Is U.S. foreign policy being steered by outside influence? 🤔 In this hard-hitting interview, Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (Ret.) dives into the deep ties between Donald Trump 🇺🇸 and Benjamin Netanyahu 🇮🇱, raising critical questions about loyalty, influence, and the direction of American geopolitics.
Are Trump’s Middle East decisions driven by U.S. interests—or are they shaped by Netanyahu’s agenda? 🇮🇱🕵️♂️ From embassy moves to military aid, Kwiatkowski examines the evidence, the history, and the long-term implications for American sovereignty and stability 🧭.
A must-watch for those questioning the true power dynamics behind the headlines.
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Are Trump’s Middle East decisions driven by U.S. interests—or are they shaped by Netanyahu’s agenda? 🇮🇱🕵️♂️ From embassy moves to military aid, Kwiatkowski examines the evidence, the history, and the long-term implications for American sovereignty and stability 🧭.
A must-watch for those questioning the true power dynamics behind the headlines.
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02:15Colonel Kwiatkowski, welcome here, my dear friend.
02:21I do want to talk to you about your opinions on whether Trump tells Netanyahu what to do or Netanyahu tells Trump what to do.
02:29Who knows, but first some other items that are bubbling around in the news.
02:35About three or four weeks ago, two senior CIA officials released the result of an extensive study
02:44about whether the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was affiliated with
02:51and subject to the commands of the Venezuelan government,
02:54and their conclusion was that it was not.
02:58Last week, they got fired by Tulsi Gabbard for coming to a conclusion at odds with the administration's narrative.
03:07Then, over the weekend, two days ago, without citing any evidence,
03:11Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on national television
03:16that Tren de Aragua was affiliated with, financed by, and subject to the government of Venezuela.
03:26Sometimes I think I preferred Congresswoman Gabbard to Director of National Intelligence Gabbard,
03:32but of what value is intel if the result can be preordained by the politicians?
03:40Yeah, it's of no value.
03:43In fact, the only thing of value, apparently, is the leaks,
03:46whatever gets shared with the public so we can at least have some idea of what we're paying for.
03:53Yeah, clearly, not much has changed since even I was in the Pentagon all those years ago,
03:59two decades ago, when we were pumping out lies.
04:03But the real intelligence was pretty good, but it wasn't politically useful,
04:08and so they just made up stuff to be politically useful.
04:13So, and really, I think it's a rationale for not just cutting the Pentagon budget,
04:19but certainly cutting the intelligence budget drastically.
04:22Because we spend, I mean, I'm not sure what the CIA's black budget is,
04:27but there's a lot spent on the CIA.
04:28The DOD spends a lot on intelligence.
04:32And yet, what good is it?
04:34What good is it?
04:34Because when it produces information that's factual, but politically inconvenient,
04:39it is buried, and the people apparently doing it are fired.
04:42So, in the case of this Trende Aragua thing, which will make its way into court,
04:46and someone will have to certify to it under oath,
04:48because it involves the use of this Alien Enemies Act,
04:54and a federal judge in Texas, appointed by President Trump in his first term,
04:59analyzed all this and relied on the intelligence report to conclude that Trende Aragua
05:09is not subject to the government of Venezuela.
05:14And by the way, Venezuela is not an enemy.
05:16It's not at war with the United States.
05:20So, who would rely on what Tulsi Gabbard did or Marco Rubio said?
05:27Nobody.
05:28The courts are not going to rely on it if it can change on a political whim like that.
05:33Yeah.
05:33Thank goodness that we have the court system,
05:35even though it seems to take its time to work through.
05:39And, you know, a lot of times the cases and the records of the court,
05:44that's the only information that the Americans really can get.
05:47And we still have to often get that through for you.
05:49But we have information that is correct and constitutional in many ways.
05:54So, thank goodness for that.
05:56But, no, it's very disappointing.
05:59Gabbard is, I think a lot of us had a lot of high hopes for her.
06:03She was a good congresswoman and an outspoken peace voice,
06:08a voice for peace and a voice for a realistic foreign policy.
06:12Yes.
06:13Yeah, we're not getting that from her, though.
06:14We're not getting that.
06:15Right, right, right.
06:16The Trump-Putin phone call.
06:19Do you think the American mindset, whether it's the American firsters in,
06:26America firsters in Trump's administration or even the neocons,
06:29understand the Russian mindset?
06:32A, they're not going to engage in a ceasefire just to negotiate.
06:37They'll negotiate while the war is going on.
06:40That's their history.
06:41And B, their demands to end this war have been clear and consistent since before the war started.
06:51They're not going to change now when they're on the cusp of demolishing the Ukrainian military.
