WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:06.800 Colson Media. 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.000 This is it could happen here Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.440 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.280 and what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis today. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.200 I've joined by Bufford Evans, Nia Wong, James Stouts, and 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:22.080 Sophie Lichterman. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.040 Tragically, we all have ed all right, I got it 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:27.800 out of the way. We can continue the episode. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:28.000 Now. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.080 This episode, we are covering the week of February twenty 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:36.240 seven to March five, Number Go Down, Public Humiliation Ritual 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.960 of Vladimir Zelensky and the age of US global supremacy 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:41.080 is overcome. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.720 Welcome to the end of the American Empire. It sucks 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.120 way more than I thought it would. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.279 Yeah, uh huh, Well, I mean, look, some of us 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:49.239 have been saying this. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.080 Yeah, so it's just tragedy that is faster and then 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.640 it's whatever the fuck is happening now. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:01.520 Yeah, we have crossed the tragedy farce horizon. We're well beyond. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.840 We're well beyond anything Marks could have anticipating, Well, we're going. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.440 We don't need foss. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.760 Like I am upset about how Landy and everything is 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:12.959 becoming like I feel like you have to be almost 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.640 forced into being an accelerationist now, like there is no 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:17.839 other way out. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.240 Did you watch the Democrats last night, Garrison. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.560 It's like this non consensual acceleration as up. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.320 that like people spent years trying to resist this accelerationist push. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.360 That even now I'm seeing like analysts like embrace, Like, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.200 I guess we have to be accelerationists now, which is 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:34.080 very bizarre to see. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:35.840 Yeah, That's what I've been saying. There is no more 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.800 ideology called accelerationism. There is just acceleration of what you 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.759 do about it. So funhole we've gotten ourselves into. Yeah, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.400 speaking of let's start with talking about. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.400 Ukraine, a place which accelerated and that Oval office meeting 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.560 that happened last Friday. That was a little bit odd, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:53.120 wasn't it. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.120 Folks Garson say thank you, thank you. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.560 Yes, I realize I've been under your employee for for 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.920 four years now. I've said thank you many times. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.400 Each of you thank me. No, I'm kidding Jesus Christ. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.040 Wow, Sophie, Sophie has gone mad with power. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.800 Mm hmm. I'm going to go callote the EU because 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.040 Sophie has asked me, yes, So. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.840 I don't know. I'm sure people saw like a two 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.440 minute clip or something. I watched the full ten minute section, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.160 which is much more crazy. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:19.960 Yeah. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.440 And like in Trump's push to get like this Seaspire deal, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:29.240 Zelensky's hesitation has been because Putin has broken multiple Ceaspire deals, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.520 so how can we be sure that he will respect 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.640 this one? And that's kind of what jump starts this 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:39.080 extra combative exchange between Trump, Zelensky, and eventually little boy JD. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.120 I don't know, Robert and James, you your war understanders. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.720 Uh, yeah, that's that's that's what it says. When I 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.000 got into my h job, hege the. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:53.120 The increasing story of and this this affects Ukraine, but 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.760 is not just limited to it. The the story of 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.840 the next several years is going to be the mass 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.639 rearmament of Europe and almost certain nuclear proliferation. France, who 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.280 has I think two hundred and ninety five nuclear warheads 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.360 and extremely advanced first strike capability as well as a 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.200 first strike doctrine is under Macron has just made a 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.919 statement that he's willing to have France be the nuclear 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.359 shield for the rest of Europe. The UK also has 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.000 enough nukes to kill way more people than actually live there. Unfortunately, 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.119 their nuclear defense system and reaction system is very tied 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.320 into the US one. I expect you will see them 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.519 sever it from the United States as the United States 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.280 becomes more and more of a geopolitical adversary to England 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.080 and to everywhere else in Europe. I think you are 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.320 going to see more smaller states in Europe get the bomb. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.960 I think in general, I'm shocked if in four years 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.680 there's not at least another four or five states that 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.520 have gained access to the bomb. Yeah, because the overarching 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.040 international lesson from Ukraine has never ever, ever, ever, ever 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.000 ever give up a nuke and get one at all costs. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.000 Yeah. Famously, the European national anthem WONOLOBE because if it's 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:11.360 not love, it's the bomb that will bring us together. Yep, Garrison, I. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.840 Don't like that that. Like I'm not saying this because 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.800 it's it's good, but it's also literally like if I 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.320 was in charge of European security, that's where you priority 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.880 would be. Let's get as many fucking nukes out here 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:23.560 as we get. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.000 I think we should say that, like, this is how 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:32.120 US diplomacy happens. This sort of shouting at and humiliating 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.240 non US leaders is what the US does. The difference 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.839 here is that Trump did it in front of the 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.240 entire White House, press corps and TV cameras, yes. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.360 In the Oval Office, for everyone to see. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.800 Yeah, and it doesn't give Zelenski a place to back down. Right, Like, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:47.680 he's a leader of a country that is at war. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.400 He needs to show strength and like certainly sort of 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.360 with the current understanding of leadership, he needs to show 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.960 strength and to show strength, he doesn't have many places 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.240 to go when he's been humiliated like that, right. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.520 Well, and like you know, Trump was yelling about you know, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.599 World War three and then and then and. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.320 Advanced China sat with. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.880 His with his little like thank you speech. And I think, Robert, 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.880 I think I think you pointed out to me earlier, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:15.040 like why Vance jumped in on this the way he did, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.919 in like a way to establish dominance when Vance and 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.000 Trump have very little cards to play, because this is 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.840 a guy who has been like at war for years now, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.720 and like they need to feel superior to that. And 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.560 that's why it's a public humiliation ritual because that's the 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.560 only method they had yet right now. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.760 No, because there's nothing really like they play act at 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:43.000 masculinity and there especially Trump's base really like feeds into that. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.840 But they they definitely also have that deep security insecurity 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.880 that because of aspects of our culture and media. I 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.560 think most men who have never been to war have 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.719 a little bit of that. I don't think it's a 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.800 natural thing for men, but I think it's a natural 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.760 thing in our society. I think it is extremely common. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.920 Vert jing on universal. I went to war in part 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.920 because of that derangement. And by the way, war doesn't 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.920 do anything to make you better. Yeah, but what it 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.240 does do it what it has done for Zelensky and 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.200 why he acted the way he is, is that like 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.279 he's he's literally been in the position of his entire 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.200 family and him having Ak forty seven shoved into their 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.680 hands because a Russian kill team was in the city 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:29.000 gunning for him and his family as bombs fell all around. Like, yeah, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:33.000 he's just he's I think he just has too much pride. Sorry, 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.160 pride's even the wrong thing He's learned over the course 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.719 of fighting this war. When you are up against a 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.320 strong man, you can't back down, Like. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.000 Yeah, you just keep getting pushed back further. And further 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:45.680 if you do that. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.040 Because he wouldn't have gotten anything if he had like 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.120 sat there and been nice and let them make fun 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.919 of him. And like, like the the the ending would 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.000 be the same. They'd made up their minds prior to 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:55.839 that meeting. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.800 Right, and like the one of the things that Zelenski 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.640 has going for him, and like there's a lot that 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.760 he doesn't have going from he's not a coward, and 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.680 like no people have noticed that he's not a coward, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.760 and that has brought him some of the support, and 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.080 like it has allowed him to remain in that position 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.200 of leadership a relatively uncontested right. They haven't been able 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.480 to have elections. This is something that the Ukrainian opposition 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.120 have also kind of consented to. It's not like he's 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.920 he's being a dictator here, as Trump is alleged, but 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.920 like his personal bravery and willingness to confront these strong 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.680 men is something that like people draw strength from in Ukraine, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:31.920 and he can't afford to let that go. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.880 He actually was fairly submissive in this exchange. He was 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.920 letting Trump talk way over him. Zelensky did not raise 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.760 his voice. I don't I frankly, I don't understand how 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.680 people have even deluded themselves into thinking this makes like 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.040 Zelensky look bad or like he wasn't proper. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.680 Yeah, he handled it like a grown up would handle it, 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.440 Like he tried to point out what you're saying is wrong. