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00:00Russia, and prepare yourselves because this is the global headline, Russia is actively
00:06considering the use of nuclear weapons against Europe, not against Kiev, against Europe,
00:14specifically the UK and Germany, just taking out the UK and Germany with nuclear weapons.
00:23That's a fact.
00:25Now, we're going to explain why we know that that's true in a moment, and at the end of
00:31this open, we're going to play an interview we did a few hours ago with a man called Sergei
00:37Karnogov, who is a longtime political advisor to Vladimir Putin and one of the most famous
00:44public intellectuals in Russia, been around for about 35 years, advised Boris Yeltsin
00:5030 years ago, more than 30 years ago.
00:54And in that interview, he says point blank, yes, if the Ukraine war continues at this
01:00tempo for a year or two more, we, speaking apparently on behalf of the Russian government,
01:07on behalf of his friend Putin, or at least someone who's very familiar with President
01:11Putin's thinking, we, Russia, will eliminate the UK and Germany with nuclear weapons.
01:18Now, that's a headline.
01:20No one wants to see Qatari gas wellheads blown up.
01:26No one wants to see killing of any kind or destruction of any kind.
01:29But taking out the two most important countries in Europe, both of which have big American
01:38bases, lots of American personnel, of course, international banking, Germany being the economic
01:45engine of Europe, London being the banking center of Europe, really of the West, along
01:50with New York, and of course, these are two ancient countries with which we have close
01:56ties, history and kinship and genetics.
02:00We're going to take them out.
02:02We're going to eliminate those countries with nuclear weapons, saying that right into camera.
02:06So that's a pretty big story.
02:08Have you read that story?
02:10Has anyone mentioned that to you?
02:13That the most famous public intellectual in Russia, a close friend of Vladimir Putin's,
02:20exactly the same age, the two were born a month apart, I've known each other a long
02:24time, is saying in public that Russia plans to use nuclear weapons against Western Europe.
02:31Russia is going to blow up the UK and Germany if things don't get resolved soon.
02:36You probably haven't heard that.
02:37It hasn't actually been on the front page of the New York Times.
02:40I don't think the Times of London has mentioned it.
02:43No one seems to be paying any attention at all to the biggest story of our lifetimes, potentially.
02:49And that's very odd.
02:51And it's not just one guy who's friends with Putin who's saying this.
02:54If you watch carefully or not even carefully with one eye open at what Russia's been doing
02:59recently, things are changing.
03:03So Russia has publicly rewritten its nuclear strategy to include use of nuclear weapons
03:11against countries that are acting as proxies for nuclear armed powers.
03:15Now, this is kind of classic Russian bureaucratic talk, but it means that under Russian law,
03:21Russia is permitted to, by its own rules, blow up Germany, even though Germany does not
03:27have nuclear weapons.
03:28The UK supposedly does.
03:30I wonder whose hands they're in.
03:31But Germany does not have nuclear weapons.
03:33And Russia has just said, no, you're fair game for a nuclear strike.
03:37And so not a defensive nuclear strike.
03:39Like, you launched us, we're going to launch against you.
03:42No, you keep poking us in the face, and we're going to eliminate you.
03:46He said that publicly.
03:47And then last week, a week ago, I think a week ago today, Russia sent hypersonic missiles
03:53into Kiev, into Kiev, Ukraine.
03:59Now, the hypersonic missiles killed probably four people.
04:03This was not an attack designed to destroy important infrastructure or to cause massive civilian
04:10casualties.
04:11This was an attack designed as a message.
04:13And the Russians just said this, point blank.
04:15This was an attack designed to say, whoa, you've pushed us too far.
04:21We feel like our core interests, our existential interests, are threatened.
04:24And if you don't back off, the next hypersonic missile we send, against which no country has
04:30any meaningful defense, you can't stop a hypersonic missile.
04:33No one has even claimed that you can.
04:34The next one will have a nuclear warhead on it, and it's coming at you, Europe.
04:43So let's just think this through for a sec.
04:44Why would Russia, which is supposedly in this bitter war against Ukraine, being backstopped
04:49by NATO and the U.S., et cetera, et cetera.
04:51But they're fighting Ukraine over territory.
04:54Why would Russia be threatening Europe?
04:58Ah, because the Russians, whatever their faults, don't lie to themselves as aggressively as we
05:06do.
05:07And the Russians are saying out loud what is absolutely true about this war, which is it's
05:11a proxy war.
05:12It is not a war between Russia and Ukraine, and it never has been.
05:17And nothing that's happened in Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union 35 years ago has
05:22really been about Ukraine.
05:24There has been a global scramble to control Ukraine, its land, its resources.
05:30There are other reasons people want to control Ukraine that are not directly related to land
05:33or resources that have to do with history.
