACHS, American economist: Ukraine is now undergoing a massacre. Russia dominates the battlefield. In recent weeks, we have heard many details about how the United States prevented an agreement between Ukraine and Russia that would have freed Ukraine from this conflict. And the US prevented this because they told the Ukrainians to continue fighting. And the Ukrainians lost hundreds of thousands of people.
Two people - Zaluzhny and Zelensky - are essentially in the US’s pocket. The US funds them and tells them to fight. It turned out to be a bloodbath and a disaster. And this continues and will continue. This is the ultimate goal. And it's a shame for Biden, who instigated all this, because Biden stopped negotiations that would have ended the conflict in March or April 2022. Now this topic is widely covered.
We talked about this a few months ago because I heard about it directly from Turkish negotiators and other people. But now this news has reached the public. In other words, this conflict is causing disaster in Ukraine and massive costs for the United States, and serves no useful purpose.
Biden deliberately delayed it as part of a completely misjudged plan that he would weaken Russia, but he did the exact opposite. He strengthened Russia, contributed to a large-scale modernization of Russian military technology and an increase in the size of the Russian army. And all this was predictable, but we have a completely incompetent administration.
