Gas Prices Skyrocket, Trump Freaks Out & His Powerlessness Is Exposed: The True War Agenda Revealed

We don't want to be cynical, but it does sometimes occur that maybe we're talking about the wrong things. We mean that when a big news event happens and everyone in the media is talking about one element of it, and we're usually part of that herd, embarrassingly, you have to ask yourself at a certain point, hmm, could it be that the thing that we're all talking about is not the most important thing? Could it be that we're talking about it or being led into that conversation on purpose? I mean, again, not to be a conspiracy, not or anything, but it's possible that happens. And here's an example on going, and that's this trade of hormones. We've done a bunch of different shows than this trade of hormones. Trade of hormones is obviously inherently significant. It's the waterway. Now, famously, the eastern end of the person go through which a lot of the world's energy flows. Iran has the longest shoreline along that strait, world geography experts now. And so now we all know that it's essential to keep that waterway open, and then it curves around on the Red Sea, along the coast of a country called Yemen, which is controlled almost the entire country by a group called the Houthis. People are getting an ongoing education and all this, and why is that meaningful? It's meaningful because you can't get oil out of the richest oil producing region in the world unless you have access through those waterways, trade of hormones in the Red Sea. So the ongoing conversation, again, including conversation we participated in, has been about how to open the strait of hormones, how to get that oil through. But if you think about it, is that really the most important question that arises from the Iran war? So a waterway, of course, it is inherently important. On the other hand, that's a problem that you can fix really quickly. If you have a blocked waterway, if one country says you can't come through or we're going to blow up your tankers, well, you could reach an accommodation with that country, and you could fix that in about 10 minutes, if all sides are willing to do it. What's harder to fix is the destruction of energy, infrastructure, pipelines, well heads, but more than anything else, refineries. So refineries is the plants, the factory where crude oil pumped out of the ground is turned into products you can actually use. And people may not have an appreciation for how different crude oil is from the refined products made from it. So from crude oil, we get famously gasoline, jet fuel, aka kerosene. We get all the way down to asphalt, we get diesel fuel, and we also get a lot of the precursor elements for fertilizer. So none of those things come directly out of the ground, they are made from this commodity called crude oil, and they're made in things called refineries. So without refineries, you really can't run a society. You cannot run a country on crude oil. There's very little you can do with crude oil actually. You can't even put it in a diesel motor, and they'll, I mean they'll run on vegetable oil, but you can't run crude oil. You have to refine it. So refineries are actually the most important link in the chain from drilling to turning on the lights in your house or getting on an airplane or eating food that's grown in the ground. And the problem with refineries is there aren't very many of them. So there are a lot of oil and gas wells, in fact, no one really knows the number. There are about 70,000 new oil and gas wells drilled every year globally. The U.S. alone has almost a million active oil and gas wells. But refineries, which are absolutely necessary, are a different question. So how many refineries are there globally? On planet Earth right now, we know the answer, because it's not a very big number. There are a total of 825 refineries on the planet for a population of 8.3 billion people. 825. So that's about one refinerie for every 10 million people. One refinerie for every New York City plus 2 million. So when you destroy a refinerie, that's a big problem because a big refinerie is incredibly expensive. 25 billion dollars, for example, very expensive to build and time consuming can take more than 10 years to build a big refinerie. So when you destroy one, you have an immediate and long lasting effect in a way that closing a straight does not achieve. It's a big deal to destroy a refinerie. And so with that in mind, you have to kind of wonder what's going on with refineries. All of a sudden, they're getting hit by our count. And this may be off. We may be undercounting it, but we think as of today, seven refineries in the Persian Gulf have been hit, destroyed, damaged, shut down for a while anyway, maybe some long term, so far in this war, not even a year old. Seven refineries. So if you're wondering why diesel is 650 nationally and much more expensive than that in other parts of the world, it's because of that. It's hits on refineries, and not just in the Persian Gulf, but in Russia, which makes about 7% of the world's diesel fuel, refines it. And so what is that? How exactly is that helping? Even if you're waging a war, would you go after the refinerie, would that be your first order of business? Well, it has been the first order of business in both of those conflicts. So we've got footage, no sound, but just so you can see it. This is from the very early days of the Iran Wars. This is an early march. And this is the product of an Israeli drone attack on a refinery in Iran. Amazing. So the war breaks out. We're told that this war is an effort to stop the Iranian nuclear program because they're minutes away from nuking Miami. And that's what it's about. Only about that nuclear program, which we're not going to accept. But if that's true, why do the Israelis, instead of hitting a nuclear facility or assassinating more nuclear physicists, they've done that in Iran, why do they hit a refinery? No one has answered that question because almost nobody's asked. Why would the Ukrainian government be hitting Russian refineries right now, which they are, all over Russia, apparently 60% of Russia's refinery capacity has been hit. And we're not exactly sure how much has taken off line permanently or for the short term. But 60% of their capacity has been hit by the Ukrainians. Why refineries? So that's the first mystery. The second mystery is why is no one talking about this? The thing about hitting a refinery is that it releases massive epic amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Now, for the last couple of years, people have not been talking about CO2 emissions. For the preceding 20 years, every child at every grade in American schools learned that CO2 is a poison and that it is increasing the temperature on the earth and that Florida will soon be under water and we are destroying the planet every time we emit CO2. All of a sudden, no one's talking about that. And there's nothing that emits CO2 in greater volume that we can think of than blowing up energy infrastructure. The Biden administration's destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, the natural gas pipeline from East to West from Russia to Europe, was the largest manmade emission, we think, of CO2 in human history. And yet, no one said a word. So for example, the Sierra Club, which is the best funded environmental group, climate change organization in the United States, they've got like $100 million budget, they didn't say a word about the Biden administration blowing up Nord Stream. Well, that's very, very curious if you think about it. They also haven't said a word about the bombs that the United States under Biden and Trump has sent to Israel, 2,000 pound bombs. So how much CO2 does a 2,000 pound bomb emit? Well we know because academics in London figured it out, they did the math. About three metric tons, how much is that? Well it's a lot. In fact, it's more than three times what the average gas fired home water heater, we look this up, emits every year in a residential home. Now why the comparison between a single 2,000 pound bomb and Biden sent like 14,000 of them to Israel, to eliminate Gaza, to commit genocide in Gaza, Trump sending 40,000 of this bomb and lots of other bombs, but we're just picking the 2,000 pound bomb. Why compared to home water heater? Well because the Sierra Club is issued endless press releases on home water heaters, gas-fired home water heaters, the ones that work well that are efficient, and has also paid a team of lawyers to make sure you can't have one. Not just gas-fired water heaters, but gas ranges, wood stoves, basically any household appliance that you enjoy that is effective, dryers, washing machines, all of these are threats to the earth according to the Sierra Club, our largest climate group because they emit CO2, but for some reason the Sierra Club is so far as we could tell, never mentioned the CO2 emissions from munitions, from dropping bombs or from blowing up refineries. They never mentioned that. Now why is that? It makes you wonder if the environmental movement, the climate change movement, which really was kind of the dominant piety of a ruling class for two decades, we were very concerned, really concerned, if you ever had dinner with Rick. ladies in the past 20 years with a private equity wife who gets stuck next to one of dinner. She would turn to you dough-eyed at some point and say I'm very concerned about climate. We're destroying this planet with our emissions and she would get a little misty. They really meant it, but all of a sudden there's not a word about the biggest CO2 emissions in our lifetimes brought on by this war and the war in Ukraine. How strange could it be that they never really considered carbon dioxide poison? Because of course it's not a poison. You breathe it, you exhale it all day long. It's not a poison and they never really believed it was. Could it be that the real appeal of the climate movement was its effects on the way people live? So if you think about it for a second, what were the climate people telling you you were gonna have to do? What are you gonna have to give up? How are you gonna have to change your life in order to save the planet which you uniquely had destroyed? Not China, the world's largest emitter of carbon. No, they never mentioned that. But you as an American, as a European, as a Westerner, were you gonna have to give up? Well, for one thing your mobility, you're gonna have to live in a 15-minute city. You couldn't go anywhere. You'd be locked down effectively, but for the good of the planet, assuming you care about the planet, you have to give up meat, of course. You might have to wear a sweater indoors in the wintertime because it's profitable to get to heat your home to 70. Obviously, that's not good for the environment. And you can't have working appliances. You can't have anything that actually gives you comfort at low expense because that's a sin. So instead you're gonna have to have, I don't know, a thermostat