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

31:16You think he could haul John Ratcliffe in and the heads of the other 16 intel agencies and say, if you give any targeting information to the Ukrainian military, I'm going to bring you up on charges. Like 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 may be why he's so focused on renaming the Kennedy Center, at least that's something he can do, build some dumb arch at the end of Memorial Bridge.

32:03Okay, build his ballroom. But like on questions of global power apportionment, he doesn't get to say. And we know he doesn't get to 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.

32:43So 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 us 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 needs 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 going to happen and we know that for a lot of reasons but one is population.

33:57Russia has 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 want to know how totally powerless the president of the United States is, and we don't mean to pick on Trump, who at least had the right instinct on diesel, like you're killing us here.

34:41Stop it. If you want to know how totally powerless he is, watch the 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.

35:26They need to increase these strikes and doing so is the only way they could put pressure on Vladimir Putin. okay so save that tape because 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 is 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.

36:18And 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's side Zelensky's 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.

37:53You 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. guys. 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 would be a lot of people, have thought this through from the very beginning. And they know that there's no liberation here. They can call Zelensky, Churchill all they want, but in the end, no one's going to be liberated.

38:40No 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 say it on cable television.

39:20And so the only question is, are you listening? This doesn't require any interpretation. You don't need a Rosetta 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 rees mogg 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 there's nothing conservative 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 Reismog or 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 if 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.

41:18And they invaded the country and they completely changed it and they do what invading armies do, 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?

41:49Well, 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 10 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 has never recovered. So the wars that that buffoon cites 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.

42:34And 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.

43:06And 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.

43:42And so it's very important to keep your kind of wits about you and not succumb to moral vertigo. And moral vertigo, of course, 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 no the way it works is if you call for the deaths of innocence 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 what 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.

45:03And 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 Rees-Mogg, 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, Rees Magg, 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.

45:43They have nothing in common. They agree on nothing. They're polar opposites, It's 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.

46:15and 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 defense of 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.

46:50Anyway, 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. It's an amazing clip. Watch. I think the British would rise to greatness 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 them up well we suspended habeas corpus during the nepanonic wars well and under the defense of the realm as well so you know we would have to go to those measures and we would have to look at things like conscription as well it's quite a picture 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 Dnipur River to do that.

47:42No, no, no. 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 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? No. 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 Reesmager, or whatever his name is, who's posing as like an expert in English history, clearly knows nothing about it. It's like, yeah, we did that during the Napoleonic Wars.

48:15Nobody did that during World War II. When the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called them 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.

49:02And not only do they imprison the opposition party, they sent their wives to prison too. Why? What did 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 on 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.

49:35Freedom Fighter guy. So yet 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 you.

50:27No, 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 would the authority for that come from? But we do. It's 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 is to take it to the next stage where it's like, well, we're just going to send you off to go die.

51:01And by the way, anyone who tells you that 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 it won't happen. But they've already put in place 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, a revolt 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.

51:39The answer to it is to start a war that could end with nuclear annihilation because they just don't care because they're nihilists. and use that war to end all civil liberties in their country. And if you think that couldn't happen here, if you think that's not part of what you're seeing now as they blow up refineries around the world, you should think more deeply about it. Well, here's a truth, a hard truth, that modern technology is not yet solved. It can't be everywhere simultaneously. So your land, expensive gear you got, your loved ones could be miles away. you're not with them, but you're still responsible for protecting all of them.

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53:41of lying around everything. But he has pierced that haze 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 um you're sort of pulling the pieces out one at a time and watching the uh 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 the most important block here and i thought that your monologue laid it out brilliantly in fact it sort of already hit a lot of the points I had made uh but but the point here is is that um we can reopen the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Babelman Deb eventually um we can take control of the Panama Canal Zone we can uh you know reassert ourselves around Greenland near the Greenland uh Iceland UK gap we can do all of that and that's fairly straightforward um the refineries are not coming back once they're blown up and it's going to take years.

55:13Now in the United States, we have our own problems. And I'm 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 refinery is because of what you mentioned, which was sort of the ecocondria, 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 years.

55:59Well, really, since the Ayatollahs 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, you know, 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 and countries that can refine that.

56:50We 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 co-host Mario Nawful'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.

57:43And 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 refining 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 oil from Russia or from sanctioned countries that we don't like to do business with.

58:42But 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 Yulong 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.

59:33So 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.

1:00:26And 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, oh, 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.

1:01:10The 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.

1:02:02You can deal with us. And you could have an entire new market arising for heavy or for crude oil refiner 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 yes 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's 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.