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.840 This was clearly like a coordinated trap from like the 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.600 entire White House team, from like the press corps. Yes, 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.720 like talking about like why he does wear a suit, 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.040 and like someone like Rubio, like a neocon that has 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.480 more of this like geopolitics focus. Like he was like 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.200 literally like syncing into the couch as this was happening, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.360 like like Rubia was not thrilled at this. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:16.040 Ye, no, no, because Rubio he has no personal pride 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.800 or backbone, so he is willing to try and remake 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.640 himself as a Trumper. But in his actual heart and soul, 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.080 he's a Reagan republic he totally sure, or maybe at 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:26.200 least a Bush Republican. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.280 Definitely Bush, And I don't know, Like Zelenski was literally 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.560 kicked out of the White House on Friday, He's now 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.160 trying to find a way back into the negotiating table. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.960 On Monday, the United States suspended all military aid to 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.719 Ukraine after Trump has continued to inflate the numbers in 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.760 regards to the amount of military aid we have sent 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.400 to Ukraine, often by a magnitude of two hundred billion 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.719 dollars and I don't like this. Was one of the 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.559 first things that me and Robert noticed at the RNC, 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.880 like how much Ukraine was like a top issue for them, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.559 Like people wouldn't shut up about Ukraine. And it took 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.520 us a few days to like acclimate, be like okay, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.560 like why why are they talking about it in this way? 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:03.480 Like it was? 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:03.880 It was. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.480 It was very odd and Robert did a deep dive 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.880 on that last year with front of the pod Rudy 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.400 Giuliani Garrison. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.040 I just wanted to up that you have been talking 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.959 with Rudy about the album that you and I wanted 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.040 to drop with him, and he is on board, so 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.760 we will be moving forward with that this spring. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.440 That's exciting a little taste for all you listeners. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:23.480 And I like this. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.880 This is very much a part, in my mind, a 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:30.080 part of Bannon's push for like this quasi douganism, this 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.960 idea of a multi pope polar world of Trump and 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.440 Putin with Putin expanding power into Europe. While Trump tries 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.240 to see his control over more parts of North and 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.480 Central America, you know, taking the Panama Canal eventually Canada 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.760 and Greenland, you know, and like both people wanting you know, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.360 more more Arctic land that will be useful considering climate change. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.800 And Russia already has their fair share. So that's why, 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.280 you know, Greenland is so essential for national security, like 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.680 Trump talked about endlessly in his joint session speed, I guess, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.520 uh miya, do you want to add something about this 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.040 mineral thing before we go to break? 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:05.839 Yeah? 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.720 So I think I think one of the important things 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.000 here is that this is this is the definitive break point, 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.640 Like this is the moment that people are going to 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.480 point to and they look back on the moment the 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.200 old American Empire died and that empire, you know, the 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.920 sort of post World War two international order thing. Right. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.360 The way, the way, the way the US maintained its 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.560 geopolitical and economic power was by a network and system 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.680 of alliances with a bunch of the you know, with 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.480 their allies and sort of in places like Japan, but 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.800 also you know, across Western Europe. They maintained this series 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.560 of economic and political alliances that was able to win 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.480 the Cold War, I you know, make make the US 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.560 like the world's low superpower. But in order for it 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.080 to function, the US has to like maintain the alliance 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.839 system even as it's doing imperial power protection and use 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.520 its allies well. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.240 And like, the US's power primarily has always come from 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.480 the fact that, like or at least in this century, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.640 has been from the fact that we of the center 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.040 of the global economy. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.080 Yeah right, And and and the second part of it 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.280 has been has been its ability to wield power in 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.200 international institutions, right, yeah, you know, the US season control 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.720 of the IMF and the World Bank, and and you know, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.360 using sort of trade like trade doctrine to to sort 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.880 of empower itself. And this is all fucking gone. The 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.640 US is alienating like everyone in the fucking globe basically 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.800 except for except for Russia. And you know, now we're 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:30.079 entering this really kind of Argentina maybe well well well 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.080 we'll we'll see, we'll see how long that government holds. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.200 Just like okay, yeah, but you know, like and the 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.600 thing that it's pivoting to now, right is the stuff 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.320 that used to be there. There'd be a sort of 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.959 like coalition thing and the and American corporations would do 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.920 this stuff behind the scenes is now just unbelievably explicit. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.640 The US is just straight up openly doing resource colonialism, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.719 like they're straight up they're demanding that Ukraine exchange its 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.319 mineral resources for protection, like it is right up a 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:01.079 protection racket. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:01.360 Yeah. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.120 The proposed way that it works is that there's going 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.640 to be like a quote unquote development fund controlled by 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.760 the US and Ukraine like jointly. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:10.320 But I mean. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.560 It's just control by the US. I don't know why 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.160 people are pretending that Ukraine is going to like have 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.440 a say in this. I'm going to read from the 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.480 proposed agreement. We don't know what the text of the 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:23.200 final agreement is going to be. Zelenski has recently expressed 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:24.839 that he's willing to sign it, but we don't know 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.120 exactly what's going to look like. Here's the quote for 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.360 the document that we had. The Government of Ukraine will 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.360 contribute to the fund fifty percent of all revenues earned 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:37.040 from the future modestization of all relevant Ukrainian government owned 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.319 natural resource assets, whether owned directly or indirectly by the 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:46.560 Ukrainian government, defined as deposits of minerals hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:51.120 and other extractable minerals, and other infrastructure relevant to natural 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.520 resource assets such as liquefied natural gas terminals and port infrastructure, 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.000 as agreed by both participants, as maybe further described in 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:03.280 the fund agreements. Another quote, the funds investment process will 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.400 be designed so as to invest in projects in Ukraine 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.240 and intract investments to increase the development, processing, and monetization 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:14.400 of all public and private Ukrainian assets, including but not 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:19.280 limited to, deposits of minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas, et cetera, CEA, ports, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.000 and state owned enterprises, as may be further described in 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.480 the fund agreement. So what they're talking about here is 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.360 not just like seizing control of Ukrainian mineral reasons. They're 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.200 talking about like privatizing the Ukrainian state and selling it 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.360 off and taking the profits from that. They are talking 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.120 about seizing ports, which I have I have seen no 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.120 media coverage of. I do not know why it is 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.600 any agreement, you can just read it there. I notably 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.080 on the show am not like I am well known 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.080 as not a China supporter, but I deeply remember for 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.640 five years everyone losing their fucking minds about China doing 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.600 this exact same fucking thing with port lease agreements, and 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.160 THEYS is just doing it now. And this is just 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.880 what the new international order is going to be. It's 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.959 the US just very very openly instead of instead of 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.160 working through allies, instead of working through sort of like 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.440 resime shamed operations. It's just the US going to be 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.080 going like, okay, like you are all going to die 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.520 unless you give us all your money. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.560 Speaking of giving us all your money. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:12.360 Wow. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.920 Hell yeah, that's right, magnificent. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:15.920 That was art. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:32.560 Here's some ads. All right, all right, we are back, Robert. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:33.880 You want to talk about Syria? 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.800 Yeah, Syria, I hardly know, Okay. Anyway, I was sent 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.280 to a document by my good friend Joey Aub from 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:46.000 the Fire This Time podcast. It's sorry the Fire in 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.000 These Times podcast. Joey's great. It's a document that the 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.560 US is sending out to NGOs around the world. This 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.600 one was sent to an NGO doing humanitarian work in Syria, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.640 and it's basically, you have to fill this out in 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.760 order to have a chance of retaining the funding that 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.320 has been paused right now, right so it's part of 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.200 the USAID pause. If you want to get that money. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.880 You have to fill this out and basically prove that 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.000 you are in line with the new executive orders and 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.600 policies of the United States government. There's a bunch of 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.520 questions on here that you have to answer. A lot 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.480 of them are yes, no, and some many of them 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:19.480 are just like normal shit. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:19.800 Right. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.560 Does your organization have a current risk management framework or policy? Yes? 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:23.640 No? 