1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,920 Here is President Trump yesterday commenting on the 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,760 Russia Ukraine war. As yesterday were pretty 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:11,560 accurate, I don't see any way that a country in Russia's 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,840 position could allow them just in their position could allow 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,240 them to join NATO. I don't see that happening. 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,880 And long before President Putin, Russia was very strong on the 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,960 fact that I believe that's the reason the war started, because 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,480 Biden went out and said that they could join NATO. 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,600 And he shouldn't have said that. As soon as he said that, I said, 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,760 you know what, you're going to have a war now. 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,520 And I was right about that, that this is a war that would have 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,040 never happened if I were president. 13 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,520 I think Biden is incompetent. And I think when he said that 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,520 they could join NATO, I thought that was a very stupid thing to 15 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,520 say. I thought when he said, well, it 16 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,840 depends if it's a minor incursion, in other words, it's 17 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,000 OK if Russia does a minor incursion. 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,080 I thought that was a very foolish thing to say. 19 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,080 After years of the corporate press and many politicians 20 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,800 telling us this war is the result of Putin's attempt to 21 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,880 take over the world, but first he just wants to re establish 22 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,800 the Soviet Union. Finally, we are getting the 23 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,000 other side of this story. It turns out in 2008, the US 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,560 ambassador to Russia, a gentleman named William Burns, 25 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,000 who later became the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,640 wrote a cable to then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice titled 27 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,640 NYET Means NYET, Russia's NATO enlargement red lines. 28 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,840 This is from WikiLeaks. Here's the summary of Burns's 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:40,040 memo to Secretary of State Rice, following a muted first reaction 30 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,080 to Ukraine's intent to seek a NATO membership action plan at 31 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,800 the Bukhara summit. Foreign Minister Lavrov, Sergey 32 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,240 Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, and other senior 33 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,920 officials have reiterated strong opposition, stressing that 34 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,560 Russia would view further eastward expansion as a 35 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,520 potential military threat. NATO enlargement, particularly 36 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,960 to Ukraine, remains an emotional and neurologic issue for Russia, 37 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,759 but strategic policy considerations also underlie 38 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,480 strong opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine and 39 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,120 Georgia in Ukraine. These include fears that the 40 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,760 issue could potentially split the country two, leading to 41 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,960 violence or even some claim civil war, which would force 42 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,080 Russia to decide whether to intervene. 43 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:33,320 Additionally, the Gor government of Russia and experts continue 44 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,920 to claim that Ukrainian NATO membership would have a major 45 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:40,040 impact on Russia's defense industry, Russian Ukrainian 46 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,960 family connections, and bilateral relations generally. 47 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,400 In Georgia, the government of Russia fears continued 48 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,760 instability and provocative acts in the separatist regions and. 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,520 Summary It's always difficult to find an exact starting point in 50 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,080 your timeline of figuring out which series of events led to 51 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,960 the current issues. Here is a document from George 52 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,280 Washington University titled Memorandum of Conversation 53 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,560 between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker in Moscow. 54 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,840 Secretary of State James Baker and the Secretary General 55 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,680 President of the Soviet Union. This is from February 9th of 56 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,240 1990, repeating what Bush said at the Malta summit in December 57 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,280 1989. Baker tells Gorbachev, quote, 58 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:29,840 the president and I have made clear that we seek no unilateral 59 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,640 advantage in this process, End Quote, of inevitable German 60 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,160 unification. Baker goes on to say, quote, we 61 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,560 understand the need for assurances to the countries in 62 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:41,840 the East. If we maintain a presence in 63 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,040 Germany that is part of NATO, there would be no extension of 64 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:50,240 NATO's jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east, 65 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,360 End Quote. Later in the conversation, Baker 66 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,160 poses the same position as a question Quote would you prefer 67 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,880 a united Germany outside of NATO that is independent and has no 68 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,360 U.S. forces? Or would you prefer a united 69 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,840 Germany with ties to NATO and assurances that there would be 70 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,160 no extension of NATO's current jurisdiction eastward? 