06:57Yeah, no, that's true.
07:00I think Trump may be figuring that out.
07:04He has spoken to him repeatedly.
07:07And I think the message that the Russians are giving has been consistent.
07:12You know, it's been consistent for over three years.
07:15And I think it's getting to Trump.
07:17I think he realizes that.
07:18And plus, what would be the alternative to not allowing the Russians to resolve the problem
07:24as the SMA was designed to do?
07:27And that is not quite done yet.
07:28What would an alternative be?
07:30That the SMA modifies its objectives?
07:35Or if they don't, then Trump somehow is going to send the army in there?
07:38Are we going to engage with Russia directly over an argument where Russia has been right from day one
07:46and we have been wrong from day one?
07:48I think Trump understands that.
07:49You know, Russia knows, the Kremlin knows, Ukraine was armed not by NATO, but by the United States during Trump's first term.
08:01McGregor keeps saying, Ritter keeps saying, you've said, we are not a neutral here.
08:06We are a co-belligerent.
08:09That's right.
08:10Weapons that they fired that didn't get anywhere near there because the Russians shot them down at Red Square to ruin the May 8th celebration were made in the United States of America.
08:22You can't make this up.
08:23Yeah, I don't know.
08:26I think Trump is coming to the realization that this fight, that he's almost believing his own rhetoric, that this is Biden's war, not entirely, but this is Biden's war, and he's going to leave it as Biden's war.
08:41He's going to end it or withdraw from it and let it go.
08:43And I think that suits Trump in his overall range of projects that he has going on.
08:49But I don't know if he truly understands.
08:52Again, Trump doesn't, you know, what does he know about any particular history or foundation of these conflicts around the world that we, the United States, have fomented and been involved with from day one?
09:07What does he really understand about those?
09:09And I don't know.
09:09So I don't know how much he's learning, but I think he's accepting a little bit.
09:13I think he's accepting.
09:14What troubles me is the in one ear and out the other.
09:18One day, Sebastian Gorka is in his ear.
09:21The next day, Steve Witkoff is in his ear.
09:23One day, Marco Rubio is in his ear.
09:25The next day, J.D. Vance is in his ear.
09:28I don't know what Gabbard tells him.
09:32I don't know if she's collapsed to the point where she'd do whatever she thinks he wants so that she keeps her job or if she's intellectually honest with him.
09:40But here's Zelensky yesterday.
09:43I mean, this is really crazy.
09:45They won't give up an inch of land.
09:47Chris, cut number three.
09:48Nobody will withdraw our forces from our territories.
09:55It is my constitutional duty, the duty of our military, to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
10:04Yes, there are temporarily occupied territories now because of the aggression of such a huge country.
10:11It is understood.
10:13But we will accept no ultimatums.
10:16We will not give away our land, our territories and our people, our homes.
10:22Do you think he is saying that to keep the super nationalists around him from killing him or removing him from office?
10:32Or do you think he's saying that because somehow he truly believes it?
10:36How on earth could they win back the 4-0 blasts that they've nearly lost in Crimea?
10:44No, there's no way.
10:46And his soldiers, his troops that remain there, the ones that Russia wants them to withdraw, they have two choices.
10:54They can be told politically, Zelensky can tell them to withdraw and they can pull back, or they will be destroyed.
11:01It's that simple.
11:02And the people on the ground, his troops know this.
11:05His troops know this.
11:06So he's out of touch with the reality of his country, but he's not out of touch with the people around him that will kill him.
11:14So I think it has to be the survival thing.
11:18And, you know, he has an echo chamber in the EU and in NATO.
11:26So those folks who hug him and embrace him still, they tell him, oh, hang in there.
11:33You can do this.
11:34Hang in there.
11:34So Europe is at fault here in a great deal for supporting his fantasy.
11:42And it is a fantasy, and it's not a fantasy in a good way.
11:45It is a nightmare, really, for what's left of Ukraine.
11:49So, I mean, it's not bad for those in the Russian Donbass.
11:53They're doing much better.
11:55But for the Ukraine proper, its very future as a state is at risk.
12:01And this is pretty much what the Russians have been saying.
12:05You know, if you want a state, if you want to maintain yourself as an entity, then you need to realize you need to wake up and do what it takes to have that state.
12:15A neutral state, a non-nuclear state, a non-NATO state, a contained state.
12:20Like the very wealthy, happy, and prosperous Switzerland, or the very wealthy, happy, and prosperous, no-military Austria.
12:30Absolutely.
12:31What's wrong with those models?
12:33Not at all.