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.920 If yes, please describe the framework or policy right, not 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.480 extreme or anything like that. You have to say that 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.200 you're not working with cartels, narco human traffickers. But then 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.760 you have to say you have not quote organized groups 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.520 that promote mass migration in the last ten years, which 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.880 is interesting, and when you're dealing with like war torn 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.560 areas that are helping like refugees escape, is clearly going 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.400 to be damaging to a lot of NGOs that have 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.240 done very good work to save people. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:51.800 Yeah. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:52.000 No. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.720 Number five is does your organization encourage free speech and 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.720 encourage open debate and free sharing of information? 0:15:58.240 --> 0:15:58.440 Yes? 0:15:58.560 --> 0:15:58.600 No? 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.880 And then right under that, does the organization have a 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.480 clear policy of prohibiting any collaboratioration, funding, or support for 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:10.160 entities that advocate or implement policies contrary to US government interests, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.440 So free speech unless it's not stuff that. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.720 We like, right, Yeah, that's kind of always been the 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.360 way to be fair. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.360 Now kind of the most I mean not kind of 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.160 by a wide margin. The most fucked up thing about 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.240 this is that it then goes down again right after 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.280 the free speech thing. First off, I should note number 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.000 eleven after the free speech question, can you confirm your 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.040 organization does not work with entities that associated with communist, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:39.040 socialist or totalitarian parties? And then below that is a 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.920 basically a question of like whether or not, and they 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.760 frame it as like, does this project take appropriate measures 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.000 to protect women and to defend against gender ideology? Is 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.960 defined in the below executive order, and then it links 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.920 to the Defending Women from gender ideology extremism and Restoring 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.840 Biological Truth to the Federal Government executive Order. And then 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.680 it asks does the project take appropriate my to protect 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.280 children and links to the same executive order. So it 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.480 is basically saying your organization has to support effectively like 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:13.040 transphobic policies in Syria in order to continue to get 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.440 us money right like and the fact that that is 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.960 n one a requirement for aid organizations receiving aid worldwide 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.520 now is deeply harmful. And it's also just like Syria 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:30.080 was already transphobic, like the Syrian governments not really pro 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.840 trans but the fact that this is just being like. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.119 This is going to be like across the board. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.919 Yes, everywhere, this is going to be everywhere in the world. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.639 We want to get US funds to save human lives, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.920 to stop the spread of diseases, you have to officially 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:50.480 embrace transphobic policies. That's the stance of the United States 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.800 government that that matters more than stopping the spread of 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:54.879 a bola in the Congo. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.399 Oh and this is like particularly worrying for you know, 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.920 HIV prevenatives across the world as well. Most of the 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.239 language that's used there has been heavily targeted. We're just 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.840 gonna get a whole bunch of people sick and die yep, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:09.719 because of these actions. 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.119 Yeah, until it starts getting people sick and dead in 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.920 this country, but we probably won't stop. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.960 Then, probably not. James, I ptivot to you on our 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.160 semi regular border update. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.159 Yeah, it's me the border guy. I was down at 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.160 the United States border this weekend, the one with Mexico 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.600 and not the Canada one. And when I got back 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.560 from the border, I saw an announcement from the Pentagon 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:37.040 which announced the deployment of a Striker Brigade Combat Team 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:42.080 and an aviation battalion. So what's the Striker Brigade combat team? 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.040 You ask, Normally there are like four four hundred soldiers. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.760 In this case, they're sending twenty four hundred soldiers from 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.600 the fourth Infantry Division based in Fort Carson in Colorado. 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:56.480 Striker Brigade Combat teams are based around Strikers. Strikers. They 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.680 are armored fighting vehicles with eight wheels. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:00.640 They're pretty cool. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've hung out in a couple. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.119 A lot of them have fully automatic grenade lodgers. Yeah, 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.120 they have decent air conditioning, you. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.879 Know, big vehicle outside, small vehicle inside, as with old 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.800 military vehicles. Great when you're six foot three like me, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.840 but famously not really something you can use for like 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.240 policing the border. 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.800 No, Honestly, a lot of arguments as to whether or 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.879 not they were good at their stated role in warfare. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.080 Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Bradley's have been having to 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.000 come back in Ukraine. The Striker is not so much. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.760 What they're not good at is moving through incredibly rugged 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.119