71 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,560 End Quote. It turns out NATO did move 72 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:20,519 multiple inches eastward after February 9th of 1990 into 73 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:24,480 countries such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, 74 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,720 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, 75 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,240 Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, N Macedonia, 76 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,520 Finland, and Sweden. Let's move ahead to September 77 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,720 7th of 2023. This is from the North Atlantic 78 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,960 Treaty Organization's website titled Opening Remarks by NATO 79 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,360 Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the joint meeting 80 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,920 of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. 81 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,720 Here is what Stoltenberg says. First of all, it is historic 82 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,440 that now Finland is a member of the alliance and we have to 83 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,840 remember the background. The background was that 84 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:07,520 President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021 and actually sent 85 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:12,720 a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign to promise no more 86 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,920 NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us and was 87 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,440 a precondition for not invade Ukraine. 88 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,000 Of course, we didn't sign that. The opposite happened. 89 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,200 He wanted us to sign that promise never to enlarge NATO. 90 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,200 He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all 91 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:36,520 allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of 92 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,640 NATO, all of the Central and Eastern Europe. 93 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,880 Mr. Stoltenberg is not a native English speaker, but you can 94 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,800 read the transcripts. We should remove NATO from that 95 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,240 part of our alliance, introducing some kind of B or 96 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,720 second class membership. We rejected that. 97 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,800 So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO close to his 98 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,480 borders. He has got the exact opposite. 99 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,560 He has got more NATO presence in eastern part of the alliance and 100 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,600 he has also seen that Finland has already joined the alliance 101 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,840 and Sweden will soon be a full member. 102 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,000 The current war between Russia and Ukraine is taking place as a 103 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 causal result of the United States government going back on 104 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,840 its original word in 1990, not to expand NATO eastward. 105 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,680 Just as President Eisenhower was not going to allow Soviet 106 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,240 weapons in Guatemala in 1954, just as President Kennedy was 107 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,760 not going to allow Soviet weapons in Cuba in 1962. 108 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:44,040 This is a classic case of a country trying to determine it's 109 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,040 a an empire attempting to determine what sphere of 110 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,560 influence it's able to have in the world. 111 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,360 Doesn't mean it's justifiable, but it means the conspiracy 112 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,960 theory that we've heard for the last three years that Putin is 113 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,280 just Hitler 2 point O trying to take over the world and enslave 114 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:02,520 people for his own transient aggrandizement. 115 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:06,000 Turns out that is not the case. This war was totally avoidable. 116 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,440 What we're actually fighting over is whether the people on 117 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,200 the eastern part of Ukraine live under a government that answers 118 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,360 to Kiev or they answer to Moscow. 119 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,960 Much like when a company goes under, it's not like all the 120 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,440 people die and lose their homes and get tortured to death. 121 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,360 They just go under new management. 122 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,280 The people of the Donbass would have just gone under. 123 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,920 New management. I'm not saying that justifies 124 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,080 it. The state in Moscow was just as 125 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,640 illegitimate as the state anywhere else on the planet 126 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,480 Earth. The problem is is we were never 127 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,280 told that this is a war to determine who rules Donetsk and 128 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,400 Luhansk and Zaprazizia, and I can never remember all of the 129 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,400 regions exactly or how to pronounce them. 130 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,600 We were told this was an inherent issue between good 131 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,640 verse bad. Now President Trump came out on 132 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,960 Twitter the other day and said the following. 133 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,840 He referring to Zelinsky, refuses to have elections, is 134 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,080 very low in Ukrainian polls and the only thing he was good at 135 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:13,120 was playing Biden like a fiddle, a dictator without elections. 