that can be controlled from Sierra Club HQ or from your local state capital or at least your city council. You're gonna have to give up your autonomy and dial down your standard of living. That's what you're gonna have to do in order to save the earth. It's fascinating when you think about those effects, which are by the way wildly unpopular. Nobody wants to wear a sweater indoors in February. Nobody wants to be cold and hungry. In fact, for all of human history, the two main goals on the mind of every person on the planet was let's not be cold or hungry. So it's not like anyone wanted this. There's no ground swell of support for being cold and hungry, but you were gonna have to do that. And of course, the people in charge and they said this a lot wanted that. They wanted that. But what's interesting is they're getting in any way. So we're not talking about climate change because famously Larry Fink, the single most powerful business band in the world that had a black rock deeply embedded in the Ukraine war, profiting from the Ukraine war, of course, dropped his demands for climate change. In other words, the idea was black rocks I can do business with you unless you sign into the climate agenda. Well, he's dropped that. Why? Maybe because they're getting the same thing from these wars. Because when you destroy refineries, what do you do? Well, you hike the price of diesel and gasoline and jet fuel beyond what most people can pay. And the trajectory is in place now, 650 for a gallon of diesel, which is the energy source that gets all of our goods from manufacturer to warehouse to home. Yeah. So you are going to, when you destroy the world's refining capacity, achieve the same effect you would if you were to enact plan 2030 or whatever they were calling it to avert climate change. Exactly the same thing. And of course, if you adjust people's standard of living down enough, what do you get fewer people? Because either they starve to death, and we're facing that possibility very soon in countries around the world, particularly in Africa. And that will needless to say, spark mass migration to the West. There are a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa. And if they go hungry, you think they're going to sit and starve to death. No, they'll be in Los Angeles, obviously. And Frankfurt and Lisbon. So there's that. They starve or they decide to have fewer kids. So one of the goals of the climate agenda was reducing global population. And they just said it. I mean, they just said it a lot all the time. Bill Gates, hate to blame everything on Bill Gates that poor autistic elderly man. Bill Gates being unique among rulers of the universe because he's sort of damaged enough to say the dark stuff out loud because he closed another difference. Doesn't know what he's not supposed to say. Bill Gates, but all of him has said this. We need fewer people. Jeffrey Epstein famously, maybe not so famously. We're going to read it to you. Here's part of an exchange that Jeffrey Epstein had in the now famous Epstein docs, the ones that have been released are not being hidden by the Trump administration. And we're quoting this from 2016. And he's in an exchange with Jaska Bach, a cognitive scientist. And he says this about climate change. Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. The Earth's forest fire, potentially a good thing for the species. Too many people, so many mass executions of the elderly and infirm make sense is the fundamental fact that everyone dies at some time. Now, Jeffrey Epstein, and if you read the Epstein files, you know this was basically a literate. So it's not entirely clear what that meant. But he's applauding of mass death, of course. And he's emailing this to a normie, someone who probably we haven't checked, but probably still is a job and is walking among us. It's a cognitive, imminent cognitive scientist. And they're talking about fewer people. And by the way, at a certain level, way above the level where you and I live, the people who run countries think in terms of population. If you assess your life, you think in terms of your kids and your job and your wife and how are things going? And am I making enough money to pay for everything? If you're running a country, if you're in charge of a civilization, if you're part of the class of people making big decisions about giant populations, you think in terms of what demographics? How many people live here? How many people do we need to live here? That's the very first question people who run countries ask themselves and their advisors. Do you have the right number of people? So when you see big things happen in the world, if a completely pointless war breaks out in Eastern Europe, and they're telling you, oh, it's about these three Oblasts in Eastern Ukraine no one's ever heard of. And we have to take a stand on principle because Churchill is a war with Hitler again. You can be absolutely dead-freak and certain. That's not the cause of the war. And that's not the reason it's continued for almost five years. There's something else going on here. Something much more important than who controls three Oblasts, whatever an Oblast is because nobody cares actually. And you got to think, just watching, that maybe one of the reasons for that war is its effect. And its effect is to completely depopulate the largest country in Europe, which is Ukraine, which has fewer than half the people it had when the war started. And will never be Ukrainian again, ever. So a child could have known that going into this. If this war continues, and if it's a first-world war type, stand off, meet Grindr, the country with a smaller population is going to lose a sizable chunk of its working-age population. You're going to have to change the population. You think people didn't know that going in? You think NATO and the Biden administration, you think the Trump administration doesn't know that? You think the leaders of the EU doesn't know that? You think the British prime minister doesn't know that? Of course they know that. I mean, they're not geniuses, but they're not entirely stupid. And they think in big terms. That's the point. So when the western proxy, the Ukrainian military, tries to take out 60% of all of Russia's diesel production, it's probably not just about Russia, is it? It's about hiking the price of diesel globally, which it immediately did. Of course. And that has the effect of imposing the same restrictions they called for in the climate agenda, but which were broadly rejected by the population. It's like, yeah, I care about the earth, but I can't control me on thermostat. I can't have a wood stove. I don't have a functioning water heater. I don't think so. I don't care that much. And the same with the Iran war, Iran could have a nuclear weapon. Okay. Yeah. It doesn't sound great. Iran nuclear weapon. They seem bad. Certainly, don't speak English. They seem pretty foreign. Some weird religion. I don't. Yeah. They should have a nuclear weapon. But at this point, how many Americans care if Iran has a nuclear weapon? I mean, probably don't want a rendezvous nuclear weapon or anyone to have a nuclear weapon. But really, as a justification for $6.50 a gallon diesel, they don't care. So what does that tell you? $6.50 diesel isn't an ancillary byproduct of this war. It's the whole point of the war. The point of a system is what it does. And that's how you know what's true. Because I don't, doesn't matter. what they tell you, the justification we're doing this for this reason. No. Watch what they do. Consider the result it produces. If they keep doing it and it keeps producing that same result, that result is the point of the exercise. You don't need to be a genius to understand that. So when people, dumb people, like me, get up on camera and say, "Oh my gosh, if this continues, we're going to have famine in Africa and mass migration. All of sub-Saharan Africa is going to move to Europe and the United States and Canada." You think that hasn't occurred to them? If this continues to standard of living in the United States, it's going to plummet. People won't be able to afford essentials. They're going to have to stop eating meat. You think they'd ever thought of that before? At some point, all of us need to wake up and ground our understanding of reality in reality itself. Be like your dog. Your dog doesn't understand a word you say. And yet your dog has an amazing track record, most likely, of anticipating what you're going to do. How does that work? Because by not hearing what you say, the dog is restricted to watching what you do. And watching what people do is over time a far more reliable indicator of why they're doing it. Seek motive by understanding people's actions, not their words. Words mislead, actions tell the truth. And these actions, both in Ukraine and in Iran, both in Eastern Europe and the Persian Gulf, have the same effect, which is to lower the standard of living in the West, not in China, in the West. China has gone crazy with refineries, and none of them have been blown up. China is producing energy, liquefying coal, as the Germans did during the Second World War, because they don't have adequate oil reserves. So they have a massive gasification program with coal. They have big coal reserves, so they're taking the coal and turning it into liquid fuel. Effectively diesel. So China is actually fine. We're not fine. Europe is shafted. It was obvious when this started that was going to happen. They did it anyway. Why did they do it? Don't listen like your dog to what they say, assess what they do. They did it to destroy the standard of living in the United States and Europe, to make way for the Chinese empire. Obviously, oh, that's crazy. Is it crazy? Look at what they're doing. By destroying refineries, they are ensuring that the West will be a lot poorer than it is now, and that's not quickly fixable, and they know that. And by day, who are we talking about? Well, whoever's making the decisions in the Ukraine war, and it's not Putin, Putin, the Russians are responding at this point. They're responding to increased aggression from Ukraine. We, Ukraine's out of men. We don't know the numbers because there are still secret, but hundreds and hundreds likely over a million Ukrainians have been killed, and certainly way over a million have been killed or wounded. So there is no Ukrainian fighting force left, but they're amping up the aggression. What is that? And who's making that decision? Well, watch the following clip, and you will know, so this is Donald Trump. This is just the other day, as diesel prices start to climb in the United States and Trump, whatever his many faults, which we cataloged pretty extensively, understands commodities prices, because they're not hard to understand. A commodity is really simple. It's not, you know, it's something complex about diesel fuel. You would want to have to refine it. The process is complex, but diesel as a commodity is easy to understand. It's the liquid that goes inside trucks to