05:35But in any case, non-Ukrainians have been calling the shots in Ukraine for 35 years.
05:42That's what Maidan was.
05:44That's what the coup, the U.S.-backed coup was.
05:47None of this had anything to do with Ukraine.
05:50What's best for Ukraine?
05:51We're going to make Ukraine a sovereign nation.
05:52The opposite has happened.
05:54Ukraine has less sovereignty.
05:56Ukraine is more of a puppet, and Ukraine has suffered more than maybe any country on
06:00earth over the last four years.
06:03Now, why?
06:05Well, we'll get into that.
06:06But first, just to show you how completely this war is being controlled from the outside
06:13on behalf of outside non-Ukrainian interests for reasons that have nothing to do with what's
06:18good for Ukraine, I want to show you the following clip.
06:22And by the way, if you just want to prove the point, how many Ukrainians have been killed
06:25in this war paid for by the West, paid for by NATO and Joe Biden?
06:31No one knows.
06:32Hundreds of thousands, obviously, has depopulated the country.
06:34But nobody cares.
06:35And you would think that if we're waging a war on behalf of the freedom-seeking people
06:42of Ukraine, if we love the Ukrainians so much that we're willing to send them hundreds
06:47of millions of dollars and our best CIA targeters and willing to put bio labs in their country
06:53to defend them from Russian aggression, you would think if we love them that much, we might
06:58keep a tally of how many of them have been killed in the prime of life on the flat landscape of Ukraine.
07:05But of course, no one's keeping score because nobody cares.
07:10The people running this war on the Western side have zero interest in what it costs Ukraine.
07:19None.
07:20Because it was never about them in the first place.
07:23And now to the promised clip.
07:24This was shot about 10 years ago.
07:26We just saw it.
07:27And it's an amazingly instructive piece of videotape.
07:31Now you will see and you will recognize immediately the Hungarian man on the left.
07:35That would be Mr. George Soros, one of the world's most successful financiers.
07:40I think he's euphemistically described, a guy who's bet against national currencies, really done nothing
07:46to make the world a better place or to improve the lives of individuals, has only sown chaos and hatred
07:52and violence really for the length of his professional life.
07:56For whatever reason, whatever motive might be animating him, he is on the left.
08:00On the right is a woman called Chrystia Freeland.
08:03Now she's not Ukrainian either.
08:06She's from Canada.
08:07She's from Alberta, Canada.
08:07She spent the bulk of her career as a journalist working for Reuters and other news organizations,
08:14news organizations like that, both in London and in Washington, where we spent quite a bit
08:18of time with her.
08:20And then she became the deputy prime minister of Canada under Justin Trudeau.
08:27Hmm.
08:28And an economic poobah.
08:30And if you're interested in how well she did, well, you can just look up facts about the current
08:34state of the Canadian economy.
08:36Not very well.
08:37But here's the interesting thing.
08:38Just recently, Chrystia Freeland, who again is not a product of Ukraine, she grew up in
08:47Canada and lived in London and Washington.
08:51Chrystia Freeland is somehow working for president, unelected president, Zelensky in Ukraine, who
08:57himself is not really that Ukrainian.
09:00Grew up speaking Russian.
09:01He's a citizen of the world like she is, like they all are.
09:06But she's now an unpaid economic advisor to Ukraine.
09:10Unpaid.
09:12Right.
09:14Okay.
09:14They're divvying up the natural resources of a country they know will soon collapse with
09:19no regard for the people who've been killed.
09:21Of course.
09:23But here is Chrystia Freeland and George Soros 10 years ago talking about Ukraine and in
09:31so doing, giving the game away.
09:34Watch this.
09:34Yeah, and I will just offer my own personal testimony here.
09:38It's actually amazing in Ukraine, the new Ukrainian government, the new Ukrainian leadership.
09:46Everyone who I know in that group has been touched somehow by open society and by George,
09:53like literally, either people personally got a scholarship or someone, you know, their wife
09:59got a scholarship.
10:00It's a really remarkable thing.
10:03Well, this is, for me, quite an experience to see this.
10:09And I didn't realize, actually, how much, how big an effect it has had over a 25-year period
10:20because those were students, 25 years later, they were leaders.
10:28Everybody she knows in Ukrainian leadership, says Chrystia Freeland, everybody has taken money
10:35from George Soros or their wives have taken money from George Soros.
10:39Everyone running the country is actually employed by this Hungarian billionaire who's got nothing
10:47to do with the country.
10:50Oh, no one would admit that now.
10:53That's a conspiracy theory.
10:55But George Soros smiled and took credit for it.
10:57Of course, we had no idea how successful we were.
11:01Successful at what?
11:03What was the plan here?
11:05You put everybody in a country's leadership on your payroll?
11:09To what end?
11:10What were you trying to achieve?