136 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,120 Zelinsky better move fast or he is not going to have a country 137 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,160 left. Just as the war for democracy 138 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,920 who was waged by unelected Joseph Stalin and unelected 139 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,640 Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, who was putting 140 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,800 people in internment camps of the tune of hundreds of 141 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,720 thousands based on an accident of birth, the current war for 142 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:38,240 democracy is led by an unelected bureaucrat, Vladimir Solinsky, 143 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,919 Yes, who was elected five years ago but canceled his 2024 144 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:44,880 election. On top of not having an election 145 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,960 on March 31st of 2024 as planned, Vladimir Zelinsky is 146 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,120 attempting to usher in a regime which has a total monopoly on 147 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,400 gaining people's allegiances for how they should behave. 148 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,320 From the Guardian, October 19th of 2023 Ukrainian parliament 149 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,920 votes to ban Orthodox Church over alleged links with Russia. 150 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,000 MPs overwhelmingly back move an initial vote despite Church 151 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,960 claims it has cut ties with Moscow. 152 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,960 This is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which in previous 153 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,200 debates I had thought it was just the Russian Orthodox Church 154 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,920 which they were banning. According to the Guardian, the 155 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,800 Monastery of the Caves, one of the holy sites of the Eastern 156 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,440 Orthodox Christians in Kiev. Ukraine's parliament has voted 157 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,560 to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church over its alleged links 158 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:36,960 with Russia. February 24th of 2022. 159 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,560 This is from CNN. Ukrainian males aged 18 to 60 160 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,640 are banned from leaving the country, Szalinski says in a new 161 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,040 declaration. This was referred to as one of 162 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,000 the great crimes of the Soviet Union. 163 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:55,560 They had an iron wall to prevent a brain drain in the Bolshevik 164 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,040 territories and they would not let people leave. 165 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,400 This is what Szalinski's doing. We have to make the country safe 166 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,560 for democracy while he's not democratic. 167 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,080 We can't let people re establish the Soviet Union while he's 168 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:12,480 embracing Soviet policies. This means all men ages 18 to 60 169 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,880 must live in a war zone and in many cases will be conscripted 170 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,760 to fight. This is the most deadly form of 171 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,120 enslavement the human race has ever seen. 172 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,880 Military conscription. Not that Zelensky's unique in 173 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:27,640 this. This of course goes back to the 174 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,760 Napoleonic era and probably before the US government has 175 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,440 conscripted men to die and get their limbs blown off in wars to 176 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,120 determine who sits on the throne in Kiev. 177 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,240 That's what this is over. It's not inherently good verse 178 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,440 evil. Obviously Zelensky's willing to 179 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,720 do every bad thing that Putin's willing to do. 180 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,440 The question is, what are you willing to risk your life for? 181 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,760 What are you willing to get cities destroyed over for? 182 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,920 You could have a movement today for Delaware independence. 183 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,520 Delaware is not fully independent. 184 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:00,560 They have to answer to Washington DC. 185 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,160 So we could say, hey, independence is inherently good 186 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,560 and Delaware needs to go to war with Washington DC, but then 187 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:10,760 immediately say, well, is it worth getting our limbs blown 188 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,680 off for? If we don't answer to DC, then 189 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:16,160 we'll just answer to the local Delaware officials, and they 190 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,080 might be even worse in some cases. 191 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,480 So maybe we could just answer to the current regime and try to 192 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,440 work within the current constraints we already face. 193 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,480 This from Reuters, March 20th of 2022 citing martial law. 194 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:34,760 Ukraine president signs decree to combine national TV channels 195 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,760 into one platform. This is what the state is a 196 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,960 monopoly on authority. They try to be the ultimate 197 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,560 arbiter in all interpersonal decisions, including decisions 198 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:51,800 which involve the state giving it the ultimate conflict of 199 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,520 interest that they so often claim the free market will give 200 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,920 the world. From March 20th of 2022, the 201 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:03,840 guardian Ukraine suspends 11 political parties with links to 202 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,680 Russia. So Linsky says parties such as 203 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,640 Viktor Medvachuk's opposition Platform for Life are amid at 204 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,240 division or collusion. When it comes to collusion, we 205 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,640 know they always try and play 6° from some guy in Russia. 