12:34And I really think we have got to start, we have got to start, the world has got to start valuing neutrality, valuing peace.
12:46Because, I don't know, I guess, you know, you make money in wars, and you can cut a lot of deals, and it's all good for some people.
12:54But peace is the path to prosperity.
12:57It's the only path to prosperity.
12:59So we need to start valuing that.
13:01And Ukraine as a neutral state could have been, and could be, perhaps, such a wonderful place.
13:08I mean, it has ties east and west.
13:11It has some resources.
13:13Obviously, it's going to be smaller than it was before.
13:16As a neutral, non-militarized country, friends with everyone, taking the Thomas Jefferson approach, what a wonderful place it could be.
13:25What a wonderful place.
13:27Unfortunately, he's surrounded by people who will probably eliminate him from the planet, or certainly eliminate him from any vestige of government power, if he gets realistic.
13:37Here's Trump as recently as yesterday.
13:39It's very frustrating to watch this, Colonel.
13:41Not my war.
13:42It's not my war.
13:43I'm just here to help.
13:44If you could believe that he said that, even though he's paying for it.
13:47Cut number nine.
13:48This was not my war.
13:49This is not a war that would have happened if I were president.
13:52This is not my war.
13:53I'm just here to try and help.
13:56We've spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this war, and yet that's not, frankly, we made much more than that, just in four days in the Middle East.
14:10It's a lot of money, but we do much.
14:13This is about thousands of people dying every single week.
14:175,000, 6,000 people dying every single week.
14:21You know, these soldiers, they say goodbye in Ukraine and in Russia, and then their parents never see them again, except maybe in pictures of horrible scenes, because I've seen some scenes I've never seen anything like it.
14:33So we're going to see if we can get it taken care of.
14:35Yep.
14:375,000 Ukrainian soldiers die a week, and he's been president for 12 weeks.
14:42That's 60,000 deaths under his watch, but he's just there to help.
14:46It's not his war.
14:47I don't know how much longer he can say that with a straight face.
14:51Not much longer.
14:52Not much longer.
14:53And, you know, he could have stopped this at any time.
14:56You know, he continued.
14:57He could have impounded the funds and stopped sending weapons.
15:00He's even increased some certain types of weapons, or at least promised them to Ukraine.
15:05And the same goes for, you know, for Israel's war on Gaza.
15:08We are funding that war.
15:09That's also his war.
15:11Yes.
15:11That he's paying for with our money.
15:14We did not get consulted about that.
15:16But, yeah, these are American wars.
15:19And I like that Trump is engaging with Russia.
15:23This is good.
15:23You know, Biden did nothing of the sort.
15:26And I like that Trump is traveling around and talking to a lot of people and cutting deals.
15:30But he's got to take responsibility.
15:34And he really, truly should recognize his own power as president to stop funding these wars.
15:42You know, if it's Biden's war, why are you paying for it?
15:44And you are.
15:44And he is paying for it.
15:46Here he is yesterday again in which a reporter says to him, did you ask President Putin to meet with you?
15:55Listen to the first two words that he responds with, and then, of course, he elaborates.
15:59I don't mean to pick on him at all, but these responses of his are priceless.
16:05Cut number 11.
16:06Did you ask President Putin to meet with you?
16:08About what?
16:09About Ukraine.
16:11Of course I did.
16:12I talked to him about it.
16:13I said, when are we going to end this, Vladimir?
16:14I've known him for a long time now.
16:17I said, when are we going to end this bloodshed, this bloodbath?
16:20It's a bloodbath.
16:22And I do believe he wants to end it.
16:25You know, when I made the call, I told the people last night, I spoke to the heads of the different countries, Germany and Finland.
16:32We had Italy, as you know, and the U.K. was on the line today, and a couple of others.
16:40And then they were, in turn, calling everyone.
16:44Ursula was there from the European Union.
16:47She was terrific.
16:48And we, you know, we spoke for a long time about it, and they got a problem.
16:55It's a big, big problem.
16:57It's a terrible war.
16:59It's very hard to extradite themselves away from what's taken place over there.
17:06The amount of anger, the amount of hate, and the amount of death.
17:10It's very hard.
17:11Very tough situation.
17:12But I said to him, we've got to get going.
17:15And I did say also, if I thought that you couldn't do it, I'd step away, because what are you going to do?
17:21It's as if he's some sort of a neutral bystander and not the financier, the supplier, the producer of the war.
17:32Yeah, and it's worse than that, really, because we are pressuring NATO, have been for decades.
17:39I mean, the whole idea of NATO is that that is a forward American operating space.
17:44We want them to use our equipment if we can.