keep the global economy going. And without it, the global economy grinds to a halt, literally grinds to a halt. So Trump gets that, and you can check diesel prices on your phone, and there's no question he does. So his fear from the very beginning of this whole conflict was commodities prices would go up, and he's been very focused on the price of Brent Crude. Brent Crude is one of many markers of global oil prices, named after it now defunct oil field in the North Sea called the Brent oil field, but it's kind of the measure that people use. It's like the S&P of energy markets, you know, it's just like a brand name and people check it. And the Brent Crude price has stayed, you know, it's going over 100, but it's not at 300. So fossil fuel prices or crude oil prices have stayed pretty, I mean, relative to what's happened, they've stayed pretty reasonable. But it's the refined products that people actually use, jet fuel, gasoline, diesel, and fertilizer. Those are the ones you got to start worrying about, a lot, and diesel in particular, because unlike jet fuel and fertilizer, they advertise the price of diesel at your local gas station, so you know what it is. So Trump is watching this, and it's freaking him out, of course, because he'll be judged, and he knows, no matter how many arches he builds or Kennedy centers, he names after himself, or whatever kind of sad insanity, he attempts to make sure that he's remembered fondly, if the diesel price gets to eight bucks, like there's no chance, you know, you will always be remembered as a failure. Period. And he knows that, because he's despite appearance is not stupid on this level. So Trump clearly asked advisors like, what's going on with diesel? And they say, well, it's really not the Middle East that's causing the spike. It's the Ukrainians smacking all these Russian diesel refineries, and it turns out Russia is one of the big producers, I think, number two in the world, for diesel. And so Trump gets so agitated that he says he calls for Zelensky to stop hitting diesel refining. Watch this. This is a lens case that they weren't there. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, because he's causing a shortage of diesel fuel. This isn't done by the Middle East. This is done by what's happening with Russia and you printed. So we spoke to Mr. Zelensky about it. There are plenty of other targets. Don't hit diesel fuel, because that's hurting, that's hurting the world. We don't want him to hit diesel fuel. So that's pretty clear. So that's last Sunday. Trump says that. And that's actually pretty good thing to say, pretty smart thing to say. I mean, he's identified one of the main causes of the problem. Why are diesel prices going up? It's because Ukrainians are hitting Russian refining. And he thinks, understandably, that he's in charge, like there would be no Ukraine, well, that wouldn't be a Ukrainian nation. Were it not for the support from the United States? And there certainly wouldn't be a Ukrainian war effort. It's not like the Ukrainian people want it. They are being held hostage by an unelected president who's eliminated civil liberties in the country, banned the biggest Christian denomination, put people in prison for criticizing him. He's a lunatic and a tyrant. And why is he continuing? Well, the only reason he's continuing is because the Trump administration, through its intel agencies, is giving the Ukrainians targeting information. So when they hit a target in Russia, where did that information come from? From their intel agencies? No, no, from ours. So whatever they tell you, the Trump administration is allowing this war to continue. It's just a fact, okay? And so Trump feels, understandably, that he can shut it down because this is only happening because he's allowing it to happen and aiding the Zelensky government. Now, God knows why he's doing that. That's a much deeper question than someone should get to the bottom of. I think we know. In any case, it makes sense that Trump would be like, okay, enough, shut it down. You're hurting me. You're hurting America. So that was last Sunday. Here's Trump on Friday, last Friday, just the other day, declaring mission accomplished. Watch this. We have the highest employment that we've ever had in history. All of these things are the lowest, we have the best poverty rate, the lowest poverty rate in the history of our country. And people are making more money today than they ever had. And we do have something that I'm very proud of. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. Now, for that, people are going to have to pay some extra against. I think most people, if they had a vote on lower gas prices or letting Iran have a nuclear weapon, I'd be willing to vote that it would be a massive landslide. People don't want to have Iran have a nuclear weapon. And you know what? They won't. And the war's going to end soon. And when it ends, your gas prices are going to drop to a level that they were before, maybe even lower. Yeah, ignore this stuff about Iran having a nuclear weapon. I mean, that's obviously the ramps, kind of sad ramblings of it. Nobody cares. Actually, at this point, Israel having a nuclear weapon, Israel's threatened to use nuclear weapons against various countries, a lot. And there are no nuclear inspections in Israel. Inspectors have never been to Dimona. So if there's one country on the planet that's breaking international law on nuclear weapons, it's Israel. Of course, there are much greater threat than Iran's non-existent nuclear program. And honestly, at this point, nobody really cares, and Trump must know that, which is why he keeps repeating it. But it's the first part of that statement that really feels almost poignant in retrospect. So here's Trump, just a couple days after saying, I'm going to tell the Ukrainians to stop hitting Russian refineries. We're going to get diesel prices down. And he's like, yeah, the economy's great because he feels like he's got it under control. He's working the levers of the global economy. And if diesel prices go really high, he's the president of the United States. He can bring them down. Well, it's not a magic trick. Just rain in your proxy and we're done. Truly the black pill here, the radicalizing fact, the moment you're like, oh man, I don't know how we fix this is when you realize it doesn't matter what Trump says. 'Cause he's not in control. And of course he's not in control. He didn't wanna go into this war in the first place. And he was pushed by Benjamin Netanyahu into doing it. So the president doesn't have the power to make independent decisions on certain topics. The big topics, he doesn't have sovereignty anymore than the U.S. has sovereignty. It's all an illusion. But you would at least think that he could rain in Ukraine, which is not even a real country, the most corrupt country on earth. We could at least tell the midget dictator in charge of that country what to do since we're the only reason he's still alive. But the radicalizing fact, and this is just a fact because we know what happened next is that Trump can't tell him what to do. He just gives Trump the finger and does whatever he wants 'cause he doesn't work for Trump. He doesn't work for the United States despite appearances. And by the way, Trump has apparently no control over his own intelligences. You think he could hold John Rackliff in the heads of the other 16 intelligences and say, if you give any targeting information to the Ukrainian military, I'm gonna bring you up on charges. If you work for me, you weren't elected, I was. That's our system. You have no inherent legitimacy. You're not the president, I am. And I will have you brought up on felony charges, treason charges, if you're caught, disobeying the commander in chief in wartime. It's like super simple and legal, by the way. But he didn't do that. And because he didn't do that and because he's not actually in charge of anything of substance, which maybe why he's so focused on renaming the Kennedy Center, we set something he can do, build some dumb arch at the end of Memorial Bridge, okay. Build his ballroom. But like on questions of global power apportionment, he doesn't get a say. And we know he doesn't get a say because this happens. Here's the BBC News report from like two days later, watch. - With a wave of hundreds of drones and some missiles, a message delivered to Moscow with fire. - This oil refinery, just 10 miles from the Kremlin, is the capital's biggest supplying fuel for the city. And Ukraine says for the Russian military too. Ukrainian officials say the aim is to bring Vladimir Putin's war home. - So that, in other words, a week after Trump publicly tells Zelensky not to bomb Russian refineries because it's spiking diesel prices here in the United States. And globally, Zelensky bombs Russian refineries 10 miles from Moscow. And then the BBC, which describes this all in kind of pornographic heavy breathing detail, one handed, as they used to say, sending a message to Vladimir Putin. Like the amount of war pornography, the amount of violence worship in the news coverage of these conflicts is repulsive. And the people engaging in it need psychiatric care immediately because it's disgusting. People are dying and you're masturbating over it, which they are, it's disgusting, beneath contempt. But in any case, they're telling us that the Ukrainians did this because they're gonna tell the Russians that there's a cost to what you're doing. Well, of course, no sane person thinks that the Ukrainian military is going to push the Russian military into any kind of surrender or even forced negotiated settlement. That's like not gonna happen. And we know that for a lot of reasons, but one is population. Russia's like 100 million more people than Ukraine. This is nuts and it's always been nuts. It's never going to work. And so what you're going to get is the total destruction of the Ukrainian nation and energy prices that are so high that you get 15 minute cities and people eating bugs. And so you have to ask yourself, is that the point? Was that always the point? I don't know. The purpose of a system is what it does and this system is doing that. So yes, that's the point. There can be no other. And if you wanna know how totally powerless the president of the United States is, and we don't mean to pick on Trump, we would at least have the right instinct on diesel, like you're killing us here, stop it. If you wanna know how totally powerless he is, watch this CNN panel as they celebrate the Ukrainian government giving the finger to its patron, its supposed patron, the United States. Watch. - Ukraine managed its largest drone attack that we've ever seen on Moscow and it hit a major oil refinery after President Trump had demanded that Ukraine stop hitting Russian oil targets because of course, it's adding to the price hikes particularly in diesel fuel in the United States. What do you make of this escalation? What does it tell you about capabilities and where we are in this war? - I have