206 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,840 This was Politico in 2020. Hunter Biden's story is Russian 207 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,520 disinfo. Dozens of former Intel officials 208 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,640 say more than fifty former intelligence officials signed a 209 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,160 letter casting doubt on the Providence of a New York Post 210 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,360 story on the former vice president's son. 211 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:41,880 That same year, October 21st of 2020, CNN has the headlines. 212 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:46,920 Fed say Russia and Iran have interfered with the presidential 213 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,360 election. That was Russiagate. 214 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,400 Forget if that was too, I guess that would have been Russiagate 215 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:58,480 2.0. Russiagate 3.0 Was President 216 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,160 Biden getting on the presidential debate stage and 217 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,920 saying well, here's the summary from NBC News. 218 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,480 I don't understand why this president is unwilling to take 219 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,960 on Putin when he is actually paying bounties to kill American 220 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,800 soldiers in Afghanistan, Biden said of President Trump speaking 221 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,560 to Kirsten Welker of NBC News during the October 22nd 222 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,360 presidential debate. Such a definitive statement was 223 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,160 questionable even then. On Thursday, it became more 224 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,720 clear that the truth of the matter is unresolved. 225 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,880 Last fall, while Biden was a candidate, Pentagon officials 226 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:34,760 told NBC News they could not substantiate that such bounties 227 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,720 were paid. Yeah, not a big deal. 228 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,760 Just trying to lie about a foreign leader who has control 229 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:46,240 of 6000 nuclear weapons might provoke a third World War, just 230 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,080 as they lie about Saddam to get public opinion behind him. 231 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,720 They're constantly lying about Moammar Gaddafi. 232 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,040 They lie about Bashar al-Assad. This is how they whip up a 233 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,240 frenzy and get people to justify mass murder conflicts. 234 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,720 First they get the population educated by state schools so 235 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,200 they have no negotiating or critical thinking skills. 236 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,120 Then they just say a really bad thing is happening, don't weigh 237 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,360 the costs and benefits, don't see what other alternatives are. 238 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,200 We must go to war. Every single year is 1938 at 239 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,680 Munich. Every adversary is the national 240 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,400 Socialist German Workers Party. It's so pathetic. 241 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,120 Russiagate, one point O I'm going in reverse order here. 242 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,680 Here is Hillary Clinton on October 19th of 2016 on the 243 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,320 presidential debate stage. We have 17 intelligence 244 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:40,000 agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that 245 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,960 these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks come from the 246 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,400 highest levels of the Kremlin and they are designed to 247 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:51,000 influence our election one year later. 248 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,160 The New York Times actually clarified this position June 249 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,760 29th of 2017. The New York Times says a White 250 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:01,160 House memo article on Monday about President Trump's 251 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:05,360 deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly to 252 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,360 the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia 253 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,240 orchestrated hacking attacks during last year's presidential 254 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,080 election. The assessment was made by 4 255 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,200 intelligence agencies of the Office of Director of National 256 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,520 Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal 257 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,560 Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. 258 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,200 The assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the 259 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,800 American Intelligence community. So only the four biggest liars 260 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,720 on the planet that the other ones that that was just an 261 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:39,200 accident. You'd think if they're such 262 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,400 public servants, the other 13 would come out and say, Oh no, 263 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,320 we hey, media, get a hold of us. Let please get an interview with 264 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,440 us so we can clarify. We didn't come to that 265 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,320 conclusion. Let's not provoke a potential 266 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,440 third World War with a nuclear power. 267 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:54,720 They just sat on their hands and they were happy to live with 268 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,960 that lie. I'm sure it's just a fabrication 269 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,360 like everything else. Going back to 2014. 