11:13Well, I guess we could debate what Soros' motives were at the time, but we don't need to
11:19because, as we know, the purpose of a system is its outcome.
11:24Over time, we don't have to guess about why certain people or certain organizations exist.
11:34We can instead look at what they do.
11:36We can judge the tree by its fruit.
11:40And the current state of Ukraine was clearly the point all along.
11:47destroy the country, depopulate it, change the laws that prevent foreigners from buying
11:55its natural resources, its land, some of the most fertile farmland in the world, huge
12:01tracts of it.
12:02It's an enormous country.
12:02It's the biggest country in Europe.
12:05Also, the weakest and the most corrupt.
12:07Many people doing this had ancestors in Ukraine.
12:09So there very much is a sense that, wait a second, you know, this is ours too.
12:13Chrystia Freeland had ancestors from Ukraine.
12:16A lot of people involved in making policy about Ukraine had ancestors in Ukraine.
12:23And so there is a kind of entitlement that you see on display.
12:26No, no, this is an interest.
12:27Of course, we have a right to weigh in on this.
12:30But not for the benefit of the Ukrainians.
12:33Really, all of this is about taking what once belonged to the country they claim they loved
12:42and using that country in order to defeat its much larger neighbor, which is the real prize,
12:48Russia.
12:50And this has been true for over 100 years, for hundreds of years.
12:54How many times have Europeans tried to invade Russia?
12:56A few.
12:58Napoleon tried.
12:59Why does everyone want to invade Russia?
13:01It's far away.
13:03It's freezing.
13:04No one ever succeeds in doing it.
13:07It's like Afghanistan or Yemen.
13:10Not a long track record of victory.
13:13If outside force is taking control, there are a few peoples around the world that are tough to beat,
13:18history suggests.
13:20And the Russians are at the top of that list.
13:21So why do people keep trying?
13:22Well, in a word, resources.
13:24That's why.
13:26Russia is unimaginably large.
13:28Literally unimaginably.
13:30Most people in the West haven't imagined how large Russia is.
13:33Russia is larger than China and India put together.
13:38You combine the land mass of China, so big you can barely get your head around it, and
13:44India, almost as big, and together they're smaller than Russia.
13:50Siberia itself is about the size of the continental United States.
13:54And there are like 10 million people living there.
13:56In all of Russia, there are about 140 million, something like that.
14:01In all of Russia.
14:03Meanwhile, Russia has the deepest energy reserves in the world.
14:07Some of the highest uranium enrichment in the world.
14:13It is, by some measures, the most gold in the world.
14:17Silver.
14:18Bauxite for aluminum.
14:20Timber.
14:21By far the largest timber reserves in the world.
14:24Which people still need, by the way.
14:26Pulp for paper.
14:28Dimensional lumber for building.
14:30People still need trees.
14:31And Russia has more than any other place.
14:33Primarily in Siberia, but not just in Siberia.
14:35And of course, farmland.
14:37And agricultural products.
14:40Fertilizer.
14:41Wheat.
14:42Russia has as much or more than anyone and very few people.
14:47So the promise of access to Russian resources and space and land has been a siren that has called invaders for centuries.
15:00And no judgment, by the way.
15:01You can see why.
15:03If Greenland is a prize, what is Russia?
15:05The biggest prize of all.
15:06And you saw this attitude on display the moment the wall fell.
15:11And rapacious foreigners, mostly bankers, moved into Russia and stripped it.
15:17And they were helped along by a lot of unscrupulous indigenous Russians.
15:21It wasn't just outsiders who did it.
15:23Some Russian oligarchs did it to their own people.
15:25But the fact is, a small group of people denuded the country.
15:28Looted it.
15:31And unfortunately, this always plays out in exactly the same way.
15:34It's not enough to loot.
15:36You have to take everything and drive everyone else into despair, hopelessness, and poverty.
15:39And that's exactly what happened.
15:42Russia 30 years ago, 35 years ago, was one of the, well, certainly the poorest country.
15:48West of, I don't know.
15:52Who even knows?
15:53I mean, Bhutan?
15:56Really poor.
15:59And divided and sad and defeated and alcoholism and drug use and gasoline huffing and suicide were endemic.
16:09And who did that?
16:10Well, the Russians, to some extent, did it to themselves.
16:12You know, they were living in this Soviet system for 70 years.
16:16But outsiders did it to them, too.
16:19That's a fact.
16:20And whatever you think of Putin, he's bad.
16:23Putin got that under control.
16:25And Russia, in 2026, bears no resemblance whatsoever to Russia in 2000, the year Putin took over.
16:32And one of the main changes he made is he kicked the money changers out of the temple.
16:37He did.
16:37And sorry, everyone else has forgotten that, ignores it.
16:42He kicked the oligarchs out, or he brought them to his side.