a one word response for the Ukrainians, which is congratulations. They need to increase these strikes and doing so is the only way they could put pressure on Vladimir Putin. - Okay, so save that tape 'cause that tape tells you everything. Now who is that guy talking? Well, that is a retired four-star American admiral. That was the head of NATO under Barack Obama. So who's he speaking for exactly? What else does he do? Who is that man? Well, that man is a partner at the Carlisle Group. That man was the former head of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. That man is the current chairman of the board of the Rockefeller Foundation. That man is in other words, the physical embodiment of the actual rulers of the United States and of the world and they're not political figures. They're not people who are elected by anybody because that would be democracy and we don't have that. The actual decisions are being made by people with commercial interests in whatever conflict is ongoing and with a much bigger picture of how this is all going to wind up in the end. The point of this exercise is to dethrone the United States as the ruler of the world to diminish the United States to impoverish the United States and Europe, which is kind of an innocent bystander here but will be completely destroyed by this. And to make way for the new era in which we will not be in charge and of course likely China will be. So these are the people who are making the decisions and you know that because that guy, the former head of NATO, the four-star admiral, the chairman of the board of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carlisle partner is taking Ukraine side, Zelensky side, over the elected American president. So Zelensky gives the finger to the president of the United States and the former head of NATO, the four-star admiral, the guy who's like dedicated his life to saving, helping defending the United States. That guy's like, no, no, I'm with Zelensky and he knows because he ran NATO that there's literally no chance. There's no chance that this tactic or strategy will work. You could blow up every refinery in Russia. You could kill Putin. There's no chance that Russia is going to surrender to Ukraine or anyone else. So the best you can do is destroy Ukraine and the nations that support Ukraine, which include the rest of the West and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the object of the exercise. It feels like a lot of people know this. It feels like a lot of people who are much smarter than I am, for example, which should be a lot of people, have thought this through from the very beginning and they know that there's no liberation here. They can cause Zelensky Churchill all they want, but in the end, no one's gonna be liberated. No one's getting sovereignty and freedom. In fact, the direct effect of all of this is death for military age men and women in the West, the legacy population in the West, not the people who just moved here from some foreign country. They're not signing up, of course. But the people whose ancestors were here 100 years ago, they're going to die and the ones who survive will be much less free than they were when this all started. Now, how do we know that? That sounds dark, it sounds like some Alex Jones rant. New world order, there's a plan. Well, we've gotten to the point where they just like say it on cable television. And so the only question is, are you listening? This doesn't require any interpretation. You don't need a resetter stone to know what they're saying. You're not hanging on every inflection or nuance here. They're just saying it. So here's a guy called Sir Jacob Riesmog, and we should warn you before this begins that the affect in this guy's voice, which we think it's fairly fake, is so overwhelming that you think you're watching a cartoon, but this is apparently real. This guy is a conservative political figure in the UK, and he's on television on the conservative station in the UK, which is basically like our own conservative station, not conservative at all. Violence, worshiping, tool of whatever is coming next, whatever this new arrangement is going to be, that station and this guy are spear carriers for that project, obviously. So they can serve it about it, they're not trying to conserve what we have, they're trying to usher in the new new thing. And the one thing we know about the new new thing, whatever it is, you're not going to benefit from it. And we know that because they're just telling you. So here's Sir Rupert Jacob Riesmogger, whatever we're calling him today, watch. We may face a war and if we face a war, we will need people who will join the armed services and who will go out and do their duty. We may even face circumstances where people have to die to save their country as they did in the first and second world wars and in many other wars before and since. That is something that makes a country survive, that people are not willing to do their duty. Then the country will be taken over by another country ultimately, one way or another. This is part of the reason that ancient Rome fell. Remember this is a Brit. So you think he would know that the last time Britain was invaded was almost exactly a thousand years ago. It was in fact in 1066 by Scandinavians posing as French coming over from Normandy. And they invaded the country and they completely changed it and they do it invading armies due, which they kind of enslaved the population and then over time people sort of forgot and they became the aristocracy and you know the story if you're familiar at all with European history. But the point is it was a thousand years ago that Britain was last invaded. So the last two wars, the big wars that Britain participated in, the first and second world war, were not in response to an invasion of Britain. No one was trying to invade Britain. Those were both wars of choice and what was their effect? Well their effect was to completely destroy the country completely. In 1914, when the First World War began, when Britain joined the First World War, Britain ruled the world. And by 1945, when the Second War ended, Britain was a husk with rationing for the next ten years. And the Prime Minister who led Britain through that war, the much loved in the United States Winston Churchill was rejected by voters as a failure. They despised him because they knew what our historians will not admit, which is he destroyed the empire and destroyed their country and it is never recovered. So the wars that that buffooned sites as necessary were in fact the opposite of necessary. If you think war should be waged in defense of a nation for the benefit of the people who live there. And throughout history people have assumed that's the only reason you have a war. To help the people who live in your country because you're acting on their behalf and you're asking them as the buffoon reminded us to die for this effort. So if it doesn't help them, that's a lot to ask of anybody. Go die for something that helps me, something for which I'm not personally willing to die. And my children are not willing to die. But we would like you to go die for this thing that will not help your surviving relatives at all. In fact, we'll wreck our country. And that's exactly what Britain did in those two wars. And there's kind of no counter-argument. I mean, they'll get huffy and call you names and you're a hater if you say that. But what about that is not true. It is true. It is true and it's disgraceful and the people who defend it are disgraceful. So actually, if you point out something that is true and you take a position against killing people pointlessly, you are not the criminal. And of course, they try to invert that immediately. Well, you're the bad person. You have hate. You're hate. No. I'm against people dying needlessly. I'm against murdering the innocent. I'm not the bad person here. You are. It's very important to keep your kind of wits about you and not succumb to moral vertigo. And moral vertigo is, of course, they're, they're, you know, they're only really effective weapon. You're like, "Wait. You're committing genocide. You're a hater. Shut up." And you get censored. But the people committing genocide, I don't know, get to speak at the UN today. So that's not kind of the way it works. Now, the way it works is if you call for the deaths of innocents, you're the bad guy. I'm not the bad guy for calling you out for that. So just remember that if you're watching at home. You are not the bad guy if you oppose sending your nation's young people to pointless death. You are the good guy and you are facing off against the bad guys and you should put them on their back foot. There's no way that they should be allowed to continue to call for the pointless deaths of our people and hold the moral high ground. That's outrageous. But they're calling for is criminal and vile and disgusting and totally indefensible and they should be ashamed. You should not be ashamed for opposing it. In any case, they're trying to shame the population of the UK, the legacy population of the UK, people who watch GB news into dying for a war that has nothing to do with Britain. And of course, Britain is not even controlled by British people. It has no sovereignty. There are American troops on their soil. The whole thing's a joke. But what's the real agenda? Even Jacob Riesmog or whatever his name is probably isn't eager to have a totally pointless war. There's a point to it. There's a reason they want to do this. So we want to play you a clip and it's part of a colloquy between him and you would think his counterpart. So the guy you just saw, Riesmog, is what is known in the UK as a conservative. So he's on one side, here's a guy called Paul Richards, who's on the completely opposite side. They have nothing in common. They agree on nothing. They're polar opposites locked in this battle of ideas for control of a great democratic nation. Oh, but that's not true because as in the United States, both sides are aligned against the population on the questions that really matter. And the question that matters above all, because it touches on every other question, is the question of who gets killed, war. That matters. So don't let them distract you with all this other crap. What matters is who lives in your country and who gets killed. Okay, let's just start with the things that actually matter. And that matters. And so on those questions, who lives in your country and who gets killed in the UK as in the US, both sides are in total agreement against the population, which wants none of this. They don't want to have a completely different country, every generation, because of immigration. And they don't want to go fight wars for other nations or commercial interests or whatever. They don't want to die for no reason. They will die in defensive their nation. They don't want to die for any other reason. And that's not bad. You're not an anti-Semite for thinking that. And up yours for suggesting