270 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:07,440 John McCain went to Ukraine in a attempted to support the 271 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,760 protesters of then Viktor Yanukovych. 272 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,400 Yanukovych was basically saying no, we're not going to join 273 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,800 NATO, we're going to be a neutral state. 274 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,120 Well, John McCain and Victoria Nuland and Jeffrey Pyatt, a 275 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,920 number of people from the US government went there to support 276 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:24,000 the protesters in hopes of staging a coup in Ukraine. 277 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,360 Jeffrey Sachs had just a terrific analogy, he said. 278 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:33,160 Imagine on January 6th, Chinese officials, members of the 279 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,560 Chinese government, flew to Washington, DC and were rallying 280 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,400 the protesters, handing out food, handing out pamphlets, 281 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,480 giving speeches, saying take what's yours, do what's right. 282 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,040 You're on the right side of history. 283 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,680 Stand up against corruption. You would clearly see that this 284 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,040 was an attempted coup or an assisted coup. 285 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:54,160 Here's what John McCain said in 2014 while in Ukraine. 286 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,000 What we're trying to do is try to bring about a peaceful 287 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,520 transition here that would stop the violence and give the 288 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,079 Ukrainian people what they unfortunately have not had with 289 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,280 different revolutions that have taken place, a real society. 290 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,359 This is a grassroots revolution here. 291 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:11,920 It's been peaceful except when the government tried to crack 292 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:13,960 down on them. And the government hasn't tried 293 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,200 that since. There's no doubt that Ukraine is 294 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,480 of vital importance to Putin. I think it was Henry Kissinger. 295 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,680 I'm not sure, said that Russia without Ukraine, it's an Eastern 296 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,480 power. With Ukraine, it's a Western 297 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,640 Power. This is the beginning of Russia 298 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,920 right here in Kiev. So Putin views it as most highly 299 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,280 important, and he has put pressure on Ukrainians, the 300 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,240 price of energy, different kinds of activities. 301 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:43,200 The word is very clear that he has made certain threats. 302 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,320 Whether he would carry them out, I don't know. 303 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,960 He was there letting people know that the revolution time has 304 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,720 come and it's really important that you start answering to new 305 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,680 officials now, what happened behind closed doors. 306 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,880 This is what was done in public. It turns out there was a phone 307 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,840 call that was leaked. Here is a leaked phone call 308 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,360 between Victoria Nuland and Jeffrey Pyatt. 309 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,840 Victoria Nuland was the Assistant Secretary of State of 310 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,440 EUR Asian Affairs. Jeffrey Pyatt was the United 311 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,760 States Ambassador to Ukraine. This is from the BBC February 312 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:22,800 7th of 2014. Here's what Jeffrey Pyatt said. 313 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,160 Very long conversation is sort of have to read between the 314 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,360 lines. But here he says. 315 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,240 But I think your argument to him, which you'll need to make, 316 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,600 I think it's that the next phone call you want to set up is 317 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,680 exactly the one you made to yachts. 318 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,440 And I'm glad you sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in 319 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,560 this scenario. And I'm very glad that he said 320 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,960 what he said in response. I don't think Klitsch should go 321 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,560 into the government, Newland says. 322 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,960 I don't think that's necessary. I don't think it's a good idea. 323 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,760 You have U.S. officials determining who is going to be 324 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,320 in the new Ukrainian government. You have U.S. politicians on the 325 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,640 ground with the protesters telling them the current regime 326 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,800 is illegitimate. This is most likely funded by 327 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,480 the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID. 328 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:17,280 Turns out when he says yachts, turns out that is Arseniy 329 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,160 Yatsenyuk, the guy who ended up being the Prime Minister. 330 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:23,920 What are the chances the one guy Newland and Piet are talking 331 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,160 about and what and how he should be placed in a high position of 332 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,400 power, he ends up being the Prime Minister. 333 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,680 What are the chances? Here was another politician from 334 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,160 the United States, Senator Chris Murphy. 335 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:43,000 He was in Ukraine during the 2014 protests. 