16:44You can't act independently of the national interest.
16:47Sure, you can become a billionaire, but some of it has to go to the country.
16:49And that was spun in the West as cartel behavior.
16:56He's the mafia boss.
16:57Okay, fine.
16:58He's the mafia boss.
17:00But the real answer to the question, did it work or not, is obvious not just in the numbers, but in the state of the country, the visible state of the country now versus 25 years ago.
17:09It's a completely different place.
17:10It's no longer Bhutan.
17:11It's not Africa.
17:13By some measures, it's much richer than any country in Western Europe.
17:17In fact, by every measure it is, by every single measure.
17:21Is it richer than Spain?
17:22Is it richer than the UK?
17:24Oh, yeah, much.
17:28So that is both tempting to elites from around the world.
17:33Wait a second.
17:34Why do 140 million Russians get all this stuff?
17:36We should have some too.
17:37But it is also an indictment of their leadership.
17:41If you're Boris Johnson and your ancestors ruled the waves, ruled the British Empire, and your country is a kind of sad, Urdu-speaking museum now, that's insulting.
17:58Really?
17:58The Russians?
18:00Those weird half-Slavic?
18:02I mean, they dominate world chess, but like, really?
18:04They're not really white?
18:06And how are they doing so well?
18:09This is outrageous.
18:11It is an indictment of your own leadership.
18:14And in countries across Europe, the leaders feel that way.
18:16Russia is an embarrassment to them because it is, relatively speaking, thriving.
18:21And so, they all, as one, back to the Biden administration's plan to have a war with Russia.
18:29And let's stop lying.
18:30This was not an unprovoked invasion.
18:33Putin just randomly went over the line into eastern Ukraine and stole these oblasts.
18:38He stole this land that belonged to another people.
18:41That's a total lie.
18:42And it's not a defense of Putin to call it out as a lie because it is.
18:44And everybody knows it now.
18:45Now, the truth is that in 2001, Putin, same guy, same leader, asked the Bush administration
18:52in person, directly to George W. Bush, I would like to join NATO.
18:56I would like to join the defensive alliance that exists to keep me from moving west into
19:01Western Europe.
19:02In other words, you won.
19:05I'm joining your team.
19:07And due in part to his own limitations as a leader and due in part to the counsel that
19:13he received from Condoleez Rice at the time.
19:16George W. Bush turned down that offer.
19:21And prevented Russia from joining NATO.
19:25And the guest we're going to speak to in a moment, if you're wondering if he has a good
19:28track record of calling future events, said at the time, this decision to turn down Vladimir
19:37Putin's, 25 years ago, Vladimir Putin's request to join NATO, to join the West, to all be in
19:43it together, to work together.
19:46This decision made by the Bush administration guarantees a collision with the West.
19:50We are now on a collision course.
19:52And of course, he was absolutely right.
19:55Because NATO didn't want Russia because NATO wanted a war with Russia.
19:59And boy, they got it.
20:00And so from 2001 all the way to 2022, 21 years, NATO moved inexorably east surrounding Russia.
20:10And many times, again, this is not a defense of Russia.
20:13It's just a fact.
20:15Many times, the Russian government under Putin said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
20:19You are threatening our core national interest, which is not to have other people's missiles
20:23on our borders back off.
20:25And then in 2014, the Obama administration overthrew the government of Ukraine to put an American
20:33puppet in there, thereby sealing the fate of nations.
20:38When that happened, and Sergei Karganov said it at the time, you have just guaranteed a war
20:44in Ukraine that will destroy Ukraine.
20:47So as you listen to the interview, and we hope you listen carefully, because the English is
20:51not flawless, and it was done over satellite from Moscow, so it's not the best audio, but
20:55it's worth listening.
20:57That man that you're going to hear has a long track record of calling events right.
21:04And it's not to detract from his powers of perception or his intellect, which is formidable,
21:08to say other people could have drawn the same conclusions because it's pretty freaking
21:14obvious.
21:15If you exclude Russia from NATO, you're probably seeking a war with Russia.
21:19And if you try to put nuclear-armed missiles on Russia's border, you're probably going to
21:24get a military response.
21:25That's exactly what he said.
21:28And of course, he was laughed at in Europe, where he'd spent a lot of his life, and he
21:34was totally ignored by the United States.
21:36And our policymakers were on to this, that, or the other thing.
21:39They were not paying any attention at all, and to the extent they were, they were very excited
21:42for this war with Russia.
21:44And they never really explained why.
21:46And then once that war began four years ago, they began to act through their proxy, the
21:53Ukrainian government under Zelensky, truly a proxy, in a war that has been managed from
21:58day one, in part by the CIA, our CIA, targeting by the CIA, and even tells you that's not true
22:04is lying.