otherwise. Anyway, here's this guy, Paul Richards, the liberal, if this were American television, facing off against the conservative, watch him just sort of say out loud what the point of all of this is. This is an amazing clip. Watch. I think the British would rise to grain as if they had to. We would have to lock a few people up, by the way. Some of the pro-Russian voices, people are saying there isn't a threat. Don't fight for your country. Don't go to war for Burnham. We'd have to lock him up. Well, we would have to go to those mergers and we would have to look at things like conscription as well. It's going to be sure. Okay. The very first thing we're going to do, you can tell these are like highly informed military tacticians because they don't start with like, okay, the front in this war is here. You know, we need to cross the Daniper River to do that. No, no, no. It's the first thing we need to do is imprison anyone who disagrees with us. And then we need to send everyone else's kids to go die because those, those guys are not obviously participating in a physical sense in this war. They're not going to go fight. You think Paul Richards is going to go fight it? Now the first thing we need to do, the very first thing we need to do is lock up people who are opposed to this war. And then Jacob Riesmogger or whatever his name is, who's posing as like an expert in English history. Clearly, there's nothing about it. It's like, yeah, do we do that during the polionic war? It's un-nobody to do that during World War II. And the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called the Nazis, which they weren't, run by one of the great war heroes of the First World War, Oswald Mosley. Oh, he was a Nazi. No, he wasn't. If he was a Nazi, he'd be living in Britain, in Germany. He didn't want the war. And he has been slandered ever since. It's like scary even to defend him. I'm not even defending the guy. I'm just saying, whatever his views in a free society, you cannot imprison people for their opinions. And when you do, how are you better than the people you're fighting? So they just did this in their last big war. And now that they imprison the opposition party, they sent their wives to prison, too. Why? What do the wives do? Oh, they're married to the guys they didn't like. That's called blood guilt. That's kind of not what we do in Western civilization. In fact, that's the opposite of Western civilization. In the West, we judge people in the basis of what they do. We punish the guilty. We spare the innocent. We make every effort to spare the innocent. But they stopped doing that in Britain in 1940. And just imprisoned the wives, including pregnant women. People died in prison. And they were there for the whole war under Churchill, Mr. Freedom Fighter guy. So yeah, you just did this in your last big war. And you can't wait to do it again. You can't wait to slander anybody who opposes this war as pro-Russia, just as you slandered anyone against the last big war as pro-Nazi. You're pro-Nazi. No, just against the war. How's that? I don't think it's going to help us. That's pro-Nazi. pro-Russia, but that's their first plan of action is to put in prison people who disagree with them. Oh, okay. So going back to our plan for understanding reality, that's not a byproduct of the plan. That is the point of the plan. The point of the war is to change not Iran or Russia or whatever they tell. No, it's to change us. It's to change our lives. It's to change the way power is apportioned in our society to take it from the population. This arrangement we had called democracy and in democracy, of course, you wouldn't go to war if the population overwhelmingly opposed it because how would that be justified? Where are the authority for that come from? But we do, not even a question, people don't want it. Who cares? Whether you want it or not. What do you have to do with this shut up? But now, clearly, the plan has to take it to the next stage where it's like, well, we're just going to send you off to go die. And by the way, anyone who tells you the conscription in the United States is totally off the table is lying because it's not off the table at all. Hard to believe it could happen. Honestly, it's hard to believe it could happen and maybe won't happen. But they've already put in place the the mechanics to make it happen. But in Britain, they're just like far gone. Britain is a failed society run by people with no authority, no credibility, and no legitimacy, and they're facing in effect or revolts of their own population, which is entirely justified. And their answer to it is not to improve the lives of the people they supposedly represent. 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That's r-u-g-i-e-t.com/justin. Brandon Wichert is one of the most informed people we ever talked to on any topic related to war and statecraft. And he's informed because he pays attention to all the details. And so while the rest of us are doing whatever we do during the day, he's learning more about the facts, the actual facts as they unfold, which is not easy by the way. If you're trying to track these wars on a factual basis, how many people have died, what's been blown up? You know, how many planes in the air at any given time? It's not that easy to do it because there's just a haze of lying around everything. But he is pierced that haze and consistently. And so we're really glad to have him join us again. Brandon, thanks a lot for doing this. Thank you as always for having me. It's always an honor to be with you. So it feels to me like the attacks in Eastern Europe and the Gulf on refineries, on energy infrastructure is a huge and undersold part of the story. How bad have these attacks been? How widespread? Can you give us a picture of what you've seen? Well, anybody who's ever played Jenga, you're sort of pulling the pieces out one at a time and watching the, you know, the tower kind of lean and list. And eventually you pull the one out and then the whole thing comes down. The refineries are sort of the most important block here. And I thought that your monologue related out brilliantly. In fact, it's sort of already hit a lot of the points I had made. But but the point here is is that we can reopen the straight of her moves and the straight of Babylon and Deb. Eventually, we can take control of the Panama Canal Zone. We can, you know, reassert ourselves around Greenland near the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap. We can do all of that. And that's fairly, fairly straightforward. The refineries are not coming back once they're blown up. And it's going to take years. Now in the United States, we have our own problems. And I kind of want to start there because you already hit on Russia. The United States, though, has a very significant set of issues with the refineries. First of all, we haven't built new refineries since the late 1970s. And one of the reasons we haven't built a new refinerie is because of what you mentioned, which was sort of the eco-chondria, you know, the panic over global warming and climate change. So we created regulations. And we created disincentives for investors to put money in these very important refineries. And so what we have is basically what we've had for about 40 plus here, but really since the Ayatollas took over in Iran. So pretty much that same time frame that we've been at war with Iran, we've had the same refineries. Those refineries were designed to process the heavy sour crude. We hear very often from our leaders, so called. They love to say we're since standing on an ocean of oil in North America. And we are. We have a lot of, in many cases, untapped, light, sweet crude. Our refineries, though, don't process light sweet crude. So we drill, baby, drill, and then we export that stuff to the rest of the world to refineries and people in countries that can refine that. We import a lot of our stuff and heavy sour crude. So from places like Mexico and wouldn't you know it, Canada, who we seem to have really aggravated lately. So we bring in a lot of stuff that we don't drill. And we use our refineries to refine that. Somebody explained to me, I was a co-host Mario Naufel's show and we had an oil expert and he said it's sort of like we have caviar for oil and we sell that on the market. And then we bring in the quarter pounder with cheese from overseas and we have to process and use that here. So that's one of the biggest problems that we have. There's another issue, which is we pretty much max out our refining capacity. And we do that because we're a capitalist country and we like to have the short-term profit. You know, you max it out, you take the money, you make off that and you use that for profit. You mentioned China earlier. China, if you'll forgive me again, my glasses, China has basically they are the world's largest, most advanced refinering capacity and they don't even use roughly the percentage, I can't find now, but they don't use a, I'm sorry, yes, 30% of their refining is in the teapot refining capability in Shandong Province. That capability is heavily sanctioned because those teapot refineries use and process a lot of of oil from Russia or from sanctioned countries that we don't like to do business with. But one of the things that China's done is on top of those capabilities, which are numerous. The Chinese have actually built out really new, advanced, sophisticated systems like the U-long petrochemical complex, which deals a lot. They've really developed some interesting refining capabilities, new techniques for gasoline and diesel even for plastics, but the key thing here is the Chinese have spare refining capacity, and that is because they want to have a buffer, because they anticipated many years ago that there would be a national security crisis in which you could either have an oil shortage globally, or you could have sanctions being used, and there would be a lack of supply coming in. So the Chinese have excess not only storage with their largest strategic petroleum reserve, which was numbered at 1.8, 1.6 billion barrels before the war began. They've gotten into a little bit of that, but basically they have a lot of reserve, but then they also have reserve capacity, and you rightly noted, knocking out these Russian refineries, I think the percentage was 45% of Russia's refining capacity has been taken offline as of this month. So the Russians are not almost half of Russia's refining capacity is now offline. The United States is already at capacity. We talk a lot about the supply issue, but we're not talking about the refining issue. And China has a lot of excess refining capacity. So we're creating a situation either purposely or just because stupidity, the fact is we're creating a situation, Tucker, where China's going to have a lot of cards. We've seen this play out, and I'll shut up after this, but we've seen this play out with rare earth minerals, right? We always hear, China has rare earth mineral dominance. Well, that's not exactly accurate. What