336 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:47,360 Chris Murphy was on C-SPAN February 25th of 2014 and said, 337 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,720 I think it was our role, including sanctions and threats 338 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,320 of sanctions that forced in part, Yanukovych from office, 339 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,200 the elected president of Ukraine, that's who they're 340 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,400 overthrowing. So they could make room for 341 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,560 Arseny Yachts and you, Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir 342 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,680 Zelensky, they care so much about democracy. 343 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,440 And also Zelensky should not hold elections and should be 344 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,000 given billions of dollars in weapons. 345 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,280 It's too ridiculous. In 2017, Lindsey Graham flew to 346 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,960 Ukraine to speak to a number of Ukrainian militants, saying. 347 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,920 Your fight is our fight. 2017 will be the year of offense. 348 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,960 All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the 349 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,760 case against Russia. Enough of Russian aggression. 350 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:35,440 It is time for them to pay a heavier price during President 351 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,040 Trump's. I forget if it was his first or 352 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,960 second impeachment attempt, Congressman Adam Schiff from 353 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,480 California said on the congressional floor January of 354 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:51,200 2020. the United States aids Ukraine and her people so that 355 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,800 we can fight Russia over there and we don't have to fight 356 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,520 Russia here. Fortunately, wiser minds have 357 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,880 come across this issue and seen it is totally unnecessary and 358 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,640 the result of NATO expansion. Here is Secretary of Defense 359 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,960 Pete Hegeseth commenting on Ukraine and NATO. 360 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,920 The United States does not believe that NATO membership for 361 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,760 Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. 362 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:25,080 Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable 363 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,280 European and non European troops. 364 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,920 If these troops are deployed as peacekeepers to Ukraine at any 365 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,480 point, they should be deployed as part of a non NATO mission 366 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,240 and they should not be covered under Article 5. 367 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,520 There also must be robust international oversight of the 368 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,200 line of contact. To be clear, as part of any 369 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,800 security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to 370 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,800 Ukraine. So often libertarians and anti 371 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,160 war advocates are called extremely naive and don't really 372 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,560 understand the reality of situations. 373 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,200 There is historical precedent for countries doing terribly 374 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,080 evil things and it not resulting in a declaration of war from the 375 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:16,040 United States. The main point is that the costs 376 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,240 of war are extraordinarily high. Not just the monetary cost. 377 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,640 The downside? The number of people who get 378 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,040 killed, the number of people who get PTSD, the number of cities 379 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:29,520 which took centuries to build blown to bits within minutes. 380 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,360 This is the cost of war. You have to ask, at what point 381 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,440 is it worth it? The empirical examples 382 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,200 throughout history include President, Republican President 383 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,000 Dwight D Eisenhower. Not just a Republican president 384 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,400 who was twice elected, but he was a general in the Second 385 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,960 World War. In 1956, the Soviets sent the 386 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,600 tanks into Hungary. Basically, you had a number of 387 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,920 student opposition protests with a number of demands. 388 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,680 The very first demands of the people resisting were that 389 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,080 Soviet troops withdraw from Hungary. 390 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:04,520 Yes. Turns out people resort to 391 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,200 terrorism when they don't have much power and they feel like 392 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,600 they're living under occupation. And Eisenhower didn't declare a 393 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,240 war over it because at some point you just don't have the 394 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,240 resources to bring about desirable results. 395 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:23,160 John F Kennedy exchanged letters with Nikita Khrushchev, head of 396 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:30,440 the Soviet Union, when they put nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962. 397 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,760 In 1964, the Chinese Communist chairman now developed nuclear 398 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,400 weapons referred to as Project 596. 399 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,280 And we could have said, well, China's getting the nuke now. 400 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,680 And, you know, if a country gains access to nuclear weapons, 401 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,680 we have to take them out before they take us out. 402 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,760 Not only was there no declaration of war, Nixon and 403 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,640 Kissinger within a decade, or in Beijing shaking hands with 404 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,800 Chairman Mao and then later Deng Xiaoping. 