17:47We demand that they have any equipment they make is interoperable with ours.
17:51We sell them, I mean, billions and billions of dollars of arms.
17:55So we want NATO to, as a market, to grow, to purchase more, to do more, to need more.
18:04That's what we, that's our market planning, see, for Europe.
18:07And we want them to buy more gas.
18:09You know, we are connected with the European economy.
18:13And that wartime economy is the one that can't extricate itself from Ukraine.
18:20Doesn't want to, because there was a lot of money being made with that.
18:23There was a lot of hopes for a future, larger NATO.
18:28I mean, obviously, this is the crux of the problem.
18:31They wanted to expand NATO to surround Russia with it.
18:34Bad idea.
18:35But people make money when they do that.
18:37And Trump likes to make money.
18:40He thinks the country is like, you know, he sees the country much as a large business that's looking to expand markets.
18:48And so he can talk about the bloodshed.
18:50Well, that's the result.
18:51That's what you get, okay, when you militarize unnecessarily and look for wars where no wars need to happen.
18:59That's what you get.
19:00Okay, you get bloodshed.
19:01So Trump acts like he's surprised.
19:03Well, you know, it's really sad we want to stop that.
19:05Really?
19:06Because you need to understand why it's happening.
19:09And he can do something about it.
19:10As a powerful president, he's willing to act.
19:14But is he willing to think and understand?
19:17Well, is he willing to think and understand in Gaza, Karen?
19:22The UN High Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, a British fellow named Tom Fletcher, last night said that 57 Gazan babies died of malnutrition last week.
19:34I inadvertently said 5,000.
19:35I was wrong and I stand corrected.
19:3857 Gazan babies died of malnutrition last week.
19:42And 14,000 are starving and will die in the next 48 hours.
19:49And Steve Whitcoff says the president is a humanitarian.
19:53Why doesn't somebody do something about this?
19:55Is Trump in Bibi's pocket or is Bibi in his?
20:00Good question.
20:02I think Trump, whether he's in Bibi's personal pocket or not, I think Trump certainly has been taken in by years, not weeks or months, but years of Israeli propaganda about what goes on in Israel.
20:20So is the U.S. Congress.
20:21I mean, this is the spewing of false information by AIPAC, by AIPAC-supported media, certainly to some extent by Israeli media, although the president would be very wise to actually read Israeli media because they actually talk about these things and to some extent debate them.
20:42Yeah, he is poorly, poorly informed.
20:46And so if you're going to be a humanitarian, that's a real thing.
20:51That's life and death.
20:52That's starvation versus non-starvation.
20:54And he's not educated in the reality.
20:58So how can he possibly be a humanitarian?
21:01And also this business about I'm the most powerful president in the world, which all the presidents of America say this, how would we know that?
21:09Because really, he is still Bibi Netanyahu's right-hand man in the slaughter because we're arming them.
21:16We are not ceasing to arm them.
21:18We are saying, oh, we're going to bring food, but it's all going to be delivered according and in coordination with the Israeli desires.
21:25And the Israeli desires, Netanyahu's in many parts, most of the government, most of the population, their desires are that more babies will starve to death in 48 hours.
21:35Fifty-seven is not enough.
21:37It should be fifty-seven hundred.
21:39Fifty-seven thousand would not bother them.
21:41This is an extermination.
21:43So Trump and the word humanitarian do not belong together.
21:47And he's already passed the opportunity to do something about it.
21:50When Steve Whitcoff first began negotiating with the Iranians, he came away and said, we're very close to a deal.
21:58We're going to allow nuclear enrichment below a certain level so that it's only useful for civilian purposes, primarily energy and hospital uses.
22:10And then the neocons got to Trump and he said no enrichment at all, which he knows is a nonstarter.
22:16Here he is with Jonathan Karl on This Week on ABC News on Sunday, two days ago.
22:23Chris, cut number five.
22:25Can you give us give us a sense of what is the outline of the deal that President Trump wants to get with Iran?
22:33He wants to solve this this conflict diplomatically and with dialogue.
22:37But on the other hand, we have one very, very clear red line, and that is enrichment.
22:43We cannot allow even one percent of an enrichment capability.
22:48We've delivered a proposal to the Iranians that we think addresses some of this without disrespecting them.
22:56And so that's important.
22:58We want to we want to get to a solution here and and we think that we will be able to.
23:07But everything begins for from our standpoint, John, with a a deal that does not include enrichment.
23:15We cannot have that because enrichment enables weaponization and we will not allow a bomb to to get here.
23:23But short of that, there are all kinds of ways for us to achieve our goals in this negotiation.