they have is rare earth mineral processing dominance. It's the processing that makes the stuff work. They've got it. They've got about 90% of processing dominance, the whole world's supply chain relies on it. The Chinese have replicated that strategy for everything. In fact, Chinese doctrine, they talk frequently about controlling not just choke points in terms of straits, maritime straits, and whatnot, but they really focus on controlling the geoeconomic hubs of the 21st century. So things like rare earth mineral processing or the processing and refinement of crude oil, which the world needs. And they've got a lot of excess capacity. Tucker, I could foresee if we continue blowing up or allowing the destruction of all these refineries around the world, and we can't really build new ones that process the stuff we need here, because of environmentalism or whatever, I could foresee that the Chinese say, "Hey, we've got a lot of excess capacity." You can deal with us, and you could have an entire new market arising for heavy or for crude oil refinement occurring over time in China, which then just gives Beijing even more leverage. And this whole war, notably the Iran War, but also the Ukraine War, what has it done? It has actually knocked down not only the United States, which is the key rival for China. It's also actually kind of knocked down their other rival, Russia, because Russia is having to fixate on Europe and fixate all their resources on opposing NATO. And in turn, Russia's had to pivot, and they're not natural allies with China, but now their bosom buddies, the shotgun wedding, has now become a true love story between Xi and Putin. And that is all because of these western so-called elites, like Larry Fink, like Enroll, James Sturveritas. I had a very interesting conversation within once in 2012 about drugs in Afghanistan, and it was very insightful into the psyche. Anyway, can you pause right there? Because Edmund Sturveritas is, I think, one of the key players in all this. Again, he's the chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is, was the former dean of the Fletcher School. I mean, talking about Deep State, he is a Carlisle partner, and he was the head of NATO. So like, if there's someone who should be more famous than he is, and of course, he was Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, tell us about your conversation. Well, it was offline, and it was when he was Commander, and I was at an event in Chicago, and it was the NATO conference in Chicago, and he gave you know, a briefing off the record briefing, but it was all about the poppy, the issue of drugs in Afghanistan. It's just that, you know, we created that problem, as always. And there seemed to be kind of, we were okay with that. It was, you know, I don't know, it just was a very interesting, it was, and that's who you're dealing with, and that's not to, you know, I don't want to bash the guy, because I don't know him, because you know, he wore the uniform, I have a lot of respect for that. But the point here is, is that he, I believe, is part of a cadre, dare I say, a ball of people, government, and private sector types, who have a certain world view. And I don't know if they would describe it as harming America, they probably have convinced themselves, it's for the greater good or whatever, but their actions are clearly, and again, I say, you know, Stavrit has sort of ran in the same circles as the Russia gate crew did. And what's really astounding, Tucker, since we're on a sidebar here, is how the president has empowered the same cabal that tried to take him out in 2016. He is empowered, and every chance these guys and gals get to undermine him still, they take it as that CNN clip highlighted. But my point here is, is that there's clearly a policy in place that is negating our energy dominance, that is restricting our ability to process, and who benefits from this, it isn't the United States, it isn't Europe, it isn't Russia, it isn't our partners in the Middle East. It's one country that peoples Republic of China. 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It's not a conspiracy. conspiracy theory to note that and to say once again that the point of a system is what it does It's obvious to me that knowingly or not They're taking the west out of competition with China and making way for this new age in this new empire And it is a new age because I you know and to be fair China It's just interesting because I talk a lot with people in China You know, there's there's a lot of investors. I know and there's a lot of people who are very pro They're American very pro capitalist very pro open, you know open markets and whatnot And they are always telling me the you know the hawks have got China wrong and The one thing I could foresee is that the Chinese leaders they don't really like America They don't trust the United States, you know the military side the national security side Understandably and I don't think we should trust their military side But the the Chinese leadership it doesn't sound like their play is to actively seek to take over the American Empire It's more headache than it's worth, but they absolutely want to undermine our ability to threaten them in their backyard And so they're taking advantage of all of these self-inflicted disasters that were creating even things like refineries We don't probably don't we haven't built a new refinery in 40 years the Chinese are looking at us going you're stupid We're gonna do what we need to do and we'll just outpace you that way so the whole world depends on us And we'll reorient trade flows that way and you can never be a threat to us again Yeah, and I mean there are a lot of participants in this I mean if the Sierra Club says not a word about the carbon emissions from our bombing campaigns It tells you they don't really care about carbon emissions. There's another agenda here, obviously And well, and also the tech pros. I mean, yeah, look I I was in high school when I was a senior I believe when the the movie the Gore movie the inconvenience whatever it can be a truth Yeah, my I remember it was like 20 years ago, but I remember they made us my when made us watch the movie as a school as Seniors they wanted us to watch it and so I did and I remember thinking this is scary and of course None of it ever happened. All of the fear mongering, but you know what it did do It was pushed first of all by a lot of fundraisers from Wall Street and Silicon Valley and it was all about getting people To be so afraid of the weather that they would then invest or purchase or promote these technologies that Were all the Brawler Garks technologies and now the Brawler Garks have a new set of technologies a new set of clean energy Which is they have AI and therefore they need it? They need all the power they can get so you don't hear that much anymore About fossil fuels causing pollution. You now have things like nuclear power being promoted finally You now have things like that because we're now moving away from the fear of whatever to Where we are now, right? But both have the same effect which is the loss of sovereignty and freedom and choice for the average person and greater control For the group that runs the country which is not not the population obviously No, so in the in the specific case of the Ukraine war and that kind of amazing week last week where Trump comes out and says You got to stop bombing Russian diesel refineries two days later. He's like we won You know the economy's getting it better the war's almost over and then three days after that the Ukrainians just do it anyway Who's making that decision? Well, I think it's the CIA I think I think I think I think that it's very interesting to me that Mr. Trump doesn't pick up the phone and call John Rackliffe and be like WTF What's going on because I'm the president and I specifically publicly said don't do X and Then your boy and Kiev did X Why why did he think he could do that because we know that this Ukraine war is being run out of Langley partly at least It's being run out of CIA and so I don't know if and and again this goes back to things like Russia gate, right? Like CIA is clearly doing whatever the hell at once, you know the CIA has its own policy. They don't give a Dern about who the elected American president is. They're gonna do what they're gonna do all the time period So CIA policy is they want to go to war with Russia as as I told you before I was at at a Location consulting for the Air Force and the West Coast and I had a two-star general tell me Brandon You don't understand we're breaking the Russian army in the field for free. That's the mentality of those types of people and so they're gonna push this the president could literally say don't bomb these refineries and Then their guy on the ground is gonna do it because the president is not running the agency The agency is running the administration clearly He doesn't seem to be making any major decisions. It doesn't seem to have the capacity to make them the power to make them and if you look at his Social media posts, which are becoming increasingly deranged Literally deranged what you see if you come down and assess it Coolie is frustration a guy who can't actually do anything and He's enraged by that and so then he's posturing. I'm gonna destroy their civilization. Well, no because you know, it's not up to you Actually, that's a very interesting take on that. That's interesting. Well, I mean there'd he's not That crazy. He has not been that. I mean I spent a lot of time with him He's he doesn't talk he's never talked like that in private or in public I am surprised that he talks like this because I remember the first term and he I remember he would get allergic to the thought You know of of a nuclear war or and it's like now he you know, I I have been told by certain people that the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Cain basically it's like dealing with a toddler He has to kind of jingle the keys in front of the the the toddler to keep him from bringing up the N word nuclear war that in the last Several meetings Trump is fixated on the you know nuclear war. Why can't we use this bomb? What's the big deal? What that's crazy town to me? So you should be removed from office immediately for talking that way you can write an offensive nuclear war you risk the Life of every person on the planet like you're not allowed to do that and he should be removed immediately for talking well This is a question for certain people in the cabinet. Why have they not because they're cowards That's why they're because they're cowards look I I don't I like craziness. I grew up around it I'm not bothered by craziness at all. I tend to be a little crazy. I have a very wide strike zone on crazy But if you threaten nuclear war offensive nuclear war against a country doesn't have nuclear weapons but against anybody You are a criminal and you are putting the life of every living thing at risk and you're not allowed to do that and so