WEBVTT - The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Figuring Out Russia's Endgame with Rebekah Koffler 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.880 We've got a lot to cover on this episode of 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.840 the podcast. There's this bombshell report that the CIA and 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:11.800 the intelligence community asked foreign spy agencies to surveil twenty 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.000 six associates of Donald Trump heading into the twenty sixteen election. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.079 Why did they do that? What does that mean? And 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.840 then we also have what's going on in Europe right now, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.560 the war in Ukraine. We've got the Deputy Secretary of 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:28.400 Russia Security Council warning about the possibility of an accidental 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:29.240 nuclear war. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.440 How would that happen? What do you need to know 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:31.920 about that? 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.800 We've got the House Intelligence Committee chair warning about a 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.720 serious national security threat. And then you've got FedEx's founder 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.760 Fred Smith talking on Fox News about how Russia, along 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.680 with a brick alliance, is working to dethrone the dollar. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.080 So what does all of this mean? 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.400 What should you know about what is really happening in 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.120 Ukraine and how it impacts us in the rest of 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.400 the world. We're gonna have Rebecca Koffler on the show today. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.960 We've had her on before. She always brings a unique 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.920 and interesting perspective to the show. She's a former da 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.200 intelligence officer and author of Putin's playbook. She's also the 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.840 managing editor of Cuttothnews dot com, and she's going to 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.000 break all of this down for you in a very 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.200 in depth way. Trust me, this is a fascinating interview. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.039 You're gonna learn a lot. I know I did stay tuned. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.560 Well, Rebecca. It's great to have you back on the show. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.319 I think it's safe to say that we have a 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.640 lot to cover, so I'm looking forward to hearing your 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.199 insight on a bunch of different topics today. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.440 Great to be with you, Lisa, you and your audience today. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.480 I wanted to start out on you know, before we 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.400 get to what's going on in Ukraine, I wanted to 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.960 get to this bombshell report that the CIA and the 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:53.080 intelligence community asked foreign spy agencies to surveil twenty six 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.800 associates of Donald Trump's heading into the twenty sixteen election. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.680 Is that normal and what do you make of that report? 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.120 It should not be normal, Lisa. In fact, it is illegal. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:13.000 But unfortunately, in the past several years, the intelligence community 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:18.560 has become so politicized that I am not surprised at all. Uh. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.000 I mean, they're the one who concocted the whole Trump 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:29.800 Russia collusion conspiracy theory that effectively destabilized our government for years. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.840 And it's because they wanted to remove Trump from you know, 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.360 from ballot and then from his presidency. And you know 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.040 what happened as a result of this. You know, Russia's 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:47.280 threat has been brewing for years, and these people, instead 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:54.120 of targeting the real foreign threats, they decided to target 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:59.600 American citizens. They prioritize resources for the wrong thing. And 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.160 now we are in the conundrum with the world being 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:08.720 on fire because nobody bothered to a identify these threats 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.400 properly and be developed counter measures to them. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.799 I mean, it also begs the question is our intelligence 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.760 community working for us or against us? 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:26.359 Well, clearly right now there's and I want to make 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:31.600 it clear that many, many good people in the intelligence community, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:38.680 dedicated honest intelligence officers with whom I had the privilege 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:44.800 to work with. But I also encountered just like political 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:51.920 hacks that who were careers and also they were working 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.960 exactly like you said, against us. And that's what this 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:01.320 whole deep state is about. And you probably know from 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:06.240 my book that I myself experienced those hacks. They were 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.440 trying to you know, silence my book to censor, the 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:13.320 attempt to silence and censor my book put his playbook 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:19.359 in which I want about Putent's invasion of Ukraine that 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.240 was coming, but nobody wanted to do a thinker because 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:28.760 they were busy, you know, chasing hoaxes and targeting twenty 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.440 six US citizens Trump associates. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.200 I guess what I'm trying to. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.440 Is this what they have been doing or do you 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.000 think this was more specific to Donald Trump? 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:50.800 Okay, well it is more specific to Donald Trump. Before that, 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:57.279 I never experienced this sort of situation. Yes, there is 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:02.120 a counterintelligence program within the intelligence community, obviously, because the 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:08.080 concern is always that foreign intelligence agencies would try to 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:13.000 infiltrate their own spies, their operatives, and so we're constantly 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.560 on the lookout to identify those. But this particular thing 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.440 was an a normal and now it has become normalized. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.080 Why did it happen is because a lot of people, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:34.320 particularly in the CIA, particularly on the analytics side, left 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:39.480 us and the operational guys, the ones who actually go 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:45.000 in the field, they tend to be, you know, more conservative. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.919 And the truth is that we're not supposed to be 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.120 partisan at all. We take like a form of an 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.520 oath when we join the intelligence community that we're supposed 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.839 to speak truth to power, how we see it, you know, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.200 how the threat presents itself, how we're identifying, you know, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.360 the key indicators. That's how we're supposed to report it. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.560 But what happens is that some of the elements, and 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.240 especially those who are in charge, and we know their names, right, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:22.760 it's uh, it's James, call me, John Brennan and James Clapper. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:28.960 They are the architects of the collusion hoaks and they 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:34.599 spent you know, a lot of resources on this. And yes, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.440 because they're Trump haters. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:38.560 You know, yeah, I guess it. 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.119 You know, Chuck Schumer did say that the you know, uh, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.520 intelligence agencies have six ways from Sunday of getting back 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.120 to you, are getting back at you. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:48.800 Uh you know, went. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.080 Directed at Donald Trump of saying that you know, basically 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:56.640 they'll get the revenge, and oh, exactly they have exactly. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.839 I want I want to nuanced a little bit something 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.560 of what I said. It's not just I said just 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:08.000 Donald Trump, it's anybody who would be their political opponent. Right. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.480 We know that they targeted Taker carlst This is why 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.720 for three years, you know, he wasn't able to get 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:22.520 an interview with the Russian President Ladmir Putin. They actually 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:28.440 were surveying him twenty four seven. You know his communications, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.080 Tucker causons. So it's other US citizens who are not 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.440 with the party line, who are not with the program 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:41.040 for independent thinkers, and who are actually trying to bring 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.280 the truth to the American people. So I wouldn't be surprised, Lisa, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:50.440 you're quite you know, you always speak the truth to 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.080 your audience, so I wouldn't be surprised if you became 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:54.760 a target. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:00.400 Well, let's not, let's not put that off. Leave me alone. 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.840 I'm just you know, I know, I'm just trying to 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:04.600 live my life. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.320 You know, it's kind of a joke. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.240 But if you hed about it, to think about it 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.040 as the Russians like to say, there's a joke in 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.600 every joke, meaning that usually jokes are based on Now 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:17.119 I'm true. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.920 You know Tucker did finally, you know, he did get 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.360 that interview with Vladimir Putin. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:26.640 What did you make of it? 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.880 And why do you think there was so much effort 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.760 to try to prevent that from happening. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.760 Well, I answered the second question first. The reason why, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.080 especially the US government tried to prevent Tucker from doing 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:48.920 it is because Tucker, again, like I said, talker is 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:54.200 an independent thinker. He's not down with the party line. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.040 He wanted to really get down to the bottom of 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:03.000 who Putin is because remember, Russia is one of the 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.520 top annissaries of the United States, just like China. And 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.400 this is actually what the intelligence community should be doing, 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.760 is trying to get inside Pulu's brain, and instead they 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:21.119 were trying to get inside Tuckers and Trump associates networks 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.880 and their brains. Right. So that's and they didn't want 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.679 the American people to hear what Putin has to say 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.160 because the Russia Ukraine issues really not simple. It's very 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:40.200 very complex, and the deep state tried to simplify it 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.680 Russia bad, Ukraine good. No, Putin is not a saint, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.480 absolutely not, but neither is z Lensky. Lensky authorizes his 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:57.160 intelligence services to interrogate Ukraine's Christian Orthodox priests. He also 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:03.520 authorizes his spy opera to grab our military age Ukrainian 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.000 men off the street to go serve in the military 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:11.400 because he's running of out of resources right now, right 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:16.319 And so this interview, which was by the way, two hours, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.120 seven minutes and eighteen seconds, and I listened to the 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.680 entire thing in both languages, in Russian and in English, 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.640 and it reveals Putin's thinking. And Putin made a case. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.040 Putin is an attorney, right, He's a trained attorney, and 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.920 he wants everything to at least appeal legal, and if 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.400 something that he wants to do is illegal, then he 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.680 modifies the law like he did, you know, modify the 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:49.600 Russian constitution to allow himself to continue running for presidency. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:55.760 And so he revealed in his monologue why Russia has 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:00.400 claims on some of the lands that are now part 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:05.120 of Ukraine. Again, it's complicated, and if American people hear us, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.480 that would make them think, oh, Putin actually has a 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.480 point on some of these things. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.200 We've got to take a quick commercial break. More with 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:20.200 Rebecca Kaufler on the other side, do you think from 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.800 listening to it, because obviously the argument of sending money 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.120 to Ukraine and being involved in, you know, helping Ukraine 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.800 defend itself against Russia is that, well, if we don't 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.559 help Ukraine, Russia is going to expand beyond those borders. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.439 Did you get the sense from this interview is that 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.520 what Putin has on his mind, you know, kind of 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.760 what was your sense about where Putin views this war 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.080 with Ukraine, his standing in the world, and sort of 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.360 what his broader ambitions currently are. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:12:01.000 Sure, while this interview just confirmed my previous and these analysis, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.439 and that is no, Putin does not have any designs 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:11.480 on the Baltics, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, on Poland, god forbid. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:16.880 Uh here's why not Only like Tucker said, he doesn't 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.560 need those lands. He has enough trouble on his hands 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:30.360 managing Russia. But also from the strategic uh standpoint, those countries, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.280 Poland and the Baltics are part of NATO. Putin is 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.560 not an idiot, nor he's suicidal. Attacking one of those 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:45.760 countries would trigger Article five collective defense and NATO is 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:51.360 conventionally superior than Russia. What does it mean that when 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:56.520 it comes to the kinetic conflict, Russia couldnot possibly win 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.320 if it had a direct confrontation or war with the 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:07.000 United States unless it takes the war into the nuclear realm. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.000 Putin does not want to do that because that would 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.640 be effectively, you know, world War three, the end of 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.160 the world. And again, he's a rational human being, and 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:21.920 so now and those people who claim, like Chuck Schumer 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.120 and all of those, you know, professional liars who want 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.600 to gine up additional billions for Ukraine so that those 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.640 of Ukraine and all doxk are not spend it on 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:39.720 buying their larger yards and whatever and bigger mentions. Those 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.000 people are illogical because on the one hand they've been 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:48.480 marking the Russian military about its incompetent performance. On the 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.800 other hand, they claim that is going to go after 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.560 a NATO country, Well, what is it? It can be both, right, 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.079 So they speak out of both sides of their mouth 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:05.080 because there's they just have ulterior motives when it comes 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.920 to Ukraine. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.959 You know, what what do you make of House Intelligence 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:15.840 Committee Chair Mike Turner has been talking about a serious 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.000 national security threat? 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.640 What do you think that is? 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.320 And and why do you think he's putting that out there? 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:31.120 I was stunned, Lisa, when I heard this, this thing 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:35.520 basically dominating the airwaves, and my phone was ringing off 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.720 the hook. You know, people were asking what do you 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.560 make of it? What do you make of it? First 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:45.840 of all, it is irresponsible for him to talk about 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:51.160 something like that. It was also curious why he decided 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:56.160 to talk about this type of situation, and I'll give 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:01.320 you and your listeners my fresh of the process, so 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.320 to speak, intelligence analysis on what is exactly the threat 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.680 that Journey is talking about. And my intelligence reveals to 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:15.320 me that it's about the recent launch of a hypersonic 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:22.520 cruise missile called Tirkon. Tirquon was developed specifically on Pun's orders. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:27.880 It's a hypersonic missile that serves as a counter to 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:33.400 US ballistic missile defense because the United States exited the 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:38.000 A b M Treaty and now that the two countries 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.800 are in a proxy war over the control of Ukraine, 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.760 which Russia perceives as it's part of its strategic security 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.000 parameter kind of part of the It's similar to US 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.560 Monroe doctrine. I mean, we wouldn't allow Russia China to 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:57.120 get as close as Mexico or Canada, and so of 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.520 course Pool, you know, Ukraine is a red line for him, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:07.440 and so these weapons were being built for a few 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.880 years now. And I'm actually one of the people who 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.280 did brief Mike Turner's staff when I was at the 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:21.240 Defense Intelligence Agency on hypersonics. And interestingly, you know, nobody 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.800 wanted to do anything about it. And in fact, the 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.480 United States, our own pentergon, has yet to field our 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.040 own capability, even though China and Russia are way ahead 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.520 of us. And so all of a sudden turner decided 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:41.560 to reveal this, which really really smells specially to me. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.800 I think what he's trying to do is basically gin 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:51.520 up additional billions for Ukraine. And now that you know 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.240 Senate has passed the bill, you know, uh, they're going 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.760 to continue or they're trying to continue milking the I 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:05.119 as taxpayer for more foreign aid, as though this additional 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.000 billions can do something that two hundred billions haven't done already. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.560 And so that's what is to me, it's all about. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:16.080 It's again, it's a shameful politicization of intelligence. 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.360 And what's the danger of hypersonic weapons. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:29.320 Here's the danger. Hypersonic weapons are very fast and they 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:35.120 are highly maneuverable, and what that means is that our 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:41.359 missile defenses protecting the United States from missile strikes would 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:46.280 have a really hard time intercepting those. In fact, Putin 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:51.120 has said many many times that so Gone is capable 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:57.920 of penetrating BMD that Putin will never authorize an attack 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.600 on the United States, either kinetic, whether it's with hypersonic 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:07.000 weapons or with nuclear weapons, unless and this is the 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:13.280 very important point, unless the Russian intelligence detects the United 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:19.399 States either has launched or is about to launch, either 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:24.160 a kinetic strike on Russia or non kinetic but crippling 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.760 strike on Russia, or in some other way crossed the 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:34.400 red line. For example, something like retaking or an attempt 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:40.240 to retake Crimea that Russia views as Russian having an exit, 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:46.000 or retaking some part of Ukraine that the Russian forces 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:51.560 currently control. Only in that case would authorize something like that, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.639 But again, it wouldn't be a bolt out of the 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.360 blue sky. That will be what we call an intelligence 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.080 community escalation ladder. And this is what I Putin has 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:06.439 been telegraphing to us by via cyber attacks, via all 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.480 of these warnings. This is the red line. This is 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.600 a red line. Don't do it, don't send weaponry to Ukraine. 