1:02:45But now they're 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 Emeril James Stavridis. I had a very interesting conversation with him once in 2012 about drugs in afghanistan and it was very and very insightful into the psyche anyway um can you pause right there because he is admiral stavridis 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 he i mean talk 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 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 a you know a briefing off off the record briefing but but it was all about the poppy the issue of drugs in Afghanistan.

1:03:55It's just that, you know, we created that problem as always. And, um, 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. Yeah, 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, cabal of people, government and private sector types, who have a certain worldview. And I don't know if they would describe it as harming America.

1:04:38They probably have convinced themselves it's for the greater good or whatever. But their actions are clearly. And again, I say, you know, Stavridis sort of ran in the same circles as the Russiagate 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 uh highlighted but my point here is is that there there's clearly a policy in place that is um 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 the people's republic of china owning a home has always been the core of the american dream it's the asset that families work their lives to build place of stability security and actual wealth but too many homeowners right now are stuck swiping credit cards to cover groceries paying a survival tax of 20 interest or more so we're against that we always say that, but you can't buy a house without debt right now.

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1:06:37Find out more at 800-685-5696, 800-685-5696, or visit americanfinancing.net slash tucker all of it from from the day the biden administration had the vice president at the time kamala harris announced at the munich security conference that we're going to push ukraine into nato and that was the moment the war was assured like it was going to happen at that point they pushed this war they wanted this war from that from that moment i thought everything that has happened since has diminished the united states and strengthened china So you can't tell, and almost without, almost that exception. Right.

1:07:20So it's like, it's not a conspiracy theory to note that and to say once again that the point of a system is what it does. Right. 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 and 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. 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, you know, the hawks have got China wrong.

1:08:03And 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 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 we're creating, even things like refineries.

1:08:44We haven't built a new refinery in 40 years. the chinese are looking at us going you're stupid we're going to 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 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 uh and well and also the tech bros i mean yeah look i i i was in high school when i was a senior i believe when um the the movie uh the the gore movie the uh inconvenient whatever inconvenient truth yeah my i remember it was like 20 years ago but i remember they made us my we made us watch the movie as a school as seniors they wanted us to watch it and so i did and i I remember thinking this is scary.

1:09:41And 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 Broligarchs technologies. And now the Bologarchs 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.

1:10:28You 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 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 is going to get better.

1:11:10The war is 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 that it's very interesting to me that Mr. Trump doesn't pick up the phone and call John Ratcliffe 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 in 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 again, this goes back to things like Russiagate, right?

1:11:56Like CIA is clearly doing whatever the hell it wants. You know, the CIA has its own policy. They don't give a darn about who the elected American president is. They're going to do what they're going to do all the time, period. So CIA policy is they want to go to war with Russia. As I told you before, I was at a location consulting for the Air Force in 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 he 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 calm down and assess it coolly is frustration a guy who can't actually do anything and he's enraged by that and so then he's posturing i'm going to destroy their civilization well no because you're not it's not up to you actually that's a very interesting take on that that's interesting well i mean there he's not that crazy he has not been that i mean i've 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 of a nuclear war or and it's like now he you know i i have been told by certain people uh that the chairman of joint chiefs of staff general kane 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 you should be removed from office immediately for talking that way you can't threaten 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 the clearest 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 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 um and congress won't investigate um and unfortunately it's probably going to take the democrats taking power and they have their own problems uh to to uh as you know uh to really get to the bottom of of what's going on because the bottom line here is um the president has unleashed the dogs of war the dogs of war are now running wild and nobody can reign them back in and now we we live in the nuclear age so that means the dogs of war you know we we could be seeing this happen a nuclear bomb strike um you know either in either front of these wars uh if they're willing to go after the refineries if they're willing to go after the stuff that builds civil society in modern countries tucker um because of you know i don't even know why i mean the ukraine war i can't even 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 going to 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 going to get a lot of hate mail for this um they have taken two of the four big fortress cities in that fortress belt in ukraine they are probably going to take the third one soon they're doing a classic encirclement campaign.

1:17:15This is the Russian style of war. They encircle, they seal, they use heavy artillery, and they crush 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, you know, 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, however you want to describe it, Russian army.

1:17:59And I had the chance recently to talk to a Russian officer on the Mario Novel show, and I asked this guy, I said, what happens if the forces in the front line start falling under attack from 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 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 five 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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1:22:44And of course, since 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 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.

1:23:32The 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, there was pogroms against the Jews and all throughout the czar'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 it's 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 uh reference um of hey we want to avenge ourselves upon this this russian state for what they did to our our grandparents and great-grandparents and the pogroms were terrible um but i think that's part of it then you want that that gets us to the pale of settlement which which was the relocation of Jews from Crimea and some of these parts of Ukraine.