23:29We think that we will be meeting sometime this week in Europe and we hope that it will lead to some real positivity.
23:38And that's that's that's where we are, sir.
23:42Yeah, that's that's what they they you know, I don't think Whitcoff's naive, but they know that that is a non starter zero enrichment.
23:51It's like Zelensky saying we want Crimea back.
23:57These things are just not negotiable.
24:00They'll be resolved with the force of arms, but not with negotiation.
24:05Sorry. You know, we when Trump just got back from Saudi Arabia and they were talking about helping Saudi Arabia generate up a nuclear energy industry of some sort.
24:15I think, you know, there was some talk about Saudi Arabia having the possibility of, you know, working with uranium.
24:23So and of course, we know Israel is has 400 nukes plus or minus, maybe more.
24:29They've got submarines. They've got the whole thing.
24:31And their their whole security concept is we will have nukes, but no one around us will have anything to defend themselves.
24:38I mean, I think the icon of this was how they on the day after the fall of Assad, they used three days to completely destroy the entire military infrastructure and weapons stash that Syria had.
24:53They completely wiped it out.
24:56This is how they view national security.
24:59And that's warped. OK, that's extremely warped.
25:03It's just it's not workable. It's not right.
25:05It's not sustainable. It's not just and it's not going to happen.
25:09Back to the slaughter in Gaza, the United Kingdom, for what it's worth.
25:15I don't know how much they trade with Israel announced the suspension of trade.
25:20Here's Foreign Secretary.
25:22I'm not sure if he's Foreign Secretary or Defense Secretary David LeMay on the floor of the House of Commons earlier today.
25:31As the prime minister and fellow leaders said yesterday,
25:35we cannot stand by in the face of this new deterioration.
25:40It is incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relationship.
25:47Rejected by members across this House.
25:50And frankly, it's an affront to the values of the British people.
25:55Therefore, today, I'm announcing that we have suspended negotiations with this Israeli government on a new trade.
26:03Free trade.
26:04We will be reviewing cooperation with them under the 2030 bilateral roadmap.
26:14The Netanyahu's government's actions have made this necessary.
26:18I say now to the people of Israel, we want, I want, a strong friendship with you based on shared values,
26:30with flourishing ties between our people and societies.
26:34We are unwavering in our commitment to your security and to your future, to countering the very real threat from Iran, the scourge of terrorism and the evils of anti-Semitism.
26:47But the conduct of the war in Gaza is damaging our relationship with your government.
26:54And as the prime minister has said, if Israel pursues this military offensive as it has threatened, failing to ensure the unhindered provision of aid, we will take further action in response.
27:10Listen, I'm not a fan of the British government at all, but I couldn't imagine Marco Rubio or Pete Hegseth saying that.
27:18Could you?
27:18I couldn't even imagine anybody on the floor of Congress, maybe Thomas Massey, arguing for it.
27:26Yeah, no, it is.
27:27It's to their credit that he is standing up and doing that.
27:30But it's not to his credit that it took, you know, 600 days of genocide and a war that's unbalanced, aggressive, aimed at full retaliation, retaliation to the whole population, men, women and children.
27:44This has been going on for, you know, over 550 days, nearly 600 now for him to come up now.
27:51I'm glad that they did.
27:52I'm glad.
27:52It is a little too late.
27:54You know, I saw a meme the other day and it said it was the Brits and Europeans saying to Israel, you know, really, you're embarrassing us.
28:05You know, if you wouldn't embarrass us with your genocide, we would continue to support you.
28:08But it's not that they're morally opposed to it, but they don't want to be politically embarrassed because the country, their people, the British people, Europeans, people around the world are enraged by what they're seeing.
28:19And these politicians are so, so slow to react to the morality of the majority in this case, which is very, very strange.
28:29But they don't want that.
28:33Colonel Kwiatkowski, a pleasure, my dear friend, no matter what we're talking about.
28:37Thanks for letting me pick that very fertile brain of yours.
28:40We'll look forward to seeing you next week.
28:42Thanks a lot, Judge.
28:43Okay.
28:43All the best to you.
28:44Tomorrow, Wednesday, a very busy and happy day for you.
28:47At 8 o'clock in the morning, Professor Gilbert Doctorow at 11 in the morning, Aaron Mate at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
28:55I don't know where he is, but wherever he is, it'll be midnight.
28:58Pepe Escobar at 2 o'clock.
29:01Returning here after an absence of a couple of months, my dear friend, Matthew Ho.
29:06At 3 o'clock, Phil Giraldi.
29:08And at 4 o'clock, the always worth waiting for, Scott Ritter.
29:12Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.
29:17I don't know where he is.
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