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:18.200 So we would have plenty of time to think about 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.920 the problem is, Lisa, is that it seems like our 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:27.320 intelligence and security operon us, and more importantly, our president 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:34.160 as simply incapable of realistically assessing our adverstories and their mindset, 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:38.160 as well as our own resources. We have depleted our 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:43.760 own weapons, arsenal. We are depleting our own treasury by 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:48.080 throwing good money after bed, good weaponry after bed to 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:54.840 Ukraine for nothing. And so now we could be defenseless 0:19:54.960 --> 0:20:00.280 because of the idiotic decisions that the Biden administration has made. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.919 You know, one other thing that you know concerned me 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.800 is something that FedEx's founder of Fred Smith said the 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.280 other day on Fox about how Russia is working to 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:16.600 dethrone the dollar, using the Brick Alliance to do so. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.560 Brick is you know, Brazil, Russia, India, and China as 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.080 well as South Africa. I believe there's other countries like 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:32.920 Egypt to Ethiopia, Rod, Saudi Arabia and the Amaraates as well. 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.320 You know, what should people know about that? 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.480 I mean that seems like it should be getting more 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.520 attention than it has been. 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.399 Sure, yes, and then fact I wrote a couple of 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:49.080 months ago a piece on New York Post about that, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:55.920 about the bricks and basically the de dollarization trend. But again, 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:01.920 the crux of the match, Lisa, is that our own 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:07.400 you know, the so called expert right, the Washington establishment 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:13.600 have sort of driven our advisors into to this point 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:20.160 to start de dollarizing by using our fiat currency, uh, 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:23.880 the US, the mighty US dollar, as a weapon, by 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:29.240 placing sanctions on, you know, on foreign countries. Yes, Putain 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.360 could be you know, a bad you know, human being, 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:40.280 a terrible human being. You know whoever chopped up the 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:44.880 Russian post uh journalist, the SHORGI Uh, those people are 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:49.440 also you know, terrible people. But if you are trying 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.520 to you know, chop the branch of the tree on 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:58.560 which you're sitting, I think it might be a Russian program. 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:03.359 There is such a thing in English. By digging your 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:08.840 own hole, then you only have yourself to blame. And 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:14.320 sanctions never worked. I mean right now, the Russian economy 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.000 is doing very well because it was propped up by 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:23.680 the defense industrial complex. Because Russian actually, unlike NATO and 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:27.639 like the United States, transitioned. Oh a, what I'm putting 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:33.000 years before the invasion. And I actually briefed also the 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:37.639 White House, Congress, the Pentagon, NATO about that. There's something 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:43.320 called the special period that triggers the transition of the economy. 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:47.200 And so the sanctions never worked, So why did we 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:51.240 do that? And so the third order consequence. That's another 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:56.800 term we're using the intelligence business, is that by using 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:03.480 dollar as a weapon, we are uh diminishing our own 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:12.639 economy and basically eliminating the breast of the future for our 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:16.520 own country. Because people are not stupid right right now, 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:22.159 even India is kind of reluctant to use the US dollars. 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:27.960 Certainly China and Russia they have been de dollarizing the 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:32.320 economy and that will have very severe consequences in a 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.440 few years for the United States. Yeah. 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.680 And and of those consequences, Fred Smith said that if 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:42.160 bricks is successful in this deliberate course to dethrone the dollar, 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:45.719 if that happens, we can't sell our bonds. I can 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:48.119 assure you the living standards that we all enjoy today 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:50.160 are going to be a thing of the past, which 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:54.440 is a pretty damning and scary thing to say. Quick 0:23:54.480 --> 0:24:00.760 break more in Russia, Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:04.560 told a Russian newspaper recently that the risk of quote 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:08.240 unquote accidental nuclear war breaking out has risen sharply. Some 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:13.119 of the factors mentioned were the health of Defense Sectory 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:17.280 Lloyd Austin, as well as Joe Biden's cognitive decline. 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:21.120 How do you read that? Do they want that out there? 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:22.480 Does that mean anything? 