405 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,040 Of course, the Prague Spring in 1968, Lyndon Johnson did not 406 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,840 declare war when the Soviets made sure that the citizens of 407 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,080 Prague would not have their independence from the Soviets. 408 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:14,000 In 1983, the Soviets shot down a civilian aircraft which was 409 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,240 going from Anchorage, AK to Seoul, South Korea. 410 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,200 It's referred to as Korean Airlines 007. 411 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,600 This killed 269 passengers, including 62 Americans, 412 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,000 including a sitting representative of the Congress, 413 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,200 Representative Larry McDonald And Ronald Reagan did not 414 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,840 declare war on the Soviet Union, and within a decade, there was 415 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,880 no Soviet Union. So it's not the case that you 416 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,600 always have to declare war against empires or they just 417 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,280 keep expanding and expanding. Sometimes the cost of war are 418 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,480 just not worth it. Also, under President Reagan, 419 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:56,120 you had the 1983 Beirut bombing attacks and attack by an 420 00:24:56,120 --> 00:25:00,320 organization that was a Lebanese resistance terrorist group, what 421 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,840 we would consider Hezbollah today. 422 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:08,680 The attack killed 307 people, 241 United States and 58 French 423 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,760 military personnel, 6 civilians and two attackers. 424 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,800 No declaration of war, and Hezbollah did not take over the 425 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,560 world as a result. The costs of war are too high, 426 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:27,480 the outcomes are too uncertain. Could you have imagined 427 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:32,000 convincing people in 1939 we are going to go to war so the 428 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,080 Bolsheviks can control half of Europe? 429 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:40,320 With such uncertain outcomes, you're not able to really make 430 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,800 an accurate determination as to whether or not this very, very, 431 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:48,320 very high cost is worth it. Very thankful that President 432 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,120 Trump and Secretary of Defense Haggiseth are now coming around 433 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:55,200 to this position. More good news from President 434 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,200 Trump. One of the first meetings I want 435 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,680 to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of 436 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,640 Russia, and I want to say let's cut our military budget in half 437 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,920 and we can do that. The new Director of National 438 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,320 Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard commenting on the situation in 439 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,560 Ukraine and what this war is over. 440 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,920 We're risking tons of money, tons of lives, tons of kids, 441 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,240 tons of post traumatic stress. What are we really fighting for? 442 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,320 Here is something that the political establishment and 443 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,120 propaganda media don't want you to know. 444 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,880 Ukraine's President Zelensky has just banned yet another 445 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,920 political opposition party, one that questioned his legitimacy 446 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,240 as president and use Ukraine's Department of Justice to mandate 447 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,240 the seizure of this party's members assets. 448 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,560 Now, this is just the latest of Zelinsky's actions to do this 449 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,760 sort of thing. He began banning major political 450 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:53,080 opposition parties in 2022 when he also started banning TV 451 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,120 channels that were associated with his political opponents. 452 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:00,280 And he took over total control of Ukraine's largest television 453 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,520 networks, now controlled by their government. 454 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,280 Zelensky's presidential term ended on May 20th. 455 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,360 He canceled elections in the name of martial law, suspending 456 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:13,080 Ukraine's constitution so that he could stay in power. 457 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,080 Defenders of Zelensky will say, hey, Ukraine is in the middle of 458 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,320 a war, they can't have elections. 459 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:21,720 Just stop for a moment and think. 460 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,600 If we accept that excuse or criteria for suspending the 461 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,000 constitution and canceling elections, then we should 462 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,120 presume that leaders in our own country and our own 463 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:35,880 establishment media will also use this same excuse and 464 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:41,600 rationale when they suspend our constitution and our elections 465 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,080 since we too are at war with Russia and China. 466 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,040 If you think this sounds crazy, look at what's already going on. 467 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,520 They've already started conditioning us to accept a 468 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:57,320 dictatorship by rationalizing their own use of our Department 469 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,080 of Justice to target President Trump and other political 470 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,360 enemies in their efforts to stay in power. 471 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,800 To everyone for watching Keith Knight don't tread on anyone in 472 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,680 the Libertarian Institute, check out Libertarian institute.org.