22:04They began to act with not just recklessness, but extreme recklessness, the kind of behavior
22:11that suggests you don't care about the consequences at all.
22:14You're just all in.
22:16Actually, at some point, the kind of behavior that suggests a death wish, that suggests,
22:20like, I actually want a nuclear holocaust.
22:23I'm happy to risk the lives of my family, my nation, and the world in a nuclear exchange.
22:28And we know that because of what they did.
22:32They blew up Nord Stream, which was the main source of natural gas for Europe.
22:38So that did two things.
22:39One, it destroyed the European economy.
22:42That was obviously going to happen.
22:45And it did.
22:47Because you can't have a robust economy, certainly not a manufacturing economy, without cheap energy.
22:53Without cheap energy, you're left with what?
22:55Real estate and finance.
22:58And of course, the people making these decisions are familiar only with real estate and finance,
23:02because that's the world they live in.
23:05But in the real world, countries become rich and powerful and stable and resilient because
23:10they make things.
23:12So that's the first thing.
23:13We blew up Nord Stream.
23:15So that destroys our supposedly closest allies in Europe, particularly in Germany.
23:20Germans hate themselves so much, they won't even admit that we did it, but we did it.
23:24Through proxies, but we did it.
23:26As we said, we would.
23:28And the second thing that it did is send a very clear message to Russia.
23:32We're done.
23:34We're not going to have a kind of Vietnam scenario where we have a proxy war, but, you know,
23:40there are limits to our behavior.
23:41Yeah, we'll spray Agent Orange, but we're not actually going to, you know, level Hanoi.
23:46We'll bomb it on the edges, but we're, you know, there are limits to what we're going
23:51to do because we don't actually want to war with the Soviets.
23:55American and NATO behavior since the beginning of this war suggested no limits at all.
24:00Blowing up Russian infrastructure, trying to assassinate Putin repeatedly.
24:05Obviously, they lie about it, but yes, they have.
24:07Yes, they have.
24:08The Ukrainian government has tried to assassinate Vladimir Putin multiple times.
24:14Has the CIA assisted with the targeting of those drones?
24:18Yes, obviously.
24:20Tell me how you didn't.
24:22No one's even asked them.
24:23And again, it's not taking sides against the United States with Russia.
24:28No, it's trying to think clearly about what are the potential consequences of this kind
24:33of behavior, torquing it up consistently over four years to a point where you've cornered
24:38a great power.
24:41Oh, but that's the problem.
24:43They don't consider Russia a great power.
24:45They're not a great power.
24:48You know what Russia is?
24:50Russia's a gas station with nuclear weapons.
24:54Watch this.
24:55I think economic sanctions are a very important step.
24:58Identify these kleptocrats.
25:00And look, Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.
25:04It is a wounded and declining nation.
25:08It has an uncompetitive economy.
25:11Senator McCain used to joke that Russia is a gas station pretending to be a country.
25:16It's declining population, of course, contributes to its decline.
25:21What's your view of Putin?
25:22Look, I think he's got grand ambitions.
25:25I think he's hostile to the United States.
25:27But I think the thing that we've seen is he doesn't have the conventional capability to
25:31realize his ambitions.
25:32And so he's basically a gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons.
25:36If the president could rally the world to push back against Russian aggression and really
25:41hit them economically, have sanctions that hit really hard, then Putin is basically a gas
25:47station masquerading as a country.
25:49There's really nothing more embarrassing.
25:53And as someone who knows all four of the men you just saw say that, you pause and you think,
25:58we are a great nation.
25:59It's the United States.
25:59We're a great nation.
26:01And we should be led.
26:02In particular, policies that matter that could determine whether your children live or die
26:07should be led by great men.
26:10Men with wisdom, above all.
26:13Restraint, a sense of longitudinal interest.
26:16It matters what this looks like in 100 years.
26:18That should be part of the calculation.
26:20And knowledge and lived experience.
26:23And none of those four men you just saw, all four of whom have been major players in formulating
26:28U.S. foreign policy over many decades, none of them meet any of those criteria.
26:33These are weak, unwise in the case of John McCain, though very charming, I will say, low IQ people.
26:40True.
26:40That's just true.
26:41They don't know anything.
26:43So you could say, everything about Russia I found repulsive.
26:47Everything about it offends my sensibilities as an American.
26:50That's fine.
26:50People feel that way.
26:52But you can't dismiss it as a gas station with nuclear weapons because that reveals you
26:57as ignorant.
26:59Because it's the opposite of that, of course.
27:01On a cultural level, the country that produced Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, more than a gas station.
27:06But it also suggests that you are doing the one thing you can never do with an adversary,
27:15and that's underestimate his power and resilience.
27:19You have to see the people you're in conflict with clearly, or you will get hurt.
27:25That's the real risk here.