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:28.000 And okay, it does, it definitely does. Here's what Putin 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:33.840 means and just again, or rather patrushev right, So it 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:38.080 doesn't mean that Putin is getting ready to launch a nuke, 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.679 especially in the United States. The only reason, like I 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:45.919 said earlier, that would happen. So we talked about hyperstonics. 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:50.600 Now when it comes to nukes, the Russian doctrine calls 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:55.480 for the use of tactical nukes in the event let's 0:24:55.560 --> 0:25:00.720 say that Putin word to lose Ukraine or like we 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:04.040 were to try to retake Crimea. That's the that's the 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:09.760 case scenario. But what Patrusha likely meant was this, As 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:13.960 everybody is already aware, Iran is in a shadow war 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:18.760 against our country. I mean, they've launched close to two 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:23.640 hundred attacks right now on US forces, causing brain damage 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:30.280 to our personnel. And so why and yet the Biden 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:36.480 administration has conducted only pinprick attacks, not even on Iran, 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:40.560 that is the center of gravity for all of that mainness, 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:45.520 but only on Iranian process the who sings. So Biden 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:52.400 has not established what we call escalation control dominance. None 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:57.760 of our strikes have really deterred Iranians. Why is that? 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:02.520 The reason in my intelligence assessment is this around is 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:13.679 dangerously close to operationalizing their nuclear capability. How Uh well, 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:19.560 there there are various schools of godenness. One of the assessments, uh, 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:26.439 a very credible assessment says that it's within It was 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:29.000 like several weeks ago. It was within a week. So 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:32.840 for all intents and purposes, I do not rely the 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:39.479 possibility that they do have already a viable nuclear weapon 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:47.440 and within a month they will be capable of producing 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:53.359 I believe. Let me see if I can remember this 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:57.639 six warheads, right, I think they have sufficient weapons grade 0:26:57.920 --> 0:27:03.480 uranium to both six warheads and then in five months twelve. Right, 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:11.320 compared to Russia, which has six thousand nuclear weapons, it's nothing. 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:15.200 But you only need a couple to read have a 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:20.200 right and once And on top of that, the Iranians 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:25.600 just launched a satellite called Soraya that went into the 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:30.200 highest orbit ever. Right, and this is what the capability 0:27:30.240 --> 0:27:32.800 that they use. You have to have a heavy leaf 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:41.040 capability in order to launch in a CBM and intercontinental missile. Right, 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:46.880 So they're developing those capabilities rapidly. And on top of that, 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:52.479 Iran and Russia are now allied, and Russia is the 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:57.719 world's leader in space launch. Russia is the world's leader 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:04.720 in nuclear nohow, Russia's nuclear arsenal even beats ours, especially 0:28:04.960 --> 0:28:08.800 when it comes to tactical nukes. And so, uh, this 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:13.600 is why Iran is very arrogant right now. And and 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.320 once it does have nuclear weapons, it's going to be 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:21.080 almost impossible to compel them to stop this low grade 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:26.280 uh destabilization and shadow war on our country. 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:29.040 You know, I know you previously have said that, you know, 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:33.480 Russia is not suicidal when it comes to nuclear weapons, 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:35.280 is iron. 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:42.480 Iran is a different character, uh, Lisa, Russia is not 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:49.040 driven by ideology. Putin is is a realist. Uh, He's 0:28:49.080 --> 0:28:54.200 a rational human being. He just simply wants to make 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:58.760 sure that Russia has its strategic security perima because with 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:01.600 the collapse of the same that union, the distance between 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:05.880 NATO and Russia has reduced from one thousand miles to 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.960 one hundred miles. Right as I said before, no say 0:29:09.080 --> 0:29:13.440 Mility commander would allow this type of proximity to risk. 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:18.400 So Pudines is not amendment but the Ayad told us 0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:23.200 they are driven by completely different ideology. They are fanatics, 0:29:23.440 --> 0:29:26.520 and if you read any of the writings, you know 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:31.360 they've said it many, many, many times that the United 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:35.800 States is anathema. It's basically the devil. We are the 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:40.120 big devil in Israel as the little devil in quotes, 0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:45.480 and they would stop at nothing to drive the United 0:29:45.480 --> 0:29:52.640 States out of the Middle East. But even more frighteningly, Lisa, 0:29:52.760 --> 0:29:57.240 than nukes is the fact that our audience have been developing, 0:29:57.400 --> 0:30:03.560 according to US intelligence assessment, networks within US homeland. Okay, 0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:06.800 why do you think we pay millions of dollars and 0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:10.600