1:24:33Incidentally, there are certain people like Victoria Nuland 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 an Israeli I'm not and I'm an American so 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 with air defenses because that's always something i hear well yes of course because the israelis are going to protect their interests first but at the end of the day if israel can can weaken russia via ukraine i think the logic in tel aviv is that's less capabilities the russians can give or or less aid the russians can give the iranians as we fight the Iranians.

1:25:49And I think that's all sort of what's going on there. It makes sense, actually. It does, and there's no anti-Semitism involved in any of this. Right, well, there usually isn't. Right. I used to say facts don't care about your feelings. That used to be the rule, but it's 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 um last last question how do you since i i know that you're so focused on the war in the persian gulf um 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 um that's you know they call me black pill brandon for a reason though tucker so you You know, not to be not to make light of this, but I I am very concerned that we are edging toward, you know, Trump doesn't seem to have his hand on the wheel.

1:26:55As 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 he could. I mean, look, Obama said no to Israel in a big way. um so the president really could tell them to f off on some of this stuff but he doesn't um and so he is responsible for this and he's in quite a 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 gonna keep doubling down because i'm the big man well um the only next thing he could potentially do would be to drop a b6113 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's 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 an Israeli source of mine 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 reorients themselves to the new normal.

1:28:31The 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, drop 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 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.

1:29:09Trump might not do a B61-13. 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've got their own nukes. But a lot of bombs. Now, that's not going to be hitting their arsenals for many years, but the theory is it is possible in the month of October, Netanyahu'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 them or drop them over Iran to kickstart that war again. And then the stuff we sold them will be used to backfill those arsenals over the years.

1:29:57And 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. This guy 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 was 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 this prologue the israelis might decide to kick off another round the final third act of a three-act war uh by launching a strike air strikes or something maybe even nukes from a dolphin class submarine off off the uh the the coast of iran which they've got six dolphin class submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles um the uh the israelis could kick off something that we get again sucked into i mean it's been you know over 80 years uh since you know the one and only time nuclear weapons were deployed and um that seems like a threshold that once you cross it uh 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 uh yeah yeah and i think that's one of the reasons why a lot of these generals and emeralds 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 mr president let's let's you know they're constantly trying somebody said i can't remember now who in the last two days they said that um 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.

1:31:55Because 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, retired generals in many 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 uniformed 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 no one's resigned i notice B61, if it's, right, right, right.

1:32:41I mean, even Cole and Powell finally had enough with Bush. But, well, if it's a B61, particularly B61-13. 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, the B61, there's 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 GA. 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.

1:33:19So one of the things that we have is a B61-13. It's a ground penetrating nuke. We have a B61-12, which I believe is an airburst nuke. And those are kept, I think, in Ensorlick. But the B61-13 is very convenient because we keep it in Whiteman Air Force Base and the B-2s 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 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 b2 the b2 takes off and 17 16 hours later it does its thing and uh it's relatively straightforward in that way uh 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 uh bridge albridge colby the undersecretary of war undersecretary of war for defense um 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 you we and i we've 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 nukes lying 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 um 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 i think they would say it's china it's about signaling to china i think it's actually dark yeah signaling to the world that it's permitted to use nuclear weapons something has been verboten for 80 years so it's like once you lose your nuclear virginity there's no getting it back and you were 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 is grounds for imprisonment as far as i'm concerned well it's certainly grounds to get uh the institutions up and running again that are supposed to actually have oversight here.

1:36:15This is my bugaboo as somebody who used to work there many years ago. Congress is not around, 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 OK. 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.

1:36:57You look at what these people were doing to get power and wealth. They don't have moral 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 D. 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.

1:37:42It just goes into destructive means. And so we've had presidents, and of course Eisenhower saw war, and 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 pagan country. We have a post-Western country. 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 the 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.

1:38:22We're the ones acting like crazy people. The Russians are in Ukraine. But, you know, Putin 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. Okay? Okay. Xi Jinping. So I changed my assessment, you know, 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.

1:39:03He watched the American experience in the Middle East. He goes, I don't want that. i can get taiwan um you know through peaceful means i can reabsorb 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 I'm very worried about this. I mean, after watching 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 them.

1:39:44It's all so crazy that you can imagine normal Taiwanese saying, why would we want to be aligned with that? By the way, the powerful force in any conflict is the one who restores order and peace. It's not the person who postures. 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 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.

1:40:32It'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 Gromyko. uh you know we don't have the the kinds of responsible stewards uh of national security policy that we used to have we have a cia that is apparently running rogue and running their own operations against uh 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 i worry that you're not i have a lot of haters out there if you don't have much competition i will say that brandon waker thank you very much for all of that it was great thank you tucker thanks thanks for watching we'll be back next wednesday