27:26Not just you'll act like the ugly American, you're a buffoon.
27:29They're a gas station with nuclear weapons.
27:30What a clever line.
27:31I heard that from my donor.
27:33I'm going to repeat it on Meet the Press, which is exactly what the poor DeSantis, doesn't
27:37know anything, was doing, trying to sound statesman-like.
27:40Oh, I just heard this.
27:41Well, gas station with nuclear weapons.
27:42Oh, so good.
27:44You know, you reveal that you're just a rube.
27:47Go back to Orlando.
27:49But it's more than that.
27:52You can wind up way over your head, and we are now way over our heads because of that
27:58attitude.
27:59Lindsay Graham, who, to his credit, has been around.
28:03He's been everywhere.
28:05Lindsay Graham has still not picked up the one quality you hope that travel instills in
28:10a person, which is wisdom.
28:12Zero.
28:14And there's a particularly sad line at the end of the clip you just saw from Lindsay
28:18Graham where he said, if just we can make our sanctions tough enough, we just need tough
28:22sanctions, and that will bring Russia to its knees.
28:26Well, we did that, actually.
28:28But who got brought to his knees?
28:30Was it Russia?
28:32No.
28:33It was not.
28:33It was us.
28:35One of the saddest things this country's ever done is sabotaged its own currency over time.
28:41But if you were to isolate a moment where the US dollar's future became dim, it would have
28:48to be in the Biden administration's immediate response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
28:55That was the moment that we kicked Russia out of swift.
28:57We just stole the personal property of people who didn't work for the Russian government,
29:03the so-called oligarchs, which just means businessmen, just took their stuff because they had Russian
29:09names and prevented Russians from playing in international sporting events.
29:13You can't be at Wimbledon.
29:14There's an OV at the end of your name or whatever.
29:18So we humiliated ourselves, of course, by behaving.
29:21Who behaves like that?
29:23But we also sabotaged our own core interest, which is the maintenance of the US dollars,
29:27the world's reserve currency.
29:29That's the key thing that we have.
29:30If it's not our manufacturing base that makes us rich, sorry, wish it was, it's the US dollars,
29:35the privilege of holding the currency that, say, energy transactions are conducted in.
29:42Everyone has to use dollars.
29:43It's called the petrodollar.
29:44Been there since 1971.
29:46You tamper with that, and the bills come due, and you become poor.
29:51And then all the downstream effects of poverty, which include violence, by the way, and chaos.
29:55That was the single most unwise thing any administration has done in my lifetime, 56 years.
30:04That was the dumbest thing.
30:05It was the most self-destructive thing.
30:07So what was gold trading at?
30:09Do you remember?
30:10If you've got a phone in your hand right now, look it up.
30:12What was gold trading at?
30:13Just say February 1st, 2022.
30:18About $1,700 an ounce, which is high.
30:20It was high.
30:22You check gold prices today, the spot price of gold today.
30:24It was about $4,600 per ounce.
30:29Has the S&P grown that much in four years?
30:33No.
30:34Has anything?
30:35No.
30:36Why gold?
30:37Is there some new industrial application for gold?
30:39No.
30:41There are some, but not really.
30:43People are buying gold as an option to the US dollar.
30:48Gold is what you buy when you want out of the dollar because you don't believe it has a bright future.
30:53You dump your treasuries and you buy gold.
30:57And the people who actually understand the system because they made it and participated in it and are its biggest players are doing that.
31:05China is doing that.
31:06Now, why in 2026 would you dump treasuries, which they have, a lot of treasuries, and buy gold?
31:14The most primitive medium of exchange.
31:17Like the Assyrians use gold.
31:19Gold?
31:20Only superstitious people buy gold.
31:25I'm not making the case that there's some inherent quality in gold that makes it valuable.
31:28I'm making the case that compared to what?
31:31You're doing that because you believe the US dollar is unsafe.
31:37And why do you believe that?
31:39Because the US government just used it as a political weapon against a great power.
31:45That's why.
31:48Anybody could have figured this out.
31:49And the second thing that happened, almost immediately, is that Russia formed a durable alliance with China.
32:00Now, think about this for a second.
32:02Donald Trump, to his great credit, used to say this.
32:04The worst thing Biden ever did was drive Russia into an alliance with China.
32:09Why is that the worst thing?
32:10Because here you have the largest economy in the world, which is China, and you have the largest resource density in the world and the biggest country in the world, which is Russia, combining against you.
32:24So I think by anybody's count, there are four really kind of major players in our near to long-term future globally, and they are the US, Russia.
32:36It's more than a gas station with nuclear weapons.
32:38Sorry.
32:38India and China.
32:42Now, who knows where India is going to land?
32:44But if you've got Russia and China against you, it's tough.
32:48That's not only not unipolar, that's like an actual threat to your interests.