you're done We're you're done and I that's just a clear as possible thing and He they could take him out and they should immediately take him out the second he talks like that and they won't because they're cowards It's just that simple like what's the other explanation? No, I mean they're cowards, but they're also they're all part of the grift machine Right, they're all getting you know, so in a way, they're all sort of a problem And Congress won't investigate And unfortunately it's probably going to take the Democrats taking power and they have their own problems to as you know To really get to the bottom of of what's going on because the bottom line here is The president has unleashed the dogs of war The dogs of war are now running wild and nobody can rain them back in and now we we live in the nuclear age So that means the dogs of war you know, we could be seeing this happen a nuclear bomb strike Um, you know either and either front of these wars If they're willing to go after their refineries if they're willing to go after the stuff that builds civil society in modern countries Tucker Because of you know, I don't even know why I mean the Ukraine war I can't ever remember anymore what we're fighting over the same thing with the Iran war nuclear weapons You know the president said a year ago that we blew up the nuclear weapons. So what are we still fighting for? So the point is if they're willing to do that You know target these these facilities target the infrastructure. It's only a matter of time before the powers that be the real powers that be say We're gonna we're gonna take this to the next level because we have to quote win and uh, you know I don't know what victory looks like, but it's not gonna be pretty. I can tell you that much look at the Russians um You know the Russians are advancing on the eastern front. They they are they are decisively moving It is it is slow going, but there's clear forward momentum for the Russian Armed Forces And I realize I'm gonna get a lot of hate mail for this Um, they have taken two of the four big fortress cities and that fortress belt in Ukraine They are probably going to take the third one soon. They're doing a classic encirclement campaign You know, this is the Russian style of war they encircle they seal they use heavy artillery and they crawl rush until there's nothing left and then they walk over and do it again. This is how they fight, this is the war of attrition. They are going to take those two remaining fortress cities, Tucker. But I am concerned that you will see as that Russian forces advancing closer and closer to the final fortress city, I could foresee a European NATO country allowing their territory to be used to launch attacks on behalf of Ukraine against the invading or advancing, how do you want to describe it, Russian army. And I had the chance recently to talk to a Russian officer on the Marionoffel show and I asked this guy, so what happens if the forces in the front line start falling under attack from, you know, these NATO countries? And his response to me was the Russian battlefield commanders have been given authorization to protect their forces and they will protect their forces, which means if they are fired upon and it is serious enough from these NATO European countries, they will retaliate in kind at the place of origin, which means suddenly now you have an advancing Russian army in Eastern Ukraine potentially firing into, you know, these European countries which you know the Europeans are dying, I've never seen a group of people want to be bombed so badly, the Europeans want to be bombed so they can then declare Article 5 and they think get America to come back to their rescue and then they have their, their very big war. And that's my fear of where that's going. 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He's had good relations with various governments in Israel, including the Netanyahu government, and yet the Israeli government is very much pushing this war, why? I think that there's, well, I think there's a lot of quiet money flow going on. I did a report many moons ago at the National Interest when I worked there, and I found that there was these oligarchs in Ukraine that were, they were also Jewish, and they were basically becoming dual citizens, and they were essentially taking the money, the foreign aid that the country was receiving, they were gaining access to it, and then they were stealing it, and then they were fleeing the country before the anti-corruption police could get them, because they had knowledge for knowledge, these raids were going to happen, and where did a lot of them end up? They ended up in over the years in Israel. And of course, since the, I think it's the right of return, the Israelis will not send those people back to be prosecuted, even though they are likely guilty of corruption, because now they're part of their Israeli citizens, and Israel wants the tax revenue. They tax the money that was stolen, they get a lot of money, it's a tax scheme, so you have a lot of wealth flowing in from wealthy Ukrainians who are also Jewish, and they're fleeing the war, they're fleeing the corruption police, and they're ending up in Israel with our money, and they're living large, I mean as large as you can live in the war zone there now, but they're living there and they're protected by the Israelis, partly because of Israeli tax policy, the Israelis want that tax revenue constantly coming in. Then you have also, I think there's a bit of a historical grievance, Russia, you know, pogroms against the Jews, and all throughout the Tsar's reign, and I think that that has always sort of Russia has been viewed by certain hardliners in Israel as sort of a threat, and certainly something to kind of get revenge upon. And I think that you've seen this looking at the support of Ukraine, sort of in that historical cultural reference of, hey, we want to avenge ourselves upon this Russian state for what they did to our grandparents and great-grandparents, and the pogroms were terrible, but I think that's part of it, and that gets us to the pale of settlement, which was the relocation of Jews from Crimea and some of these parts of Ukraine, incidentally there are certain people like Victoria Newland and the Kagan family who apparently they had relatives, and I think Tony Blinken had relatives that were affected by this over the centuries. But also Tucker, there's the issue of Russia's support of Iran. And this is another thing that's very important to understand because it is geopolitics. I believe the Israelis genuinely believe, and if I were living in Israel, I wouldn't want a strong Iran either, but I'm not in Israel, I'm not an American. But the Israelis are looking over their shoulders saying, I don't want a strong Iran and who's one of the number one or number two supporters of Iran, it's the Russians. And so they view, I think, the Israelis view covert support for Ukraine, and I realize they didn't always help with air defenses, because that's always something I hear. Yes, of course, because the Israelis are going to protect their interests first. But at the end of the day, if Israel can weaken Russia via Ukraine, I think the logic in Tel Aviv is that's less capabilities the Russians can give, or less aid, the Russians can give the Iranians as we fight the Iranians. And I think that's all sort of what's going on there. That makes sense, actually, so you lay down there. There's no anti-Semitism involved in any -- right, well, there usually isn't, right? I used to say facts don't care about your feelings, that used to be the rule, that is no longer valid. You know, the people who say that are often the most emotional and irrational, I've noticed, they don't mean it. Last question, how do you, since I know that you're so focused on the war in the Persian Gulf every day and you're immersed in the details, how do you think it likely ends and when? I still think it's probably going to end in a nuclear explosion. That's -- you know, they call me black pill-branded and for a reason, though, Tucker. So, you know, not to be -- not to make light of this, but I am very concerned that we are edging toward -- you know, Trump doesn't seem to have his hand on the wheel. As you rightly note, he's not in control. And I don't know if that's all because of Israel, you know, he is the President of the United States. He could -- I mean, look, Obama said no to Israel in a big way. So the President really could tell them to f off on some of this stuff, but he doesn't. so he is responsible for this and he's in quite sticky wicket. And the president's instinct on this is to double down, which is odd because, you know, originally his instinct was, it's not my fault. I didn't do it. I'm out of here. It's too expensive to maintain it. That was first term Trump. Second term Trump is, I'm going to keep doubling down because I'm the big man. Well, the only next thing he could potentially do would be to drop a B61-13 ground penetrating nuclear device on Pickaxe Mountain. Now, it's not going to really do anything in terms of, like, what does it do? Okay, it knocks out Pickaxe Mountain. Pickaxe Mountain is not even finished being built yet that facility there, by the way. So really, it's sort of like he gets his big finish. Now, in his really source of mind, recently used the phrase, a war in three acts. And that's stuck in my crawl because if you think about it, that is what this is shaping up to be. The first act was the 12-day war. The second act is whatever you call the last six or seven months. And there's a kind of a pause going on as everybody kind of re-orients themselves to the new normal. The third act, the finale, the final act, if we're talking in screenplay terms, the big finish would be a mushroom cloud over Pickaxe Mountain. Not from a B2. And then Trump gets to say, I'm the first president since Harry Truman, drop it. I got my big bang. It was a movie finish. And I'm done. Problem with that is once you do that, once you do that, Tucker, Russia and China and every other nuclear power gets a vote. And they're not going to be too pleased. And by the way, to be fair to Trump, it might not. And this, I talked to Anthony Aguilar last night. And he kind of put this possibility in my head. Trump might not do a B6113. He might realize this is a bridge too far. But the Israelis, we just sold them $2.6 billion worth of bombs, lots and lots of bombs, not nukes. They got their own nukes. But a lot of bombs. Now, that's not going to be hitting that. There are some rules for many years. But the theory is it is possible in the month of October, that Yahoo's up for an election he's losing right now. Possibly, Mr. Netanyahu needs his next war. He's going to take what he has in terms of weapons. And he's going to fire him or drop him over Iran to kickstart that war again. And then the stuff we sold them will be used to backfill those arsenals over the years. And at that point, remember what Marco Rubio, our venerable secretary, somebody said to me, he's the greatest secretary of state. And I said, secretaries of state are supposed to be diplomats who end wars. The sky is like presiding over like 50 different wars. So anyway, secretary of state Rubio, three or four days into the war after the February 28th war, he was in Congress. And he said, he said, we had to attack Iran when we did how we did because Israel is going to attack them regardless in a few days. And then we would have been hit by Iranian retaliation. So we had no choice. Well, I could foresee, then, if that's the logic here, if that happened before past his prologue, the Israelis might decide to kick off another round, the final third act of a three act war by launching a strike, airstrikes or something, maybe even nukes from a dolphin class submarine off off the coast of Iran, which they've got six dolphin class submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The Israelis could kick off something that we get again sucked into. I mean, it's been, you know, over 80 years, since, you know, the one and only time nuclear weapons were deployed. And that seems like a threshold that once you cross it, the world is done. I mean, the voluntary offensive use of nuclear weapons. I mean, do you think that's been, is currently being discussed? Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's one of the reasons why a lot of these generals and en-rolls are constantly sort of, like I said, dangling the keys in front of the two-year-old because he starts talking about it. And they're like, oh, no, it's the president. Let's, let's, you know, they're constantly trying. Somebody said, I remember now, who in the last two days, they said that sort of like they're just giving him enough information to keep him on the path they want him on. But this is a guy who, you know, is going to go his own path no matter what. Because I think there is, I know there's fear among the retired uniformed officers that I know. And I know a lot of top people, retired, tired generals in any cases. And whatever you think of them in terms of their politics or whatever, I think these people have a good read on what's going on inside the Pentagon. And they have intimated to me that they're, the uniform military command is very frightened about what might happen with the N word being used so much. Do you think they would carry out? I mean, I would pray that they would not, as patriots and Christians, decent people, carry out an offensive use of nuclear weapons. Like, I know one's resigned. I know if it's right, right? I mean, even Colin Powell finally had enough with Bush. But well, if it be 61, particularly be 61 13, now I want to make it clear. And this is from General Randy Manor, former head of defense threat reduction agency, talked to him last night about this. And he said, look, be six, there's no, no tactical nuclear weapon we have is going to be effective against pickaxe. That's why they built it there. They know our yields, they know the, I mean, these are very smart people who knew our enemies are smart. They built this thing to survive the kind of attacks they figured we would subject the facility to. So one of the things that we have is a B 61 13. It's a ground penetrating nuke. We have a B 61 12, which I believe is an air burst nuke. And those are kept I think an answer lick. But the B 61 13 is very convenient because we keep it in white men air force space and the B twos are there. And we can just load them up and fly them. And the thing is we can dial the yield. Okay, it's not like it's one yield, one strike. If we want a little teeny tiny explosion, we can literally dial back the yield on the explosive device. And then you'll have a relatively confined nuclear blast. So in that specific instance, Tucker, the president could give the order. And it's not like he's running through all the, you're not launching intercontinental ballistic missiles. They will give the order to the base commander, the base commander pulls the nuke out. They load it up onto the B two, the B two takes off and 17, 16 hours later, it does its thing. And it's relatively straightforward in that way. And the argument would be is, hey, we can control it. Not a big deal. It's just a big bomb, basically. And I would remind your audience to bridge, Elbridge Colby, the Undersecretary of War, Undersecretary of War for Defense or policy. He is writing the renewed or the new nuclear warfare doctrine, which explicitly lowers the threshold for the deployment of non-strategic nuclear weapons. And why are they doing that? Well, part of that, Tucker, is because we've blown through all of our conventional munitions, or most of them. And we talked about that before. So how do you make up for the gap? Because the defense industrial base isn't making it up. So we have a lot of tactical nuke's line around from the Cold War. We'll just, and some new ones that we're building. We'll just bring those to the fore. And we'll use those systems now. These people can't, and I know a lot of these people. I do too. Very well. And you too. But, you know, mass psychosis is an interesting thing. It's like you lose your capacity to hear yourself. So what they would be arguing is, because we fear that someday Iran might have a nuclear weapon, we're going to nuke Iran. And I think they would say it's China. It's about signaling to China. I think it's actually dark signaling to the world that it's permitted to use nuclear weapons, something it's been verboten for 80 years. So it's like once you lose your nuclear virginity, there's no getting it back. And you are on inexorably a road to a real nuclear exchange in which everybody dies. Like obviously, this has been known. This is intuitive. Like you don't need to have a grounding in history to know that. It's obvious. And so even the fact they're discussing it is grounds for imprisonment as far as I'm concerned. Well, it certainly grounds to get the institutions up and running again that are supposed to actually have oversight here. This is my bugaboo as somebody who used to work there many years ago. Congress is not a round apparently. Apparently we don't have a Congress because at the very least, we should be privately calling having friendly senators and congressmen to Trump calling him being like, Hey man, you can't do this. You cannot do this. It's not okay. We don't even have that. Everybody's just like, Yeah, we're going to do it America. So this is where we're at right now. And by the way, you mentioned the leadership, you know, they have to know. I don't think we have responsible men and women in power. I think this gets back to the Epstein class. You look at what these people were doing to get power in wealth. They don't have more world clarity. They don't have personal judgment. Clearly many of them are sociopathic people. So, you know, we used to have leaders who really did worry about what, you know, what the other side might do that worried about the cost of people. I mean, we had One of our greatest presidents was Dwight the Eisenhower, who actually did not want to build bullets. He wanted to build butter and have more butter than guns because he recognized when you build weapons, that's a theft from the American people. It does not go into anything productive. It just goes into destructive means. And so we've had presidents and, of course, Eisenhower saw war. And like very few other people did. But we've had presidents who had that capability. We don't have people today because we don't have a moral country. We have a, we have a pagan country. We have a post-Western country. I mean, if people keep saying we're a Western civilization, I don't believe that. I don't think there's anything about us anymore, except maybe a little language that's really Western. So that's why you have people in the West. It's all the Western countries, by the way. It's the Europeans. It's the Brits. It's the Americans. We're the ones acting like crazy people. The Russians are in Ukraine, but, you know, Putin could have, could have nuked Ukraine. Putin could have flattened the Western side of Ukraine. Instead, he keeps bleeding Russians because he doesn't want to escalate beyond where it is. OK, Xi Jinping. So I changed my assessment, you know, at the beginning, right after the war began in Iran and I saw what was going on. For years, I was convinced, yeah, probably they're right in the Air Force 2027. He's going to try something with Taiwan. I don't believe that. I said, back in June, I was writing about this. I actually think Xi Jinping watched the Russian experience in Ukraine. He watched the American experience in the Middle East. He goes, I don't want that. I can get Taiwan, you know, through peaceful means. I can absorb them through trade and economy. On a 50 year cycle, I can do that. So he's, I don't think, I think the, and that just tells me something. The leaders of these countries that we're at war with tend to be apparently more restrained than the American and European leaders. And I don't say that because I'm happy about it. No, I'm very worried about this. I mean, after watching, you know, the President of the United States threaten the use of nuclear weapons against a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons because he doesn't want to do it. It's all so crazy that you can imagine normal Taiwanese saying, I'm, why would we want to be aligned with that? You know, people, well, by the way, the powerful force in any conflict is the one who restores order and peace. It's not for a person who pops the winner. By the way, that's dad. Dad comes home and stops the fighting. And so, of course, China doesn't need to invade Taiwan. It's, it's also stupid. It's stupid. It's, it's stupid. But that's another thing is intellectually. I mean, look at our, look at, look at the American test scores, look at, look at our educational system or lack thereof. Three generations at least have been poorly educated in this country. It's no surprise that we have idiots like from idiocracy, the movie, running this country. It's, it's no surprise. And now we're talking, you know, potentially world ending or whatever events. And we have these people. We don't have John F. Kennedy secretly talking to Nikita Khrushchev through Grameko. You know, we don't have the, the kinds of responsible stewards of national security policy that we used to have. We have a CIA that is apparently running rogue and running their own operations against, you know, the Russians, even after the president publicly tells them their boss, don't do it. So that's kind of where we're at now. Well, I pray you're wrong. But I do think you're the single most informed commentator on all of this stuff. Oh my gosh. Thank you. I worry that you're not. I have a lot of haters out there. If you can wear. You don't have much competition. I will say that. Brandon Wiker, thank you very much for all of that. It was great to see you. Thank you, Tucker. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks for watching. We'll be back next Wednesday.