32:52That's an actual threat to your interests.
32:53Don't allow that.
32:55The reason Richard Nixon flew to Beijing 50 years ago, 55 years ago, and met with Chairman Mao, who, by the way, was a lot more of a monster than Putin's ever thought of being, was not a Christian, unlike Putin.
33:08He killed, you know, a hundred million of his own people.
33:11Richard Nixon flew there anyway and, quote, opened up China, made an alliance with China.
33:15Why?
33:16To split it from Russia.
33:17Because he understood that was the threat.
33:19The bloc, the alliance of countries that don't share our interest is a massive threat to us and to the dollar.
33:26He did that.
33:27And it worked for like 50 years until Joe Biden, with the help of the U.S. Congress, probably the largest collection of unwise cowards in the English-speaking world, got together and decided that they could levy sanctions against this country, which they deemed bad for reasons they never really explained.
33:46Except Russia reacted to their provocations and went over a border that no one can find on a map.
33:51Because of that, we needed to act and do something because we're Winston Churchill, not Neville Chamberlain, and everything's about World War II, and we need to stop Russian aggression.
34:00By the way, we were on Russia's side during World War II, but shut up.
34:02You're not supposed to know that.
34:03And we're going to punish them, not by actually joining the Ukrainian military and putting our lives on the line because, hey, we've got better things to do than go die in someone else's war.
34:12But we're going to sanction them, very tough sanctions, despite the living proof that not only do sanctions not work, they are counterproductive to the stated aims.
34:25And if that's untrue, what happened in Cuba exactly, which got sanctioned in about 1960?
34:32Oh, Raul Castro was still alive and still has power in that country.
34:37The country's gotten poorer.
34:38Don't think Raul Castro has.
34:41They don't work.
34:42They have the opposite effect.
34:44And by the way, they are dishonorable and feline.
34:46They're a weak man's form of diplomacy.
34:48When Lindsey Graham is running around pretending to be tough, the man with the size five shoe is telling you he's the man on the scene, you know what you're watching is pantomime.
34:58It's acting.
34:59You're watching a weak man pose as a strong man.
35:03And the decisions that he makes reflect that.
35:05That's why they all love sanctions.
35:07But in this case, in this specific case, sanctions shafted the United States.
35:13And I think it's worth saying that out loud so our grandchildren looking back on this time and asking, why don't we live like our grandparents did, can assign appropriate blame.
35:24Sanctions did not punish Vladimir Putin.
35:27They punished the United States and they completely destroyed Europe, which is where our ancestors came from and where our religion comes from.
35:33So it's not a small thing.
35:35But they didn't work.
35:36And by the way, neither did the military action that we spent hundreds of millions of dollars paying for in Ukraine, a military action that was never designed to liberate Ukraine, but to beat Russia, whatever that means.
35:51How can you beat a cohesive ancient empire?
35:55Probably can't.
35:56When this country was founded 250 years ago, Russia was an empire.
36:01It's not like us.
36:04Okay.
36:04Russia will be here.
36:05We know that whether you like it or not.
36:08So deal with it in a constructive way.
36:11But they couldn't.
36:13And so once the war got rolling and it became really, really clear that we had lost.
36:17Oh, we haven't lost.
36:18What are you, a Putin puppet?
36:20Okay.
36:21Really simple metric.
36:23Putin rolls across the border into Ukraine.
36:25Ukraine.
36:27Really just like a satellite of the United States and the Biden administration, but rolls into this supposedly different country.
36:33And we can't get them out.
36:37No matter how many hundreds of millions of dollars we send them and how many bio labs we have there, no matter how many threats, CIA officers we send over there to do the targeting of the drones.
36:46Still there.
36:46And they're not leaving.
36:49So what does that leave you with?
36:51Well, again, I would refer you to not the smartest foreign policy strategist we have, but certainly the most cable friendly, Lindsey Graham.
37:01Watch this.
37:02How does this end?
37:04Somebody in Russia has to step up to the plate.
37:08Is there Brutus in Russia?
37:10Is there a more successful Colonel Stapfenberg in the Russian military?
37:14The only way this ends, my friend, is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
37:19You would be doing your country a great service and the world a great service.
37:22I'm hoping somebody in Russia will understand that he's destroying Russia and you need to take this guy out by any means possible.
37:32Yeah, I hope he'll be taken out one way or the other.
37:35I don't care how they take him out.
37:37I don't care if we send him to The Hague and try him.
37:41I just want him to go.
37:42Yes, I'm on record.
37:44Please understand Senator Lindsey Graham and if John McCain were here, he'd be saying the same thing, I think.
37:50It's time for him to go.
37:52He's a war criminal.
37:55I wish somebody had taken Hitler out in the 30s.
38:01Live by the sword, die by the sword.
38:03Do you really want to call for the extrajudicial murder of another head of state?
38:09Is that a precedent you want to live with?
38:11Probably not, actually.
38:12Probably not.
38:13And if you're a country that believes in the rule of law, pretty shocking thing, really, for a lawmaker to say, well, just assassinate him.
38:21It's just a tool of foreign policy.
38:23No, we're not Israel.
38:24We don't conduct foreign policy through assassination, actually.
38:28We shouldn't.
38:29Apparently, now we do.
38:31Is that okay with people?
38:32You don't like someone, so you just kill them?
38:34If those are the rules, we will have to live with those rules, and you don't need a particularly powerful imagination to envision how that ends, and not well at all.
38:49So if you're going to be a beacon of freedom, be one, and call the just to account, and don't punish the innocent, which is why sanctions are not only ineffective, but also immoral.
39:01But moreover, if you're waging a war against a country, and we've been at war with Russia for four years, despite what the liars tell you, we have been at war with Russia for four years, probably not a good idea to admit that you're losing on television, which is what Lindsey Graham just did.
39:17We have no choice but to take him out.
39:20And third, it's probably unwise to admit that you know nothing about the country that you are fighting, that you're obsessed with.
39:30Taking Putin out will solve the problem?
39:34Putin is an absolute dictator.
39:37He's dictatorial, that's for sure.
39:40He probably wouldn't want to walk by the Kremlin and give him the finger.
39:42He'd probably be punished for that.
39:44But does he have absolute control over Russia?
39:47Does any leader of any country ever have absolute control over the country?
39:51Did Stalin know?
39:53He consulted with the constituencies in his country.
39:57They all do.
39:57Every one of them.
39:58Our president.
39:59Every emir in the Gulf.
40:00Every king, sultan, potentate, head of the CCP.
40:06Everyone's got a board of directors in this world.
40:08Everyone.
40:10And Putin is no different.
40:11And Putin, again, like every head of state, is balancing a bunch of different shareholders every single day.
40:17You've got the FSB and then divisions within the FSB.
40:20You've got the military.
40:21You've got the business community.
40:23The oligarchs, as we call them.
40:24Very different from our oligarchs, who are just tech CEOs.
40:28They're oligarchs.
40:30But everyone's got a piece of this enterprise they call Russia, and everyone gets a say.
40:36And no head of state acts unilaterally.
40:38So the idea that you take Russia out and everyone just gives up.
40:41Oh, Putin's gone.
40:43We can, I don't know, turn it over to Zelensky.
40:46It's ridiculous.
40:50And only someone who didn't understand how the world works would say something like that.
40:53So what's the point?
40:55The point is exactly what we've seen in a lot of other countries.
40:59Iraq, Syria, you hope not Iran, but likely cause chaos.
41:06Because in chaos, I can dominate and I can steal.
41:11And the people who are paying me to have these views, a lot of them are exiled Russian oligarchs.
41:16Putin kicked out to get back in there and scoop up the resources.
41:21There's no reason Putin should control the bauxite in Russia or whatever, all the oil, all the gas, all the gold.
41:28We should.
41:30So create chaos in this country, the biggest country on Earth with 150 million people in the largest nuclear arsenal, and I'll get rich.
41:38And even if you signed up for that program, which you shouldn't because it's disgusting.
41:43But let's say you did think that was a good idea.
41:46Part of your reptile brain would start beeping red, alert, alert, alert.
41:52That's really reckless because I can't control what happens next.
41:55There are too many nuclear weapons in this country.
41:58They have massive military industrial power.
42:02They make a lot of weapons.
42:03They make a lot of steel.
42:04They have a lot of cheap energy.
42:06There's a real place.
42:08And it's got a huge Muslim population, 20%, and they're kind of peaceful now.
42:11Will they be?
42:13These are the kind of things an adult would ask himself before calling to knock off a head of state.
42:18You could destroy the world.
42:20But they haven't asked themselves those things because they don't care.
42:24And above all, they are unfit for leadership of the West.
42:29And that includes our foreign policy establishment, and it includes virtually every single head of state in Europe.
42:37And for that, they are on the cusp of being eliminated, literally.
42:42And I'll just speak for myself and say, I really hope that doesn't happen.
42:47Yes, Keir Starmer's a joke.
42:49Of course, he's an insult to our ancestors.
42:50If you're English, he's an insult to our ancestors and to that nation.
42:54Of course, Macron is ridiculous.
42:57Germany.
42:57Ugh.
42:59But do you want to see them destroyed?
43:03And according to Sergei Karnogov, they're very close to being.
43:07So with that, watch this interview and ask yourself, why is this not on the front page of every paper?
43:17Why is this not on the lips of every European and every American?
43:21Because it's entirely real.
43:23Here's the interview.